I know fires bad, people dying sad, etc, but I feel if there’s going to be fires (and there’s gonna be!) then an affluent area of LA is probably the “best” place for it right? People living there are in the best position to support themselves after losing their house more so than if it was in a poor area where they have no financial backing.
Totally agree.
I don’t even bother clicking on video links on random instances. Most are broken, and the rest are incredibly slow.
Why do Shorts even exist? They’re just videos that are worse (no time bar, cropped to portrait, description and comments etc are even harder to read)
If she only uses the browser and texting, whats to learn that’s different?
I actually push my family members to buy Apple products because then I dont have to provide tech support but tbh if their usage is just tapping on like 3 different icons, there’s really no difference between the two from a UI point of view. And a mid-range Android phone that allows you to tape those 3 icons is probably 1/5th the cost of an iPhone.
I’m surprised it hasn’t been a law already?? Forget calling it “wage theft”, it’s literally just “theft”.
99/2000ish i suspect? It was an Optus@Home cable connection when “netstats” was still used. It was sold as an “unlimited” plan, but really it was 10x the average download of your node.
For us, it really was unlimited because we were the only people on our node for ages. As more people connected, we started hitting the limit pretty regular.
You could also spy on your net neighbours usage because the cable modem logging (available via telnet and a default username and password) showed every connection on your node. Not sure of the technical side of this - I think because cable was in a daisy chain from node to properties and back?
Because we were early adopters, sending +++ATH0 in ping packets was super effective too heh.
… to Android
God I loved that book series.
God I hated that TV series.
I have a slightly unique version of this.
When I was in high school, one of the maths teachers had printed out pi to 100+ digits on tractor feed paper (FYI I am old) and run it around the top of the classroom as a nerdy bit of cornice or whatever.
Because I was so insanely clever(…), I decided to memorise pi to 20 digits to use as my school login password, being about the maximum length password you could have.
Unbeknownst to me, whoever printed it had left one of the pieces of the tractor feed folded over on itself when they hung it up, leaving out a section of the first 20 digits.
I used that password all through school, thinking i was so clever. Until i tried to unrelatedly show off my knowledge of pi and found I’d learned the wrong digits.
I still remember that password / pi to 20 wrong digits. On the one hand, what a waste of brain space. On the other hand, pretty secure password I guess?
What the fuck are you talking about?
I enjoyed 90s Nissans when they made fun cars.
Surprised at how many people are in love with Honda. They’re either annoyingly loud and slow Civics driven by young people with backwards caps, or by old people in sensible sedans like the Accord which are also slow but at least they aren’t loud.
Would I live on top of a shopping centre on general? Sure would! Sounds like a great idea to increase housing to me.
But a Westfields? Hell no. If they rent dwellings like they rent commercial property they’ll demand your income goes through their services and they’ll make sure it’s always a high percentage of your income OR a minimum high dollar value, whatever is more.
Utter coxswains tbh.
Good, now do Australia
And horses next
Yes, its certainly a shame that the majority of pyramid schemes have given the rest bad name.
I hate gambling so much. It’s probably even worse than crypto.
Johnathon
I helped my uncle jack off a horse
With a bank, they operate to maximise profit for their shareholders (not members / customers).
With a credit union, you buy a share when you open an account which means every member/ customer is also a shareholder. As they run to maximise profit for their own customers, that means decisions and pricing is made that benifits the customer.
The result is cheaper (or no) fees, better interest rates on loans, higher interest rates on savings accounts, and usually way more flexible on things like paying back extra on home loans.
In Australia, Credit Unions (and building societies) are covered by the same government guarantees that Banks are so the old fears of your money not being safe are stupid.
More people need to use credit unions.
Also “Great Southern Bank” are dickheads for renaming from Credit Union Australia (CUA).
On one of the commercial news channels the other morning, some yank talking head they had on for whatever reason said “I’m not sure how familiar you are in Australia with wild fires” as part of the introduction…