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A detailed background story from 2021 for anyone interested.

I'm not worried about oat milk instead of cow milk (that would be great), I'm worried about oat milk production on top of cow milk production.

In Southland, there are some areas in production now, but the idea was to do conversions of dairy as the industry grows.

There is a port at bluff. It handles significantly lower volumes than Christchurch and this may be a concern if they want to be world leading at oat milk.

Southland needs more income - growing the port would help achieve that?

It would use a lot less fuel to transport the oats than to transport the oat milk, if they still had to go to Christchurch.

Not if it is transported OS. And if it goes in my coffee it has to come back again as oat milk :(

If I hear the reasoning, I'll post back here.

Oat milk production uses a lot less water than Cow milk production? (>1/10th) and won't shitty up our rivers.

Perfectly good port at Bluff.

Instead, they want to grow Oats down here and then transport to CC for processing - yeah nah - makes little sense to me.

I had no idea where the name came from, so went looking:

Woolworths is only called Woolworths because of a cheeky dare in 1924

What a weird way to name a business...

TLDR; Chatterton’s, no, Christmas, no, Wallworths Bazaar Ltd, almost but no...Woolworths! Yes.

Definitely Woolies, not woolies!

I think it's a bit early to suggest that the three party Labour+Greens+TPM will be needed to form Government. Polls are just that, and a lot can happen between now and election day.

My thoughts are that ACT has the potential to create/cause the most damage, but that's a personal view, obviously. It is a sad state of affairs when voting decisions are made based on who can do the least damage, but here we are. :(

The reason why the Australian Superenuation scheme (what Kiwisaver should be) has been so successful is because it can't be raided.

These clowns have no idea! They clearly don't understand compounding interest. How could they possibly lead the country?

Agree, I think there will be a hard swing towards the Greens.

A similar thing seems to be happening with ACT, I think some people are just fed up with the majority parties, their antics, and lack of true commitment to any meaningful cause.

Themes were there before, but there were only a couple - I had already set darkly-compact.

Pretty 'bright' themes, not much to my liking yet. Sticking to darkly-compact as the only other compact one is litely, and I prefer a dark screen.

Good to see Lemmy progressing though :)

nginx

Not sure why others are suggesting a Raspberry Pi and nginx would cause problems? I run three public facing websites on a single Raspberry Pi 4 with 2GB RAM. Has been working flawlessly for 2 years. Typical uptime is measured in multiple months.

Running Wordpress, fail2ban and certbot. Booting and running of a USB drive - have considered SSD but no need as I cache to RAM for performance.

I love the whole Chromebook platform. Not sure if the Acer C730 runs Linux - the ASUS does.

Having, effectively, 3 OS's built in, ChromeOS, Android, and Linux makes the platform super usable. I mostly work at the Debian command line, right on the ASUS or shell into various servers. Being able to install Gimp etc., locally or run them off a server via X-Windows makes such a simple, and affordable device so flexible.

The ASUS has just run out of supported updates, but I don't think that is going to be too much of a problem for a while. Hope Google don't change ChromeOS any time soon...

Spent an hour or two replacing a battery into a ~7 year old Chromebook - ASUS C302CA. This has been my daily interface to the Internet and has done, and is still doing, such a great job that a $75 upgrade to a new battery seemed like a good bet.

Have gone from 2 to 3 hrs of battery life back to around 8 hrs. Awesome.

Can highly rate thinking about keeping ageing tech alive if it's still fit for purpose. Better than just chucking it out and replacing.

The sun is out in the South of the South Is. Beautiful day.