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Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 28/12/2023

Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!

Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.

So, how’s it going?

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Got sunburned today, first time in ten years or so! Went to the beach, put on sunscreen twice even though it started cloudy, but still not enough. All of the family has some red spots.
Usually we're very adament about sunscreen, guess we got a bit too relaxed today.
- Could be the sunscreen! Consumer NZ does sunscreen tests from time to time and they always have some come back with much lower SPF than stated.
  
  Thanks, but that's not the case here. We have always had Nivea. Never issues before. It was cloudy to start, so we only reapplied after 3 hours, and then we stayed for another 3 hours. Should have reapplied twice. We usually don't stay so long at the beach.
My trackball died after being dropped one too many times and it's not in stock anywhere in town. 3-7 business days seems impossibly long when there are public holidays scattered all over the calendar (first world problems) so in the meantime I'm using a cheap ergonomic keyboard from Ali that has an embedded trackball in the centre and it's actually not too bad.
- Out of interest, what does you use? I have the Kensington expert but have been looking at the thumb operated options lately. Never had anyone to ask directly for opinions 😅
  
  I was using a Kensington Profit vertical wireless trackball (the one with the red ball) and that's what broke. I'm replacing it with a Logitech MX Ergo, which is what I had before trying the Kensington. Between the two, the logitech feels much smoother and is charged via cable, so there are no extra batteries to keep purchasing.
  I have a wired kensington expert as well and definitely prefer the ball under the thumb instead of in the middle. I tried playing solitaire with the expert yesterday and it just wasn't a natural fit for the repetitive movements or drag and drop.
  I much, much prefer either type of trackball to any kind of mouse, since they sit in one spot and are much easier to manage when you're sitting on a carpeted floor - you don't need a clear amount of flat space to use one.
- Oh no! 3-7 business days seems like a century when overnight shipping exists 😆
  
  I have compromised by stealing the SO's one.
  But the new one is on special thanks to Boxing Day deals, so there's that.

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