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Nah I’ll give the Americans this one. I don’t use metric time either

I just go with 1.6 because its still easy enough to do in your head.

Eg. 60mi = 60 + (60/2) + (60/10) = 96km

Yeah honestly I don’t get the hate, maybe this is why.

I could never live in the city. That place is dark, full of tall buildings that block out the sky and covered in trash over concrete that blocks out the ground.

Out here in the country I have a ten minute commute and would go insane if I had to work from home. I’m quite happy to go to the office five days a week.

I think cities are the problem, not commuting.

Just install Win10 anyway. Only caveat of not activating is youre stuck with the default wallpaper

I run SailfishOS and Australia mandates VoLTE now. It works.

I thought this said Australian high speed train, and my first thought was “yeah but it only would have been doing 80kph”

I so want ARM desktop PCs to become mainstream

Been a Linux user for over a decade, always used iGPUs but knowing Nvidia has always been an issue I’ve recently purchased my first dGPU and made sure it was an AMD card.

Literally just plugged it in and powered the system up, and I was off to the races. Couldn’t have been simpler. Don’t understand why Nvidia makes it to hard.

Damn, I thought Europe was doing such a good job

Apparently this is an unpopular opinion on Lemmy but - I like cars? Cars are fun. You can learn so much working on them and restoring them. Learn to weld, learn to build engines and gearboxes, learn to paint, learn how to do wiring. And at the end of it after all that blood, sweat, and tears - you have something fun you can drive about in!

Why does everybody here hate on my hobby so much? Its like the one thing I have in this world. Let me enjoy it.

Honestly as a religious person myself I’m constantly disgusted this isn’t the norm.

If the topic of religion ever comes up, the theory is my favourite conversation. I’m not here to sell you on my view of God, and I don’t want you to sell me on yours. It’s two sides of the same frankly quite interesting coin, and I like learning about the different ways people do things - but I’m not here to make you do things my way. That would be wrong.

And unless the topic comes up organically, it doesn’t fucking matter. We can work together or be best mates or whatever and unless you asked, you’d never have to know I was religious.

I live on the other side of the world, but I bet you anything you like that my petrol prices will double too. It will cost twice as much to heat my home, and because my country is so big and so far away from everything, the cost of any goods I buy will increase significantly due to the additional price of the fuel required to get it to me.

I had no choice. I couldn’t vote for that dickhead if I wanted to. America voted and I’m worse off for it.

All good and well until you have a 3 or 4 trailer road train limited to 90kph with a poor little box truck stuck behind it wanting to do 110kph. Trucks should be allowed in the middle lane for overtaking each other.

No, AuroraOS is the Russian fork of Sailfish.

Sailfish was in kahoots with the developers of Aurora, but they split ties when Putin spat the dummy at Ukraine.

Personally I wouldn’t buy a Jolla C2, but if you can get your hands on an Xperia 10 (working features vary by version, my 10 IV is not too bad but the 10 III is more polished) or a device supported by one of the better community ports, it’s worth a go.

Replying from Sailfish.

It’s a mixed bag. VoLTE is required in Australia (no 2G or 3G anymore) and SFOS does support it so that’s good, but for some reason calls are stuck on speakerphone as the earpiece speaker doesn’t work. The GPS lock is quite slow. I also don’t have working cameras, and every time I unplug the charger the phone reboots.

On the plus side, the Android app support is really good (though I still use native SFOS apps wherever possible, but for banking etc. its handy). I have no stability problems, its pretty rock solid bar for the charger issue. I’ve daily driven it since about October last year, and honestly if I could make private phone calls it would be perfectly fine for me.

I will note that community developed ports are available for other devices with potentially better hardware compatibility, but the Android app support is not included as it’s proprietary (though Waydroid exists as an alternative) and VoLTE support is touch and go on other devices.

Libre means “with little or no restriction,” whereas Gratis means “at no monetary cost."

I’ll absolutely take FLOSS if I can get it, but failing that, FOSS is still a nice improvement over closed-source software.

You can try, but all the arable land is already taken. There’s a reason nobody lives in the empty spots.

I wrote one of those papers. The fuckers charged me $1000 to publish it as open access, then other journals download it and stick it on their websites and charge $60 to read it. What a joke!

Tell me you’re too young to have used “Ask Jeeves” without telling me