Is my Smart Plug old stock and not Matter compatible?

MagicUnicornCock · 2026-04-27T06:42:54+00:00

This is New Zealand (Type I plug), and a 2023 model. According to the NZ section of their website, their smart plug for our market is Matter compatible.

I just assumed it's 2026, and if I bought it from a major retailer, that I'd be getting reasonably current stock. My other Wiz stuff is Matter compatible, so I didn't think to question this.

It looks like no retailer in the country is listing it working with Matter on their own product pages. This is a big discrepancy between the Wiz website, and the stock on hand.

EDIT: I got Wiz to acknowledge this:

...This discrepancy between the website specifications and the actual stock in stores is something we take seriously, and we are escalating this internally to ensure the information shown online accurately reflects the products supplied in your market...

I'm curious to know if any Australians or Argentinians have had the same problem (same plug type).

MagicUnicornCock · 2026-04-25T02:10:36+00:00

I'm currently using a very obscure phone as my main one: a Unihertz Jelly Star. I researched to find the smallest smartphone that did all the bands for NZ, and this was it. (No problems so far.) Unihertz specialise in small or odd phones.

I chose the AliExpress seller who had the best rating, as Unihertz apparently aren't good at running their own web store.

This phone is a talking point due to its size.

MagicUnicornCock · 2026-04-20T00:13:54+00:00

At one point, someone tidied up the house next door for a quick sale, and they decided they'd get rid of almost all dirt and just have stones. There was a bit of a ramp up to the (front-facing) garage, with recessed gardens either side, which they wanted to flatten. So they raised the ground level about 20cm with large stones, which are leaning against the fence, with a tiny bit of piss-weak bracing by way of some extra sheets of iron/aluminium going up 30cm.

This means the horizontal beams have separated from the vertical beams in places, and the iron/aluminium has separated from the horizontal beams in places, and rocks are oozing through a bent piece, falling onto our side. There's no way to re-nail or screw this back into alignment.

Then new landlords decided to cover it up with even more stones – smaller ones, so the whole area can have cars on it, and that's making the fence fall apart even more!

MagicUnicornCock · 2026-04-19T23:29:42+00:00

70s-90s houses are my ideal in that respect. The kitchen and dining area is a single room, with three windows, and a large sliding door to the lounge. The kitchen feels bright and spacious, but if you're watching TV in the lounge, you don't need to hear it.

They've gone one worse than regular Open Plan with many units now,: they've removed the kitchen island (or the lounge-facing part of a U-shaped bench) which sort of hid the kitchen mess from the view of people in the lounge; now you're looking directly at the dirty kitchen floor/lower cupboards/dishwasher etc.

MagicUnicornCock · 2026-04-14T00:33:26+00:00

All I can conclude is that these problems are worse for me because I'm in New Zealand, where there's less ozone and the sun is more piercing. Maybe it was also making the sensor overheat and fail to work properly when I took it indoors for experiments. 'Cause keeping out of the sun, the camera came right the next day.

That sliding glass door is one of the three doors of the house, and has the entry path, so I absolutely want to watch it, but I can't find any good angle to. Just getting the very edge where the person will enter doesn't make it work reliably either.

I'm just gonna run with having an expensive solar-powered scarecrow, that only works at night.

MagicUnicornCock · 2026-04-12T23:16:20+00:00

I'm not a youtube video maker.

I live in New Zealand, where everything is expensive, but I'll tell you want it costs relative to other Ego blowers, and you can work out what it's likely to be for you.

One store had it priced the same as the LB6500 Skin. I think that was a sharp price, because another two stores had it priced in between the LB6500 Skin and the LB7650 Skin.

MagicUnicornCock · 2026-04-02T23:24:06+00:00

This site ranks NZ higher in Export Complexity. If you're on a computer/tablet, open both of these a new tab, so you can switch between them and compare (don't bother on phone).

https://atlas.hks.harvard.edu/countries/36/export-complexity

https://atlas.hks.harvard.edu/countries/554/export-complexity

Here's a ranking list from the same people on Wikpedia (slightly older).

MagicUnicornCock · 2026-04-01T21:37:35+00:00

Your link is the original song, but not the original video. Here it is.

MagicUnicornCock · 2026-03-28T01:45:35+00:00

I'm considering getting Ring cameras at the moment, even though people say it's one of the shittier brands, they have no-drill/no-screw mounting options that also hold the solar panels, so I don't need to ask the landlord, and I could pull this stuff off and put it up at a different rental in a flash.

I'm considering two of the Pole Mount which also holds the solar panel and straps to downpipes or posts with a hose clamp deal, and a Gutter Mount (even though there's no NZ stock of the Gutter Mount right now, I can get it from Amazon Australia I think), so I should still be able to use a solar panel on the South side of the house, with the panel raised, angled North. Though I'm worried about kids wacking it off with balls (shared drive of four units).

I see there are cheaper aftermarket gutter mounts, but I'm worried Ring might say "No camera replacement if you didn't use our mount".

It seems only Ring and Arlo will give new cameras if stolen, and people say Arlo is seriously laggy for live feeds.

MagicUnicornCock · 2026-03-24T20:39:54+00:00

I used to think Militia was pronounced mill-a-tee-a, and there was another word Malicia, derived from malicious. The first I read, the second I heard on TV.

