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  • Existing nuclear tech is dramatically more expensive than every competing low carbon power generation alternative and will never have any place in Australia.

    Future nuclear tech (be it fission or fusion) may be a different story, but our power plants are at end of life so we need new power gen now, the world is dying so we need carbon neutral now.

    We can’t sideline this for 20 years to wait and see what happens, the strategy should be the roll out renewables to the point where the grid doesn’t need any major changes. When we hit the point where the grid does need big investment, reassess available alternatives. If nothing has changed, roll out the grid changes and more renewables or if fusion drilling geotehermal or nuclear or whatever has come viable work it out then.













  • bigschnitz@lemmy.worldtoAndroid@lemmy.worldShould I buy a Pixel or a Samsung?
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    9 months ago

    I went from Samsung S10+ to a pixel 5 which was a huge upgrade. Pixel 5 to pixel 7 pro was a considerably bigger downgrade. After my experience, I’m at least a few generations and a lot of reviews between my next pixel or tensor phone.

    P7P:

    • overheats with light use

    • between 1/2 and 1 days battery life

    • persistent screen glare

    • worst android UI I’ve seen since maybe my galaxy s3? Genuinely so long I can’t even really be sure.

    • terrible build materials. Mad slippy and will break if dropped even a small distance

    • worst fingerprint sensor I’ve used.

    • most limited customization of any android in recent memory, combined with awful stock ux




  • Mine is borderline unusable compared to my pixel 5.

    Is it summer and am I outdoors? Phone will shutdown due to overheating.

    Am I using Google maps and the phone is mounted in direct sunlight? It will throttle dark mode to manage overheating .

    Have I been using the phone throughout the day? It needs to be charged before I leave work.

    Honestly I’d say my p7p is the worst phone I’ve had in a long time, it’s hard to go back without considering how phones were for their time, but my instinct is that the last time I had a phone this comparably bad it was a Samsung Galaxy s3.


  • People always down vote when I point that out as well lol. Windows mobile was already moving towards icon based UIs pre iPhone, so while the UI was a definite improvement it wasn’t the revolution it’s made out to be. The iPhone 1 had no app store or 3g so was not good for emails and, back in 2007 when flash still mattered, couldn’t access most of the Internet where windows phone could. I’m pretty sure it was successful purely based on the iPods popularity, at least until the iPhone 3gs and app store came out and it iPhone became arguably a better smartphone than those that came before.




  • Mid 30s Aussie living the the US. Yes I can drive a manual, yes I do drive a manual and yes I think it should be mandatory for 100% of learning drivers regardless of whether they plan to daily drive an automatic or manual when licensed.

    The quality of driving here is considerably worse here than what I’ve experienced in Australia or Europe and I’m convinced requiring people to drive in a machine that forces them to consider the next ~100m leads to higher quality, more mindful drivers.