Dave @ Dave @lemmy.nz

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I just fold it like you're folding a... dog? pillow? It doesn't look like a normal folded item but an outside observer can tell that folding is what was attempted, and I think that's what counts.

My Dad could grow bananas in Taranaki, though they always used to start to fruit just before winter and then they would rot on the plant so I guess that doesn't really count.

The coffee place is this one: https://www.ikaruscoffee.co.nz/nz-grown-coffee--tea.html

I've wanted to try it since I learned about it a couple of years back, but I don't think I can justify the price.

The parents are the overstayers. It's intentional on the part of the parents, the point of the article is that we react to this by punishing the kids, who didn't decide to be born here.

Ah that makes sense. I'm not using it enough to notice the subtle changes over time.

Yeah I hear you can grow coffee up your way, must be tropical!

Ah, I am way off then 😅

Wow, that feels late for chrysalises! Our were all gone a month back. Terrible weather here so it was lucky they were.

I wish I knew about the fitted sheet performance! I have good reach but don't think I can do a good job. But I'm not sure where the bar is, maybe my attempts are pretty decent comparatively.

Happy Birthday! And congratulations to Dave! Lemmy.nz is one of my favourite things in the internet.

Aww that's awesome 🙂

Ah yes I wondered if it was like that. I feel like it would be weird doing it like that, I'm so used to sims sliding in!

I was writing a comment about how miss the "Top" sorting options. Then I check and there they are. I'm sure they weren't there not that long ago, which kinda proves your point 😅

One of my favourites that I haven't seen mentioned is the Todo.txt extension.

It adds a todo list in the tray synced to a couple of files (that I store in Nextcloud). I add things I need to do to the list, and I also play with the settings so it colours by priority and sorts by priority.

I also use the ntodotxt app on my phone to sync items. The app is fine but I really like the gnome extension, very handy.

Well it was the API changes; and the general fuckery that drove me to look for an alternative.

Yep that's most of us.

Thinking about it, I haven’t been back to Reddit for over year now.

Other than finding search results to my technical questions, I'm the same. I haven't doom scrolled reddit since Relay for Reddit shut down maybe 18 months back.

Edit: Oh shit they went subscription based! The app still lives! Still not going back though 😆

This instance was set up at the same time as reddit announced they would charge for API access and all that fiasco. My favourite app (Relay for Reddit) said they weren't going to continue and I really didn't like the official reddit app so I set it up on a whim since I was really into self-hosting at the time, with a few years experience and feeling confident to give it a go.

There were many people joining that month. I seem to recall the monthly active users across all of Lemmy went from a few hundred to tens of thousands in a pretty short space of time. I can't seem to find data going back far enough though.

I still recognise quite a few users from the early days, such as yourself, but we also lost many cool people over the years which I'm a bit sad about when I go trawling through old threads (such as to make this post) and I see cool people that I enjoyed interacting with that have deleted their accounts or just not been around for a long time.

Thanks! It hasn't been perfect but yes Lemmy as a platform is way, way more stable than those early days. I can't remember the last time I had to restart everything to get it working after it went down. I used to do that quite regularly (and of course there was the period of time I had a nightly scheduled job set to restart everything otherwise it would run out of RAM).

The early days sure were a wild west 😅

2 years for me as well!

That sounds like a really interesting field. I just realised there are Silicon Valley scenes that are about this as well…

Oh I haven't watched Silicon Valley, is it good?

The phones had those annoying little metal gates in them that some candybars used to have. I remember being completely weirded out by it.

I am struggling to follow, what are the little metal gates in candy bars? I have a bad memory 😅

I would say many people are, but not exclusively. There are plenty of non-technical people around, but I'd say we have a much higher proportion of tech savviness.

If you're interested, we did a census survey last year to learn about our users.

Over half of us work in IT. But many people don't!

I'm actually working on a new one at the moment for this year, the survey should be posted in the not too distant future. I've been working with lemmy.ca who were the inspiration for our one last year, to refine a set of questions.

Nice! If my memory is correct, @Axisential@lemmy.nz (who hasn't been around recently so probably won't see this) runs a business on the West Coast that does caving trips for all ages. Something to consider!

Wow, sounds like it's about time you had a holiday!

Got big plans or just a staycation?

Solar has got a lot cheaper recently, and big projects take time. But they are happening now!

That list of power stations has 8 operational solar fars and another 18 proposed/in development!