I used to use that feature, I’ve now replaced my voicemail message with one starting that it’s not checked and that leaving a message is pointless.

a majority getting on board

Having greater scrutiny on their funding sources.

Betteridge’s law of headlines says: no.

The alternative is #5 directorship of Fulton Hogan.

That rating from that PSU will be the max it can supply, it is very unlikely that a consumer router is pulling 5A.

Your router firmware might even expose its power consumption if you are lucky.

I have the same/similar setup. My wall-warts are just plugged into the UPS.

It was around the same time. I’m not sure if there was a causal relationship.

In the finance industry we call this KYC Know Your Customer, specifically the “beneficial owner”.

You tie the funds back to the top-most owner in any structure.

You’re also supposed to vett that the funds have providence for AML (Anti-Money Laundering).

If that industry can do it, so can parliamentary services or whomever would enforce it.

This guy regulates.

This is the way.

Cracks? They can’t stand each other and never could.

Luxon thinks he’s CEO of Air New Zealand.

He’s been played like a fiddle by Peters and Seymour, who are actually experienced politicians.

We will when your president does!

gets coat

The bigger question is that if Debian and Ubuntu have conflicting policies, what does that mean for upstreaming changes from Ubuntu to Debian?

It would eventually result in Ubuntu drifting even farther from God Debian.

Also, downstream distributions from Ubuntu might themselves choose a conflicting policy with similar problems.

You mentioned you have VDSL. So you’ll still need your VDSL modem.

You will probably be able to configure it in pass-through mode or something similar so it will only do the modem functions and not the routing functions.

Then you can use anything you like as a router.

I use OpnSense on a dirt cheap ex-lease x86 SFF desktop. I also filled it with PCIe NIC’s. The only down side of that is it’s power-draw.

Indeed it would, I wasn’t sure how the numbers would work out.

Just the sick day cost is what you’d need to convince your local National/Act/NZF incumbent.

It costs about $20 to get it from my local pharmacy. There are about five million people.

Let’s assume that the government/pharmac/healthnz/whomever could source five million doses at a good rate and fund the staffing requirements to administer them. Say that is the same $20/dose cost.

$100m or about ten metres of motorway.

The best part is you don’t need to do all five million, I think about 80% is enough for herd immunity to take effect. So it’s cheaper at $80m.

'flu takes about a week to recover from. So every person that gets it ‘costs’ their employer a week’s wages. Call that $25/hr × 40hr = $1000/wk. We’d only need to stop 80,000 people from getting 'flu each year to break even. NZ had almost half a million cases in 2025.

Grub typically stores the uuid of the root filesystem in the kernel command line arguments (I can’t quite remember if that’s the right name it not).

Have a look at the grub configuration when in the grub menu and you should see it there.

Last time I did this I used btrfs.

Add the new drive to the system, create partitions, add the new volume and then remove the old one, btrfs moves all the blocks to the new drive.

The ESP partition is small enough and FAT- enough to just use cp.

You do get paid, it’s just not much.

Many employers, but not all, will pay you as normal while you’re on duty. Those employers recognize the value of that particular public service.

one in $9

That prompted me to wonder what the population split between islands is.

Over three-quarters of the population (76.4%) live in the North Island…

From the Wikipedia page, but I can’t find a citation for that particular figure.

So 1/9 of the roading spend is disproportionate to the population: $2.5/9 would be fairer.

With a similar geographic area and only a third of the relative population, SI would need more than their population based share to have equivalent quality roading.

It’s a tale as old as time.