Anyone else usually have DNS ad blocking but suddenly the Metservice app is full of ads?

Just normal Google ones. Did they change something or is something broken on my end?

Haha does that actually work? I would think you’d see them in quite different places, and depending on the time of day you might not see a dog very often at all!

Heathcote resident, Thomas Healey said he was against cycleways in general but he was circulating a petition at the rally to submit in opposition to KiwiRail’s move.

“The safety is more important than the cycleway [itself].”

He didn’t use the trail, but its sectional closure would force cyclists onto Port Hills Rd, a 60km zone which was “a number one hot spot for speeding”.

This bloke is against cycleways, except this one that helps keep the cyclists out of traffic. Unlike the intent of all the other cycleways 🫤

Yes it was obviously a bad decision and when asked about it they reversed it. I’m tempted to say this is a move of an inexperienced government, but they have been there for almost a year now and Gerry Brownlee is currently the longest serving member of parliament. There are no excuses.

It’s brilliant!

“Why are people not clicking on ads enough, give me ideas on increasing engagement!”

“We could use AI to browse the internet on behalf of people, so they have to see and click the ads?”

“That’s brilliant, you’ve earned yourself a promotion!”

I tried KDE. Asked how I could get an application switcher desktop switcher thingy like GNOME. Got told that’s not really possible, so I’m back on GNOME.

I liked the idea of KDE but I don’t think your claim that you can easily make it resemble any OS that ever existed is really true.

Pretty sure the user experience folk are screaming for a path to be built there but are getting ignored.

It’s also impressive you kept a pot plant alive for 5 years! I hope to manage that some day.

Amazing! I went back in your history, awesome job with the pineapple!

Yeah, based on the link in your first comment the answer is that there is basically no way to test impairment without just giving people impairment tests. So even though we may have moved to this because saliva tests are a bit dodgy, it’s probably not much better.

Honestly, I think we should just throw loads more money into getting self-driving cars sorted. Well, I guess there is already loads of money being thrown at it so we should wait it out. Then we can just ban driving and solve the whole problem.

Nice! We have a friend with a stream out the back of their (urban) property, and the kids love it! They will wade around throwing rocks and poking things with sticks for hours.

Pretty sure that’s a plus subscription for if you want to support them. It gives you hourly map updates and weather and other stuff hardly anyone needs. But you can use the app fine without it.

I still prefer Organic Maps though.

I wish that would work, but I need a credit card with a billing address in a supported country!

Or I can spend $4k+ 😯 on the only one that’s on Trademe right now, but that defeats the purpose of having an upgradable laptop!

It can be cheaper, but it’s well known how hard it is to attract skilled workers to the regions.

There is a certain lifestyle that comes with it, but that lifestyle doesn’t always appeal. There are far more people moving to cities than there are people moving out of cities, generally. Many employers in the regions find they have to hire from overseas, it can be quite a problem finding skilled staff at prices businesses can afford.

They only ship to specific countries. When they started it was US and some EU countries. Eventually they expanded, they ship to Aus now but not NZ yet. And it doesn’t seem likely it will happen any time soon. They are also oddly protective, actively preventing people outside supported countries from buying their stuff.

I know it’s a risk I took when ordering from them, even at the time they were not shipping to NZ and were saying you weren’t allowed to freight forward. But that doesn’t make it any less frustrating.

I have actually done an order with some upgrades, I replaced the screen panel and hinges at one point, but that was probably a couple of years ago now. At that time I still managed to order with my NZ credit card, but it doesn’t seem to work anymore.

Not sure, I didn’t know that was a thing! I know that Framework have been known to audit orders and cancel ones that are going to known freight forwarders but I can give it a go.

It’s also not that uncommon for companies outside the main centres to have to pay more than the main centres to attract skilled workers. Why would they move to Putāruru to work for the same money they can get in Auckland?

I have a framework laptop that I bought a few years back via YouShop because they don’t ship to NZ.

Now I want to update the guts of it, and in the past few years it seems they have cracked down on freight forwarding and now I can’t order anything because I have an NZ credit card 🙁

I avoided it for most of my life because I viewed the content as a way to manipulate people.

This is kinda covered in the book. He talks about telling a story to someone where he said something nice to some guy and the listener asks “what did you want from him?”, and the author said something like “what did I want from him? What did I want from him!?” and says how making people feel good is just part of being a nice person, not about what they can do for you.

I can’t remember the details as it has been many years since I read it, but what I took from it was that people like people who are nice people, and you can work together for something mutually beneficial, it’s not about manipulating people to do what you want.

It’s also a nice, quick, easy read. Basically just a bunch of anecdotes.

Often when logged out the feed order will be set to “Active” (Basically time since last comment with a factor vote score).

Check that you still have this setting. You might be on “Hot” or “New”.

Its probably worth checking all your account settings to make sure they are set how you like.