People haven't always had things to talk about each day, threads weren't posted each day so new conversations often started on old threads, and in general having daily threads didn't seem to be necessary. So the new format will be a weekly thread, this will be pinned in the !newzealand@lemmy.nz community so you can always find it, and we can have conversations there that we were previously having on the daily threads.

Roughly each week (no specific day) I'll create a new thread, pin it and unpin the old one, and we will start fresh for that week(ish).

[–] NoRamyunForYou@lemmy.nz 7 points 7 months ago

Exciting 😀

[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, this makes sense. Would also help keep longer conversations going (one of the issues with the daily threads being that you were less inclined to go back to an older thread to check for new comments).

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 4 points 7 months ago

If you're on the web UI, you can choose to view comments instead of posts. Order by New under Local and you can see every new comment being made in a local community!

Also works on All but a bit more crazy to follow there 😆

[–] liv@lemmy.nz 6 points 7 months ago

Yay, this will stop me having to click around so much when I miss a few days and am wondering what you're all up to.

[–] thevoyagekayaking@lemmy.nz 6 points 7 months ago

I like it, this solves the problem of nobody making the thread on the weekends, and also less clutter in the instance feed.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 6 points 7 months ago

Weekly thread suits our pace better I think.

[–] NoRamyunForYou@lemmy.nz 9 points 7 months ago (13 children)

Our parents adopted a cat a few years ago now, and they haven't installed a cat flap yet because he'll bring home a mouse, and they don't want him to bring them inside the house. So for now, they've been opening and closing the door everytime (they've setup a little security cam at the door so they know when he comes back), which unfortunately involves opening the door in the middle of the night.

So I've been meaning to try and build a "smart" cat flap that utilizes image recognition to detest if he's got a mouse in his mouth or not.

I had previously done a bit of research last year and gave up on it for some reason. Here's to hoping I get a bit further down the road this time, and have some success lol.

[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

An easy "cheat" way to do it would be to use ChatGPT 4, you can submit a picture and ask it a question like "is there a cat in this scene and is it holding a mouse? Respond with either 'true' or 'false'".

Python examples here: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/vision

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[–] AWOL_muppet@lemmy.nz 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is really interesting - will done (I know, it's not done yet)

I fear you'll spend months occasionally retraining it though? (I have no experience in this, I just knows how brittle my code is)

[–] NoRamyunForYou@lemmy.nz 4 points 7 months ago

Honestly no idea at the moment! It's literally my first time trying this. Hopefully not? haha

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 4 points 7 months ago (8 children)

That sounds amazing! Would that be some sort of frigate setup?

I've always wanted to set up something like that, where you get notified that a van is in your driveway or a person is at the door via image recognition from a security camera. But I think the hardware is a bit hard to track down, though I haven't actually done much research towards this thing that I've "always wanted" 😆

[–] eagleeyedtiger@lemmy.nz 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There are other options. I use deepstack on my nas for object recognition so that I only get alerted by the camera if it recognises vehicles or people in our driveway

[–] NoRamyunForYou@lemmy.nz 3 points 7 months ago (4 children)

What type of hardware are you running if you don't mind me asking?

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[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I just want to say that windows troubleshooting is unbelievably frustrating and needlessly complicated.

They constantly point you to tools that run but don't fix the issue then redirect you to forums that tell you to run the tool.

Then you search the problem and find posts telling you to install a random 3rd party tool to fix the problem. No I'm not installing a random non open source tool to run with admin privileges that would be unbelievably stupid.

Also I'm bombarded with system tray notifications because programs on windows think its ok to serve the user an ad via system tray. I expected better from malware bytes but I expected exactly this from Adobe and one drive.

Another thing is that the windows forum advice is really bad like really bad. It doesn't teach the user anything about problem and instead gives them a solution that will work but might break other things.

I'm not a noob to windows either I've used it for 20 years at least. I think after moving to Linux I've realized how simple things can be.

[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 5 points 7 months ago

I reckon with Windows it's just easier to nuke the whole thing and reinstall. Especially with most stuff syncing / backing up to the cloud (and drivers pulled down via Windows update) plus with SSDs, it's much more faster to just do a clean install.

[–] Xcf456@lemmy.nz 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And the settings ever since windows 10, like the main interface is the slick new style but it doesn't provide all settings info, so it ends up back into the old layout/control panel that traces back to windows 95 (but is still better). It's all just a mess as far as ui goes.

I switched to Linux again for my home laptop last year and pretty much use it full time. The only major sticking point for me is ms office - libreoffice feels like office 2003 and you can never be confident a libreoffice docx is going to look the same when someone opens what you've sent them in ms office.

Plus when I troubleshoot in Linux I can use the terminal and feel like a real hackerman™ (even if I am mostly just copying stuff off Google).

[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

The only major sticking point for me is ms office - libreoffice feels like office 2003 and you can never be confident a libreoffice docx is going to look the same when someone opens what you’ve sent them in ms office.

