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@ Nath @aussie.zone

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  • Fedora on a 2012 Macbook Pro (Retina)

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  • When I'm at home, I have a beefy desktop that I can play modern games on. I'm going away for two weeks at Christmas and want to have some simple games to relax with. I'm debating whether to take my MX 3S mouse, or something more portable. I'm not likely going to be able to justify an eGPU.

    Besides, the laptop only has Thunderbolt 1 with theoretical max throughput of 10gbps. I doubt I'd get much better than a RX560 going on it - which while supported isn't really worth the effort. Now that I think about it, I could pick up a second-hand Thinkpad x280 for around the same price and be in a far better spot. That was actually my starting point, I was going to grab one of them before I decided to stretch the life out of this laptop.

  • Fedora on a 2012 Macbook Pro (Retina)

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  • You say that like an i7 with 16GB RAM, and a GeForce GPU can't game. The hardware is more than good enough (within reason - these are 15+ year old games). It works fine in Windows 10. Normally Linux support for older drivers is better than Windows; Nvidia is the exception.

    I fired up a little test with Terraria and it worked, though that one likely would have worked under nouveau. I'll do a more solid test during the week.

  • Fedora on a 2012 Macbook Pro (Retina)

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  • Yes, it is fine with nouveau. But I want to play a few older games like Oblivion and Fallout 3 on it.

  • More than 300,000 Australians had Centrelink payments cancelled illegally, new analysis shows

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  • I hate how the Guardian routinely does this.

    Payment cancellations have been paused since July last year

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    “The system is being applied unlawfully at worst, and it’s defective administration at best. It’s thousands and thousands of people who are having really serious consequences because there are errors in the automated processes.”

    The system is not being applied unlawfully. They recognised that it is buggy and turned it off over a year ago. There is enough true stuff in this matter to make a story that is worth discussing, particularly since it affected people who are most in need of support. But because the truth isn't scandalous enough for someone a the Guardian, they need to make it sound worse than it actually was.

  • Australian kindergarten asks parents to pay thousands for their children's art

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  • Our primary school did this last year. The kids did some art project and the school submitted them to a website where you could buy it as a calendar, diary, tea towel etc. I thought it was a great idea. We bought a few tea towels that went down well as Christmas presents.

  • The Only Raygun Video You Will Ever Need To Watch [from an Australian breaker inside the competitive scene]

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  • He discounted the preliminary dance, I assumed because it was not a battle. But I'm not going to go back and check. It wasn't that interesting. 😀

  • The Only Raygun Video You Will Ever Need To Watch [from an Australian breaker inside the competitive scene]

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  • It was mildly interesting to watch (listen) to this perspective. He's right: I don't care much about Breaking as a sport. It turns out the scene in Australia is tiny and the people who do it are amateur. For Raygun, she had to do three dance battles in a field of eight women to qualify as Australia's entry into the Olympics. Which globally is a very low bar.

    To sum up the video:Yes, she sucked. But it isn't like Australia was ever going to do well in this event no matter who we sent.Dancers in the Australian breaking scene can't afford to travel to global events and get good.

  • The Only Raygun Video You Will Ever Need To Watch [from an Australian breaker inside the competitive scene]

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  • That is the title of the actual video with the bit in braces added.

    The description reads:Welcome to the Raygun retrospective.

    My name is Jafri, I’ve been dancing for 10 years and been going to events in Australia for the past 7. I’ve been observing all that’s been happening over the last year since the Olympics and wanted to provide my perspective on Raygun and Australian breaking.

    Why now you ask?

    I felt this was important for me to share as someone who has experienced breaking in Australia. You all know by now that breakers are a rare breed in this corner of the world and I feel like a lot of detail was missed in other videos, so I wanted to provide something for the scene that was actually substantial.

    Now that the smoke and mirrors around Raygun has dissipated, I’m hoping you can watch my video from a different place.

    Thanks for your time and enjoy.

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    0:00 - Chapter 02:44 - Chapter 1: Australia’s Disadvantages11:11 - Chapter 2: That Fateful Weekend16:32 - Chapter 3: Complacency20:15 - Chapter 4: Incidents23:51 - Chapter 5: Picking Up The Pieces

  • How important is an Albanese-Trump meeting?

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  • It'd be funny if he just didn't bother meeting with the US president. Even better if he was in town doing stuff at the UN and then just not even trying to meet.

  • 'America is not happy': ABC under fire for pulling Jimmy Kimmel Live!

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  • If your kid is into trains, go with Chuggington over Thomas. Dinosaur Train is also pretty great. Time-travel, Trains and Dinosaurs!

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  • It feels like weight and pain would be connected, but the article doesn't mention weight at all. It lists income, occupation, health (diabetes, arthritis and any type of cancer), smoking all as factors.

