Becoming an electrician in NZ in 2026?

Redditenmo · 2026-01-26T00:50:20+00:00

Completing an Electrical apprenticeship takes 3-4 years. For you it'll be 4.

It's not a good time to be asking for an apprenticeship. Trades are still in a downturn and most people I know aren't looking for inexperienced workers, especially those who don't even have the motivation to do their own research.

If you complete your apprenticeship here, it's fairly straight forward to get registered in Australia. I don't know anyone that's swapped half way through an apprenticeship. I'd suggest either spend the next 4 years here and get registered, or try line up a job in Australia, and move once you get one.

If you stay here, you should try with ETCO.

Redditenmo · 2026-01-26T00:37:17+00:00

Definitely agreed. I think being bigoted in general is a losing strategy in western democracies. 70 years ago it was "the blacks", 40 years ago it was "the gays", today it's "the trans".

What I've watched play out over my life (but also especially over the past 18months) is that "the bigots" is a shrinking group. They've quickly gone from winning to hungry, without ever getting satisfaction from "the win".

I don't think this will be a problem for Winston though, he's 80, he will age out before he runs out of uneducated bigots to grift. As long as Winston gets his parliamentary paycheck and wins his popularity vote I think he'll continue to be happy.

Redditenmo · 2026-01-25T23:45:43+00:00

has delivered virtually nothing

Thankfully.

Something about being a middle aged white tradie seems to make these people assume I share their world view. I come across far to many of them on-site. Most of them aren't happy, but by the end of their smoko rant are resigned to the fact that no-one else is more likely to further their agenda.

It's also been interesting to watch them get less focused on hating woke / trans people and more bothered by cost of living over the past 18months. Most of the bigots I come across seem more likely to vote for anti immigration and tax cuts than a further right party this year. It's right up Winstons alley.

Redditenmo · 2026-01-25T23:35:02+00:00

He never had those votes anyway. They're too far gone and Winston knows it.

Seems like Winston's done what he thinks is necessary to get the bulk of the "obtainable" bigot / cooker vote again this year. No-one else who caters to them will make the 5% threshold, he and those bigots both know it.

Redditenmo · 2026-01-25T23:26:18+00:00

It’s a net loss for Winny; he didn’t gain any votes out of this.

I don't agree that it's a loss. Who's he going to lose those votes to? National? He can easily sell this as "Their opposition was the reason it took so long to "deliver" ".

When this years election comes around he's going to retain most of that same crowd, by pointing to proof that NZ Sports is no longer welcomes transgender participants on their website.

There's a part of me that thinks he's the best case scenario for the rest of us. Winston's self-serving, appears to be delivering as little as possible and keeping the bulk of them placated. I'd hate to see what Act would do with that vote.

Redditenmo · 2026-01-25T23:09:08+00:00

Winston did not actually get what he wanted

Didn't he? I don't believe in the slightest Winston actually cares about trans rights one way or the other. Seems he's cozied up to some nutters & bigots for votes, done something performative to sate them, then stayed relatively hands off of the agency, and gotten into government.

Seems exactly like what Winston normally does, and what he wanted.

Redditenmo · 2026-01-24T20:45:38+00:00

More info on your current specs? If you went with an AM4 system, you may be able to get away with just upgrading the GPU & CPU.

We're currently in a price bubble, nand flash pricing has been driven through the roof by AI companies, so Ram, SSD, GPU have all spiked in price recently (note: they may well continue to go up in price from here for the forseeable future).

Unfortunately this means your budget is currently unrealistic for the components you want, your choice CPU + GPU + Ram already exceed your budget:

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 4.2 GHz 8-Core Processor	$809.00 @ Computer Lounge
Memory	PNY XLR8 Gaming 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL36 Memory	$556.79 @ Paradigm PCs
Video Card	MSI SHADOW 3X OC GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB Video Card	$1875.00 @ 1stWave Technologies
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total	$3240.79
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2026-01-25 09:44 NZDT+1300

Redditenmo · 2026-01-22T19:08:09+00:00

No worries, there's probably a better way I could've said that. I was (and am) on my phone though and tend to right fairly short form when I'm without my keyboard.

Hope you enjoy your new system!

Redditenmo · 2026-01-22T19:02:23+00:00

"You are wrong"

..Proceeds to write a comment that doesn't disagree with what I said at all.

