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I’m not sure. I want a Linux Phone or compact tablet with a premium quality camera.

I would be happy if it does not have a capability to run Android Apps; only native KDE or GNOME apps. I would also be happy if it doesn’t support X and only works with Wayland.

The legacy of X, iOS and Android is a liability.

After this he joined DOGI and went to the Library of Congress.

I reckon that the next phone I get will be a Linux Phone.

I will keep my iPhone mini for those things where I need an Android or iPhone (banking, government, etc), but my daily driver will be something that I have complete control over.

Time to watch Glass Onion again.

The majority of them have a GVM of 3495kg, which is just below the threshold of requiring an upgraded licence.

I am pretty sure they do get kitted out above the GVM without a legal GVM upgrade.

I would love to see a VicRoads blitz on GVMs of large vehicles and Caravans.

The petrol V8 is comparatively economical when you drive sedately. The problem is that the majority of people who buy vehicles with big Petrol V8’s appreciate the sound (much to the chagrin of their neighbours). It doesn’t have to work hard to work hard.

The Toyotas (and Suzukis) are reliable, the problem is that the L4 in the Prado (and the much smaller one in the Jimny) need to be driven hard to work hard.

The pained screams of an underpowered 4 cylinder engine is much less pleasant than the rumble of a V8 (or even the roar of a V8 or the symphony of a perfectly tuned V6).

Different vehicles for different purposes.

My brother had a V8 VB commodore and his mate had a L6 VC commodore. The big V8 was much more economical on the highways, while the inline 6 was much better when stuck in traffic.

I used to have an L4 Grand Vitara and an A V6 Alfa Romeo. They had the same economy.

My mate recently purchased a V8 petrol Y62 Patrol for towing his camper instead of a L4 diesel LC250 Prado to tow his camper. He reasoned that the cheaper upfront cost would offset the increased fuel bill.

What he found was it was more economical when touring, but it was also cheaper around town as well, as long as he used his right foot and his brain to control the accelerator and didn’t use his testicles to control the accelerator.

As a Jimny owner and driver, you don’t need a giant 4WD, even if you do go OffRoad.

I do struggle occasionally when arseholes in giant light-trucks have chewed up the track before me and left huge, impassable ruts.

ICE Cars are getting bigger (and heavier). EVs are significantly heavier again.

The combination of passive safety systems (like impact bars, SRS and crumple-zones) improve your chances of survivability when interacting with a larger vehicle at the expense of weight.

The problem as that this has resulted in a rat-race of bigger and bigger (and less manageable) vehicles.

To deal with such large vehicles, Driver Assistance Systems need to be integrated, which adds more weight and increases driver complacency.

Impreza wagons are technically wagons, but more closely resemble a Hot Hatch.

Pretty much every subcompact wagon is really a hatch.

Not to mention heavy!

My little Jimny has a (comparatively) high grille and it will do some nasty damage to anyone who I neglect to see, but it only has 1200kg of mass. Still enough make people have a bad day and not the most ergonomic thing to lean against when it is moving. The Driver Assistance Systems are not great, but enough to stop me from making too many stupid mistakes.

These huge American behemoths weigh 3-4 times as much, have even worse visibility and the nose is shaped like a giant tenderising mallet. The driver assistance systems are just as bad, but meet a checklist of features that give the drivers as false sense of complacency and ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ from AMCAP.

I think you might be right, especially with school holidays, but oil barrel prices are influenced by politics.

Anyone else notice the price of fuel since the Election?

It was about $1.70/l before the Coalition announced their 12 month excise discount of 25c. Then overnight fuel went up to $2/l.

Now that the Coalition has well-and-truely lost, fuel is back down to $1.60/l.

I wonder how much of her denial was Denial and how much was avoiding guilt.

Driver Assistance Systems are there to assist a competent driver, not to empower an incompetent driver. If the second party is using these features as a crutch to compensate, or excuse their shitty driving, they need to be charged with reckless driving and needs to have the book thrown at them.

The Coalition probably used these models to predict what the Electorate wanted.

This would explain why their policies were so Tone-Deaf.

I’m pretty sure that all the other parties would welcome the Liberals leaning into the mythical Culture Wars.

It would make it so much easier to eradicate them from our political landscape.

It is almost as if they won’t let people in the Liberal Party unless they have run some sort of Scam, and gotten off.

Zahid Safi still managed to get double the votes of Rhonda Garad in Bruce, despite the exposé in The Age.

Fortunately, the Russian Agents uses SMS, which failed dismally.

They are making an admission of guilt, not an accusation.

She is right, it is the Voters that they saw through the lies and bullshit that her extreme Right-Wing media was spouting.