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[–] 18107@aussie.zone 6 points 6 days ago

I have 2. One has broken twice from over use, so I reprinted the broken piece and swapped it.

[–] 18107@aussie.zone 36 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I spent 20 minutes (I timed it) on the phone diagnosing a tech support issue and instructing the user on how to fix it. It took about 10 seconds for me to realise that number lock was turned off.

The rest of the 20 minutes was trying to get the user to find and press "Num lock" on the keyboard.

About 10 minutes in, they actually found and pressed it. Apon noticing that nothing had appeared on the screen, they tried pressing it again, then announced it didn't work.

Somehow, just getting them to press the button one more time was not simple, as they now had to begin their logical left-to-right scan of the keyboard again to find this mysterious new "Num lock" button they'd never heard of before.

This person (on another call) would say the name of each key as they pressed it. They would say "Caps lock, A, Caps lock, Enter" when typing a single "A" on a line, but didn't know what "Caps lock" was and couldn't find it on the keyboard when asked to press it immediately after having said and pressed it.

[–] 18107@aussie.zone 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I've had a bot end the session while both I and the service agent were typing, and it was only 30 seconds since the last message.

This happened 3 times in a row before I learnt to pre-type all my answers in a text document and copy-paste them to keep the bot happy.

[–] 18107@aussie.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Cookie AutoDelete for Firefox and Chrome.

Source

[–] 18107@aussie.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

It's not as good as Google from 20 years ago, but much better than Google today.

I didn't choose it for the privacy, I chose it because I wanted to actually get results for my searches.

Google gets me answers about 20% of the time,
Kagi about 50%,
and (generic - not Kagi) AI about 80% of the time.

The problem with AI as search is that the other 20% is when it will confidently give me wrong answers and waste hours of my time, so I guess Kagi is still useful to me.

[–] 18107@aussie.zone 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Are you suggesting that all countries on earth will adopt this law, or that all developers in all countries will comply with the law of one country?

Will all previous versions of all OSs be deleted? Will all OSs become closed source so you can't just remove the age verification part?

Will you be the only person on earth who is willing to break an unethical law to have basic privacy?

If yes to all the above, then you may need to start learning how to program.

[–] 18107@aussie.zone 33 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Take back control of your OS. Use a different OS if you need to.

[–] 18107@aussie.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A bit too hard for me.

Connections
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spoilerI didn't even understand most of the answers when revealed.

[–] 18107@aussie.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

I would ride my regular bike 10km with a maximum of 20km. I'll ride my e-bike 50km without even thinking about it.

Most of the time I don't even use the motor. The knowledge that I can always get home even if I get too tired is enough to enable some of the longer trips.

[–] 18107@aussie.zone 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Wealth hoarding and exploitation

 

I've had an old laptop running Home Assistant for quite a while. I've recently started getting into docker. I'm part way through setting up a NAS and want to check if I'm doing anything really stupid.

My ideas so far:

  • Samba sharing a host folder on the local network
  • Rsync for regular backups to a separate host folder
  • WireGuard to connect directly to an offsite laptop with the same setup
  • Syncthing for realtime synchronisation and temporary file versioning
  • Home Assistant for rsync backup monitoring

Are there any issues with this setup, and is there anything else I should consider?

 
 

Request: I'm looking for something with high reliability rather than high speed. It needs to support 30+ devices.

Additional information: My house is about 30m (100ft) long, and the internet comes in by ethernet at one end of it. I'm happy to use a Wi-Fi extender if needed.

Context: I've been having issues with both my current and previous routers. Devices are randomly unable to communicate over the network for several seconds at a time. Both ethernet and Wi-Fi are affected.
I live in Australia, so even the slowest router should be more than fast enough.
I have a large number of automated devices that need to stay connected at all times - even 5 second network dropouts are difficult to deal with. Internet dropouts are handled gracefully.

Any suggestions are gratefully received.

 
 

A community for users of the wholesale electricity provider Amber to discuss strategies for optimising energy use, and request help with understanding how energy bills work with wholesale electricity.

There are several Amber groups on Facebook and Discord, but nothing that is publicly accessible or viewable without an account.

EDIT: The name is still under consideration. Suggestions for a name to encompass all users of wholesale electricity prices are appreciated. I'm currently leaning toward "Wholesale Energy Australia".

 
 

I use it to heat my house.

 

But at least you're not one of the people getting on a ship.

 

It only lasts for 12 months out of the year.

I was trying to ask my partner for a pbj sandwich. I accidentally asked for a beef sandwich, then tried to describe the sandwich as boneless and without the meat.

I eventually reached apricot marmalade, which was close enough for my partner to understand the request.

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