Stream of consciousness and other personal thoughts garnered throughout the week and which will be added to as the week rolls on. These thoughts are unrefined, unquantified, unverified, and raw. Any of these may be either be edited, deleted or otherwise spawn out into its own separate post particularly if new information comes to light…

• Political aspects and the message being promoted aside, Looks like the Wellington Protests (from the walkthrough videos posted) have interestingly evolved into some sort of unofficial (bootleg) festival. Food trucks, stalls galore, Portable toilets, showers, Live Entertainment, etc. Suspecting much of this is driven by the lack of in-person public events where the majority of them have been cancelled due to the Omicron outbreak. I’m sure also there are curious folk tagging along just to have a look.

• How much is too often for a property management agency to be changing over the assigned property manager for a given rental property? Also, still looking for an insurance policy that doesn’t demand quarterly inspections. How it got to be that frequent is exceedingly puzzling and would argue unduly disruptive for anybody having to rent.

• First world problem obviously. 1366×768 resolution screens I feel should be banished from laptops with a screen size of 14 inches or greater. The scaling on such a screen size/resolution I feel is too huge and pixelated and am extremely surprised to see such laptop notebooks still being sold new in 2022 with this resolution on a 15.6” screen especially on a laptop with 16GB of RAM, AMD Ryzen 7 CPU, and 500GB SSD such as the HP 15-ef0022nr available at PBTech. Do manufacturers (in this case, HP) believe there is a market for laptops of that particular screen size/resolution especially on medium specification (and higher) laptops north of 1000 NZD?

• It seems the Government may be pushing on with the TVNZ and RNZ merger. I’m going to be upfront and say I don’t feel comfortable about this. I have doubts that RNZ and TVNZ are even compatible in their ethos.

Older Stream of Consciousness thoughts can be found here.