“Having escaped the lion’s den, Mr Lehrmann made the mistake of going back for his hat"

Is there any way this could have gone worse for him?

I know a few folks in that situation - likely people who the originally designed fibre roll-out would have hit, but instead got a substandard connection.

I’m not so sure it’s a full death spiral though, one would hope that the fibre retrofit can catch a lot of these up.

I’ve (foolishly) ended up needing to go to Officeworks to get a photo printed… I’m expecting to be there most of the morning.

Came in to criticise the writing too. Got AI or at least bad translation vibes. Really hard to follow.

Deadloch would like to have a word.

But seriously, I can imagine 50% of people saying in the abstract they would like more locally produced content, though I’m not sure that it would actually affect purchasing behaviour.

Is this actually unpopular? Give me web interface that works OK on mobile and I’m usually a happy camper.

It’s been quite a while since I played through SOTC, and maybe it’s the passage of time but I recall the frustration being a minor part of the play and ultimately balancing itself nicely with the thrill of actually taking down the Colossus.

With that said even when I was playing it maybe 10 years back (so long after release) a lot of the control and feel had not aged well so I get where you’re coming from.

Thanks for the heads up, I will check that out!

Photoprism, running on a Raspberry Pi 4. I’m just running it as a single user, and it’s been working well for that. A couple of notes:

• Video transcoding is a bit iffy on the rpi, but I’m running it under docker and might just move it all to a mini pc at some point
• I don’t have it accessible publicly, but get to it online via Tailscale
• No app, but the Web interface is good.
• I’m currently running it in “read only” mode (mainly out of initial paranoia when trying it out, but it seems fine) so I have syncthing backing up the photos from my phone wirelessly and occasionally do an import of new images in.

I’ve got a very similar setup now. Only recently adopted tailscale and was previously port tunnelling over SSH to access anything on the local network. SSH is still open, and am just waiting a bit to see if theres any cases where I need it before closing that out too.

Short story: If you don’t need stuff open to the general public, just having Tailscale will probably cover you.

Great to see!

I bought my last laptop a couple months before they started shipping to Australia last year (dang it…), but Framework will be high on the list next time.

I agree it’s probably the right thing to not host, especially given the ROI is bad (at least according to some other states…)

But even though I think it’s a good thing, it is an embarrassment.

Announcing that you’re going to host, putting money / effort state-wide into preparing, and then dropping it is embarrassing. It sends a message that you can’t adequately plan for large events, and that your commitments aren’t worth much. I can’t really blame the opposition for trying to make some hay from it.

Godspeed 🫡

Yeah, I mean digg.com still technically exists…

Ha, all good! I only noticed because I’d heard about Yotta a few years back and it just seemed like an interesting concept.

This is all a little irrelevant because Yotta isn’t in Australia, but anyway…

I totally get the ick factor when looking at Yotta, because it is definitely using the same hooks as gambling. But it’s sometimes been referred to as a “No-Lose Lottery”:

You get paid interest, but less than a traditional savings account. The trade-off is that the more you save into your account, the more “tickets” you get to win a larger amount.

The key is they’re targetting a market that isn’t choosing between Yotta and a traditional savings account, they’re trying to encourage people who would spend on straight gambling to put their money in an incentivised account.

Some more detail from the founders

It’s definitely not as good as a proper savings account, but if it’s a way of redirecting money away from gambling and into savings then I figure it’s a net win for society.

I dig what Yotta is trying to do, but this is AusFinance, and they’re US only right?

Same setup here. I’ve got a really basic script running nightly from cron. B2 is cheap as, and having an encrypted backup that’s versioned is great for piece of mind.

At one point I was away from home and my (little rpi) server wasn’t accessible, but with the restic repo up on B2 I was able to easily find a file I urgently needed remotely. It’s awesome.

Seconding Syncthing! You don’t need a rpi to get started, but it’s fantastic having it around as the always-on node you can use to sync multipe devices without them being online at the same time.