Are you paid by the NRA or are you just being a dumbarse cockhead NRA schill for free?

Debian is a great foundation for any distribution.

That said, Debian is perfectly fine to use as a daily driver. Besides RedHat, it has had the most stable longevity of any distribution.

I work in automotive.

My livelihood depends on people crashing their cars because they are idiots.

People not servicing their cars is also a great money spinner because parts sales lost to missed services are made up by parts sales from breakdowns due to lack or servicing.

I wish people would service their cars regularly, drive safely and not be idiots.

ADAS is also zero-sum because drivers with ADAS are more complainant and just as likely to crash. ADAS just creates more idiotic idiots. (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems).

I work in Automotive because I didn’t want to work in Tech anymore.

Scammers? Yes. Not part of the program? No.

Just like the Solar Panel Scheme, LED Scheme and Insulation Scheme before them, I am confident that there are opportunistic companies rorting the system with barely adequate product and unqualified labour.

Just like the serving politicians running the NDIS scam.

At least the Spam phone calls will stop…

The overhaul needs to include an audit of the companies making claims.

If they engaged in unsolicited phone calls to people on the Do Not Call list, they should have the subsidies repatriated back into the program.

Sounds like Aussie.zone is the largest platform that has any sort of verification. Thankyou [email protected]

“Lower entry costs” …“without the appropriate understanding”.

They need to be fined for inappropriate content to increase entry costs.

This will make advertising firms valuable again for accountablilty.

I do email vetting on my phone as well, just deleting stuff I don’t want and leaving other stuff as unread.

Yeah, new interface for mail in iOS is terrible too, muscle memory is shot.

Thank goodness Alan Dye quit Apple. Hopefully Apple will roll back some of the changes in iOS26. Expect Facebook’s UI to get much much worse.

63 year old male driver in an Alfa Romeo.

The same advertising agencies funding the anti-Pylon and anti-Wind farm Astroturf Campaigns run pro-fracking campaigns.

Without water for cooling, these data centres will overheat and be forced to shutdown.

While I don’t condone EcoTerrorism, it would be advantageous to society as a whole if this happened.

Great idea. Adding Lemmy and Mastodon to my 4-digit Slashdot.org profile now.

Edit. Done, sort off.

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/12/09/2112230/millions-of-australian-teens-lose-access-to-social-media-as-ban-takes-effect

I grew up in Melbourne.

Was this some sort of Police Corruption or Bielke-Peterson reference?

I’m all about the Salt and Loneliness and even I would avoid Tinned Soup (except in a post-apocalyptic scenario and then I would allow the children to eat first).

You have to wonder if real people are really that stupid of if the “Facebook mums” are LLM generated Dross.

The (former) CEO was busted trashing their own product. When a Whistleblower published the content, they were fired. When the media got hold of the content, the CEO was fires and the whistleblower was re-employed.

One of the comments by the CEO was that their product was for “poor people”.

So that explains why MenuLog closed down. “If we are expected to actually pay people to work, our business model is not sustainable”.

I do agree that they are very close; maybe I’m an Apple apologist, but I put ICEBlocker in the same class as Tea. They both claimed to be to protect their target audience; Tea was exposed as having been Vibe Coded by someone who knew SFA about user data security and ICEBlocker had a huge honeypot of user data that the government would love to subpoena.

That is exactly right. But the demographic of Pixel owners likely to install GrapheneOS (or Sailfish or Ubuntu Touch or whatever) and the demographic of GrapheneOS users likely to buy a Pixel probably has a fair overlap.

Long-term support is never something that Normies (that don’t want iPhones) contemplate. They would rather buy the cheapest phone; they don’t see the value in a software vendor supported phone. That is why Samsung is more of a household name than Pixel.

Google have also shown that their long-term support is pointless when they pivot and implement their own version of Apples “walled garden” on the Play Store and the Android ecosystem.

Their implied guarantee of openness is just as facetious as Apples implied guarantee of privacy.