The bottom has dropped out of the OEM software licence market. Microsoft have to find a different way of making money. Their loss-leading hardware sales have not borne fruit so they are getting desperate.

All they have left is services, which means that the only way the can actually make money is selling out their customers private information.

The consequences will that their record profits since COVID-19 will dry up and they will need to figure out other ways of cutting expenses.

They will crash like they did in the 1980s and rationalise their business model by selling off their smaller branches. IGA will suddenly have a lot more members, Foodworks will be much bigger and Tuckerbag may even make a comeback.

The problem is that they have overcapitalised. Near us, we have two very large Woolworths within walking distance from each other. Two suburbs over, it is the same with two very large Coles’s.

Pop-up cafes would also be a great idea in old station buildings along Rail Trails.

The problem is that most stations on Rail Trail routes have been demolished or (if they are lucky) relocated.

Last year I went on a ride from Nyora. It would have been a much nice ride if I had a nice coffee and breakfast at the start of the ride, Lunch at Bena (or if I was fitter, Korumburra) and then ride back for a nice afternoon tea back at Nyora.

Defunct station buildings are the perfect size for a proper cafe or restaurant, and already have a large paved alfresco area for diners; especially on rail-trails or heritage railways.

The only reason why Dutto is pushing Nuclear as an option is because he is a crony.

Wind power generation has a barrier to entry, but it is much lower than Coal or Fracking, which is why there is so much corporate-sponsored astroturfing against it. Coal and Fracking also has a lower barrier to entry, but is cheap compared to Nuclear.

Solar is the great equaliser. Anyone can throw a handful of solar panels on their roof, connect them to an array of old car batteries and add an inverter and voila! Instant home power generation. Get out from under of the boot of Power Companies and be self-sufficient (as long as you don’t want to use a hair-dryer).

If the proles can get of free energy and no longer need to rely on The Grid, all of the Corporations that own Dutto will no longer have any political power.

Dutto is not offering Nuclear as an alternative to Coal and LNG to the electorate, he is offering it as an alternative to his lords and masters.

The PowerWall is a great product for what it is, but Lithium Ion is wasted in a permanent install. Other battery technologies are more reliable, cheaper, safer and simpler.

The only thing Lithium Ion has going is ubiquity due to volumes of scale. It is like putting a ESP32 in something that needs to be connected to the internet because it is cheaper than a separate microcontroller chip and ethernet chip; or how most Lightning headphones use Bluetooth because a single Bluetooth chip with integrated DAC is cheaper and more readily available than an official (or even a bootleg) Lightning chip and a DAC chip.

Also, go straight to your tag providers website by typing it in your browser, don’t follow any links in the message or email.

The term “essential oils” is both a valid description and a marketing gimmick.

You have heard of “vanilla essence” and “orange essence”. It is basically an oil that is derived from a foodstuff to extract the essence or flavour.

Marketers love the phrase because the ignorant plebeians interpret to mean that they are required (essential) for human survival.

They will try to pressure or force you into inputting your PIN.

The other risk is that they will observe your PIN because you aren’t using biometrics.

Nuke/Pave or have a decoy phone (with your primary phone powered down and packed in your luggage) for use when travelling.

And if you are travelling to certain jurisdictions, just leave your primary phone at home!

This is what The Algorithms have been doing from the start.

It is only just now coming to light just how manipulative YouTube, FaceBook, Twitter, Instagram are configured.

It isn’t about increasing Ad views or Viewer engagement; it is all about controlling viewer opinions and belief systems.

Great news, but does anyone else get Nanites/Grey Goo vibes from this?

They can STFU.

We don’t have a Bill of Rights in Australia and they definitely don’t have the Right to Freedom of Expression.

Legislation only works when it is enforced and there aren’t any loopholes.

Tenants; The rent is unsustainable and the heating bills are nearly as high as the rent!

Government; Let’s make landlords improve properties so that they are more efficient.

Green-Energy scammers; Let’s sell a solution that rides the loophole line between being government-compliant and non-functional.

Landlords; We can pay the scammers a pittance and charge our Tenants more.

Tenants; We are still cold and now paying higher rents and higher energy bills.

I don’t like the whole Darwin-Awards/Eugenics dichotomy but I can’t comprehend anyone stupid enough to think that having a fancy haircut is more important than their brains being on the inside of their heads.

You misspelled “murderous Psychopaths”

I know several people who believe that might-is-right on our roads and consider cyclists to be a “burden on society since they don’t pay fuel tax.”

The tragic irony is that some of them ride motorbikes and don’t see the hypocrisy of their opinions.

I maintain that prior to Siri, the Dragon-based iOS Voice Command feature (on iPhone 4) was accurate and functional for most purposes, and did on-device parsing. If I asked “Call Mums Mobile” or “Play Jonathan Coulton” it would parse my contacts for a contact named (or nicknamed) Mum and parse my music library for an artist who’s name matched “ˈdʒɑnəθən ˈkoʊltn̩”.

For whatever reason, Siri records my voice, uploads it to the cloud and decides that I wanted to call “Moms homestyle kitchen” and play Drake.

I remember it being sold in the 90s as a “designer drug” called “Grievous Bodily Harm”.

Every few years, it is re-marketted as a new designer drug to be fashionable. These Drug dealers are nearly as dishonest as Real Estate Developer and Tech Bros.!

There was a mob who have been selling prefab Barns, Sheds and Tiny Homes near us under different business names for the last 20 years.

Every time the get called out and prosecuted, the close up shop, let the grass grow and the vandalised signs fade, before they open up under a new name, doing the same dodgy crap.

The site is now being converted into a McDonalds.

Remember, Remember that the US election is on November 4th. Hopefully, no religious nutbags try to emulate Guido Fawkes because they don’t like the electoral outcome.

The baofeng runs at 8Watt, which is higher than the legal power rating in Australia.

https://baofengtech.com/product/bf-f8hp/

The RadTel is even more illegal at 10W.

https://www.radtels.com/products/radtel-rt-470-6-bands-amateur-ham-two-way-radio-station-256ch-10w-air-band-walkie-talkie-noaa-lcd-color-police-scanner-aviation

The power output of the transmitter is not what gets you range, it is the choice of antenna to match the terrain.

Yeah, we have some of the no-name UHF radios in the kids toybox.

We don’t put batteries in them, in case the kids hear something on the airwaves that isn’t suitable for young children.

We have one high-end Chinese UHF in the garage in a box. It was purchased because it could be reprogrammed to pickup all 80 UHF channels instead of just the 40 that were available for public use. It has never been used.