Well in NZ we have one big electric network and a system for how load is balanced and payments flow between generators and companies supplying to users of the power.

So while there are exceptions, in general we can choose any company, of which there are about 40.

No cameras (total privacy)

Seems not for long…

What if you were smart enough to download all of Wikipedia via Kiwix?

I’m not sure at what point in the last 20 years they put the instructions in the vim, but it gives you clear instructions on what to do if it thinks you’re trying to escape from vim jail.

You can. It syncs the Jellyfin database into the Kodi one so you browse with Kodi but the content comes from Jellyfin. Works pretty great really.

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We asked in our instance census about use of lemmy-like platforms (reddit, hacker news) and most people said they still used them in some respect. Only 7 our of 49 who answered this question said they never use them, over half use them equally or more than Fediverse alternatives.

Personally I use Facebook messenger, well I normally use Beeper because I don’t have facebook on my phone but I still use the platform to connect with people. And video call on my laptop from time to time.

Looking up the average for New Zealand, I see everything from 250l per family to 275l per person quoted as average.

Much of New Zealand doesn’t meter their water, so all they can do is measure the water put into the system and divide by the number of households/estimated people (minus commercial/industrial use that is metered).

In the area I live in, they are working on putting in meters because they suspect they lose a huge amount of water to leaks on private property that go unnoticed.

I wonder where this water usage figure for the US comes from. Is it measured on meters at their property?

And from what I hear people complain about in memes, I think parts of the US probably use a lot of water for watering lawns, something not that common here because it rains a fair amount.

Edit: lol I was trying to respond to @[email protected] but 🤷

Can this steam be used to turn turbines to make power? Or is it not hot enough to generate the required pressure?

Surely it could at least be fed into a power station that now only needs half the fuel to get it up to temperature?

Ah of course they would. Thanks for the info!

Is it normal for that wide range of octane ratings and the highest to be 91?

I don’t remember octane ratings in the 80s since maybe the 90s. Here we commonly have 91, 95, and 98 as the options.

Worse, I hate those TV menus that flash up the options for a few seconds then spend the next minute playing coke ads.

No they are different backends, they just use the same protocol.

Teseraract, Photon, and Mlmym are different frontends for Lemmy.

PieFed has completely separate frontend and backend code from Lemmy’s code.

Yes they are completely different front and backends but they use the same protocol (ActivityPub).

This is why open source is so important. If the dev goes crazy and blocks all sorts of stuff the community can fork the code and remove the block list, while still remaining interoperable with Lemmy, other Piefeds, Mbin.

That’s way different to say Facebook where they fight to the death to stop you using an app that isn’t their official one.

Piefed isn’t a fork of Lemmy, it’s completely independent code. They just speak the same language.

The browser shouldn’t even know I have the Play Store.

Every app on your Android phone knows every other app you have installed. GrapheneOS are trying to solve this but it’s challenging.

Yeah Valve doesn’t ship to NZ. I have a Steam Controller 1 and have previously had an Index as well, but I had to freight forward to get them, and I seem to recall needing some trickery of changing the Steam account to another region to get it to work.

I’ll be trying, but there’s a 99% chance it’s not available in my country 😭

Huh interesting! I see playing on their website that an equivalent laptop is more expensive in the DIY version, it’s just that the starting price includes no RAM, storage, etc.

So the DIY is for people who want to bring their own parts, not for people who want to get all the parts then save money!