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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

It's distressing just how freaking similar the sales pitch is too.

What I'm loathed to even call the "real product": It’s time to stop flushing away valuable data.

The fake one: If I had information that could save your life or the life of your family members, would you flush that?

Just... wow

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (8 children)

The vision: this, apparently.

The reality: watching dust accumulate in places you can't possibly clean.

Pass.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Nearly 15 years, and still no progress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsIz8xn3srI

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

This is a picture from the quake in 2012 that hit southern New Zealand

https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/dust-clouds-above-christchurch

From seeing images like this, I expected a dust cloud too

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

OP appears to be in the UK, so potentially (no pun intended) one of 400kV, 275kV, or 132kV.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Congratulations on a successful one nightstand!

(seriously, looks great)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This I think is from their previous election: https://results.aec.gov.au/27966/Website/HouseInformalByState-27966.htm

An average of 5.2% (800k votes) not counting - called "informal" in Australia (as it is here in New Zealand), you might also see "spoiled".

However the question is, with 89.9% turnout and 5.2% spoil, are they still achieving better voter engagement overall than we did in NZ with 78.2% turnout but only 0.6% spoiled?

You could probably argue either way; as some people definitely wouldn't consider showing up but voting for no-one, will they check a box at random (and does this benefit the first party in the list alphabetically?). I'm sure someone has written a paper on this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

But you hate degens from up country too, huh?

Yeah.

And where exactly is up-country in space?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sadly the one harness my boy hasn't managed (or indeed, even tried) to escape from was from Amazon.

I'll leave the link anyway, in the hope you can find something similar: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C93LKV5F - sadly it seems to be from one of those fly-by-night brands so I don't really like your chances.

You definitely want something a bit thicker / padded though, anything that's just straight straps seems to get wiggled out of. I can see how the dog harness you've got (likely designed with a chihuahua in mind, where neck straps have to be avoided) is a bit too much fabric for a cat's comfort though.

This said, the biggest expression of displeasure I got to the harness was the cats flopping over and pretending their back legs didn't work.

Once outside mine seems to very much be a "sniffing the flowers" type of cat, just wanders around near the house taking in the new sights and smells, chewing on a bit of grass, etc. Being an indoor cat, even walking on grass seems to be an experience he doesn't 100% vibe with. At least I've not had to retrieve him out of a tree, I guess?

I tried carrying him 20 paces further from the house and he just made his way straight back to safety. Not with the biggest sense of urgency ever seen, but clearly headed back toward the familiar: https://imgur.com/a/PawWQLT

Best of luck in your search.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

There's this range of Philips signage displays in up to 32" (~$1800 USD): https://www.ppds.com/display-solutions/digital-signage/philips-tableaux

They even run Android, so should be able to install the Home Assistant app natively. Being intended as a signage solution, there's also PoE (although it is 45W 802.3bt class5), and even room for four 18650 batteries.

Notably though, they use the newer E-Ink "Spectra" (16 bit, 65,536 colour) panel which offers its full 2560x1600 resolution in both greyscale and colour, not the "Kaleido" one (12 bit, 4096 colour) of this Boox monitor that only has half of its 3200x1800 resolution in colour (Boox recommend using 1400x1050).

I don't know which of the two panels offers better refresh rates, however.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago

I feel like "whatevs" is the default position of the capybara under the vast majority of circumstances, but your point still stands.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Except sometimes it pays off massively.

I had accidentally left the voice on for some reason, back when Google Maps' navigation was fairly new here in New Zealand. Back then it wasn't the easiest thing to turn off without pulling over and stabbing a bunch of buttons, so I left it.

Approaching a large intersection, it seemed it was taking the words on the street signs somewhat literally, as it told me

Signs for State Highway one-half

Indeed, the sign did appear to read "SH1/2".

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