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shirro

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  • What Is A Good Sub $300 Computer I Can Use For A Server?

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  • I always used my retired PCs and parts but then my kids all wanted gaming rigs so spare PCs and parts do not exist in my world anymore and they tended to be too big, noisy and inefficient.

    I would go for used ex-corporate desktop mini PCs from the likes of Dell, HP, Lenovo. Perhaps don't go for the smallest ones if you want to be able to get into them and add stuff. They tend to have reasonably good idle power and noise and its common to find ones supporting two nvme ssds. Intel cpu with quicksync for jellyfin video decode if you aren't adding discrete gpu - check supported codecs. Codec support varies across generations I think.

    I would stay well away from laptops: bad thermals, power limits, limited expandability and SBCs like RPi which have poor io for servers.

    I picked up an old HP Elitedesk off ebay a few years ago. I added a few TB of SSD and another stick of DDR4 when that stuff was cheap. It supports two nvme ssds as well as space for sata drives. Apart from media storage I can't see any compelling reason to want to upgrade it.

  • By echoing the hateful policies of One Nation, the Liberal party risks becoming a recruiting agent for extremist groups | Malcolm Turnbull

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  • Pauline has been playing the racism card for 30 years. Nobody is going to compete with her on her own turf. Many of the people who support her think she is authentic in ways the rest of us cannot understand. To me she is an obvious opportunist career politician funded by big money to do their bidding. But to the sweet little old ladies in the local cafe who "aren't racist but..." she is "Our Pauline" and she "talks a lot of sense".

    The Libs are fucking crazy. They have put themselves in a corner playing No True Scotsman on their members until they have gained the depth and competence of One Nation with none of the popular appeal. Its pretty clear right now that One Nation and the machine promoting them are setting the agenda. The Libs follow because they are a spent force.

    The ALP can afford to stand apart because they have depth and policies and lots of supporters who want them in government as much as we want them to be more effective. While the ALP will lose many working class voters to One Nations simplistic populism they will also pick up Turnbull voters from the Libs. Meanwhile the Libs have positioned themselves to be unable to gain votes from anywhere.

  • By echoing the hateful policies of One Nation, the Liberal party risks becoming a recruiting agent for extremist groups | Malcolm Turnbull

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  • While there is no place for moderates in today's Liberal party it was traditionally a mainstream party representing a broad range of interests on the other side of the class divide to Labor.

    Turnbull held lots of humanist small-l liberal views which I personally respect as much as I dislike many if the things he did. Fraser was also a proponent of humanitarian causes. The AusDems were created by SA Liberals and were the biggest minor party from the late 70s to mid 2000s. Xenophon was also a young lib I think. They also produced people like Bernardi and Hanson but in the old days they had more depth. It was consensus politics that made these big parties successful and gave them broad appeal.

    Australians were sensibly distrustful of populist single issue parties until social media brainwashing became a thing.

    Never forget that the ALP is also a very diverse party. After Whitlam the anti-socialist Catholic DLP people came back and became the dominant Labor Right faction backed by unions like the SDA. While they are banning protests, sucking up to lobbyists etc there are people in their own party who hold very different views to them. Without this broadness the ALP might be sitting somewhere between the Greens 10% and Socialist 0 instead of totally dominating but it definitely feeds the view that LibLab is a uniparty. The risk of a party with such diverse interests is that it stands for nothing but getting elected. The ALP once thought Mark Lathham should be our PM. Probably lots of Labor voters agreed.

  • Inflation nears three-year high: What could this mean for Australians?

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  • I support taxing these cunts but doing it when fuel prices are crazy is political suicide as these companies will blame the prices on Labor's taxes and run a bunch of influencers, ai bots and advertising campaigns to kick them out. Or organise an internal coup again.

    A solution might be to legislate tax reform but not have it take effect until the current global crisis is resolved. I would be ok with that.

  • Anthony Albanese rules out gas export tax on existing contracts and criticises ‘populist’ campaign

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  • I have been onboard with increased resource taxes for a very long time.

    I have to admit the middle of a global supply crunch and impending global recession with several years of inflationary pressure is kind of a shit time to be wrenching on the control knobs. Especially when the government has been leveraging our fossil fuel capacity to obtain access to refined fuel required for farming and industry. These reforms should have happened under Rudd or Gillard.

    There are some on the right whose handlers do not want these taxes who know the government is not in a good position to do anything currently but are happy to benefit from the rising discontent.

    Meanwhile the left is crucifying the ALP and its driving people to ON and not to the Greens or Socialists. ON are thoroughly owned by the mining industry and people like Gina. Its a massive own goal. Much like all the idiots who campaigned against the admittedly shit Dems in the US and drove people to Trump. Stupid, spiteful and immature.

    On the other hand Albo needs to get the message that he serves us and not elites. He is going to need to make concessions and start tackling tough issues or populists are going to come in on a wave of lies and wipe out the piddly incremental gains his government has made on top of decades of Labor reforms. We can't afford that bullshit in the current information environment.

  • Discomfort with modern technology shapes Gen Z's desire to live in the past

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  • The sad thing is they aren't really equipped to live in any world but the one being created for them. All the education indicators are trending down. They can't do much without an internet connection and apps

  • A country under 'strain': Australians' life satisfaction hits record low

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  • Yeah, my parents bought a fibro shitbox in the sticks on a public service income. Its basically uninhabitable by todays standards and while the land might have appreciated in value more than inflation it wouldn't beat any other investments. City property prices are what happens when you depopulate rural Australia and move all the good jobs. But fuck everyone else I got mine right?

