Almost 40% of most democratic country’s populations would probably agree with most dumb and provocative ideas presented in a poll… especially now days with how partisan everything has become.
That said the Australia/ USA alliance is more important than any particular administration or head of government either our Australian government or the US government.
It’s an alliance of enormous mutual benefit that frankly is not going anywhere.
Australia is an enormous unsinkable aircraft carrier rich in resources, far enough from potential adversaries in the region to provide extremely strong defence in depth in the region. We use common platforms and tactics in battle, and have extensive integrated combat experience.
Perhaps even more important than any of that, it would be politically unacceptable I believe to our populations to turn our back on each other at this point, so many of us have personal friends and family in each other’s country.
We might occasionally have disagreements like any family does, and we might not like everything about each other but that’s how it goes with family. Any other country trying some shit I feel will find out fast that our alliance is stronger than it has ever been.
The US, UK and Australia have a bond forged in the fire of conflict and quenched in blood, anyone who wants to try and fuck with one should probably be ready for a fight with all… not to be overly dramatic.
Most of these hacks I’ve seen seem to have long been patched out.
I still feel iPhones are largely more secure overall even if simply because on average I’m pretty confident the fleet of iPhones in use are using much more up to date software than android devices.
To have a logical settings layout, perform well, be stable
Be fully and easily compatible with most mainstream programs and games without having to screw around too much.
Give me back windows 7, add dx12 support, update the back end with any kernel and scheduler updates, call it windows gamer edition. Then fuck off out of my life Microsoft.
Nobody wants to “use an operating system” we want to run programs and do it efficiently, i feel the vast majority of changes Microsoft has made since windows 7 ended has been to the detriment of that.
I can only hope that now with Vulcan becoming more popular and the rise of steam os on the steam deck that we will start to see native Linux aaa games being a thing.
I have absolute confidence that Finland will absolutely counter any aggressive actions all by themselves if they need to.
They have an absolutely staggering amount of artillery and you can be sure it’s all pre-sighted and ready to make any silly invasion attempts an absolute blood bath.
They also have a powerful and decentralised airforce, setup to operate from their highways and backwater air fields should the need arise.
Finland out of any nation in Europe would be the least of my worries about its ability to defend themselves, they have been gearing up and planning to defend against Russian aggression for generations, their people are motivated and I believe already armed with their service rifles after they complete their mandatory service period.
Add NATO membership into it and Russian threats are just laughable, dragging such a powerful and motivated foe into a war you are already struggling badly with would be incredibly stupid, not that that rules it out I guess.
The sheer level of hurt that the USDF could put on them is completely on a different universe to anything they would have come up against previously.
They 100% could obliterate everything in that theatre that even resembles a “target” with little warning and zero real strain, it would be significantly less effort than some of the training exercises that happen.
Someone is clearly being paid by someone else to provoke a response or provide a distraction (I wonder who)
Which I think is probably why nothing too crazy has happened in response yet because why give them what they seem to want.
Second, the Australian airforce and Boeing developed this plane together and have already had it in service for many years with fantastic success and reliability.
I believe the UK RAF also has some in service.
It’s been operated with many of our allies on joint operations and sometimes with observers as they all knew that their AWACS fleets were in pretty desperate need to be replaced and were accessing it.
It is by far the most capable platform of this type, and it’s a ready to go mature design that the countries looking to come on board have already been operating along side and supporting in real operations.
A lot of the major anger is coming from businesses and government and to be completely honest…
If the system your business or government agency has implemented requires 100% up time and relies on a cellular network or any network or power grid for that matter, guess who’s responsible for ensuring that there is adequate redundancy to insure a outage does not occur or is very unlikely to occur…?
Ding ding ding that’s you, you are the one responsible, or the person who you had design it and set the standard and enforce it…
Business and government agencies/services implemented systems with a single point a failure to cut costs, when I absofuckinglutly guarantee that a network engineer brought up that maybe they should add redundancy and was shot down by bean counters.
And now that it’s blown up in their fucking face they have turned around and are trying to redirect attention from shareholders and the public back on to Optus.
Optus fucked up, but no more than if a power line came down when the power company had one of their trucks back into it and the power went out.
If people are going to die if the shit you are designing doesn’t work, or you business is going to loose tons of money, that’s your responsibility to design and implement something that does not have a single point of failure.
I don’t agree that this is necessarily a weakness or that it’s overly strange.
While they might not be able to quite hit the peak fitness of someone in their 20’s and 30’s, you also gain a large amount of meaningful mental fortitude as you get older.
In short you have seen more shit and dealt with more shit. So generally you can bear more headship and pain before breaking, also probably less prone to discipline issues, and the older ones likely provide a good example to the rest.
In a war for the survival of your nation all able bodied people are needed. There are naturally more older people than there are younger ones.
I wouldn’t block them, but I’d be leaving the group chat.
As if i want my default sms texting app to be getting spammed by a big group chat.
