FreedomAdvocate
@FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
- Comment on It appears you no longer have the right to protest | First Dog on the Moon 1 hour ago:
Saying that traffic caused by an afl game is in any way the same to highways and roads being abruptly blockaded by protesters shows you’re not here for an actual discussion.
- Comment on It appears you no longer have the right to protest | First Dog on the Moon 3 hours ago:
The outcome isn’t the same though.
- Comment on Windows' original Secure Boot certificates expire in June—here's what you need to do 4 hours ago:
Windows computers have been encrypting drives for years.
- Comment on Windows' original Secure Boot certificates expire in June—here's what you need to do 4 hours ago:
These are all basically “if your machine is always compromised, they can also get around these other security measures” type exploits though, which are irrelevant.
- Comment on Windows' original Secure Boot certificates expire in June—here's what you need to do 4 hours ago:
Good thing windows encrypts your disk too.
- Comment on Windows' original Secure Boot certificates expire in June—here's what you need to do 4 hours ago:
Tl;dr - if you’ve used the computer in the last few years, you’re fine.
If you haven’t, then it on and run Windows update and/or update everything in the windows store by June.
If you do none of that…… doesn’t really matter, your computer will still work as expected.
- Comment on It appears you no longer have the right to protest | First Dog on the Moon 4 hours ago:
The point of the AFL isn’t to make life hard for others who are just trying to go about their day.
- Comment on It appears you no longer have the right to protest | First Dog on the Moon 4 hours ago:
Just fyi - protests that make life difficult for regular people just trying to go about their day, even those who agree with the protesters, end up doing more harm than good for the cause of the protesters. It turns people against them and their cause.
Newsflash - the government isn’t harmed by Joe and Jane Smith being stuck in traffic in 40 degree heat for an hour, making them late for work or to pick up their kids. Joe and Jane smith are, and they don’t blame the government for it - they blame the protesters and by association the thing being protested.
Now I don’t think protests like that should be banned - but if you’re blocking a road I don’t think someone trying to drive on said road should get in trouble when you don’t move out of the way.
- Comment on Three Australian millionaires say the nation’s super-rich should face higher taxes 5 hours ago:
More tax isn’t the answer given how utterly disgracefully wasteful our government and politicians are with our tax dollars. Give them more and they’ll waste more and enrich themselves more. It also doesn’t fix anything l, especially not things like political “donations”/bribes - laws fix things like that, but who make laws? Oh right, the politicians on the take, which is why it won’t happen.
What the billionaires need to do is start and run highly efficient charities that actually help people. They could even just not claim deductions if they want to pay more tax as well.
They should do things like make subscription services for essentials, sold at well below cost, so families and pros that are struggling can have guaranteed necessities like basic food, clothes, toiletries, and so on for day $50 a week. This way their money goes directly to the people, not the politicians and their mates. Look at what Mark Cuban has done with his pharmaceutical company for example.
That’s what billionaires should be doing. Pledging to pay more tax when you know you’re never going to have to is just more pathetic virtue signalling. Open a supermarket where nothing is over $5. Start your own health insurance company where there are no exclusions and no excess/deductible for making claims, and it only costs $25 a month. The list of ways they can actually help are endless, they just don’t want to actually do any of them - they just want you to think they want to help.
- Comment on Rental affordability hits record low as rents rise 2.5 times faster than wages, analysis shows 6 hours ago:
Absolutely. Anyone voting for either the ALP or LNP at this stage has rocks in their head.
- Comment on Simple utility to rename folders/files in a format Jellyfin expects 13 hours ago:
You don’t really need to “get into them” if all you want to do is rename your movies/episodes - just point it at your library and hit rename.
- Comment on Rental affordability hits record low as rents rise 2.5 times faster than wages, analysis shows 13 hours ago:
“Somehow this is the liberals fault”
- Labor supporters
- Comment on Australia in danger of becoming an ‘artless country’ as enrolments in creative courses collapse 2 days ago:
Just one thing - student debt in Australia generally isn’t a problem like it is overseas. HECS/HELP repayments are a tiny percentage of your wage, and only kick in after you’re earning above a certain amount. Student debt would affect artists the least because the likely wouldn’t have to even repay it until they’re not struggling.
- Comment on Queensland government to introduce new gun control laws advocates criticise as ‘weakest in Australia’ 2 days ago:
Weakest out of some of the strictest in the world doesn’t mean they’re weak though.
- Comment on How to Use Local IP for Services when at Home? 2 days ago:
Tailscale.
- Comment on Australia in danger of becoming an ‘artless country’ as enrolments in creative courses collapse 2 days ago:
You’re not factoring your rent/mortgage into that cost though, like stores have to, nor are you having to pay a minimum of what - 3-4 staff at all times a fair wage.
It’s not the cost of the food that is making everything expensive, it’s the cost of everything around the food - power to cook it and light the place, wages, lease, insurance, etc.
- Comment on Queensland moves to ban pro-Palestine slogan ‘from the river to the sea’ under sweeping new hate speech laws 2 days ago:
What do you think should happen to Hamas?
- Comment on The Amount of New Solar Power Production Capacity China Is Manufacturing Is Legitimately Mind-Blowing 1 week ago:
Here in Australia we’re at pretty much record, all time high energy costs lol. The more renewables we add to the grid, the higher our bills go…the opposite of what we’ve been told will happen.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Newsflash - most of the people calling other people fascists and racist are in fact the most racist fascists around.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
You say worst tragedy, I say the start of our country as it is today. Wars happen, countries get colonized - accept it and move on.
Oh no, not the meaningless racism cry……
- Comment on 1 week ago:
You’re joking, right? They didn’t live to 40 years old lol.
They were basically caveman equivalent in terms of advancement. They wouldn’t have 99.9% of what they have now if not for the British. Would they have even invented the wheel yet? Probably not, since they hadn’t in 60,000 years…….
Not a single person alive today would want to go back to living how the aboriginals did. If they did, they could just go and do it in the outback - nothings stopping them. They could go and have their average life expectancy of 30-35 years old, forage and hunt, and so on. Why don’t they?
- Comment on Goodbye to the idea that solar panels “die” after 25 years. A new study says the warranty does not mark the end, and real-world performance can last for decades 2 weeks ago:
How many years do you think are in a decade?
- Comment on Goodbye to the idea that solar panels “die” after 25 years. A new study says the warranty does not mark the end, and real-world performance can last for decades 2 weeks ago:
Who thought that the warranty of anything meant the end of it? No one. It just means that you’re on your own from then on if they have issues or die.
- Comment on Astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg named Australian of the Year for 2026 2 weeks ago:
She hasn’t actually been into space though, which is what makes this award very bizarre.
- Comment on no pride in genocide 2 weeks ago:
You might have missed the new authoritarian dictator hate laws passed last week.
- Comment on no pride in genocide 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on How do I avoid becoming one with the botnet? 2 weeks ago:
What are you wanting to host? It’s pretty simple to not get hacked.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Unlucky, I’ve had a nice celebration of our country today.
Australia was conquered by the British a long time ago. Nothing will ever change that, and the country is what it is today because of that event. No one alive today did the conquering and murdering. Everyone alive today is benefitting from it though, via not still living in caves and huts, having running water and electricity, living past the age of 30, etc.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet 4 weeks ago:
It’s definitely not for that, actually.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet 4 weeks ago:
You can still create local accounts just by clicking in some of the other options during initial setup.
