Anyone know why this bullshit is being allowed by govt?
How did voice over LTE end up needing carrier software approval on top of having the right hardware?
Is this telcos writing legislation for yet another ignorant communications minister?
All I see is limited consumer choice, generation of completely unnecessary e-waste and a giant "fuck off" sign to international tourists.
A web of 'delusional' regulatory decisions has essentially turned some perfectly good phones into e-waste.
I really hope that Satterly never wins this one. Or if it does get developed then the minimum block size is at least 2 hectares.
| Skilled | Family | Humanitarian | All permanent migrants(b) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India | 356,100 | China (c) | 133,000 | Iraq | 62,400 | India | 439,700 |
| 2 | England | 197,300 | India | 81,900 | Afghanistan | 30,700 | China (c) | 334,900 |
| 3 | China (c) | 196,500 | England | 79,700 | Myanmar | 21,100 | England | 277,500 |
| 4 | Philippines | 103,200 | Philippines | 64,000 | Syria | 20,900 | Philippines | 167,400 |
| 5 | South Africa | 101,300 | Vietnam | 61,500 | Iran | 17,300 | South Africa | 118,200 |
| 6 | Australia (d) | 65,300 | Thailand | 34,400 | Sudan | 12,300 | Vietnam | 82,400 |
| 7 | Malaysia | 52,000 | United States of America | 27,300 | South Sudan | 7,000 | Australia (d) | 75,900 |
| 8 | Sri Lanka | 48,300 | Indonesia | 21,000 | Pakistan | 6,600 | Iraq | 72,700 |
| 9 | Korea, Republic of (South) | 40,700 | Afghanistan | 18,900 | Thailand | 5,800 | Malaysia | 69,200 |
| 10 | Pakistan | 39,000 | Korea, Republic of (South) | 18,700 | Ethiopia | 5,700 | Sri Lanka | 67,700 |
The above is from https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/people-and-communities/permanent-migrants-australia/2021
Australians expect to be able to punish their vehicles over harsh terrain and have it come back in one piece.
Oh please. The most off road the majority of dual cabs get is mounting kerbs in a drive through.
That narrow street looks so awful: https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/e43976b189d514742d5ec4831a82a0ca?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=3456&cropW=5184&xPos=0&yPos=216&width=862&height=575
Imagine how hard that treeless hellscape must make Satterly.
A mayor in Perth's south-eastern suburbs has raised concerns that developers are creating subdivisions without sufficient verge space to plant trees.
No users.
A bunch of those lemmit online communities.
A few other communities that tend to mostly just be identity politics arguments.
When I ran dual boot I kept windows on a separate disk to my mint install. I unplugged the mint disk when ever I wanted to boot windows.
Still had the clock issue of course.
I would rather spend more time sitting on a train than I would navigating air ports with their security theatre.
Even 2h on a train vs 1h of air port and plane bullshit would be preferred.
Other half had a Peugeot 206. Thing was an economic write off at 10 years old with barely 100,000 kms on the odometer. Endless problems every service, high chance of stranding you. Interior falling apart, paint peeling off etc. Quality control must have been non existent.
Worst car I've ever driven would be a 2021 Mitsubishi outlander hire car. The way it handled corners felt downright dangerous, weak engine with awful CVT. Average park bench has more comfort than the seats. Sometimes in my career I get a feeling of imposter syndrome, but I can look at a car like the outlander and say thank fuck I'm not at daft as the arseholes responsible for that abomination.
Pipepipe share just gives YouTube.com links. Like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUUy3mnAhCE
Is there tracking in that URL?
The problem is we just don’t have the housing to adequately accommodate people,’’ she said.
Why is the solution always supply side and never critically examining the demand side. We can't have infinite growth on a finite planet. Oh wait line on graph must point upwards, silly me.
I don't think limiting is necessary.
Instead we could start by getting rid of John Howard's capital gains tax discounts on properties. That alone massively distorts where investment dollars go in this country. Of all the fucked things about real estate that has to be the one that is most unfair. Why the hell should you pay less tax on speculating existing property than you do when you work on something that actually produces value?
If that didn't correct things enough there are more things that could be done: banning ownership by non citizens, replacing stamp duty with annual land tax, incentives to discourage land banking, realistic population targets, and dare I say it; limiting negative gearing to new builds only.
It's been very easy. Although I will say my use case is a 9km urban commute. Any issues I can jump on a train to the local bike shop.
Changing a rear tyre on a split frame in the middle of no where would be beyond me.
7 years and counting. Have never had any maintenance on my belt. The Alfine 11 has had an oil change though.
I reckon it would change when renters start to outnumber owners.
