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).

You could always fall back to Hannah Montana Linux.

GUIX, openSUSE or Void might take your fancy if the more mainstream distros aren’t quite hitting the spot.

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.

That’s why I love my Datavac, been kicking around for 10 or so years now. Decent pressure, reasonably priced. Only downside is the mains power requirement, and the noise it produces would wake the neighbours up.

It’s essentially a big vaccum motor in a tube with a nozzle.

fet.sh?

Ayy loves it! Saw Paul Van Dyk in Melbourne recently and fuck it was good to have a decent, old-school crowd who cound dance / gave no fucks.

Old-school birds who still attend raves have some wild energy about them.

It’s absolutely crook, I love my pixel but I’m not quite ready to wipe all contents, lose NFC payments and some application functionality.

Most of what I do with my phone only requires internet access, and a portable 5g modem is somewhat easy to come by. I don’t play gamesor use many apps (home assistant, Lemmy, grayjay and a web browser) so for the most part I feel losing calls (or finding a workaround) won’t be the worst thing that’s happened.

x86 handheld consoles are becoming more popular, wonder how far that tech can be pushed before we have a phablet / phone sized device. Actually… Didn’t Intel have some CPUs ages ago in phones that were x86?

I guess for me moving away from a pocket device and having a small Bluetooth handset tethered to something like a tablet / laptop would be a reasonable compromise.

Larger issue at hand is the number of devices that are able to install / are currently supported by those projects.

Even something like unlocking a bootloader is a daunting task for an average someone who’s even considering flashing a custom rom.

Considering regional variants of phones (looking at you Samsung) making this an even higher and more confusing task for the average someone.

The littering of tools for specific devices, requiring running on specific operating systems, the list goes on as far as hurdles to load a more open operating system on a phone.

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 🫠

Yeah take a look at TempleOS and it’s filesystem RedSea.

TempleOS is a rabbit hole in of itself, RIP Terry.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS

I’ve asked LLMs a few simple coding questions, only to question why the code isn’t working receiving an Oh sorry here try this malformed garbage instead.

I’ve asked Gemini to generate an image, only to receive a completely black image. When asked to describe the image Gemini would tell me what I was requesting it to generate. I saved the image, uploaded to Gemini and asked to describe the image. It gaslit me and straight lied that it was not the same image.

What a waste of time and resources.

From memory Paint on W10 is able to open webp, and save as another file extension if required. I had to convert so many of these images for product listings online, only for them to be converted back to webp…

I’d be pretty surprised to see lead solder used in these applications, lead free is the defacto standard and has been for a long time. Not in vapes but any consumer electronics device.

More than likely it’s the mesh coils used having some lead present.

Nicotine isn’t really harmful, aside from the rediculously addictive nature it’s what a vasoconstrictor?

Much like caffeine it has some decent properties for focus / cognitive abilities.

The main downfall is how it’s consumed by the majority of the population. Durries are overall awful. The stench, accidental burns and all the inhaling burning plant matter leading to cancer thing.

Implant nuralink into the zombies, it’s a free market. -MechaKetaMusk

too delicious for you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasi_goreng