    I expect weight plays its part, also. It makes sense that carrying an extra load around all day will contribute to muscle and joint soreness. Curious that it isn't listed.

  • 'America is not happy': ABC under fire for pulling Jimmy Kimmel Live!

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  • Free advice: Watch Baby Race now, before your baby is born. This episode is for the parents.

    The episodes are only about 7 minutes long. It's well worth the investment.

  • Trump accuses ABC journalist of ‘hurting Australia’ and says he’ll report him to Albanese

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  • I ban spam bots almost daily, but I could probably count on my fingers the times I've banned human accounts. Unless people start flinging personal abuse or break site rules, we're usually happy to let the vote buttons do their thing.

  • Three people died after Optus network failure impacted triple-0 calls

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  • Telstra is a different matter. The government still has hooks into them. They're under contractual obligations and service level agreements and if they breach those, there are financial penalties.

    I suppose Optus must have signed something with the government also? Though I don't recall reading anything about it. I can't think under what other pretext the government can just issue a huge fine for not providing a product.

  • Three people died after Optus network failure impacted triple-0 calls

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  • I'm not defending or particularly interested in the outage. If their service is unsatisfactory, leave them. That's business and they probably deserve it.

    What I find amazing is that they're being held to a standard that no other private business is held to. I see no fundamental difference between this company offering a service and any other.

    Forget tech, compare them to Macca's. Imagine a service outage that meant Macca's couldn't sell you burgers today. You'd shrug and take your business elsewhere.

    Optus is getting brought before the government for a "Please explain" and a $12 Million fine. Yes, they own infrastructure. That's my point. It's theirs. They can in theory decide to just stop offering their product tomorrow.

    Somehow we have reached a point where enough people totally rely on their service that they face this level of scrutiny when they stuff up.

  • Three people died after Optus network failure impacted triple-0 calls

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  • It's fascinating how when you step back, this is a regular business that sells a service. Little different to any subscription service.

    And the service is reliable almost 100% of the time. But because we the customers take that reliability for granted, the business is blamed if something bad happens in that 0.0001 of the time.

    This is a regular company. In theory, they could close up shop and just leave. But they're being treated as though the very thought of not being able to use the service is a massive deal.

    This same company makes you sign an agreement when you join up saying you understand their service is not 100% reliable and should not be used if you require perfect access to emergency services.

    Imagine your ISP getting a 12 million dollar fine when they have an outage.

  • Trump accuses ABC journalist of ‘hurting Australia’ and says he’ll report him to Albanese

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  • The Conversation is a reputable source and the article is relevant to the community.

    I can't speak to the motives of the OP, but I have no issues with the content. I also only really hang out in "Local" these days. Given that this article is about the US president, I can believe it is widely posted across Lemmy. But this is the only one I've come across (so far 😃).

    This is what the voting buttons are for.

  • Liberal Party run by 'weird collection of cookers and crackpots': Chalmers

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  • The Hippies are also the baby boomers. The people are the same, it's only their politics that have shifted.

  • SBS resists calls to join EU boycott of Eurovision 2026 if Israel allowed to compete | SBS | The Guardian

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  • The SBS knows that it's connection to Eurovision is tentative. We're sorta a novelty, like a guest who is cool so everyone is happy we extend our visit. We are in because SBS is a member of the European Broadcasting Union - which is a bit of a technicality. But everyone likes us so they let it slide. If we start rocking the boat or making a fuss, the rules of membership will likely become more strict to exclude us. It would likely also exclude other non European nations like Israel.

    Something that I see as already a bit of a risk. If they make the rules more strict to exclude Israel, that ruling would also likely exclude Australia.

  • Australians too dependent on government, says Sussan Ley

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  • "It has become almost taboo in politics to suggest that not everyone is entitled to every government benefit," she said, declaring "a time of dependency" has eroded "our national character".

    Still on about that whole "age of entitlement" thing?

    While not naming specifics, she vowed to be "unrelenting" in cutting "low-value" government programs and promised to "help people off welfare and into self-reliance".

    Didn't Mr Dutton make this same mistake? Promise to cut stuff but not name what he'd cut because he knew it'd be unpopular? It appears that Mr Dutton's deputy thought this was a good plan. It isn't. Tell us specifically what you want to cut. Particularly if you want more money to go to Defence. Tell us explicitly what you'd sacrifice to make that happen.

    The overall vibe of her speech is that government subsidies are meant to be targeted and not applicable to all Australians. Which is a weird take for me. If you want us all to pay taxes, then we should all be entitled to the benefits we qualify for. Otherwise, what am I paying taxes for? I particularly liked the quote that "We are essentially running a peacetime economy on emergency fiscal settings. That is obviously not sustainable." I can't think of a better way to tell the electorate that you are out of touch with this cost of living crisis than this quote. You may not be feeling this fiscal emergency, but most Australians certainly are.