Which is part of the reason for first home buyers grants, stamp duty discounts etc, to funnel more people in to owning. The other being it is a great way to hand tax dollars to established real estate owners.
I imagine the source (telegram troll farms?) of these 5g conspiracy theories must be having a good laugh at the algorithm victims doing this.
Google consistently routes people to make a right turn across an unsignalised dual carriageway near me. (Australia, we drive on the left).
This right turn is so prone to crashes that every single weekday morning and afternoon there will be multiple tow trucks just waiting for a crash.
To avoid this intersection and turn right on to the dual carriageway at a location with traffic lights is only a matter of driving less than 1km in either direction on a parallel side street. Yet Google tells people to go past the traffic lights to make this turn. Idiocy.
The recruiters also like to remove your name and contact details so that the companies they are selling you to can't bypass the recruiter.
A rally will be held in Margaret River at the weekend to call on the state government to fund rapid bushfire suppression equipment and scale back “failing” prescribed burns in the South West.
Globally there has been a shift towards adopting new early detection and rapid suppression equipment to quickly identify and extinguish bushfires.
The technology, including smoke detection cameras, satellite monitoring, AI software and drones to give a bird’s-eye view to spot developing fires, is already operational in Canada and California.
It is being rolled out in European countries and along the east coast of Australia.
WA Forest Alliance senior campaigner Jason Fowler said the WA government and Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions were lagging and reliant on “outdated and dangerous” policy.
“The prescribed burning program is no longer effective at protecting South West communities in a drying and warming climate,” he said.
“Only half of prescribed burns close to communities have been completed last year because they are too risky.
“Forests are also suffering with an increasing number of high-intensity burns causing severe damage.”
Likely a pipe dream at this stage. But having just visited south bank in Brisbane it would be awesome to create something similar here.
What I liked about south bank: -big shady trees to sit under Lots of nice places to hang out that don't require you to be a customer open access pool, water playground. Lots of places to eat
If Perth tried to do it, we would need to bring in the team who did south bank, and keep away the clowns who made the shadeless concrete wind tunnels like yagan square and Elizabeth quay.
There is further evidence Australia's ongoing housing crisis is deepening as the national vacancy rate hits a record low of 0.7 per cent, according to Domain.
I'm sure if we keep voting for the Libor and Laberal parties they will eventually fix it right?
Whatever today's economic data shows about how close Australia is to recession the truth is we are already experiencing the biggest dive in living standards in half a century — and have been for two years, writes Peter Martin.
The WA government once offered train holidays around the state with sleeping cars, on-board dining, and a chance to see the sights on 'reso tours'.
A council plan to protect Perth's trees will be rejected by WA Planning Minister John Carey despite overwhelming community support, the ABC understands.
If we drop the antagonism between younger Australians and Boomers, will it help to fixing our housing crisis, asks Gareth Hutchens.
Not sure I agree with the title that no one can ”escape” it. I think the wealth hoarding class does very nicely out of everyone else's misery. Perhaps if things don't turn around their grand children might go from owning the whole country to facing a guillotine.
More likely once there is a large enough percentage of people who will have no hope of owning, then they will start to have an effect at the polling booth.
Recently made the switch to Graphene and am trying to get my main email away from outlook.com
What's everyone using for calendar event invites?
I have a mixture of some events that only I need to see, but others I send and receive invites to people using gmail, outlook etc.
Currently trying out free Proton, but it's a bit limited. For example if I make a recurring event there seems to be no way to edit or remove a single recurrence. Also would like to be able to use say simple calendar widgets with it. Edit, also discovered that invites sent from gmail to proton simply don't arrive.
Happy for a paid service provided I'm not treated as a product for advertisers to market to.
Perth has the worst tree canopy cover of any Australian capital, with the state government putting it as low as 16 per cent coverage.
Apparantly there is no way to influence demand for housing.
Mining billionaires might have made the state wealthy, but it’s developers’ decades of wheeling and dealing that continue to have the most impact on daily life.
The WA Greens have revived the debate over Perth’s sprawl, joining with developers, planners and universities to call for a rethink of the city’s urban planning.
Automotive brands are being accused of pushing a "loophole" policy so they can keep selling dirty and inefficient vehicles to Australian consumers.
WA’s Environmental Protection Authority has cast doubt over the effectiveness of the state’s prescribed burning program, and has called for an independent review.
Born out of anti-government rallies during the pandemic, authorities say Germany's Reichsbürger movement is a growing threat. And it's forging ties with one of the country's biggest political parties.
Sawmillers in WA say the state government is breaking its promise to support timber and logging communities ahead of the ban on native logging.
The space between WA’s major cultural institutions is tired, functions poorly and is a magnet for crime. Will the latest plan create the cultural heart the city needs?
