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Yep. Personally my first choice is the t490. Theres so many in great condition.

I like to imagine the IT debt in some office building buying and hording t490s just to be sure they don’t lose their budget next year.

Because YouTube doesn’t engage in anything like that ofc.

It’s so shit.

I’ve spent most of my life wishing for a Labor government with a strong mandate. That finally arrives with the opportunity for real progressive social policy and suddenly they decide they want to be centrist.

Fuckwits. This is not what I voted for and it’s unlikely I will vote Labor again.

Not really, the case was finalised last year. This is the predictable appeal, which can almost be seen as a final step where you don’t review the evidence necessarily, but rather review the process followed in the case to ensure everything was fair.

LOL. You do you but this sounds like a nightmare to me.

edit: it’s not just “becoming tech support person”, but becoming the default person to blame for everything.

I don’t think that’s true.

I think they know the future is bleak, and they just want to have the best bio dome or whatever the case may be.

As in, they know they’re making things worse, but if they don’t do it someone else will. So in a bleak and shit future, do you want to live like a king, or choke to death like the rest of us.

Sure but if we are building out renewable capability as quick as we can, but it’s being outstripped by demand, then maybe demand is part of the problem.

They know that things are going to be shit. They just wasn’t the nicest yacht to live on when it does.

I guess we would be 30 years from stable scalable fusion reactions?

Sure, but at some point popular & unpopular becomes concensus & objection.

My point is really that no one bothers to speak in support of these measures because they’re so obviously sensible and everyone’s happy to implement them.

As in, people don’t walk around espousing the virtues of speed limits on highways because it’s just naturally appropriate. However, there’s a few 18 year olds that cry about nanny states and the removal of restrictions because reasons. There’s a vocal opposition, but that doesn’t imply that there’s a democratically significant opposition.

One Nation is the notable exception - they will of course use any opportunity to gather up dissenters.

You’re correct that restrictions only effect law-abiding people.

I think there’s a few things going on.

Firstly, every gun has the potential to cause harm, so less guns is less potential. Halving the number of guns does not halve the risk of harm, but there’s some reduction.

Secondly, I value living in a country where there just aren’t that many guns around. We don’t really have any kind of “gun culture” here. Sure some people feel the need to have a firearm to feel safe but they’re a small minority.

Also, and this is related to both points, without buy backs the number of guns in the system will always increase, as old weapons are more likely to be stored rather than destroyed.

Finally, it reduces the opposition to the new laws. Suppose a decade ago you purchased a weapon that you use for legitimate vermin control but is now illegal. You’re not particularly concerned about that but you still need a weapon for that purpose. At least this way you’re given a chunk of the cost of a replacement.

I’ve found myself using this a whole lot. It really is great for finding foss and / or non-US alternatives.

This is the type of issue which has a small minority in vocal opposition, but broad support from everyone else.

Your have to be daft to buy them in another state and have the same problem

The footage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PAacUPhhJU

I haven’t read the article but, couldn’t sometime just read the submission and look for the bit that says “forget all previous instructions…” and so on.

Pretty much this… although I usually have at least a few moments of paranoia thinking about what I might be about to lose.

Sorry to be a debbie downer but I have grave concerns about the long term viability of firefox.

Sites obviously don’t test against ff anymore with more and more bugs appearing in more and more sites.

I have to daily drive both ungoogled-chromium and librewolf and sadly, the number of things I need to do in chromium is increasing week by week.

It’s not a conspiracy. It’s been a very well published and discussed process.

There are exceptions but browsers are either reconfigurations of firefox, like librewolf, or reconfigurations of google chrome, like vivaldi.

Some dweeb will be along in a moment to tell us all how vivaldi is not merely a reconfiguration, but the point is …

google changed the manner in which plugins can interact with the web page you see. In recent months you could re-enable the old plugin interface by recompiling with a different configuration, but once google makes a change that breaks that old interface then you can’t just re-enable it.

This type of hallucination is a problem, but is not my biggest concern.

I just want to converse with a human who is listening to me. It’s a bonus if that person has some familiarity with me but it’s not essential.

I certainly do not want an LLM inferring what might be wrong with me.

I feel like this shouldn’t be too much to ask, but it’s becoming that way.