jonesy
@jonesy@aussie.zone
- Comment on NBN Co to accelerate higher speed tiers and launch multi-gigabit speeds in September 2025 3 weeks ago:
I’m not certain if it’s still the case, but the announcement earlier this year stated the upgrades were being undertaken with no increase to wholesale costs: …com.au/…/nbn-plans-to-accelerate-highest-speed-t…
That’s also not to say that the retailers don’t increase their pricing independent of the wholesale pricing.
- NBN Co to accelerate higher speed tiers and launch multi-gigabit speeds in September 2025www.nbnco.com.au ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 14 comments
- Comment on The Agony And Ecstasy Of The BP6 Dual-CPU Motherboard | Cathode Ray Dude 1 month ago:
Legend of a board, I still have mine in a cupboard.
- Comment on Remedy Entertainment Has Received A Loan From Tencent 1 month ago:
Personally if there’s no technical reason for a game to be exclusive, then I just want that game to be freely available for people to buy on their platform of choice that has the features they want, or supports their values. Personally, I would prefer to see a GOG release over Steam, as I highly value that they allow me to actually download and own my game installers, they have done amazing work making older games playable and accessible on modern systems.
There’s no technical reason for Alan Wake 2 to be an Epic exclusive, it’s simply that Remedy got a financial incentive up front from Epic to release that way. This isn’t Epic trying to compete with other game platforms, but rather betting that by being the only platform to offer the game will be sufficient to attract players.
This has all played out before with other publishers pulling their games from Steam and releasing on their own platforms (Origin, uPlay etc), but both have vome.back as players will simply go and play something else rather than flock to another games.platfork.in which they have no investment. It’s something that even Sony has seen the light on and why we are now seeing historically console exclusive properties coming to PC like God of War and Last of Us.
Steam may be the biggest game in when it comes to games distribution, and monopolies are bad, but to advocate for Epic Games of all companies as an alternative is a weird position to take.
- Comment on Remedy Entertainment Has Received A Loan From Tencent 1 month ago:
Apparently they’re not making enough profit on Epic to avoid taking a loan from Tencent.
Personally, I object to Epic using purchased exclusivity as a tool to gain market share, and refuse to capitulate to approach approach when there’s so many other games to play. If they truly.want to compete with Steam then actually make their marketplace competitive with more social and community features that Steam offers.
- Comment on Remedy Entertainment Has Received A Loan From Tencent 1 month ago:
Another thing that would help is not releasing one of your most anticipated and subsequently well received games in recent memory exclusively on Epic. Still waiting for Alan Wake 2 to release on Steam or Gog guys…
- Comment on Wind and Solar Produced More Energy Than Coal in the U.S. From January Through July This Year, a First - EcoWatch 3 months ago:
Ok? But don’t coal and gas plants need DIESEL TRUCK TRAFFIC (and diesel trains) constantly throughout their life to bring more fuel vs renewables just placed in suitable locations they obtain necessary sun/wind to operate?
- Comment on Melbourne Symphony Orchestra says it made 'error' in cancelling pianist's performance after Gaza comments 3 months ago:
- Comment on Jack Karlson, who shot to fame after ‘succulent Chinese meal’ arrest, dies aged 82 3 months ago:
RIP to a real one, hope they get their hands off his penis where ever he is now.
- Comment on Are filament vacuum bags worthwhile? 6 months ago:
The big issue for long term storage and exposure to moisture is hydrolysis, in which over time water molecules infiltrate and alter the polymer chains of the filament, causing the mechanical properties to degrade. Hydrolysis is, to the best of my knowledge, not reversible by simply driving the filament as the water molecules become incorporated into the polymer chain.
That said, simply storing your filament in your vacuum bags and tossing in some dessicant pouches before you seal it should drastically increase the time you can store filament before running the risk of it degrading noticeably.
Personally I just have a large plastic bin with a rechargeable dessicant device that keeps things relatively dry and I haven’t had any issues storing filament long term.
- Comment on Controversial benchmarking website goes behind paywall — Userbenchmark now requires a $10 monthly subscription 8 months ago:
I’m sure there are niche users for who paying the price of admission is acceptable, but for myself and I assume a vast number of other users, when I’m comparing performance of hardware I’m already checking reviews on multiple other sites, so this will only mean I don’t bother to check their site.
I haven’t visited their site in a long time though, so I’m not sure what value-adds they offered that might make the price more palatable.
- Comment on Investigative journalist friendlyjordies gets firebombed as a silencing tactic, police do nothing, eventually forcing them to take down their investigation. 9 months ago:
NSW Police are a complete joke, if it’s not strup searching minors it’s just good old corruption.
- Comment on Workaround helps improve gaming performance on outdated Intel CPUs — Resizable Bar UEFI mod works with CPUs as old as Sandy Bridge 9 months ago:
4790k brother!
- Comment on YouTube can't stop showing me AI deepfake ads 10 months ago:
If your smart tv is android based you can try side loading Smart Tube, which integrates ad block, sponsor block and a whole pile of QoL settings you can tweak to suit you.
- Comment on Canada to announce all new cars must be zero emissions by 2035 11 months ago:
Interested to see where that data comes from, as looking at the lifetime emissions of an EV vs an ICE vehicle inclusive of fuel EVs are generally significantly lower emissions. If you’re only considering the emissions associated with the manufacture of the vehicles, EVs do result in more GHG, but very quickly once both vehicles are actually in use the benefits of EVs become apparent.
- Comment on Apple co-founder Wozniak suffers possible stroke in Mexico -local media 1 year ago:
Musk is more like store-brand Steve Jobs than Woz.
- Comment on Aussie households are spending less on streaming services, annual report reveals 1 year ago:
We have a history of being very adept sailors, the early days of Netflix where a huge library of content was available on demand for a reasonable price meant it didn’t make sense to go to the trouble of taking to the seas because the legal alternative was a better experience. Now that the market is fragmented and you have to pay through the nose to have the same level of variety, it’s not surprising Australians are some of the first to jack up.
I would be interested to see if there had been a commensurate increase of ships on the high seas from Australia.
- Comment on Do scrota have the same wrinkle pattern every time they get cold? 1 year ago:
Integrate taint stain to further salt the scroteprint against possible sackspoofing attacks.
- Comment on Do scrota have the same wrinkle pattern every time they get cold? 1 year ago:
I think the world is finally ready for teabag authentication.
- Comment on Films and shows which tell the story of how they themselves were produced 1 year ago:
One Cut of the Dead is one that comes to mind, you can watch the zombie movie at the start, and then the rest of the movie is the crazy things that went on in the background to make the movie. It’s a lot of fun.