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~$15-$17 AUD per hour and all living expenses paid for by parents. Combined with money you get from relatives on birthdays it becomes pretty easy to buy a new $400 gpu

>Libraries, maker spaces, men's sheds, and community gardens all fill some of the role you're talking about

I see these around the city but unfortunately I'm living with my parents stuck in the suburbs and it seems like there is nothing around.

All of the bars I have been too have been loud and packed, I feel that there is essentially 0% chance of meeting someone there. It has only been useful if going with a group and getting food/drinks so we can take one of the outdoor tables.

I wasn't so much opposed to using them originally but I just had no reason to use them since regular ordering worked fine. Now that they have removed the regular counters I have bothered to learn the self serve ones and I feel mostly indifferent about it.

In Australia they seem to have made the kiosk the only option when in store. Tbh I don't mind it as the UI on these kiosks is very well done and I can spend my time looking through the list of available options.

Every McDonald's I have been to in Australia has been remodeled to look like an average cafe, there is no music and the color scheme is mostly, white stone texture / brown wood.

It's not a deluxe restaurant but it's not horrible. The coffee they serve is perfectly fine as well.

I often wish local councils would fund places where you could just go to to hang around. My uni had a bunch of these places and it would just be an air conditioned room with lots of couches/chairs and a ping pong table.

Often I'll be sitting at home thinking "I want to go out and do something but it's too hot and I don't want to go shopping/spend money"

Maybe these services do exist and I just don't know about them. In that case I wish they were advertised better.

I went to a private school in Australia and had lots of friends from upper class backgrounds and almost all of them had a part time job at McDonald's or a supermarket purely for the experience and so they could have the finest PC gaming parts.

They all left before starting uni to focus on study but I think it's untrue that upper class kids do not work at McDonald's. They just don't keep working there for the long term.

If you do a reset from recovery and not the settings app it locks it down with android factory reset protection and the phone is bricked until the original owner enters their google password.

Games have been becoming unplayable due to DRM servers shutting down. IoT devices are becoming bricks when they go out of support.

DRM and internet dependency are the ultimate tools in capitalisms planned obsolescence toolbox. You no longer have to wait for a product to fail, you can simply remotely destroy it so the customer buys a new one.

I got hit by this same issue. We had a few spare phones at work in a draw and I wanted to give them to friends in need of a phone. Had permission from the company but no one knew who owned them or what the password was. I did the manual factory reset from the recovery but was hit by this "security" feature.

I eventually managed to track down the original owner and had them unlock the devices. If I hadn't, these phones would be ewaste.

What bothers me is the solution is simple, when a manual factory reset is done, have the phone ping google and start a 1 week countdown. Google can then email the original owner and ask if they have had their phone stolen. If they reply yes then the phone is locked. If they reply no or have no response then the phone unlocks.

You might feel a minor tingle on your tongue if the battery connects to it somehow

The improvements are all in headphones. Wireless and noise canceling are legitimate needs and they are getting better.

There is literally no reason you can justify this being good for the environment. It may make business sense but it's still a crime against the planet.

Local only doesn't allow Sonos to record everything you do and disable your device when they decide it's time for you to buy a new one.

Nice, now we will have distracted drivers watching videos.

>Is long-term planning incompatible with democratic elections?

Maybe, but the alternative doesn't necessarily seem to work either. China has an awful environmental record as well.

It seems that humans are incompatible with long term planning for things that extend beyond our lifetimes.

The timescales are completely different. Past climate changes have been on the scale of hundreds of thousands of years. Now we are seeing it on the scale of a hundred years.

Life on Earth will most likely exist after climate change but it won't be any of the life as we know it.

The simple solution is to move the disposal cost to the producer. Instead of the consumer paying taxes to dispose of the product, the producer must pay and now a producer which produces less waste can sell cheaper products.

Oil supply is effectively infinite. By that I mean there is so much available that we will have destroyed the planet before we remove it all. We extract as much as there is a demand for. If you lower the demand then you lower the amount being extracted

"quite good" there was a post here recently about how they fail the majority of the time and are totally useless at night.

No one advocating against cars thinks emergency vehicles should be removed. Emergency vehicles would be aided by the removal of cars from streets since pedestrians and cyclists are able to clear the space easily for emergency vehicles unlike a road full of cars.

I think the license acquisition process is mostly sufficient. What is think is missing is re testing after. There are 80 year Olds who can hardly see anymore who are still driving. As well disqualifying people from driving for offences like using a phone.

It doesn't take a few weeks to learn to drive a car safely. In Australia it takes 3 years and 100 hours of driving with someone else to get a license.

The non cloud version is your website goes offline for a day due to high traffic. Depending on the website that may or may not be preferable to variable costs.

There was a bug in a php app where someone had typed `flase` which evaluated to `"flase"` which is truthy so the authentication check passed.

Most of the stuff on scihub was funded by tax dollars

Most people don't care. The chance anything at all bad will happen is so incredibly low.

I provided feedback to slack once and got a reply similar to that. I wonder if they say that just to make you feel good and then throw the feedback in the bin.

Ages ago I guess. 1password doesn't start with a letter either.

The cameras take a photo which would very likely be reviewed by a human first. And if the photo is very unclear you have some kind of proof to use unlike a police officer saying they saw it.