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Humans much like systems need redundancy too, never rely on one alone. What happens if your lead gets ill? Has a injury? Protégé or not you need redundancy.

Also talk to your boss. Communication is king.

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Actually we have heaps of fairly reasonable sized solar farms both built and operating and also in development right now. The politics your talking about is actually just that...politics. It's the optics of opposition. We are cranking out solar and approving decent sized installs all the time. The opposition just likes to make it out like their is kickback and it's not happening in order to back up their own political view and make themselves feel good.

Business on the other hand is churning on with rolling it out and making bank from it.

I make sure most of my clients whenever they buy new monitors get usbc hub monitors. The price is bugger all extra and once I show them what I can do with my phone they basically want the same. Not to mention I haven't installed a laptop workstation space that isn't usb c one cable to plugin and go in about 3 years now.

But alas, our politicians are short sited, our companies lack the willingness to make it happen. It feels like a massively missed opportunity.

You might be experiencing the company end of this...for us the consumer it's easier to do this than it is to keep track of canceling the service after 1 month and also less effort.

Which is way more dough than a cash strapped players got. That's the kinda service for rich kids. Especially when you could just buy a used Xbox or Playstation in the current gen for a few hundred and a lower tier internet connection. Once it's saved and paid for its not a monthly drain like these subscription services...which if your tight on money a few months of the year because say work is sporadic and your low income can be a nightmare.

Inherently broken product/price platform. There's a reason it doesn't take off at the pace they expected to. It's marketed to poor kids but it's priced for the rich.

If your rich enough to afford game streaming and all the baggage it requires you just buy a gaming pc or console outright anyways. Folks like owning things, game streaming you own nothing and pay forever. Lose lose proposition.

  Much like how a nailgun won't just magically build you a house, it'll just let you build one quicker. 

Need to sort a heap of data into x y z or convert it from x to y? Llm will show me the way, now I don't need to hire someone to do it for me.

But alas, so many seem to think a language interpretation tool is actually a do it all one stop shop of production. Pebkac, your using the tool wrong.

I'm not a mathematician, hell i did general maths at school. Currently I've been talking through scripting a method to mix dsd audio files natively without converting to tradional pcm. I'm about to use gpt to craft these scripts. There is no way I could have done this myself without years of learning. Now all I have to do is wait half a day so I can use my free gpt o credits to code it for me (I'm broke af so can't afford subs). The productivity gains are insane. I'd pay for this in a heartbeat if I could afford it.

Patents = a challenge to circumnavigate. Nobody likes paying absurd license fees and we a small country if it's gonna be too difficult it'll get left as dead tech. There's plenty of examples of good tech that is killed by Patents restricting their market because manufacturers/suppliers don't wanna pay the fee.

Also you have a lot of questions in the last 3 months related to startups, patenting and funding. I'm assuming your an early game builder on some product or service and you think it'll make a buck. Sure protect your ip, but you'll make easier money in aus just offering the product/service better than competitors and keeping your IP hidden and secret. Soon as you patent you set the terms and conditions of the game, and the game is to produce whatever you've patented in a way that doesn't infringe and bypasses your fees.

In the end the lawyers are the big ticket winners.

2. Devices work way better with other devices. I can plug it in to any laptop or computer and without any other software access the device. No downloading iTunes to do basic functions.

3. I can slap just about any usb-c peripheral into my phone and it just works. Need to test a eth connection onsite? Just whip out my laptops eth dongle and off I go.

4. Menus actually let me access phone functions.

5. OS is actually easier to get around and do stuff. Nice simple buttons overlayed on bottom of screen, easy af to navigate. I can train an 70 year old to use an android phone as the menus and system layout make sense. Apples a bloody nightmare to use for basic functionality.

6. Doesn't get bricked because it's "too old" because the mob who sold it to me are having a money grab trying to force me to update because they say so.

