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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Not sure the point of your comment. The article uses that word, or ither forms of it a bunch, they are not shying away from it. An immigrant is someone who moves TO a country. An emmigrant is someone who moves FROM a country. These are both permanent moves (or intended to be). An expat is someone who LIVES in another country. Formally it means temporarily but I've seen it colloquially used for both temp and permanent.

So "US expats in New Zealand" is precise and inclusive whereas "immigrant" means people from any country who moved permanently. Imprecise and non inclusive.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Trumpaphobia, the fear of 45/47

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (18 children)

I run free local models...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

I'm an American citizen self deporting.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I don't cover my mouth when I yawn.

When I'm in a freind group I'll make eye contact with someone and extend my tongue to assert dominance.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I do CAD and web dev - have been bombarded with "job offers" to get me to operate forklifts and or trucks for 10 years now. Even did an interview once where I didn't even know that was the job until after the interview.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

When I was younger about 14 eggs a week. Now about 9.

Where I am eggs have only gone up about $0.20 in the last few months. Still under $6 per dozen for cage free eggs. Maybe $3.50 for caged eggs?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I didn't know they had inport taxes on desktops. Thanks for the heads up.

In my experience, typically import taxes are there to try and encourage buying local. Does New Zealand manufacturer their own electronics, or is this import tax just a way to levy money? Or is it to reduce environmental impact?

 

Hey, I'm an American moving to NZ (Whangerei, Northland) in a few months and am trying to device if I should fly my desktop/server over or just build a new one there.

What's the general availability of server and desktop parts there? Any recommended local shops, or do I need to import everything from Asia?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Doing the same in a couple of months! Whangherei

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I remember connecting to private World of Warcraft servers back in the day and even hosted one for just me and my partner. Anyone know if it would be technically possible do this for RuneScape?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I have a bit of an exhibitionist kink. If I thought I could make more money then I currently do, I totally would.

 

I would very much like to move from Google and Microsoft and other proprietary, non privacy services.

I have spent hundreds of $ and thousands of hours trying to setup various different services on various different platforms and every single one of them has been difficult, annoying, frustrating, and ultimately fails.

I have concluded I am just not the guy to do this as I am Windows CAD guy and have no idea what I am doing with networking, Linux or CLI. 90% of the words and terms in tutorials are greek to me.

I am looking for notes (Joplin), Google Drive replacement (NextCloud?), and email (??) on a cloud server. And then video streaming (plex or jellyfin + *arr?) and photo management (immich?) on my local machines.

Let me know if you are interested or know of somewhere better to post this.

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