bandario

bandario, 6 months ago

Nobody uses dropbox because they like dropbox. They use it because it’s usually the only such service supported by the stupid fucking app they need on the stupid fucking ipad their company insists they use which has no other viable way to put files on and off of the fucking cunting thing because apple is fucking stupid and so is this god damn company.

Someone once told the IT manager that apple devices are “the most secure” and he doesn’t even fucking realise that by forcing us to use fucking stupid third party fucking services like fucking dropbox to get files on and off that they are subjecting confidential commercial fucking information to being fucking exposed to third fucking party boneless fucking cunts.

bandario, 6 months ago

Seems like a fair and reasonable response to a cartoon.

The religion of peace strikes again.

bandario, 6 months ago

Great, good, gorgonzola. We don’t do that here.

These type of articles are designed to try and normalise this behaviour. Not having it. Price is on the menu and is tax inclusive. Get fucked.

bandario, 8 months ago

They probably should question them. Even something as seemingly benign as Paracetamol is not without its issues if used too often, or after alcohol. It can do serious harm. Most medicine can.

Another fun medicine fact. Australia banned the sale of pseudoephedrine from store shelves quite some years ago to try and reduce domestic amphetamine production. Ever since, all of the major pharma brands have sold phenylephrine based cold and flu medicine as a replacement. Our Therapeutic Goods Administration recently found that this preparation is no better than placebo. We’re talking about a billion dollar industry that has been knowingly selling snake oil for ten years.

I guess what I’m saying is a healthy dose of skepticism and knowledge seeking should be applied to anything you are putting in your body or exchanging money for. The pharmaceutical industry are not saints. They’re just as driven by profit incentives as every other business.

bandario, 8 months ago

I was at an xmas party one year where the workshop boys did this with an upturned 44 gallon drum. It was the loudest bang I’ve ever heard. I thought we were under some sort of attack.

They expected the drum to launch a little but what actually ended up happening was the upturned metal bottom blew off and launched a LOT punching a hole in the workshop roof. It’s a miracle that nobody was hurt (their hearing probably was). Somehow they didn’t get fired.

bandario, 8 months ago

It’s not just common, it’s the entire basis of the platform.

Every dumb fucking talking point they want their users to regurgitate in the real world goes to the moon. Speak the truth and be silenced.

It’s a nightmare platform.

bandario, 8 months ago

I dunno, iS pUtTiNg On A dUmB vOiCe PoIsOnInG tHe WeLl?

bandario, 9 months ago

Why has a Hollywood celeb gotta be out there raping? Why? I just don’t understand.

bandario, 9 months ago

I’m not interested in any vehicle that requires an app or has its own connection to the internet.

bandario, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

I cannot stand turn based combat and generally avoid RPG’s these days and even I think this is a ridiculous take.

I don’t own BG3 but I’ve played at a friend’s place and that game is about a thousand levels deeper than Starfield. If you like RPG’s and mucking around with dice whilst you play computer games, BG3 is a god damn masterpiece.

bandario, 9 months ago

If you’re so smart, how do you turn the light switch off after you get in bed without firing a shot?

bandario, 9 months ago

It was a great first season but I knew it would get cancelled.

If a show takes even the slightest bit of concentration to follow, and you can’t absorb the plot whilst playing with your phone, then it fails. Not many viewers are looking for a complex, intelligent story…they just want to be double distracted from their lives.

bandario, 9 months ago

The way that he talked about spending 100, 200, 300, 400, even $500 of staff time on re-testing not being an option, when he rakes in THOUSANDS per video is pretty illustrative of where his head is at.

I was pretty excited when Linus announced that he was stepping aside, but he clearly still has way too much say on the direction of LMG and his motivations are entirely too obvious. Go away, Linus. We’ve had enough of you.

bandario, 10 months ago

I’m so tired of everything becoming an ongoing subscription. In the end the most powerful vote we all have is our wallets.

It’s a pretty easy thing to just immediately stop buying from companies that pull this shit.

bandario, 10 months ago

I am presently using a super niche device. SUPER niche. So niche that I have been dealing really closely with the manufacturer, who worked with Qualcomm and made a specific firmware just to get wifi calling working for me in Australia.

I have quizzed them so many times on why they won’t support rom development. You can unlock the bootloader, but the rom files are heavily encrypted. There’s no way to extract the boot IMG so we’re dead in our tracks.

The manufacturer basically say that they have to fight so hard to gain google certification that they won’t do a single thing to risk losing it.

They’ve been pretty generous with their warranty policies so probably another reason is they don’t want to risk anyone doing overclocking etc and then having to cover device repairs or replacement.

bandario, 10 months ago

We use the same licensed VHF network at work for the last 30 years. Ever since our local cops switched to ‘digital’, ‘encrypted’ radio comms, we regularly pick them up on our VHFs across the entire district, regardless of what frequency we are on.

It’s like their whole thing is leaking across the bands, which should not be possible given that it’s encrypted but here we are. If it were anyone else, we’d be pursuing them for abusing the frequency band that we pay for but it doesn’t feel like a battle that we want to start.

bandario, 11 months ago

I’ve tried just about every type of automated system Sonarr, Radarr fully integrated with usenet and my libraries etc.

After a while I realised I quite enjoy doing things manually. I get to vet the content a little before I grab it, a bit like going to the video store.

bandario, 11 months ago

Wait until you hear about library genesis.

bandario, 11 months ago

What an absolute legend. Also, I do so solemnly swear that any instance caught federating with meta is going straight in my hosts file.

You have been warned.

bandario, 11 months ago

You want to know what's truly disturbing? The previous Australian Federal government did many of these same things too, or worse.

It seems true democracy has fallen out of favour.

bandario, 11 months ago

There is nowhere near enough quality control or moderation of what's posted on TPB. Yeah it's absolutely got more content and even seeders than elsewhere, but you're really rolling the dice.

bandario, 11 months ago

They went easy on you. Some overzealous mod permabanned my entire account for talking about Lemmy. Allegedly against their 'content guidelines'

bandario, 11 months ago

It was fine. Thanks.

bandario, 11 months ago

Can you please ban me for 5 days so that I know what it looks like on this platform?