I agree. OP is 20 and not enjoying Australia, and has an opportunity to move to the other side of the world. Do it!

Here in New Zealand we call this your “big OE”, a large proportion of people will go and live overseas somewhere in their 20s to see what it’s like. We even have a mutual agreement with the UK to take a quota of under-35s and give them a 2 year working visa without having to meet normal working visa rules.

Wow, after the move to messaging apps pretty much any general phone plan here has free unlimited SMS, the different plans are about the data included. Even the $8NZD ($4.60USD) per month 150MB data plan comes with unlimited SMS.

Would that count? Most of those faces are like a single pixel of detail from the stage.

Hell, what about 1 party consent where the person doesn’t know their watch is recording?

This is my understanding. WhatsApp took off at a time and in places where SMS was expensive. Because WhatsApp used data, they could keep data usage low and allow people to message almost for free.

Just that first thing

Haha I get how they got to the name (it’s the foldable version of the 9 Pro) but yeah, it’s a stupid name and they must surely have been told that many times when going through processes to get the name approved.

9 sorry. My previous phone was a 7 so I mixed them up.

I’d be keen for one too. Earlier this year I bought a second hand Pixel 7 9 fold and I’ve been enjoying it.

You can buy it and I’ll buy it off you in a year for half what you paid 😋

Edit: 9 not 7

My phone tells me I have ∞ open.

I’m not sure how to easily count on my computer (firefox), I have vertical tabs on, I have to scroll, and many of the tabs are in collapsed groups…

And before you ask, yes all the tabs are important and necessary.

Interesting! I know if you look back at changes in my country you can see where someone has done a massive automated load of buildings (addresses as well as the actual shape of buildings) from data published by a government department, so I guess I’m quite privileged to have such good data. I’ve corrected some but it’s been at the level of it tagging a garage instead of the house, it’s always close to correct. The main issue I have is searching up a business by name, they are only in there 2/3 of the time, but I go and add them if they aren’t.

I feel very lucky!

When I put in an address it directs me straight to the right building. Sometimes I have to go on a place’s website to find that address but most of the time I can search by name.

Does your area need better Open Street Map data? Might need to contribute 🙂. I tend to write down anything that didn’t work so I can go and update it, but it’s clear there are many people in my area contributing.

Oh for sure, and Organic Maps was a fork too. Open Source is awesome 🙂.

I reckon whoever that team member was introducing them all to CoMaps is probably familiar with the Fediverse, and may even be watching us now 👀

This is really cool! Amazing for such a new project too. I love reading about all the work they are doing. Also scary that it takes 35 hours to run the map update 😆

Andre the Giant has been dead for over 30 years so I’m not sure he can throw as far as you’re expecting.

Yip that’s the complaint about it. Lots of problems with no obvious solutions. I’m not sure how Piefed handles it.

Yes, to the complaint of many but that’s how it currently works.

How do you hide from those 0.5%? Blocking someone stops you seeing them, it doesn’t stop them seeing you?

Private trackers are private, you need account and to get an account you generally need an invite. If you don’t know anyone who can invite you then you can watch https://reddit.com/r/OpenSignups for trackers allowing applications for access.

You can only upload if there is someone to upload to. In private trackers, it can be difficult to find enough leechers to upload more than you download. Most of the content will be sitting there with many people seeding compared to how many people are trying to download.

To balance the system, private trackers will give you points for the amount of time spent seeding. You use the points to purchase upload credit to keep your ratio up.

If you’re using public trackers (that you can access without an account) then this doesn’t apply. If you’re struggling to upload enough then it’s probably that you aren’t contactable. To transfer, one of the parties needs their port forwaded to create the connection. If you have yours forwarded you can share with anyone, if you don’t then you can only share with peers that have their port forwaded.

But it’s pretty normal to spend a lot of time seeding without anyone to actually share to.