It’s kinda crazy. Our electoral system has party votes and local candidate votes, and we saw a right wing campaign to manipulate the system. The left gained two seats, a new centralist party obtained 7 seats, and yet somehow the right kept the same number of seats, with current results showing the current right government can retain power. This is because of an unpreciscented 11 seat overhang (extra seats being added due to how seats are assigned for local electorates) due to the before mentioned campaign. The previous record overhang was 3.

Now people know this manipulation is possible I worry about future elections if we don’t tweak how seats are assigned.

It’s worth noting than special votes (overseas citizens, people voting outside their electorate) haven’t been counted yet. Last election the results of special votes gave two extra seats to the left. If this happens then the new centre party Opportunity will hold the balance, which is certainly better than the ones holding the balance now.

Yeah I saw that too, but that doesn’t seem likely to have been available in medieval times.

Can you quote the section you are referring to? I can’t see your title claim in the linked article.

I have Nextcloud on my server which stores all those documents and photos etc. I have nightly offsite backup as well as backing up to a local borg repo on a separate drive.

But as it’s that important to me, I also do a once-yearly backup of non-encrypted files to M-Disc, with two copies, one stored at my mother’s house. This way if my house burns down and I’m inside it, my family can still get (most of) the precious memories without needing to know how to access a borg repo and without having to know how to download from Backblaze object storage.

I’m just a little bit paranoid about losing things after that one time I dragged from a USB stick to my computer and when it was done moving the files they were all corrupt, and didn’t exist on the USB stick anymore either. Thanks Windows, a whole holiday of photos gone.

I have about 750GB of irreplaceable files on my server so I want a really solid history. A couple of days backup is no where near enough to give me peace of mind 😅

Ah yeah makes sense if it’s not just for storing an offsite copy of backups like mine is.

Is using a VPS cost effective compared to uploading to object storage?

I use rclone to sync backups to Backblaze object storage. I find it hard to believe a VPS would be cheaper, considering the disk space on those can be very expensive compared to object storage.

I guess OPs question is more about what makes you comfortable.

Is your drive only big enough for 2 backups or is it big enough for hundreds? If it was half that size would you still be happy with the number of backups? A quarter of the size?

Back when I used OneDrive, it deleted an important but seldom used folder. It just wasn’t there anymore. No one noticed for 6 months, but luckily I had kept a backup each month so could restore it easily.

3 weeks is definitely not long enough for me to notice something missing, if it’s just a random chunk of my 700GB of important stuff. E.g. if a folder of my kids photos from 5 years ago suddenly disappeared, I probably wouldn’t notice it for months but would be devistated to find it missing when I eventually went looking for it.

I agree. OP is 20 and not enjoying Australia, and has an opportunity to move to the other side of the world. Do it!

Here in New Zealand we call this your “big OE”, a large proportion of people will go and live overseas somewhere in their 20s to see what it’s like. We even have a mutual agreement with the UK to take a quota of under-35s and give them a 2 year working visa without having to meet normal working visa rules.

Wow, after the move to messaging apps pretty much any general phone plan here has free unlimited SMS, the different plans are about the data included. Even the $8NZD ($4.60USD) per month 150MB data plan comes with unlimited SMS.

Would that count? Most of those faces are like a single pixel of detail from the stage.

This is my understanding. WhatsApp took off at a time and in places where SMS was expensive. Because WhatsApp used data, they could keep data usage low and allow people to message almost for free.

Haha I get how they got to the name (it’s the foldable version of the 9 Pro) but yeah, it’s a stupid name and they must surely have been told that many times when going through processes to get the name approved internally.

9 sorry. My previous phone was a 7 so I mixed them up.

I’d be keen for one too. Earlier this year I bought a second hand Pixel 7 9 fold and I’ve been enjoying it.

You can buy it and I’ll buy it off you in a year for half what you paid 😋

Edit: 9 not 7

My phone tells me I have ∞ open.

I’m not sure how to easily count on my computer (firefox), I have vertical tabs on, I have to scroll, and many of the tabs are in collapsed groups…

And before you ask, yes all the tabs are important and necessary.

Interesting! I know if you look back at changes in my country you can see where someone has done a massive automated load of buildings (addresses as well as the actual shape of buildings) from data published by a government department, so I guess I’m quite privileged to have such good data. I’ve corrected some but it’s been at the level of it tagging a garage instead of the house, it’s always close to correct. The main issue I have is searching up a business by name, they are only in there 2/3 of the time, but I go and add them if they aren’t.

I feel very lucky!

When I put in an address it directs me straight to the right building. Sometimes I have to go on a place’s website to find that address but most of the time I can search by name.

Does your area need better Open Street Map data? Might need to contribute 🙂. I tend to write down anything that didn’t work so I can go and update it, but it’s clear there are many people in my area contributing.

Yip that’s the complaint about it. Lots of problems with no obvious solutions. I’m not sure how Piefed handles it.