techno_analyst

Yep. He's not the PM anymore, but he's still the MP for Cook: https://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Parliamentarian_Search_Results?q=&ele=Cook

I recently bought a new Logitech mouse for my fiancée and absolutely loved how it was packaged. Aside from that tiniest bit of sticky tape, all of the packaging was cardboard. And it wasn't the waxed type of cardboard that so many things come in. Everything apart from the mouse itself went straight into recycling.

I've personally been trying to cut back on plastic where I can.

One thing I've been avoiding is plastic wrapped fruit and veg, opting for the loose ones wherever possible.

At some point I want to start logging our garbage and see what we can cut out to reduce the waste. That's definitely on my nerdier side, and thankfully shouldn't be too hard for just the two of us.

So basically with all the solar panels putting extra power into the grid, they’re already coordinating thousands of distributed systems and this is about balancing those against the actual demand.

No kids, just lots of things.

Friday night will have to be something special for the citizenship + graduation (but small since we still have the actual events yet to come).

Friends have a 1yo birthday party on Saturday for a late lunch, and then dinner plans with some other friends about 30km the other direction. Then some other social things on Sunday.

The next two weekends are all clear at the moment, so we've got that.

Usually, the exhaust gases will force the water out of the way, which is why you basically never see an exhaust snorkel on a car that has an intake snorkel.

I think the question was more like "Would the increased water pressure at that depth put too much back pressure on the engine and prevent the exhaust coming out / force water into the engine?"

Either they were concerned about that, they didn't want water to rush in immediately if the engine stopped, or they were just being on the safe side.

My fiancée has passed her citizenship test and is now just waiting for the invite for the formal ceremony. And in the same week, her sister has received final exam results and is all good to graduate later this year. And we've got Paramore tickets for when they're coming to Sydney in late November.

So it's been a good week.

Today I'm back to work, and I guess tonight is the one night of normal before the weekend chaos starts tomorrow night.

They’re already looking at implementing a odometer based tax on EVs. They should just implement that for all road registered vehicles and leave the fuel tax as is (or lower).

I’ve got the next couple of days off from work, so it’s nice to have a slow and chill start to the week. It’s my last break before our wedding in a few months, so I’ve got to make the most of it.

I’m linking in from kbin.social, so let me know if anyone sees weirdness on how my comments appear (if you eventually do see this).

If the government can hold off from selling nbn co as a whole, hopefully we can see wholesale prices stabilise for a while once they reach the FTTP-everywhere point.

Though with our luck, they'll probably sell it to the lowest bidder sometime shortly after that.

Root blame is probably Telstra doing some corrupt dealings with the Liberals so they could sell their copper network to nbn co.

nbn co never would have needed to buy the copper network if they were simply replacing it entirely.

I worked in the service activations and assurance side of nbn co right when FTTN was starting to roll out. Install issues suddenly stopped being "delayed because no one was home" or "lead-in conduit needs replacing" and suddenly had about a dozen different reasons.

For the entire time I worked there, fault volumes for the FTTN network were consistently 10x worse than FTTP. For example, there might be 0.02 faults per 100 active FTTP premises, and 0.2 faults per 100 active FTTN premises.

Edit: though with some more thought on the original point, I think it was majority just the Liberals wanting to do something different in classic oppositional politics.

Ooh, nice. My hometown is on the list, so the family I still have up there will finally get FTTP within the next few years.

Those in town will finally have the option to beat the internet speed my parents get out on the farm with Starlink.