It’s been three years so I can’t remember, but does reddit not have a way to block certain subs from r/all (at a user level)?
A key part of shaping your lemmy experience is that you can just block any community you aren’t interested in, while still getting the benefits of an All feed.
This is being talked about because it’s a hot topic around the world, with many states and countries introducing or planning to introduce age check based restrictions on social media.
Honestly based on how Facebook money was traced to the plan to push age checks to the OS instead of the service, I wouldn’t be surprised to find a nice donation to Act behind this too.
Ultimately I think most people would agree it’s better than the age checks on sites that the government have been suggesting so maybe we have to take our wins when we get them, in whatever form they come.
It’s better than age checks on social media. But I do still wonder if there is a solution to the fact that all the problems with social media are not exclusive to under 16s.
Thanks! For sure if there are people handing over money I’m gonna show where that goes. I’m always happy to answer questions about anything LemmyNZ anyway, I don’t have anyone IRL to geek out with lol.
After I made this post there has been another about $250 contributed which is awesome! Back in the black until the next 6 months is paid for next month.
Or maybe if you knew your own date you could do reckless shit. Although you might just spend 20 years in a coma before you die.
Yeah but I guess I’d like to know more about the dumb phones. My gut feeling is that there will be an argument around safety related reasons for needing a smart phone. Do the dumb phones have GPS, maps, etc?
"Parliament could pass a law defining what constitutes a “dumb phone” suitable for a person under 16.
Because it’s Seymour I am also wondering is this line is a request for donations from phone companies or suppliers…
Jury service is mandatory in NZ, yes. There are a bunch of reasons why you can be excused for now, permanently, or for some (like work is too busy) you can delay it up to 12 months. There’s a possible $1000 NZD fine for not showing up if you haven’t been excused.
There’s info here: https://www.justice.govt.nz/courts/jury-service/faq/
Well I guess this is good news because it means the coalition doesn’t have the support to pass a social media ban, which has been discussed for a while.
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It does make getting a 20+kwh house battery an absolute no brainer though.
On the face of it, the numbers seem to work. This site says the average grid cost in Australia is 31c/kwh which seems about right I guess. So assuming you could charge and use all 20kwh every day, you could save $6.20 per day or $2263 per year. $15k AUD or so for a 20kwh battery makes a but under 7 years to pay for itself.
Batteries have a loss of around 10% of the energy during the charge/use cycle, so you’d get about 18kwh of actual use. But that doesn’t matter that much because according to this website the average power usage is 3,900 kWh per year, which is 10.6kwh per day. So it may take you 13+ years to pay it off.
Yeah that’s pretty worth it. I don’t know the lifespan of the battery but it seems it should be more than 13 years. I calculated the pay back on our battery was about 40 years 😬 (assuming it kept full capacity all that time).
This may be pretty smart actually. To solve the problem, many places (including NZ to some extent) are doing grid-scale batteries. But this way you can encourage people to get batteries, you get a grid-scale battery spread over millions of houses and you don’t even have to pay for it.
The power companies will obviously just adjust their pricing to account for the free power period, so this isn’t about cost to households is it? If I understand it correctly, it’s about how the grid has too much power at this time and they want an incentive for power users to shift their power use to this time to prevent grid issues?
This is really interesting!
That link seems to be all cameras? I see them all over the place, away from roads, seem to be security cameras? Despite the name it doesn’t seem like they are all flock cameras or even tracking cameras?
Edit: oh I see, there is a key and the ones I’m looking at are just “other surveillance”.
Yeah I think upgrading the mobo would be more accurate, when it’s a big enough change that you need to replace RAM and the CPU as well.
It kind of ruins the concept if you can’t use the information to change the outcome. Or maybe just makes it sad, every time you try to save someone they die at that time anyway. Then over time you work out that the clock knew what actions you were going to do, and by trying to interfere with the people with short times you actually caused their deaths.
It would be interesting to see this update in realtime. You see someone about to get in their car, with a death time 5 mins from now. You call out “hey”, they stop, see you were talking to someone else. The date updates to 30 years in the future, as that momentary pause meant they won’t be in the place they would have when someone runs a red light.
Somewhere unseen, someone’s number changes from 20 years away to 5 mins away.
If anyone else is still missing the link, it’s Hunt for the Wilderpeople. An NZ film written and directed by Taika Waititi, and well worth a watch.
Ah I just assumed because they all look the same, but maybe you’re right!
Yeah I guess so, but every site seems to be a Shop App now so it’s hardly more than one company anyway 😅
Ah right, RES, plus all the apps had their own options. Man, I bit killing third party apps really cut the features for people.