Ah right, that makes sense!

I could have sworn I read this announcement a couple of months ago.

Your instance would have private/public keys for communicating with other instances. By changing software, all that is gone, and you might find other instances rejecting your federation activities, this is doubly true if you used the same username, because they would already have a record of that user with a different public key.

I’d suggest using a subdomain or a new domain, re-using a domain for a different Fediverse server is likely to have issues. A subdomain would be treated as a different domain so would be fine.

This is also something to know for a different scenario: taking your lemmy instance and changing the domain but keeping the content is likely to break federation as well.

Woah it reminds me of The Twits, who put glue on their tree to catch birds for dinner!

Nah there are pleny of small places that make soft drink and aren’t owned by coke or pepsi.

The post is specifically asking for alternatives to US brand so I don’t think this counts. Most of Coke’s line is made in NZ but it’s still a big US brand.

For some direct replacements:

• Coke range/Pepsi range -> Foxton Fizz or Pete’s
• Hershey’s/other chocolate -> Whittiker’s or for fancier stuff Wellington Chocolate Factory.
• I don’t know US biscuit (cookie) brands -> Cookie Time (NZ Family Owned and NZ made), there are others NZ made but not sure of others NZ owned
• Starbucks -> Mojo is Wellington’s starbucks, it’s on every corner. Not sure about ownership though. Ark Coffee is probably my favourite owned and roasted in NZ coffee bean source, but it’s expensive so I only drink it occasionally. Lots of NZ coffee roasters though. There’s also Ikarus which roasts imported coffee but also has NZs (as far as I know) only commercial coffee plantation, so you can drink NZ grown coffee (if in season), and also will make the previous mentioned coffee look cheap.

I have trouble thinking of things so if you have other US products then I can try to suggest some NZ owned and made alternatives!

I’ve been interested in clothes recently. Here are a couple:

• Glowing Sky - merino clothing
• Thunderpants - NZ made underwear and a small range of other clothing

I’d be keen to know about other clothing, like NZ Made T-shirts that aren’t just Bangladesh made T-shirts with screen printing done in NZ.

L&P is owned by Coke 🙁

Yeah not many people use tend to use Matrix, however, for Lemmy admin stuff it’s prevalent. For spam coordination, Matrix. For Lemmy support or Pict-rs (Lemmy image backend) support, there are various matrix rooms. Mbin and Piefed stuff also happens on Matrix. I guess the federated nature of Matrix is attractive to Fediverse admins.

If you want, you could join the Lemmy.nz matrix room (linked from this post), or just message me directly on Matrix (my account should be linked from my profile page - though I don’t seem able to see the button myself, it should be there for you). Then we can chat 🙂

🎉 Sure are! All done 🙂

Nice, thanks for the offer. Do you happen to use Matrix?

Morning update, the main migration has finished 🎉

I am just rerunning it to grab a few failures, then I’ll start up the image service pict-rs to see if things are working ok.

Just as an update, it’s probably over halfway there, but I’m heading to bed and will check in on it in the morning. Still some actions to do once I’m up in the morning but if all goes well we should have images up and working by mid-morning.

Haha the article is from before the road got put up to 110, for most if it’s life it’s been 100. But yeah travelling up the Kāpiti coast before the expressway opened was not pleasant, it’s for sure a much nicer and safer road.

Personally I don’t have a problem with roads like that being 110, it’s clearly a much safer road than our average 100kph roads.

Kicking off now, shutting down the image service

Is that a normal place to put the cooler on intel systems?

Reminds me of that Calvin and Hobbs:

Do we just put the speed limit up a bit at a time until people start dying, then go back down one level?

TBH I’m not too against this change assuming the part staying at 100 is the part I think it is. I have noticed traffic in the current 110 part tends to stick to 110 or slightly above, where as traffic on the 100 bit is often moving at 110 anyway. I’d bet the average speed didn’t go up by a full 10kph when they changed it.

Well I don’t know if dependent is the right word. I’m fully aware that Home Assistant is something I play with for fun.

I can check the app and see how much power my solar has generated today, how hot my water heater is, or see what temperature it is inside or outside. None of that is helpful for anything other than for fun.

Though it can do thinks like automaticaly bump up the target temperature of my hot water when the solar is making too much power in order to store that energy as heat, which is pretty cool (and might save me money).

What can I say, this is some people’s idea of fun. I got security cameras (that I can view through home assistant) and put them not pointed at entryways or windows because I don’t care about security, I pointed them at areas where the dog is and the kids play so I can play with object and facial recognition, all locally processed.

It’s ok to not think it’s your idea of fun, but if anyone uses home assistant in a way that they rely on rather than just for the fun of playing with the technology then I’d love to hear what that use is!

Yeah, I didn’t think about this before but I guess you need to be careful if you have water from a bore hole. I didn’t realise that safe distance was only 30m! But I’m also under the impression that septic systems are quite carefully designed, not just a big hole soaking blackwater into the ground.

Everyone I know on septic systems gets their water from rainwater (something we get a lot of here) so contamination isn’t a problem.

Interesting! They make a good point that you normally have most of the infrastructure needed because you’re already treating wastewater. They mention a couple of additional things thatmight happen before reintroducing into the drinking water system but all in all it does sound pretty feasible!

Now I know what to search for, I found this. It seems it’s not that common yet but there is growing interest in it. Interestingly Oregon isn’t mentioned.