Paradoxvoid

@Paradoxvoid@aussie.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Budget Night Thread⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I highly doubt the economists in Treasury were advocating for this. It’s 100% a political decision.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommend me a music streaming service?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be honest, I still rate Youtube Premium - the bundle that includes Music and ad-free Youtube is just too good a deal, even with the price hike… Some of the alternatives may be a bit cheaper, but you end up paying more if you still want to hang onto ad-free YT.

  Given you said budget isn’t an issue, I’d personally still stick with YTM, but I haven’t personally had any issues with its radio function, and while I don’t listen to much Aussie stuff, I do have pretty esoteric tastes and it’s generally pretty decent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your 4G phone could be impacted by 3G shutdowns this year. Here's what to know⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s more interesting about the shutdown is how this might affect IoT devices that rely on 3G - e.g. Canberra’s public transit system uses the Optus 3G network to enable its MyWay card system - once it goes down, what will that mean for commuters (especially given that Transport Canberra doesn’t accept cash on buses since COVID).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electric car sales are booming in Australia, but it's not where you think it is⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I don’t understand the premise of the headline either - unless it’s supposed to be some slight on ‘inner-city lefties’, being the only ones who could possibly want an EV…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I didn't read the TOS for Baldurs Gate 3 until now⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With GOG, you could theoretically download the offline installer, give that to someone else and then ask GOG support to remove BG3 from your account, and be fully abiding with the EULA conditions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starbreeze admits Payday 3 is massively underperforming⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy shit, it’s actually impressive to tank that hard - not cresting more than 1000 concurrent players in over a month, and hasn’t been able to beat 5000 since November… I know people love throwing the ‘dead game’ meme around prematurely, but if this isn’t dead yet, it’s definitely got one foot in the grave.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Confirms Plans To Release Xbox First Party Games “Across All Platforms”, Including PlayStation⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But if it gets to the point where Ubisoft goes and every studio starts making their own, I don’t think that will work if they don’t have the game catalogue to support it, that would mean Ubisoft could just start churning out horrible games to build their stupid catalogue.

  I feel like we’re starting to see a rerun of the streaming service wars - if this takes off across the industry I can definitely see people going back to piracy. I don’t want game pass, ubisoft+, Blizzard Prime, Nintendo Online Super Premium Expansion Pass or whatever stupid names these companies come up with just to play a few games that I’m interested in, just because they’re spread across different publishers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please defederate from threads.net⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you planning on signing up for a Meta account? Their rules won’t affect anyone who isn’t using their instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Premium family plan price update ($17.99/month -> $32.99/month!)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was also on the grandfathered Google Play Music pricing and saw the same email for increasing the cost of the individual sub.

  The pricing makes sense in that context, since now the family plan is just barely cheaper than two individual plans (whereas that wasn’t the case before).

  This’ll be a tough call, given I use YTM almost daily, and watch a lot of Youtube besides.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A controversial tier list⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  America really is an amazing country. I’ve never even heard of about half of this tier list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LPT: Never get a tattoo in a language that you don't understand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oof https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%BC%AA

  Image

• Alternative frontends?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The yes pamphlet: campaign’s voice to parliament referendum essay – annotated and factchecked⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Posting this for parity as I saw the no fact-check article was also posted.

• The yes pamphlet: campaign’s voice to parliament referendum essay – annotated and factchecked
  Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨australia@aussie.zone⁩ | ⁨18⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"It has to be Chromium"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Also no Google connectivity

  I wish people would see this as a feature, not a drawback.