Might as well make myself useful and book an appointment for next week or so…

Hey, I had that problem before I moved to Australia! Now I just need to avoid Adelaide :/

I like the name Norbert. Old Germanic name meaning “bright north”; really not that common any more unfortunately.

At least be a bit more creative, jfc

I hope it’ll be brutal for Dumpy

Without a disc drive as well. Nah, I’m good

I am Proto! Security is my moto!

Cut the kids in half

[…] OpenAI is developing a screen-less smart speaker engineered by famed Apple designer Jony Ive.

Does anyone actually think that Jony Ive is a good designer? His style has always been very dystopian and soulless to me. I guess that fits with OpenAI’s new marketing approach, though.

Another W for MapQuest

I think it’s because you have to enable it first?

As far as I know they stopped making the Fiesta a while ago, the Focus is still being offered in Europe. I think they might still sell the Ka in Brazil as a small car but obviously nowhere else.

Yeah, the Capri is back in name only. Updated for the current market by being an electric SUV…

Edit: just looked it up and not only does Ford not sell the Ka in Brazil anymore, they don’t sell the Focus at all anymore. What a shame.

I honestly don’t think most of the cooler looking ones will release at all; the 2cv maybe. I’d be surprised if, apart from the VAG cars, any of them came to Australia

It’s very much a car for people to be driven around in.

Whoever came up with the concept of touchscreens being somehow more sophisticated and luxurious than buttons deserves to be fired. Actually, while you’re at it, fire the guy that thought EVs needed all the useless tech gizmos cramped into them as standard.

At least you’re not only getting the giant iPads, you’re getting a giant iPhone as well!

That logo is awful; it looks like it spells “Joovar” from any sort of distance lol

I happen to somewhat like the design, though, just doesn’t look anything like a jag.

Fandom is such a shitshow… I was part of a wikia based wiki for more than a decade and experienced the transition following the buyout rebrand to fandom/curse (it apparently wasn’t a buyout, sure felt like one though).

The first thing they did was fire almost all the local staff and replace it by their people, then the enshittification began; they introduced a new discussion feed to replace the forum function (which was basically just lazy a Twitter clone). It was completely separate from the main wiki and pretty much killed off that side of the community. There were a lot of users that just used that without ever stepping a foot into the main wiki, which obviously isn’t very helpful when the site relies on users to create and maintain articles.

They also trippled the amount of ads on the site and introduced a new layout that fucked up the old one we had meticulously created.

I left that place in 2017 and so did pretty much all of the users and admins I knew. Once one of the top ten German language wikis, it’s pretty much abandoned now.

I haven’t heard of Echidnas killing people…

Most animals leave you alone if you give them space, even in Australia, the swooping technically falls under that as you’re invading their territory but it seems pretty random compared to other animal encounters.

I guess if you want a cute bird that steals you stuff there’s always the Kookaburra

I don’t know why but I kinda always wanted a football/hockey jersey like that. I don’t know anything about sports, though.