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- Comment on Why Labor refuses to ban gambling ads - ABC listen 1 week ago:
tl;dr
- Comment on Why Labor refuses to ban gambling ads - ABC listen 1 week ago:
Yeah, I don’t reckon I need to listen to a 4 hour podcast for the answer.
- Comment on Australia’s climate ambitions have a modern slavery problem as materials for renewable energy technology is likely sourced through forced labour in China, researchers say 2 weeks ago:
I wish the government would be more proactive in encouraging local manufacturing.
You know a great way to ensure a product is free from modern slavery? Produce it locally where nothing is obscured.
- Comment on Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills 3 weeks ago:
I prefer to argue on the internet via my phone, which I can type pretty fast on thanks to the swipe to type
I’m the opposite… I rarely reply when I’m on my phone because swiping and tapping away at the touchscreen keyboard is so slow and inaccurate. I spend more time correcting swypos than I do writing I think.
Meanwhile on the desktop I can punch out a shining example of wit (or at least a spoonerism of that) at 100+ wpm at 100% accuracy.
Sent from my phone, slowly.
- Comment on Weekly news quiz: Sam Neill's missed role, a supermoon, and Felix's sweet thank you 5 weeks ago:
5/10, which I mostly blame on not caring about celebrity news stories.
- Comment on Booktopia to begin trading again after sale to online store digiDirect 1 month ago:
I used to buy books from Booktopia a lot, because reading text on LCD / LED screens is horrible.
But then I discovered epaper devices and the convenience of carrying your entire library around in something half the size of a single paperback.
Surprised there’s still a big enough demand for physical books to be honest.
- Comment on Gemini is replacing Google Assistant on Pixel phones, and it’s a train wreck 1 month ago:
I can’t set a reminder.
I said “Hey Google, set a reminder to feed the dog at 9am tomorrow” and it seems to work fine?
- Comment on Google threatened tech influencers unless they ‘preferred’ the Pixel 1 month ago:
The one in my hand with a silicon case feels fine. Camera bump is only obnoxiously noticeable when it’s naked.
- Comment on Queensland’s premier wants publicly owned petrol stations – is that a good idea? 1 month ago:
But more often than not, Australia’s citizens found themselves little better off if at all. This turned out to be a common international experience for other countries privatising their utilities.
Name one thing that’s been privatised that has resulted in any combination of better product, better service, or better price?
- Comment on Spy chief warns friendly nations among the countries interfering in Australian communities 1 month ago:
“three to four” countries… Who’s the fractional country having a crack?
- Comment on Jack Karlson, who shot to fame after ‘succulent Chinese meal’ arrest, dies aged 82 1 month ago:
Going to dine and dash my local Chinese restaurant tonight out of respect 🙏
- Comment on Musk's X sues advertisers over alleged 'massive advertiser boycott' . 1 month ago:
Please drink verification can
- Comment on The government is under pressure to ban gambling ads. History shows half-measures don’t work. 1 month ago:
Bet they won’t
- Comment on One of Australia’s most expensive commutes becomes the cheapest, as Queensland’s 50c public transport trial begins 1 month ago:
Public transport doesn’t go anywhere near my house or work, but fingers crossed it makes my commute better by virtue of taking others off the road!
- Comment on aussie zone growth 1 month ago:
The daily server snapshot probably:
- Comment on Why are Australians in denial about how cold our homes really are? ‘Winter stoicism’ is partly to blame | Reena Gupta 1 month ago:
It doesn’t help that any trade related work is both bullshit expensive, and terrible quality.
Go ahead and try and get a price on installing insulation. It’ll be infinite dollars and the blokes that turn up (in a dual cab Ranger) to do the job will be in and out in 15 minutes having done the barest possible minimum and leaving you to deal with all the issues they’ve created by half-arsing it.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I like Rex… Whenever we fly domestic we try and use them. Mostly because they’ve never cancelled a flight we’ve been on, ever.
Also you can bid for business class seats and often get them for cheap.
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- Comment on Samsung delivers 600-mile solid-state EV battery as it teases 9-minute charging and 20-year lifespan tech 2 months ago:
Doesn’t seem to stop a lot of drivers
- Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete 2 months ago:
Why do Shorts (and Reels, and Stories, and whatever other catchy names they give short form videos) even exist?
- Comment on Are we going down the same path as US politics? 2 months ago:
I never used to care about politics (you can thank the NBN debacle for opening my eyes), but its so hard to watch anything on free to air TV without noticing the massive positive bias towards the Liberals now. Everything is worded to ensure you take away the message they are pushing, as opposed to learning the facts. Half the news stories just end up as advertorials for Liberal policy with no balance or critique. Its no wonder people who dont really give a shit end up so anti-Labor/Greens without even realising why.
Was kinda happier being oblivious tbh.
- Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 28 comments
- Comment on The Raes say their fridge malfunctioned, triggering illness, and their refund offer included a 'gag clause' 2 months ago:
Samsung being a shit company aside, this “really strong” chemical smell is just going to be a burnt out fan motor / hot joint in a cable causing the insulation to smolder / some food spilt over the defrost heater / or something equally benign.
There’s just nothing in a domestic fridge that can cause a whole house full of people to get all these mysterious symptoms. Any bets on the “racing heart rate” and what not being a panic attack brought on by getting all flustered?
- Comment on The Raes say their fridge malfunctioned, triggering illness, and their refund offer included a 'gag clause' 2 months ago:
It won’t be refrigerant. It’s colourless, odorless, and tasteless. Burning something like R22 back in the day would give you the stink because it had chlorine in it, but you wouldn’t even notice 600/290 burning. It doesn’t even had the odorant in it like propane and butane.
- Comment on The Raes say their fridge malfunctioned, triggering illness, and their refund offer included a 'gag clause' 2 months ago:
I’m yet to see R600a in Australian domestic fridges
That’s pretty much all they are. I’d be surprised if you find anything BUT hydrocarbons fridges. Even commercial units are going to hydrocarbons now.
- Comment on Most Australians take more than 30 minutes to get to work. How does that compare to other countries? 2 months ago:
During school holidays, my commute is around 25 minutes each way.
Outside of school holidays, my commute is around 40 minutes each way.
How do kids who start school at 9:00am ruin my commute at 6:30am?
- Comment on It's winter. so what is your favourite icecream / gelato / frozen yog flavour? 2 months ago:
It legitimately tastes like pavlova! Definitely sweet, has that… pavlova… taste. I suspect theres a hint of strawberry as the ice cream is slightly pink. I think they had marshmellow on top of the container in the cabinet but there’s none in the ice cream itself.
You can pretty much buy anything^*^ and it tastes amazing.
^*^ - I’m not vouching for the vegan stuff, never tried it.
- Comment on Do other languages have similar acronyms to 'tbh', 'imo', 'smh', etc? 2 months ago:
Isn’t that what you do with Bitcoin?
- Comment on Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren't filled with microtransactions? 2 months ago:
Solitaire, straight out of classic Windows (pre-advertising death throes):
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.potatoj…
Hoplite, classic turn based dungeon/puzzle:
- Submitted 2 months ago to australia@aussie.zone | 6 comments