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by shirro 4y ago
Framework is selling Chromebooks and laptops pre-installed with Windows or BYO operating system. Windows and ChromeOS have a massive installed base. System76 are still mostly selling rebadged generic laptops with their own custom linux dist
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by shirro 4y ago
Trades appear less vulnerable to disruption than just about any occupation as they combine locality with physical and mental dexterity that gives them a moat. We seem to be hitting an inflection point where human knowledge and creativity co
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by shirro 4y ago
The distribution side, the poles and wires that supply power to homes and businesses is entirely supplied by SA Power Networks in this state. They are the sole distributor and 51% is owned by CKI and just as disturbingly in my opinion the o
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by shirro 4y ago
1000 tonnes. Though using the base units is never wrong and I generally prefer it. In common language a ton can be a short ton (US) or long ton(UK) though I am sure they are all well within the margin of error.
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by shirro 4y ago
The kilogram is the SI base unit of mass. Mass is the only one where the base unit has a multiplier for some reason. Expressing quantities in the base unit makes total sense for me as a metric native.
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by shirro 4y ago
That was 14 years later. The initial privatisation was in 1999 and retail went to AGL and power distribution was sold to Cheung Kong Infrastructure from Hong Kong. They retain majority ownership. State Grid of China is a much more recent in
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by shirro 4y ago
In a regulated industry there can be a perverse incentive for operators to be less efficient. The practice is called Gold Plating. The regulator allows the operator profits in part based on their network investment so an operator has an inc
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by shirro 4y ago
Over 40% of homes have rooftop solar PV as do many businesses. It is harder for renters and low income earners. Going off grid completely is difficult and generally impractical for most people as the return on investment with storage is sti
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by shirro 4y ago
South Australia sold its state owned electricity grid to Chinese owners for 200 years. Every time people say our high power prices are due to renewables think critically. A "conservative" government granted the right to tax our en
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by shirro 4y ago
Not necessarily. There tends to be a sweet spot for performance and I expect the lowest hosting plans mostly serve to acquire customers in the expectation many will upgrade to more expensive plans
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by shirro 4y ago
I mainly keep a cheap vps at linode (now Akamai) because I am addicted to using their DNS as a hidden primary. It is dual stack and has really good geographical coverage and performance. I have been looking for months, perhaps years for an
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by shirro 4y ago
My XR20 is the longest I have had a phone without shattering the screen. With solidly built hardware the end of software updates becomes more of a concern than ease of hardware repairs. You can't unlock the bootloader on recent Nokias
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by shirro 4y ago
Good luck finding something that small in a country that lost a Prime Minister and never found him.
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by shirro 4y ago
Same. Also if some small critter bit you in Australia you don't have to worry about rabies though there is a similar virus can be carried by bats. I have a shed full of hundreds of potentially lethal spiders and there are several highl
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by shirro 4y ago
Radio syncing isn't available in my country (no local transmitter and too remote to pick up other countries) so phone sync is preferable for me.
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by shirro 4y ago
Controlling your domain/mx is the most valuable thing. Email reception has not been a problem for me so I enjoy having my mx pointing to my own mail server. It gives me more control and it requires very little maintenance. If I was goi
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by shirro 4y ago
I have self hosted for 20 years. If you want perfect delivery then completely self-hosting isn't for you. It is a good learning experience and once setup it does not require much attention. A compromise solution is to outsource deliver
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by shirro 4y ago
AT&T deployed a speaker independent keyword based system called VRCP in 1992 that automated some operator assisted calls. So keyword recognition at utility scale was plausible but there is a difference in scale between some fancy IVR te
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by shirro 4y ago
Rebooting is old school. People are like, look we rebooted our Windows in 1777 why are you still using that outdated Constitutional Monarchy stuff? Don't you realise we gave up monarchs hundreds of years ago? Meanwhile we have been liv
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by shirro 4y ago
The AU/CA/NZ servers were based on the UK server image and the GECOS field of root still says "Queen Victoria, heirs or successors" but is otherwise disabled. The servers are all run by separate orgs in independent data
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by shirro 4y ago
As an Australian we solved this by having root's resources swapped out and hosted on storage paid for and hosted in the UK. We have another privileged account called gg which inherits all of root's privileges. Given that the root
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by shirro 4y ago
GSConnect runs under Gnome and doesn't load any kde components. There are probably other implementations as well.
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by shirro 5y ago
Elementary is interesting in the use of Vala to write apps. Most of the small number of tutorials and docs on the lang seem to come from there. Gnome and gtk are all written in c with their own language independent object system and referen
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by shirro 5y ago
A muon kind of makes sense. It has the same spin and charge as an electron. Kind of mind blowing to think a particle that isn't even a lepton kind of works. I only have a hazy recollection of some engineering level physics but I wouldn
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by shirro 5y ago
ZZ is the same as :x which are both what I would normally want to do - only write if changed. I would use :wq! to overwrite readonly files more than I would use :wq The only use case I can think of writing when not changed is if there is a
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by shirro 5y ago
It isn't just the look, it really is an antiquated text editor, based on even more antiquated text editors. Though a well maintained one with a very active fork in neovim. There are arguably better IDEs for programming and easier text
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by shirro 5y ago
Very effective presentation. It looks fantastic. Will be good value at $75 for some people but not for me with so many other great mono fonts available (many with code ligatures). Probably better for designers than coders. With small fonts
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by shirro 5y ago
Nintendo have the right to protect their IP and revenue. They have made some iconic games and characters that I would argue are as culturely significant as anything made by Disney. I would like them to be able to keep funding creative peopl
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by shirro 5y ago
My kids missed out on most of the remote schooling thing due to location but they got 8 days earlier this year and made the most of it setting up OBS under linux with this plugin and fed it into MS Teams as a virtual camera. They made up se
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by shirro 5y ago
I can't think of many cases where an acquisition served customers well. Often the distinctive things that make a company appealing are lost as costs are slashed, good staff flee and the parent tries to capture customers into their exis

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