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I think you would see more compromise, but the truth is that happens already - so instead of the compromise being adopting some of Act's most extreme positions (anathema to me) or vice versa with the Green's (something many farmers might rage against) the compromises would be to not go too far, not do too much.

In a way it would see the sort of change that Jacinda Ardern favoured - slow and steady, take the people with you rather than the sort of change that David Seymour would champion which is more I have the power right now so all this is happening right now.

For a lot of people that sort of stability would be beneficial - but for others, including people who need change most, it would happen far slower than it might now. So its really whether you want rapid change that swings from side to side until it stabilises into an electoral compromise over several elections, or one election and more minor change over a single term.

National's problem is that the most ambitious people to take over from Luxon now (after getting rid of everyone else) would be either a return to Collins which would fail, Willis or Bishop.

Willis has had a few gaffes, including the biggest policy to date on the tax shift and under the microscope it'd be interesting to see how she held up. Bishop is one of those people who if you like him, you like him, but if not you find him immensely unlikeable.

National have also had a lot of oxygen in the first half of this year with the various missteps from Labour. They've also got a crap ton of money that they're throwing in blanketing the country in their billboards. They've probably only been up a week or so and im already sick of them all.

What will be interesting is seeing how Luxon/Willis perform in any face to face debates with their counterparts. I suspect Hipkins may thrash Luxon on likeability and actual ideas/communicating them. When Luxon's being challenged on something he quite literally starts to turn red and can get noticeably short tempered.

Willis I think is debsoc trained so would probably fare better, but since becoming deputy a lot of the policy ideas she's promoted seem a bit factually / implementably dubious so whether she actually has a deep understanding of things is probably in question and may not do so well if a debate was on issues/facts.

Probably a bad sign for Labour that I can't off the top of my head think of who their deputy is at the moment - although that's also a bad sign for National because the reason they are so heavy into Luxon/Willis is because of how unlikeable the former is!

Its going to be interesting to see how elections play out over the next 20 years or so as more and more people raised on FPP age out of our voting pool. In another 5 years people who first voted since 1998 will be between 18-60 years old and may be the majority of the voting populace by then (depending on how turnout rates change).

I suspect that those voters are more inclined to see coalitions as a normal and good thing for representation so we might see the two broad parties split a little bit and become more focussed. Labour are a centre-left and centrist party slapped together. National has elements of being centre-right, far-right and religious fundamentalist.

If those two parties split and really adopted those identities proper I think it would give voters more choices to find parties that really represent them. What could happen in a scenario like that is more coalitions forming around the centrist parties - rather than what can happen at the moment where an ostensibly centrist voter's party choice is dragged far further left or right than the voter intended due to the outsized influence small parties can have if its the only way to form a government.

ie in some ways 20+20+20 is better than 55+5.

They merged with the NZ Institute and collectively they call themselves the NZ Initiative now. You'll see them in media quite often being quoted as though they're presenting a consensus of experts in things rather than promulgating the desires of the fairly extreme idealogues they've always been.

Parallels did that - possibly VMWare as well im not sure.

Heh, mine's not so different, multiple subnets - plus Wireguard :)

I don't exactly know why but in the end it was definitely a inter-vlan connectivity problem I kept hitting. The pain was trying to prove it out as the official Nginx Proxy Manager container for unraid didn't include anything like ping / traceroute etc.

I had a similar problem - the auto-renew didn't work.

My setup had nginx proxy manager running on an unRaid box using macvlan network, and connected to unifi switching. What the problem was for me was the NPM box wasn't able to get external network connectivity so like you I ended up reinstalling it all over again.

Problem kept happening, so in the end I just ditched it all & went CaddyV2 and (touch wood) so far no problems.

I haven't got time to take a decent look at this right now, but will try to make time later today. But I had nightmares getting Nginx Proxy Manager to behave reliably on my unraid box - with Vaultwarden (among other things) as well coincidentally. And subsequently I ended up switching to CaddyV2 as it ended up being easier to get running and has (touch wood) so far been more stable.

Here's a couple that haven't been mentioned yet:

• Chinese Cooking Demystified - probably the place to start as a westerner looking to learn more about the wide array of cuisines in China.
• Chef Wang - not always subtitled, but an incredible source for technique and recipes you wont find elsewhere.
• Sip and Feast - for a good base of NY / Italian-American food.
• Pasta Grammar - for a very Italian take on Italian food!

They'll get locked in on all sorts of things they could host locally as well if they wanted. The number of folks that go Elastic Cloud, or Grafana Cloud or any other of the myriad projects that you can run anywhere. But of course it becomes a tradeoff between annual licensing and monthly subscription I suppose.

100% on charging to force customers to migrate too; I have a bit of sympathy for that approach if nothing else is getting them to move on - especially in a world where a lot of older code has unpatched vulnerabilities sometimes its in your own best interest as a vendor lest you end up carrying the can for the customer's reluctance to move.

That's definitely part of it, the whole use somebody else's cloud has taken over most of the big organisation's IT procurement as well - even when they have inelastic demand they're still migrating everything and letting themselves get locked in.

Depending on the products they're using in the cloud; in a way they're using more open source stuff than ever - its just all hidden away and locked behind Azure/AWS charges or other company subscriptions so they just don't really know.

Well, it is New Zealand's fox town.

I'm trialling a pest netting this spring because the birds destroyed all my seedlings last year. Its supposed to keep bugs out as well - so will be interesting to see how it goes. Of course i'm waiting for the frosts to stop so I can't start putting something in the ground without risk of it dying!

Software compatibility really comes down to what tools you use & why. If you have flexibility the same outcomes can be achieved with other (typically) open source alternatives a lot of the time. Gaming used to be a major challenge but has been improving rapidly over the last couple of years.

I have a macbook air for portable computing, a windows desktop for gaming, and another half a dozen linux machines for various other bits & pieces I muck about with - and really other than some games I could use any machine for anything.

For all the hype from National about Labour + Green + possibly other party being a coalition of chaos, I think that's probably preferable to a National + Act coalition of terror.

The production kitchen and company headquarters was based in Wellington. I think they originally started out on Woodward street, and then had a big kitchen on Victoria St for a while - down near the Ghuznee St end.

At various points the number of stores outside of Wellington grew; for instance i'm pretty sure they had stores in the Auckland CBD itself - on Vulcan Lane maybe. I had no idea that Wellington it had as many as it did but they also sold via supermarkets for some time as well as couriering direct to customers as well I think.

Its interesting looking at their branding, doesn't look like it changed much from the mid 2000s.

I just realised my typo, should have been dyed, but given how mushy the rice would sometimes be depending on which of the chefs was cooking it, died isn't wrong either ;)

Its not hard to make their paella; the rice used to get died with turmeric rather than saffron too, so terribly inauthentic :)

I'm contemplating a similar day of work, ended up doing a couple of OOH jobs and its basically my choice whether to claim OT or just use those hours as I see fit.

I'm playing BG3 twice at the moment. Once with a group of friends, and then just behind where we are at with the story i'm running it solo as well. Mostly because these guys are super trigger happy and don't mind murdering all the civs whereas in my solo one i'm trying not to be so horrible.