    The media wants to turf Labor out and replace them with a bunch of yes men and women for the big corporations, Gina and the Trump crime cartel. Labor is still at last nominally the party of working Australians, but they are are forced to do weak shit or get crucified in the court of public opinion, ironically by the people who would benefit most by supporting them.

    I fucking hate what passes for debate and news these days.

  • A country under 'strain': Australians' life satisfaction hits record low

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  • I was around 50 years ago. Just about everyone lived in poverty compared to today.

    Housing is the standout difference. Housing was much, much more affordable. But also most houses were small and simple. Didn't have much insulation, no air con, lucky to have more than one power point in a room, often built with dangerous materials like asbestos. Dangerous old wiring.

    The billionaire owned media and foreign influence is heavily shaping public opinion for their own purposes. Oddly there is no dissatisfaction when a conservative government is engaging in massive wealth transfer to the rich and multinationals and closing all our industry. Then the sky is falling when we have a Labor government trying to get us through difficult times created by circumstances outside their control.

  • Goodbye device ownership, and the last vestiges of free speech will die with this bill as well.

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  • Meta management are evil but kind of clueless. I would guess the usual suspects including Palantir are whispering in their ears.

  • EFF is Leaving X | Electronic Frontier Foundation

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  • How long do you stay on a platform before the outreach to new people is outweighed by implicit support of the platform?

    It's a tough call. It is difficult to reach out to outsiders and talk to them but it's the only way to have a conversation with them.

  • PETITION: No Nuclear Weapons in Australia

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  • Unfortunately Ukraine opened my eyes to a very painful truth. The protection of nuclear powers is worth nothing (including the US nuclear umbrella) and having your own nukes is everything.

    If you don't have an independent capability the nuclear powers destroy your countries youth, heritage and future in endless proxy wars. I don't ever want that for my kids. I don't want nukes either but having our own nukes is a lesser evil.

  • YouTube's ad problem just got worse: Users now seeing 90-second unskippable ads!

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  • Family member spends all day every day recording and editing videos for youtube. Never finds an audience. Never gets promoted. The service is too busy pushing AI slop. All that video storage for the long tail of content with almost no views must cost a fortune. Meanwhile big quality youtubers seem to not be growing for some time like they have hit a ceiling. I think Youtube has been in decline for some time. Instead of fix it, which would require investment and ideas, I think they pull the usual bad US MBA style management practice and attempt to maximise revenues on the way down until they finally kill it.

  • RBA to remove surcharges on debit, credit cards, card networks including eftpos, Mastercard and Visa

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  • I do not want to buy American phones, particularly Apple. I want to go back to card over phone. It isn't really any less convenient to carry a sliver of plastic. My end game for mobile is degoogled android or Linux where I won't have access to banking.

    I think least cost routing is supposed to be available for traders or they can set their terminals to prefer EFTPOS. I think I read that some banks let you set a preference on the card but mine does not have anything in the app. I might need to contact them.

  • RBA to remove surcharges on debit, credit cards, card networks including eftpos, Mastercard and Visa

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  • I pay my internet with PayiID. Also use BPay. Osko. A lot of ecommerce is restricted to US platforms. I would prefer to make NFC payments with EFTPOS but haven't worked out a way to do it. Might have to research.

  • A 'wake-up call': How can Australia realistically reduce its reliance on oil?

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  • Norway is a petro state. Those EVs are green washing, paid for by exporting fossil fuel. Those EVs will all be broken in a few years and they will send them to land fill and buy another lot. Not half as smart as building public transport and liivible cities.

    Australia could also be a petro state and own the profits from mineral extraction and invest it for our people but the risk of doing that is becoming addicted to fossil fuel revenue.

  • A 'wake-up call': How can Australia realistically reduce its reliance on oil?

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  • The truck network is privately owned and the big company owners are huge political donors. They will always oppose rail. We have road trains going through town day and night and the roads are getting years of wear in months. Privatise the profits. Socialise the costs.

    There are huge bypasses and highway upgrades not far away costing millions and none of the road trains use them. They are tearing up the B roads because it's the only route they are allowed on. It's crazy.

    The rail here was never fit for purpose. Installed a century ago and conditions were so bad it moved at a crawl. It could not compete with the massive public funding that goes into roads.

  • A 'wake-up call': How can Australia realistically reduce its reliance on oil?

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  • I agree with building near use. It's better use of land as well to put them on the roof of buildings.

    There are a lot of small scale solar installations on rural properties. I would guess it is often a question of supporting infrastructure and economics not political opposition.

    Example of rural small scale solar on SA https://www.redmud.net.au/our-farms

  • Australia will be left with no submarines if it abandons Aukus, senior defence official warns

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  • From memory, suggest fact check, the French nuclear subs use less enriched uranium so require more frequent refueling. If the French agreed to give us access we would basically be acquiring nuclear technology to be able to maintain them ourselves. I think the US/UK lawyered their way around things. They provide more highly enriched fuel which is closer to weapons grade, and so more of a proliferation risk. However it goes back to the US for servicing very infrequently (10 yrs or something) and we claim we just operate the reactors and there is no technical proliferation? Or something like that. Like everything from the US I would guess the reactor tech is more like a rental with extensive T&C.

    Converting the French subs to diesel seems to have been a source of problems. If we had been up front with France about the US/UK promising nuclear subs they might have been open to negotiation. We took the first offer like suckers.

  • RBA to remove surcharges on debit, credit cards, card networks including eftpos, Mastercard and Visa

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  • Why can't we make card payments without Visa in Australia? We need to ditch these foreign companies and develop our own or co-operate with peer countries. I ditched Paypal and Amazon but I still have to donate to Visa every time I buy a pie.

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    Free roaming cats should be illegal

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