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.
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.
Google showed me this picture today. It was taken at 2pm at home on 29/04/2014 (exactly 10 years ago).
I obviously prepared this “food” and felt the need to photograph it. I don’t remember why. I suspect by the lack of vegetables it was some sort of special occasion like the family being away and me reverting to bachelor cooking.
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.
My mate works for an Indian company and got WFH forever. I was in shock because I never thought any company can give a work from home option forever ? Does any Australian company gives you such an option ? If so, please name those companies and job titles so that I can start applying for jobs there.
Not in WA. We mostly sailed through the whole Covid thing business as usual. There’s more work from home than there was before 2020, but I don’t know any company that has all its employees remote.
My employer has a few people working from home, but it’s usually because they’re working for customers in different states. It’s certainly not normal and not assured to always be remote.
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.
I think my wife lost her purse there. Can you keep an eye out for it? It’s pink, about 3 meters wide and 1.5 meters high. She thinks she lost it somewhere around the corner of Burke and Elizabeth.
I’m genuinely surprised and impressed at how many people are at work today. Granted, there is a lot going on right now. But still - hardly anyone took the day off.
Me too, only I’m like this for every film. I much prefer going into a cinema unspoiled.
I just learned this week that the trailer for Captain America civil war trailer had Spiderman in it. I can’t imagine how annoyed I’d have been if that surprise were denied me as I watched the movie.
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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....
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What’s for dinner tonight?
What is the most well thought out, inoffensive, post you've seen get down voted?
How many of you 9-5s have been given work from home forever ?
My mate works for an Indian company and got WFH forever. I was in shock because I never thought any company can give a work from home option forever ? Does any Australian company gives you such an option ? If so, please name those companies and job titles so that I can start applying for jobs there.
Map of the different climates in Australia (aussie.zone)
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Are there any legal experts that want to weigh in on this....
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German government wants games like Baldur's Gate 3 to 'also go on to be developed in Germany' (www.pcgamer.com)
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