Dimand @ Dimand @aussie.zone

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I have seen plenty of places here charging a percentage rate for debit card use, as recently as last week. Not saying they should but it happens.

Who ends up benefiting from all the cash skimming I'm not sure, but chances are they are already filthy rich.

Oh for sure. Cash is expensive to count, store and move. Never understood how an armour guard car with 2 people emptying ticket machines made much sense, even back in the day.

However, the infrastructure to run electronics payments is not trivial. The combination of volume, security and reliability needed adds up in hardware and software. I doubt it will ever be free to transfer money in any form.

I'm with the RBA on this one. The price on the sticker should be what I pay no matter the format I pay in. It's one of the great things about aus.

Cash still has significant overhead and businesses manage to account for that. Digital should be no different.

There are variations of the Skull and Crossbones here that have specific meaning?

Nah mate. The transformer is usually used as an inductor for the switch mode conversion.

It looks like you have it right though. The big brown cap should be rated for 250v + and will be on the mains AC side.

The DC side will have lower voltage rated smoothing caps.

Post the link to the device or better photos and I'll have a closer look for you.

Excluding the rather silly clip on ring thing, all the TX type pots look to be plastic coated. Possibly not the kettle but I want access from the top. The Optimus terra range is great but again, stupid Teflon coatings on everything.

Also to the temp drop issue with gas, I didn't watch the whole thing but a strong recommendation is to get a burner that can also run on kerosene for cold weather trips. Even propane sucks in the cold, liquid fuel will run rings around it.

It's a skill that takes practice and experience more than any golden tidbit of knowledge. Food is wide and varied, what works for one thing won't work for all.

There are lots of general pointers, use more oil or, make sure the pan is hot first etc etc.

One of the biggest misconceptions that people have from Teflon is food sticking and releasing and worrying about that. With Teflon, at least when it's good and new, nothing ever sticks, at any point, ever. This is not true of anything else. Your steak will stick, for a while, and then it will let go once the protein has cooked a bit. Your pancakes will need to cook for a while before you can get them to release from the pan etc.

Part of the skill is the implements you use and learning to release various foods from the surface. I like a wooden spatula for bulky things, but I also have a thin polyamide spatula for trickery stuff. The sharp edge on that helps a lot without damaging the pan. You can also use temperature changes to get food to release.

Lastly, sometimes some food sticks. Don't sweat it. It's still edible, don't let it ruin your meal and learn as you go.

Finding a non teflon coated aluminium pot with a heat capturing coil for lightweight hiking is impossible last I looked.

Just removing teflon from stuff is a huge pain too, it's dangerous to burn it off, I might try and sand blast the Teflon off the one I have. I have to research how bad that is, probably makes way too much toxic microparticles. But it really shouldn't be so hard to find food appliances and cookware not coated in this crap.

Blender has a decent cam processor add-on. Solve space and openSCAD are other very good parametric CAD programs.

Solve space and openSCAD are both great options. I have been learning solve space lately and it is great. I couldn't learn freecad, something about the UI and workflow was just too unintuitive for me.

I was burnt by fusion 360. Had some of "my" designs locked in the cloud when they spent 2 weeks and a dozen emails trying to "fix" my educator access. The fix they really wanted was my credit card details. I refuse to use or teach anyone to use that ecosystem now.

Not defending the lack of updates in any way. But you can fix this if you login with a browser and enable all languages in your account settings.

Watch the media turn on anyone that tries such sensible shit. And then watch the voters lap it up.

It's crazy. I'm expecting a bunch of forced academic redundancies in April/May. I don't expect her to last a full term, but she will take a lot of others out on the way.

Currently at the Australian National University.

This is too real.

But I like the tannins!

"We have film footage where we can see a wave hitting the lock and the anchor drops,"

A wave, at sea? Chance in a million.

Wikipedia is amazing, and I have donated to them a number of times. But something just rubs me the wrong way about their current donation drive and anything I read about how much their higher ups are getting paid makes no sense to me. Why are the salaries so high? Where is the clear breakdown of server cost and infrastructure?

I stopped giving SSAA any of my money. I don't agree with most of their political lobbying stances, especially for reducing requirements around accessing firearms and legalising higher rate of fire guns.

Hasn't been any great loss.

I feel like this needs to be a PSA pinned to this community. Far too often it would say 2 comments and I would see nothing untill I did this.

Even when in power and offering cash incentives, the LNP couldn't convince the power industry to extend coal power plant lifetimes or build new generators. Renewables have already won the free market, they will likely never be beaten in our lifetime. Good fucking luck getting any company that wants to actually make money to invest in nuclear.

The only reasonable argument left for nuclear is the baseline and storage argument, but again the writing is on the wall, industry can see the trajectory that batteries and storage tech is on and know that by the time they spend 2 decades investing in current gen nuclear, it will probably be beaten by storage in the free market anyway.