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Re the ISP router; yes sometimes they can be configured to just act as a switch, but I wouldn't recommend it - can be a complete PITA to setup.

So looking at your current setup, you need 7-8 ports (one as backhaul to your router, possibly 1 extra for the TV); and for future growth you might need 1-4 more POE based ports for cameras. I'd recommend POE for Cameras & Access Points as it just makes installing them a hell of a lot easier.

You also don't need any network segmentation by the sounds of things, everything can sit & talk together. What is your current router / internet gateway?

Just editing to add that Frigate is exactly what I use; and I love it apart from its integration with Home Assistant for notifications which i've struggled to break free from.

Hey - i've worked as a networking engineer for the last 15 odd years, so can probably assist :)

To give a good recommendation it'd help to know what stuff you have at home, how many devices, how far apart are they etc and what they are etc? Is it spread around the house, or mostly one room; and if the latter, do you have, or have room for a rack (of any size)?

There's all sorts of things a switch can do, it can be a Layer 3 switch and so do its own network/routing, or be a lot dumber and just extend a network you already have. It really depends what you buy & what you're plugging it into, and then how you end up configuring it.

Yeah I would expect its probably about sighting the drivers license & whatnot; but give 'em a bell and see what they say.

What parts of New Zealand are you hitting up, and would you like any recommendations of things to do & see while you're on the road?

I'm a massive road-trip fan; my partner & I are working through all major (<15) State Highways, we've got only 3, 3A & 4 to do in the North Island, and SH1 south of Ashburton, SH6 south of Queenston, and SH8 from Alexandra south to go I think. Actually, i've done SH7 many times, but she has yet to experience it.

Good news, that storm from yesterday seems to have teleported back and giving me some rain now. Bad news its also blustery wind and I need to go out in it with the dogs soon. Lol

I just wanted a bit of rain so my grass will grow!

Can I just say with all the wild weather that was supposed to be coming to Hawkes Bay last night I chose to not water the grass seed i'd planted on Sunday as it was going to pish down. Then we barely got a few showers, so all in all i'm a bit disappointed in the weather event.

Yes, but not really.

Yes - I started in the 80s typing in BASIC by hand into my C64, and did a really half assed visual basic course in tertiary study. But outside of that not really until I started playing around with esp32s and having to learn a bit of C until I found out that micropython ran on them and was way easier, plus you didn't need to use the Arduino IDE.

Mucking about with sensors & ESP32 etc is actually a good way to intro yourself to it I think; especially as there's a big community so loads of projects online to take inspiration from.

At work most of what I do is about manipulating data so we can take it from one system and merge it into another so I don't have to do too much actual data analysis with it most of the time. Usually just simple maths like taking a rate from some prometheus data, figuring out what the actual configured speed on a circuit is & then converting it into a percentage so it can be visualised more easily.

All really basic stuff compared to what some folks get up to with python.

Ah cool, they'll know what to expect then.

I started working with python last year and now it an every day tool for me. Some of it is data / analytics, taking graphql queries, using pandas to restructure etc.

I looked at pycharm for a while, but started out with VSCode; and then jumped to using a linux server & nvim instead.

tfe.co.nz stock Scanpan Coppernox stainless which have rubberised handles.

Obviously, get them what they want... But is your family member up with the play on how to use stainless steel?

For my money, carbon steel is much easier to use because they're lighter and once you season them they are far more non-stick than stainless even if you heat the latter properly prior to use. Plus you can pick up carbon steel pans from hospitality suppliers (like TFE here in Hawkes Bay) super cheap. Maybe $30-40 a pan, sometimes less.

Downside is they're pretty ugly in a function over form kinda way.

edit: these are the brand I got: https://tfe.co.nz/product/pujadas-carbon-steel-frypan/

Its not just a Hamilton problem, it extends to essentially all councils, everywhere. They have increasing compliance and service costs but since the reforms in the 80s have realistically only had rates as a way of generating revenue to pay for things. That's one of the reasons why Three Waters was happening; it was an acknowledgement that there was no way councils could pay for necessary improvements so instead of expecting them to fail, it would be more centralised and allow government to fund it.

Have a look at the graph Fig 6 in this study which shows how funding for local councils changed over time. https://oag.parliament.nz/2014/assets/part3.htm

Of course, the services they provided changed as well - they weren't responsible for power, but the cost to the end user just shifted from going to a council to going to increasingly privatised lines companies etc.

The people in articles like this are a good reminder as to why NZ keeps voting in National governments despite their lives never materially improving under them.

I got it for the first time on Friday; first two days were horrible, aching joints and kidneys, only a bit snuffly and coughing. Then Saturday & Sunday were awful just in a different way, with wild temperature fluctuations, feel fine one minute then next sweating bullets. Saturday was a bit scary where all of a sudden my temperature dropped and started shivering like mad, had to get under the duvet and blankets and warm back up.

Mostly just snuffly head now, keeping on top of pain meds, cycling paracetamol & ibuprofen has kept the worst of it at bay I think. I don't get sick often so not a lot to compare to, but definitely worse than any flu i've had recently enough to remember.

I was thinking about this some more. Realistically the most logical policy wise coalition would be for National to ditch the remaining right-right wing elements that haven't already gone to Act, and "Labour" to ditch whatever remains of their left wing elements and form a grand coalition of the centre-right.

Apart from their enduring antagonism towards each other, those two lumps of the parties are actually not particularly distinguishable on the really big economic issues; and it would only really be if the National religious fundamentalists could hold their nose for some of the more liberal social issues.

But you don't hear calls for National & Labour to form a coalition like you do National-Greens because everybody knows it'd trash both parties support. But the same thing applies to National-Green the commentariat just chooses to pretend it doesn't, maybe they're trolling I dunno?

Oh i've had that from very early on. Even in yesterdays articles summing up the state of negotiations there were things like he'd said in the morning that he was keeping the National Party Board and Caucus up to date on things. But then later in the day explained that someone else was talking to the board and he was only talking to the specific caucus members when something he was negotiating that was in their purview came up. Very much not what you would call a straight shooter.

I think on the basis of this electoral result it just wouldn't be tenable, setting aside that they all said they wouldn't do it. NAct could try to get Te Pati Maori, but they already know what happens when you go into coalition with them and won't want to repeat the same mistake.

There are only two possibilities here. Luxon somehow manages to form a coalition which will presumably fall apart sometime before the next election is scheduled, or will be a shambles throughout. Or he doesn't and we have a new election that may, or may not change the parliamentary balance.

And as it turns out the only 'merger & acquisition' he can name is the attempted coup he tried on Virgin when CEO of AirNZ that failed so spectacularly AirNZ sold their entire stake.

There is no world in which the Green Party should go into coalition with this version of the National Party. There are far too many completely opposite policy desires and doing so would destroy the party, as it nearly did to Te Pati Maori.

pro open source, though I use a complete mix of all the various flavours of that & closed source software both personally & in work. In work i'm constantly advocating that we contribute financially to open source projects, not always successfully unfortunately. For all the touted efficiencies of business, they're just as likely to throw a mil at a closed source commercial product than deploy their own build of an open source one.