[-] Mountaineer@aussie.zone 10 points 1 month ago

Funnily enough, I've got a few friends who are long time iPhone users, who actually point this stuff out themselves:

"OMG! Have you seen the eye watering price of the new one?"
"Yay, I finally get stuff you've had for years."

Neither party would ever consider anything else, and they both buy the new model every year. 🤷

At this point I admit that my reasons for choosing Android all those years ago no longer exist or matter, but I can't imagine changing ecosystem either.

[-] Mountaineer@aussie.zone 8 points 3 months ago

If you need to use windows because of a software issue, not a hardware issue, you're probably best off running windows in a VM.
That way your linux install is making the WPA3 connection, and as far as the Windows install is concerned, it's on a wired lan.
This has the added benefit of not having to reboot, you just always start linux and turn the windows VM on and off as required.

[-] Mountaineer@aussie.zone 11 points 3 months ago

This didn't happen, Wikileaks vetted information before releasing it for exactly this reason.

Name one person.

[-] Mountaineer@aussie.zone 10 points 4 months ago

the cheapest and most widespread nuclear reactor design

Can you share this knowledge, please?

[-] Mountaineer@aussie.zone 8 points 6 months ago

Can't tell if you're joking, but a Request For Comments is effectively a proposal for how a process should be performed.
Some of them are eventually ratified as internet standards by the IETF.
Plenty of them remain useful as defacto standards even without formal acknowledgement.

[-] Mountaineer@aussie.zone 10 points 9 months ago

The man is like a compass that points south.
He's not actually useless, but why Bizarro? Why?

[-] Mountaineer@aussie.zone 11 points 10 months ago

Windows XP is basically firmware at this point, and has been for over a decade.

Lots of proprietary hardware that works perfectly, will not work on newer versions of Windows due to lack of drivers.

I see it constantly in factory situations with scales, scanners and robot controllers, it would only be worse for million dollar x-ray machines.

[-] Mountaineer@aussie.zone 11 points 10 months ago

I appreciate your efforts in creating this satire.

I hate how plausible your roadmap to hell is.

[-] Mountaineer@aussie.zone 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The end of an era indeed.

Internode WOULD NOT move you off a grandfathered plan.

I rode that until I had to move somewhere without FTTP :-(

[-] Mountaineer@aussie.zone 9 points 10 months ago

There's some gotchas in Apples statement:

They have promised to implement "RCS Universal Profile"
This means the bare minimum, not the advanced features implemented by Google and Samsung etc.
An example of a missing feature from Universal Profile is end to end encryption.

They also said: "This will work alongside iMessage, which will continue to be the best and most secure messaging experience for Apple users."
The implication of this is that it won't be in the iMessage app, it will be in a separate but official app, siloing your Android friends from your iPhone friends.

When this comes out, every European is going to shrug and keep using Whatsapp.

[-] Mountaineer@aussie.zone 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I ride a motorcycle as my commuting vehicle and I find my helmet needs replacing every 5 years max, as the inner foam lining has compressed to point where it is no longer snug to my face and therefore unsafe.
Push bike helmets would be made of similar materials, just with less coverage.
So as @wander1236@sh.itjust.works says, it would be materials degradation.

[-] Mountaineer@aussie.zone 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I found some Vic stats from which you could infer some stuff: https://www.tac.vic.gov.au/road-safety/statistics/summaries/motorcycle-crash-data

It seems that it's a roughly half half split of single vehicle vs multi vehicle.
Even if you conservatively assume that only a quarter of the mutlivehicle accidents are the fault of the rider, it's still well over 50% motorcyclists killing themselves.

But that's not what this particular campaign is about.

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