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[-] [email protected] 58 points 9 months ago

Australia is a live example of the fact that they're not. The state and federal governments have privatised a crap load of services and all they do is continue to hike our bills while providing less and less service. Electricity, water supply, employment services and more are now an absolute joke here.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You can actually by making the families cost of living and housing needs affordable on one parents income. One off baby bonus bribes and stuff that governments do will never actually work when both parents have to work themselves Into dust just to make ends meet.

[-] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

Should be an age limit for politics, like retirement age.

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Posts to videos on Imgur just show up as weird sweaty soccer balls in the app, rather than showing a preview of the video itself.

For example.

[-] [email protected] 85 points 1 year ago

Sounds like a skill issue on your behalf.

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Scooby Doo Be Doo (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

A pen and paper, for work.

You know those people who seem useless and forgetful all the time? They don't write anything down so they are lost when they try to do things and too embarrassed to ask for advice again because they forgot what you told them. You also end up repeating stuff to them over and over again when they just don't do a task or mess it up.

Don't be that person, write stuff down!

[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't buy YouTube Premium either and they have significant hosting costs compared to the this app. So do the Lemmy server owners as well.

I think the dev deserves compensation for their app but the asking price is too much, for me anyway.

[-] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago

My only criticism is the subscription fee instead of a one off charge for the full set of features. I would like a lot of them but I don't need cloud sync or another ongoing cost to worry about.

[-] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

I think he'll just deliver some reskinned FOSS projects at best.

Its one thing to make a color chart, its a whole other thing to make all of Adobe.

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[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

However, Hwang tells me, he was also offered a new handle of his choice – as long as it's available. He just hasn't picked one yet.

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I don't know if I'm just doing something wrong but I built my family tree and the website seems to have barely any information about my family at all. I found out more just checking out our national archives then what I found on this website. It's maybe worth noting that I'm not in the US and it does appear to be somewhat US-centric.

The best it could find was a couple of enrollment records for voting and a single immigrant notification in an old newspaper. It didn't find these either by itself, I had to manually go though the search system to find it. The OCR didn't even get the spelling of the name correct.

I'm not sure what I expected but it was definitely better than this, especially for all the pay walls they throw up.

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I'm not getting images previews nor images themselves when I browse Lemmy using the RSS feed functionality. Other websites work fine, it just seems I'm having a problem with Lemmy. Instead, I just get a link and I can click that to be taken directly to the image on pictrs. It makes browsing Lemmy using an RSS client a sub-optimal experience sadly.

Does Lemmy support images or preview images in it's RSS feeds and if so what is the magic to enable it in my RSS client?

[-] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago

Why is everybody on these platforms "4 something" now? Politics isn't football, you don't pick your team and have to let everyone know about it.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I have a loved one recovering from opioid addiction currently and they went to their appointment today only to be informed going forward it'll be $380 per session (used to be free). This applies to everyone except health care card holders.

It appears that they've privatised the pharmacy system behind it. Before, the medications for the treatment were dispensed by the hospital. Now they are dispensed by the nearby chemist to whom you directly pay your money.

Some people need this treatment as frequently as weekly. I guess it's back to the drugs again for most of them or more likely even more people choking up the emergency rooms and mental health system when they can't afford to be treated. Absolutely shocked that this has flown so far under the radar.

Edit: Did some more digging, looks like it might be the federal government cutting funding. Rip NSW too. Up to 17 addiction treatment centers are at risk of closing their doors too.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-05/opioid-treatment-funding-budget/102426466

[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago

It's worse then you think. That "popular" screen is what's popular to all of Reddit determined by their algorithm, not what's popular in the subreddits you have subscribed to. There's no way to avoid the firehose of whatever they want to feed you, you can only go to a specific subreddit in the app instead.

It's basically unusable for me in this state.

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

You might not be aware but Lemmy has RSS built into it. I just noticed myself so I wanted to check out the current state of RSS clients and well, nothing seems to be quite what I'm after.

What RSS clients out there are worth looking at? I notice several have self-hosted server solutions which is interesting. I don't care if it's free, open source, paid or whatever though, I just want a good experience.

[-] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Probably one of the few useful bots ever added to Reddit.

We didn't need a million and one spelling, grammar and whatever other stupid bots the place got infected with. Hopefully Lemmy doesn't end up with them either.

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snek (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I want to believe (lemmy.world)
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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Just over 82k today since the latest alpha 21 stable launch came out. Who said farming pogs on Twitch doesn't pay?

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