absGeekNZ

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[–] absGeekNZ 7 points 2 days ago

My partner is kiwi Chinese, 3rd gen NZ, but full blood.

She experiences a fair amount of casual racism. But it is pretty low key, very uncommon to have anything overt.

Individually, most people are nice.

[–] absGeekNZ 3 points 3 days ago

To be fair, they may not have much to be interested in, in the DULL mens club.

I bet most are just interested in something different.

I've lurked in some DMC posts, there doesn't seem to be much excitement.

[–] absGeekNZ 3 points 3 days ago

I see "smart home" tech the same way.

[–] absGeekNZ 5 points 4 days ago

So now there will finally be wage equality. All the previous males will be getting a 23% pay cut.

[–] absGeekNZ 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Well having a personal car is expensive...but well not exactly unnecessary. Wellington and Auckland have reasonable public transport. Bike lanes are not a thing really.

So close.

[–] absGeekNZ 3 points 5 days ago

NZ has always had a racist underbelly, they have become more emboldened since trump 1.... with trump 2 I fear it will get worse.

[–] absGeekNZ 5 points 5 days ago

I was thinking of going into far more detail.....but the comment was already getting long.

[–] absGeekNZ 13 points 5 days ago (5 children)

I would characterize it differently.

  • Labour was hugely popular, I agree, but the popularity left when Jacinda Ardern left. She was a extremely charismatic figure; and Labour was at the end of two terms (6 years); with the halo effect gone a lot of the poor decisions they made were highlighted (a lot of the times unfairly).
  • National along with Act and NZ First, pushed hard on the government debt rhetoric during the last election. Blaming Labour for inflation, which it had little control over, but it didn't matter the populous were hurting from low wage growth and high inflation. They were looking for a change.
  • The center right bloc won with a decent majority, though not specular.
  • National fucked up hard! during the negotiations with Act and NZ First. Luxon in a rush to form a government; gave away so much it is frankly baffling.
  • In NZ politics:
    • The Green Party has stated they will never work with National or Act.
    • Labour have said they will not work with Act.
    • This forces Act to only be able to side with National, from Nationals point of view Act should be a minor player on the right of National.
    • NZ First are a bit of a wild card, Winston Peters the leader is an old cunning and in my opinion untrustworthy ally.
    • Te Pati Maori (TPM) will work with both parties, which ever gives them the most of what they want.
  • National could have gone with TPM or NZF along with Act to form a government, they choose to go with NZF and between Winston Peters and David Seymour; got played like a fiddle. In one crazy political power play, Luxon had a meeting setup to negotiate with Winston and David, they didn't bother showing up and made him come to them in another city.

I could go on but, the politics here is just as complex as anywhere else. Overall we have shifted right, further than we traditionally have but not too much further.

The current government has made some truly stupid calls, and has scored a lot of own goals. Their popularity is very low this early in a parliamentary term. They have been in for a little more than a year; if things keep going the way they are, they may be the first one term government we have had in a long time. Our term of 3 years, is short, so most governments get more than one term to show what they are made of.

[–] absGeekNZ 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

From RNZ

One attendee at the rally told AFP he thought Musk was making the gesture as a joke.

"He's very humorous, and he uses a lot of sarcasm. So when he did that on the stage, I don't think he meant it," said Brandon Galambos, a 29-year-old pastor and tech worker.

This is complete bullshit, you don't get to make a joke about being a Nazi, when you are on the world stage. It is like joking about carrying a bomb at the boarding gate in the airport. People will take you seriously.

Musk is an idiot, he has been sliding further right for the last decade.

This was unambiguously aimed at the far right, it may not be precisely a Sieg Heil, but those he was trying to reach know what he means.

[–] absGeekNZ 7 points 5 days ago

If someone is proposing a simple solution to a complex problem, there is a good chance they don't understand it or they are trying to control your opinions.

If you receive some information (no matter how) and you feel a strong emotion, be extra skeptical.

[–] absGeekNZ 10 points 6 days ago

I made the switch in 2010.

I dual booted for a while, one day I realised that I hadn't booted into windows for 3 months. At that point I reinstalled, no more dual booting. I haven't looked back.

I keep a windows VM, currently has Win10 installed, I haven't had to use it in about 3 years.

My advice is, keep dual booting. One day you'll realise that booting into windows feels like a chore, you haven't done it in months, so why keep it around....

[–] absGeekNZ 3 points 1 week ago

Nothing to see, this was during the weird sound.

I'm not sure if it is an issue on the PC end or the headset end.

 

I'm using Mint, I keep it updated.

I have the Shokz open run pro headset.

When connected to my phone, they work without issue.

When connected to my laptop, they also work without issue.

When connected to both my phone and laptop, I can get good sound from my phone, but the laptop sound starts well but usually within 60s it becomes very unreliable. The sound just doesn't seem to transfer to the headset.

 

I was thinking about this the other day.

I can't see the point, desktop search is a solved problem.

Yes Windows find is shit, but it doesn't have to be.

I know a bunch of the conspiracies, but what is the legitimate use case?

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/50252669

 

The government once again shows how incompetent they are.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22597332

Summary

New Zealand’s royal commission into its Covid-19 response found vaccine mandates were reasonable based on available data but acknowledged they harmed social cohesion.

The report praised the country’s elimination strategy for achieving one of the lowest Covid death rates among developed nations while preventing healthcare system collapse.

However, it criticized prolonged lockdowns, weak health system preparedness, and a lack of planning for future crises.

Commissioners urged broad investment in pandemic readiness and emphasized the importance of both frontline and planning staff.

A second phase of the inquiry will review vaccine harms and conclude in 2026.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nz/post/16690486

I am thinking about getting a phone for my son.

There are some really cheap android phones around.

But I also want to restrict what he can do on it while he is still young.

I was thinking something like net guard but with a password, so the settings can't be easily changed.

I could just get a dumb phone, but I also have some old android phones hanging around.

What options are there for this kind of app/network control?

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by absGeekNZ to c/android@lemdro.id
 

I am thinking about getting a phone for my son.

There are some really cheap android phones around.

But I also want to restrict what he can do on it while he is still young.

I was thinking something like net guard but with a password, so the settings can't be easily changed.

I could just get a dumb phone, but I also have some old android phones hanging around.

What options are there for this kind of app/network control?

 
 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/28088684

Here’s Why I Decided To Buy ‘InfoWars’ By Bryce P. Tetraeder, Global Tetrahedron CEO ☞ https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/

And let me say, I really do see it as a family. Much like family members, our brands are abstract nodes of wealth, interchangeable assets for their patriarch to absorb and discard according to the opaque whims of the market. And just like family members, our brands regard one another with mutual suspicion and malice.

🤣

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/32975689

Older article (2023), but sharing for those unawares.

The birds - which have been around since the prehistoric Pleistocene era - were officially declared extinct in 1898.

After their rediscovery in 1948, conservationists began collecting and incubating eggs from wild takahē, to prevent them from being eaten by predators

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submitted 3 months ago by absGeekNZ to c/memes@lemmy.ml
 

About 1000 internet years ago. I saw one of those "demotivation" posters and I want to find out again.

The text was something along the lines of

Don't wait to be corrupted, embrace the evil inside. Be the chaos you want to see in the world.

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