briongloid
@briongloid@aussie.zone
- Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 1 comment
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 3 months ago:
Lately I’ve just been playing FTL & Stardew Valley on an old Linux machine.
I intend on playing New Vegas soon, with the intention of finishing it before Fallout Season 2.
- Submitted 3 months ago to patientgamers@sh.itjust.works | 32 comments
- Comment on Jack Karlson, who shot to fame after ‘succulent Chinese meal’ arrest, dies aged 82 3 months ago:
I hope where he’s going they have all the succulent Chinese meals he wants.
- Submitted 7 months ago to patientgamers@sh.itjust.works | 35 comments
- Comment on Expensive school uniforms don't make kids better at maths, so why are schools so focused on them? 9 months ago:
Because public schools have to compete with private schools, the uniforms make them look comparable and has more of an effect on the parents perception of value of the school.
Each public school gets funding dependant on enrolment, the end result is absurd pricing for single income parents. When I was in High School we could get a $7 shirt from Big W and look identical to other students minus the logo.
- Comment on Lower Decks: Can anyone tell me what I'm missing? 11 months ago:
I’ve only seen the cross-over episode on SNW, It’s very much not my sense of humour but I’m happy for there to be more types of shows for more people, so long as I get my TNG style shows.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 11 months ago:
I’ve just been playing Valorant, might get back into Age of Empires 2.
- Submitted 11 months ago to patientgamers@sh.itjust.works | 89 comments
- Comment on Yes, ‘Australian sushi’ exists. Get over it, argues Adam Liaw 11 months ago:
those where the days
- Comment on Is the government really trying to control your TV? Here's what its proposal on streaming apps means for you 11 months ago:
I’m still fine with it, but I assume this should apply to GoogleTV/FireTV devices.
- Is the government really trying to control your TV? Here's what its proposal on streaming apps means for youwww.abc.net.au ↗Submitted 11 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 21 comments
- Comment on Star Wars: The Old Republic getting Australian servers 11 months ago:
From what I understand, the game was recently moved to AWS, which makes regional servers significantly easier and cheaper.
- Submitted 11 months ago to patientgamers@sh.itjust.works | 2 comments
- Comment on What are your thoughts about SNW S02E08, Dr M'Benga killing the diplomat? 1 year ago:
I see references of previous Starfleet officers such as Worf or Captain Sysco;
With Worf the writers where careful to create a scenario where it was known and out in the open, that the only Federation law he broke was leaving the ship without authority, which he was officially reprimanded over. The actions he took on the Klingon vessel were considered lawful in and of itself.
Captain Sysco’s may be more relevant and example, but to me it felt more like a necessary decision for the benefit of future outcomes. To compare this to SNW S02E08, I don’t feel they outlined that he was a future threat to anyone, that being said I am undecided on the Sysco comparison.
I have also seen reference to Captain Picard’s assimilation, but to me that one is not appropriate as it was against his will.
- Submitted 1 year ago to startrek@startrek.website | 8 comments
- Comment on Cosmos 0.12 major update 1 year ago:
[🆕 Cosmos 0.12 - HUGE update! All in one secure Reverse-proxy, container manager with app store, integrated VPN, and authentication provider, now has a Full Monitoring suite with alerts and notifications (including presets for anti crypto miner hacks!) 📈📊
- Submitted 1 year ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 31 comments
- Submitted 1 year ago to patientgamers@sh.itjust.works | 64 comments
- Comment on Max users grandfathered into $15.99 ad-free plan lose 4K, HDR next month 1 year ago:
That’s how it should work, but many services have been increasing pricing with email warnings for the last decade.
My friend has PS+ and it has multiplied in price for 3-month intervals without him ever confirming the new price. He’s had it for a decade without touching it and genuinely wouldn’t know he’s being charged so much more than he agreed to if I didn’t tell him.
This is in Australia which normally has better protections for consumers, but it might actually be the case that it doesn’t in this case. It’s happened to me with every subscription I’ve ever had they send a n email and then start charging an amount I never agreed to.
The only exception was AEW+ via Fite.tv which was in USD, that was the only time I ever lost my sub when the price changed, which given it went up +40% I was glad they handled it respectfully.
- Comment on Google Fiber's 20Gbps Internet to Arrive by Year's End for Select Residential Users 1 year ago:
Our rollout was severely impacted by political interests, but the Australian government tackled this at a national level with building a National Broadband Wholesale network for all the ISP retailers to resell.
It was a lot easier however given how underfunded our existing monopoly telco left the old network.
Unfortunately Rupert Murdoch stated in New York to shareholders that the network would undercut their Australian business, they then used their 67% newspaper market share to back the opposing party and have them downgrade the rollout of the network from fibre to copper.
Now half the country can’t get a full 100mbps and the upload isn’t synchronous for 99% of households.
- Comment on Spotify Removes Offensive Imagery But Keeps Transphobic Song Despite Outcry 1 year ago:
I meant in the case where it would be hurtful, obviously it wouldn’t be reasonably hurtful to say it in a context which it isn’t, that was the point of what I was saying.
I would say the same words if I had a reason to discuss whichever word, neither of us are directing it to a person with an explicit intent to cause harm.
- Comment on Spotify Removes Offensive Imagery But Keeps Transphobic Song Despite Outcry 1 year ago:
It’s a frequent occurrence in Reddit that I read a typed out “Letter-word”, not knowing what swear/slur as the same letter could mean multiple different words in my regional English dialect.
What frustrates me is that words that could harm require effort to ensure the context is clear and respectful, people who just swap it with a Letter-word don’t care enough to treat what they are saying with importance.
I’ve previously asked what a comments letter-word was referring to as I couldn’t even find it via Google, the responses where downvotes and being told I should know what it means.
Hurtful words either shouldn’t be said at all, or if being referred to need to be treated with delicacy and respect as if their harm matters, saying them while not saying them is the laziest and most disrespectful way of handling that.
- Comment on Netflix confirms it is increasing subscription prices, again, after adding 8.8 million customers 1 year ago:
Given the decline in service quality and the increase of 8.8 million subs in a quarter, they can continue being worse for more and the general public will support it.
The only thing I care about is quality shows being made from good networks, still getting their funding, but streamers are turning into trash TV from the 2000’s.
- Comment on Netflix may hike prices after success of password-sharing crackdown 1 year ago:
FrugalUsenet via old sale page $4/m & NZBGeek $6/6m.
- Comment on Netflix may hike prices after success of password-sharing crackdown 1 year ago:
My Usenet backbone & indexer cost 5 USD per month as well.
- Comment on Spooky games part 3: Resident Evil 1 year ago:
Resident Evil 2 (2019) is a fantastic remake of the sequel, I’ve finished it multiple times.
- Comment on YouTube cracking on ad blockers. 1 year ago:
AntennaPod is available on F-Droid.
- Comment on Meta sparks privacy fears after unveiling $299 Smart Glasses with hidden cameras: ‘You can now film everyone without them knowing’ 1 year ago:
Venues will just need to implement infrared checks at the door.
- Comment on Telegram starts to look like a super app, echoing WeChat 1 year ago:
They are renting server space off a big company, not much different than AWS or Azure.