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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Baku@aussie.zone to c/melbourne@aussie.zone
 
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[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The whole world is fucked.

A few bushfires, hailstorms and flooding is fine. We’re getting off lightly.

[–] Baku@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago
[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What app is that? The UI design looks really inconsistent. Also a lack of padding, rounded corners, and weirdly sized buttons.

[–] Baku@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the link. It's weird they don't just use material you.

[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

The map they use is actually quite accurate. We had to send the boss to do an emergency delivery to a customer and their address wasn’t coming up in Apple Maps, Google Maps or even OSM. It was in VicEmergency though…

[–] Aradina@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Boy it sure is

[–] Baku@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago

State's more fucked now

[–] eatham@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Like an hour ago it was 35⁰C and hailing. Our weather is fucked up

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Apple weather app went from the permanent “Sheep Grazier Warning” to “Fire Weather”. Raining fire? Where have I moved to?

[–] Brickhead92@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You know how the song goes,

"Four horsemen in one day"

[–] Treczoks@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So there is storm, thunderstorms, fires, burn ban, yes? But what are the icons at Traralgon and Vodonga(?)?

[–] Baku@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Traralgon: building damage

Wodonga: Tree down

[–] Treczoks@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Oh, that's supposed to be a tree!. I was wrecking my brains what this icon could be. Thanks!

[–] Fashtas@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are just warning you about the existence of Taralgon and Vondonga

[–] Fashtas@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

I would have been faster on that joke the generator ran out of petrol last night and but power, mobile and internet only just came back

[–] Auzy@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

And some of the coal power plants were offline too, so anyone saying "good old reliable coal", well, it is not lol

Really looking forward to seeing more microgrid stuff maybe with batteries to stabilise the grid too

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think we're going to see a lot more done on the demand management side, too.

As we get more electric cars on the grid, that's a ton of demand that you can just turn off for a while and nobody would notice or care.

[–] Auzy@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Absolutely..

Actually, my friends power AND Gas is offline still at the moment.. Which goes to show that Electric really is the way forward regardless,

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

NSW is looking pretty chill though, lets all move up there :D