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[–] dan@upvote.au 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Yeah Australia still hasn't quite caught up to the internet speeds some other countries had 15 years ago. It's kinda sad. I'm still sad the original (good) NBN got replaced by the janky NBN that's taken years to fix.

The other weird thing in Australia is that even the expensive fibre plans are asymmetric. Most countries that have fibre have a 1Gbps symmetric plan (meaning upload and download are both 1Gbps) whereas the 1Gbps NBN plan has a ridiculously low ~50Mbps upload speed.

I moved from Australia to the USA in 2013. Back then, I had ~9Mbps ADSL2+ in Australia, compared to 600Mbps in the USA. Huge difference. Now I've got 10Gbps symmetric in the USA for $50/month through a local ISP.

[–] dan@upvote.au 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

I haven't watched the video yet, but it's generally not worth the hassle of setting up mutual TLS if you're already using a peer-to-peer VPN like Tailscale, as the VPN software is already doing mutual authentication.

Edit: A peer-to-peer VPN (or mesh VPN) is one where two systems that are connected to the VPN can directly communicate with each other, instead of needing to go through a central server as with something like OpenVPN. With Tailscale or Wireguard, the peers need each other's public keys to communicate.

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Do you mean the TPM? Any system made in the last 7-8 years should have a TPM 2.0 chip and I suspect people won't want to run Windows 11 on anything older than that (since newer versions of Windows tend to be pretty slow on old systems)

[–] dan@upvote.au 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

due to medication prices

There's no reason for medication prices to be as high as they are, though. Look at the prices in practically any other developed country.

I'm from Australia which uses a single payer system (meaning the government negotiates medication prices for the entire country and buys them in bulk) and some medications are literally 5-10x the cost in the USA compared to Australia.

medication like Ozempic being used for recreational weight loss.

There's a variant of Ozempic called Wegovy that's used for weight loss. That's what it's designed and marketed for.

[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 2 weeks ago

I like this version better.

[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 2 weeks ago

Doesn't work in Boost either.

[–] dan@upvote.au 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The colours make it look like he's sitting on Stitch

[–] dan@upvote.au 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I've seen several people use a Steam Deck + a dock as their desktop PC. It's not much different from using a mini PC.

[–] dan@upvote.au 27 points 2 weeks ago (19 children)

I wonder how many are Steam Deck users. It's brought Linux to a lot of people who otherwise wouldn't have tried it.

[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 2 weeks ago

a lot of tubes

Not a big truck?

[–] dan@upvote.au 4 points 2 weeks ago

Are you asking for sanity in this abomination?

[–] dan@upvote.au 35 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

"trunk" is what it was called in SVN, too. Well, kind of. SVN didn't have a real concept of branching like Git does, but the main development would almost always happen in a root directory called "trunk".

I'm not sure why Bitkeeper used "master", but that's why Git called it that (Git was originally built as a replacement for Bitkeeper).

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