Salvo
@Salvo@aussie.zone
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 🍂 Monday, April 29, 2024 2 weeks ago:
Don’t get me wrong, the PowerWall has been great for the last 4 years, It is just that the subcontracting technicians didn’t want to do any more work than the bare minimum, even though it was negligible extra effort.
That said, since Musk has severely gone off the rails and still has controlling interest in the Company, I would be hesitant to trust anything that comes out from the North American operations.
The problem is that all the other aftermarket battery backup technologies (that I know about from 3 year old research) are either inferior to the PowerWall in every way, or need to be manufactured bespoke for the Australian market.
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 🍂 Monday, April 29, 2024 2 weeks ago:
Builders are incompetent.
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 🍂 Monday, April 29, 2024 2 weeks ago:
Yep. Our builder gave the electricians the incorrect plans.
They had to come back to run the electrical extra cables so we had some gaping holes in the plasterboard in the two master bedrooms. That was the least of our problems…
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 🍂 Monday, April 29, 2024 2 weeks ago:
It is insane that the installing sparky ran three-phase power to the location but doesn’t bother running some twisted pair for Ethernet at the same time.
We had to fight with the installer to have our Solar Inverter connected to Ethernet, even though there was a cable already in place. Unfortunately we won the fight for the Inverter but lost the fight for the PowerWall.
I know that at least one Manufacturer who is deprioritising warranty claims on “smart” Car Charger wallboxes unless they were connected by Ethernet at the time of installation.
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 🍂 Monday, April 29, 2024 2 weeks ago:
The local Tesla/Solar service provider is a subsidiary of the Sugar Refining Company (of Blue Sky Mine-Midnight Oil fame).
That probably explains a lot about the quality of service.
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 🍂 Monday, April 29, 2024 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I saw that yesterday. I sent it to Tesla support by email ;)
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 🍂 Monday, April 29, 2024 2 weeks ago:
I do have A UniFi home network so all I need to do is add another access point, but that is beside the point.
I don’t want it using WiFi; it is a fitting that is part of the house, it should be wired, not wireless.
- Comment on Daily discussion thread: 🍂 Monday, April 29, 2024 2 weeks ago:
When we purchased our new house 5 years ago, we had a Tesla PowerWall installed. It came with a Telstra 3G SIM card and when they installed it, I told them to connect it via Ethernet. The technician refused, saying that it has 3G and doesn’t need to be connect to the home network at all.
I received a text from Tesla this morning, telling me that our PowerWall will not be covered by warranty when Telstra kill 3G at the end of next month.
I then received an email from Tesla (that looked like Spam).
I then receive a phone call from Tesla.
I mentioned that I don’t have WiFi coverage in my garage and they told me to move my router. I told them that I instructed the technician to connect via Ethernet originally and they said that I would need to get the technician back out to connect it.
I am not allowed to plug Ethernet into it without voiding warranty and I need to plug Ethernet into it to prevent the warranty from being void.
- Comment on How G.M. Tricked Millions of Drivers Into Being Spied On (Including Me) 3 weeks ago:
There is a difference between destroying looms, corrupting LLMs by feeding bad data and causing an uprising like the Butlerian Jihad of Dune or the Second Renaissance of The Matrix.
- Comment on How G.M. Tricked Millions of Drivers Into Being Spied On (Including Me) 3 weeks ago:
There are legitimate uses for vehicle telemetry being stored by the vehicle and uploaded to the manufacturer.
Identifying unexpected behaviour under certain driving conditions and being able to contact emergency services in an accident are two important examples. Remote diagnosis in the case of a breakdown is another.
None of these uses include selling the data to third parties or using the data to create a profile of the vehicle owner.
- Comment on Are Homebuyers Getting Scammed…We Returned to the $2M Disaster (ft. FriendlyJordies) 3 weeks ago:
It is currently the only domestic retail industry. Previously, there was automotive, but over time, the secondary automotive manufacturing (parts and components) was outsourced overseas (because it was cheaper by cents-in-the-dollar), which was the beginning of the end.
The building industry is still supporting the secondary industries of building materials. Forestry, plaster/concrete/brick manufacturing and other bulk industries rely on builders to stay solvent, so they do get a fair bit of leeway.
With the cessation of the Home Owners Grants and other corporate welfare, the builders Ponzi schemes are starting to collapse and the national economy cannot afford another major fizzling out of another major industry. Builders can’t squeeze their suppliers any more, so the only way they can continue is to rip-off their retail customers.
- Comment on Windows 10 will start nagging you to switch from local account to MS Account 4 weeks ago:
Thanks, great tip.
That said, the text “Show me suggested content in the Settings App” does have no relationship to disabling these bullshit nag screens outside of the Settings app.