Also the default at least here in Australia is pretty much Facebook messenger or maybe WhatsApp not because anyone likes it, but because everyone already has a Facebook account even if they don’t use it much.
Also it means you can easily have group chats with people who you need to communicate with but you don’t really want to have your number.
What a ridiculous notion to be using a platform specific service for a group chat, unless you are deciding your friends group or work colleagues based on the phone they use which again seems unfathomable.
I am an iPhone user, in Australia and i have seen precisely zero iMessage chat groups even attempt to be created. Because everyone knows it’s a shitty pain in the ass service if someone doesn’t have an iPhone.
We all blame apple for that as we should not the android user. How it ended up inverted in the US is beyond me but it’s backwards af.
This whole thing is a non issue being caused by lack of thought and logic of the users apparently almost exclusively in the USA
Personally i wish the default here was discord or signal but messenger is still far better than iMessage at least from a cross platform usability standpoint.
Title pretty much tells you all you need to know about my situation. In a turn of events tonight I’ve been gifted a used but working EVGA 3090 card to replace my seven year old 1070....
It’s the cars they are making. The evs are all quite expensive and then all new cars seem to be taking the opportunity to tack on all these extra subscriptions and such.
I’m never buying a car where heated seats are bound to my car app account on a subscription like seriously…
Like the car has it, it’s already cost the manufacturer to install it sure there are ongoing dev costs for some things, but not all.
On top of that many manufacturers are locking the features to the one person.
So for example I pay for heated seats. Then I sell the car, and the new owner has to “buy” heated seats again.
I’m sorry I’m not supporting that bullshit or the manufacturers who are doing this one bit even if I don’t pay for a feature.
On top of that there are issues with servicing and also forced firmware updates.
A friend was late to work the other day because his Tesla was doing an update when he tried to leave, like what happens if someone was trying to rush a partner to a hospital or something and you happen to jump in the car as it’s mid way through an update.
I want to be in control of the things I own and pay for, that’s the whole point of owning something. Car manufacturers these days seem to be under the delusion that they still own our vehicles and we are just the money sacks they are renting them to.
This has been going on for a while, but seem much much worse on the electric cars.
Also frankly the infrastructure isn’t there in many places around the world.
It’s not just waiting to charge the car that’s the issue, it’s waiting for the charger… when each vehicle takes up to 30min-an hour to get a meaningful amount of range back suddenly you need like 10x as many charging stations as you had petrol/diesel pumps.
And while this may be in place in some places in the world it’s not in most. Add this to the fact that charging points are often out of order well you start to see the issue.
Standing rib roasts were on sale on Thursday with a big snow storm coming on Sunday. The solution? Prime rib dinner! My family needed a nice meal, and I was happy to give them a Sunday dinner they loved....
Almost 40% think Australia should dump US alliance if Donald Trump returns as president, poll finds (www.theguardian.com)
Microsoft won’t let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself (www.theverge.com)
This is Microsoft’s latest annoying addition to Windows.
Most Sophisticated iPhone Hack Ever Exploited Apple's Hidden Hardware Feature (thehackernews.com)
Microsoft may replace the Start button with the Copilot AI in Windows 12 (www.notebookcheck.net)
Putin: New NATO member Finland didn't have problems before, but now it will (kyivindependent.com)
American Fighter Downs Houthi Missile Heading Toward USS Laboon (news.yahoo.com)
Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (www.spacebar.news)
Microsoft is reportedly auto-installing the HP Smart app on Windows 10 and 11 PCs (www.ghacks.net)
Orange chicken is just chicken nuggets tossed in sauce.
Want to watch porn in Britain? Get your passport ready (www.politico.eu)
NATO to replace AWACS surveillance jets with modified Boeing 737 (www.reuters.com)
Optus: Telecom boss Kelly Bayer Rosmarin quits after Australian outage (www.bbc.com)
Ukraine’s average soldier is 43. How can they keep Putin at bay? (www.thetimes.co.uk)
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There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works (www.theverge.com)
• A new Android app called Beeper Mini allows users to send iMessages as blue bubbles from non-Apple devices....
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Out-of-touch old gamer looking for 3090-compatible components
Title pretty much tells you all you need to know about my situation. In a turn of events tonight I’ve been gifted a used but working EVGA 3090 card to replace my seven year old 1070....
Hands up if you want to volunteer for layoffs, IBM tells staff (www.theregister.com)
Everyone be using the eggplant emoji as a penis euphemism, I have two thoughts on this ...
over time this might affect our collective consciousness in regards to the purpose & function of the eggplant; and...
Mercedes-Benz scales back electric ambitions as EV pessimism grows (arstechnica.com)
Prime rib with all the fixings (lemmy.world)
Standing rib roasts were on sale on Thursday with a big snow storm coming on Sunday. The solution? Prime rib dinner! My family needed a nice meal, and I was happy to give them a Sunday dinner they loved....