7. More price competition due to more companies selling devices.I can buy brand new android rigs that have all the basic functionality for dirt cheap with a warranty. Monopolies rarely provide value to the user.

Need backup of your data? Couple of nucs with external hdds. One at site, one at business owners home. Way cheaper than ongoing cloud costs for a few tb. And business owners like one off costs not ongoing overheads. One off cost is a easy asset write off they think about once not an ongoing monthly fee that jacks up their baseline and can change at anytime. No service provider lockin, data storage is mostly dumb compute, so set and forget.

You might not consider it best practice...but it is the way amongst smbs. Why pay a monthly fee to some msp who stings you out the wazoo when you can slap down a single setup fee for 1/5th their annual cost if a msp were to do it?

The same is starting to happen to local llms. Company of 50 people? You wanna drop a grand a month on openai(12k a year?) Have no control of ya data and not be able to train on local files? Or drop 4k to 6k on a machine and 2k on a tech to come and do some maintenance quarterly?

Clouds cool if you don't mind throwing money in the bin but it's overpriced for alotta smbs. Turns out your one warehouse and office doesn't need multiple high availability clusters scattered across the country...it just needs 3,2 1 backup.

Companies have zero loyalty to you. Show them the same.

I ran a very vague "dab olympics" comp once at a festival. It was in the early days of dabbing becoming a thing. Someone gave us an ouce or so of the stuff and we did out doses about as thick as a piece of string and about an inch long. Turns out that's a monumental dose of thc.

The rules of the comp were, come have a dab then come back and tell us about your experience. Have another and do the same on day 2. We picked the winner off who enjoyed it the most/actually remembered to come back for a yarn ans so on. Gave away a 200 buck dab rig. Free entry.

The amount of folks who hadn't consumed cannabis before and came back with stories of the most visual hallucinations and body trip experiences was pretty surprising. Turns out we send a few folks who were regular lsd consumers off to the moon and back. Woops. No injuries, was a pretty fun weekend. Sample size of about 30 lol.

There are zero arguments that private Healthcare should exist.

Housing problems come from legislation that promotes housing as an investment.it also comes from protectionist legislation that keeps the profits of housing and realestate investors safe. Long list of contributing factors. Almost entirely artificially created. Things such as but not limited to, foreign ownership laws, negative gearing, investment incentives, lack of supply, consistent growth in demand and so on.

Tbh given both those apps company's have dealings with gov in aus I'm gonna say signals probably already got a backdoor into em. If you don't think so you don't know aus law well enough or who signals are.

Also the owners of the apps aren't liable for the content of the conversations. Their liable for providing a platform for the conversation to take place and for not knowingly taking available efforts to curb criminal activity on that platfor/service. It's like hey I'm gonna rent you a store house to hide all your illegal drugs in Mr gang member. I'm not doing the hiding or anything but I'm assisting the activity by providing the store house. I could make efforts to curb such activity like you know doing a rental inspection once every six months but I choose not to and turn a blind eye. Am I assisting a crime or am I completely innocent? Now repeat this but telegram is the store house.

Something I've found over the years is the vast majority of stuff is easy to do and easy to learn. The hard part is finding the correct language to use to describe the problem or the solution that you are after. ChatGPT is great for this. I can ask it roughly in lamens terms from a descriptor of something and get the technical terms that let me research a solution 10x quicker than if I just googled my way around the interwebs blindly.

I also use it for writing the general bulk of an email. Ill run through and correct it/rewrite it a bit in my own words but it gets the ball rolling and is great for giving ideas on structure rather than content.

Just all round dealing with Apple and their products is a effin nightmare. It's impossible to explain ethics to Apple users too. They literally have their head in the sand. Apples so crap to service and work with its gotten to the point where I just double my rate to 160 an hour if you want to bring an apple device anywhere near me just to discourage it. Please if you have apple take your business elsewhere. But alas they keep coming and I keep replacing macbooks with real work machines.