Earlier this week it stopped going up and down, only side to side. Had to clean some crap off the x-axis wheel.

The computer mouse I still use today has a ball in it

Australia doesn’t have automatic registration either, which is baffling in its own right considering we have mandatory voting.

When you turn 18 you need to register to vote, thereby placing your name on the list for any and all future elections.

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.

Is that common?

Speak for yourself, there’s nothing wrong with my carburettor!

My distributor on the other hand is a pain in the ass. Electronic ignition has its upsides…

And I self host mine!

What’s wrong with LPG?

Petrol is a liquid. When liquid petrol evaporates is becomes a gas. When gaseous petrol is compressed in a container as pictured it becomes a liquid until it is released and allowed to expand again, hence liquefied (compressed) petroleum gas.

As someone who has only linux’d in over a decade, I didn’t even realise this wasn’t Linux until I read your comment.

Damn, I thought Europe was doing such a good job

That bloke is safe in the knowledge that any time he gets rejected he can just claim it was part of the meal deal

Sailfish isn’t bad but its a compromise. I don’t like that it’s not open source. I’m happy to pay for it, but I’d prefer if it were a community project rather than something buiut behind the closed doors of an understaffed company.

That said I’m using it to type this comment so I must still think its better than the alternatives.

Honestly as an Australian its baffling to me that peoples “freedoms” take precedent over mandatory voting.

Mandatory voting means one HOUR over three or four YEARS must be exhausted getting your ass to a polling booth and ticking a box. It’s not a big deal. The upsides so significantly outweigh the downsides.

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.

But that is not an issue unique to one race. Pakastanis who live in the northern territory do not have meaningful representation. Should they get a bespoke group of representatives too? What about Sweedes? Or Brazillians? Or white Australians?

This is a problem with our democracy, not a race problem. Why make it one?

I’m aboriginal and I voted no.

The way to solve racism isn’t to create more destinctions between us. I already have a voice in parliment. I voted for them and they were elected.

The worst bit is its not any less absurd.

My paper was published in MDPI open access and then a whole heap of publishing companies came along, stole it, and now charge money for it. And they’re the ones you get first if you search for it in Google Scholar.

I’m so mad. I was proud of that and wanted people to see it, but now 90% of people who come across it will incorrectly think its behind a paywall and not bother.