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Fast moving new technology means a larger gap between the used and new market. Combine this with effects of smaller volumes per model and they start high and fall fast.

It will change, but 'early adopters' are carrying some of the costs of transition - though only realise losses at time of sale (so keeping the vehicle longer will cost you less than frequent refreshes).

Edit: and no, buying one is not foolish. For many consumers, a midrange EV is already a saving over a reasonable lifetime.

Were zx spectrum +2 keyboards disgusting to type on? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] taldennz@lemmy.nz 2 points 3 months ago

I had the ZX80. It was terrible.

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The Green Party wants to increase annual leave to five weeks (www.rnz.co.nz)

submitted 1 year ago by taldennz@lemmy.nz to c/newzealand@lemmy.nz

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The Green Party has announced that it wants to increase annual leave to five weeks.

Co-leader Marama Davidson told a crowd at a E Tū election launch in Māngere today that it would provide organisations with plenty of notice and ensure the full five weeks is available for everyone by the end of 2025.

This wouldn't make NZ an unusual outlier globally, though perhaps it would be in this hemisphere - and that could be an attractive aspect as we continue to lose talent to Australia.

I'd like to see them carve out an exception for businesses that opt for a 32-hour 4-day week - either one works towards a better work-life balance and a 4-day week is a lot more personal days than just one week extra. Providing an exception for 4-day week businesses would avoid slowing uptake of the 4-day model for businesses that can make it work. The question is, how to balance the exception and leave changes for non-full-time employees?

Can NZ afford it? How many businesses are too fragile from the recent years of challenging operation. I suspect many can afford this, and that some have been pocketing the rewards of improved revenues in this inflationary environment without readily passing on those rewards. There could be more businesses struggling than we'd hope, that are too fragile from the challenges of recent years to wear the new costs.

Then again, maybe some negative impact is worthwhile for the improvement to the portion of the workforce that lacks the negotiating position to get such a deal - some executives and upper management certainly do enjoy such arrangements, including reduced days on massive salaries.

As an employee I like it.

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Advice? Disappearing Subscribe/Block buttons and permanent Pending subscriptions (lemmy.nz)

submitted 1 year ago by taldennz@lemmy.nz to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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I've run into the following two issues that interact in a frustrating way.

Many of my community subscriptions seem to get permanently stuck in a subscription 'Pending' state (though I don't know how this differs from actually being Joined).
Often the 'Subscribe' and 'Block' buttons on the community page are just text (not clickable). Reloading the page (often many times), can sometimes render the Block button, but I've never seen the Subscribe reappear.

The advice being given for 'stuck in pending' is to unsubscribe, pause, and then resubscribe. However more often than not, I cannot resubscribe because the 'Subscribe' button is no longer accessible.

Currently I'm regaining access to communities by subscribing via a mobile-app (Jerboa). This doesn't help the Pending issue though.

Are there Lemmy issues I can monitor to track when a fix reaches release? Should I file this as a report?

Environment:

Lemmy web-app - my instance is running 0.18 as of this post
Firefox (114.0.2) - with uBlock Origin disabled