I love ice cream, and a 1l or 2l tub is lucky to make it past 2 days.

But I struggled with my last tub. It’s the first time I can remember that I went ‘Nah, I don’t want any. It’ll be too cold and just unpleasant’. I could only bring myself to eat it at lunchtime.

And now I’ve actually stood in front of the fridge at the supermarket and gone ‘Brrrr, no I’m not buying that. It’ll be cold’.

Somebody help me. I’m now literally softer than ice cream sitting in the sun on a summer’s day 😢

I can’t help feeling kinda sorry for most reality tv contestants now.

The latest one that really got to me was Alone. I watched a couple of different countries versions. It basically is leaving people in the middle of nowhere until they have a mental breakdown. I bailed out part way through a season. I just couldn’t watch any more, it was so depressing.

To want to be on any of these reality shows, I just keep feeling bad for them.

Told them where the water pipes were. They used some sort of pipe finder to confirm.

Then, of course, they put the conduit drill straight through the water pipe under the concreted driveway. Turned off all the water and disappeared to Bunnings -allegedly- for hours. Cut up the driveway to get to the pipe to fix it. It still looks like shit. And is sinking…,

Next week, the guy to do the internal cabling shows up. Everything is too hard for him to do properly. So he drills a hole in the eaves, runs the cable through the roof, then a hole in the ceiling and drops the cable down the wall. No covering inside or out, just a black cable running up and down walls. And here was I stupidly thinking it would just be a nice faceplate on the wall inside.

I’ve never seen such a shitshow.

I’d like to thank all the friendly, helpful people I’ve met, apologise for any steamy hot takes, and of course thank the mods for keeping us under control, and Lodion for standing up a place aussies can call home.

Honestly, I’d like to see more of the same, but with a growing user base. This place, and lemmy in general, deserves more eyes. Of course, that also brings risks and costs, but for discussion based communities, you need a ‘critical mass’

I remember reading a while ago that with medical and technical advances over the next 50 years, they reckoned that some people born now will be able to effectively live forever, eg replacing or regenerating body parts, cure cancer etc etc

I’d need to think for a while about if you could, would you want to live forever? I vaguely remember a sci fi short story that had this question as part one of it’s themes.

I had an old account that I hadn’t used for years in the Optus one.

Of course, it turns out they gave that information away to the hackers too.

I have an account with these clowns. Unique password of course.

Thanks password managers! 😘

This is the best summary I could come up with:

• Wealth will continue to concentrate.

• Young people are fucked.

As long as 45% of our federal lawmakers are investment property owners WHAT THE FUCK DO WE EXPECT WILL HAPPEN ??

No,no,no,no! You’ve all got it wrong! You’re all looking at it from entirely the wrong objective!

It’s a GREAT policy for property investors which will boost capital growth and provide excellent short term returns!

It’s a lot messier than most think.

ABC article

McBride’s intention was not to leak to expose war crimes, it was to show how troops were being unnecessarily hounded by legal etc , ie ‘over-zealous” investigations of special forces’

The ABC discovered war crimes in the leaks and went down that path.

Now McBride looks like the hero being victimised for exposing the war crimes.

Luckily, in the article, the caption underneath the pictures told me which one was actually a photo of Gina, otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to tell…

Sometimes I just have to shake my head.

It’s like they don’t know how babies are made…or what having a child actually requires…

Sometimes it seems to be announced about the same as “Oh, and we’re getting a new puppy!”

Sometimes I don’t even know if I should say “Congratulations!” or not…

Her eyes are so big, I seriously wondered if it was a cgi/ai character at times…

Also, Walton Goggins is so good. Just started rewatching Vice Principals 🤣

Ok, enough with all the stabbing.

If anyone feels even a little bit stabby, go get some help.

I was a backer of strong laws, up until the rugby case study, or fiasco. Now I think it doesn’t matter.

Rugby was popular, and not covered under anti-siphoning rules. Fox paid millions, and put it behind their paywall.

Now, after several years, nobody gives a shit about rugby, the Fruit & Nut Wallabies are a joke, and rugby has reversed course and now has games on FTA.

Other sports have taken note.

We have such a small population (market size) with so many sports (products) that making it only available via pay to watch is a very dangerous game (price sensitive).

Let’s say a picture of you or I was used for scam ads.

What do you reckon the chances would be of the cops or Commonwealth prosecutors ever giving a shit about it and even initially starting a case against a corporate giant like Meta?

Yet, they did it for Twiggy. Even though it was a waste of money and time.

Now, I guess,.he gets to use all that and start a private lawsuit. Which you or I could never afford against Meta…

Only the rich are allowed to avoid tax.

Oops, I mean minimise tax.

Oh, you mean like Telstra VoLTE compatible devices? Where only devices sold by Telstra are officially supported?

“If you didn’t buy your device from Telstra, you’ll need to get technical assistance to see if you can enable VoLTE on your compatible device”.

My last whinge on this topic.

In the Android world, you could improve security and effectively extend the life of the phone by installing a 3rd party ROM, eg LineageOS. Depending on the community and skills of interested developers, this could continue being updated and even included upgrades to new Android versions with new features for years after the manufacturer abandoned it.

But some phones have proprietary implementations for VoLTE and VoWiFi. Eg on my Samsung phone,.which will soon stop receiving Samsung updates, everything on any AOSP based ROM works except VoLTE and VoWiFi.

So, this effectively makes these 3rd party OS’s useless. You won’t be able to take or make calls.

I’m not happy about that, and make make sure my next phone purchase will have VoLTE etc available on AOSP

The other thing that pisses me off about 5G is that the higher speeds are only over very short distances. So unless you’re close to a tower or they start rolling out a heap more towers, most people won’t get any benefit over 4g

I know where I live, and where the tower is, I can’t get 5g.

I find it even funnier when some providers offer 5g plans capped at 100mbps, which is the same speed as their 4g plans

And don’t forget 5g uses more battery than 4g, so unless you need the speed, turn it off and just use 4g.

I’ve got no use for 5g unless I was going to use it instead of NBN. And it doesn’t beat fiber or HFC as far as I can tell… either in price or performance.