Aotearoa / New Zealand

You may have noticed something different about our daily thread!

People haven't always had things to talk about each day, threads weren't posted each day so new conversations often started on old threads, and in general having daily threads didn't seem to be necessary. So the new format will be a weekly thread, this will be pinned in the [email protected] community so you can always find it, and we can have conversations there that we were previously having on the daily threads.

Roughly each week (no specific day) I'll create a new thread, pin it and unpin the old one, and we will start fresh for that week(ish).

Our parents adopted a cat a few years ago now, and they haven't installed a cat flap yet because he'll bring home a mouse, and they don't want him to bring them inside the house. So for now, they've been opening and closing the door everytime (they've setup a little security cam at the door so they know when he comes back), which unfortunately involves opening the door in the middle of the night.

So I've been meaning to try and build a "smart" cat flap that utilizes image recognition to detest if he's got a mouse in his mouth or not.

I had previously done a bit of research last year and gave up on it for some reason. Here's to hoping I get a bit further down the road this time, and have some success lol.

I just want to say that windows troubleshooting is unbelievably frustrating and needlessly complicated.

They constantly point you to tools that run but don't fix the issue then redirect you to forums that tell you to run the tool.

Then you search the problem and find posts telling you to install a random 3rd party tool to fix the problem. No I'm not installing a random non open source tool to run with admin privileges that would be unbelievably stupid.

Also I'm bombarded with system tray notifications because programs on windows think its ok to serve the user an ad via system tray. I expected better from malware bytes but I expected exactly this from Adobe and one drive.

Another thing is that the windows forum advice is really bad like really bad. It doesn't teach the user anything about problem and instead gives them a solution that will work but might break other things.

I'm not a noob to windows either I've used it for 20 years at least. I think after moving to Linux I've realized how simple things can be.

So what is everyone else doing with the glut of feijoas? Getting a little tired of eating them everyday

Fuck my mate who went out for a fish with us whilst sick.

If you're sick just stay home. I'm tired of this convoluted game of germ tag we keep playing.

Did you guys hear about the stabbings in Aus over the weekend? Its insane

The weather has been terrible today, so we all stayed inside. I started playing PGA Tour on game pass on a whim and hoo boy am I bad. I don't remember the last time I played a golf game, but man it feels difficult. My character, John Golf, can't even qualify to get past the first stages of the career mode, he's ended up placing in the 140's after my first few goes 😂

I've been looking online but couldn't find a definitive answer.

It seems that if I purchase something overseas and have it shipped here, if its total value (incl. shipping) is under $1000 NZD, that Customs won't collect GST at the border, and rather, this is supposed to be collected by the Vendor.

But what happens if your vendor doesn't collect GST at the time of sale, and your goods are under $1000? Will it then be collected at the border by Customs?, or by your shipper (e.g., DHL)?

I finally watched Dune 2 and it was better than expected. I found the first one forgettable for some reason but I’ll have to watch it again now.

Also watched a few episodes of the 3 Body Problem. I read the books and this series does them justice.