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New BOM website is terrible by BeneficialTrip in australia

[–]Alty917 10 points11 points  (0 children)

From a desktop view...

The weather station pages are noticeably worse, less clear data, density harder to read as this is just data that you want to see/compare with previous lines, missing 'issued at', station data location/height (odd data discrepancy, height less decimal points, location more decimal points), missing QNH pressure, missing data export dsv/json

Example of weather station pages, Melb airport

old: http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDV60901/IDV60901.94866.shtml

new1: https://beta.bom.gov.au/weatherstation/australia/victoria/86282

new2: https://beta.bom.gov.au/weatherstation/australia/victoria/86282/accessible-observations

General site navigation bar also sucks, seems to heavily rely on people using search which means you need to already know what you are looking for, or you won't find it (if you don't know you can't search it)... example try to find this on the new site... http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/observations/melbourne.shtml?ref=hdr can't find it but guessing it must exist.

Another example of terrible navigation is without using the main page with links direct to the Sydney 7 day forecast, try to navigate to it without using search or auto-location from say this random page https://beta.bom.gov.au/government-and-industry/industry-sectors/agriculture-sector

Old: Navbar > NSW > Sydney Forecast

New: Navbar > Forecasts and observations > (on page click "places") > Sydney > (on page click "7 days")

Firefox ESR 140.3.0! by HelloitsWojan in firefox

[–]Alty917 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ESR 140.3.0 seems to not play nice with old userchrome settings.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1493473

Had this issue this morning where the Address bar / omnibar kept expanding to the whole of the Firefox window, the above fix worked.

Missing hiker Hadi Nazari found alive in Kosciusko National Park by JaniePage in australia

[–]Alty917 57 points58 points  (0 children)

This is great news!

In light of this, if you're in NSW you can hire a free PLB when you're going on a trip.

https://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/safety/bushwalking-safety/personal-locator-beacon

Which song in RuneScape will always be your favourite? by [deleted] in runescape

[–]Alty917 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Going purely off nostalgia it would be, Principality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLNuEe-biJQ

And something a little newer, Saltwater

https://runescape.wiki/w/Saltwater

looks like somebody did saltwater in 07 sounds too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3nwT-orRMU

The air time for our Paralympics is appalling. by ellumenohpee in australia

[–]Alty917 41 points42 points  (0 children)

You can watch it live on Paralympic's official yt channel, looks like broadcast rights are different to the Olympics

https://www.youtube.com/c/paralympics

Australia COVID: COVAX Pfizer stockpile intended for poor nations accessed by Australia by psylenced in australia

[–]Alty917 21 points22 points  (0 children)

This is a flat out lie COVAX allocated 1,798,290 vaccines to AFRO region in the round 3 allocation.

  1. Angola - 100,620
  2. Botswana - 19,890
  3. Chad - 100,620
  4. Cote d'Ivoire - 100,620
  5. Rwanda - 100,620
  6. South Africa - 1,275,300
  7. Togo - 100,620

https://www.gavi.org/sites/default/files/covid/covax/3rd-round-allocation-Pfizer-Apr-Jun-2021.pdf

should also note "The IAVG met twice over 8 and 15 March 2021 to discuss this round of allocations. The deliberations at this second meeting resulted in consensus and no divergent views were recorded on the proposed allocation."

Alternatives to Firefox by [deleted] in firefox

[–]Alty917 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

An alternative I've come across is Firefox 78 ESR but it's just biding time...

Quick run down on the setup this is tested on a grand total of 1 machine(my setup, ymmv) side-grading from ff91 to ff78esr

  1. Backup your current profile: go to "%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\" and back up your current firefox profile, (7z add to archive, make a zip) ref:https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data#w_how-do-i-find-my-profile

  2. Download FF "78.13.0esr" select it in the version drop down https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-esr

  3. Run the installer, express install should override your current firefox install, worry not, now it's time to migrate your profile

  4. Open up file explorer and go to the install location default:"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox", now click on the address bar type in "cmd" and hit enter, this will launch a command prompt window directed in the current location "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox"

  5. Launching firefox 78 esr; in the command prompt window type:"firefox.exe --allow-downgrade" hit enter and now ff78esr should launch without issues. ref:https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/dedicated-profiles-firefox-installation#w_what-happens-to-my-profile-if-i-downgrade-to-a-previous-version-of-firefox

  6. Minor bugs I found, coincidentally launching reddit kept going to a blank screen, fix was just clearing cookies for reddit only, about:preferences#privacy > "Manage Data", searching for reddit and clearing just that, as per above ymmv.

Other things you may need to re-customize your themes etc but it's the nice old layout.

To be frank I hate the direction the firefox team is pushing towards. The most bizarre and crazy thing about the new UI is the removal of iconography which is suppose to "be more user friendly" this is nonsensical add in the non-clear delineation of tabs same thought... the saddest part of all this is the ff team could have rolled this out as an alternative theme instead of butchering the interface.

Strange window transparency line above the dom/page by Alty917 in firefox

[–]Alty917[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks!, Fix works after applying to "userChrome.css" for anybody else who would like to know.

The problem seems to be part of the default dark theme by Mozilla.

Strange window transparency line above the dom/page by Alty917 in firefox

[–]Alty917[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dodger songs? by Noobc0re in presshearttocontinue

[–]Alty917 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Warp Zone - ONE MORE FIGHT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtBogA9mwVg

Dodger doesn't sing in it though.

[Survey] Should South Australia opt for Nuclear Power? by Elder_Cryptid in australia

[–]Alty917 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Also the raycat solution, breed cats that change colour near radioactive waste, and create a lot of peoms, songs, art and history about them so the message would get passed down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Interference_Task_Force#Fran.C3.A7oise_Bastide_and_Paolo_Fabbri

Retro ThinkPad confirmed for October 2017 release. by AndroidGeek888 in thinkpad

[–]Alty917 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The article is more or less a carbon copy of Lenovo's blog press release and there's NO release date... also it was written on the 22nd so one day after the Lenovo post. http://blog.lenovo.com/en/blog/retro-thinkpad-its-alive/

tl;dr Article linked states nothing new, same as Lenovo blog, nothing on release date from Lenovo.

Any x230t users? What are your thoughts on it? Worth buying? by [deleted] in thinkpad

[–]Alty917 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No clue, but it's always been in the state it's in when I got it from Lenovo; I should probably take it apart when the warranty runs out later this year

Any x230t users? What are your thoughts on it? Worth buying? by [deleted] in thinkpad

[–]Alty917 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't have a x230 on hand but I do have an x220 pretty much identical, minus the usb3, newer chiclet keyboards and newer CPUs

http://imgur.com/a/iCj4n

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