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  • Test drove one with my partner, can’t say it was impressive. The salesman repeatedly pointed out the moderm feature of an inbuilt dashcam. We patiently listened but im thinking ‘like it’s ok dude I’ve seen a dashcam before’.

    Panels were really thin, noticed where the bonnet marries up to the front of the car has two triangle wedges to make it fit neatly - no support under them, metal panel flexed with a gentle prod of my finger. Opening the doors showed a gap between body exterior panel and interior panel - instead of stamped & joined as one piece, loose bit of molded foam silicone filling the gap… plastic smell inside the car was pretty strong, moreso than other new cars I’ve test driven. These are just the things i remember, we found a lot of issues that just dont exist on a more experienced manufacturer in a similar price range.

    Odd style choices I can overlook, but yeah everything about it was made on a paper-thin budget with corners cut everywhere (that are not so easy to notice unless you know what you’re looking for), which does not inspire trust in longevity. Time will tell but I think these early BYD models will be rust magnets with the lack of attention shown to details.




  • The trade imbalance? With the US?

    Take back your war on drugs, the war on terror, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, your insane tech broligarchy, rhe 2008 global financial crisis, your Evangelical hate brigades (actually you know what take back Mormons and Scientologists and 7th day adventists while youre at it), the GLOBAL trade disasters & inflation caused by Trump and his pissy tarrif wars, the global derailing of climate agreements again by Trump and his idiot Republican allies.

    I’ll stop now because I could literally type all day the shit coming out of the US that has been causing immense damage to the rest of us.

    What’s Australia’s shit?
    Murdoch? He gave up Aussie citizenship and moved to the US in 1985, he’s spent the majority of his working career as an American living in America - we can at best take half ownership of him.
    This handful of censorship wowsers taking down some rapey video games?
    Mel Gibson?

    Enlighten me because I think the numbers of your “trade imbalance” don’t even come close to adding up.



  • I think I’ll just keep using tailscale until they start enshittifying, and then set up a Headscale instance on a VPS - no need to take this step ahead of time, right?

    I mean, all the people saying they can avoid any issues by doing the above - what’s to stop Tailscale dropping support for Headscale in future if they’re serious about enshitification? Their Linux & Android clients are open source, but not IOS or Windows so they could easily block access for them.

    My point being - I’ll worry when there is something substantial to worry about, til then they can know I’m using like 3 devices and a github account to authenticate. MagicDNS and the reliability of the clients is just too good for me to switch over mild funding concerns.










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    6 months ago

    Like the other commenter said, I dunno how the heck the griefers find the servers - but if it’s on the open Internet, they do.

    I set up a server for me an a handful of mates - advertised the address nowhere. They told nobody. A month in a friend and I were playing as usual, and a player with a Russian username joined. I’m like “uh hi who are you?”. They stayed another minute or two while saying nothing, then left.

    I think they left when they realized i had an anti-griefer permissions mod that protects the blocks in an area around the spawn point from being modified (its called ‘Flan’). So they joined, saw the server had some protections, and decided it wouldn’t be much fun for them.

    Whitelist immediately enabled - no more random Russians.


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    7 months ago

    In addition to other advice here just be aware that Minecraft servers are prime targets for griefing and abuse.

    I recommend setting it to whitelist mode and then each kid your friend wants to join just has to send their username to him so you can add the username to the whitelist. Its an added overhead but it’s much less painful than reverting to a backup for a griefed server - and your kid won’t have to worry about other kids on-sharing the server address.