I first saw them in the Wellington Town Hall some 20+ years ago. Amazing show, Jon Toogood was hanging off the mezzanine playing guitar, after climbing up a stack of speakers. I agree, they really give it their all.
An entomologist says the spread of Portuguese millipedes across Wellington - and beyond - is almost certain after residents on the south coast sounded the alarm about infestations of the invasive species.
Residents have described waking to find hundreds of scaly black millipedes around their homes, discovering them in shoes, bags and even their beds.
Biosecurity New Zealand said the invertebrate had been identified on the south coast and in Lower Hutt for about 20 years, but not much was known about it.
A local councillor is now calling for an urgent meeting with local authorities to discuss how to tackle the problem.
These guys have been everywhere my whole life. I seem to have missed the news they had decided to call it quits.
I know the fish album well, but I have some favorites from many of their other albums as well.
I was thinking a bunch of these would make good state houses. Their current pricing is based on negotiated prices, but if you said you were going to build 10,000 I'm sure they could reduce the cost some more using economies of scale.
With that said, the land is still expensive (and in many places still likely to cost as much as the house and possibly more). If we were gonna build in bulk, we would probably want to fit more houses in. Ultimately these are still standalone houses, and you could probably get a cheaper overall cost by building medium density two story terraced housing to really cut down on that land cost.
Through the middle of the day we are hitting the export cap most days, but we also try to turn on the dishwasher or charge the car at that time because it's better to use the power than sell to the grid and buy it back later.
We've only had it through the summer so I'm curious what the winter will be like.
We get 20c per KWh at a fixed rate, which is much better than some companies that do 10c or less or some don't pay you at all. We are with SolarEdge, a specialist electricity company that only work with people who have solar or other renewable power (e.g. wind). Apparently they can't do it in all areas, though.
All in all it will be interesting to pull out a spread sheet after a year and try to work out whether it's been financially worth it.
Yeah I am hoping the rush on EVs continues and the big bucks keep being put into battery research. I am really tempted to get a second battery, but then I remember the battery alone costs a good $10-15k depending on model., I reckon in 5 years or so when I'm hoping capacities have doubled (so getting one more will triple our current capacity).
It's hard watching the solar output get capped because the battery is full and you can only provide 5KW to the grid on single phase power systems.
An update, some of you might remember we had federation issues with Lemmy.world. For a long time now we have had a second server in Finland that Lemmy.world was pointed at, then that server would pass the activities in bulk to our Lemmy.nz server in NZ. This has worked for a long time to prevent a delay federating all the Lemmy.world content.
A recent version of Lemmy added a way to send activities in parallel. Lemmy.world has turned this on, and not long ago this morning have started sending the activities directly to the Lemmy.nz server again, bypassing the extra one.
Let me know if you see anything strange, but it does seem to be working from what I've seen monitoring it this morning.
I used to be like that on reddit. Coming here I decided I'd just say things that came to mind. If it doesn't resonate with people then they don't reply and no harm no foul, but very often it triggers replies and conversations. I think it's a great way to get value out of lemmy.
Wikipedia mentions the term "quirina", I wonder if that would be more familiar to them?
It seems you can do a lot yourself but you wouldn't be able to avoid an electrician completely. The thing that stands out to me is that you can't connect the house to the grid, and you can't connect new subcircuits. So you can replace existing hot points, but if you install new ones then you can run the cabling but need to have an electrician actually connect it to the power, and need the work to be inspected.
They talk about cutting the electrician time down to a few days for this design, I guess you could make it one day if you do the leg work yourself and just have them there for the inspection and connection.
For assembling, it seems like you should be able to do it with a few friends so long as you have a loader crane type thing. I presume you can hire those but I'm not sure what the class requirements are to drive them.
We got solar somewhat recently. You can often get cheap finance through your bank if you have a mortgage, $10k should be enough for a few panels. While a battery would be good for resilience, it's a significant cost that Consumer NZ reckons doesn't pay for itself and is only worth doing if you are looking for that protection from power cuts. It does seem like that's what you want, but you can add a battery later, and if you lose power for a long time then having power during the day is still better than none at all.
One thing that surprised me was how little power the house battery stores. As the nights get longer, we are often left without much power in the battery come morning. And if the heating is on we often don't make it through and it starts pulling from the grid.
The battery is about 13KWh and we have a Leaf EV that's maybe 25 or 30Kwh, so if you charge overnight then it just drains the whole battery.
