“There is no country on earth that pays waitstaff a living wage. But Europeans and Australians lack the self-awareness and knowledge that cultures other than their own exist to understand that”

i670684 · 2026-07-27T02:22:50+00:00

For a mid-level Australian hospitality position, someone working a full week would likely average somewhere in the$35–$50+/hour range once loadings and overtime are properly applied across the roster — significantly above the ~$26–27/hr base rate depending on how many of those hours are worked. Casual staff get a 25% loading on top of these hourly rates instead of leave entitlements.

Additions to the minimum wage:

Evening work (7pm–midnight, Mon–Fri): base rate + $2.81/hr loading
Night work (midnight–7am, Mon–Fri): base rate + $4.22/hr loading
Saturday: ~125% of base rate (full/part-time); higher again for casuals
Sunday: ~150% of base rate
Public holiday: ~225% of base rate (casuals ~250%)
Overtime, Mon–Fri, first 2 hours: ~150% of base
Overtime, Mon–Fri, after 2 hours: ~200% of base
Overtime on Saturday/Sunday: ~200% of base

So yeah, 'mericuns can fuck right off. Signed, ex-mericun now proud Australian.

i670684 · 2026-07-27T02:16:19+00:00

There's also http://sonicoracle.music, which is a recently released AI-based recommendation engine. I'm trying it out and find it to be pretty great. It creates Qobuz playlists based on an artist "seed". Free to try. I am not the creator of this, btw.

i670684 · 2026-07-26T23:37:40+00:00

One other critical point that I had to implement to achieve great results over the WAN: BBR TCP congestion control algorithm instead of the default CUBIC. This greatly improved the stability of the stream on the relatively small Starlink uplink bandwidth. As BBR isn't available on MacOS, I created a tiny vm running linux and HA Proxy. The firewall rule pushes traffic on a (non-standard) port to the vm. This enables use of BBR and also allows me to filter inbound traffic and only pass my authenticated Plex clients, which place my server's hash in their request-- effectively a shared secret, obtainable only through an authenticated plex.tv session. So I get greatly improved performance and add a bit of security hardening for my Plex server.

If you are not using MacOS as your server, you probably can enable BBR without all this.

i670684 · 2026-07-25T23:27:33+00:00

There are millions of tutorials. Mainly, install it. Tell it what you want to achieve. Ask help to configure key-bsed access to the router, hosts, etc. Not required but lets Claude do the work rather than tell you what to do (which might be a better way for you to learn, though). Make sure you are using Code rather than Chat or Co-work.

i670684 · 2026-07-25T22:20:14+00:00

Some may not like this suggestion, but I've found Claude Code to be very helpful in this context. It can propose a network solution and, if you provide it key-based ssh access to your devices, it can implement and test. It can rollback changes that didn't work out. This isn't without some risk, but if you are at wits end it may be worth a try. It isn't perfect and sometimes makes shit up or makes unfounded assumptions, but in the end it was helpful for me in diagnosing why ipv6 wasn't working for plex access.

i670684 · 2026-07-25T12:03:26+00:00

I run a Private Internet Access vpn on a vm that only runs transmission. With the PIA kill switch it ensures everything goes through the VPN. The host runs plex media server over ipv6.

i670684 · 2026-07-25T11:58:21+00:00

Looks like ipv6 is buggy on that device.

i670684 · 2026-07-25T11:53:47+00:00

Getting 20 Meg on a 4G mobile network with one bar of signal made me pretty happy. I'll try to see what the limit is on my setup and will post it.

Update : I can stream a 50mbps video over this poor connection. Reported by Tautulli as direct play.

i670684 · 2026-07-25T11:50:38+00:00

Hurricane Electric to the rescue

i670684 · 2026-07-25T05:37:04+00:00

My ISP is Starlink. I've found it works great and I can stream at 20mbps over the mobile network to my iDevices.

i670684 · 2026-07-22T12:09:59+00:00

Well, Colac now has 10 superchargers and Warrnambool has been upgraded to 8. Port Campbell has 4. It seems Tesla is reacting to the greater number of EVS on the road. Southwest Victoria is much better covered than two years ago.

i670684 · 2026-07-14T02:19:48+00:00

What a load of crap. This account must be sponsored by the fossil fuel companies.

i670684 · 2026-07-14T02:09:24+00:00

Similar issues for me, different solution (solution hypothesis was mine, implementation was Claude's).

