Don’t even have to go that far, just change your DNS to a non-Australian one. Anything that turns up from a “top 10 dns providers” search works.

I liked using KanBoard. Its simple and runs well inside a docker container.

Rio Tinto is moving to solar (and some wind) here in Australia for its aluminum refining and smelting operations. Would be good if the same could be done for steel too.

Yeah GUI development isn’t easy or straightforward. Thats why there are UI/UX engineers whose sole job is to design and create simple and easy to use interfaces. And they get paid big money to do it too.

If those programmers making ultra specialized software were to waste their time making a GUI, they would never finish the project or would require funding of some sort.

WoW, XBL and Eve are some examples

Subscriptions to online vs offline games is the major difference from now and back then.

I used to pay a subscription to play WoW and Eve because alot of the game runs on the game company’s hardware, which requires maintenance and upgrading periodically.

Single player games that have no reason to connect to the internet other than for updates should not be locked into having a continuous connection to authentication servers and there is no reason to pay a continuing subscription for the game, other than the company’s greed.

They should release decent DLC, expansions, etc if they want to keep milking the same title (or better yet, invest in some new IP instead of swapping franchises like trading cards)

I’ve got >500hours in Timberborn on Ubuntu. Runs flawlessly and never had an issue.

This site has a good comparison: https://privacytests.org/

I love it! There are so many users who could benefit from this: children, elderly, people with disabilities, prison/hospital/hotel settings.

They are also trying out old-school sail ships

Yeah I’d love to have anything near 100Mbps. Currently get 12Mbps on a good day, usually around 6Mbps. This is after spending thousands of dollars to upgrade the connection last year. Australian internet is fucked.

I use an Odroid loaded up with CoreElec ( a version of Kodi ).

• It connects via HDMI
• can be controlled with a normal remote control via HDMI-CEC
• can connect 4 USB devices (including a USB hub)
• no need for a constant internet connection
• Tv and movie database info is downloaded once and stored, not retrieved as needed
• Has played every file format I’ve thrown at it
• Easy to use interface
• FOSS and no ads