Yes, that would be good! I think each instance will have questions relevant only to that instance, but it would be good to get a good core set of questions that everyone can use the same wording for and compare against other instance results.

Is that what multilingual is? If you hold space you can easily switch to any of the languages you added in settings. I thought multilingual was the ability to type in any of your added languages without having to toggle between them?

As far as I can tell, just the switch menu (hold space), not multilingual. I didn’t even realise it was a thing until you mentioned it (in my defence I only speak one language).

OP never asked for OSS 🙂. It’s not big tech and has no network access so should suit the de-google theme.

On FUTO, they are using the term “Source First” (which they invented) because they pretty much think that OSI is funded by big tech and serves their purposes. My exaggerated paraphrasing but you can read their views here.

Basically they think the current model doesn’t work, and they are experimenting with a different take. I don’t have strong views but I’m happily using the keyboard while I wait and see if it works for them.

FUTO keyboard managed to be very similar to OpenBoard and Heliboard, while solving some issues I had with those (buggy quirks that may well be hardware or software specific).

I used Thumb-key for a few months, to give it a real go, but I’m not convinced I ever got my speed up. Could do about 25wpm at my peak but I can do another 10wpm on a more normal keyboard (with word suggestions) and I don’t think I’m particularly fast. Not sure what’s normal for a mobile keyboard.

I’ve struggled with keyboards. Some to try out are OpenBoard, Heliboard, and Florisboard. All are on F-Droid.

But my favourite so far is FUTO Keyboard. Not without issues but I like it the best. It’s not on F-Droid but you can use Obtanium to keep it up to date from the GitHub releases.

If you like weird shit, check out Thumb-key. It’s on F-Droid and made by one of the Lemmy developers.

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So you’re saying just one more thing shouldn’t be a problem?

Yeah, I’m pretty sure councils bend to NIMBYs all the time, even when it’s a bad idea.

Does that give incentive for the council to not use the character clause? They can use it, but if they do they will face more expensive servicing of properties.

It does sound good but I’m also not keen on organising 😆

This might be something for the next government to build on. More housing (in the right places) is definitely something the country needs, and this government has made it clear they won’t invest in infrastructure (other than roads). Changes will take a while to have an effect, with luck maybe we will have a new government with a plan to build better infrastructure.

Yeah for sure. Not much point in intensifying transport corridors if you’re just gonna transfer that intensification zoning to the outskirts.

One of the conditions is that they have to provide equivalent elsewhere if they to pull that card. I’d guess the devil is in the detail.

This does include forcing the councils to allow greater intensification of housing, but yeah, more sprawl is on the horizon.

With it being difficult for councils to support the new developments on the outskirts, what’s to stop the council saying those rates are twice as high?

I think we’ve got the wrong government for that. This policy is effectively free, while building infrastructure is… well not free, but probably cheaper as a whole than not building needed infrastructure.

The headline is from the article, the community is NZ Politics 🙂

This isn’t government owned housing though. So the safe, efficient, and regulated part may not be correct.

While I may not have done exactly this, I don’t think it’s the worst thing in the world? Possibly even a step in the right direction?

Nice! Voyager started as a web frontend, and it was one of the first alternative frontends we hosted (when it was called wefwef). If you’re ever without your app you can get to it at https://voyager.lemmy.nz

It works on desktop but it’s a bit of an odd experience, best for mobile I think.