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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

My first laptop was an Ubuntu machine with no battery when I was 4. I had no idea what Linux was, I just played the games my uncle had pre-loaded onto it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

It does, it's completely anonymised tho, and they pull in results from Yahoo and other sources (even Yandex). So while they do use the Bing API their results can be pretty vastly different from Bing's.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Lots of other search engine options.

Kagi seems good.

I'm currently using duckduckgo and it's roughly as good as google search at this point. I remember it being considered a joke when it first launched.

God forbid, bing is also an option.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Forgive my ignorance, but what did he do?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Was trying to get a friend to switch to jellyfin the other day and it turns out he's got a weird Hisense projector that uses VIDAA OS, which does not have a jellyfin app, but DOES have a Plex app. I imagine setups like this are probably limiting Jellyfin's adoption. VIDAA is actually less niche than I thought as well, heaps of cheap-ish TVs and projectors are running it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I agree it's not a justification. I just think it's worth pointing out the hypocrisy when Elon has been platforming Chaya Raichik, who does the exact same thing (to private citizens who have done nothing wrong, mind you).

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The right has been doing this for like a decade now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yep that's the explanation I've heard. Telcos shifting this mess onto the consumer is pretty obviously not ideal. They shouldn't have gone ahead with the 3G shutoff knowing these issues existed.

They could have waited 4-5 years for the majority of Aussies upgrade to a new phone that supports Telstra's VoLTE, implemented a fallback system on Telstra's network for phones that don't support it, etc.

But they didn't.

Super poor form imo. If our government were serious about protecting Australians they would do something to punish these companies. But they won't. And our slow slide towards America-style late-stage capitalism will continue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I escaped a teams only company for a slack company a few months ago. Best thing I ever did. Plus I got a payrise.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago (2 children)

fuck it, an meme

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Spoiler alert: Biden isn't left wing

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (3 children)

This whole thing has been a mess. Thousands of Aussies had to buy new phones due to them using a phone allowlist instead of a blocklist (arguably they should have just let the phones stop working instead of blocking them outright). The allowlist they used was missing hundreds of 4G capable phones and was missing just about every overseas model of phone. I know 2 people whose phones were blocked for no reason.

Tourists coming to Australia are finding their phones blocked here, preventing them from using their phones in Australia.

000 calls are borked for thousands of Aussies as well.

We are one of the only countries in the world to turn off 3G. And we're certainly the only one to fuck it up this badly. I'm convinced the big telcos only did this to drive phone sales (many of which will be bought/leased on exploitative plans), because god knows there's no other compelling reason to shut 3G off.

What a joke.

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