dellish

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[–] dellish@lemmy.world 18 points 9 hours ago

I thought he meant naggers.

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Here's a wacky idea: if Americans won't do it, Americans don't get to eat. Let's see how long it takes for things to change..

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The fuck is a wifi enabled olympic bar and why would you buy one? It's just a fancy 20kg rod ffs

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Isn't National Geographic owned by Murdoch? I think that's your answer (and all why Nat Geo magazine has been almost unreadable for 20 years).

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Nope. You have hilariously gigantic feet.

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 28 points 6 days ago (4 children)

It works in Australia. The main upside is since voting is mandatory the onus is on the government (or more precisely, an independent body called the Australian Electoral Commission) to make sure there are enough polling places, voting papers etc to accommodate the full turn out. Further, voting is done on a Saturday and there is plenty of opportunity to vote early/do a postal vote/vote from a completely different electorate etc.

My understanding from several US elections I've seen is there are a LOT of people who would like to vote but can't due to work, ridiculous waiting times, lack of facilities etc. Compulsory voting would mean all of this would have to be taken care of without the states mucking around with their own rules.

To address the issue you have, yes, people who have no clue turn up and vote BUT whilst voting is compulsory, submitting a valid vote is not. So long as you turn up and take your bits of paper you can just draw a dick on them or whatever if you don't feel you know enough to have a say.

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Not to mention hilarious.

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

And the Australian people, and the British people.

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I'm sure they can extract it from your chest cavity during your autopsy.

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

The apparent obsession with money. Some people claim to be religious but it's clear the Almighty Dollar is their God. I know we make jokes about needing a "profit motive", but there is a grounding in reality. It's truly bizarre, from an outside perspective, just what lengths and depths people will sink to in order to increase profit. I'm not saying this is an American Only thing, but it's VERY apparent in the USA just how far people will go.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by dellish@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.world
 

I am absolutely sick of Windoze and I'm trying out Linux Mint for my work computer. This has been a bit of a learning curve but I have almost everything working the way I want... but the sticking point is my company uses Dropbox for all file sharing and repository.

I first naively installed Dropbox from the Software Installer but that tried to sync the entire company (many TBs) to my computer. It seems there is no Smart Sync option.

Next I installed Rclone and logged in using that, but it seems to be completely command line based which is absolutely useless. There is no way I'm going to sit here typing out full directory paths and file names every time I need to access something (which is always). I then installed RcloneBrowser, and later the Rclone web GUI, however they BOTH skip the parent folder and put me directly one level down, which is also useless.

Ok I know what you're thinking. I need to create an alias, right? So I did, and my config file now has the lines

[DB]

type = alias

remote = Dropbox:/

but this makes no difference in the web GUI or RcloneBrowser! The frustrating thing is if I use the command line the results I get are:

rclone lsd Dropbox:/ parent directory. Good so far...

rclone lsd DB: parent directory! Yay! So why doesn't this work on either GUI???

If I can't get this to work then I will have to get rid of Linux unfortunately. I can see in many forums I am not the first to have massive issues with Dropbox, but it seems the alias approach works for everyone else. What am I doing wrong?

 

Apart from Australia getting completely ripped off, I am wondering if anyone had any insight into why they're paying almost $500 million for an aircraft that is worth about a fifth of that amount. This has got to be a continuation of the hilarious AUKUS joke that's been played on them, correct?

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