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[-] xaxl@lemmy.world 58 points 11 months ago

Australia is a live example of the fact that they're not. The state and federal governments have privatised a crap load of services and all they do is continue to hike our bills while providing less and less service. Electricity, water supply, employment services and more are now an absolute joke here.

[-] xaxl@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

Should be an age limit for politics, like retirement age.

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Posts to videos on Imgur just show up as weird sweaty soccer balls in the app, rather than showing a preview of the video itself.

For example.

[-] xaxl@lemmy.world 86 points 1 year ago

Sounds like a skill issue on your behalf.

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[-] xaxl@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

A pen and paper, for work.

You know those people who seem useless and forgetful all the time? They don't write anything down so they are lost when they try to do things and too embarrassed to ask for advice again because they forgot what you told them. You also end up repeating stuff to them over and over again when they just don't do a task or mess it up.

Don't be that person, write stuff down!

[-] xaxl@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't buy YouTube Premium either and they have significant hosting costs compared to the this app. So do the Lemmy server owners as well.

I think the dev deserves compensation for their app but the asking price is too much, for me anyway.

[-] xaxl@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago

My only criticism is the subscription fee instead of a one off charge for the full set of features. I would like a lot of them but I don't need cloud sync or another ongoing cost to worry about.

[-] xaxl@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

I think he'll just deliver some reskinned FOSS projects at best.

Its one thing to make a color chart, its a whole other thing to make all of Adobe.

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I don't know if I'm just doing something wrong but I built my family tree and the website seems to have barely any information about my family at all. I found out more just checking out our national archives then what I found on this website. It's maybe worth noting that I'm not in the US and it does appear to be somewhat US-centric.

The best it could find was a couple of enrollment records for voting and a single immigrant notification in an old newspaper. It didn't find these either by itself, I had to manually go though the search system to find it. The OCR didn't even get the spelling of the name correct.

I'm not sure what I expected but it was definitely better than this, especially for all the pay walls they throw up.

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submitted 1 year ago by xaxl@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I'm not getting images previews nor images themselves when I browse Lemmy using the RSS feed functionality. Other websites work fine, it just seems I'm having a problem with Lemmy. Instead, I just get a link and I can click that to be taken directly to the image on pictrs. It makes browsing Lemmy using an RSS client a sub-optimal experience sadly.

Does Lemmy support images or preview images in it's RSS feeds and if so what is the magic to enable it in my RSS client?

[-] xaxl@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago

Why is everybody on these platforms "4 something" now? Politics isn't football, you don't pick your team and have to let everyone know about it.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by xaxl@lemmy.world to c/australia@aussie.zone

I have a loved one recovering from opioid addiction currently and they went to their appointment today only to be informed going forward it'll be $380 per session (used to be free). This applies to everyone except health care card holders.

It appears that they've privatised the pharmacy system behind it. Before, the medications for the treatment were dispensed by the hospital. Now they are dispensed by the nearby chemist to whom you directly pay your money.

Some people need this treatment as frequently as weekly. I guess it's back to the drugs again for most of them or more likely even more people choking up the emergency rooms and mental health system when they can't afford to be treated. Absolutely shocked that this has flown so far under the radar.

Edit: Did some more digging, looks like it might be the federal government cutting funding. Rip NSW too. Up to 17 addiction treatment centers are at risk of closing their doors too.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-05/opioid-treatment-funding-budget/102426466

[-] xaxl@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago

It's worse then you think. That "popular" screen is what's popular to all of Reddit determined by their algorithm, not what's popular in the subreddits you have subscribed to. There's no way to avoid the firehose of whatever they want to feed you, you can only go to a specific subreddit in the app instead.

It's basically unusable for me in this state.

[-] xaxl@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago

I tried to sign up for this junk and it immediately suspended my account at the end of the sign up process for some reason. Now it's demanding my mobile number to appeal it.

Get fucked Zuckerberg you tosser.

[-] xaxl@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago

Actually worthwhile AmAs have been a casualty on Reddit for a while and I don't blame the mods one bit.

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You might not be aware but Lemmy has RSS built into it. I just noticed myself so I wanted to check out the current state of RSS clients and well, nothing seems to be quite what I'm after.

What RSS clients out there are worth looking at? I notice several have self-hosted server solutions which is interesting. I don't care if it's free, open source, paid or whatever though, I just want a good experience.

[-] xaxl@lemmy.world 78 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Probably one of the few useful bots ever added to Reddit.

We didn't need a million and one spelling, grammar and whatever other stupid bots the place got infected with. Hopefully Lemmy doesn't end up with them either.

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