If Joe’s Emporium of Essentials opened tomorrow with the same range as Colesworth, but cheaper prices, watch that “loyalty” disappear overnight. The duopoly have reached a comfortable equilibrium and know that so long as they remain cheaper than IGA, they’re good to extort us.
I’m probably showing my age/nerdiness. The old school adage is RTFM, referring to reading the manual. In ye-olden newsgroup days, it was a common response to someone asking a (dumb) question that was covered in the manual page for the thing.
RTFA was a common adaptation on Slashdot and the early days of Reddit when people read a headline and started wading into discussions. Somewhere along the way, that behavior was normalised and I guess the term has fallen out of use.
I love the thought experiment of it, and I’m 100% the target demographic for such a place. But I’ve never seen it in action and I struggle to imagine it.
I would think nothing of walking a mile. I cycle most of the time, but the train station is 1km away and I never hesitate to walk to it.
Despite being happy to walk and ride most of the time, I can’t quite imagine going 100% car-less. I think I’d need to live in such a city for a while to let go of the car entirely.
I got home after a graveyard shift one time many years ago and had a minor existential crisis because I truly didn’t remember the drive home. I read a couple of years ago that this phenomenon has a name: Highway Hypnosis. In theory, I shouldn’t have been fatigued that day, but that’s also a plausible explanation.
It truly doesn’t matter. An automated task would be out by a few seconds occasionally anyway.
If you are interested in playing with it, brisbot’s code is here.
I’m on holidays. 🎄
Feels good. Now to scramble for the remaining presents.
I have spent a lot of time on Victorian roads, both as a cyclist and as a driver. I’m with the Victorian police: Victorian drivers be crazy.
Best evidence I have to back this up is that my car insurance premiums dropped by $800 when I moved from Victoria to WA. The insurance companies think you are far more likely to claim in Victoria than you are in WA.
In Victoria at least (not sure about WA), air cons not working are considered urgent repairs.
It’s very likely the same in WA; I haven’t looked into it. Which I regret now, as the landlady took ages (over a year) to approve an Aircon repair in our old house.
This topic sort-of skirts around the issue of solar panels in WA. They’re very common among home owners, but rare among renters. You can almost tell whether a house is owned or rented here by looking at solar panels in the street. Landlords have zero incentive to install them, because they cost a decent amount and don’t change the amount in rent by very much and then they’re on the hook for repairs/maintenance of them.
Well, they actually do though. We just had our Landlord pay to service our aircon this week because it wasn’t cooling. Given what we pay in rent though, I have zero qualms about making sure the stuff in the place works as agreed.
I gripe about how much we pay fairly regularly, but I will concede that our landlord does actually approve the maintenance stuff we raise. Gotta be fair to the guy.
I hereby dub thee “Eureka - Moderator of the World news!”
I’m open to the idea of renaming the Community. There’s no Admin tool to do that, but I expect that a couple of edits to the database will permit it to happen. I feel like we need a flow chart for this: Do we rename the community?
If yes, Rename would be preferred to abandoning it and leaving over a year of posts behind. So I’ll want to spin up a test community/rename it in the database before trying that approach on World News.
That’s a problem for future Nath - and only if we go ahead and rename the Community.
The way my project manager was talking yesterday, I may be in a minority planning on getting stuff done today. She has mostly written today off in her timeline calculations.
Ok Hugh & Eddie, it’s time for you to take it away again: One Day More!
I mean, what’s the alternative here? I’m all about renewables for power generation but we can’t solar, wind or hydro our way to steel. We either stop building stuff, or we continue to use coal for that.
The four mines will target mostly coal to be used for steelmaking with some thermal coal for burning in power stations.
I’m very interested in the specifics of how the word “some” is employed here.
10%? Ok.
90%? Not ok.
It’s more typical for people to “ghost”. I don’t think in those case there is any particular decision, they just stop checking in.
You’ll likely find the most common reason people leave is they’ve shared too much of themselves and someone either recognises them or they worry someone will. Some people start new user accounts and keep going. Some people will switch to a different instance. We aren’t a particularly attractive instance if you want to engage with a lot of lemmy.world communities, for instance. There’s a lag for when you’ll see their content until they upgrade their Lemmy version.
I’m mentally calculating the “Hours left” for 2024 and the “Hours of work” to do in my head. I’m not going to get it all done. I’m left trying to decide who I have to let down.
For all the stupid technology added to cars over the past 20 years, it’s easy to forget that there has been some awesome tech added as well.
Confirmed. 3am (Perth time) Lemmy restart to negate the memory leaks. Not sure whether that’s still needed after the software update a couple of months back.
I just read this morning that WA is introducing knife laws like Queensland. They studied Queensland to research the laws.
I’m ok with what they’ve come up with. While I’ve carried pocket knives or a Leatherman for work, I’ve never carried them into the entertainment areas where all the pubs/clubs are. And if you are working in those areas, you will still be permitted to carry your knife.
It’s a compromise between just banning knives and stopping people taking them out on the town where they will be tempted to bring them out in an altercation.
So, there’s a bug with the graphics drivers at work, where if the 4K displays go to sleep, all the windows are on the primary display when I get back to the computer. It’s super annoying, but nothing worked to stop it.
In the end, I bought a little gadget that stops the display from going to sleep. It is a small USB device that moves the mouse 1 pixel every 10 seconds. While it solved my problem, it is designed for your exact use case: https://amzn.asia/d/cyeA6qH
It presents as a USB mouse to the computer, doesn’t need any software. It keeps you “available” all day. Just thought you might like to know it exists. 😉