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If I understand the argument is that we have no expertise in finding and extracting it, so we have to offer bigger concessions to get anybody to do it.

Which sounds like the wrong solution to the problem, but what would I know?

Yeah me too, the Heartland Nearly Nude 50% Reduced Salt are my favourites, they taste like Potato, not salt.

Heh, well yes - even our best brands from specialty online retailers or restaurants probably aren't going to compare to what you can get! Its got a lot better in the last decade though, I think anyway i've not had the opportunity to try the real thing.

Try a different brand, Me Hiko, Go Nutz, or Tostitos plain are all much better than Mexicano. There are some other brands out there but I forget the names at the moment and those 3 are usually available in the supermarkets.

Brand in photo doesn't taste of anything, but yeah good corn chips taste like they were made from freshly made corn tortilla and are great, plain or flavoured.

If its the brand in the photo in the post its one of the longest running in NZ and OP is right they have no flavour at all. But we do have good tortilla chip brands in NZ now (for ages it was basically this brand and Doritos/CCs), and the plain ones are much better and def delicious.

$3 anywhere within Hastings: https://www.mywayhb.nz/about-myway/

Think it wasn’t far off a normal bus fare, but it’s free to the hospital where my partner worked at the time.

(I am not a construction / civil engineer)

If they pulled the first 10 rows of seats that’d probably add 5m in each direction which while still a small ground internationally would make it pretty comparable to other NZ grounds.

Our big cities don’t need dual purpose stadiums, Dunedin & Hamilton have proved that.

Watching the cricket and wondering if sanity prevails and Auckland opts for a downtown football shaped stadium for football codes instead of upgrading Eden Park (again), could they revamp the stands? Reduce some of the size, move them around, change it up such that Eden Park could become a better sized cricket ground?

Yeah that’s the easiest comparison. You use an app and put your pick up & drop off points and then a bus like a big transit van will get routed past you. So it’s less predictable when you get to your destination as it might do more drop offs or pick ups. My partner used it a bit and reckoned 2/5 trips would be only her onboard and direct to work.

Any increase to minimum wage at least close to inflation is at least 2 years off in New Zealand so in at least the short term there would be pain to those that are already pay cheque to pay cheque.

I've not used Auckland PT, but Wellington's is definitely decent, probably depending on where you live. I think the trains would work better if they were faster, and thus more frequent - its probably difficult to make them much bigger given the platform lengths.

Some areas the bus services are a bit borderline, but would work better with less private vehicles to contend with. And to make PT even better some smaller busses with dynamic routing (like is trialled in Heretaunga-Hawkes Bay) could be the missing link that makes cross network travel much better.

The only thing is the routing algorithm would need work because up here what's tended to happen is that they've kinda just become large subsidised taxis for individual or groups going point to point rather than a vehicle travelling across the network picking up & dropping off along the way.

Yeah, I mean setting aside non-graphical OS's (DOS, various flavours of *nix) that i've installed, i've used linux, windows & macs in the last 10 years and done the OS install on each of them and there is essentially no difference between the three that would hold back anyone who has done an install using one of them to do any of the others.

I can't accurately assess how difficult it might be for someone who has never done an install, ive been using & breaking computers since the 80s so have done it so many times that any quirks that pop up are just quirks, not deal breakers.

Exactly, it was basically a complicated guide to installing a handheld OS on a desktop that unsurprisingly worked like a handheld OS on a desktop.

Heh, there's been a lot of discourse about SteamOS this week. The one that annoyed me was the Linus video showing an incredibly convoluted way of (currently) installing SteamOS because Linux is apparently way harder than Windows to install.

Which may have been true once, but just isn't today if an influencer like Linus pointed his viewers to something like bazzite which is equivalent to a Windows install in difficulty as far as I can tell* and even with an nVidia card for me the games 99% of the time just work as if they're Windows.

*I suspect 90% of Windows gamers have probably never installed Windows either, so anything would be difficult and Linus just doesn't see that having installed it himself probably hundreds of times or more.

As someone notes in the responses:

"Congestion pricing is such a good idea everywhere there is rock solid public transit alternatives. Where there’s not, it just becomes a tax on the poor."

If most of the poorer and working class road users cannot shift their transport times (and typically they can't) and then you don't have good and affordable public transport options for them to take instead then it effectively becomes a charge that the people who can't avoid it pay so that those with flexible lives can enjoy a smoother commute.

Which is to say that it might well reduce congestion but the cost of doing so is lumped on those that can least afford it, rather than those that can. As with most things its a choice of who pays for what to reach the aim. I would prefer that we increase taxes on wealthier people and fund expanded and free(er) public transport with a huge increase in safe cycling routes.

I have dual boot available (win10 - bazzite/gnome/nvidia) and haven't had to boot the win10 partition since the first week I set up the bazzite one.

I have very few problems, just intermittent weird graphics glitches after waking from suspend. Occasionally for whatever reason the 2 monitors I have plugged into the RTX 4070 will rapidly flip between joined (ie two separate displays) to mirroring display 1 on display 2, and sometimes flashing a black screen on display 2. The 3rd screen plugged into the mobo rarely gets involved in whatever is going on.

I think that's possibly a Wayland / nVidia thing but is extremely rare to happen on a fresh boot so has been pretty easy to workaround.

The only Windows thing I miss is the VoiceMeeter audio mixing app from VB-Audio which was far superior to anything i've found so far that I can get working on bazzite. One thing about the linux audio that really annoys me is how each time some audio plays - eg every next youtube video its on a new audio stream and ignores the previous volume level I had set. But very first world problems :)

For sure - I guess in an ideal world they'd be used for shorter runs between production / delivery nodes. Eg Factory -> Warehouse, Warehouse -> Railhead / Port. There's a bit of downtime as trucks get loaded & unloaded so in an integrated system you could charge at the stops as well I suppose.

I was just trying various options /

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