Every now and then they standard update with sudo pacman -Suy will break some hardware config or package combination. Often the terminal will warn you about changed packages and dependencies, but you should check the RSS feed or website for breaking changes.

Anyone with web search and some basic cli knowhow should be able to recover things in a short period of time, but I deliberately won't update just before anything that is time critical.

It will also happily let you break dependencies, install questionable packages from the AUR, and let you do whatever stupid crap you want. I would describe it as easy to customise, easy to break and easy to fix.

I switched from windows to fedora as my daily driver in 2024. Fedora sucked imo. Slow updates and just difficult to configure in the ways I wanted.

Used arch install to put arch on my work laptop early 2025 and have not looked back. Switched my desktop to arch not long after. pacman is amazing and I can't imagine doing it any other way now. The look on the IT guy's face at work when he suggested we try obs to test a camera, and I had it installed and booted within 20 seconds was priceless.

I do wonder what the legal threshold is? And what sort of discretion can be applied? Someone cranking out bohemian rhapsody has to get a decent dB leeway over old mate with the Nickelback discography.

I was going to suggest trying them at a lower clock but seems like you might be out of luck.

It is pretty rare to see multiple fails like this, do a search for your ram, mobo, chipset CPU and bios and see if anything flags. Might even be worth messing with latency settings, XMP can do stupid things.

Anyone already running memtest probably knows enough to check stuff but just in case.

Assuming it's a reputable brand it's probably worth attempting an RMA, it usually has pretty long warranty.

I'm going to use this as a find the pattern challenge in the future.

A modern version of alt+f4 to change teams. Or f10 to switch your loadout. Love it.

Pretty sure it was just the age verification stuff.

So just make a single shift in the next few hundred years when it has gotten bad enough to warent it.

Say we are an hour behind local noon, shift your timezone +1 hour and leave it. You don't even need to get the world to agree, each area is free to set their own relative time.

Sure the UTC noon will be somewhere west of Greenwich, but who cares. That was always an arbitrary point.

Just pointing out that plenty of places shift their time by an hour twice a year already. It's already in our capability to do this.

There is an easy solution in 100 years. You simply adjust your timezone. Something we already have the capability to do. We already tolerate hour deviations from noon.

Think of it more like that the arbitrarily zero time point on the globe moves 1 hour west. But we keep longitude fixed.

The only weird thing is more places will go to +13 and some to +14. But that's all relative.

Wow. I can't believe this still exists.

I wish there was a way to truly punish clickbait.

My reading of it is that it does. How it is enforced I don't know. I assume the business would need to report someone for over charging them in transaction fees given that we don't see what the fee is.

I mean the RBA cut the credit card cap here from 0.8% to 0.3%. EFTPOS is down to 0.16% I'm pretty sure this places us near the lowest card fees in the world now.

Last I checked, the cost of cash handling here was over 1% of a transaction.

Indeed I did. The cost should never be larger.

Out of pocket cost ≤ sticker price.

That sure sounds like the desired result to me. The big sign on the ice cream stand says $4.64. Then I go and buy an ice cream I get charged, exactly $4.64, clear and simple. Mission fucking accomplished.

Oh I have cash in my back pocket, and I get a discount for that, sure mate, I'll happily pay a bit less than I was planning to pay anyway.

Are visa and MasterCard overcharging in their duopoly, yes. But that's not this battle (and they capped their fees a year or so ago in Aus to help combat that too).

The article highlights that anyone can offer a discount for cash.

It's literally just flipping to cards such that instead of an increase to the sticker price for electronic payments, you get a decrease in the sticker price for cash payment.

So to clarify the question, the point of the change is Australia maintains the you don't pay more than the sticker price rule.

And yes, weekend and public holidays surcharges on menus annoy the shit out of me and should be banned too.

"fee-free way to get that price"

What does this even mean? Money handling has been a cost in currency based society since forever. Long before credit cards, business baked their cash processing costs into their goods and services.

Also, read the article. They are 100% allowed to offer a discount for cash payments. Hell they are allowed to offer a discount for electronic payments and charge full rate for cash. Paying less than the sticker price has never been an issue.

No hidden taxes tips or fees. It's a core tenant of Australia, I should never pay more than the sticker price for an item or service.

Lastly, everything I have read indicates that the card rewards systems are suffering and getting worse as a result of this change. But I doubt they will ever die fully (unfortunately).

"When card surcharging ends, the sticker price will be the price that consumers end up paying,"

So keen for this. The number on the sticker should never be larger than the amount I pay. It's that simple.

I genuinely cannot understand the issue and the dismissive attitude some people seem to have about this concept.

I hope my pessimistic mind is wrong and snowy 2.0 ends up being worth it. I have toured Tumut 3 and it's an amazing work of engineering with decent cost benefits when you look back at it over 50+ years. But even inflation adjusted 2.0 has been ludicrously expensive, and with the progression of solar and batteries I'm doubtful it will ever come close to breaking even.

It has currently cost more than the entire rest of the snowy project ($8-9 billion approx).