Stores? Ooh look!
Weird that Brisbane and Perth (two of the hottest/sunniest cities in the country) don’t get a store. I wonder whether we did have stores and they went out of business? Seems like a weird omission otherwise.

What would be the point? Reddit doesn’t make any content. They’re just a platform. If they go ahead and paywall subs, those subs are going to have a tiny potential subscriber base. Therefore, they will be less attractive to post to (smaller audience, fewer upvotes etc).

About the only place I can maybe see it working is AskHistorians. And you pay the Historians to answer the questions. Which would of course reduce the amount Reddit takes from the paywall. Doesn’t seem worth it, to me.

Even then, I think the Historians would rather reply in a new free sub with wider readership than take $20 for putting in three hours of work responding to something. They do it because they’re passionate. Not for money.

This works for us:
Step one: Keep your instance civil. No tolerance for horrible people (racists/bigots etc).
Step two: Maintain a vibrant local set of communities free from nastiness.
Step three: Let your users engage with the noise of the fediverse as much or as little as they desire.

We don’t bother with telling our users who or what they can access, and don’t immediately ban visitors based on their home instance. Will that scale to millions of users? Probably not. But that’s a problem for future Nath - maybe.

The biggest problem I see with this is the scenario where calls are recorded. They’re recorded in case we hit a “he said, she said” scenario. If some issue were to be escalated as far as a courtroom, the value of the recording to the business is greatly diminished.

Even if the words the call agent gets are 100% verbatim, a lawyer can easily argue that a significant percentage of the message is in tone of voice. If that’s lost and the agent misses a nuance of the customer’s intent, they’ll have a solid case against the business.

I did phones in a different century, so I don’t know whether this would fly today. But, my go-to for someone like this was “ok, I think I see the problem here. Shall we go ahead and fix it or do you need to do more yelling first?”

I can’t remember that line ever not shutting them down instantly. I never took it personally, whatever they had going on they were never angry at me personally.

Then again, I do remember firing a couple of customers (“we don’t want your business any more etc”) after I later became a manager and people were abusive to staff. So you could be right, also.

There is nothing that I want to watch badly enough that I would put up with this behavior.

They have Egosoft and their X universe games. Epic sandbox galactic games. I love my X3 empires.

£1,212 is more like $1,500 US dollars. Which is nuts.

The author has a MacBook and has discovered that the new Apple Silicon is terrible for games. Particularly 32-bit games. It turns out Valve hasn’t re-made these 10-20 year old games to compensate for Apple’s hardware compatibility changes.

Somehow, that’s Valve’s fault and a sign that they’re going down the drain.

It isn’t a monopoly though. Even ignoring the Blizzards, Epics and GOGs of the web, any developer can host their game on their own Web site and market it completely independently of Steam and keep 100% of their takings.

The monopoly on storefront argument holds water in mobile land where side-loading a game is not possible/easy. In the world of computers though, I don’t think the same standard applies.

I actually love Civ IV, myself. I’m sure Leonard Nemoy is a huge part of why.

Tech is short-hand for technology.
So, technology companies and technology workers.

Gotta love those English settlers.
“We are going to have a park here, what shall we call it?”
“Hyde Park!”
“But, Hyde Park is in England.”
"Yes, but I can’t bring that one here, so let’s call this spot Hyde Park."

They did the same thing in Perth. There’s a Hyde Park here, also. Ours is also going to lose a fifth of its lovely trees in the near future.

There’s no secret to it. Cafes close because customers aren’t coming in. If the demand was there, Cafes would be open 24/7.

If you want a coffee after 3pm, several Pubs will serve you real coffee. If you wait until after 5pm, many restaurants will serve you coffee. If you want a coffee after about 10pm and the restaurants and decent pubs are closed, you can resort to Macca’s and 7-Eleven. Both will serve you coffee. It won’t be great, but it will be passable.

Pro Tip for WA: Dome is open until at least 5pm - sometimes even until 9pm. That’s right SMH, Perth is a “truly global city” because you can easily get a coffee after 3pm. :)

My parents bought one of the Commodores that were driving VIPs around the games. A Special Olympic edition Commodore. They sold that car over 10 years ago. In fact the car they replaced the Commodore with has also since been sold.

Love my Markus. It’s so much better than it has any right to be at that price point. It forces me to sit upright and have good posture.

That data is valuable, but I’m unconvinced that it belongs to Reddit. They didn’t create it.

I also don’t believe it should be free/legal for someone else to come along and take all that data off Reddit. While it was provided to Reddit by its creators, they haven’t consented for it to be used by another party.

How you go about stopping that, I have no idea. How you go about monetising Reddit, I’m not sure about that either. It isn’t by claiming you own everything though. Yes, you own the platform. But not the people, nor what they post. And those are the things that attract visitors.

Choice recommends the Sennheiser HD range (HD 300, HD560S & HD 599). The 560S won out with quality of sound and bang-for-buck.

Their Headphones study actually surprised me, I rock a pair of Jabra Elite Active 3’s as my daily, and Choice really hated the sound quality. I’m obviously no audiophile, as I love my Jabras. They also didn’t love the Sony wh-1000xm range, which was the biggest surprise as they’re by far the most popular headphones I see among my colleagues.

What sort of headphones are you looking for? Over-ear? Buds? Bluetooth? Bone Conducting?

Australia has Choice. It is funded and independent by being a paid/subscriber service, though being a member is not expensive. Choice is pretty well-known, as when a product wins a recommendation it is prestigious. Therefore, the manufacturers will proudly put a Choice logo on their ads to assure consumers that their product is good.

I can’t see Choice going away, as it’s a very good service and by far the most trusted source for unbiased reviews in Australia.