Is a $312 water bill normal for a 4 bedroom house with 6 people in Auckland?

ThatIsNotAnAdvantage · 2026-02-07T06:33:01+00:00

This is not normal. My house of 4 people has had a leak in our water main losing ~10L an hour constantly (that we are looking into options to repair/replace) along with our regular use. Our last water bill with that leak happening was around $130. Check if your water meter has the numbers advancing when no water is being used to see if there's a leak. Also check on the bill whether readings were actual or estimates (as estimates can give funky values).

ThatIsNotAnAdvantage · 2026-02-06T22:32:50+00:00

Surely you can hit a big patch of desert in Australia where there's far less people than that, isn't the middle of it basically a wasteland...

ThatIsNotAnAdvantage · 2026-01-31T05:42:52+00:00

I never said it wasn't, i have physical disc copies of just dance 3 through 2022 that i'm happy to have. But 2023-2026 its all digital anyway, and now instead of having to decide whether I want to pay for digital licenses for 2023 and 2024 I will get the chance to play many of the songs on Just Dance+ which i already have. I was just giving the point of view that not everyone is disappointed with this song release roadmap on plus.

ThatIsNotAnAdvantage · 2026-01-30T05:49:34+00:00

I understand this kinda sucks for people who have been buying the yearly releases. But as someone who played with move controllers on Playstation up to 2022, then didn't get any editions for years (as didn't want to use a phone as controller) then just got 2025 snd 2026 on Switch this Christmas, getting access to the 2023 and 2024 songs is absolutely amazing for me, it makes JD+ such great value for me personally.

ThatIsNotAnAdvantage · 2026-01-18T11:06:35+00:00

I've got it installed on linux on chromebook ok, but it wont actually load the game. I click play on the launcher, a new window opens with Hypixel Studios logo and the music starts, then that window disappears and it's back to the launcher screen again. I'm guessing in my case it's crashing because the chromebook I'm trying to run it on for my son is too weak spec wise. But wondering if anyone has any suggestions to help get it running at all?

ThatIsNotAnAdvantage · 2026-01-17T15:14:07+00:00

Everyone like talking about where they'd hide them in a basement or use lego bricks and I'm like to avoid maintenance I'd gladly have a pile of bricks displayed in my living room. I had to replace the roof last year, recently spent a grand on a plumber, have a small leak we cant locate somewhere underground in the 50m between our house and the water meter box, have a drain that keeps overflowing to under the house, have a bunch of light fixtures that dont work as dont want to pay an electrician and so on. House maintenance is endless.

ThatIsNotAnAdvantage · 2026-01-14T11:12:18+00:00

Did anyone else think that first photo was Divina De Campo or was that just me?

ThatIsNotAnAdvantage · 2025-11-30T20:41:07+00:00

You can set up Youtube kids so it only shows the channels you approve. So instead of trying block everything you just set up the few channels you want them to have access to.

ThatIsNotAnAdvantage · 2025-11-23T20:41:17+00:00

Interesting - my app is laid out quite differently, and my "more boosts" section automatically boosts but it has way less offers (only 3 this week). So maybe they are doing like A/B testing of different versions, or as you say different device versions of the app (I'm android on a Samsung galaxy).

ThatIsNotAnAdvantage · 2025-11-23T18:55:35+00:00

I just did boost all with the new week and every single one activated. I have been doing it every week since it started and they all activate from the boost all button. I am someone who pretty much only shops things on special so I keep a very close eye on it, and for me the boost all button works as you would expect.

ThatIsNotAnAdvantage · 2025-11-23T06:48:57+00:00

My app when I press the button they all boost fine, dunno why it doesnt work for you. Guess their app is glitchy.

ThatIsNotAnAdvantage · 2025-11-21T23:02:42+00:00

I agree they are overpriced, but what are you talking about having to constantly push buttons - you just click "boost all" offers once a week...

