I haven’t tried growing onions from bulbs before. Isn’t an onion already the bulb, so you plant one onion to get one onion? or is it like a seedling, where the nursery has planted the seeds then you buy them as bulbs when they have grown a bit?
And I don’t think I’ve heard of Bazzite. What’s the advantage over something like Nobara, which is another fedora-based gaming OS?
That’s one of the recommendations from the electoral review quoted in the article, it just didn’t make it to the headline:
The panel said there was a “low level of public trust” in the private funding of political parties. It had two key recommendations to address this:
Ban businesses and organisations like unions from donating.
Limit the amount a person can give to any one party to $30,000 in each electoral cycle.
There’s a third problem though, which is that third parties don’t have to be transparent about their funding. The Taxpayers Union registered with the electoral commission to state their intentions to campaign in the election, but because they are not campaigning for themselves they don’t have to disclose their donation sources. It’s basically the idea of a Super PAC that the US has.
Act has to publicly declare all their donors over a certain value. So instead, you make a new organisation, have them pay for all the ads and other campaigning, and because that organisation is not a political party themselves they aren’t subject to the rules. Act can simply point their potential donors at the taxpayers’ union who do the dirty work.
The article actually says Labour would be a big loser, because a significant portion of their donations (which are already much lower than National/Act) come from various unions.
I’m afraid not. Large companies are owned by rich people. NZ’s largest political donor is a billionaire owner of a pretty big company, and he makes large donations in his own name.
Docker is fantastic but there is definitely a learning curve. I use docker compose for everything, which makes it easier (especially blowing away and recreating a container).
Instead of trying to work out where stuff lives, I create bind mounts. Basically, map a directory on your system to a directory within the container. Most self-hosted services these days will provide docker-compose.yml example files with bind mounts specified, and docker now ships with compose baked in.
I create one directory to hold everything, then one directory to hold a service, then put the docker-compose.yml file in there. Then I can back up just that one directory and everything important is backed up (I do things differently for lemmy because I want live backups, but all my personal stuff is done like that).
TBH my Auntie and Uncle have a Weber and swear by it, so I’m pretty sure you’ll be happy with either (or unhappy with either, if your skills are that bad 😝).
Anyone got tips on taking black and white photos? I tried converting some of my photos to black and white but they don’t look that good. I tried googling and found some stuff about how photos need to be taken with the intent of being black and white because you’re needing to focus on different things in the shot and all that, but I don’t seem to be able to get anything decent.
I haven’t even finished mine. I got 2 IR blasters that I haven’t set up because they didn’t immedietly work and so I told myself I’d give it another go later (a couple of months ago).
I bought a Pi 1 as soon as they were announced, then it spent nearly a decade in a cupboard (other than some short-lived projects) before I finally found a good use for it. It’s currently running Pi-hole for my home network.
The Pi4 is a lot, lot more powerful. It can run a dozen self hosted services and do just fine, so long as those services are not media-serving. I have found photo or media servers are a bit much for the Pi 4, and I’ve recently moved things across to an old laptop and started looking at doing media related stuff.
I’m using a cellphone and I hate that out of focus background style because it reminds me of the super fake background blur that phones like to do to make the subject of the photo stand out. I will try not to forget to have a go this week and post something in the post. I didn’t get to it today and things tend to be out of sight, out of mind for me.
Two parts. The first part is the important part, the database. I run a scheduled database dump for this (the lemmy documentation actually explains how to do a database dump and how to restore it - I just have a bash script triggered by a cron job).
The second part is the images. Uploaded images and the image cache (for thumbnails for posts on other servers, etc) are virtually impossible to tell apart, so it’s all backed up (about 150GB just for images). For this, I just do a tarball of the whole directory. Any in-progress changes get skipped by the process but my theory is that since images are only added and deleted, if the process was run 30 seconds earlier then any being added would have been missed anyway, so they can wait until tomorrow’s backup. The vast, vast majority are cached images rather than image uploads anyway.
These two things are done overnight NZ time as they can be resource intensive, but I’ve done daylight hour backups before when needed, and it doesn’t cause much of an impact to the site performance anyway.
Can’t beat the subtle look of it on a proper camera with a decent lens.
Yeah, shame I don’t have one 🙁
Can it be pinned or similar?
I forgot that was a thing 😆
The two options for pinning are community and local. Pinning in the community means it’s at the top when viewing !newzealand, but it doesn’t change anything when looking at the subscribed/local/all feeds.
Pinning in local means it’s at the top of the feed, but only for lemmy.nz users. A good half of !newzealand subscribers have their accounts on other instances. I also think it’s annoying having a post pinned to the top of the feeds.
I have pinned it in the community, which I think is the most appropriate. However, it might not be enough to remind me 😆. I actually wrote it on my to-do list now, so maybe I’ll remember to do it before next Friday.
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At last! (sh.itjust.works)
Lemmy disproves the stereotype that Germans lack a sense of humor
A solid 30% of posts in my feed are German memes. I don’t understand the language, but I love the memes that I can’t read.
What would happen if only voters - not unions or businesses - could donate to political parties? (www.rnz.co.nz)
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