kowcop
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- Comment on SONOFF SNZB-05P review - A Zigbee water leak sensor tested with eWelink and Home Assistant 16 hours ago:
In my experience with many Sonoff gadgets for home assistant (with the exception of the controller dongle), they are well made but lack the stability of say Aquara
- Comment on A guide to passing GPUs through to Proxmox, XCP-ng VMs 1 week ago:
I eventually got the GPU passed through to the VM… it took about a day of following different guides. Then I tried the same thing on a container and it was about 3 mins work and it was in infinitely better experience with plex in a container instead of a vm
- Comment on How was your NBN fttp upgrade experience ? 1 week ago:
Mime was one of the first for our suburb, so they might have been a bit green, I am not sure. The bloke arrived and asked if someone had been here to do the underground lead in, nope… so he just did it above ground from the pole to a clamp on the side of the facia board of the house… I wish it had been underground, but whatevs… fibre
- Comment on Australia should pass bill to ban non-prescription vapes, Senate committee finds 1 month ago:
At this point there is zero logical reason that cigarettes aren’t banned. The only logical reasons are that the government likes the $40/pack tax more than Australians dying, or big tobacco donations… I am not advocating the ban of ciggies, it just makes zero sense to continue to go after vapes when turning a blind eye to the other ‘death maker’
- Comment on What do companies get out of rewards programs 2 months ago:
The answer is nearly going to always be ‘your data’ and loyalty
- Comment on Bruce Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins in Parliament House, judge finds on balance of probabilities 2 months ago:
I guess it is his Toowoomba rape trial
- Comment on Think $5.50 is too much for a flat white? Actually it’s too cheap, and our world-famous cafes are paying the price 2 months ago:
I have noticed it too… it is like propaganda. Why you should not wait and buy that house now, house prices have never been stronger… now this
- Comment on Australians lose nearly $1 billion a year to card surcharges as RBA warns banks to stop 3 months ago:
so split across the big 4, say $250m each and $5-10b in profit each… they can afford to stop
- Comment on Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO 4 months ago:
I can’t remember if the word at the time was that they were trying to stop the calls from affecting performance or they wanted the juicy data all for themselves
- Comment on Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO 4 months ago:
Seems pretty clear why the apis were shut down for apps
- Comment on NBN sheds jobs as 'death spiral' worsens 4 months ago:
Ours was a bit over 18 months from roping the pits to getting the notification that it was ready
- Comment on Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead. Google Search will no longer make site backups while crawling the web. 4 months ago:
Lemme guess… they are worried companies are using it to train ai, so better close it off so they control access to it
- Comment on Support for Australia Day celebration on January 26 drops: new research 5 months ago:
I think we are saying the same thing… the noisy ones will be around for either decision… they will be either protesting that it should stay the 26th (if it were to be changed), or protest that it is the 26th as invasion day… the fact that it goes away the day after makes it an easier decision for the government of the day… they just have to wait it out.
I don’t care which, I don’t celebrate other than enjoying the public holiday. If I could swap it for my birthday off, I would do that :0)
- Comment on Support for Australia Day celebration on January 26 drops: new research 5 months ago:
because changing the date is a lose / lose for whoever attempts it, so it will just be left ‘as is’ and disappears on Jan 27. Fact is, some people support changing it, and other people want it left the same. Either of those two groups are going to be the noisy minority to that discussion… IMO, it will never happen, they will just mobilise police for the protests and schedule them for time in leiu the day after.
- Comment on Peter Dutton calls for boycott of Woolworths after Australia Day merchandise dropped 5 months ago:
he has nothing to lose… may as well try the Trump playbook
- Comment on Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow 5 months ago:
I feel it has already happened… people check social media, but I hardly see any created content anymore (status updates etc)… just reposted stuff from gullible people that they thought was magic but was just AI created rubbish.
The only thing I use social media for is purchasing items from hobby groups and I can’t see that being replicated anywhere anytime soon as eBay is full of fake rubbish
- Comment on What's your favorite note-taking application? 6 months ago:
Flatnotes for me. I haven’t tried many others, but it was perfect for what I needed. Markdown, writes plain text files so no database/easy to backup
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 6 months ago:
I guess the preemptive block helps make the block easier for admins rather than ‘trying to do it’ once the service is embedded. Fact is Lemmy is doing ok without it so removing it isn’t going to make Lemmy worse than it was yesterday.
I don’t use threads so I don’t really see any personal benefit to blocking it, so I am a bit biased
- Comment on Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage app 6 months ago:
I don’t know what may have changed as I am an iPhone user, but about 10 years ago I worked in a small security role for a fairly large company, and the communications company we were using was more than happy to hand over sms logs as plain text. I would personally never send messages to anyone I was sure wasn’t encrypted and I can tell that by the blue bubble. I just don’t know when it is green.