Also, I am sure that next software update will revert these settings, considering that this is MS’s MO for pushing a feature that nobody wants.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🦥 Fri 19 Apr 2024 4 weeks ago:
Nice and sunny this morning. It’ll be dry in no time.
- Comment on Rachael Dixon, 53, dies in suspected mushroom poisoning (Ballarat). 4 weeks ago:
“All fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once.”
- Sir Terry Pratchett
- Comment on Why did they move the comments to the right 5 weeks ago:
When Christian Selig announced his independent Apple Vision YouTube App, I thought twice about actually getting one, just so I would’t have to use YouTubes ridiculous Application and Web UIs.
@christianselig@mastodon.social
Then I decided that it would be silly to spend any money on a 1st Gen Apple Vision.
- Comment on Man, 21, charged with murder after 23yo woman's body found near Ballarat 5 weeks ago:
We were up that area 4WDing when the Samantha Murphy search was on, before the bushfires.
Had a few “Everything’s Turning to White - Paul Kelly” vibes when I first read the headline.
- Comment on Rutherglen locals renew calls for bypass after serious crash and pedestrian death 5 weeks ago:
The best bypass to protect pedestrians, and not negatively affect local businesses would have been rail freight.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🎂 Thurs 4 Apr 2024 1 month ago:
Yeah. I’m like that quite often too. Phone keypads and numeric keypads are upside down.
Often I just copy/paste or type the number into my VoIP phone app on my computer, especially after the third failed attempt.
But what we have dealt with this week is just a whole new level of stupid. I have had a few AITA moments wondering if I am having too-high expectations of customers, but when my colleagues concur that the customer is a dead-set cock-head, I feel vindicated.
- Comment on Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar 1 month ago:
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Actually Indians.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🎂 Thurs 4 Apr 2024 1 month ago:
Did someone spike the chocolate with stupid pills?
I have had so many people this week who are either unable to comprehend basic information, dispute stated facts with irrefutable evidence or just don’t fucking read.
These are people who I dealt with last week who were cogent, alert and knew exactly what was happening and how things worked.
I can understand it happening on Tuesday when everyone came back to work and were still in holiday mode, but it is now three days later.
- Comment on Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar 1 month ago:
Step one: start Chroming. Eventually you get so high (kill enough brain cells) that you chrome with blue paint instead. That is called Edging.
- Comment on Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar 1 month ago:
This is why they are doing it. They fear that Linux/MacOS/ChromeOS is eating their lunch. The problem is that their approach to preventing anyone else from eating their lunch is to make Shit Sandwiches.
- Comment on Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar 1 month ago:
‘Data Detectors’ in MacOS are just as bad. Just like how sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, sometimes a string of numerals is just a string of numerals.
It is not a phone number or a flight number or a ticket number, it is just a string of text that happen to all be numerals.
I asked Apple Support how to disable data detectors in Preview (MacOS’s native PDF and image viewer) so I could highlight some part numbers without MacOS trying to make a FaceTime call and they told me to use Adobe Acrobat instead! The problem is that Acrobat is worse.
- Comment on Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar 1 month ago:
Please don’t call them AI. They are “Language Learning Models” (or “Spicy Autocorrect” if you want to be cheeky).
Copilot is no more “intelligent” than Clippy from Microsoft Bob in 1995. It just appears to be to people who also have low intelligence.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread:🐰 Sun 31 Mar 2024 1 month ago:
🥚 🥓 🧀 🥬 🌯 Camping breakfast wrap ☕️
- Comment on Stuck truck under the Napier Street bridge 1 month ago:
JuSt ClAiM iT oN iNsUrAnCe. JuSt DrIvE wItHoUt A lIcEnCe!
I swear drivers are getting stupider and stupider. We need better public transport, so that people who are shit drivers don’t need to drive.
- Comment on After more than 50 swift-water rescues in Victoria this week, why do people keep driving into floods? - ABC News 3 months ago:
There is a fine line between encouraging Darwin Award nominees and Eugenics.
- Comment on After more than 50 swift-water rescues in Victoria this week, why do people keep driving into floods? - ABC News 3 months ago:
Because the only vehicles on the market suitable for Australian conditions are off-road vehicles.
Just like how some people with sports models of road cars feel an obligation to defend their brand by taking off fast at traffic lights, some people with off-road vehicles feel an obligation to defend their brand by driving through floodwaters.
It is a way to overcome your buyers remorse and feel better about the 10’s of thousands of dollars that you owe the finance company.
- Comment on Time for some yoga 3 months ago:
I would bookmark it so I could watch it next time I’m constipated.
- Comment on How a Parasitic Worm Forces Praying Mantises to Drown Themselves 4 months ago:
As someone who once tried to flush my sinuses when I had a nasty cold, I can emphasise.