I'm much the same in my auto with dsg. Having a gearbox vs slushbox lets me shift down a gear where I only need to gradually slow down or sit in say 2nd on a downhill and not gain any speed.
My car is from 2011 and it had the right amount of modern features while lacking all the touchscreen climate controls and connected nonsonce.
Not around here but the major banks in my area still allow for note / change deposits into accounts. They even have coin hoppers in some still, great for cleaning out the glovebox / centre console.
Been a while since I've used one as I generally take my change into work and convert it into notes there :D
It's crazy to see the downturn in cash going through pubs, I've been in the industry for 20 years and remember when I'd started most transactions were physical money, these days on a busy night I'll count the 7 tills we have and maybe end up with 3k in cash takings. (not including the pokies for obvious reasons).
Ahh we don't really use cheques here in Aus. Payments being electronic doesn't worry me, pay lands in my account the same day it's processed, sometimes the following day if the accountants miss the deadline.
Sending someone money is generally instant using PayID, without fees too.
I use neobanks (no physical branches) so as long as their web interface works well enough for me, and I can use my own 2FA (not SMS based) ill be happy as a pig in mud.
Just wait and see if the climate turns to no physical cards in the next 5 - 10 years...
Banks allow me to login via their web interface, send money to a BSB + Account Number or even a PayID (email / phone number) but using their app to do just the same is too far?
It's total rubbish, honestly I've resurrected my OG ridge wallet and am planning on installing Graphene on my P7P to skirt the phone payment trap.
I was one of the few in Australia to test Google wallet (thanks for the free cash google) and thought it was the bees knees. It's a fucking long con and fuck I feel dumb for falling into it.
Worst still my drivers licence is a phone app, so are my work certificates and probably a bunch of other shit that I'll only realize later.
I guess fuck around and find out shows its ugly face eventually.
So vibe coding?
I've tried using llm for a couple of tasks before I gave up on the jargon outputs and nonsense loops that they kept feeding me.
I'm no coder / programmer but for the simple tasks / things I needed I took inspo from others, understood how the scripts worked, added comments to my own scripts showing my understanding and explaining what it's doing.
I've written honestly so much, just throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks (works). I have fleshed out a method for using base16 colour schemes to modify other GTK* themes so everything in my OS matches. I have declarative containers, IP addresses, secrets, containers and so much more. Thanks to the folks who created nix-colors, I should really contribute to that repo.
I still feel like a noob when it comes to Linux however seeing my progress in ~ 1y is massive.
I managed to get a working google coral after everyone else's scripts (that I could find on Github) had quit working (NixOS). I've since ditched that module as the upkeep required isn't worth a few ms in detection speeds.
I don't believe any of my configs would be where they are if I'd asked a llm to slap it together for me. I'd have none of the understanding of how things work.
Yer I host Plex for 10+ folks and it's an easy send. Really wish I could pipe it through CloudFlare but not willing to risk it currently.
I'll give plexamp a go, man my tastes are all over the shop so it will be an album dump (that I should have done years ago) spinning up some old cds and the external dvd drive 😂
You hosting your plex service for other users outside of your home? I'm finding the ease of access for other users / the wife is the largest driving point for me to continue using plex.
I could configure a VPN and attach my jellyfin server to that network however that's a large hurdle for some of the general population users I have on my plex currently.
For something on-topic the wife and I agreed that she should move to the student sub as she's studying and kick me off Spotify entirely. I've got until the EOM to get plexamp / something else self hosted. Interested to see what comes from this post as it's pretty relevant for me right now.
Admittedly I could Bluetooth to my head unit in my car and stream Grayjay music to it, but that's just leaning on an unfree service.
3070? I remember receiving boxes of these which were delegated to prebuild systems.
These were screamers, up there with the two slot 3090 blower from gigabyte 🫠
Ahh man, Australia have tried DNS blocking websites via our ISPs however running your own or changing your DNS (on your local machine or your modem if it's not locked down) completely dumpsters this strategy.
From memory torrent websites were blocked and some rom / game piracy sites.
For debian / arch / fedora based distros: https://github.com/Kimplul/hid-tmff2
Looks like it's not perfect however looks to be a good starting point.
Depends on network load, power is cheapish for me right now but much better than peak. During the day around 11am onwards energy is dirt cheap, and sometimes (rarely) dips into the negatives.
Provider offers wholesale rates plus a flat fee. There are some protections in place to shield consumers from massive bills when the rate jumps to $$/KWh