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Baku

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Baku ,

The things around me have all been stuff like "what material is the power pole made out of?" "What is the road surface on ____ street?" "What are the restrictions on parking here?" Etc. but there is an advanced mode you can use which unlocks harder questions that less people answer

Baku ,

Vulve is my favourite company. Can't wait for their new game store, stamp, to come out!

Baku ,

4k! What sorcery is this?

Baku ,

I once saw 2 blokes getting on the tram with half a tv. It was a 50" or so tv with the back plastic thing missing. They were both shirtless and both seemed to be completely out of it on something. I sort of concluded they ripped a tv off the wall but didn't have a way to get it home, or to a pawn shop or wherever they were planning on taking it

Baku ,

Seriously. In Australia, you have to "activate" your Sim card with your full name, email, bank details (depending on the carrier), and a copy of your driver's license. Hell, I bought my last phone directly from a carrier, completely outright, with cash, prepaid with no plan, and they took a photocopy of my drivers license. Buying phones elsewhere they've never done that to me, as long as it's prepaid and bought outright, but for some reason the major telcos do it for all purchases

Baku ,

What's with Dora the explorer being on at ridiculously late times? My only memories of watching it when I was younger was at about 11:30pm as well

Baku ,

Is it just me or is the image refusing to load?

https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/ff764f3e-1a2b-4e9f-b0be-522c0a20c640.png

Baku ,

Alright. I DON'T agree.

Baku ,

I still don't agree.

Baku ,

I wouldn't go that far, but since about 90% of the comments you've ever made on Lemmy are just you arguing over inconsequential things with random people, I'd wager you are.

Baku ,

What's Lemmy?

Alright, my bad, I wasn't looking at the instances. So I'll expand that to Lemmy and kbin.

I don't think people getting murdered by the state is "inconsequential"

None of what you're arguing about really achieves anything. Nobody has changed their opinion because you argued with them, and because of how much of a dick you're being, you've definitely killed the opportunity to have a proper discussion with people about it (which may have been able to convert more people to your side)

Baku ,

No need for that, maybe just coming to the realisation that some people have differing opinions to you and trying to change them isn't a great way to spend your weekend.

Anyways this is the last time I'll be replying to you otherwise I'd really just be a hypocrite. You'll eventually figure it out, whether or not you listen to me

Baku ,

Oh. I didn't get it either. The red circle made me completely overlook the rest of the image

Baku ,

It wouldn't be that time consuming. All you'd have to do is paint over the old text with white, and type in the translated text

Baku ,

I've never seen one in Australia. We don't really prepay for petrol here. Some servos in the dodgiest suburbs do make you between certain hours, but I've never seen one that makes everybody always prepay or one that actually takes your card. Most of the time you'd go inside to prepay anyways, but on the few pumps I've seen that do have card payments on the physical pump it's either tap or swipe, no insert, and no holding cards hostage

Baku ,

In australia, it can be illegal too. Only 1 state has actually made it 100% illegal, that state being Queensland (which is a rather big state too, stupidly enough). Where I'm from (Victoria), it's not illegal at a state level, but some councils prohibit it in their local bylaws. In the rest of our states and territories the act of sleeping in your car isn't illegal, but some of the more affluent and snobby areas try to get around that by not offering anywhere to park overnight without permits or living in the area

Baku ,

I saw a video a few weeks ago of a trucker who had to pull over on a fast road and he was holding a sharp pole in his hand. People usually reacted by giving him space, rather than driving inches away from him at 80km/h, like they usually do.

Baku ,

What's a VPM?

Baku ,

Not to sound like I'm claiming to be up on a moral high ground or anything, but it leaves a bad taste in my mouth using accessibility tools for non accessibility reasons when it comes to Reddit. Ordinarily, I wouldn't care, but Reddit has shown me that they don't give a shot about people who need accessibility tools at all. Allowing some of them to stay around was just a desperate attempt at preventing some bad PR. If they thought an accessibility tool was mainly used by people trying to bypass their stupid and greedy decisions, they would 100% kill it off in an instant

Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone (lemmy.world)

I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they're on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can't be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?...

