Dimand
@Dimand@aussie.zone
- Comment on ‘A fundamental part of growing up’: Why Aussie kids can’t swim any more 1 week ago:
They threw us in the deep end with trackpants and a jumper on and we had to tread water for 5 minutes back when I was like 12. Then we had to take off the heavy clothes in the water and do 50 m. I feel like one of the teachers had a clipboard marking us off, but at least at my school it was expected that every kid could manage that.
- Comment on Australia was once the gold standard for gun safety. Experts say it’s losing control 3 weeks ago:
The fuck? Why does the guardian have a second crappy researched Aus gun laws article in the space of three days??? I literally just scrolled up from the previous one on my Lemmy feed.
- Comment on Australia’s gun lobby says it’s ‘winning’ the fight against firearm control as numbers surge 3 weeks ago:
You can get them with the right licence. It’s only for professional hunters I believe but I have never looked into details. They are rightfully much harder to get than a typical class A/B licence.
- Comment on Australia’s gun lobby says it’s ‘winning’ the fight against firearm control as numbers surge 3 weeks ago:
That’s some heavy shit man!
- Comment on Australia’s gun lobby says it’s ‘winning’ the fight against firearm control as numbers surge 3 weeks ago:
I mean most families don’t need more than one car, but some people like to buy lots of them.
I grew up rural and it was very rare to see a farm with more than five guns, most would never “need” more than two. If someone registers and properly stores a large collection through legal channels then I have trouble taking issue with it regardless of their location. Most rifle ranges are in or near cities and even if you were aiming for a single arm per modern calibre, you are talking about dozens of guns.
- Comment on Australia’s gun lobby says it’s ‘winning’ the fight against firearm control as numbers surge 3 weeks ago:
You took it home?!? And that is the done thing? Do they pay you to install a handgun safe??? Pistols are scary, it’s too easy to change your line of fire.
- Comment on Australia’s gun lobby says it’s ‘winning’ the fight against firearm control as numbers surge 3 weeks ago:
This article has some huge issues.
As mentioned already, the type of gun matters a lot. Not mention of how many are semi auto, but I am guessing it won’t be many.
Also no accounting for population growth over the last 30 years as a factor in total gun numbers.
This paragraph was absolutely journalistic garbage.
“NSW firearm registry data shows that in Sydney there are more than 70 individuals who own more than 100 firearms, including one person who owns 385 guns. The register notes that this is not a collector or a dealer.”
Clearly this is a hobby/interest and the person is a collector with too much time and money (good for them I guess). What they don’t have is a “collectors” licence that effectively means they cannot ever use their guns. A licenced collector will usually have inoperable firearms on display (think museum).
All that said, the SSAA and others do have a higher than normal concentration of right wing nuts that continuously lobby the government to weaken our excellent (imo) gun laws. It’s why I stopped giving them any of my money.
- Comment on Australian Government funnelled $2.5B to Israeli arms manufacturers 3 weeks ago:
I have noticed the quality of Michael West deteriorating significantly over the last year or so. Not that I don’t open any news article with a healthy dose of scepticism but it feels like they used to do better.
- Comment on If regulated properly, ebikes could one day replace cars for millions of Australians 4 weeks ago:
My unregulated ebike seems to work pretty well as a car replacement.
- Comment on More AZ issues 19/8/25 4 weeks ago:
Much improved compared to earlier today. Many thanks for your work.
- Comment on AZ issues 16/8/25 4 weeks ago:
I noticed comments have been very slow to load recently. Guessing this was the issue.
- Comment on Card payment surcharges should be banned for debit and credit payments, RBA says 2 months ago:
I have seen plenty of places here charging a percentage rate for debit card use, as recently as last week. Not saying they should but it happens.
Who ends up benefiting from all the cash skimming I’m not sure, but chances are they are already filthy rich.
- Comment on Card payment surcharges should be banned for debit and credit payments, RBA says 2 months ago:
Oh for sure. Cash is expensive to count, store and move. Never understood how an armour guard car with 2 people emptying ticket machines made much sense, even back in the day.
However, the infrastructure to run electronics payments is not trivial. The combination of volume, security and reliability needed adds up in hardware and software. I doubt it will ever be free to transfer money in any form.
- Comment on Card payment surcharges should be banned for debit and credit payments, RBA says 2 months ago:
I’m with the RBA on this one. The price on the sticker should be what I pay no matter the format I pay in. It’s one of the great things about aus.
Cash still has significant overhead and businesses manage to account for that. Digital should be no different.
- Comment on Be aware that buying electrical items from Ali Express might not be too clever. 2 months ago:
Nah mate. The transformer is usually used as an inductor for the switch mode conversion.
It looks like you have it right though. The big brown cap should be rated for 250v + and will be on the mains AC side.
The DC side will have lower voltage rated smoothing caps.
Post the link to the device or better photos and I’ll have a closer look for you.
- Comment on We are seeing some vote manipulation 3 months ago:
Nothing is secret on the internet these days.
- Comment on Stepping up from Tinkercad but to what? 4 months ago:
Blender has a decent cam processor add-on. Solve space and openSCAD are other very good parametric CAD programs.
- Comment on Stepping up from Tinkercad but to what? 4 months ago:
Solve space and openSCAD or both great options. I have been learning solve space lately and it is great. I couldn’t learn freecad, something about the UI and workflow was just too unintuitive for me.
I was burnt by fusion 360. Had some of “my” designs locked in the cloud when they spent 2 weeks and a dozen emails trying to “fix” my educator access. The fix they really wanted was my credit card details. I refuse to use or teach anyone to use that ecosystem now.
- Comment on Australia seeking to buy back Port of Darwin from Chinese firm, says PM 5 months ago:
Watch the media turn on anyone that tries such sensible shit. And then watch the voters lap it up.
- Comment on TIL: Deer are popping off down here 8 months ago:
I stopped giving SSAA any of my money. I don’t agree with most of their political lobbying stances, especially for reducing requirements around accessing firearms and legalising higher rate of fire guns.
Hasn’t been any great loss.