The stupid attempt to have everyone leave bluetooth always on pisses me off. They’ve made the BT quick tile 2 more presses to toggle on or off is ridiculous. It’s not a quick tile.

I’ve just put a BT on/off widget on my home screen.

anything not Google or Samsung is, as it’s always been, software support.

Motorola.has 5 years on most of its new phones nowadays

I had a similar moment of clarity after troubles with Manjaro and a couple other Arch based distros.

I really like the idea of a rolling release, but definitely nedd stability first.

I swung back the other way, and jumped on Ubuntu LTS. And gradually over time I ended up having to get updates from external repos etc, and ended up in the same position where updates broke things or didn’t work.

Currently running Ubuntu, and I just do an upgrade to the latest release each 6 months - after waiting a month after release date for everything to settle down. The upgrades to new releases have gone smoothly, I get updates to newer versions of software, and it’s been very rare anything breaks. Being a popular distro also means a big community to help with any issues as well.

Dammit, it’s like I just wrote an ad for Ubuntu!

Japan must be so jealous…

Fly in from the Golden Triangle. With a boogie board.

The Sydney weekly threads are a bit like the Sydney Trains. Sometimes doesn’t show up for a while, but we all love them and need them.

I.asked grok to extract some it’s code to use:

if text contains ('elon' or 'hitler') then
replace 'bad' with 'good'
endif

Gonna have to empty the rubbish bins to make room for more busted umbrellas 🤣

BigW toy sale!

I’ve got my eye on an expensive (for me) electronic gadget that I probably don’t really need, but that’s hanging on the Amazon Prime Day sales which are apparently July 8 to July 14, 2025.

Happy EOFY!

Also, weather could be wild tomorrow/Wed. Be careful out there.

Can you show an example of one from 3 years ago?

Because my experience was that most ROMs were based on AOSP/ LineageOS , which supports very few Samsung phones, and no flagships since the 2018 S10.

And even of those, many didn’t support IMS/VoLTE/VoWiFi which made them useless in any geos that didn’t have 3G fallback for voice. You can’t make or receive phone calls.

You will need to add on the price for a new battery replacement on a 3 year old Sammy lol

Pray I do not double them again. And again, and again…

Literally, ads infinitum

Oh no! You can’t be leaving the Sydney community!

Anyways, hope it all goes smoothly and you love it.

Brrrrrr! It’s cold. And the wind gusts nearly wrecked my brolly!

Yeah, but will the trains and metro actually be running? 😆

It always made me laugh how many escooters I already see around the local suburbs. Though, apparently they were/are illegal.

Seem like a good,.portable transportation option that can help with the ‘last mile’ problem.

Dammit! I just replaced my tyres the week before!

Coulda got a free set!

Respect to SBS for playing 24 hours straight of the 5th Element on 5/5/25.

Not appreciative of the references to ‘multi-bet’.

A movie that is set both in our future, and in our past with the betting references…

Tyre retailers licking their lips