ms.lane

“When you preorder a game you’re just committing to buying something some assholes in California haven’t even finished working on yet”

Zenimax?

I thought TESO was actually rather profitable?

Bring back Peter Moore.

12 disks go to sleep after 60 min of inactivity

That will kill your drives far sooner than a temperature spike. load/unload cycles is one of the biggest HDD killers.

Google did some research on this way back when. Failure rates start going up at an average temperature of 35 °C and become significantly higher if the HDD is operated beyond 40°C for much of its life. That’s HDD temperature, not ambient.

On the contrary, they found that temperature had almost no bearing on failure rate.

https://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/archive/disk_failures.pdf

My fileserver regularly ‘enjoys’ 45-50c during the day when I’m not home in summer.

Aircon isn’t cheap to run, so everythings getting fried while I’m at work (getting fried since we don’t have AC at work)

*Used to get free healthcare.

Dunno how it is where you are, but bulk billing GPs just don’t exist anymore in SA.

They’d have to have free healthcare in the first place…

because the intermission tracks frankly suck for the most part, and are just straight-line roads.

It almost feels like Nintendo are punishing the old meta of high acceleration/very nimble but no speed, using drifting and boosts to keep up speed.

At least from my experience the ‘random’ choice now just chooses from one of the three available choices, rather than the full list.

You don’t want to parry bullets, roll and ask for forgiveness from Zapruder?

mstream just uses folders, so you can organise however you want.

Apps for Android and iOS, webui for everything else. Does basic (single setting for whole server) transcoding if you wish (I don’t for mp3/m4a/ogg sets, I have them on a second server instance, mstream is very light)

aussieadsb.com for Australia

all the big sites censor emergency services.

It’s a bit of a sticking point in Australia which is becoming more and more of a ‘two-speed’ society. Foxtel is for the rich classes, it caters to the right wing. Sky News is on Foxtel.

These eSafety directives killing access to youtube won’t affect those rich kids so much, but for everyone else it’s going to be a nightmare.

My only possible hope out of this is that maybe, Parliament and ACMA (Australian Communications and Media Authority, TV standards) decide that since we need a greater media landscape for kids and they can’t be allowed to have it online, that maybe more than 3 major broadcasters could be allowed.

It’s not a lack of will that stops anyone else making a new free-to-air network, it’s legislation, there are only allowed to be 3 commercial FTA broadcasters in any area.

I don’t love Youtube or the kids watching it, it’s that the alternatives are almost objectively worse. 10 and 7 and garbage 24/7 and 9 is basically a right-wing hugbox too.

‘Cable TV’ (ie. Foxtel, Newscorpse’s own) is extremely expensive and only the very wealthy get it.

The vast majority of Australian households have Free-to-Air only. Which is the 3 major commercial networks (7- SevenWest Media, 9 -Fairfax and 10 -CBS/Paramount), ABC (State owned broadcaster) and SBS (semi-state owned, allowed to run advertisements, caters to foreign language broadcasting)

South Australia it depends on the Award (like a default contract for a particular kind of work, it sets minimum conditions)

But at a bare minimum, if you’re working at a shift of 4 hours or more, you’re required to be given a 15 minute paid tea break.

If you’re working 5 hours or more, Add a 30 minute unpaid lunch/dinner break.(*minimum, 1 hour max if scheduled - max as otherwise it’s really just split shifts)

ABC Kids is great if you’ve only got kids under 5.

It just stays on all day, it’s generally all good content (except the petulant Peppa Pig)

But if you’ve got kids a bit older than that - your options are none and none. ABC really doesn’t do programming for schoolage and teenage kids anymore.

Right now for example - 5:54PM Adelaide Time, we’ve got Kangaroo Beach followed by Octonauts on ABC Kids, great for the under 5s.

But the rest of the channels of ABC are… Antiques Roadshow and ABC News… There is programming for under 5s and over 60s. Nothing inbetween.

CIA plant wants Australian children to only watch broadcast television and not access the internet until they’re 16.

No Youtube, No Netflix, No Fortnite - Broadcast TV only.

What happened to Everywhere?

I thought MindsEye was supposed to be a ‘demo’/example game within the building tools of Everywhere?

Imagine how much potassium they could export with direct access to the GZ Ocean?

Edit: And Russia would have warm water ports! Ukraine War averted!