Yep I rate Melbournes trams quite hard, they helped us out when we were down there for the formula1 twice, we walked 99% of the time except at the end when we were literally too tired to walk anymore!
Melbourne doesn’t have a train to the Airport either (currently) and all attempts are receiving severe political roadblocks.
Ridiculous!
“There are no known credible offerings from European providers,” reads an internal Commission document seen by Euractiv.
I don’t understand what they are comparing, are they literally comparing every single feature of a trillion dollar software corporation like for like? as in are they wanting one giant like for like quick swap from office365 to like, libreoffice365? or are they saying the core features they need cannot be provided at all by european companies?
And if this is the case, where does this leave Nextcloud?
This is bitterly disappointing, alongside STILL not having a single EU capital market
edit: nextcloud posted about this but didn’t say anything
https://mastodon.xyz/@nextcloud/113859979024577130
edit: Jos Poortvliet the co-founder and Communications Director at Nextcloud responded: https://geekdom.social/@jospoortvliet/113866519934816580
They didn’t talk to us - this is effectively US lobbying being effective, stonewalling any attempt to look for alternatives by just convincing everyone that there’s nothing else so why bother. It’s obviously wrong, as even the EDPS has presented Nextcloud as great 365 alternative, but Big Tech has more lobbyists than we have employees, so we just can’t be everywhere…
I don’t see any mass migration to PT without the infra changes along with it, Brisbane doesn’t even have a cheap train to the airport and when I have to catch a train to the city for work my trip time doubles compared to my motorbike and I still have to use my car to get to the station… and that’s assuming I’m not 1 minute late and miss the train so then you have to add another 30 minute wait in :( … but at least we are getting some improvements with cross river rail.
At the moment the best bet that I can see to reduce co2 emissions is to encourage EV adoption because at least it is something familiar to people and until the infra changes required to make the place a ‘15 minute city’ come along it’s the best chance we have to reduce co2.
due to the extra weight of the battery.
They’re working on it:
SAIC-owned IM Motors currently offers its L6 saloon with a semi-solid-state battery – a halfway house to a full-solid-state battery that uses a more viscous, gel-like electrolyte than the liquid in a lithium ion cell.
This pack allows an extra 33kWh of battery capacity to be crammed into the same space as an equivalent lithium ion pack. That equates to a 28% improvement in the car’s range to a total of 621 miles (1000KM), according to Chinese homologation testing.
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/technology/solid-state-battery-round-2025-be-decisive-year
At 1000KM of range we are already within the space of 10 years of EV’s hitting the mainstream reaching beyond what petrol cars can do which will allow for smaller batteries that are lighter for cars, and that’s with a semi-solid state battery, not a full one!
In addition to the weight reduction they’re also working on reducing the amount of critical minerals in batteries and reducing the chance of fire and increasing the range and improving the charge times.
Yep those OG passively/air cooled batteries really have done a dent in the reputation for battery lifespan, hopefully over the next 10 years as more people understand that we’ve been on actively/water cooled batteries for like 10 years now that the lifespan degradation is much slower
7 year old EV with just 24KM range loss
EV’s have come a long way in a very short time, just like how big of an impact solar is having some people haven’t kept up
You’re going to love the Yangwang!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangwang
I get the feeling the Chinese don’t particularly care to westernise their brand names anymore …
I get what you’re saying, but by the same logic, anything that encourages adoption of EVs (or continued use of petrol/diesel vehicles) is bad because it ultimately encourages less people to just use PT
I’m not necessarily encouraging adoption of EV’s but I’m definitely against making petrol cars cheaper to run… although I do argue for far cheaper electricity rates which will increase EV adoption and ultimately reduce co2 which is my ultimate goal
I’m also not 100% sure encouraging people to use PT has any effect, people use cars because they allow you to go to anywhere you want at any time of the day or night or public holidays or unions in sydney striking etc right from your front door, PT cannot compete with this especially in Australia where everything is so far apart
You can encourage it but I think there are limits on how far it can go without changing our cities completely around and by that point there’s not much need to encourage, people will give up their cars ev or ice willingly
It reduces co2 output and for me that’s the most important thing at the moment especially here in Australia where everything is built around cars
For me anything that helps out petrol car drivers is bad as it inadvertently encourages less people to move to EV’s
but good for people who still drive petrol drinkers
this is the just nuke the middle east of the left
‘just ban X’ not realising that people really like X and will vote in someone to unban it, we had it here in Australia with the carbon tax
speedos (us slang for man’s bikini bottom
Both of those are allowed, what’s not allowed is gstrings which is for both of the genders
“Thongs and G-string swimwear is not acceptable for males or females when visiting our leisure centres."
Yeah he got sporked
you say that like if 20 million people body shamed julia gillard it wouldn’t be the guardians top story of the year, biggest outrage and constantly reinforced under every article about sexism and double standards since then
was anyone bringing in bylaws to prevent men wearing them?
I duno, was there any demand for one? Is a shirtless guy wearing underwear equivalent to young girls running around near nude?
I duno why i’m even here, i never even go on the beach
edit: it looks like they are both banned anyway
“Thongs and G-string swimwear is not acceptable for males or females when visiting our leisure centres."
Australia had a long history of policing women’s bodies
Blue Mountains Leisure Centres is saying that men can’t wear them either?? How did this go from men and women can’t wear this to just women are impacted?
a once off promotional event which was done expressly for absurdity sake vs thousands of men genuinely wearing it as a swimsuit every week I think would get a different reaction
if your reaction to tony abbott was bad i don’t even want to think what the reaction would be like if women went down to the beach and saw hundreds of men in mankinis
but that passed without fucking comment
you gotta be kidding me?
you say it like nobody cared about tony abbott when it was the opposite, it was a huge raygun style meme at the time, it was an australia wide ‘please don’t’ and lasted for years and as you have kindly pointed out, still being brought up to this day
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/budgie-smuggler-abbott-unaustralian-of-year/rdeerx6kc
oMG DouBLe StAnDarDs
i think the opposite, if men start showing up in mankini’s with a ball or dick popping out every now and then will result in the quickest ban in history
I heard from a tow truck operator that he towed 40 teslas himself
Why was he towing them?
You make it sound like they were randomly failing and not involved in accidents etc
adelaide is mostly boring suburbia so gl with that one
source me, lived there for 30 years, will probably be your biggest culture shock coming from sydney, will need to get used to driving 50 in a 60, for everything
marching through the city
Why are you marching through the city?
Yeah odd they haven’t switched to bluesky or mastodon, wouldn’t be that much different from twitter