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Nath

@ Nath @aussie.zone

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  • Christmas Present Inspiration Thread

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  • Yep I know, but this thing is built like a nuclear bunker. Honestly: 11 years of daily carry, being knocked and crashed and squished about like a set of keys. Even Gotten wet a few times. I have doubts they make them on temu or eBay like this thing.

    Lacie made the "rugged" range of disks and this is representative of their build quality. It's only 32gb, and only usb2. I wish it were bigger and faster, but I'll take its amazing toughness over those traits.

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  • The utili-key looks like a regular key on your keyring, which is why I've never had it confiscated at airport security. Frankly if you can hijack a plane with one of these things, you can hijack a plane without one of these things.

    The USB is a "Lacie imakey". Lacie has since been assimilated into one of the big hard drive companies (Seagate I think). These USB keys are a victim of their success. You just buy the one, and never need another. This one is over ten years old.

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  • I like that little Greenhouse thing. I am not sure who I'd get it for - possibly my sister, but I can't see her actually sitting down and assembling it. My wife probably would, but I have her more than sorted. Maybe for her next birthday. 🙂

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  • I don't know where to get either of these things any more, but I would replace them like-for-like if either died if possible:

    The key multitool is never plan A. I'll always reach for a better tool if possible. But I always have this on me, and it has saved my bacon more times than I can count.

    It's so small that you can get it through airport security.

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  • To start things off this year, I'll share how this awesome community helped me last year.

    After last year's thread, I bought:

    1. A Bug-a-salt for my brother-in-law, he loved it! (Thanks @CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone )
    2. Some nice towels for my sister (Thanks @Taleya@aussie.zone )

    I got a Bluetooth transmitter (I had requested one) and it is awesome.

  • Breaking: NSW Police responding to reports of shooter at Bondi Beach

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  • What does a bunch of Aussies enjoying a holiday at the beach have to do with Israel?

  • There's a simple way to solve Australia's "gas crisis" ... and cut energy bills

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  • Is the rest of Australia really not aware of WA's Domestic Gas reserve? In short: 15% of gas extracted in WA is reserved for the people of WA. As a result, our power bills are a bit under 25c/kwh + ~$1/day supply.

  • Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban

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  • I think this about sums everything up. I just pinned it to the top of Local with the non-satire post. 😀

  • These platforms are currently exempt from the under-16s social media ban. But that could all change

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  • 4chan isn't exempt. They're simply refusing to comply. Frankly, I see their perspective. If Qatar introduced some law that required us to do this, we'd ignore it (if we even knew about it). What are they going to do?

    We are complying because we are 100% in Australia. We run this little project as a side gig and can't risk our careers by becoming a potential example for other forums. You can't do the sort of IT work we do with a criminal record.

  • National study finds where you live influences your body weight | News at Curtin

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  • Hotties live north. I don't need no silly map to tell me what I already know.

  • These platforms are currently exempt from the under-16s social media ban. But that could all change

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  • It's to do with the definition of Social Media in the legislation. If you can make comments that anyone on the Internet can read from your account, then you qualify as social media. That's an incidental aspect of what GitHub does, so it makes perfect sense for that site to be excluded from the ban.

  • Today in History - November 30: Australia's most popular movie genre banned

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  • Australia | Teenagers sue over social media ban for ‘violating their right to communicate’

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  • Favourite (least hated) and Most Hated Prime Ministers ?

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  • In my lifetime? Or in my voting lifetime?

    If the former, Whitlam. He's not a popular choice according to history, and he was blocked so frequently in what he was trying to do. But if you look at the actual policies he killed conscription, introduced free health care, free university, legal aid, equal rights and animal rights. Lots of these policies were unpopular with politicians at the time, but are a given in society today. He's mostly remembered for "The Dismissal", which is a crying shame.

    If the latter, it's a little nuanced. PMs have been more stymied by their parties in the past 20 years than I remember happening in before the Hawke-Howard years.

    Rudd's an interesting one: By all accounts, he's a raging arsehole to work with. But, he was really trying to spread the wealth and break up the monopolies. He was just getting going when the mining companies fired him for having the audacity to suggest that was all our dirt they were digging up and the profits should be shared with all Australians. I'm still mad that his party didn't stand with him on that one.

    I think Turnbull could have been one of the greatest PMs of all time. A total technocrat who wanted to put experts in their fields into assorted roles. That was unpopular in his party and he spent his whole prime-ministership trying to manage his party instead of the nation. He also stood by his word - if he agreed that he'd support a bill if conditions were met - he did so. Even crossing the floor to support climate legislation. I'd love to see what he could have achieved if he had his party behind him.

    Gillard is another one who would have been great, but she spent her whole tenure with a cloud over her head - either from the way she wrested leadership from her predecessor, alienating the electorate, or from being in a minority government most of the time, needing to do deals for everything. For all that though, wow she got shit done!

    In terms of popular/least hated prime minister in my voting life, I have to give it to Hawke. He cared. You really felt like the guy was in your living room talking to you over a beer and working on your behalf. I know and acknowledge that my childhood politics was shaped a lot by my parents, and those days were very much "Labor good, Libs evil". But for all of that, Australians really felt like the guy was there batting for us. He wasn't all roses: He took away free university but he re-introduced free health care (Menzies privatised Medibank after Whitlam). He was deeply in the USA camp, which is weird as he was a polar opposite to Regan. He cried on TV, showing that he was human.

    I really want to see how Gillard, Rudd and Turnbull went in their respective alternative universes where they had their parties were behind them. I think they all could have done great things.

  • Neo-Nazi's bank accounts frozen as private sector moves to cut off group's funding pipeline

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  • Banks are mercenary. They have zero positions they "disagree with". They refuse to do business with companies and organisations for only one reason: It's unprofitable.

    There are Millions of people who will alter their banking behaviour over things like "Bank X is the Nazi bank". I would. It's the same story with porn (not so much in Australia, but absolutely a thing in the USA). A reputation of being the "porno bank" would lead to millions of people changing their bank. And so, banks won't do business with porn providers. If the people didn't care, neither would the banks.

  • Liberal Party formally abandons net zero by 2050 climate target

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  • You won't often catch me defending Telstra, but here goes: they didn't let the copper network fall into disrepair. They did genuinely maintain it at a standard that was pretty close to if not as good as what Telstra did. Those copper cables though were designed for telephony and never designed for the Internet. Some of that copper is over 100 years old. If all the lines needed to handle were plain old telephone, Telstra was doing ok.

    We'll never know whether Telecom would have gone to the Internet at all, as they were a telephone company. I can see Telecom in that alternate universe being all-in on mobile Internet though. It's an interesting thought discussion.

  • Liberal Party formally abandons net zero by 2050 climate target

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  • Ha! I was going to say it's against the rules, but there's no actual rule in the sub about editorializing news headlines.

  • Liberal Party formally abandons net zero by 2050 climate target

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  • I mean, we mostly already have. What I think they should be doing is looking at this simple fact and asking themselves what they can do to make themselves more attractive to the electorate. I don't think they're doing that, and that's a pity. I happen to want multiple viable choices for government. By taking themselves so far off the table as a choice they're limiting everyone's options.

  • The Whitlam Dismissal - 11 November 1975 | Constitutional Clarion [50 year anniversary]

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  • Rage at who? Kerr? Fraser? Whitlam? Everyone's long gone.

    The 1975 dismissal is a wonderful case study in both the importance of Government checks and balances as well as the requirement to ensure they are used correctly, so that past mistakes won't be repeated. It's also why Australians even today get a little nervous when one party controls the senate alone.

    But rage? No. I have nobody to rage at.