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  • How you prepare for collapse?

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  • By living my best life now while I can.

    Collapse, a world war, apocalypse etc? Fuck that I'm out.

  • Patch Tuesday update makes Windows PCs refuse to shut down

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  • Can't harvest your data when shut down? They have fixed that problem!

  • My petty gripe: a large flat white is an oxymoron – a bastardisation of the drink Australia gave the world

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  • I'm surprised there isn't a widely adopted abbreviation yet.

    LMTU?

  • My petty gripe: a large flat white is an oxymoron – a bastardisation of the drink Australia gave the world

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  • No comment

  • Meta says it shut down nearly 550K accounts in Australia to comply with its under-16 social media ban, including 330,639 Instagram and 173,497 Facebook accounts

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  • And they deleted the data right?

    Right?

    Narrator: they did not.

  • Staying Home

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  • I stayed home, not by choice. Got the unwelcome xmas gift of covid.

  • Six charged after police allegedly find man and teen travelling with loaded guns in Sydney taxi

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  • I have an inkling that there will be rumblings in the future from within govt here about outlawing things like Graphene OS and signal.

  • To Lemmy people who came from reddit: Have you guys tried other fedi software like mastodon or sharkey?

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  • I have a mastodon account. Be lucky if I fired it up once a week. That's a lot more than I ever used twatter/x. That I opened maybe 5 times when it first started. The super short form stuff just not my thing.

    Mostly just to look at mastodon followed hashtags of photography. When I first got it I straight away put filters on stuff I wasn't interested in before figuring out how to look at only followed hashtags.

  • Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft

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  • So I'm forced to use windows at work like the majority of my industry.

    The start bar is still a thorn in my side since we switched from 10 to 11.

    Standard office set up is 2 x 1920x1200 monitors and a 1920x1080 laptop. Some just leave the laptop shut when docked.

    I preferred having it on a stand and using the lap top screen real estate.

    In windows 10 I could make a monitor the primary and have a start bar only on the laptop. Not being able to do that in windows 11 is fucking annoying. They also fucked up auto hide start bar, it's always jumping up for bullshit I don't care about and not hiding when it should. I gave in and accepted I can't have those bottom few lines of screen real estate because they are Microsoft's.

    As an engineer I do sometimes get feelings of imposter syndrome. But then I look at what Microsoft did to the start bar in windows 11 and think well at least I didn't do that.

  • Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done?

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  • You would hope they have more empathy than the ones who remove the R from their sticker.

  • Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done?

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  • Currently I think it's the other way around. Before you are allowed to own one you sign a contract saying you will at every opportunity drive millimetres from the bumper of the car in front.

  • Australia’s Social Media Ban Was Pushed By Ad Agency Focused On Gambling Ads It Didn’t Want Banned

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  • It just goes to show how out of touch politicians are.

    As a parent of two primary schoolers. (Yeah yeah cliché qualifier) Things I'm more concerned about than social media:

    1. Them never being able to buy a fucking house or afford any kind of living standard because apparently property market must go brrr. Everything they do is about propping up established home owners ensuring profits for the banks.
    2. Corruption and lobbying
    3. Doing fuck all about climate change and environmental destruction. Stop.fucking.clearing.vegetation.
    4. Alcohol and gambling adds
    5. Air quality / emissions from transport. Fuck Albo's watered down vehicle emissions rules that are going to encourage more diesel SUV use. Diesel is next in line after pdfiles and religion for things I don't want near kids.

  • It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects

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  • As an Australian, it's Irish accents that I struggle with the most.

    Scottish I can deal with, probably from watching shows like Still Game and Burnistoun.

    Most other UK accents are not to difficult to understand.

    One odd thing, I was watching an USA wildlife documentary that was set in South Africa. I noticed they put forced subtitles on when ever the South African's spoke in English. I found that bizarre as I've never had any trouble understanding when South Africans speak English.

  • Just Kidding... Unless?

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  • The Telstra pay phone boxes near me now all have massive ridiculously bright screens displaying advertisements. For sure that is their primary purpose now.

  • What's your winter holidays movie?

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  • Bad Santa

  • Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban

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  • As far as laws regarding digital rights / freedoms go, we have no chance in Australia anyway as the major parties are all against them.

    In fact the coalition has an even worse track record than labor.

  • Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban

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  • Mostly because I fear the kids might get unfavourable treatment.

    Our school principal reminds me of south park's PC principal.

  • Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban

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  • For my youngest I use pipepipe on an android tablet.

    No ads.

    No feed / recommendations.

    Just the channels I subscribe to.

    The final straw with stock android apps was years ago with my eldest when it showed an add for women's g strings in the middle of a fucking educational video about cats.

  • Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban

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  • Resisting the urge to send this video as a reply to the boot licking email my kids school sent to the parents regarding this bullshit.

  • Australia @aussie.zone
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    What you need to know about why house prices aren't coming down

    www.abc.net.au /news/2025-11-03/house-prices-increase-again-mortgages-rba-interest-rate-decision/105962246
  • Australia @aussie.zone
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    'Throw the kitchen sink at it': NBN Co fast-tracked upgrade for Bolt

    www.abc.net.au /news/2025-10-31/nbn-co-fast-tracked-upgrade-for-sky-news-host-news-corp-pundit/105953892
  • Australian Politics @aussie.zone
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    Punter's Politics video: Australia's Housing Crisis Will Get MUCH Worse! - Who's Really To Blame?

  • DeGoogle Yourself @lemmy.ml
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