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Dave @lemmy.nz

Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 10/1/2025

Last weeks thread here

Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!

This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.

It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:

  • Something interesting that happened to you
  • Something humourous that happened to you
  • Something frustrating that happened to you
  • A quick question
  • A request for recommendations
  • Pictures of your pet
  • A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
  • Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)

So how’s it going?

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  • @Dave Frustration and success. We managed to install a replacement router from OneNZ after many attempts and eventually accepting that the DSL connection on the router was for the phone connection from outside the house (which is why the plug wouldn't fit). Internet is working fine, but it seems we don't have a landline phone connection any more. Virtually no one uses it any more apart from the mother-in-law so she'll have to learn to ring my wife's cell phone. It will save us $9.99 a month.

    • I ended up with my own fancy router after frustrations with an ISP one. Really nice but cost a fortune. We haven't had a landline in I think about 20 years.

      I've also just gone through the ISP change thing, dropping one as part of a regular changeover, partly because I didn't like them and partly because they put us behind CGNAT, then finding both the new ones are behind CGNAT, but I managed to convince the new one to drop the 12 month contract I agreed to because they hadn't started yet. Have signed up to BigPipe, got me a static IP (one off charge - way nicer to pay $45 once than $12 every month). Price is comparable to others. I suspect my ISP hopping days are over, all these small ones seem to just be reselling the same Devoli service these days.

  • I've been very unhinged this week. Completely nuked a decade long friendship and I've been arguing in Youtube comments about Linux for majority of the week.

    I'm sick of hearing people say steamOS is arch or like arch

    • 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.

      • What annoyed me is that he told his massive audience to install a distro that is not setup for general use. SteamOS lacks so many drivers needed for decent desktop compatibility. This just leads to a lot of people trying steamOS on their computer and concluding "linux is broken"

      • I've installed Windows and various Linux distributions many times, and they experience is basically the same. Write to a bootable flash drive, press a key in BIOS to boot from said drive, follow the instructions to install, remove flash drive and restart, then you land on your fully working install of Windows/Linux.

        You're right, most Windows users have never installed it. It is a little technical to do. But most major linux distros have the same setup experience (I've never used arch 😲 so not sure about that one)

  • I'm a tad late posting today, but it's still the same date so surely that's close enough.

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