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It is probably not what you are taking about, but apple itunes deleted my entire music collection, first on my iPod, then on my hard drive, as I tried to sync one to the other. That was around 20 years ago.. when I stopped trusting tech.

So when Microsoft force updated my entire office to windows 11 and force uploaded their desktops to onedrive and locked them out because the cloud drive was now full.. I was uneffected (apart from having to fix the mess).

Not only that, I used to use businessname@mydomain.com for setting up aliases to interact with different businesses. On more than a few occasions I had some very confusing back and forth until realising the issue, when they asked which department I was from.

When they saw their own business name in the email address they just straight up assume I am part of their company. No wonder phishing works.

To be fair, barilaro called himself 'pork barilaro'. I don't think anyone shed a tear for him being run out of politics.

I certainly don't think it has anything to do with this.

Fwiw, most mould is caused by buildings. Poor ventilation, leaks, no waterproofing, substandard building materials.

Yes, you can avoid mould in older buildings by carefully airing out rooms and keeping things dry and away from walls. But not if the previous three tenants had a mould issue and the landlord just painted over it.

I never got into rebelle, though this demo is pretty cool.

I used to use expressii, and always thought it was one of the most under rated painting apps. Has a very natural feel to it.

https://www.expresii.com/

Behind every ideological move is a rich man trying to get richer.

That is to say, ideology may do some heavy lifting, but the buy-in to actually translate that to action requires a profit motive.

Reading current events is a whole lot easier once you disabuse yourself of the idea that everything happens for a reason.

Seems like with this kind of carry on, they could possibly end up in breach of their supplier agreement with Lego itself.

Crazy that they would risk that for a little spat. I guess they thought strong arm tactics would silence the story.

The fact they think it ok to admit to using their countersuit (against Bryan, the Lego owner) as leverage in this very post is wild.

It means even if your total income for the year is low enough that your normal tax rate should be 16% or 0%, the government steps in and forces a flat 30% tax on the asset sale anyway.

From the budget:

"Recipients of means-tested income support payments, such as the Age Pension or JobSeeker, will be exempted from the minimum tax if they receive any payment in the financial year in which they realise the capital gain."

The flat rate is to stop people from dropping their income artificially and claiming the reduced rate. Most people won't run foul of this. Something like 90% of the capital gains discount was taken by the top 1%.

So your argument only applies to people who earn between 20 & 45k who don't get any government benefits (which are means tested, so they cannot be cash or asset rich), and realise a capital gain from an investment (is. not their house).

While philosophically I think it wrong that someone who earns very little cannot spread a tax liability over multiple years, the way corporations can.. I cannot think of a way that a disjoint could be given for this cohort that does not also open the door to loopholes for the 1%. Plus the number of people effected will be vanishingly small, and the amount to which that small number of purple are effected will also be small.

So, largely, contrary to what you are saying, they are not..

I honestly get that, architecture is such a time intensive degree. It is drilled into you to produce results more than to care about the process.. and to spend more time on exploration and resolution than on learning.

I do think though, that a little learning and understanding of your tools is such a useful thing practically and creatively speaking, but also ultimately time saving.

Slow, as they say, is fast.

I remember being asked in class what we all thought was the message of 1984.

I was like, obviously it was about the danger of giving up your power to other people and the corruption of that power.

My classmates were pretty convinced it was about how important it was to have power over other people.

First time I twigged onto exactly how dumb, short sighted, and self interested, otherwise intelligent people can be.

Edit: I swear I remember reading something Tolkien (maybe) said about the eye of sauron being basically an analogy about the press. The eye focuses a spotlight on the thing it is looking at giving it great importance, but ignores everything else. It is not actually omnipotent, it is just propaganda and marketing.

Agree, and funny also that the author shows the F91W.

It has a thriving hacker community built around it. You can get a new arm motherboard with a breakout for a sensor board. Sensorwatch have released a temperature sensor and an accelerometer.

Plus it is loud! But there is another mod I saw to make it quieter.

I also mostly use only my thumbs and index fingers, but probably only up to 60 words a minute because that is how fast (or slow) I think.

I always thought I was a touch typist because I rarely look at the keyboard. But then I got a keyboard with blank keycaps and realise how very much I rely on my peripheral vision.

Again, it is kind of crazy to take polar opposite views on this.

We mostly all grow up starting off with very few personal liberties and gaining them as we get older. We routinely take them away from people of they show they cannot be trusted with those liberties.

At present that process is fairly blunt, but it could be more nuanced. And that doesn't have to mean micro judging every interaction like China's social credit system. It could mean to allow freedoms wherever possible, but curtail those freedoms, where it has a negative impact on the rest of us.

And I think the best way of doing this is to put responsibility on the person or group causing the negative impact. So the gambler who embezzles money due to the addiction is just as responsible as the company who enables their addiction. Why cant we send both to jail? Or if there is not enough cause to deprive them of liberty, divert them from jail under probation. For a company that could mean enforcing open books and monitored communications, to make sure they are on the straight and narrow..

