OK Looks like my little MS Surface is going to be running Linux.

Considering that Grill’d claim to help community groups with donations, this is very hypocritical. They can help and homeless by paying their employees a living wage.

Maybe the RAFFWU needs to apply to be recipients of “Local Matters”

https://raffwu.org.au/

Rumour is that the Shahid Drones use Discord as a backend for Command and Control.

😂

They are trying to blame “inflation”, but at the same time they are reporting record profits.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/9922439

WizardBeard has advised how to get rid of the nagging without any RegEdit or Profile Editing.

With Blackjack! And Hookers!

That is why it is so desirable to commercial interests. It is expensive and that means that powerful people with money need to invest in it and manage it and sell the power it produces to consumers.

Solar power can be generated on an industrial level as well, but also on a private level. Someone with the largest legal amount of solar power generation on their roof can be almost self sufficient. Some businesses don’t like that idea.

Posidriv can bugger off too.

When you look at a Robertson, or a JIS or even a Phillips you just use a JIS or Robertson and you’re fine. If it is posidriv, you must use posidriv and you can’t use posidriv with a conventional Robertson/Phillips/JIS. The only way you can tell the difference is by a teeny-tiny little dot on the screwhead or some extra minuscule fins on the driver. If you do t have your glasses, or aren’t aware, you will damage the screw and your driver.

Hex and Torx are OK for certain things where you don’t want an ignorant pleb to gain access. Security Hex and Security Torx are OK where you don’t want an ignorant pleb in denial of their ignorance to gain access.

All those other drivers, Triwing, Pentalobe, variants of Posidriv are just there to push proprietary applications and should not be used by anyone.

I will quite happily pay a reasonable price for the privilege of avoiding ads.

I understand why people block ads, even though they are a a free tier, even if I don’t agree with it.

The fact that the cost of YouTube Premium almost doubled overnight is making me rethink my ethics, when my current subscription is up for renewal, I will be reassessing whether to cease watching YouTube, watch YouTube with ads or determine another way of supporting content creators.

The problem is that manufacturers are only offering larger and larger and larger vehicles and aftermarket companies are marketing heavier and larger modifications and accessories.

Even the smallest 4WD on the market, is larger than the previous model. The largest Dual-Cab Utes able to be driven on a car license are substantially bigger than their previous models.

Previously, Tradies would drive Coupe Utilities and their Single-cab/tray variants (and before that Panel Vans) which were compact sedan- shaped at the front. Nowadays, tradies have no choice by to drive Dual Cab Pickup/Utes, Vans or Light Trucks.

Aftermarket manufacturers push non-crash tested bullbars/roobars/nudge bars in lieu of crash-tested factory bumper bars and sell accessories that significantly increase the weight of the vehicle, especially roof-mounted.

Meanwhile, driver distractions are up due to social media and real-world social expectations, despite technologies designed to minimise distractions like DND modes and Safety-conscious In-Car specific UIs.

Back in the '90s, ISPs would provide subscribers with Email (POP3/SMTP) access, NNTP access and even basic web hosting of static pages. They also used to provide FTP mirrors of most large software repositories. This saved them wholesale bandwidth and also a faster connection for their users. Maybe modern independent ISPs can reimplement this Service for their subscribers. For instance (pun not intended) Telstra and iiNet (in Australia) could offer access to a Lemmy instance, or a consortium of independent ISPs could sponsor a regional Lemmy instance.

The cream on top of this cherry is that Meta claim that they don’t have any ex-twitter employees.

“Andy Stone, Meta’s communications director, told Semafor that Twitter’s accusations are baseless. “No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee — that’s just not a thing,” he said.”