I don’t know what has changed as I don’t keep up with it, but I am still dubious about messaging outside the Apple ecosystem, which is ok for me as I live in a country where most people use iOS
- Comment on Carmakers Push Forward With Plans To Make Basic Features Subscription Services, Despite Widespread Backlash 6 months ago:
I will probably continue to buy new cars as I can spend my hard earned on whatever I want. Everyone’s financial situation, wants and needs are different… you shouldn’t bundle everyone else into your opinion.
That said, I wouldn’t buy a car that has a feature that I need locked behind a subscription… I would just buy one that suits. I am not loyal to any particular brand so I don’t care.
- Comment on Sleeper trains are making a comeback. Why are ours being axed? 7 months ago:
All good points. I don’t think I could sleep sitting up overnight, so that is why I would opt to fly. The only attractive thing about the train is I can try sleep laying down. If I cant do that, I would just not catch that train at all. I guess I will give the new train a try when it comes along.
I do like the start of the article where he talks about the dream train sleeper journey… it sounds magical
- Comment on Sleeper trains are making a comeback. Why are ours being axed? 7 months ago:
I make the trip to Melbourne and back once a year on the sleeper and I have mixed feelings. I love the idea of going to sleep at night and waking up in Melbourne. The trip is perfectly timed, ie. you get off work, home / shower and back to Central for the evening departure, then in Melbourne before the day starts. That is all of the good bits. The not so good bits, the train is old so trying to go to sleep on it is near impossible, it creaks, it rattles continuously in ways you cant fix, the blinds hardly ever shut completely, the toilet/shower between the two cabins has never been upgraded since 1983 and the cabin service seems poor value.
The complimentary meal is a packet of 3 crackers with tomato relish, a small pack of savory sticks and a small cup of water. Breakfast since COVID is cereal and a cup of tea/coffee (before COVID you could choose toast). While I am sure the sleeper service is more comfy than sitting up, it is generally just sad / old train that will probably be in service for another 20 years.
Also, you aren’t meant to use the power sockets in the sleeper carriage for anything other than a shaver. Once again, hasn’t been upgraded since 1983 so the power is not very stable for electronic devices.
I am not sad they are stopping the sleeper, but I will just fly from now on.
- Comment on Got a 4G Phone? It May Soon Stop Working - Carriers are Killing 4G & 3G Devices. 7 months ago:
I remember when 3G first came out and it was a game changer… everything was fast and responsive. Now days, 3G just seems to have enough capacity to make a call, data is effectively useless if the phone flips to the dreaded 3G. It is like they slowly turned off the tap for it
- Comment on Police should not be involved in mental health incidents, Australian report says 7 months ago:
After reading the article, and as someone who is just a member of the general public with a family (not a mental health sufferer), I don’t know how I feel. I can understand the sufferers point in the article where he was beaten for a bipolar episode… but do I feel police should take on that role of protector from people acting in a way that I don’t feel safe for me or my family, I hope sufferers can understand that too. I wouldn’t have a clue what the solution is as I also wouldn’t want to be that person they send in to ‘just have a talk’ as that wouldn’t seem very safe in every situation either.
- Comment on Daniel Keneally, son of former NSW premier Kristina Keneally, found guilty of fabricating evidence 7 months ago:
till you need one
- Comment on This university won't be hiring based on 'merit' anymore — here's why 7 months ago:
Lets see how this works out for them. Why even have a job selection process? Just wait for the first person to walk through the door with the ‘look’ that feels right
- Comment on If housing was considered a human right, would it fix our housing crisis? 7 months ago:
In my mind, the only way to fix the housing crisis is to implement policy which will effectively collapse the housing market, and that would be a suicidal move by any party so they just wont do it. Every day is some story of the Government’s attempt to fix it, the latest was building 3,000 appartments next to the Metro at Macquarie Park. In what world does anyone think these things will be affordable when they are 30 mins from the city and a walk to the metro?
The only ways I can see to fix it is to grandfather capital gains tax discounts on investments and kill AirBNB
Also, while I like the notion of affordable housing, I don’t think it is possible to build. Nothing is affordable these days. Affordable labour and materials don’t really exist…
- Comment on Optus outage: What caused the major network failure? 7 months ago:
This is a nightmare scenario where a group of techs/engineers suddenly realise their actions can kill people.
I wonder how many pellet tried to dial emergency services or a support service and couldn’t get through…
- Comment on Aussie households are spending less on streaming services, annual report reveals 7 months ago:
Same story as everyone else… I used to have Netflix, Spotify, Disney+ and Tidal, now I only have Tidal. I have always owned a NAS and that is my main source of media consumption now. I just cant justify the $100 or so a month it costs to keep all these services and I struggle to find anything I am interested in. The worst thing about streaming services is the disruption to the movie industry… movies these days either feel like a couple of $200m+ productions or straight to streaming… there is no in between, and the straight to streaming stuff feels half cooked
- Comment on Triathlete Peter O'Neill achieves Legend status as he competes in 40th Noosa Triathlon 7 months ago:
I envy having knees like that