Baku

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Baku,

Thank you for your thought provoking question, “AI has use”. I’m sure this is a legitimate question coming from a real human.

Baku,

Seriously. In Australia, you have to “activate” your Sim card with your full name, email, bank details (depending on the carrier), and a copy of your driver’s license. Hell, I bought my last phone directly from a carrier, completely outright, with cash, prepaid with no plan, and they took a photocopy of my drivers license. Buying phones elsewhere they’ve never done that to me, as long as it’s prepaid and bought outright, but for some reason the major telcos do it for all purchases

Baku,

Now that I think about it, I actually first used Linux in 2021 too. For me it was because the laptop I had shipped with a HDD that was known for being prone to vibration failure, so while waiting for the warranty request to be approved I was running a persistent Ubuntu live USB

Baku,

I’ve never seen one in Australia. We don’t really prepay for petrol here. Some servos in the dodgiest suburbs do make you between certain hours, but I’ve never seen one that makes everybody always prepay or one that actually takes your card. Most of the time you’d go inside to prepay anyways, but on the few pumps I’ve seen that do have card payments on the physical pump it’s either tap or swipe, no insert, and no holding cards hostage

Baku,

I saw a video a few weeks ago of a trucker who had to pull over on a fast road and he was holding a sharp pole in his hand. People usually reacted by giving him space, rather than driving inches away from him at 80km/h, like they usually do.

Baku,

What’s a VPM?

Baku,

Not to sound like I’m claiming to be up on a moral high ground or anything, but it leaves a bad taste in my mouth using accessibility tools for non accessibility reasons when it comes to Reddit. Ordinarily, I wouldn’t care, but Reddit has shown me that they don’t give a shot about people who need accessibility tools at all. Allowing some of them to stay around was just a desperate attempt at preventing some bad PR. If they thought an accessibility tool was mainly used by people trying to bypass their stupid and greedy decisions, they would 100% kill it off in an instant

Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone (lemmy.world)

I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they’re on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can’t be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?...

Baku,

Also in Australia and it shows that to me as well https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/9d3dd44d-0d09-491d-885a-d90bbcfadce5.png

But going into my app list and showing system does show it

https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/b094a4f2-327b-4955-9a06-c5d053ec30d9.png

Baku,

It’s not just you, it’s phoning home for me too. Pixel 7, also Australia, bought outright from officeworks. I don’t log network reqs so I don’t know exacts, but it’s using 25kb every 3 days or so, so it’s doing something.

Baku,

In my primary school they did it based on the cleanest classroom. Except all we won was a $2 Freddo frog. The teachers wouldn’t let us vacuum though, and rather than just not eat inside and not make a mess, we went around with tape to pick up all the carpet crumbs

Baku,

My mum used to refuse to subscribe to anybody on YouTube because she thought it would charge money

Tbf, calling it “subscribing” in a time subscribing is synonymous with overpriced magazines, rip off cable TV and dodgy power companies was probably a silly idea

Baku,

It is indeed. I’ve got no clue what it’s like here, but I know in the old community on the red alien site, just about everything on uplifting news was something like “7 Year old boy sells 75,000 glasses of lemonade to pay for sick mums cancer treatment”. Something that seems uplifting for the first 3 seconds then just becomes extremely depressing the more you think about it.

The news article was posted in ABoringDystopia and someone made a joke about how it should be cross posted to here, and I guess OP took it seriously

Baku, (edited )

Where I am (Victoria, Australia) this is how it always is. It’s been a common thing as far back as I can remember. When you get pulled over you’ll be asked for your license and given a breathalyser test. Recently I think they’ve started doing drug tests too, although I’m not sure if they do that for everyone like breathos, or just some people.

Baku,

Why 

Baku,

Why the “”?

https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/3530de11-d318-4a9d-afeb-c1ebc5f4c36c.png

Baku,

https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/a5cf94e0-403d-411b-ac50-04317eed0e31.png

Baku,

My first reaction was mamba, and I actually thought that I was going to be in the majority. I don’t know much of black mambas, but most of the snakes I’ve encountered first hand tend to not want to be anywhere near you and will almost always try to avoid biting you. But on further research it seems they are rather territorial. Even so, I do think they’d be more likely to want to hide than stay in open spaces. But that’s a double edged sword, since they’ll probably end up in the most random nooks and crannies then bite your head off (or at least try) if you stumble upon them.

Realistically though, regardless of which one I choose, I’m going to try and stay as far away as possible. If it’s snakes, I’ll probably climb onto a table or something, maybe up on top of some shelves in a grocery store. If it’s a gorilla, I’d probably try to hide somewhere hard to access. On top of a lift or in a walk in fridge as others have suggested seem like good bets. I don’t really trust either to not try and kill me given the right circumstances

Baku,

Ah the good ol Streisand effect. When will these rich people learn?

I didn’t know any of this until I started seeing 7 memes a day about it. Now I too keep up with the flight paths. Good job T

Baku,

It’s cringe as shit, but tbf most commercials are

Baku,

Since there’s no workshop for EG and it’s nigh impossible to get things from Steam’s workshop unless they’ve been uploaded elsewhere, I wouldn’t even really consider Epic honestly

Baku,

It was a fairly similar story in Australia, although not to that extreme. I believe our mates across the ditch in NZ had a similar thing though

Baku,

One thanks you. One appreciates this.

Baku,

And they thought that just ignoring such clear issue was a good approach to take? Wow that’s fucking scummy on both sides

Baku,

Well, surely if they’re playing it 2 weeks before it’s due to launch and it runs like garbage, they’d think “hmm, maybe this won’t be ready in time. I should probably tell people about it” rather than just being greedy and sweeping it under the rug. Also, you can be honest about issues you experience with the people watching your content. If it gets better before it’s released, you just make an update video stating you’ve seen an improvement over time. No need to hide it

Baku,

Not OP but I have 0 faith in companies to not pull the plug when they decide something isn’t making them enough money. Just look at all the old games online games that have been rendered near useless thanks to the company that made it deciding that it’s not profitable to support anymore. Sure, the same could happen to steam workshop too, but I have more faith that the steam workshop will be around in a decade than whatever proprietary knockoff paradox is using for CS II

Baku,

I’ve spent a truly mind blowing amount of time on MissionChief. They don’t give exact stats, but I’d say I’ve played at least 2k hours over the last 4 years

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