So I’ve just bought a PC. I haven’t had a new computer for 12 years. The newest game I’ve played is Subnautica (and Below Zero). I’ve basically missed everything from the last 15 years.

I own a few games that I haven’t been able to play until now (Fallout 4, Star Wars Squadrons, Witcher 3, few others). Thinking I probably have enough games in my backlog to play those and maybe look at new stuff next sale.

The biggest problem I see with this is the scenario where calls are recorded. They’re recorded in case we hit a “he said, she said” scenario. If some issue were to be escalated as far as a courtroom, the value of the recording to the business is greatly diminished.

Even if the words the call agent gets are 100% verbatim, a lawyer can easily argue that a significant percentage of the message is in tone of voice. If that’s lost and the agent misses a nuance of the customer’s intent, they’ll have a solid case against the business.

I did phones in a different century, so I don’t know whether this would fly today. But, my go-to for someone like this was “ok, I think I see the problem here. Shall we go ahead and fix it or do you need to do more yelling first?”

I can’t remember that line ever not shutting them down instantly. I never took it personally, whatever they had going on they were never angry at me personally.

Then again, I do remember firing a couple of customers (“we don’t want your business any more etc”) after I later became a manager and people were abusive to staff. So you could be right, also.

I’m not sure whether this is actually a cool guide, or how an Australian thinks of US regions. But this map mostly aligns with my impressions of the USA. So, it may well be a pretty good guide.

You might like Civ IV, it’s square tiled instead of hexagon tiles. I’ve always preferred the squares.

Well, it has an all-time peak of 23 players online and an estimated owner base of fewer than 1,000. Based purely on those stats, I assume it sucks.

It has enough owners that they’d have spread the word if it were worth looking at.

£1,212 is more like $1,500 US dollars. Which is nuts.

The author has a MacBook and has discovered that the new Apple Silicon is terrible for games. Particularly 32-bit games. It turns out Valve hasn’t re-made these 10-20 year old games to compensate for Apple’s hardware compatibility changes.

Somehow, that’s Valve’s fault and a sign that they’re going down the drain.

It isn’t a monopoly though. Even ignoring the Blizzards, Epics and GOGs of the web, any developer can host their game on their own Web site and market it completely independently of Steam and keep 100% of their takings.

The monopoly on storefront argument holds water in mobile land where side-loading a game is not possible/easy. In the world of computers though, I don’t think the same standard applies.

I should probably know this, but why “threadverse” and not “fediverse”? The name Threadverse sounds like a Meta trademark.

This is fantastic to hear. Now, you just need to be able to vote at any elementary school and get your democracy sausage and you’ll be voting like the professionals!

Australia solved this. We have to vote.
They also made it easy to vote - our main voting day is always a Saturday If you won’t be able to vote on that day for some reason, there are small polling places open for a couple of weeks ahead of that date.

It’s a bit early to say “for life”, but my cateye rechargeable lights are six years old at this point and going as strong as the day I bought them. My biggest worry at this point is that micro USB cables will start to get rare before the lights are a problem.

I’ve actually changed bikes twice in that time.

That’s not what deport means. That’s displace.

Tech is short-hand for technology.
So, technology companies and technology workers.

You better reserve book 2, those books are short and you’ll want more!

Huh.
You are correct - there is a message in my inbox from you. I honestly didn’t realise/see it. I’ll reply privately.

Dear aussie.zone users,

I can delete photos. Just give me the url of the photo you need killed and I’ll happily delete it for you. But also, don’t (accidentally) upload a nude.

https://instance.name/instances

This tells you which instances are federated/blocked. Everyone should have an /instances page.

Love my Markus. It’s so much better than it has any right to be at that price point. It forces me to sit upright and have good posture.