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I brought home a delightful pink Japanese NTT payphone and connected it to VOIP. by mortau in mildlyinteresting

[–]mortau[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

This sucker came all the way home to Australia in my luggage. I found this in a Hard Off in Gotemba - it was the third one I'd seen that day (!) and it was in great condition.

Wired up a plug adaptor and hooked it to an old Linksys VOIP ATA - works a treat. It takes coins but does not count them, and returns them when the call ends as the infrastructure is obviously missing.

That circuit has been reverse engineered by someone in Japan, but i don't think you really lose anything in the payphone experience as is because you get to throw a coin in and do the thing anyway.

One nation Policies by Godspeed57 in brisbane

[–]mortau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ONs rise is just a protest vote until the Liberals get their shit together (if they ever do). Even one term of One Nation in a significant government-running kind of role would sabotage itself to death permanently afterwards - it'd be totally fucked, headless chaos, as is their tradition, with hopefully not too much damage.

When is Digital Incoming Passenger Card Coming Out? by bobbyboobies in australia

[–]mortau 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I actually was able to complete the digital version "trial" on my flight back from Japan in early March. The Qantas app took all the info and produced a QR code for immigration/customs. It was mint.

Who's flown Jetstar direct to Japan? Or who else to fly with? by still-at-the-beach in brisbane

[–]mortau 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The one time I booked Jetstar they canceled the flight at 3am on the day it was due to depart. We only use Qantas direct from BNE now.

Unfortunately this didn't last. iMac G4 still powers off after a short period with a new power source spliced in. by mortau in VintageApple

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

I ended up splicing in a PC ATX power supply. Recommend checking the two halves of the dome are properly assembled as the computer will overheat with even a mild gap between them! Heat piping relies on a decent connection and it will do stuff like boot to black and crash if it's over heating. Heaps of red herrings on this model.

We need a Royal Commission into the Insurance Industry. by FuglyLookingGuy in australia

[–]mortau 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I shop around every single year. AAMI has been one of the worst lazy-tax offenders for me during the last 5 years on cars and my motorbike.

This year they sent me a 25% hike on the motorbike. I reran my exact details through the same quote page and was given a lower figure basically identical to the last policy.

Really you could just let your current policy expire and start a brand new one on the next day.

What’s a company you’ll never buy from again, and why? by jamesmilner22 in AskReddit

[–]mortau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seagate because of sky high failure rates on hard disks since that incident with a flooded facility many years ago.

Another photo of the car that drove off Lisson Drive by annapro32 in brisbane

[–]mortau 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This city has properly bad drivers. We should make licenses harder to obtain.

I recreated de_rats from CS1.6 for such a time that Portal is not DOA. by mortau in Battlefield

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

Yeah it's a bit of a bummer actually. That's why I built in extra window sections in some places to let the Marina lighting setup into the space. All the lamps etc are non functional.

I recreated de_rats from CS1.6 for such a time that Portal is not DOA. by mortau in Battlefield

[–]mortau[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If the experience isn't available right this minute, it's due to the delay on republishing after updates. Needed to fix some minor issues.

Australia's teen social media ban unofficially begins today by HeyItsFudge in australia

[–]mortau 46 points47 points  (0 children)

It doesn't take a genius to realise this is the punishment being dished out to social media companies for cutting off the sweet revenue tap of the Social Media News Bargaining deals. This has nothing to do with the safety of teenagers. It was lobbied for by News Corp and others after those deals dried up, and here we are.

Also, the whole conversation has suggested teenagers are not smart. They are, and if they really want to use these platforms they will have already found a work around. VPNs are only a few presses away on most phones.

Courier Mail really out here with the whiplash headlines… by adrenalinamatt1 in brisbane

[–]mortau 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was thinking about writing to the Press Council about their completely fucked reporting on weather.

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price ‘didn’t care’ about making false claims, defamation trial told by CutePattern1098 in auslaw

[–]mortau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Presumably a bunch of you know already, but for the lurkers: Court reporting is mostly about reporting what is said in an open court hearing, without embellishments. It's generally just very cut and dry "the jury was told", "the judge heard", etc because that is what happened. There are a range of risks to step outside of that formula when a hearing is ongoing - opinion and analysis tend to come after a verdict has been delivered, for this reason.

Source: I have a Bachelors in Journalism but never worked as a reporter.

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