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Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 25/8/2023

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?

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Vodafone just let us know our fibre bill will be going up by 6$ a month, citing their costs changing.
Shouldn't fibre costs decrease overtime as it gets more users and achieves economies of scale?
- Because the government funded the network I'm not sure normal rules apply. But probably thier "costs" are unrelated to the fibre itself. It's probably a lot to do with higher IT salaries, and higher salaries in general.
  ISPs pay a fee to chorus for the usage, and I've never heard of chorus putting their prices down.
  We also got $5 a month added to our bill with skinny (I think that brings it to $80 for 300 down/100 up unlimited).
  
  Was thinking of getting my parents onto Skinny Fibre. I've got a Skinny modem from a couple of years ago, so we should get the $5 BYO Modem Discount for a year, and I was thinking of getting one of them onto a Skinny Number so that we get the $10 Discount as well, bringing it in at $65/month for 300 Fibre. They're currently paying $80 something with Vodafone, and that's due to go up another $6.
  
  How much IT maintenance is required once the connection is set up? I thought fibre was an initial large investment, but required little upkeep.
  If it does take man power its a given that the price will continue to climb.
It’s a finish off the mowing day for me. Did 75% yesterday, so a short burst’’ll get it done today. It’s sunny today, so in an hour it’ll be dry enough to start.
Need to buy a replacement brush cutter, the old one has expired and the grass edges need a serious trim. Will take a look at Mitre-10 to see what they have.
- It was sunny yesterday and our lawn was still wet in the afternoon. It's not even very long. Might be mowable in a week or two if the fine weather sticks around.
  
  Got ours done, not too wet, and actually not too long either. Got to tidy up the edges though.
- Planning on an electric one or is your area too large for it to be convenient?
  
  We have quite a large area, so petrol with a blade, which is what I had before, will be what I get. The electric one’s do seem useful, especially not needing ear plugs when in use, however our place is too much imo.
It hasn't really been one of the more productive days today... (so far)
- Same here. Though for me it's been a bit of an unproductive week.
  Had a couple of pieces of work that were tying up a lot of my time recently, and I've sort of been chugging along for the last week, slowly trying to clear my backlog.
  
  I've had a pretty productive week so far... but feeling a bit tired today.
  Getting thru stuff, it's just a bit of a grind!
- That's surprising, considering Friday is traditionally the most productive day of the week.

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