I personally use the original amazfit bip. Cannot be newthough, I sourced mine from aliexpress, and even there they are ex-demo and stuff. Heart rate sensor isn't amazing but I don't know if that's maybe my hairy arm. The main reason I got it, can be used with gadget bridge, for best privacy
Edit: worth noting that I had to flash it with English firmware, which did mean I had to use the official app originally
Keep in mind that when you describe a country, you are usually describing the government, the system of rule, and thus the ruling class. Sure it's not your ruling class, but it is a ruling class. So you still can't trust them.
Then there's evidence of interference with politics as their ruling class tries to bring your country down to advance themselves. Thus making your local ruling class even worse.
There's now more product competitors now. Also is this a sign that parts shortages are easing?
It's a pretty minimal subsidy for raising children. Like everywhere else, it's social infrastructure around child rearing which needs funding.
Yeah after at least 2 mild summers, it really does seem like our time is up. El Nino is also flagged for this summer http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/outlook/
Gas hot water heaters tend to be a lot more efficient than gas cooktops. The flat bottom of most pots and pans means a lot of heat will escape up the sides, but hot water heaters can be designed with this in mind. On pots, I have one that basically has heatsink fins on the bottom to better capture the gas heat, but this is far from typical.
Environmental issues aside, gas is also a pain for installation. Solid pipes are more difficult to route, and leaks are, of course, dangerous. Electricity is dangerous, but it is easier to contain. It doesn't leak into the air, and because it's a closed loop, we can measure if it isn't all returning and shut it off (RCD/GFCI). It also has flexible cables. The downside is that, heat pumps require more maintenance. They're a vaguely complicated mechanical system, as many fluid systems are.
I'm going to guess that Consumer level means you still need a beast with 4 big GPUs or Threadripper style CPU. That said, this is easily within the reach of Organised Crime
Deaths are sad, if we consider that people can be brainwashed and it isn't entirely their fault, it's a tragedy.
That said, this is... Evolution in action. I don't just mean darwin awards dumb, but more specifically that technologies (social or physical) are actually a part of Evolution, not aside from it. That also means that dealing with misinformation is actually becoming a part of evolution, literally for survival. Or if not critical thinking, then what group you attach yourself to, aka what network you trust. Which in some ways, is actually not all that different from before modern technologies.
Yes. Email forwarding from arbitrary email addresses at my domain
Here I've been doing that manually with my own domain. Wonder if it will allow you to use your own domain.
Premier wants Uni merger to proceed
Premier Peter Malinauskas says it would be “extraordinary” and a "holdback mentality" if Upper House MPs considered blocking a merger of the universities of Adelaide and South Australia if approved this weekend, while the Deputy Premier says university staff concerns about the process are "misplaced...
![‘Important test’: Premier's message to Upper House on uni merger vote - InDaily](https://partizle.com/pictrs/image/41b7fc2d-1d5a-42cb-936b-9fbc64df9b04.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
SA water bills about to rise
SA Water prices will be capped below inflation this financial year, but households and businesses will stay pay higher bills.
![SA water bills about to rise - InDaily](https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/c0a944c2-16d6-41e2-a3ea-8024130f4723.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
The state government says SA Water prices will rise by 4.8 per cent in 2023-24, below the inflation rate of 7.9 per cent.
It's a fair question, but then I might revisit the question, what is the threat model? Which is higher risk? Online attack, or Fire while at home, where you are isolated from a device you'd likely also try to use to call emergency services? It is a genuine question, rate of attack on the public is probably not that substantial, but fire is also not super likely.
Though you have got me thinking, an outdoor fire safe near the front of the property... though probably only possible if you live in suburbia.
I put my recovery codes on paper. I've said elsewhere, but the threat model has changed. Heck, I even printed my password vault with paperba(c)k using wine once (shredded it shortly after because i didn't have a proper storage procedure.
Demolition of Adelaide Aquatic Centre
Adelaide City Council is set to approve $20m in ratepayer funds to demolish the Adelaide Aquatic Centre and restore surrounding park lands, after the Lord Mayor labelled the existing facility “unsaveable, unrepairable and unusable” amid plans for a new facility.
!['Unsaveable': Council to fund demolition of ‘hideous’ Adelaide Aquatic Centre - InDaily](https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/439fc56c-2c6f-413f-bb72-937a986e586c.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
I had no idea this was on anyone's mind.
I see two different, perhaps even 3 different questions here. The first is the headline: Is crypto dead. The second and perhaps third are: Will it recover to where it was before and sustain as an industry.
The short answer to the first is pretty obvious to me: No. Crypto will settle in a niche, which might just be cross border payments beyond effective monitoring.