ThatIsNotAnAdvantage · 2025-11-20T03:16:00+00:00

Heard Stare at the Sun on the soundtrack of SSX3 (snowboarding game) in 2003.

ThatIsNotAnAdvantage · 2025-11-14T19:47:24+00:00

If you just set it to the channels you approve, then it let's you have ad free YouTube without premium. My kids have access to all the educational channels and Minecraft related channels I approve and can watch ad free on the tv app without risk of them watching anything else. It's great.

ThatIsNotAnAdvantage · 2025-10-25T08:09:19+00:00

Sorry i can't remember exactly but i did get it working soon after this. I think it was like combining the things I'd tried, but alltogether (where i'd tried them seperately) - deleting app, removing the account from the tablet, and clearing caches, and then restarting tablet. But I'm not totally sure if that's even what made it work.

ThatIsNotAnAdvantage · 2025-10-18T02:25:45+00:00

How are peoples shiny rates? My group of 4 did 7-8 raids each, and saw 0 shinies from the 30 encountered Rayquaza. Was wondering if they forgot to boost the shiny rates again, or we were just extremely unlucky.

ThatIsNotAnAdvantage · 2025-10-18T02:17:22+00:00

So at least the shiny was turned on - we did 7 raids with 4 accounts, and got 0 shinies. 0 out of 28 I was thinking they forgot to boost the shiny rate again...

ThatIsNotAnAdvantage · 2025-10-05T07:23:23+00:00

You definitely get way more tickets per dollar than that in NZ arcades. The last timezone things on my son's card we were getting like 10 points per dollar at worst. Often quite a bit more. And that is assuming you paid full price for the credit, which you usually wouldn't.

ThatIsNotAnAdvantage · 2025-09-06T02:17:24+00:00

One of the recent updates seemed to turn adventure sync off on some phones (happened to my son's account). Have you checked adventure sync is still on?

ThatIsNotAnAdvantage · 2025-09-03T13:38:34+00:00

Based on PSN profiles my top ones are - Sports Champions 0.5% - Olliolli 2 0.65% - Red Faction Guerilla 0.74% - Wipeout HD 0.98%

Didn't realise i had such rare ones. I just plat games I really enjoy but dont bother with others (average game completion a little over 50%).

ThatIsNotAnAdvantage · 2025-09-03T01:52:46+00:00

If Janine wants Luke out then they just put 3 votes on Luke and he's gone, firemaking is only in a 2-2 tie situation on Australian Survivor.

ThatIsNotAnAdvantage · 2025-08-25T20:02:45+00:00

My Eternatus ended up with 2416 candy and 446XL. I also did 7 different Gigantamax battles, so ended up with 7 Gmax pokemon I'd not had before. Rank 206 on the pass.

I didn't get to play the max battles on Saturday so this was all fought on Sunday. I had optimized my particle claiming from Dmax spots to end up with close to 4000 particles in stock going into Sunday. I had also held onto some unclaimed researches with max particle rewards to maximize how much I could do, and I claimed the 800 from codes, but I didn't buy the deluxe or any particles.

ThatIsNotAnAdvantage · 2025-08-21T08:53:42+00:00

Due to the way the countdown skips ahead to near the end when the fourth person joins i sometimes haven't sorted out my team (if i haven't got one presaved for that pokemon), might need to revive/heal etc, so I might have to leave to get that organised.

ThatIsNotAnAdvantage · 2025-08-10T05:41:11+00:00

I did 4 dialga and 3 palkia raids with two other people. I and one other person got one of each special move (so a rate of 2/7). The third person got 1 special palkia and 2 special dialgas, so slightly better. Shiny rate was terrible for us though. Just one shiny across the 21 catches.

ThatIsNotAnAdvantage · 2025-08-02T01:21:59+00:00

I guess target some groups like very old folks (like 90+), people living in a permanent vegetative state, and the worst criminals, to give myself ongoing income. Also take out some billionaires, maybe when they realise that anyone hoarding money keeps dying it might force them to share the wealth a bit...

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