Longmactoppedup

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[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

100% we need legislature to prevent surveillance and data collection of all kinds.

For that we would need politicians that represent the voting populace rather than their corporate donors.

[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 2 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

Not fully solved.

The car could potentially store that data and then it get transferred when being serviced.

Also it could connect to open WiFi networks.

[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Bunnings certainly is a monopoly that destroyed pretty much every local hardware business.

The whole cheaper prices thing is of course bullshit when they carry so many exclusive product lines.

But the flip side. They have been really good at honouring product warranties in my experience.

[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fairly sure BTT is referring to the test results for illicit substances in our sewers.

[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 2 points 4 days ago

I read that the subfocus event in Perth this February was the largest DNB only (OK with a sneaky bit of dubstep etc from Nero) event in Australia ever.

I would guess Auckland's was sightly larger based on crowd footage but not sure.

Was an awesome time either way.

[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I think we were classed as the DnB capital of Australia long before Pendulum released slam.

[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 3 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Took me longer than it should have to realise what 10 referred to.

Some of the most potent wastewater in the world

[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 5 points 5 days ago

The police can issue "yellow stickers" for illegal modifications including non compliant headlight modifications.

If given one, the vehicle has to go for inspection.

It happens, however it's rare enough that it doesn't really stop people doing stupid shit like fitting the wrong bulbs in the wrong housing or fitting LEDs with the power of 10 suns and fucking binding everyone.

[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 1 points 6 days ago

I have no idea why you have been down voted.

Our mortgages do work in a manner more similar to British ones than American.

I.e. you sign up for either fully variable interest rates, or you can lock rates in for relatively (say 3ish years) short time periods.

Typically lenders provide their best rates when borrowers negotiate well before signing up. Then they hit people with the "laziness tax". I.e. they raise their rates fees etc higher and higher on the assumption that the borrower will simply bend over and take it or be too lazy to re finance. Many do. But plenty shop around and transfer to another lender to take advantage of better rates.

If your property goes down in value, to the point your loan to value ratio goes below the threshold deemed too risky, then your ability to shop around gets diminished. Perhaps it dips in to the ratio which invokes lenders mortgage insurance, or even makes you so underwater you can't change lenders at all.

If this happens then the borrower can find them selves stuck paying a lot more in interest.

[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 4 points 6 days ago

A part of me thinks it would be funny for it to get built to see how many dirt bikes / utes would deliberately tear it up.

[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Motorsport, specifically drifting.

Mucking around in digital audio workstations.

[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 4 points 6 days ago

Tents are quite cheap these days.

(Or just install Feeld for the other kind)

 

TLDR: Howard, the source of most problems we face since his reign of destruction.

 

Since the last update I've noticed that gesture back stops working after a bit. Closing voyager and opening it again makes it work.

Also something slightly odd is happening with scaling where the app seems to take up less screen real estate randomly.

Pixel 7pro running Graphene.

 

Can't make this shit up, reality is beyond satire at this point.

This is the same media talking head who argued against Labor's fibre to the premises national broadband network. Who then brown noses NBN execs to get his own house upgraded to Fibre as a higher priority than anyone else.

Copper for thee, fibre for me.

What the hell happened to the federal ICAC anyway. Still waiting for all the politicians who spent billions buying back Telstra's rotten copper to go to jail.

 

The WA government is pressing ahead with its plan to create a motorsport street circuit in Burswood Park.

It is opening the community consultation process for the controversial new proposal.

But Treasurer Rita Saffioti has denied it will only be a motorsport track, saying it will be a "multi-use facility".

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