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#3250519 18-Jun-2024 17:29

mudguard:

Apple do far superior restorations compared to Android. Get a new iPhone, type in iCloud details and ten minutes later it's basically the same. I use an iPhone for work.

Typically, I change phones once or twice a year. I use the Samsung Smart Switch and I reckon hands on time to operational on the new device is around 10 minutes. Mostly logging into apps again.

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#3250526 18-Jun-2024 17:45

networkn:

mudguard:

Apple do far superior restorations compared to Android. Get a new iPhone, type in iCloud details and ten minutes later it's basically the same. I use an iPhone for work.

Typically, I change phones once or twice a year. I use the Samsung Smart Switch and I reckon hands on time to operational on the new device is around 10 minutes. Mostly logging into apps again.

Oh absolutely. This is the first time I've had to move Android when one phone is unresponsive. Remarkably, I've never lost or broken a phone before. The Flip was maybe 15 months old when the screen simply stopped working.

So signing in, then getting everything from Play Store etc. Functioning device swap has always been ok.

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#3250730 19-Jun-2024 09:28

networkn:

mudguard:

Apple do far superior restorations compared to Android. Get a new iPhone, type in iCloud details and ten minutes later it's basically the same. I use an iPhone for work.

Typically, I change phones once or twice a year. I use the Samsung Smart Switch and I reckon hands on time to operational on the new device is around 10 minutes. Mostly logging into apps again.

It only takes you ten minutes to login to apps?

And recreating the home screen if you use the stock home app.

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#3250864 19-Jun-2024 16:29

mudguard:

networkn:

mudguard:

Apple do far superior restorations compared to Android. Get a new iPhone, type in iCloud details and ten minutes later it's basically the same. I use an iPhone for work.

Typically, I change phones once or twice a year. I use the Samsung Smart Switch and I reckon hands on time to operational on the new device is around 10 minutes. Mostly logging into apps again.

Oh absolutely. This is the first time I've had to move Android when one phone is unresponsive. Remarkably, I've never lost or broken a phone before. The Flip was maybe 15 months old when the screen simply stopped working.

So signing in, then getting everything from Play Store etc. Functioning device swap has always been ok.

I've always used Android phones, for one obvious reason: SD card slots. Android phones tend to have a steeper learning curve, but once that's out of the way, they're a lot more customisable.

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#3250866 19-Jun-2024 16:38

deepred:

I've always used Android phones, for one obvious reason: SD card slots. Android phones tend to have a steeper learning curve, but once that's out of the way, they're a lot more customisable.

99% of my phone use is as a clock, to make/receive phone calls or txts and as a camera.

I prefer my time investment to go elsewhere.

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#3250870 19-Jun-2024 16:45

Just when I think trademe cant F it up any more, they have.

Cant leave feedback on the my trademe - won listing page anymore, or see payment instructions. I guess they are trying to push me to use ping as that button is there and all good.

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#3252314 24-Jun-2024 08:27

I am really annoyed by brain-dead media constantly using ‘Olympic size swimming pool’ as a unit of measure when referring to large scale events like floods, volcanic eruptions, landslides, and so forth. What the hell does that even mean? It says nothing to me. I have no idea what an ‘Olympic size swimming pool’ is. I assume it means a lot more than a bathtub but the term says nothing to me other than that. Why not 2 ½ Lake Taupos, or 6% of the Mediterranean ocean or something like that. It would be just as meaningful to anyone other than an Olympic swimmer!

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#3252318 24-Jun-2024 08:39

^ needs a banana for scale.

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#3252319 24-Jun-2024 08:49

Rikkitic:

I am really annoyed by brain-dead media constantly using ‘Olympic size swimming pool’ as a unit of measure when referring to large scale events like floods, volcanic eruptions, landslides, and so forth. What the hell does that even mean? It says nothing to me. I have no idea what an ‘Olympic size swimming pool’ is. I assume it means a lot more than a bathtub but the term says nothing to me other than that. Why not 2 ½ Lake Taupos, or 6% of the Mediterranean ocean or something like that. It would be just as meaningful to anyone other than an Olympic swimmer!

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#3252329 24-Jun-2024 09:28

Rikkitic:

I am really annoyed by brain-dead media constantly using ‘Olympic size swimming pool’ as a unit of measure when referring to large scale events like floods, volcanic eruptions, landslides, and so forth. What the hell does that even mean? It says nothing to me. I have no idea what an ‘Olympic size swimming pool’ is. I assume it means a lot more than a bathtub but the term says nothing to me other than that. Why not 2 ½ Lake Taupos, or 6% of the Mediterranean ocean or something like that. It would be just as meaningful to anyone other than an Olympic swimmer!

If it helps, one Olympic swimming pool is approximately 1.67 billion thimbles full.

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#3252411 24-Jun-2024 12:18

Soft plastic recycling.

Why do I have to take it to a supermarket instead of the tip where I take all other kinds of recycling?!

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#3252492 24-Jun-2024 13:20

Geektastic:

Soft plastic recycling.

Why do I have to take it to a supermarket instead of the tip where I take all other kinds of recycling?!

It's yet another way that recycling is more difficult than not recycling.

Put this type out this week, that type next week, another type goes to the supermarket. If we really were serious about recycling we'd make it as easy as possible for everyone to achieve instead of making it as complicated as possible.

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#3252496 24-Jun-2024 13:24

In our case, we get no recycling at all from home. Or rubbish collection.

We take it to the council dump. However, despite accepting everything from engine oll to car batteries to drinks cans etc etc they do not take soft plastic...for that you must make an additional drive at your expense to a supermarket.

So inefficient.

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#3252497 24-Jun-2024 13:28

geoffwnz:

Geektastic:

Soft plastic recycling.

Why do I have to take it to a supermarket instead of the tip where I take all other kinds of recycling?!

It's yet another way that recycling is more difficult than not recycling.

Put this type out this week, that type next week, another type goes to the supermarket. If we really were serious about recycling we'd make it as easy as possible for everyone to achieve instead of making it as complicated as possible.

"Simple" means far too expensive in this case. The man hours that would be required to sort everything out makes it cost prohibitive.

This is why ALL goods MUST have a recycling fee (+ a refundable deposit fee ) to ensure the whole cost of recycling is prepaid and cost effective (including the cost of remediating fly tipping). Someone has to pay, why not the person who buys it. Items cheaper to recycle will have a lower fee attached to them thus putting a price burden on junk.

For those of us of a certain age, glass soft drink bottles had the deposit (and in Australia in some states they still do).

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#3252503 24-Jun-2024 13:41

geoffwnz: It's yet another way that recycling is more difficult than not recycling.

Yup. I try and recycle as much as possible but 90% of the time soft plastics are just too much of a pain, you end up with an untidy mound of plastic bags sitting around somewhere waiting for someone to (a) go to the supermarket and (b) remember to take them along. And since you typically get them one unit at a time it's much easier to just put them in the rubbish at that point, it's only one tiny bag...

Edited to add: There's currently a pile of reusable landscaping bags waiting to go to Placemakers, a stack of plastic plant pots waiting to go to Mitre10, some electronics waiting to go to Abilities, .... you get the picture.

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