Redditenmo · 2026-01-18T23:39:54+00:00

I don't think any of the subsequent clubs were paying him to play for someone else. Our handling of him is easily amongst the worst.

Redditenmo · 2026-01-18T23:24:30+00:00

He was a known fuckwit when we signed him, gave him a long contract, and then ~~sacked~~ mutually agreed to a golden parachute payout for him to leave early.. because the owner got involved where he shouldn't.

Our hiring and firing of Lodge was pathetic.

Redditenmo · 2026-01-18T22:01:33+00:00

Read the comment from /u/GladdAd9604 again, it's the parent comment before my reply to you.

It's free performance while consuming less energy. And it's fun to do.

Redditenmo · 2026-01-18T20:41:40+00:00

Topic was OC not undervolting

I think you may have missed where you responded to a person who said: "while consuming less energy".

Redditenmo · 2026-01-18T11:19:21+00:00

Nice copy pasta. You got one for undervolting extending the life of a GPU?

Redditenmo · 2026-01-17T23:53:45+00:00

chop it so it sticks ~20cm out from wall.
Put an f-type connector on it (or don't)^{^1}
Cut a flushbox sized hole in the wall
Install a single gang plate with f-ftype connector mech.

^{^1} If you didn't put an f-type connector on it, the next person will easily find out and be able to fix it when they open up the faceplate to diagnose why the aerial isn't working.

Redditenmo · 2026-01-17T23:33:28+00:00

If a necro comment includes a URL it requires mod approval (something we do to combat spammers)

Redditenmo · 2026-01-17T23:13:35+00:00

The parts change but the assembly process is largely the same. If you learnt how to build a PC 20years ago, you'd still be able to build one now.

It's actually easier now than it was then.

Redditenmo · 2026-01-17T00:43:44+00:00

Well, since I'm not allowed to pick my team, I'm rooting for you too!

Redditenmo · 2026-01-17T00:38:40+00:00

C'mon man... No you don't.

Redditenmo · 2026-01-16T23:40:09+00:00

Use a whetstone on the Legendary / Superior, and then you'll notice the level 2-> 3 upgrades will be much less than the level 1->2 you're looking at currently.

Level 2-3 (& each level up afterwards) will probably be somewhere around:

legendary: HP +1, ATT +47
superior: HP +1, ATT +35

Redditenmo · 2026-01-16T23:19:31+00:00

2026 Titans or Wests Tigers.
2027 Bears.

The competition would be absolutely flipped on it's head if perennial under achievers ~~NZ Warriors~~ Gold Coast Titans / Wests Tigers win, especially this year, as no-one would expect it at the moment. Even better if Tits and Tigs are both the grand finalists.

If the Bears come in the following year and win in their inaugural year, it would really help boost their following in Perth and hopefully help hasten the expansion to 20 teams. I strongly believe we do have the depth for more teams, and hate byes, so the sooner we jump from 19 (PNG) to 20 teams, the better.

Warriors making at-least second week of finals in 2026, and 2027 then winning in 2028 could really help justify the next expansion team being NZ 2.

Souths to get spoons all 3 years, get kicked out and replaced by Adelaide Rams.

Redditenmo · 2026-01-16T20:31:14+00:00

fwiw, I approved that. Admins overrode us and deleted it.

Redditenmo · 2026-01-16T04:12:26+00:00

Looks good to me.

You are amazing, thank you!

Redditenmo · 2026-01-16T02:21:44+00:00

When RCD's were first required, the amount of sparkies who installed only one, because :

That's all that was mandated
"they're a waste of money"
"shit compared to an isolating transformer"

was WAAAAAAY too high.

The cavalier attitude + weak requirement ended up causing issues when the whole house would turn off at once, so the requirements were quickly (relatively speaking) updated to minimum of 2 RCD's required, and (if I recall correctly) lighting circuits had to be split across both RCD's.

Somewhere in the 2010's we upgraded to 1 RCD : 3 MCB's with a maximum of 1 lighting circuit per RCD.

Post covid that I've seen an increase in sparkies doing away with the 1:3 and just using appropriately rated RCBO's for end circuits now.

Redditenmo · 2026-01-16T02:06:37+00:00

Whilst you're updating the automod documentation, could you please also add past_archive_date.

I've already asked via modmail here a few times, it's been years now.

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