Baku ,

Also in Australia and it shows that to me as well
https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/9d3dd44d-0d09-491d-885a-d90bbcfadce5.png

But going into my app list and showing system does show it

https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/b094a4f2-327b-4955-9a06-c5d053ec30d9.png

Baku ,

It's not just you, it's phoning home for me too. Pixel 7, also Australia, bought outright from officeworks. I don't log network reqs so I don't know exacts, but it's using 25kb every 3 days or so, so it's doing something.

Baku ,

I've always thought that perhaps all the stereotypes about the French being arseholes come from American tourists being entitled and disrespectful and the French just not taking any of their shit

Baku ,

Doesn't help that it rendered as a whopping 3 pixels for me

https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/b7001de2-9584-4e5b-93c0-df3d5d4875ef.png

Baku ,

I use Discord and WhatsApp

Baku ,

I think they're still wrapped in foil in Australia, though I haven't had any in a few years. I don't think I've ever seen any eggs come wrapped in plastic, although the bags the foil eggs are in are plastic

Baku ,

It's not even the spyware or ads that piss me off the most about "smart" TVs, it's how they always seem to lag to fucking shit. I've mostly used lower end ones, but even a few mid range ones I've used are still laggy pieces of shit that obviously have the cheapest components imaginable. Which for a normal tv is fine, expected even! But on a "smart" tv where to do anything at all you have to dig through their shitty, counter intuitive "smart" menu, it just sucks.

And then you want to watch some normal tv after a long day and the fuckin thing won't let you because it demands it installs an update, which thanks to those cheap components, takes far longer than it should

Baku ,

Ok the first bit I can kinda understand, but obfuscating them? Now that has to be intentional

Baku ,

Won't somebody PLEASE think of the billionaires????

Baku ,

For something cheap, my vote goes to name cheap. Their support was actually better than I expected too. For something private njalla is really good. Not sure what's a good mix of both though, maybe CloudFlare? I know you can move your domain to them, so I presume they also let you register directly through them.

Baku ,

To play devil's advocate here: sometimes there are genuine reasons to try and request support before making an issue. I'm not particularly smart, nor too techy. If something isn't working, I'm just going to assume I'm an idiot and I've messed something up. If I can't figure out how to make it work, my first post of call will be trying to find a community related to whatever isn't working, or on smaller projects I might try and reach out to the Dev. Opening an issue always feels like a "hey, your program isn't doing what it's meant to do, here's what's wrong with it, please fix it" and not "I think I've fucked something up, can you please help?"

I suppose it depends what you're developing though.

FTC bans TurboTax from advertising ‘free’ services, calls it deceptive (edition.cnn.com)

FTC bans TurboTax from advertising ‘free’ services, calls it deceptive::The Federal Trade Commission ruled in a final order and opinion Monday that TurboTax, the popular tax filing software, engaged in deceptive advertising and banned the company from advertising its services for free unless it is free for all customers.

Baku ,

This confuses me too as an Aussie. Partly because we do our taxes July-november, but also because it's just a simple form that's mostly pre-filled here too. Businesses I believe do have a more complicated form to fill out, but as an individual person you just hop online, read through a few pages of pre-filled info (or what most people do: just spam next through it) and you're done. They tell you how much they've recorded you paying in tax, you confirm it, then they tell you how much money you either need to pay or you get refunded (or nothing at all if you got your taxes spot on/don't need to pay tax)

Baku ,

I take it what OP meant is that a lot of the top results are ads - even if they aren't shown as such. Like how half the crap uploaded by large youtubers these days is pretty much an ad for a specific product, although there's no way to tell until you click onto it (unless you use sponsorblock)

Baku ,

So old it's yellowed

Baku ,

Looking at all you guys with your gigabit connections, meanwhile I'm in Aus and lucky to get 30 down and 15 up

Baku ,

Heya, sorry for the necropost, but would you mind sharing how you're doing on storage these days? I'm looking at spinning up a Lemmy instance of my own and I'm curious about the storage aspect on small instances

Baku ,

Thanks!

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