You are paying for these services one way or another. But no one says you have to pay $10 for each service.

Yes, it shouldn’t be needed

My view is that is should be needed. Advertising is a bad business model, I’d much prefer paying for a service I used. I think we should all get more comfortable paying for the sites we use.

Oh nice!

For anyone else looking: https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.nz/post/35319129

Which morning?

Thanks, heaps of cool info. That Greenpeace map shows that even town supply water can vary a lot. Most of the larger North Island places have hardly any nitrates. I was surprised to see Taranaki and the Waikato having largely ok results, with their concentration of dairy farming.

Holy hell that rural Christchurch/Ashburton area though, with many way outside the current limits, and almost all of the area above what should probably be the limit!

Thanks for the info, these were exactly the questions I had!

Oh good context. The article mentions farmers facing considerable costs installing water filters, but it doesn’t specify why the costs are high.

Do you know if anything is done in town supply water to remove nitrates, or do they just aim to use water sources that are less affected? The article mentions farmers and rural areas being the ones affected by this so my assumption is urban areas don’t really have this problem.

Well it works fine for me, clicking “Forgot Password” on the page here takes me to the page to enter an email address.

You mentioned not being able to find a good alternative not tied to a subscription. Seems like if you find a good alternative tied to a subscription she could use it!

But yes I understand that change is hard. I spent years working in Excel, hate the thing, but it’s so very hard to change to LibreOffice Calc.

So this morning I had to go to my mother’s house for IT support as one of her monitors wasn’t working. I plugged the power cable back in to the back of the monitor and the problem was solved.

I’m not sure the level of IT support I provide is high enough to get blamed for anything 😆

It’s worth clicking through to the graph in the article, it’s difficult to screen shot as it’s interactive and you have to hover over it to see numbers. But it shows unemployment was lowest in 2022, counteracting the minister’s claims it had been rising since 2021.

I like how it’s election year and the government is still blaming the previous government for not being able to meet their election promises. Since at the last election all the actions of Labour had already happened, surely they were taken into account in their election promises. Or maybe National don’t understand the economy?

I’ve used Linux for years at this point, but I never really learnt much about running Windows programs except games, and they make that too easy.

But there’s a windows laptop right there 😆

I’m asking as a learning exercise rather than because I desperately need to get it working on my machine.

You can do something similar in Home Assistant.

Add an integration to a weather service (there might even be one out of the box).

Create an automation trigged by saying a sentence to your voice assistant.

Set the automation action to be a conversation response, and set that to whatever entity contains the part of the weather you want it to say (or a template if you want it to say multiple or other fancy things)

This is the specific example I was talking about: https://apps.nissan.navshop.com/en_gb/

I’m sure it could run in wine if I was snarter or kept at it, but I tried it, it didn’t work straight away, so I used the windows laptop because I wasn’t in the mood to spend hours troubleshooting when I had the choice.

I would be curious if it works for you and what your steps are as I do need to run it every 6 months or so to update maps. I use Nobara but also have Bazzite and Mint computers available if there’s some distro oddity.

Also if you know how to tell tomtom that my house in a quiet street that people crawl along isn’t an 80kph zone that would be great 😆

When you delete a post you might do it by accident. You can then undelete it, which requires the post still exists (a soft delete).

It appears Lemmy clears the content after 30 days to make it a hard delete (by federating an edit action to change the content to Deleted): https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3208

If you want to wipe right away, you can edit the post then delete it.

Brown said with 180,000 votes, he represented Aucklanders more than Parliamentarians did.

Wow, did he really get voted in with 12% of the population of Auckland voting for him? (I know not everyone is eligible to vote, like kids, but damn that seems like a small number of votes).

I think this is a very valid reason. I used to reinstall Windows every 6 months or so for various reasons, switching to Linux wasn’t any more work. But if you don’t enjoy researching, installing OSs, etc then it’s only ever going to feel like a chore.

Funny, I could never afford photoshop so I find GIMP much easier to get around in 😆. There used to be a GIMP plugin that changed everything to be like Photoshop, not sure if it still exists. But GIMP doesn’t have feature parity with Photoshop, one of these days we’ll be able to draw shapes.

Is InDesign not already a subscription service?

Someone answered about their wife so I will to. My wife hasn’t switched because her husband doesn’t encourage it because it’s the only computer (of many) left in the house with Windows on it, and occasionally there’s some Window’s only program you have to download to update the maps in your car or something like that, and it’s nice to still have one machine that can do it (rather than paying the dealer…).

I have many comments about your assumptions about Linux but I’ll hold my tongue.