Aotearoa / New Zealand

Thanks, this makes sense. Would also help keep longer conversations going (one of the issues with the daily threads being that you were less inclined to go back to an older thread to check for new comments).

Exciting 😀

Weekly thread suits our pace better I think.

Yay, this will stop me having to click around so much when I miss a few days and am wondering what you're all up to.

I like it, this solves the problem of nobody making the thread on the weekends, and also less clutter in the instance feed.

An easy "cheat" way to do it would be to use ChatGPT 4, you can submit a picture and ask it a question like "is there a cat in this scene and is it holding a mouse? Respond with either 'true' or 'false'".

Python examples here: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/vision

This is really interesting - will done (I know, it's not done yet)

I fear you'll spend months occasionally retraining it though? (I have no experience in this, I just knows how brittle my code is)

That sounds amazing! Would that be some sort of frigate setup?

I've always wanted to set up something like that, where you get notified that a van is in your driveway or a person is at the door via image recognition from a security camera. But I think the hardware is a bit hard to track down, though I haven't actually done much research towards this thing that I've "always wanted" 😆

And the settings ever since windows 10, like the main interface is the slick new style but it doesn't provide all settings info, so it ends up back into the old layout/control panel that traces back to windows 95 (but is still better). It's all just a mess as far as ui goes.

I switched to Linux again for my home laptop last year and pretty much use it full time. The only major sticking point for me is ms office - libreoffice feels like office 2003 and you can never be confident a libreoffice docx is going to look the same when someone opens what you've sent them in ms office.

Plus when I troubleshoot in Linux I can use the terminal and feel like a real hackerman™ (even if I am mostly just copying stuff off Google).

I reckon with Windows it's just easier to nuke the whole thing and reinstall. Especially with most stuff syncing / backing up to the cloud (and drivers pulled down via Windows update) plus with SSDs, it's much more faster to just do a clean install.

There are 4 heavy eaters in my house (everyone except me), so our problem is they aren't ripening fast enough 😆

If you're tired of feijoas you're tired of life.

In muffins

Stewed with icecream

Smoothies

I haven't checked my tree for a while actually.

I'll take some!

We’ve got lots as well. Looking at how to use them in other dishes, I found a Herald article - "24 Feijoa Recipes".

It’s an archive link to skip the "pay-for" - https://archive.ph/TzMXj

I moved to Australia years ago and I still feel the pain of missing feijoas. They exist here but not in a huge quantity like in NZ. Enjoy your harvest! 🤤

I didn't even realize it was feijoa season until I went into the office earlier this week, and it seemed every other person had a bag full of em on their desk lol.

Went over to mum's earlier today, and she gave us some as well 😆

Yeah, seems like incel stuff again? I feel like in the future this period of time will be studied in detail by historians due to being very influential for many reasons, this being one of them.

So you're not using YouShop or similar, the place you're buying from is not registered for GST in NZ and the value including shipping is under $NZ1000?

This CAB page says:

If the overseas seller is not registered for GST, they do not have to add GST to the cost of the goods

If the overseas seller is not registered for GST (because they do less than $NZ60,000 of sales to New Zealand customers), they will not collect GST on the goods you buy from them.

If the total value of the goods is no more than $1000, you will not be liable for GST.

So it seems you wouldn't pay GST.