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#3223912 29-Apr-2024 09:23

Geektastic: “New Zealanders would have to wait another eight years for 6G to be available, around 2032, he said.”

6G?! We live 30 minutes from Christchurch and have intermittent 4G, data incapable 3G more often and not a shred of 5G until you get to the city itself.

6G my eye!

Clearly people living rurally don't count as New Zealanders :-P

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#3224176 29-Apr-2024 12:53

Geektastic: “New Zealanders would have to wait another eight years for 6G to be available, around 2032, he said.”

And nothing of value was lost.

The effective absence of usable M2M service OTOH...

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#3224204 29-Apr-2024 15:19

Geektastic: “New Zealanders would have to wait another eight years for 6G to be available, around 2032, he said.”

6G?! We live 30 minutes from Christchurch and have intermittent 4G, data incapable 3G more often and not a shred of 5G until you get to the city itself.

6G my eye!

Law of diminishing returns. Takes a lot of time to pay back the investment in infrastructure in a rural area due to scarcity of people.

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#3224230 29-Apr-2024 16:33

Geektastic: “New Zealanders would have to wait another eight years for 6G to be available, around 2032, he said.”

6G?! We live 30 minutes from Christchurch and have intermittent 4G, data incapable 3G more often and not a shred of 5G until you get to the city itself.

6G my eye!

To be fair 30 minutes out of most NZ towns is often sparsely populated. I mean 30 minutes from the CBD is a big circle from Woodend to Dunsandel.

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#3224232 29-Apr-2024 16:36

Jase2985:

Law of diminishing returns. Takes a lot of time to pay back the investment in infrastructure in a rural area due to scarcity of people.

Yeah that's kind of the argument I use when friends (usually expats) talk about flights, mobile contracts etc. Well if you want to live with 65 million other people you'll get cheap flights!

From a mobile perspective NZ is probably lucky it's been used as a bit of a test bed by companies for some things. I guess one way of looking at it is that perhaps towns subsidise rural towers.

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#3224233 29-Apr-2024 16:38

mudguard:

To be fair 30 minutes out of most NZ towns is often sparsely populated. I mean 30 minutes from the CBD is a big circle from Woodend to Dunsandel.

That's something that people from those small towns don't get, is that me in Auckland is 1.5 hours from somewhere else in Auckland, and its populated the whole way so its worth them covering it. Whereas small settlements that don't even have their own cell towers in them will probably never be worth it.

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#3224245 29-Apr-2024 17:08

richms: That's something that people from those small towns don't get, is that me in Auckland is 1.5 hours from somewhere else in Auckland,

For people not from Auckland, that's about 2km in Auckland traffic.

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#3224717 30-Apr-2024 17:24

Found on the Bunnings web site while looking for galvanised screws:

For cases where Pater wants to wall Mater up but doesn't want any evidence to leak out. Seems like a somewhat limited market segment if you ask me.

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#3224742 30-Apr-2024 17:58

Nah, it refers to Tow Mater.

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#3225186 1-May-2024 19:19

Move over US politicians Lauren Boebert, and Marjorie Taylor Greene. The crazy club still is taking new members.

This former Republican, now Democrat, released three political ads in one day, all with same closing statement.

“If they tell you I fell out of bed and hung myself: I didn’t.”

Before running for political office, a fatal accident at a coal mine run by Blankenship led to the deaths of 29 miners, the worst such disaster on American soil in 40 years. He served a year in federal prison for conspiring to violate federal mine safety rules.

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#3225218 1-May-2024 20:57

From the Herald and Stuff thread TVNZ story about a Kiwi wandering into a Whangarei workshop. I have seen a few here and there but nothing like this one. Huge!

https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/04/30/kiwi-bird-surprises-sawmill-workers-near-whangarei/

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#3225732 3-May-2024 07:11

One News: US man's emotional support alligator goes missing on vacation
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He said he suspects someone stole Wally the alligator from the fenced, outdoor enclosure

The owner said pranksters left Wally outside the home of someone who called authorities, resulting in his alligator being trapped and released into the wild.
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#3226583 5-May-2024 08:40

To answer the question on everyone's mind: no, this is not a comedy skit from Saturday Night Live

and yes, Mark Hamill is still alive, and yes, does look like Steve Bannon

‘Star Wars’ legend makes appearance at White House press briefing

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#3226644 5-May-2024 15:12

IGN: Mario Kart Ride-On Racer Toys Recalled After Multiple Crashes From Stuck Accelerator Pedals

It turns out Tesla isn't the only car manufacturer experiencing a mass recall for its video-game-esque car because of pedal-related issues. Now a bunch of drivable Mario Kart toys are being recalled because they seems to pose a significant crash hazard to their drivers.

JAKKs Pacific, a California-based toy company, recalled 17,500 units of its Mario Kart 24V Ride-On Racer Cars on April 25 because of a crash hazard related to its battery-powered acceleration pedal. According to the United States Consumer Product and Safety Commission, if debris gets clogged in the $400 Mario Kart’s acceleration pedal, it can cause the pedal to stick even if the rider’s foot isn’t pressing down on it.
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#3226699 5-May-2024 16:43

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/516023/ode-to-flatulence-wins-nz-on-air-award

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