They cover it here: https://livinghouse.nz/#living-house-cost-breakdown
They allocate $15k for insulation. It says cost dependant on location - different parts of the country have different requirements for R value so I'm guessing they are going for bare minimum required by law. However, it turns out they are an architecture company not a building company so they simply sell you the plans for $10k and you contract your own builders to do it (they have agreements with suppliers for most of it but you aren't required to use them). What I'm getting at is you can spend a bit more and get better insulation if you wanted to.
cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/17769069
The results are in!🎶
Hey everyone, I'm glad to announce that after fighting my lazyness, I have gathered the votes submitted until now, and am able to announce the results of the second edition of Lemmyvision! Thank you so much for participating, by sending a song together with your community, leaving feedback, or voting!!
This first ranking is based on the average position out of every vote:
- Flomb!, Pe Krieger - #unplugtrump (avg. rank: 3.6)
- Lambrini Girls - God's Country (4.7)
- Alien Weaponry - Mau Moko (4.9)
- Rezz, Virtual Riot, One True God - Give In To You (4.9)
- Bibiza - Aufnimmawiederschaun (5.2)
- Ultra Vomit - Dead Robot Zombie Cop From Outer Space 2 (5.3)
- Billie du Page - Fake Friends (5.3)
- Elisapie (ᐃᓕᓴᐱ) - Quviasukkuvit (If It Makes You Happy) (5.7)
- Gurridyula - From The River To The Sea (5.8)
- Cie Les Petites Mains - L’Anamour (6.2)
- Lina Mayer - Raj (6.2)
Now here's a ranking based on how many time each song was ranked first :
- Flomb!, Pe Krieger - #unplugtrump (17 times ranked first!)
- Lambrini Girls - God's Country (8)
- Alien Weaponry - Mau Moko (7)
- Rezz, Virtual Riot, One True God - Give In To You (6)
- Gurridyula - From The River To The Sea (4)
- Ultra Vomit - Dead Robot Zombie Cop From Outer Space 2 (4)
- Billie du Page - Fake Friends (3)
- Elisapie (ᐃᓕᓴᐱ) - Quviasukkuvit (If It Makes You Happy) (2)
- Bibiza - Aufnimmawiederschaun (2)
- Cie Les Petites Mains - L’Anamour (1)
- Lina Mayer - Raj (none😥)
Some interesting data: #unplugtrump by Flong! and Pe Krieger seems to be a clear favourite congratulations to https://feedbeat.me/@Pe and https://mastodon.social/@FLOMB !! All the other songs are pretty close to each other. There has been more participation overall (more submission, more votes than last year), and a lot of people from non participating instances voted (their top 3 is so diverse I can't manage to discern a pattern), thank you!
A heartfelt thank you to the participating instances, I loved listening to your songs:
- Cie Les Petites Mains - L'Anamour (French Sign Language - !pi_sourd@jlai.lu)
- Bibiza - Aufnimmawiederschaun (Austria - !austria@feddit.org )
- Ultra Vomit - Dead Robot Zombie Cop From Outer Space 2 (France - !france@jlai.lu)
- Billie du Page - Fake Friends (French Canadian - lemmy.ca)
- Gurridyula - From The River To The Sea (Australia - !rage@aussie.zone)
- Rezz, Virtual Riot, One True God - Give In To You (English Canadian - lemmy.ca)
- Lambrini Girls - God's Country (United Kingdoms - feddit.uk)
- Alien Weaponry - Mau Moko (New Zealand - lemmy.nz)
- Elisapie (ᐃᓕᓴᐱ) - Quviasukkuvit (If It Makes You Happy) (Inuktitut - lemmy.ca)
- Lina Mayer - Raj (Slovakia - !slovakia@sopuli.xyz)
- Flomb!, Pe Krieger - #unplugtrump (Germany - feddit.org)
This marks the end of the second edition of Lemmyvision, of course the community will stay open if anyone wants to submit songs they'd like people to discover, or have feedback on the event. I'm going to work on making the rules clear but inclusive because there were a lot of cases I didn't think about, hopefully the third edition will be super easy to get into.
Thank you again for participating, it's always fun to see communities get together, and to discover songs from other cultures, I hope you've had a great time!!
Until then, see you at Sunnyvision, somewhere around summer 🌞
Cheers!
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Eradication is likely impossible, but there is still a lot that can be done to control populations. But it seems no one is even thinking about it yet (and it might need the "pest" label before anyone puts money into control).