Aotearoa / New Zealand @lemmy.nz Dave @lemmy.nz 1 yr. ago

Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 11/9/2023

Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!

Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.

So, how’s it going?

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Nice morning for a walk here. Saw someone driving down the street with their food on the roof of the car. Couldn't get their attention though. Maybe they will get lucky, or maybe it's a good day for takeaway?
- Monday mornings! Why do we even bother, we should have working hours distributed across the week in a bell shape, starting later on Mondays and finishing earlier on Fridays.
  
  This was basically me at one of my previous companies - we had flexible hours, so we could start late on a Monday and finish early on a Friday - and most of us did. Boss was cool with it as long as we got our 40 hrs in at some point in the week.
Kids were on go-slow this morning - just about missed the bus. It's like herding kittens some days...
- Funny how they can always get up at the crack of dawn on the weekends though.
  
  Hahah, yep. And somehow with all this energy and enthusiasm that's completely absent during the week!
- Oh man, it's like that almost every day in our house.
The day started off in a mad rush but had settled down hopefully. With any luck this week will fly as fast as last week did.

Is the politics tag still in use? I have it muted but have noticed a big uptick in the amount of political articles the last week or so. To be expected at this point in an election year I guess...
- Yeah the !politics@lemmy.nz community is still being used, but there are definitely more politics posts leaking into !newzealand.
  
  Happy to hear thoughts from anyone as to whether this is ok and expected around an election, or if we should push harder towards keeping news about political parties in !politics, or something else?
  
  Edit: just to clarify the question, what do people think should happen if a clearly political post is posted in !newzealand? Lemmy does not have the ability to move posts to another community.
  
  @Dave @sortofblue I'm personally not a fan of splitting small communities.
  
  If mixing content types makes moderation too hard, then I would say that the above post belongs in the "politics" section of a newspaper so yeah.
Day 21 of my recovery. I actually cooked dinner last night, so that's a positive. It did wipe me out though. But I feel like it's all going nicely.
- That's good to hear!
  
  Thanks!
In case anyone is looking for more excitement in their life, I'm testing this Android keyboard after learning it's developed by the lemmy founder: https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key
- That looks amazing. Is it taking much to pick it up? I use dvorak on everything except my phone, which is still on qwerty. I wonder if my brain could cope with a third kb layout...
  
  I've never used a different keyboard layout. I've been using it only today, have tested it on the typing test thing they link to, https://monkeytype.com, and I managed 10 words per minute at the start. Then I tried again after using it for a while (I only started a few hours ago, so it's only a few hours of use) and I was up to 18 words per minute. Pretty slow. I tried with my normal android keyboard (only typing, not using word suggestions) and managed 47wpm, and that was only one try.
  
  I'm gonna try to keep using it and see if I manage to get better at it.

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