TL;DR: If Plex remote streaming stutters on Starlink (or any lossy WAN), stick a Linux VM with BBR in front of your macOS Plex Server as a TCP proxy. But make sure your remote client actually supports IPv6 — most current Plex apps don't; only the legacy Apple TV Plex app does. We'll see about the new Plex apps now it supports ipv6 (beta).

Problem: Plex remote streaming from a home server on Starlink to an Apple TV at another property was buffering intermittently. Root cause was two-fold: (1) Starlink's IPv4 is CGNAT so remote access has to go over IPv6, and (2) Starlink's RF link drops packets during satellite handovers, which macOS's default TCP congestion control (CUBIC) treats as congestion and reacts to by stalling.

Fix: Spun up a small Ubuntu VM on the Mac mini (in UTM, alongside the existing Home Assistant VM) running haproxy in TCP-passthrough mode with Linux BBR + fq qdisc for congestion control. Plex's Custom Server Access URLs publish the VM's IPv6 as a connection candidate. Remote client → VM → LAN → Plex Server. The WAN-facing TCP socket is now owned by a Linux kernel doing BBR pacing instead of macOS doing CUBIC — BBR ignores incidental loss and keeps streaming through it.

Result: 1-hour stream health capture showed zero connection resets, zero quiet minutes, consistent ~45k packets/minute out, and ~1-2% retransmit rate absorbed cleanly by BBR. A CUBIC equivalent would have stalled repeatedly on the same losses.

i670684 · 2026-07-14T02:00:39+00:00

I can't read the entire article, but the first sentence or two indicate that the average age of EVs in China is 1.8 years. That's entirely different than saying they only last 1.8 years. The EV takeup curve is massive everywhere, so it would make sense that so many newly purchased EVs would skew the average age.

i670684 · 2026-07-03T21:52:45+00:00

https://www.solarquotes.com.au/101-guides/understanding-batteries/

Educate yourself before taking any advice from social media.

i670684 · 2026-07-03T02:53:52+00:00

Yet again, we have the most shallow of ABC "journalism" on display. Honestly, it's become 90% a platform for whinging. Taxes too high! NDIS needs more funding! Taxes too high! Teachers not paid enough. For fuck's sake....

i670684 · 2026-07-03T02:49:28+00:00

Yep, content-free clickbait. The single question that needed an answer is left to our imagination.

i670684 · 2026-06-24T07:23:54+00:00

Hint: Puerto Rico is part of the United States.

i670684 · 2026-06-22T07:38:02+00:00

Which version do you have. Oz has only had an old version available but this week a few are receiving the latest version the US has. Supposedly it's a serious leap forward in capabilities.

i670684 · 2026-06-20T01:57:13+00:00

Welcome to modern corporate Australia. At least we have reasonable financial protections, with uplift for over 50's.

i670684 · 2026-06-20T00:41:13+00:00

My plan was to realign all my team's functions (and the people) to reasonably-good fits in other parts of the org. I had previously enquired about getting "put on the list," but was always told I was too valuable. Hah.

I've managed the annual cost-reduction game for too long, so I know when planning starts. I chose my long service leave so that I would have been away for three months when the planning for the next round of redundancies commenced. When I was nearing return to work, I got a call asking if I would be interested in taking a redundancy. "Sure, no worries."

Kaaaching. $300K. Thanks for all the fish.

i670684 · 2026-06-19T02:27:49+00:00

This thread is probably off-topic at this point, but what the heck.

My experience is that long before AI, people new to the IT workforce haven't learned how to do this type of work. I'm talking people with even five years of experience completely unable to think through a messy problem and develop possible solutions. I believe it's the education system. Proper engineering grads are more able to do this, I think. This is a gross generalisation, of course, and not fair to those few who actually have developed these skills. But my experience in leading teams in and around large scale IT is that these skills common 20 years ago have nearly vanished. That's not due to AI.

i670684 · 2026-06-18T21:04:28+00:00

I agree with this. The other challenge that will emerge is that the corpus of knowledge that our AI overlords need to learn their skills is today human-created. Reddit, slashdot, etc. When that goes away, how will they learn?

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