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But that Spectrum being used for 3G is beneficial. Not just for support of older devices but also increased, redundant coverage.

This purely Corporate Welfare legislation, which is going to backfire on the corporations when they realise they have to build more infrastructure to provide the same coverage.

It is going to be detrimental to product consumers because they won’t have the same amount of coverage. Also, the higher bandwidth of 5G is going to increase backhaul requirements which mean that the person calling 000 using VoLTE will need to compete with the person steaming 4K Netflix while playing CoD.

The only winners in the long-term will be the advertisers and data miners, who somehow manage to bloat a 4kB website to 40mB.

A lot of not-that-old computers don’t meet the system requirements for Windows 11.

And by “not-that-old” I mean serves the limited purpose it was built for 8 years ago and is still working perfectly fine.

Hardware is lasting longer, users are less demanding.

OK Looks like my little MS Surface is going to be running Linux.

It was the Telecom Oligarchs that kept the speed and infrastructure limited.

I really wish that Telstra had not been accepted into the NBN; In my alternate history, FTTH would have been rolled out in parallel to all existing corroded copper. The problem with my alternate timeline is that Telstra would try to push fixed 4G and 5G as their only option and oversaturated the MobileNet infrastructure… wait they are doing that anyway!

Some imported dual-cab utes struggle with the kerbs of drive throughs.

Most of the arseholes who are arseholes on the Internet are arseholes I’m real life too.

People who chat at the grocery store, or wish you a good day when you are waking in the street are also usually people who are friendly and helpful on the Internet too.

People who get angry because someone else has the gumption to share a road with them are also the kind of people who abuse other Internet users because they share a server in an online game, social network or forum with them. They are also the type of people who get angry queuing at the supermarket and abuse retail workers.

It depends on the Jurisdiction.

IANAL, but in Australia, the Driver is responsible if any passengers are not wearing their seatbelt.

That’s fine. The landlords still have the power to increase rent to astronomical levels in order for force unwanted tenants out.

If you can’t evict them, you can make it so they can’t afford to live there.

Different people lost different things during the Pandemic.

Some lost their independence and freedom. Some lost their social ties. Some lost their innocence and ignorance.

They were the lucky ones.

Lots more people lost their lives and quite a few still haven’t realised that they have lost their good health.

I am looking forward to seeing who the 61% of Victorians who successful mailed in their local elections ballot voted for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ-_9eEkW9g

Once again Garn hit the nail on the head.

Some industries are weekend industries; for Hospitality, Retail and Tourism, Saturday and Sunday are the equivalent of Monday and Tuesday for the 9-5 crowd.

That said, Monday and Tuesday are usually the Saturday and Sunday for these workers. Us “Normies” don’t usually particle in fine dining, clubbing or tourist traps on Monday and Tuesdays.

You are right though, Retail and Hospitality workers do need to get better unions so they can get paid a living wage and aren’t being forced to work 7 days a week for 12 hour shifts.

We have preferential voting for a reason (except for literal Nazis), the major parties should always be last on everyone’s ballot.

It should be;

1. Someone I agree with
2. Someone I agree with on a lot of issues but not quite everything.
3. ditto
4. ditto
5. Greens, unless the candidate is a complete hippy fucktard that doesn’t know how economics works.
6. Shit Lite party
7. Shit party.
8. Yellow Shitstain
9. Literal Nazis.

We have a HiSense 60” and have never connected it to any network. It works perfectly as a Dumb Monitor with multiple HDMI inputs and HDCP and HDMI-CEC work perfectly with our AppleTV (HDMI 1) and PS5 (HDMI2) We have TOSLink Optical Audio to an Amp(receiver) and it works almost perfectly, until the Amp chucks a hissy-fit because people forget to turn it off.

“We are price gouging customers, we are ripping off suppliers and we are making our customers feel like criminals. What else can we do it pure evil?”

Considering that Grill’d claim to help community groups with donations, this is very hypocritical. They can help and homeless by paying their employees a living wage.

Maybe the RAFFWU needs to apply to be recipients of “Local Matters”

https://raffwu.org.au/

This is terrible.

Aluminium cans should have gone in the recycling! ♻️

You’re thinking of a LandCruiser

https://youtu.be/IBIRnrTItGo?si=J7lL8lJWu784TOCP

Landrovers aren’t quite as amphibious.

https://youtu.be/BDfF3UJZvaY?si=FYndfTP8CokV9jiY

Consumer phones in regional areas are still an issue. As @baku said, 3G has better range than 4G (which has better range than 5G). If someone in the middle of the bush, or on a country road needs to use their 5G phone, they may not have coverage.

I have a friend that had to drive 10km with a cracked skull, ribs and broken arm and leg because he didn’t have coverage on his farm. He now has 3G coverage, but not 4G.