Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 8/7/2023
Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 8/7/2023
Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So how’s it going?
It's a quiet saturday. Had no nightmares which was surprising after playing episode 4 in a super creepy horror DnD game last night.
Lemmy continues to grow by 5,000 users per day:
I'm contributing $1 per month to lemmy.world, is there a way I can contribute to lemmy nz?
You have to be careful with user stats, if you look at total users rather than active users then you'll find a lot of spambots.
In terms of contributing to lemmy.nz, our hosting is kindly provided by fediservices.nz who you can donate to here: https://opencollective.com/nz-federated-services
Hosting is by far the biggest expense so donating to them is the best way to support lemmy.nz.
Unexpectedly going to see Henry Rollins talk at Old St Pauls tonight. A friend who suddenly can't go has passed me her ticket. While I'm pleased to go see him it the reason why she can't go kind of sucks, so a bit mixed feelings really.
Anyone else going to this?
This might be a bit niche, but does anyone have some good resources on creating or setting up solar powered systems? Not as in for the house (hopefully in the future though!) Moreso just smaller projects so I can learn the ins and outs of it. I'd like to get involved in this space, but don't really have any experience in it.
I feel like there are people around that might be able to help. Probably not me... But people.
Do you have an idea of the kind of project you're looking at doing?
Spent an hour or two replacing a battery into a ~7 year old Chromebook - ASUS C302CA. This has been my daily interface to the Internet and has done, and is still doing, such a great job that a $75 upgrade to a new battery seemed like a good bet.
Have gone from 2 to 3 hrs of battery life back to around 8 hrs. Awesome.
Can highly rate thinking about keeping ageing tech alive if it's still fit for purpose. Better than just chucking it out and replacing.
I got an Acer C730, its almost ten years old but its still running and doing everything I need it to do. I've replaced the charger 3 times but not the battery since its always plugged in. I will be sad when it dies but for $125 I couldnt have asked for more.
I love the whole Chromebook platform. Not sure if the Acer C730 runs Linux - the ASUS does.
Having, effectively, 3 OS's built in, ChromeOS, Android, and Linux makes the platform super usable. I mostly work at the Debian command line, right on the ASUS or shell into various servers. Being able to install Gimp etc., locally or run them off a server via X-Windows makes such a simple, and affordable device so flexible.
The ASUS has just run out of supported updates, but I don't think that is going to be too much of a problem for a while. Hope Google don't change ChromeOS any time soon...
Aging tech is the best for this, because the new thin stuff is all gued together.
It's raining!
This morning we are going to the local market and doing some recycling (including a quick visit to the re-use shop to make sure I'm not missing out on any books). It sounds boring but after a pretty rotten week I'm revelling in having such a simple list of things to do at my own speed.
Sounds good! I love going to the market. But I always end up spending savings from cheap veggies on fancy bread.
The SO decided it was raining too steadily to traipse around a carpark looking at onions so the market was a no-go. Maybe next weekend...
In the meantime, I tried making porridge from scratch for the first time since I was about 8, an Icelandic variation with cinnamon and vanilla. It was nice but it's definitely a weekend thing - our stove takes forever to heat up.
A good area to start might be with Motorhomes and the like. They have much smaller, closed loop solar systems. Could get a good base to go from.