youngalfred
@youngalfred@lemm.ee
- Comment on Central Coast man earns house deposit by collecting 450,000 cans and bottles - ABC News 5 days ago:
It looks like it’s framed as a ‘good news’ story, but:
- Almost 40 yrs old
- Works full time
- Needed to spend 7 years working (presumably more) and collecting 450,000 cans
- To be able to put a deposit on a two bedroom house on the central coast.
Like how is any of that good news?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yeah I was going to say I order from inkstation (Australia) and have never had an issue with third party toner or drums. And they’re a quarter of the price of an original!
- Comment on 'Erratic' cyclone creeps towards eastern Australia 3 weeks ago:
This waiting is frustrating - the wind picks up and you think ‘here it comes’ but then it goes eerily calm again.
I think the rain is starting to set in here though - it hasn’t stopped for a little while now.
Bit weird seeing a cyclone icon in the weather app! - Comment on Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026 - Microsoft Support 4 weeks ago:
Excel
- Comment on Day 213 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots 1 month ago:
That and the Prometheans were just so unsatisfying as enemies.
The teleporting away (and appearing randomly), how you didn’t seem to visibly hurt them / bullet sponge, disappearing on death etc all contributed to it feeling like a chore to off them.
5 was a bit better but still nowhere near the fun of 1-3/reach/odst
- Comment on Attempt to motivate people to take the stairs 1 month ago:
I found this study which would suggest it’s ballpark correct, depending on your weight and what you’re carrying
- Comment on low spec gaming looking pretty sunny right now gang 2 months ago:
I do like that you can keep the stats of gear you’re wearing but change the appearance of it to anything you’ve collected before. Nice to actually be able to look good and have good gear.
One thing I’ve done is turn off the Minimap. It’s made it more interesting - I actually pay attention to the landscape details and the golden path thing is actually useful. Just wish you could keep a compass visible.
- Comment on low spec gaming looking pretty sunny right now gang 2 months ago:
I just bought a steam deck, and bought hogwarts legacy when it was on sale a while back on a friend’s recommendation.
Decided to give it a try - such a great game! I tend to compare opens world’s to Skyrim, and the detail in the quests is so much better. It’s not just ‘clear this dungeon’. Plus they’ve really thought about what sucks about those other games and really tried to avoid them. Plays great on the steam deck too, I’ve got it capped at 45fps and it never skips a beat.
I don’t think I’ve had this much enjoyment from a gaming device ever. I’ve done the console and game pass on the phone mounted controller, and that was not very consistent. The instant pause/resume button is a game changer with young kids waking up in the night.
Not at all bothered by performance - in fact I’ve seeing articles about how ‘this windows handheld beats the steam deck in tflops’ but an constantly thinking - 'yes, but it’s a handheld. Is it good at that? Battery life, pick up and go etc are super relevant, not just performance.
Bit of a tangent there, but I am having a great gaming time.
- Comment on Australia doesnt exsist 2 months ago:
Pretty sure it’s the ice-cream - I’ve had the shapes and the chicken, I think I tried Vegemite chocolate?
But I’m 90% sure I haven’t seen Vegemite ice-cream. - Comment on Private health insurance is a dud. That’s why a majority of Australians don’t have it | Grogonomics 2 months ago:
I recommend his podcast if you like more of this: ‘Dollars and Sense’ published by the Australia Institute.
pca.st/…/9cc37d00-6a4f-013c-9f4c-0acc26574db2 - Comment on Calling Indigenous lore science marks Ed Husic’s ignorance 3 months ago:
The onus of proving a point in an article of their construction should be on the author.
Anyway, here’s an article: australian.museum/learn/…/indigenous-science/.
Another: …gov.au/…/science-principles-in-traditional-abori…A website of resources (Australian council of deans of science): www.acds.edu.au/…/indigenous-science/
Food detoxification by indigenous people: www.scienceflip.com.au/subjects/…/learn10/
…com.au/…/aboriginal-detoxification-methods?srslt…
If you’re after an artifact with a written hypothesis from an exclusively spoken language society, I can’t help you there.
- Comment on Calling Indigenous lore science marks Ed Husic’s ignorance 3 months ago:
What I appreciate is the overwhelmingly evidence he puts forward that indigenous peoples did not practise science.
Oh wait he just goes on about the history of ‘western achievement’, and makes no point of comparison to prove some science was not happening in indigenous cultures.Also, why is an economist given a platform on this?
- Comment on Calling Indigenous lore science marks Ed Husic’s ignorance 3 months ago:
They’re gatekeeping the term science now…
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- Comment on Yo, Duplo, what you doing on the 24th? 3 months ago:
It sort of tracks though for price per piece (a flawed but still useful metric). It’s got 9090 pieces, which makes the price per piece about 11c.
Which is about the average.AUD also doesn’t seem to be losing out in the currency conversion - it’s currently 680usd, which converts to more than 1000aud.
Still could never afford to drop a grand on a Lego set.
- Comment on No Man's Sky Head Claims Team Isn't Close To Being Done With Game's Content 3 months ago:
I would love for some more variety on the one planet. I feel like once you’ve landed and explored a 100m radius you’ve basically seen everything the planet has to offer.
How cool would it be to land in a desert, then takeoff and fly across jungles, heading to the poles for snow etc.
They said, the updates they’ve made have been amazing. You can land on water and fish from your spaceship now!
- Comment on Howto build 8-bit breadboard computer 4 months ago:
Here it is.
Top breadboard is solely for the decimal display. It has a timer to refresh the display and an eeprom with a lookup table to turn the binary inputs into outputs that show the decimal on the display.Bottom is input dip switches and a register - value from 0 to 255 (and selecting if negating).
Blue dial, lonely red led and red button is the clock/reset.
The Green and Yellow combo is interesting - it loads the value you set through an xor gate (to do negating, under clock) into the adders (next to green leds). The output from the adders is displayed on the green leds, and copied to the register for the yellow ones. The yellow register is then tied to the other input of the adders, so on each clock cycle it loads the previous value and continually counts up (or down) in the number you selected.
The display is tied to the yellow leds for convenience (it was easier than trying to get to the green ones.
It’s a nice little desk display!
- Comment on Howto build 8-bit breadboard computer 4 months ago:
This is an amazing series for understanding how you can make some sand ‘think’. It’s not just about putting it together - it’s his way of explaining why and how things work that makes it an incredible watch.
I built a modified ALU desk display from watching this - you use dip switches to set the value (between 0 and 255) and it will the count up in that number, displaying the decimal result in a 7 segment display (and binary as leds). It can count down too!
- Comment on Colin Anderson Calls GTA 2 the ‘Unsung Hero’ of the Franchise | Retro Gaming News 24/7 5 months ago:
Why was it seen as a misstep?
I have memories of ramps, black z cars and a hotdog mission… - Comment on Australia’s 3G Shutdown - Telcos to Block Working 4G/5G Phones! 5 months ago:
This seems like a mess
