ciaocibai

joined 1 year ago
 

Pricespy used to be great for building lists, tracking component prices and designing new systems, but it seems the website has only got worse over time. Are there any NZ alternatives out there that are worth trying?

[–] ciaocibai@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

I’m not sure what the situation is now, but they used to keep a pool of houses in Wellington for MP’s and their families to live in but like everything many have been sold off over the years. It makes sense to have them available as these representatives need to be in Wellington, but renting them back from the owners like this sounds weird.

[–] ciaocibai@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 year ago

Pinterest links are the worst. I just don’t want that shit and images of random crap isn’t what I’m after.

[–] ciaocibai@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure how they gather or process that data, given different companies are different and vary a lot. I live in rural Wairarapa and pay 30 cents peak, 23 cents off peak and 16 cents night rate, but it reckons Masterton is 37 cents? Seems doubtful.

[–] ciaocibai@lemmy.nz 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The music streaming platforms (admittedly with their own challenges) have to compete based on service offering rather than exclusivity. Imagine if all the streaming platforms competed on quality of service instead of exclusivity.

I’d personally pay a lot more if I could just have one service that had all the content I want, but instead we’re in this situation where the platforms (in my opinion) are lacking innovation and the content is all over the show. Here in NZ I find different seasons on different platforms or plenty of shows that just aren’t licensed for our market. We all know how that problems going to be solved.

[–] ciaocibai@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile in the thread on ACT policies, the guy saying he’s going to piss on their door handles was the most upvoted comment.

I think your comment was about the only one that disagreed with their policies in a civilised way without resorting to name calling.

I wish more people could recognise differences of opinion or perspective without resorting to name calling but this the internet so pretty sure that isn’t going to happen any time soon. Unfortunately I think it encourages those people who take it too far to keep running with their over the top opinions that I reckon lead to violence. One of the biggest challenges on social media when everyone lives in their own little echo chambers.

[–] ciaocibai@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would love a seed box recommendation if you have one to share? My new place is off grid so with limited power prefer to offload a 24 hour server elsewhere so I can be a responsible seeder.

 

I was having this conversation with a friend and we both got some useful ideas from each other (cancelling various underused subscription services, making use of libraries, more home vege gardening etc) - curious to know what else people are trying.

[–] ciaocibai@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

Wait so the NZ government is lying to me about our renewable energy sources? And my home solar panels are just faking the energy production? Or did you forget the world is more than just that place you live in?

[–] ciaocibai@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

I’ve got a small 3kw solar system with about 9kwh of battery storage and that manages about 90% of our yearly charging. Otherwise in nz I pay about 10(US) cents per kWh from 11pm-7am (about 20 cents in daytime) for my charging at home. Public chargers are generally around 40 cents /kWh but range from 50-200kw so can dump power in pretty fast (although my car maxes out at 50kw for charging).

[–] ciaocibai@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

Nz too apart from old people who still use acres.

[–] ciaocibai@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago

My Reddit account is significantly older than my kids - apparently I joined in June 2007. And they had to go fuck it up like what happened to Digg.

What I want to know is where all the Digg (or going back further to slashdot) refugees are.

[–] ciaocibai@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

It does work although breaks occasionally and you seem to need a (free) token from tuya to get it running now. That said it let’s me use my tuya devices through homekit now which is pretty handy.

[–] ciaocibai@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That bean icon looks super… can’t quite put my finger on it…

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