Being clear: nobody is getting their debt “wiped out”. This isn’t a debt forgiveness that you missed out on by already having paid your loan off. The HECS indexation last year resulted in unfair loan interest of 7.1% being applied to debts for 2023. HECS was never intended to do that to people. The “wipe out” is an adjustment of this interest only for last year.
Quite reminiscent of Flight Control. An early mobile game from Australia. From back when games cost $1.19 and had no ads or stupid psychological tricks to keep you playing daily. You played them daily because they were fun!
There isn’t a setting for it. So, the retention is as long as the database has space.
I’ve seen a feature request for this, some instance claims it’d make a difference for their storage management. I doubt inbox storage would be a big factor here though.
I’ll be real with you: I’ve had a look at the database schema and tables exactly once. It’s a bowl of spaghetti in there. We just sort of view it as a single entity and don’t really separate it out in any granular view.
What I can tell you is that the bulk of the storage is federated content. When a user subscribes to a community on another instance, the aussie.zone database caches content from it here for them. So, lemmy.world for example uses a lot more storage than the user messages. Or aussie.zone content if I’m being honest. We really aren’t that big an instance. We are pretty engaged though. Our user base is small but active.
I was toying with powering up the VCR on here a couple of weeks ago. Today could be a good day to demonstrate to the kids that Han Shoots first. In fact, I hate that expression. Han is the only one who shoots.
I’ve never really thought before about how much money it takes to have an airline before other than “loads”. Bonza has/had 6x Boeing 737s. Assuming a discount purchase price of about $80 million each, you can get an airline off the ground for under a billion dollars. I think that’s less than I would have assumed.
I wonder now what it really costs per seat to operate? Let’s simplify economy airline tickets to $100 per hour of flight time. Let’s also assume that a plane spends a quarter of the time on the ground. So, 18 hours in the air at $100 per hour times 200 seats means a plane is generating $360k revenue per day.
I have no idea what running costs are - flight crew of 10? Lets double that to 20 for maintenance/customer service etc. Fuel? Maintenance? Airport fees? No idea what these add up to, but if you have over $2 Million dollars coming in per day as revenue, I have to assume I’m missing stuff here. Because I would not have thought an airline this small would have running costs that high. There’s probably a good reason why I’m not running an airline!
I still haven’t used Windows 11. Given that I’m an IT nerd with 25+ years in the industry, and essentially live and breathe this stuff, it’s a little remarkable. My computer’s hardware doesn’t officially support it, and while I’ve gone through the checks I need to disable in order to upgrade, I haven’t seen what Windows 11 offers that makes me want to upgrade.
Other than turning the Start Bar into something more like the MacOS/Gnome dock, I haven’t really seen anything the new version brings to the consumer. It’s more of the same, but give us money please.
Oh, you think the tradie didn’t notice the drawer issue? That’s cute. Of course he noticed. But by ‘accidentally’ doing precisely what the job sheet asked for (replacing the extinguisher and nothing more), he gets called back a second time. $$$
Coming into the last two months of this project. Watching the “go-live” dates of different components getting nudged back and back. Six months ago, we were going to be in Production for everything by May 31 and have June for documentation etc.
We’re now at the point where the last Prod deployment is June 21, and we get the last week of June for documentation. I half expect the go-live to be June 27, with one day for documentation at this point. Either that, or I’m going to be working the weekend of June 29/30.
Something about the whooshing sound of deadlines rushing by.
This was great. My biggest hesitation with all these protests about domestic violence and spending a Billion dollars combating it was that I didn’t know what was possible to do about it. Other than de-normalising violence, I couldn’t see what the point was. You can’t exactly pass a law saying it’s illegal to assault and kill people - it’s already illegal.
So, I disagree with this guy on one point: We don’t all know what immediately needs to be done. I had no clue, at least.
I love that when he was challenged, he had a list of things that needed to happen. Now. And he seems to only just be getting started. I’m sold - we need to listen to the people in the trenches who are facing domestic violence. They’re the ones who know what needs to be done.
Why on earth would we have no empathy for them? I cannot imagine what it takes to hold and comfort a 10 year old child dying in my arms who has been stabbed by their parent. With two kids around that age myself, I’d be a complete wreck! And he’s attended up to 20 domestic violence calls in a night! For years!
Ours died last year. I wouldn’t have it. I took them apart, cracked out the soldering iron and repaired them. I broke the slow/fast switch and the blitz button in the process, but they work again.
Good thing, as they have mixing bowl attachment and it’d be so wasteful to throw the whole thing away over an internal switch wearing out.
This is all super fascinating from a macro view. Originally telephony services (landlines) were provided by a government utility. That utility was privatised in the late-20th century with certain guarantees that they will continue to provide a certain standard of telephony services.
Along come all these mobile carriers, who are providing a private service without the same level of assurance they will meet those requirements. You probably don’t notice, but when you sign up to a mobile or VoIP telephony service, you’ll routinely agree to waive those guarantees (do a quick google of “csg waiver”). In short: Most non-Telstra carriers won’t/don’t actually guarantee you can reach 000, or meet the government CSG. Only that they’ll try their best.
It looks like the government is considering stepping in and putting an end to that practice. It’ll be a huge shake up to the telco industry.
Well, for a start - Telstra still honours the CSG. You could argue that Telstra today is better than Telecom of the 90’s. But, it’s impossible to say how much Telecom would have evolved and improved with the same technology advancements that have come along. I seriously doubt that Telecom would have jumped into the Internet space as quickly as Telstra did. Even Telstra was a bit late to the Internet Provider party.
Why do “we” (the voting public) keep falling for this shit?
It’s not so much the things that are privatised, it’s what that privatisation pays for. Recent WA privatisations are paying for Metronet - which is a massive uplift to the Perth’s public transport network, providing new lines, stations and trains. Hundreds of thousands of people are benefiting from that.
Parenting subs can be weird. Someone didn’t like what a pediatrician told them about their kid. Proceeds to get support and validation from the sub. I piped in and said something like it might be smarter to follow the advice of an actual doctor over a bunch of randoms on the Internet. Even getting a second doctor’s opinion.
Was my most downvoted comment in 12 years of using Reddit.
It’s a myth that house prices always go up. There are plenty of apartments in Melbourne CBD around $400k, which is what they cost ten years ago.
Yes, nice big 4 bedroom two bathroom houses in nice suburbs have massively increased in value. But the bottom end hasn’t moved nearly so much, because the buying power of the bottom end purchasers hasn’t increased by that much.
Daily discussion thread: 🐔 Wednesday, May 8, 2024
HECS changes to see $3 billion in student debt 'wiped out' (www.abc.net.au)
Daily discussion thread: 🛡️ Sunday, May 5, 2024
What's the retention period for Inbox messages?
Daily discussion thread: 🏹 Saturday, May 4, 2024
Bonza staff queue at Centrelink for emergency payments as airline administrators confirm April wages will not be paid (www.abc.net.au)
Daily discussion thread: ⚔️ Friday, May 3, 2024
'I don't think it's that hard': The former cop who says he knows how to save more domestic violence victims (www.abc.net.au)
Breakfast
Sometimes we need a quick breakfast. Other times, there’s no hurry. What’s everyone eating for breakfast? Let’s share ideas.
Daily discussion thread: 🐮 Wednesday, May 1, 2024
The government ordered an investigation into last year's Optus outage. Now its findings are in (www.abc.net.au)
The report found a key cause of the outage was a problem with Optus’s 3G network....
What is the most well thought out, inoffensive, post you've seen get down voted?
We compared the finances of 30-year-olds now, to 30-year-olds 30 years ago (www.abc.net.au)
Feels bad man