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In Aus I use Pop to refer to my Grandad who was british. I do think it was to help with confusion with which grandparent I was referring too, was it my dads dad or my mums dad

I've also switched back to google after trying bing for a few days. The bing bot gets stuck and loses context after awhile. Not only do you get ads in bing to try edge, that if you…

Australian banks have a system called osko/pay id. You register with your bank a phone number or email I think. And when someone transfers money using your phone number you get a c…

I built an app in React native a few years ago, at the time it looked more mature than flutter. However I had a lot of issues regarding keyboard placement, I still had to write pla…

I think voice is a better interface for setting navigation, music selection. I used it quite often with the google assistant through android auto. Its intergrated into my steering …

I have once concern with this article. The ABC isn't a state broadcaster its a public broadcaster.

Hmmm, I don't think is 100% necessary. Web assembly and PWAs have caught up in the last few years. I reckon things like firefox os would have a better chance now.

A dupe from the other day? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20056864

I guess for test on iOS would be to see if you could store something to localStorage as that doesn't work in safari would be one way to tell of your in incognito mode.

I have an XPS13, I've changed a kernel command line parameter to change from a soft sleep to a hard sleep and battery life has greatly improved. The first comment in this reddit th…

I had these issues on Fedora, especially around emoji. Firefox was fine but Chrome was not. I ended having to play around with some font settings to force chrome to use noto fonts.…

Looks like its unlikely to get changed, as stated in the last comment of the thread by the owner. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/9#issuecomment-41...

This doesn’t work under Wayland. Is there a way to something similar on Wayland.

I would suggest Fedora if your going to use gnome it has far better consistency in my opinion. Ubuntu have switched to installing default apps like system monitor and some others u…

Those trucks look like beluga whales. I wonder if that's what their inspiration for the design was.

At least the South Australian goverment is doing something to alleviate issues of the NBN in Adelaide. Launching 10 gigabit internet across key areas in the CBD. http://gigcity.com…