Recent content by Johnatan56

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    New laws sent to Ramaphosa to sign

    It's not really, or at least not really more than before. You now have an extra independent board and public participation for boundary changes, and the criteria should be more clearly communicated to the public. There is still proportional voting across the municipality, so won't make too...
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    Lies about Cape Town data centre water usage

    That is a pretty dumb statement. Used as in it's no longer in the area, in the place where you got it from/need it. If it later rains down over the ocean somewhere or not in that water scarce area (wonder how it became that...), it's not very useful.
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    Hisense Mini LED Reliability: Great Picture, Questionable Longevity?

    The monitors pixels per inch are a lot higher usually, and you sell a lot more TVs usually.
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    AA CEO says the expropriation of land, with compensation, for Gautrain expansions will negatively impact Gauteng residents

    Because it is very, very expensive, and you need the area to be very dense to justify it. Once you have suburbia, definitely not financially sustainable. This is before you take into account that Johannesburg has a very large number of tunnels / mine shafts / unstable ground.
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    AA CEO says the expropriation of land, with compensation, for Gautrain expansions will negatively impact Gauteng residents

    The argument for a new home is odd if it's with compensation as that would be the value of the home on the market. Arguing that the price is too high for now is not really a valid argument as the price can come down. This is a conflict of interest issue, it's good that the gautrain expands.
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    Hisense Mini LED Reliability: Great Picture, Questionable Longevity?

    Okay.
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    South Africa has the highest criminality in Southern Africa

    South Africa also has a good chance of being ranked higher due to better stat tracking. Can argue it's why Cape Town has such high stats compared to some other places in the country (others are under reporting).
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    We compared the prepaid and contract prices from today to those from a decade ago

    Yep, I think the year of the first price increases on contract was the last year I took a contract (2015ish?). It's also just odd to take a contract when a credit card is cheaper, and for most your phone should last long enough that you can just wait and save up while you're using your current...
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    Improving home Wi-Fi performance for free

    Note that tenda has a hard coded password, is model specific, and their "solution" last month was encrypt their firmware (you can still get it on boot if same model). CVE-2026-11405 My cudy switch, 2.5Gbps, just died in the heat wave here in Europe, always ran hot, new Gen is better though...
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    Lies about Cape Town data centre water usage

    Notice the can, it depends on the power source, most renewable should not need that much water compared to coal/nuclear.
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    Improving home Wi-Fi performance for free

    Article is general positioning advice for the first bit. Your router being on auto for channel selection nowadays probably means it's fine. The 2.4 vs 5GHz saying 5GHz drops off faster keeps missing the fact that it generally is still more usable at lower signal strength, so it's often got a...
  12. Johnatan56

    When last did you listen to an album start to finish?

    Whenever an artist I like releases their full album usually, so every few months. Most of the time it's a few singles they've already released with then releasing like 3/4 new ones as part of it.
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    Thousands of jobs at risk as manufacturers in South Africa come under siege

    A lot of their costs are transit, rail not working and petrol going up is a huge cost factor.
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    Spur takes R129.5 million legal blow

    Would be doubtful of spur winning, their argument is that the board had to sign it when they had people in positions of authority, who were empowered to make the deal had agreed. It's not on GPS to prove that spur's senior employees were supposed to get the board to sign if they indicated that...
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    Important new rules for anyone using the iconic Sea Point Promenade

    Because it's usually difficult to speed up that quickly in a crowded environment, you generally need to put in some effort to do so, and rules like putting others at risk would apply if you're actually doing it recklessly. Most who have a normal/race bike are not going to be going that fast...
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