We call it a sausage sizzle (democracy sausage at voting time) and they’re delicious 🤤

Yep, and it’s compulsory voting, on a sensible day of the week and even pre-poll so you can just go in early if you want to. And sometimes there are sausages.

Oh, no disrespect intended! Where I come from though we use cheese instead of curds, it’s practically a national dish.

Cheese and gravy (not the Canadian thing)

I have a whole collection of to-do lists! One for every conceivable situation. The only lists that ever get checked off are grocery lists, and even then I get home and realise I’ve forgotten something.

Damn, I used to like their crunch corners.

I degoogled to Proton mail initially. I didn’t like that I couldn’t search my emails (a security thing or something? But annoying) and then their Drive was absolutely useless on macos. I had about 100gb and it couldn’t sync even half of it.

After much help from support I eventually moved away to a combo of Fastmail, Mega and OnlyOffice.

Same with Australia. Seems a bit disingenuous to say it’s banned, it’s a government worker policy.

Looks like We Bare Bears

Yeah I guess if you’ve been using it for a long time and have favourites built up that would work. I remember when YouTube started and it was pretty good, but with every video trying to game the algorithms I couldn’t imagine trying to start afresh now.

The people that say it’s their main form of entertainment must have to wade through so much crap to get to anything good, I just don’t see the point.

I don’t get the appeal of YouTube. I use it for maybe the odd music video or something, but often you’ll just get someone’s annoying commentary instead of the actual thing.

I live without it and it’s great! Try it.

I see that makes sense. So what does making it public/blending traffic do?

I just ditched Proton Unlimited after moving to it last year from Google. The Drive app just never worked properly. Ended up going with Fastmail for email as I’m in Australia anyway and so far they’ve been good.

I’m still trying to understand searxng, does it start with nothing and build up its index each time you search? Will your results be rubbish for a while?

We’ve come on holiday by mistake.

How do you become a beta reader?

I read through all of them a couple of years ago, he’s one of my favourite writers and all the books are pretty good. They jump around a lot and try different things which keep it interesting, from what I remember.

I read Sleep recently, it’s really good!

Currently reading A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine. There’s also a first book called A Memory Called Empire and both are very good.