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  • Root blame is probably Telstra doing some corrupt dealings with the Liberals so they could sell their copper network to nbn co.

    nbn co never would have needed to buy the copper network if they were simply replacing it entirely.

    I worked in the service activations and assurance side of nbn co right when FTTN was starting to roll out. Install issues suddenly stopped being “delayed because no one was home” or “lead-in conduit needs replacing” and suddenly had about a dozen different reasons.

    For the entire time I worked there, fault volumes for the FTTN network were consistently 10x worse than FTTP. For example, there might be 0.02 faults per 100 active FTTP premises, and 0.2 faults per 100 active FTTN premises.

    Edit: though with some more thought on the original point, I think it was majority just the Liberals wanting to do something different in classic oppositional politics.






  • I recognised a location from one of the crash compilations once. I just had to send it to a friend, as it was the exact same circumstances (including the intersection) as an accident he was in 5 years earlier. There are a couple of give way signs in North Kellyville that people love to fly through.

    A month or two ago I sent one to my family because there some footage from a town up near where they live.

    Then there’s the occasional road I recognise, but generally because it’s a major road in Sydney like Victoria Road or Warringah Road. Or the time that someone did a u-turn on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.


  • Waze is quite a different experience than Google Maps when driving, so it’s made sense to keep them as two separate apps.

    Google Maps is “I want to get from point A to point B in a normal way.”

    Waze is “I want the most aggressively quick way; no back street is too small for me.”

    I feel like OP has gone too far with the editorialised headline this time, as the only thing that’s happening at this point is switching Waze over to use the standard Google ad platform rather than their custom system.



  • I have two USB-C cables on my desk plus a Lightning cable.

    Those two cables will charge my two laptops, my mouse, my PS5 controller, my iPad Pro, and my battery packs. I rarely find a scenario where I need to charge more than 2 at once.

    Meanwhile the Lightning cable is only ever for my phone.

    Yes, you want more than one cable, but USB-C means you can just have a couple of identical chargers that are big enough for your largest device but can charge anything. No more trying to find the right charger for the right device.