notgold
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- Comment on Australia's travel advice for the US has toughened three times since April 4 days ago:
Only by most measured metrics
- Comment on Android’s next big feature turns your phone into a desktop 2 weeks ago:
My old note9 did it too. Handy in a pinch and great when I forget my laptop but still wanted to pretend to work at work
- Comment on All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding | by Dan Fabulich | Apr, 2025 2 weeks ago:
Too late
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 3 weeks ago:
100% this. At least epic tried to make a value proposition for developers but developers can just make more from steam. Having said that, steam/valve had a hand in the always online gaming situation which we have all just come to accept. I buy from Gog where I can
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 3 weeks ago:
Cost of doing business…
- Comment on Short summary of dumbphone market in 2025 3 weeks ago:
Not sure what deepseek does as I’m unfamiliar. My apologies fellow human, it’s difficult to know who is real anymore.
- Comment on Short summary of dumbphone market in 2025 3 weeks ago:
Is Deepseeks turn to post today? Do many of these posts today
- Comment on From $30 parmigianas to $15 pints, can Australia still afford the pub? 4 weeks ago:
This is legible.
- Comment on From $30 parmigianas to $15 pints, can Australia still afford the pub? 4 weeks ago:
100% this. Property prices and business rents have destroyed the good life.
My childhood suburb had nearly 30 pubs and bars when I was 18. Nowadays, half the pubs have been bulldozed and overpriced apartments take their place.
Sad thing is with the size of apartments now, we need pub spaces to share with mates more than ever.
- Comment on From $30 parmigianas to $15 pints, can Australia still afford the pub? 4 weeks ago:
Too many yank flags and bald Eagles for me to take that website seriously
- Comment on Victoria to ban state school logos on shorts, pants, skirts and socks from next year 1 month ago:
Shop keepers, the old tram conductors, older dropout kids. All would treat you different if you were in a school uniform.
This may be depending on area but in Melbourne CBD, inner suburbs and bayside was like that whenever I was in uniform.
- Comment on Google To Allow Double Serving Ads. 1 month ago:
People have more energy to complain than to fix.
- Comment on IT'S ON: Albanese to call May 3 federal election tomorrow morning 1 month ago:
I thought Mr musk taught us that we can be capitalist and save the planet at the same time
- Comment on What host names do you use? 2 months ago:
First non negative integer so easy for computer to display.
I only really use zero in networking names to correspond with an IPv4 address that ends with dot zero.
I think it’s just what you’re used to. Like counting bottom to top in teleco versus counting top to bottom in IT.
- Comment on Women earn 78 cents for every $1 men paid on average. 2 months ago:
Same in my industry. Rarely do any women apply.
- Comment on Tech jobs are now white collar trades that need apprentices 2 months ago:
This. Unionise people. It’s a benefit for all
- Comment on Diplomacy dies on live TV as Trump and Vance gang up to bully Ukraine leader 2 months ago:
I haven’t watched nor read anything else about this so I don’t have a full understanding of the meeting. Having said that, I don’t what anyone would expect a world leader to do. He either fights off an invasion without help or sells his nation off. This is a lose lose situation. The USA is losing its image of a country that supports cooperation to an economic invader picking on someone while their down.
- Comment on Trump vows to slap 25% tariffs on EU and claims bloc was ‘formed to screw US’ 2 months ago:
He’s not entirely wrong but it’s not specific to the USA and it was more about individual European nations not getting screwed by larger nations. Using Trump logic, the union of states that makes up the United States of America is there just to screw over everyone else.
- Comment on nuked from orbit 2 months ago:
I was thinking some kind of beer calisthenics but then realised that the Brad bod wouldn’t support that
- Comment on The Humane Ai Pin is dead, HP is buying the carcass. 2 months ago:
116m seems like enough for the 400 pins they actually sold
- Comment on trump puts 25% tariffs on Aussie steel and aluminium 3 months ago:
Wise beyond your years @kudra
- Comment on trump puts 25% tariffs on Aussie steel and aluminium 3 months ago:
Oh please Albanese, put a 50% tariff on American cars.
- Comment on No one feels safe in Zionist Australia 3 months ago:
I’ve heard people at costco call other people Jews, Nazis, cunts, tightasses, assholes, pricks. I feel there should be more security in that place.
- Comment on No one feels safe in Zionist Australia 3 months ago:
I think social media is blowing this out of proportion and making it sound bigger than it is.
I work in northern Melbourne which has a huge middle eastern community (and big emphasis on community), that for the most part just lives their lives without bringing middle eastern trouble here.
The pro gaza protests last year on occasion saw people go a bit far but no different to union rallies. I think people are nastier at costco or boxing day sales.
- Comment on Study of 8k Posts Suggests 40+% of Facebook Posts are AI-Generated 3 months ago:
Good on him for not falling for the MAGA bulldust and trying for the third option
- Comment on The synthetic vitamin leaving several Australians with major health issues 3 months ago:
Looks like the salt reduced one has it but not regular.
- Comment on Are you a Coles patriot. Or are you a Woolies nationalist? 3 months ago:
I go for the $1.99 hot dog when I’m working nearby. For nappies their standard price is normally cheaper but big w has sales for buggies that are better so i just load up.
- Comment on Are you a Coles patriot. Or are you a Woolies nationalist? 3 months ago:
Worse than servo or milk bar prices
- Comment on Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked 3 months ago:
I’m guessing because the country that elected a leader the colour of a taco
- Comment on Australia (Act) Day (annual repost) 3 months ago:
I like wattle day as a national holiday. I also like 9 July as Australian day, when the Queen said we could be our own nation instead of a collection of British controlled colonies. The most Australian thing to do is have more than one day off work to respect our nation by getting sunburnt and picking flowers. Real Aussies just want another day off.