Worked well but always annoying toggling that on/off since all my traffic went over WG and some apps (bank, Pokemon Go, Netflix) didn’t like that my source IP was a VPS.
For the record, with wireguard you can configure AllowedIPs on the client such that internet traffic isn't routed through the tunnel. Basically, don't use the wildcard 0.0.0.0/0 and instead set the wireguard network and the LAN subnet that Home Assistant is on if you need to access other devices.
There's one on kbin but not very active yet.
I'm not an expert on this but I'll try:
Rental prices have been pretty bad across the board since the pandemic, but I understand it's dropped back a little in regional areas since people have been moving back to the cities. Inflation has given landlords the excuse to pump up prices repeatedly. Some of it due to their own mortgage repayments going up, but the rest due to greed. Things are bad enough in the cities that some people are living out of their cars because they can't afford the rent, or because there simply isn't an available place to rent. And regional areas are constrained in supply due to holiday homes and airbnb etc which of course raises prices as well.
House prices are expensive everywhere, but cheaper in regional areas as you'd expect (but not what I'd call affordable). Wages are fairly high on average in Australia but the price to income ratio is very high, so it's tough for many people to afford a home. And the ability to get a loan has become more challenging since interest rates have risen, and lending requirements have become somewhat more stringent. Some in the cities will do the whole long commute thing and save some money while having more opportunities for high wage employment, but it's still expensive.
So the short answer is that it's not really affordable anywhere to rent or buy, but it will depend on one's individual circumstances. Definitely not a good situation all in all, but seems to mirror most Western democracies in recent years.
This tells you everything you need to know about Dutton's position:
Dutton will make the comments on Friday at an event organised by the Institute of Public Affairs, a Liberal-aligned thinktank that has publicly opposed curbs on coal-fired power and has lobbied against the net zero by 2050 policy.
Minns Labor government also considering closing a loophole allowing multiple rent hikes in a single year
We'll see if this actually happens. This line sticks out to me as well:
>closing a loophole allowing multiple rent hikes a year and forcing landlords to offer tenants a free way to pay electronically.
I haven't run into that myself, but I understand some tenants are forced onto payment systems that have fees, which is abhorrent.
It's probably more subscriptions that people care about, particularly since they are spread out and not always easy to remember.
I'll use any app that remains FOSS so that likely rules out most reddit apps.
You could self host bitwarden if you're technically inclined. Or use Keepass* and just use syncthing between your devices.
Australia also has significant emissions from animal agriculture and even without accounting for the underreporting, we emit far more methane than our population warrants. Mostly because of our export industries, but it does show we could have an outsized impact from moving away from these industries quickly.
But on the underreporting, this article suggests global methane emissions are 70% higher than reported, so it's probably broadly similar with Australia specifically (not that it makes it okay).
Methane emissions from Australia’s fossil fuel industry are nearly twice as bad as reported, and polluters will have to double their planned emission cuts to make up for it.
A massive discrepancy between the methane emissions reported by gas and coal companies in Australia and the reality means that the country’s big emitters will need to double their rates of emission cuts by 2030, says a new report from the research group IEEFA.
Australian coal miners are underestimating their methane emissions by 81 per cent and gas companies by 92 per cent, says the report Gross under-reporting of fugitive methane missions has big implications for industry.
“According to the IEA estimates, Australia is currently omitting 28 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent (MtCO2e) of fugitive methane emissions from its inventory, which is about 6 per cent of its total emissions,” says IEEFA Australia CEO Amandine Denis-Ryan.
“It is critical to correct these underestimates as soon as possible, in particular in the context of the declining cap set on Australia’s largest industrial emitters as part of the Safeguard Mechanism.
“The under-reporting will have a very material impact on the Safeguard Mechanism baseline declines. Based on our calculations, the baseline decline rate would need to be doubled from 4.9 per cent to 9.8 per cent a year for covered facilities.”
Although it has a shorter life in the atmosphere, methane is a far more damaging greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. This is because it absorbs much more energy than CO2 while it exists in the atmosphere – warming 82 times more than CO2 over a 20-year period.
To date, in Australia, most companies have reported estimates of methane emissions. But satellite data is proving those guesses to be fantastical fictions.
Disturbing IEA data from February shows methane emissions from energy production in Australia are 63 per cent higher than federal government estimates.
Already one report, from lobby group Lock The Gate, says methane emissions will make up 70 per cent of the CO2-e budget under the Safeguard Mechanism.
The alternative to forcing Safeguard gas and coal facilities to rapidly reduce their emissions is to ramp up pressure on other industries in Australia, the IEEFA report says, in order to meet the federal 43 per cent emissions reduction by 2030 target.
Under the Safeguard Mechanism, Australia’s 215 biggest emitters must cap carbon dioxide equivalent pollution by a reducing rate every year, with a hard cap on their total net emissions so the maximum level never exceeds today’s 140 million tonnes of CO2-e.
“With such strong implications, it is critical that methane emissions under-reporting is corrected as soon as possible to provide clarity on how its impact will be managed,” the report said.
“Australia joined the Global Methane Pledge, which aims to reduce global methane emissions by at least 30 per cent below 2020 levels by 2030, but did not specify a domestic methane reduction target or a plan for how it will address them.
“Our analysis highlights the importance of developing such a plan to ensure Australia’s industry and households do not bear the brunt of the cost to compensate for the gross under-reporting of emissions by the coal, oil and gas industries.”
One suggestion is to follow the US example of giving new powers to environmental agencies to monitor and reduce emissions from the oil and gas sector.
The new Methane Emissions Reduction Program in the US offers a carrot of financial and technical assistance to improve, and a stick of waste emissions charges starting at US$900 a metric tonne from 2024 for methane from facilities that report more than 25,000 tCO2e per year, increasing to $1,200 in 2025, and $1,500 from 2026.
The random YELLING throughout the text doesn't make me feel inclined to take it seriously. That's not necessarily a criticism of the content either, so agreed on your point.
DNS adblocking doesn't help with ads served on the same host as the content, so you typically need ublock origin or similar as well. But yeah, OP is being a bit hyperbolic but you can certainly set things up such that is exceedingly rare.
Live sport is the only place I'm still assaulted by advertisements, and I'm not willing to pay Murdoch to avoid (some) of it.
I'll add that in theory it takes longer to install underground transmission lines (although community opposition of overhead lines could change that calculus). This is relevant because a significant number of investors won't invest their money unless they have certainty that the transmission lines will be ready when they are finished building. I'd prefer the government just build the bulk renewables (wind and solar), but for better or worse most governments would prefer to outsource some or most of the work to private investment.
Here's a PDF from TransGrid related to HumeLink, which outlines some of the pros/cons for that project specifically.
EDIT: And the full study.
Breezy Weather is an active fork of Geometric Weather (the latter is abandoned).
Yes that's an annoyance but I would expect support for that in the medium term.
AKG K371 + Qudelix 5k (for when I want BT support) with PEQ using pipewire built in eq (although this model doesn't require it).
I may get a pair of Audeze Maxwell down the line, although I'm not sure if the 2.4Ghz wireless is supported on Linux.
I'm waiting for more comprehensive offline support, but it does look promising. DSub and Ultrasonic are other good FOSS subsonic clients (although DSub isn't being actively developed).
EDIT: Actually looks like there has been some recent activity with DSub, which is great to see.
Syncthing, KeepassDX, F-Droid.
Although in reality, most apps I use could be plausibly replaced with other alternatives.