They gave minimal warning about the emergency calling issue, and only a few weeks warning on the fact that "non-compliant" devices would be outright blocked (and each network has their own method on deciding on what is or isn't compliant).

And even the requirement for VoLTE support wasn't communicated early on.

Nevertheless, I agree that 3g needs to go just that it's been characterised by poor communication and heavy handedness.

Don't forget the climate. And that will have far greater long term effects to humanity than anything else.

One of the rare cases where that is a good thing. On the other hand, we also seem to be reigniting the abortion fight based on the US.

This exactly, as long as your phone has at least one frequency band of the provider, then it will at least connect to their network and allow you to access data.

In the implementation in Australia, you actually will lose data access too if you're blocked (wifi still works of course). That strikes me as kind of dumb, but I guess they don't want to give the impression that it's supported at all, since the whole thing is about emergency calling access.

This is true, but the way the telcos have been implementing it is different (even if the specifics of that remain unclear).

I expect some blacklisted devices will become whitelisted in the future on the various networks (and vice-versa). The whole thing has been poorly communicated and rather opaque.

It's not just the bands. You could have all of the needed bands and still be blocked (and you could me missing one and just get a warning).

Maybe I'm blind, but I don't see any mention of healthcare costs on the source you gave.

Per the OECD website, per capita healthcare spending in the US is the worst amongst the entire OECD, and Belgium is comparable to France and Sweden. Not the best, but far from the worst (and not accounting for better healthcare outcomes).

I don't have sources on hand, but the US in general rates the worst for healthcare outcomes too.

All if the examples of blocking appear to be from Optus in the article. And anecdotally they seem to have been the most heavy handed with this. So while there might be further blocking over time on the other networks, I'd start by switching to the Vodafone or Telstra networks if you end up blocked by Optus.

...I withdraw my question.

The minimum threshold being raised to 67k and pegged to average graduate earnings is probably the bigger deal here. Presumably that means it happens automatically and so conservative governments can't leave it at a low value when earnings increases.

EDIT: And that it now works like a progressive tax system with rates paid on money earned above certain thresholds.

It means the library of PC games. A bit like a Steam Deck can be seen as both a PC and a handheld console.

Trump won the white women vote in both 16 and 20.

Notably, this was before Roe V Wade was overturned.

But yeah, fully agreed with this;

Vote like your life depends on it

I don't know about the 2 VMs part (although that should work) but they have a Youtube channel with a couple of videos, including Resident Evil Village.

In episode 2F09, when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes that same rib twice in succession yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we, to believe that this is some sort of a, a magic xylophone or something? Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

Possibly you are CPU bottlenecked in those particular games, in which case FSR would do nothing.

I'd like to see it show if there is any third party DRM as well, like the Augmented Steam extension does.

There's also amdgpu native context support which allows native AMD GPU drivers in the guest (Linux only guests for now).

Haven't tested it myself yet though as I'm using a GPU passthrough setup. Although I believe both of these solutions will support multiple VMs using it at the same time, which is an improvement over regular passthrough.

I would expect it to be the same as now with pricing dependent on the ISP. You'll likely still have to do the 6 months / 12 months churn to get the best deal.

Ah Chief, you're talking into your wallet.

and that’s not even getting into the ableism issue.

Infrastructure that requires people to drive is far more ableist than the inverse. As many people with a disability can't drive at all (or driving is a significant challenge).