For the second: No. The title here in this case is abridged, it conflates the bubble of crypto with cryto itself. It bypasses Bettridges law of headlines by combining two questions in one. Honestly I couldn't be bothered bypassing the paywall so I didn't read the whole article. Market activity is correlated to interest, and number of people who haven't yet been hit by a wave of FOMO, and either went with it or dismissed it. Web3 is failing to catch on, that was the latest gambit, and there hasn't been any clues that something else is in the pipeline. I partially attribute this to Folding Ideas, who did great breakdowns of both NFTs and The Metaverse. The NFT one was easily his most popular video, and while not so engaging, that someone who very quickly came on the stage as a market force of crypto, releasing yet another video against the entire thing, is big, even if not so watched. So we might actually be looking at the market not just reaching yet more heights.
However, this is where the third question comes in. It's linked, but not quite the same as will the markets recover. The retail side of things is going to start consolidating, but there's still institutional momentum behind the scenes that has some momentum. This will continue to build out, because they're offering the tools. Even if the market shrinks, there is still a place for them, and they're betting the market doesn't completely implode, which doesn't seem that likely. There's enough true believers and other people treating it still as a viable investment to still allow it to shrink and sustain as a boring investment vehicle. It might even get a few more blips, but it seems like the FOMO news articles getting out into the wider public won't do their thing anymore. Boring is what I envision the future of crypto to be.
It's a fair point. If you go to a business and go, hey I've got something for you, are you interested, then yeah that's entrepreneurship. I suppose the difference is that the role there isn't well defined. So maybe that's a significant difference, direction of solicitation.
Fundamentally I do agree with your original comment, was just commenting because I essentially have nothing to delete from Reddit lol.
Yeah I used to be a Lurker, but since coming here, I've been making a point to contribute more.
Yeah of course. To me, the news was also that they actually posted it direct to Reddit. I also just posted a thing about power prices, but not as it relates to any politics.
Actually, I would like to add, as is stated in this post, they are also limiting bonds. I knew about this prior, because working adjacent the real estate industry, it was actually big news. Of course their clients want to get as much bond as they can, and now the vast majority of rentals won't be able to take as much now.
Reminds me of the Bloomberg thing on spy chips a while back that wasn't really substantiated.
AGL accused of manipulating power prices (Wholesale)
A class action accuses AGL Energy of using bids on the wholesale electricity market to inflate power prices and cause higher bills for consumers.
![AGL accused of manipulating power prices - InDaily](https://partizle.com/pictrs/image/7126595e-75ba-47f8-8f57-cbd065cc91a4.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
>AGL took advantage of its market power for the substantial purpose of deterring or preventing competing generators from engaging in competitive conduct
This does affect SA to some extent, but personally I am still struck by how much SA Power Networks charges on top of the wholesale price. Well, the wholesale price has contributed to the bulk of the gains over the past year, so maybe that's not entirely fair.
If you want to have a look at wholesale power markets, here's a good place to have a look https://opennem.org.au/energy/sa1. Just be mindful that this is not the retail price, retail price also has GST, a transmission efficiency scaling factor, and the SAPN charges on top.
Also be mindful that people tend to use the most power at around 5pm, which is usually when the price is highest. Your retail pricing takes this into account, because by and large, power meters are not sensitive to what time power is actually used.
Pets in Rentals: Government posting directly to Reddit
I suppose it might be a bit much to expect government accounts to go find a Lemmy instance to post this, so I'm copying this from Reddit. Yep.
>For the first time in South Australia, tenants will have the right to own a pet under further rental reforms proposed by the Malinauskas Labor Government.
>As part of the reforms to the Residential Tenancies Act, the Government will consult on a bill that includes a presumption that a tenant who applies to keep a pet in a rental property cannot have their request unreasonably refused, provided the tenant agrees to comply with any reasonable conditions imposed by the landlord.
>For many of us, our pets are family and it is heartbreaking that some South Australians have been in a position where they have had to choose between having a roof over their head and giving up a beloved pet.
>That’s why our Government is acting decisively to make housing more accessible for all South Australians including those with pets.
>My Government is supporting tenants while balancing the interests of landlords.
>We have already taken steps to ban rent bidding, raise the bond threshold – saving South Australian tenants $1.3 million in the first month alone – and get private rental assistance in the hands of more people.
>And now we are ensuring people aren’t having to sacrifice their dearly loved pets to avoid being homeless.
Private cloud storage
So I've been looking up VPN stuff, and in the process, I've stumbled on ProtonVPN, from the same people as ProtonMail. They're now offering private cloud storage, and I'm wondering how private is it. e2e means I have to manage the keys on my device right? I don't know how else it could realistically work, if they manage keys, they can access my keys etc?
Two new "hospital avoidance hubs" will be built in Adelaide in a state budget announcement to further ease pressure on hospital emergency departments.
![New move to keep patients out of stretched Adelaide hospital EDs - InDaily](https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/70260088-02ed-44fc-a42b-ff4738e81bb7.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
So the question for me is, will this effectively become a walk in bulk bill clinic? Because a lot of other ones have gone to mixed and private billing.