What we need to do though is to value both society and personal liberty.

Why does it have to be either/or? Why not just ban the thing you don't want and just criminalise the whaling?

This was the greatest act of political courage and decency of our lifetime.

What a frighteningly hyperbolic thing to say. I think you have been watching too much sky news.

It was a cynical play at retaining gov in the face of what was sure to be, and what was, a massive swing against the gov.

Anyways, I already outlined the issues with the implementation of the tax. I don't need to repeat myself.

I have seen them fall off their bikes in the middle of intersections on more than one occasion, hit people riding on the footpath, more than a few try to bully me off the road, doing dumbarse stunts in the process. One I saw got taken to hospital.

The issue is not so much the bikes or where they are riding, it is the brain dead groupthink mentality of a bunch of antisocial little rich boys who haven't been taught basic self preservation.. or what is feels like to be punched in the face on account of doing 50ks on a crowded footpath.

and fuck.. pinochet?

arden is indefensible, but you like pinochet? your barometer for a good right wing government improving the quality of life is an actual dictator who tortured and murdered thousands of people?

and.. fuck pinochet.

Well for a start, he outright lied about the introduction of the GST. Not once, but twice. First that he would never introduce one, second that it would replace other sales taxes to simplify the system.

Well, neither of those were true, and gst we got was used to cut taxes to the wealthy and as a bargaining chip to reduce the power of the states. It is inherently regressive, the implementation increases the tax burden on businesses, and it did't even raise enough revenue to allow them to simplify the tax system.

Howard may have talked a lot about decreasing the size of government, cutting red tape, and reducing legislation and the cost of government. But all these increased under his terms.

Most of the early economic gain was due to the opening up of Australia in the nineties along with the floating of the dollar.

Dude was a dog whistling neo con, so I never liked him. But what is really telling is that the shitshow that is the current Australian housing crisis was foretold and discussed at length in the late nineties when he introduced the changes to cgt and ng.

He and everyone else knew what would happen even then with these changes. The liberal party thesis, openly discussed, was to prioritise legislation that would promote individualisation in order to break unions and get people to vote against their interests.

Plenty written about the other two you mention. Maybe you should read some of it.

I dunno about that. I bought a Casio at a garage sale in the late eighties for 20 cents, and sold it to a mate 10 years later, give or take, for a couple of bucks. It was still running, still keeping time.

Expensive watches are way closer to bitcoins than useful assets. They inherently rely on the gullibility of other rich prick wanna be's. Still a good bet probably.. sadly..

The cost of doing more complex designs is analogous to the cost of doing more complex builds.

If you can afford the extra cost for someone to figure out how to build the blue sky designs that nano banana spits out, maybe you can afford something more thoughtful and interesting than a shitty mashup of other peoples mcmansions.

Clearly i am triggered..

Why is it the responsibility of private industry to support a “living wage?”

Because if they don't, they are externalising the true costs of labour to the government, or the community.

Which is fine, by the way, but they cannot then turn around and oppose the cost of taxation needed for gov programs which support people who aren't receiving that living wage. Nor, and worse still, oppose a living wage and then force work people to work such long hours that they cannot sustain a community that can provide the extra support needed to maintain a decent life.

Ditto for windows.

Source: Personally (like the other poster) I have got both into a state where it became a huge headache to update.

Just because he is playing 4d chess, doesn't mean he is good at it.

Hanlon's razor is wrong to suggest an either or scenario when it is just as often some mix of stupidity and malice.

It probably depends a lot on your parents.

I went with Popos. It is simpler than KDE for someone with dexterity and mild cognitive issues. Plus it fixes a lot of the annoying ubuntu / gnome decisions like snaps and hiding the taskbar etc.

There were a few initial teething questions in the first week, but 6 months in now and no other issues (apart from forgetting her password). Highly recommend.

I have got to say, I rolled the dice on that headline before I read the link.

Heads, windows was going to ditch all the ads and tracking, any other number and it was going full AI.

Needless to say, not surprised when a number came up..

LMK when it gets bad enough that you feel a mosquito biting your leg and slap it, and you end up killing twenty of the little buggers and blood all over your hand.

But seriously, mozzies suck and I hope it's not Iceland's future. On the other side of the world here, in some parts it is getting too hot and dry for much in the way of mozzies. Not sure if that is a good thing either though.

..art imitates life.

It does have tabs, you are probably just stuck on an old version because windows update broke.

The only feature that windows maybe kinda does better is the preview pane, but even then, it regularly loses certain file types and in the latest update it started taking 5 seconds or more just to render a text file.

Anyway, still doesn't come close to Dolphin.

Beautifully said!

I must just have a sixth sense to avoid those kinds of services. And I also have a zero tolerance policy. For example, if a restaurant says I have to order on my phone, I stand up and go to leave. I am old enough now they probably just assume I am technologically illiterate.