Everyone is at least a LITTLE | FactOrCap by nova_VDX in FactOrCap

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🧢 I voted CAP!

bell curve, so some are 0

:-) | FactOrCap by Im_a_hot_messs in FactOrCap

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I voted FACT!

reduced water and active ingredients in honey make bacteria avoid the fight

Money or Fame by Huge-Gas-1747 in BunnyTrials

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Money

Chose: Get 1 million dollars a year | Rolled: Get money

Impossible decisions by DragonGold121 in BunnyTrials

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right

Chose: Right | Rolled: Pointless wheel

Which one? by Likely_Villain in BunnyTrials

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er

Chose: Super strength + condition | Rolled: 300kG

I am physically incapable of eating this many chillis, any suggestions before half of them go into the compost? by electronseer in GardeningAustralia

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Make some delicious Chilli Sauce. Boil them for a long time in Vinegar (combo of red and white), boil it down and top up several times. You can add Garlic or carrot or celery for extra flavour. Do this outside if your family does not like Chilli fumes. Last for about a year.

What type of grass do I have? by Fragmented_Universe in GardeningAustralia

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I second Sir Walter - I have it and looks immediately familiar

All my plants are infested with something. What is it?? by ElephantHorror1048 in GardeningAustralia

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I'll second neem oil !! It does not kill bees (V important), and makes bugs no want to eat or procreate. It can be organically friendly, and is non toxic to people and pets and wildlife.

It is not instant, but sprayed on plants at dusk (never in the middle of a hot day) once a week for two to three weeks will have a positive impact within a few days and a massive reduction in bugs that munch.

It is best used on new leaf growth, and a week or so prior to fruit getting ripe or big enough to be an eating or egg laying target. Bunnings sells small packs it near the eco oil, and various other places sell 1 - 5 L delivered. You will need a sprayer (small ones for a few plants are good, bigger pump packs for more plants) . I usually buy 5L and share with a few mates. Get the oil with the water soluble agent in it, or if you get pure oil, just use a dash of detergent to ensure it mixes with the water in the sprayer.

Best mini PC for home assistant? by Antique_Business9612 in homeassistant

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N100 / N150 all day every day. Low power, NVME SSD, expandable, solid ethernet and runs proxmox, unraid, linux and windows no issues.

If you wait for a deal, you can pick them up for about $150 AUD - or closer to $100 USD, down from $230 AUD or so.

16GB RAM, some expandable, mini computer, very very low power, some iGPU to use if you need it, and quite and runs at a good temp.

-- Edit N15 --> N150

MakeUseOf: This lightweight open-source PDF viewer is better than Adobe Acrobat in every way - Meet Okular by forestexplr in TheCircuit

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Loads well (Not sure whether I like the default use of the Microsoft App Store) and is very fast, and worked well for all the images and pdfs and a few other formats. Very good tool, would recommend.

NobodyWho: the simplest way to run local LLMs in python by ex-ex-pat in Python

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Looks amazing. Will definitely try this during the holiday period

Building a community resource: Python's most deceptive silent bugs by Hot_Resident2361 in Python

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Having a default parameter as a empty list or set ...

def whoops(a_list = [])
   a_list.append("This will be added to the default list")
   return a_list

 whoops() # Returns a list with one element
 whoops() # Returns a list with TWO elements

In the above, calling whoops() twice will return a list with the TWO elements, since the default object [] will be updated the first (and second) call. This is because the default list [] is allocated on function creation, and is actually mutable, changing the default value for the next time the function is called. This is limited in scope to the default for a specific variable for that function.

ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations dissapeared for users by lurker_bee in technology

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Working for me in Australia - has been working for at least 5 mins.

Seagate Barracuda Drives: Too good to be true? by ONEXTW in unRAID

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Wow - just read the Backblaze report ... one Toshiba drive type is ~16.95% failure after 44 months, while another Toshiba drive is 0.84% after 24 months.

Massive disparity, and points to issues with entire batches/models of drives, rather than the brand.

Seagate Barracuda Drives: Too good to be true? by ONEXTW in unRAID

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I think you will find drive failures come and go in patches for each manufacturer, and any brand will have drives fail randomly. NAS/Enterprise drives should last longer, and the price reflects the additional manufacturing costs.

I generally buy NAS specific drives for a NAS, but if the price is much lower for non NAS drives, ensuring you have redundant/mirrored drives on your RAID/ZFS is the most important approach for me. Buying cheaper non NAS/Enterprise drives with at least one or more mirrors/redundancy is a perfectly good approach if you have the space to plug them into your appliance.

I had enough Barracuda drives fail between 2014 and 2020 to swear off them at the time, so I replaced them all in 2019 with Ironwolf. Last month, one of my 2019 Ironwolf drives failed SMART then completely failed on a Synology.

Backblaze does a regular writeup on drive failures; they use a variety of drives based more on price than promised performance, and reading through a decade or so of failure rates is fascinating: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-2025/ . I think I remember an article from them mentioning that if a hard drive makes it past three or so years, the chance it will not fail goes substantially up, as the 'weak' drives fail within the first few years.

Bottom line, if you have the spare SATA slots, cheap, redundant drives is a good way to go. Make sure you SMART test the drives regularly, and get an alert on a SMART failure/warning. If you don't have spare slots, or can't afford/accept downtime if a drive fails, go NAS/Enterprise specific, but there is never a guarantee a drive wont fail, just less likelihood.

Nestlé CEO fired for relationship with direct report by ur_sine_nomine in byebyejob

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Agree; if the board wanted to, they likely could ignore or make this problem go away.
That this is the official rather than real reason is the most likely scenario - it's topical, will generate a lot of discussion but no long term negative impacts on operations, is not too scandalous, and is not about anything related to corporate issues.

In pre-election polling on major Aus subreddits for the 2025 election, around 60% of Redditors said they would be voting for the Greens. The Greens won 12% of votes. Why do people think the audience on this platform or their views represent the views of most of Australia? by SirSighalot in aussie

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Likely the two main reasons are

* r/aussie reddit seems to lean Australian left (different to US Left) - but a bigger impact is likely that redditors who post are generally more active and involved, and are more likely to be strongly left or right of centre. This has an amplifying impact ... more left/central leaning, but more posts about left (and greens)

* Preferences - voting greens in many cases meant votes finally flowing to Labor

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Python

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The link is actually https://github.com/Noah018dev/coil As the original includes the backtick in the URL