If you haven't tried it already, check out OnlyOffice - looks very similar to MS Office and has great compatibility with it too. I once did a side-by-side comparison with the same .docx running in Word (M365) and OO, and they looked virtually identical (I posted the screenshots sometime ago on Lemmy, if I can dig up the post I'll link it here).

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[–] eagleeyedtiger@lemmy.nz 6 points 7 months ago (7 children)

So what is everyone else doing with the glut of feijoas? Getting a little tired of eating them everyday

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There are 4 heavy eaters in my house (everyone except me), so our problem is they aren't ripening fast enough 😆

[–] eagleeyedtiger@lemmy.nz 4 points 7 months ago

We’ve been getting about 8 to 10 dropping everyday, plus some that people have been giving away. Three of us are eating them every night, but we still have two big bowls full!

[–] liv@lemmy.nz 5 points 7 months ago (4 children)

If you're tired of feijoas you're tired of life.

In muffins

Stewed with icecream

Smoothies

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[–] thevoyagekayaking@lemmy.nz 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I haven't checked my tree for a while actually.

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[–] AWOL_muppet@lemmy.nz 4 points 7 months ago

I'll take some!

[–] Floofah@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We’ve got lots as well. Looking at how to use them in other dishes, I found a Herald article - "24 Feijoa Recipes".

It’s an archive link to skip the "pay-for" - https://archive.ph/TzMXj

[–] eagleeyedtiger@lemmy.nz 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Your comment didn’t show up until now, I’m guessing due to the federation delays with lemmy.world. In any case is the link still working for you? Doesn’t seem to load for me

[–] Floofah@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

It works for me, BUT I need a VPN enabled to read it. The Herald link is a "pay to view" article which the Archive link bypasses. If you don’t have a VPN, take a Google for "Feijoa cake recipes", there’s lots of links to different sites.

Baked some Feijoa cup-cakes today, came out great. Not overly sweet but really yummy.

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[–] arrowMace@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I moved to Australia years ago and I still feel the pain of missing feijoas. They exist here but not in a huge quantity like in NZ. Enjoy your harvest! 🤤

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[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Did you guys hear about the stabbings in Aus over the weekend? Its insane

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, seems like incel stuff again? I feel like in the future this period of time will be studied in detail by historians due to being very influential for many reasons, this being one of them.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yea he was like 40 year old Virgin or something. Crazy stuff I hope this doesn't spark any copycats.

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[–] MadMonkey@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Fuck my mate who went out for a fish with us whilst sick.

If you're sick just stay home. I'm tired of this convoluted game of germ tag we keep playing.

[–] eagleeyedtiger@lemmy.nz 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The weather has been terrible today, so we all stayed inside. I started playing PGA Tour on game pass on a whim and hoo boy am I bad. I don't remember the last time I played a golf game, but man it feels difficult. My character, John Golf, can't even qualify to get past the first stages of the career mode, he's ended up placing in the 140's after my first few goes 😂

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My day was similar except I played Stardew Valley with the kids. Luckily it's hard to lose at that. Though I did forget to update the game before we played so we missed out on the recently released new content, but there were no tears so all in all a good session.

[–] eagleeyedtiger@lemmy.nz 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I haven’t played Stardew for so long, there must be a lot of content I haven’t seen. I don’t know if I can bring myself to start it again though. I thought the creator was working on a new game, did that ever come out?

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 7 months ago

Nah, they are still working on it. Took a break to release a Stardew Valley update.

If it's been a long while (many years) since you've played, there's probably a lot of extra content. If you have old saves you can probably continue them, most of the content seems to be more end game stuff and extra areas rather than stuff you need to start again for.

[–] purrtastic@lemmy.nz 4 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I finally watched Dune 2 and it was better than expected. I found the first one forgettable for some reason but I’ll have to watch it again now.

Also watched a few episodes of the 3 Body Problem. I read the books and this series does them justice.

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[–] NoRamyunForYou@lemmy.nz 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've been looking online but couldn't find a definitive answer.

It seems that if I purchase something overseas and have it shipped here, if its total value (incl. shipping) is under $1000 NZD, that Customs won't collect GST at the border, and rather, this is supposed to be collected by the Vendor.

But what happens if your vendor doesn't collect GST at the time of sale, and your goods are under $1000? Will it then be collected at the border by Customs?, or by your shipper (e.g., DHL)?

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So you're not using YouShop or similar, the place you're buying from is not registered for GST in NZ and the value including shipping is under $NZ1000?

This CAB page says:

If the overseas seller is not registered for GST, they do not have to add GST to the cost of the goods

If the overseas seller is not registered for GST (because they do less than $NZ60,000 of sales to New Zealand customers), they will not collect GST on the goods you buy from them.

If the total value of the goods is no more than $1000, you will not be liable for GST.

So it seems you wouldn't pay GST.

[–] NoRamyunForYou@lemmy.nz 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Yeah just shipping via DHL or UPS.

Interesting, I wonder if there's a way to know whether a seller does under that per year, or maybe if customs flags that they are doing over the limit, they send a request to the vendor, hence if they don't seem to be collecting gst as time of sale, one could assume they are under?

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[–] ColonialSpore@lemmy.nz 3 points 7 months ago

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