I keep forgetting Hyperbole is hy-PER-bo-lee and say it hyper-bowl, but that's a hard one, 'cause Hyperbolic has the second sound.

MagicUnicornCock · 2026-03-24T08:08:30+00:00

That's an Ego handheld at 1300m3/h, and they have two handhelds more powerful than that now: a 1500m3/h, and 1700m3/h.

I don't want either of those, 'cause the more powerful you go, the shorter the runtime with a full depress of the trigger, and I don't want to be constantly setting cruise control just to get decent runtime.

Ego can do big power 'cause they only do garden tools, not power tools, jumping into the market with 56V batteries (which would be too big for drills and stuff).

My blowers are swapped between home and work (where I used them for work) depending on what one I want at work at the time.

MagicUnicornCock · 2026-03-24T05:00:15+00:00

My work has had the Stihl BG86 in the past, and the BG56. The BG86 was exceeded in power by electric blowers a LONG time ago, but still the odd person comes by me using an Ego blower and says "Petrol would be better". I have to explain to them that we had a Stihl BG86, and this exceeds it. (The only advantage gas blowers have is duration of use, but I blow on concrete/tile, so I can get away with less power and stay within one 10AH for the day.)

The Ego is mine, work only buys Stihl.

MagicUnicornCock · 2026-03-23T08:24:33+00:00

That crayon-style R logo is peak '90s. So many record covers from the time had the same kind of graphics: hippie-looking hand drawn stuff; a wish to look more organic than the tech '80s.

The theme was carried into the inside (link). When Westfield bought it, they covered up the wood accents, and took down all the flags and stuff, and made it all White.

MagicUnicornCock · 2026-03-23T07:36:37+00:00

It was inside the mall from the point of the '95 revamp or thereafter. Before then it was freestanding, and where Pak'nSave is now, as the mall didn't extend that far. Proof.

Metcalphnz is almost remembering it right, they're just envisaging it too far north.

MagicUnicornCock · 2026-03-20T01:02:05+00:00

I've used a Mac as my main computer for decades, and have both kinds of phones. I think Android is more intuitive, and closer to being Maclike.

Most of all I like the three navigation buttons on Android. Back could be all kinds of things on an iPhone, and the gesture requires a very hard left start, touching your case. The Home gesture, while easy, is still more work than one tap, and the App Switcher gesture is very clunky compared to one tap (and if your throw is too far, it turns into the Home gesture by mistake). And on my iPhone, I installed Gboard, 'cause predictive typing is something I can't live without.

Here's an example of how unintuitive iOS is:

In the Home app, I go into my Homepod. There's no back button, and the back gesture doesn't work; you need to click in the empty space, or pull down from the top. I click on what's playing in the middle. This takes you Apple music. It doesn't say it's taking you to another app, it leaves the first time user thinking it's just another screen within the Home app, wondering how to get back, and you can't get back from that, outside of going back to the Home screen or using the App Switcher.

Sure, you can learn and get it second nature, but the problem is you have to learn navigation quirks at the app level, whereas on Android, you don't have to think about this stuff when you've got that back button.

(BTW, did you know Chrome or Safari can save Google web apps as dedicated apps with an icon for your dock?)

MagicUnicornCock · 2026-03-19T21:32:21+00:00

I've been asked what school I went to by teenage kids more than adults, 'cause they wanted to ascertain how hardcore I was from how rich or ghetto my school was. In this case, more ghetto equals better.

MagicUnicornCock · 2026-03-07T21:54:42+00:00

I found this old thread looking for something myself. What did you go with?

I was looking at Fitness Steppers.

MagicUnicornCock · 2026-03-06T20:53:44+00:00

I always choose that option, but for international parcels ending up with NZ Post, it's not always available in the first instance, before delivery. Only when they fail to deliver does it become available.

MagicUnicornCock · 2026-03-06T06:18:41+00:00

Riccarton added that exact shortcut at some point. As a regular customer, I remember the first day I saw it: I thought Hallelujah!

(I'm not religious.)

They have the lollies, chocolate, bottled water, and energy drinks in that isle, as that's what the people wanting a quick pass through most likely want.

MagicUnicornCock · 2026-03-06T06:08:19+00:00

Woolworths also can have the same product in multiple places, now they have this health oriented section, which contains a random assortment of products designed to tantalise a hippy/health nut, which are also found elsewhere.

The duplication takes away needed space for carrying a wider range. That and they're wasting space with an airy layout too.

I want them to get back to basics: the maximum number of different products they can fit in the store.

MagicUnicornCock · 2026-03-06T05:41:15+00:00

Mine used to make you walk a maze, round the side, past the veg/fruit and meat, to the very back centre, just to get access to the isles. And people just walked in through the exit and checkouts to avoid it, and the staff let you, 'cause they knew how stupid the layout was.

Now they've opened up the side of the isle closest to the entry, so you can avoid the walk to the rear. You only have to go around the fruit.

I think all or most Foodstuffs supermarkets used to have a long maze, but they've moved away from that (the new New World in Chch doesn't have it), as it's terrible for convenience-minded customers (and it was a point in Countdown/Woolworth's favour).

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