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Re: South Australia to fine drivers for blocking electric-car charging spots

Beau — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 03:44:56 -0000

The cable is locked while the car is locked, and can't be unlocked/removed without a key being nearby.

Re: The EV charging bottleneck soon to arrive on the Nullarbor

Beau — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 02:09:54 -0000

NRMA are already installing DCFC under the National Electric Vehicle Charging Network anyway - https://minister.dcceew.gov...

Including
- Coorabie SA
- Border Village SA
- Nullarbor SA

Not to mention some other duplication planned at Ceduna, Wudinna etc (being at least the RAA Charge stations + the NRMA National Electric Vehicle Charging Network)

Re: Tesla opens up nearly half of its Supercharger sites in Australia to non-Tesla EVs

Beau — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 00:22:43 -0000

And 7 seat EVs!

Re: Australia’s first tap and go fast charging station up and running

Beau — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 22:09:01 -0000

WA already has this and you posted earlier in the week :)
https://thedriven.io/2023/0...

Re: Gmail could replace your favorite package tracking apps for good

Beau — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 03:35:21 -0000

Unsurprisingly, no love for Google Workspace users.

Re: Video: Test driving a Polestar 2 in an EV road trip across Australia

Beau — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 07:05:14 -0000

Video still marked as private

Re: New ‘Apple Account Card’ now available in the Wallet app for iOS 15.5 users

Beau — Wed, 25 May 2022 19:34:01 -0000

The QR code in the iTunes Pass could only be used to reload your balance - it couldn't be used to actually spend money in an Apple Store :)

Re: Google lets personal users stay on ‘no-cost Legacy G Suite’ with custom Gmail domain

Beau — Mon, 16 May 2022 19:45:16 -0000

While it's good for those who held out and are sticking with Google, it's a shame they didn't take the opportunity to actually offer and introduce something new.

Still limited to people who were existing G Suite legacy free edition customers – no love for 'new' families who would like to use Gmail for no/low cost on their own domains, Microsoft & iCloud are the closest family focused services on offer now.

G Suite (and Workspace) users remain crippled, second rate folks, missing out on much of what regular Google/Gmail users get – like full Google Home, Nest & Google Assistant support – and no real way to migrate 'stuff' from G Suite legacy free edition to a regular Google account.

Would be nice to have an admin option to allow their users to leave G Suite legacy free edition and move across to regular Google, especially now this specifically refers to G Suite for "personal use" - takeout can only do so much (since you can't reimport YouTube videos and keep the same permalinks, Play Store purchase history, etc etc etc).

Re: Google unveils its free personal tier for legacy G Suite users ahead of a new June deadline

Beau — Mon, 16 May 2022 19:42:12 -0000

Happy for those who waited, but it is a bit of a shame that there was no real change or 'innovation' from Google here. Literally no different to where things were 3 months ago.... arguably it's not really 'unveiled' so much as a backflip of sorts.

This is still limited to people who were existing G Suite legacy free edition customers – no love for 'new' families who would like to use Gmail for no/low cost on their own domains, Microsoft & iCloud are the closest family focused services.

G Suite legacy free edition users remain crippled, second rate users, missing out on much of what regular Gmail users get – like full Google Home, Nest & Google Assistant support – and no real way to migrate 'stuff' from G Suite legacy free edition to Gmail.

Would be nice to have an admin option to allow users to leave G Suite legacy free edition and go to regular Gmail - takeout can only do so much (since you can't import YouTube videos with the same permalinks, Play Store purchase history, etc etc etc).

Re: Apple to rebrand iTunes Pass in Wallet app with iOS 15.5

Beau — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 18:31:16 -0000

It is in Australia. https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

Re: The Xiaomi Mi 11 won't ship with a charger in the box

Beau — Sun, 27 Dec 2020 04:40:27 -0000

Any advancements in fast charging should be a standard for all manufacturers to use - hence why Apple use USB-C Power Delivery for their chargers

Re: Google goes all in on YouTube Music as it kills Google Play music store

Beau — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 01:40:12 -0000

Yes - catch is that you have to use iTunes (on Windows) or Music (on macOS) to upload them though.

You can't upload them via the web interface.

Re: Siri makes the Google Assistant look stupid when it comes to music

Beau — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 16:43:48 -0000

Except GPM is not long for this world....

Re: Google discontinues the Pixel 4 and 4 XL before releasing the Pixel 5

Beau — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 05:03:47 -0000

I guess the initial launch batch finally sold out!

Re: Huge Apple Maps update inc. real-time transit info in UK, Canada, more of US

Beau — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 09:03:38 -0000

Sydney has had real time transit since the launch of iOS 13 ;-) Old news

Re: Some Pixel 3 units are exhibiting Nexus 6P-like early shutdown problems

Beau — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 16:12:25 -0000

And yet people criticised Apple for throttling performance so your phone didn't die outright when your battery is on the way out... https://support.apple.com/e...

Re: Google turns EU antitrust ruling into profit: Search providers will pay to be featured as default choice on Android

Beau — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 08:12:32 -0000

Because Apple has zero marketshare?

Re: Weekend poll: How often do you use contactless payments?

Beau — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 15:25:20 -0000

MST emulates the magnetic strip without the 'I'm a chip card!' bit - where your plastic card will insist on being inserted first, MST 'just works'.

Particularly handy when you come across a terminal that doesn't speak American Express' own NFC standard, but a 'swipe' works fine.

Re: Weekend poll: How often do you use contactless payments?

Beau — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 15:23:25 -0000

99.99% of the time here in Australia.

Re: App Store listing for new ‘Files’ application appears prior to WWDC & iOS 11 unveil

Beau — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 03:47:41 -0000

https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

Are you sure you didn't tap the 'Change Store' button after tapping on the Files or Activity app links?

Re: App Store listing for new ‘Files’ application appears prior to WWDC & iOS 11 unveil

Beau — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 03:43:13 -0000

This'll show up when you change your App Store / iTunes Store to the US :-)

Re: Why it’s hard to bring new Android Wear to Australia, and what we really want here

Beau — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 20:10:02 -0000

"Unlike Apple Pay which supports hardly any banks, Android Pay supports a lot of banks, and we want a watch we can use with it."

Hardly any banks? Both have ANZ, most of the Cuscal groups, and ING & Macquarie have announced they'll be on Apple Pay by the end of the month.

The only banks Android Pay has that Apple Pay doesn't is Westpac (and even then they only have a handful of MasterCard cards), Bendigo and Bankwest.

Three banks is hardly a difference between 'hardly any' and 'a lot' of banks!

Re: Telstra’s Signature Premium handset will be getting a Nougat update

Beau — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 03:41:46 -0000

Interesting! I wonder if Telstra will be bringing WiFi Calling as part of the update

Re: Courageous HTC set to release U Ultra without a headphone jack

Beau — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 19:45:27 -0000

You can actually listen to bluetooth headphones (and other bluetooth devices, like keyboards and mice) while onboard flights :)
I noticed it while skimming through the Qantas in-flight magazine last month.

It's only permitted while cruising though, not during takeoff and landing

Re: Galaxy Note7 devices in the UK will be updated to limit battery capacity to 30% starting December 15th

Beau — Sat, 10 Dec 2016 20:13:23 -0000

From December 15 all Note 7s will be IMEI banned in australia too - no other changes though - http://www.samsung.com/au/g...