Unfortunately it still seems off. I just submitted this 20 mins ago but it’s not showing up on AZ.

Are these actually smart glasses, or just glasses with a camera in them? Because that is not the same thing. We’ve had glasses with cameras in them for like 20 years. They can be great for recording a ride or run, for example.

with a rolled r

If you’re being super strict, that’s technically what /r/ means. But in practice, it tends to just get used to mean “your rhotic consonant”. That’s why you’ll note the same symbol is used for that part of the word in both English pronunciations and the Nauruan* pronunciation.

* do we need to update the spelling of the demonym?

I had HFC from 2020 until about a year ago, when I moved somewhere with FTTP. To be honest, in normal operation I don’t really notice the difference. It was plenty fast enough. I’m on the plan that used to be 100 down (20 up I think? Not actually sure.) but got upgraded to 500 for free.

The real difference is that the ageing coaxial part of HFC used to cause it to cut out completely every few weeks and require me to restart my router, the NTD, or both. The brand new fibre is so reliable.

did you get verbally abused because of this

It didn’t quite rise to the level I would describe as verbal abuse, but it was only one step below that. At first I’m pretty sure the pedestrian was waiting for me to go. But after a while of back and forth, the blue car then started to try to turn. At that point I moved forward so I was physically blocking the intersection. It could not have been clearer that the pedestrian was completely safe at that point but he just wanted to argue.

This was right at the very end of my ride, which put a dampener on what was otherwise an incredibly lovely morning commute. Trip home was excellent without any real issues.

but I’m sick of it dropping out

Wow that sucks. I thought the whole point of it and the reason people went with it was supposed to be that it doesn’t do that…

Geez, you try to do the right thing…

This morning on my ride to work, I approached a left turn into a side street. There’s a pedestrian waiting at a refuge island to cross in front of me. The car in front of me ignores him and goes.

I stop, because I insist on following right of way laws. Following the law in this situation is the most predictable and therefore safe thing you can do. Plus, though I was on a bike, the biggest problem is with the sense of entitlement drivers have that leads to them presuming right of way when they don’t have it.

Anyway, the pedestrian refuses to go. I wave him on, I tell him he has right of way. He says “no I don’t”. Then a car coming from the other direction who was stopped (for the other car and, presumably, me) starts turning right. No way am I having that. I move forward to block the intersection fully to let the pedestrian go.

Another pedestrian arrives. With the two of them, they eventually go, and then I continue.

But fuck me. I try to follow the law Alby doing something that’s both safer and more convenient for this arsehole and all I get in return is spray? Fuck.

There might be some third-party version of Android you could put onto it that’d keep you more up to date? I’m not really sure, as I’ve never had a phone last that long with a usable battery, so I’ve never tried.

Seems like your phone is very out of date. You should probably consider upgrading, for security if nothing else. (As in, if your phone is old enough to show the wrong message here, it’s probably also not receiving mainline security updates. A correlation, not a causation.)

Up-to-date devices showed “Critical AusAlert”.

I’ve written a bot for Lemmy before. You can see it on [email protected] if you’re interested. I agree completely re the messaging being as nonthreatening as possible.

TIL the ANCAP safety rating of a car isn’t a global thing.

Anyway, here it means anarcho-capitalist. Libertarianism taken to the extreme. Zero government, just businesses, rich people, and private hired security imposing whatever they want on anyone who can’t afford to stop them.

Hi!

Also, in response to Nath’s advice, I’m considering if the group name should change to Overseas Tidings, yes because of the pun, but admittedly I didn’t even know that word so I won’t go forth with that unless there’s community backing.

I actually don’t know how much that will help. I think the problem comes from the fact that its ID is !worldnews, and no change to the display name can change that.

But I do kinda like the implications of it. The dictionary says tidings just means news, but at least to me it feels like it connotes a greater degree of relevance than “news” alone does. Like “what tidings do you bring‽” seems like a request for “what news that is relevant for me to know?”

Rare?

Dang. Shame.

Arthur Dent was obviously not a Brisbanite.

G’day!

I found out the problem. My plan was supposed to renew today but I hadn’t updated to my new card. They decided to tell me that this had caused an issue by text at 8am, 30 mins after I left home and started encountering the problem, and presumably more like 8 hours after the problem started…

Anyway, all resolved now.

You get 2.5x pay, at least?

Eek, I’ve got no mobile data this morning. No idea why, my plan isn’t anywhere near used up. Now relying on QR wifi for my commute. Which I’m pretty sure gives you like 10 MB before it cuts you off for the day.

It’s cos a significant majority of the population is on the east coast. 50% in Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne alone, before you add the rest of those states. So for economic reasons, it’s convenient for the central states to be a bit closer in time to the eastern states.