Hi y'all,

First post on here, I used to be on the old TM message boards a little bit way back in the day.

I'm keen to know if anyone has got a Google Pixel 8 or 8 Pro (or an older Pixel) on here and also, is anyone using Graphene OS on it or an older Pixel? 

IÔÇÖm interested in trying it out but am keen to know more before I dive in, so I'm after experiences and thoughts on the Pixel phones on NZ networks and ideally using Graphene OS. Anything to be aware of etc? Thanks in advance.

I'd like to think they can somehow save the News, Fair Go & Sunday, good for them for trying & I think most of NZ would support them in that. 

But, perhaps the govt will step in & save them.

Or not...


https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/tvnz...5HAKVZXFA/

"Television New Zealand┬á(TVNZ) staffers are rallying outside the broadcasterÔÇÖs Auckland HQ today in a bid to save┬áSunday,┬áFair Go┬áand the┬áMidday┬áand┬áTonight┬ánews shows from being pulled off air.
About 100 protesters gathered in opposition to the cancellations, which are part of widespread job cuts as TVNZ battles a big drop in traditional TV advertising revenue as audiences move to digital platforms.
Up to 68 jobs, including about 35 in news and current affairs, are being axed.

Sunday┬ápresenter Miriama Kamo told the┬áHerald┬áas journalists, they donÔÇÖt want to be on the other side of the microphone and it felt unusual.

Diversity in our sector is really important and we need to make sure that every voice has the chance to tell stories on behalf of every voice in our country. And the fourth estate is a very important pillar of our democracy, and IÔÇÖm not sure how much thatÔÇÖs understood by our power brokers.ÔÇØ
Kamo said Sunday was the last long-form current affairs show of its kind, and once it goes, there will never be anything like it again.

ÔÇ£ItÔÇÖs changed laws, itÔÇÖs saved lives. It has been there to reflect back to our country who we are so allow people to tell their stories. We have a diverse range of reporters who are able to speak to a diverse part of our community. So thatÔÇÖs why itÔÇÖs really important that we keep it.ÔÇØ

Fair Go┬áreporter and presenter Garth Bray fronted the chant, ÔÇ£Save our stories, save our newsÔÇØ and spoke of feeling sick and angry about the prospect of potentially being one of the last┬áFair Go┬áreporters.
ÔÇ£You can be sad that you are losing your job, and you can be really sad that your friends are losing their jobs. But the idea that we are losing something as precious as a programme that people invoke every day in this country when theyÔÇÖre getting a raw deal, that makes me a little bit sick and a little bit angry.ÔÇØ

I am moving to Gmail from Xtramail for reasons we all know by now.

Just logged in to PB Tech and wanted to change my email address, but to my surprise, it cannot be changed! 
I will have to create another account if I wish to change my email address!  What the hell! 

What are your views re this matter?

Most of us will have seen the three part programme,Escaping Utopia, including the final part, in which some ex members went to India to visit the sister of one of them & found some distressing things there.
Govt agencies have now been accused of allowing abuse at Gloriavale to continue.


https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5127...o-continue

"Four government agencies are being accused of knowingly allowing abuse to happen at Gloriavale, in High Court action brought by a leavers' lawyer who describes the community as a "sex cult cloaked in Christianity".
Barrister Brian Henry has filed proceedings against Oranga Tamariki, the Department of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Social Development and Labour Inspectorate, after sending a letter to the Prime Minister and other senior ministers calling for the West Coast commune to be shut down.
Henry criticised the failure of previous governments and officials in the 6 December letter, arguing inaction had turned them into "enablers".
"My clients seek immediate action at ministerial level to close the Gloriavale community," he said.
"Enabling ongoing abuse of little children by the dint of their birth into the community is a gross dereliction of their duty."






https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-det...omen-there

"When Theo Pratt saw her sister in India's Gloriavale outpost last year, she was horrified. 
"She was just like a shell of the person I remembered as my sister. I was very taken aback, I didn't expect it to be that bad," she says. "She was so lifeless." 
Pratt was in India to check on her sister and the other women and children living there.  

