DeltaTangoLima

DeltaTangoLima, 12 hours ago

^ 100% this. My data’s backed up. I can get a new phone and sue the government later for confiscating a personal asset without due cause. Fuck that Gestapo shit.

Also, I disable biometric locks when traveling through airports and similar situations. They can easily “compel” biometrics from me, but not a password.

I don’t have any concerns for my local coppers wanting to take my phone - it’s too risky for them to do that without due cause - but the same can’t be said for federal power trippers like Border Force (what a fucking stupid name - sounds like something Trump came up with).

DeltaTangoLima, 12 hours ago

increasingly uncomfortable with paying forever

And paying more and more as time goes on. The thing that shits me the most is the increased prices but decreased range/quality of content. That’s clearly not a business model aimed at customer satisfaction.

DeltaTangoLima, 7 hours ago

Dat port number in the compose file

DeltaTangoLima, 1 day ago

Please use a personal email. My email is ‘mail’ @ ‘my actual name’. It does not get more personal than that

It’s a legit rule they’re enforcing, IMO. Generic email addresses are usually unmonitored mailboxes that don’t bounce. Easy to use if you’re spamming contact forms and stuff like that.

Instead they advised me (3 times) to create a personal email on a service like Yahoo, Outlook, Gmail, Orange, etc

I think this is more a boilerplate suggestion, to lower the barrier to entry for people. Gotta remember, those of us that host our own email and/or use our own personal domains are definitely in the minority.

DeltaTangoLima, 1 day ago

Here in Australia, it’s drop bears and hoop snakes. People always want to see them… until it’s too late.

DeltaTangoLima, 1 day ago

Typical. Those drop bears have no respect at all for a person’s eskie.

DeltaTangoLima, 5 days ago

Not really. Here in Australia, our supermarket duopoloy does the same thing, offering discounts per litre. At the time it all started, the supermarket chains started buying into/acquiring petrol stations and rebranding them. This has been going on for over 20 years.

Recently, both supermarkets sold off their petrol station chains, but the sales included long-standing agreements to continue to offer discounts and loyalty program points for those that shop at the associated supermarket brand.

DeltaTangoLima, 6 days ago

I use Home Assistant, and install that on all my old, re-purposed smartphones (usually as cheap CCTV). Each phone is plugged into a smart power socket.

I then use automation to turn a phone’s charger off when it hits 80%, then back on when it reaches 50%. No overcharging, no overheating, and actually helps keep the batteries in good shape.

DeltaTangoLima, 6 days ago

I already use Home Assistant for a number of other things, so not really complex. Also, you’re assuming Android only.

DeltaTangoLima, 6 days ago

For my wife, I have a separate library folder, mapped to just her account in Plex. It doesn’t appear in my library at all, so I don’t really care. Even better, I’ve spun up an Overseerr instance for her, so she can just search and auto-add anything she wants for herself.

DeltaTangoLima, 6 days ago

Depending on the local climate, yes - evap cooling is typically the go. The data centres I work in here in Melbourne use evap free cooling (EFC).

For much of the year, due to our temperate climate, the cooling simply uses (filtered) outside air. During bouts of warmer weather (typically 29C+), we use evaporative cooling. Waste water from the EFCs is discharged into storm water drainage, and reported to our local water authority for billing.

DeltaTangoLima, 5 days ago

An excellent question, that I suspect the answer to will vary in many jurisdictions.

We do re-use the water we use in our EFCs, but only a limited number of times. After a specified number of uses, local regulations require that we discharge it into storm water, to mitigate against the risk of things like legionella and other potentially deadly airborne bacteria.

We’re also required to test and treat all stored water monthly.

DeltaTangoLima, 7 days ago

The payment is designed to help ease cost-of-living pressures

the money will be made available as credit … towards educational expenses in certain categories

The money can not be put towards school fees or used for household expenses

it appeared the $400 payment would cover uniforms, excursions and sports activities, but not laptops

So, seems to cover things that many hard-up families probably aren’t paying for already, which means this won’t ease the cost of living pressure for them at all.

DeltaTangoLima, 8 days ago

Oooh! A wiki article! Look at you, educating people with science and stuff.

/s

DeltaTangoLima, 8 days ago

Lol - the sheer volume of people who completely missed my /s, and didn’t cotton to the fact that I was making a joke about the very subject…

DeltaTangoLima, 8 days ago

is ambiguous

Ah - like a double negative? I didn’t realise I cancelled out my sarcasm with more sarcasm. I need to spend more time on the internet. I’d hate for my sarcasm to be misunderstood.

DeltaTangoLima, 12 days ago

May your chickens turn to emus and kick your dunny door down

DeltaTangoLima, 11 days ago

Yeah, but in a light-hearted way.

DeltaTangoLima, 12 days ago

Straight to HR - that fucker needs sacking. This is the very definition of bullying and harassment.

DeltaTangoLima, 12 days ago

Ditto - divorcing my first wife. Now I’m married to my soulmate and we have an amazing daughter together. Best thing I ever did!

DeltaTangoLima, 13 days ago

Would they agree if Biden used his absolute power to pass a federal law guaranteeing safe access to abortion?

DeltaTangoLima, 14 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

Early 80s, maybe 83 or 84, we got a Dick Smith VZ200 (rebadged VTech Laser 210 - Dick Smith here in Australia was kinda like Radio Shack). It had 8Kb of RAM but Dad bought the 16Kb expansion - 24Kb of RAM!

I got a book from my uncle on how to write BASIC programs, and wrote a heap of stuff. We could backup and load programs from a regular cassette tape recorder that plugged into the computer, sorta like the Commodore 64 later on.

Early 90s, guessing around 93, I got a Nokia 101 analogue phone. I even bought a car kit for it, and installed it in my Datsun 180B. It had a snake game on it, and I actually used it to make and receive phone calls.

DeltaTangoLima, 13 days ago

If you grew up in the Dandenong Ranges, quite possibly.

DeltaTangoLima, 14 days ago

• Phone: yoda
• Desktop: bb8
• Firewall: c3po
• Switch: macewindu
• NASes:
  • anakin
  • r2d2
• Wireless APs:
  • biggs
  • garven
  • poe
  • typho
  • thane
  • wedge (virtual controller)
• Proxmox nodes:
  • chewy
  • hansolo
  • obiwan
• Raspberry PIs:
  • bobafett
  • lando
  • jangofett
  • quigon
  • rey
  • finn

DeltaTangoLima, 15 days ago

is an extremely bad thing for their development

I strongly recommend you listen to Dr Billy Garvey’s views on screen time and technology.