adavis

joined 2 years ago
[–] adavis@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

FYI there's a New York to Toronto train as a partnersg between Amtrak and VIA Rail Canada.

[–] adavis@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm curious what car charges at 1.3MW. Most I've heard of is closer to a quarter of that, and that's only for 20-80% before it drops back significantly because it generates significantly more heat gain the upper 20-30%

[–] adavis@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Pictures of me as a kid I look a lot like my Mum, you would have clocked us as siblings if given pictures of us at the same age without context.

Then testosterone kicked in.

[–] adavis@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If you're in Google Cloud, you should have data backed up in something other than Google cloud, this is no different to having all your data in a basement which could be hit by natural disasters, randomware etc.

Hopefully the Unisuper example provides a good enough example for IT professionals to argue for funding for external backups and that the cloud isn't a reason to not have them.

[–] adavis@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I have the same problem with shirts. If it fits across my chest it's too short, if it fits length wise it is baggy across chest and stomach.

Recently I found a brand that offers a extra long sizes. Eg if the sizes are Small, medium and large they offer small+, medium+, large+. The only difference is the cut is 5 cm longer.

[–] adavis@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

And other Chinese brands!. The MG4 is super popular in Australia too. Can get it for about $38k AUD ($25k USD).

Even if Tesla wasn't tarnished by association with Musk, they have absolutely nothing at the budget end of the market. ie for buyers that traditionally bought corollas, little Mazdas and Hyundai's.

And BYD has the whole range, if I want a luxury sedan the BYD Seal goes toe to toe with the model 3.

I think China is going to eat everyone's lunch here in the same way Japan did in the 70s/80s, and Korea went in even cheaper in the 90s and 00s (how many Hyundai Excels/Accents were there in Australia in late 90s early 00s).

[–] adavis@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The PS5 SKUs with a disk drive are staying the same.

What SKU still has a disk drive? I thought both the slim and pro were optical disk-less?

[–] adavis@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Chinese brands are dominating the Australian EV market. BYD has a multiple compelling options, MG with their MG4.

If my car was written off tomorrow I'd be test driving a BYD.

I'm not even aware of any American EV here despite a recently strong presence in the yank tank market (eg Ford ranger).

[–] adavis@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I always thought you at it like an Apple like then Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott did not just once, but two occasions. One example

And this man is the pinnacle of manliness

[–] adavis@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't think that's a fair categorisations. I believe that is only for selling steam keys elsewhere.

Steam allows publishers to generate steam keys for their games at no cost. The publisher can then sell those keys elsewhere. The only requirement is the keys not be sold for less than the price charged on steam. ie if the publisher can sell the key on any other platform and valve gets $0.

Expecting valve to distribute your game and provide access to their steam works features for free while allowing a publisher to undercut them would be insanity.

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys

Steam Keys are single-use, unique, alphanumeric codes that customers can activate on Steam to add a product license to their account. Steam Keys are a free service we provide to developers as a convenient tool to help you sell your game on other stores and at retail, or provide for free for beta testers or press/influencers. Steam keys are a free service, so we ask you to use good judgment and follow basic guidelines and rules around requesting and selling them.

[–] adavis@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Web apps.

For reference I work for a competing mail provider and the majority of our users don't use SMTP or IMAP, instead exclusively using the web app.

[–] adavis@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I think "long covid" is something that has existed for a long time, well not long covid specifically but long term side effects of colds and flu.

A few years before covid I got a terrible cold or flu. Name a symptom of the flu and I probably had it, it was hard to even get myself to the toilet.

But what was so unique is even after the aches, the cough, and sore throat etc symptoms disappeared I didn't recover. I was exhausted. Even weeks later I'd fluctuate between days of being fine to the next barely able to get out of bed.

It took at least 3 months after traditional flu symptoms had finished till that started to taper off. And at least another 3 before I started feeling truly myself again.

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