On Tuesday, the final episode of TVNZ's three-part documentary [i]Escaping Utopia[/i] revealed the existence of this offshoot in India. But as Pratt told [i]The Detail[/i], she's known about it for years - and has tried for about seven years to get help. 

"I've been trying to find a way to get the government and to get someone to realise what was happening and what Gloriavale was doing with sending women to India," Pratt says. 
"Over the years I've met with human rights people, and lawyers, and media people, and at the end of the day it was in the too-hard basket and no one was going to touch it because it's Gloriavale and it's so complicated." 

Pratt says of the small community there, five are New Zealand women married to Indian men, and 35 are their children. She says the women don't have access to their passports, and some of the children don't even have birth certificates. Peter Righteous, one of Gloriavale's leaders, denies this, saying that the Gloriavale members there would be able to leave "at the drop of a hat". 
Pratt also says that the oldest of the New Zealand children is 13 or 14, and the plan is to begin to marry them to each other in a few years.
"Those kids and those women are hugely at risk." 

just caught this in the news tonight, happened around 8.30pm our time 

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-68663071

I have a Nokia 3310 3G  purchased in February 2019.  I want to connect this to our home Wi-Fi network so that I can download the odd photo to the computer, but apparently need the MAC address for it.  Where do i find this?

These 'individuals' need to be dealt with now.  This is crossing a line...

Quote:Protesters have painted over a rainbow crossing on Gisborne's main street.
A group of people identifying themselves as Destiny Church members blocked off Gladstone Road and painted a layer of white over the crossing on Monday evening.
Posts on social media link the actions to opposition to a Rainbow Storytime show at HB Williams Memorial Library on Tuesday.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5126...f-gisborne

This is our largest trading partner?

Quote:New Zealand is backing the United Kingdom in its condemnation of People's Republic of China (PRC) state-backed malicious cyber activity, but won't be introducing sanctions.
The GCSB's National Cyber Security Centre completed an assessment following a compromise of the Parliamentary Counsel Office and the Parliamentary Service in 2021, and has attributed this activity to a PRC state-sponsored group known as APT40, GCSB Minister Judith Collins says.
Judith Collins on Tuesday revealed a second hack in 2021 but says the malicious activity was contained and the actor was removed shortly after accessing the networks.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/512...th-collins

Chris Finlayson is not a happy camper; the former minister for Treaty of Waitangi negotiations & attorney general agrees with political commentator Mathew Hooton.

You really have to wonder about David Seymour's motivation.

Quote:"Chris Finlayson, the former minister for Treaty of Waitangi negotiations and attorney-general, and political commentator Matthew Hooton agree on one point - the National-led Government should not support the Act PartyÔÇÖs Treaty referendum.
Finlayson, who held those key portfolios under former National Party leader Sir John Key, and┬áNZ Herald┬ácolumnist Hooton, a political analyst and advisor, said the Act PartyÔÇÖs desire for a referendum would derail years of good faith bargaining and empower weirdos.

"It will bring out of the woodwork the sort of people who used to write to me and say, ÔÇÿwhy donÔÇÖt you get cancer?ÔÇÖ, ÔÇÿhow dare you give property rights to people above their stationÔÇÖ or, as sometimes even happens now walking along Lambton Quay, someone will call me a ÔÇÿM─üori-loving c***ÔÇÖ," Finlayson told current affairs host┬áMoana Maniapoto on┬áTe Ao with Moana."

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/form...reaty-plan

On Win 10 PCs I've often done this in the past and clicked the restart to update button.
Today 2 PCs successfully updated from v 123.0.1 to v 124.0.1
A third one just resulted in the error message 124.0.1ÔÇÖ is not compatible with miniVersion > = 124.0 maxVersion < = 124.0, and Firefox won't open at all.
Looks like I'll have to reinstall and copy over all the profile files from a backup, when all I wanted was a quick update.
Lesson learned - Close Firefox and reopen rather than try to restart - just in case. If that had been the prompt, at least I'd have known.
On googling the error message, I found someone complained about a similar thing with v120. Wouldn't ya think Mozilla would do something better by now.
Am I being unreasonable?