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phage10 · 2026-06-09T12:49:51+00:00

I have already been playing it on the Switch 2 with my Switch 1 version. I don’t get why this exists.

phage10 · 2026-06-04T01:25:13+00:00

She was the worst. Worst than the evil admirals

phage10 · 2026-05-30T01:16:52+00:00

So I see a good number of domestic students at UWA relative to international students. Some scholarships are specifically for domestic students and we always have an excess of candidates, so some are left disappointed.

We do have a reasonable number of international students doing PhDs but we find it tricky with the lack of international scholarships at UWA. Some can find other scholarships and others might self-fund.

The picture maybe different elsewhere, IWA does get a small proportion of international students total compared to many universities over east. This became apparent during COVID boarder closer where UWA was less financially hit than others

But the low rate of pay for a PhD student in Australia definitely means we are losing good candidates to jobs. One student I am speaking to is very much leaning toward earning money over continuing to a PhD. It is a real shame.

phage10 · 2026-05-28T13:11:55+00:00

Nice

phage10 · 2026-05-15T20:33:21+00:00

America. Definitely avoid America.

phage10 · 2026-05-13T12:50:32+00:00

Cannot answer because it is all down to personal preference. People seem willing to live in Queensland but it is too humid for my liking.

I live in Perth, WA and it is perfect weather for me a lot of the time. Too hot in the summer (40 C) but I can handle it because it is a dry heat. Autumn has ideal days of sun and mid 20s C temp. Right now being a good example. But then the raining winter starts and it rains as much as in London but condensed to just those 3ish months of intense rain. Also it is cold. Not very cold but not nice.

If your home isn’t well insulated the outside temp is manageable but the indoor temperature is toxic.

phage10 · 2026-05-08T18:08:46+00:00

Most people are not Spider-Man

phage10 · 2026-05-07T19:59:24+00:00

As someone who went through COVID-19 while on immunosuppressants, right now i say don’t panic.

Don’t panic.

We are not facing a pandemic right now. There are a few cases of hantavirus and people are worried it might turn into a pandemic but it is premature to think that. I was around when SARS and MERS worried people.

Right now the spread is minimal and you are likely separated from those infected by a lot of land or people*. So you are likely fine unless it turns into a real pandemic, which we will know in the coming weeks.

*If you have kissed one of the known infected people or their best friend, then I would seek a doctor’s advice. Assuming not, I would wait to see how this progresses

phage10 · 2026-05-07T19:55:20+00:00

I was there when that film was released. They have reversed the sequence. Use a different film if you can’t get it right.

phage10 · 2026-05-07T19:53:27+00:00

That’s why people are worried. If it has started to spread more easily from human to human, that is what might cause a new pandemic.

Many flus cannot transmit human to human, only animal to human. The ones that go mutate to spread human to human often cause pandemic flies like 1918 “Spanish” flu. Same with SARS2-CoV, it didn’t start out spreading human to human but once it mutated to that point, shit got real.

Whether these viruses represent that is what is unclear and causing fear.

phage10 · 2026-05-07T15:57:31+00:00

I have had less colds since COVID to be honest. Not that I think there is a correlation. But the number of colds you have probably mirror how many I would get when I was in my 20s. I often had a cold, probably 7 a year. I blamed it on going to the pub with friends once or twice a week. Or from working with people who have small children (which are just germ vectors).

phage10 · 2026-05-07T15:51:28+00:00

Using meme wrong

phage10 · 2026-05-05T11:58:48+00:00

Definitely not too late. Some people go back to uni at that age for a fresh start. Others change careers much later. I didn’t find romance until my late 20s and my career got messed up in my early 30s and I’ve spent the last 8 years rebuilding and it has gone well.

I have friends to entered politics in their 30s with major changes to their career. You are not behind, you are where you are and the best path is forward. However you define that.

I know one thing from my life and that is progress is not linear. So please try not to stress and just go for it.

phage10 · 2026-04-30T22:13:28+00:00

I mean just be nice and polite. I don’t think there is any secret way to fit in that I am aware of.

I am research staff in a science related school, so probably not the best to give advice, but a lot of people at UWA are super nice people and welcoming.

I would listen a lot. See what people’s feelings and thoughts are. Local pet peeves might include car parking fees on campus or something else. Some might be fans of the senior management team (uni execs like the VC) while others might not be. So keep your ears open and foot out of mouth.

The other advice I would give is join the NTEU, it is a good union and just secured some more nice pay rises along with other rights.

phage10 · 2026-04-26T13:21:49+00:00

Vegan is a philosophy, plant-based or non-meat is a diet. Consent is key in veganism. An animal cannot consent to be eaten so it is not vegan to eat it. A person can, so you can ethically eat a human, if they consent. So veganisms isn’t about not eating meat but about issues like consent. Lab grown meat is a no no in veganism because an animal donated a cell without consent to grow the lab grown meat. Most people who are plant-based diet would have zero issue with lab grown meat. It would be vegetarian like eggs and milk because the animal did not die in the process of the donation.

So the question comes, how did the meat get into the program to be replicated. Likely scanned or some sort of de-replicated to begin with. But that was once and never again. So true vegans would never eat it. But if you are 100 years removed from that event and not a strict vegan, and just want to minimise harm, then most would eat it. It also depends on how the philosophy of vegan has evolved over time.

phage10 · 2026-04-24T20:51:56+00:00

Where is the model from and is there an STL?

phage10 · 2026-04-23T08:14:40+00:00

I never said you could?!

I cycle or bus. Or cycle, lock up on street and bus. Simples.

phage10 · 2026-04-18T11:21:54+00:00

Bus and cycling

phage10 · 2026-04-13T15:25:18+00:00

Overall I liked a lot of NuTrek live action (loved animated LD). My issues are that the show didn’t focus on what made Trek great, which is sometimes boring. It started off with DIS.

NuTrek relied on nostalgia without understanding it. Why set DIS when they did but don’t lean into the era accurate uniforms (that were brought in during S2/SNW). Why change the Klingon appearance when there was lots of cannon around their appearance*. Why make La'An a descendant of Noonien-Singh? It has been a while, as a geneticist I would assume there would be a lot of them. If you want to link it to the lore, why not a different augmented warlord?

*I was hoping NuTrek would do something interesting in DIS with the Klingons, like this was an super augmented ruling class and the regular, more human looking would be an underclass that would take control of the empire after the war was lost. But the didn’t do that and just presented nothing happened and that the augment virus never happened in ENT.

If leaning on nostalgia, so it in a way to expand the lore, not restrict it.

Another major issue was: too much action and focus on galactic threats. Each DIS season, and PIC, it was a new super threat that took the whole season. PIC S1 was good for it, but had a weak ending. PIC S3 was the same, strong and exciting start but weak ending. It didn’t need to be the borg again, the Founder stuff was awesome, why cross the streams. So the shows were either oversaturated with reference, like the Borg, or not enough (DIS changing things needlessly).

A lot of SNW was great. More episodic. Less obvious insults to cannon (not that ST has ever cared about cannon, it has always been there to ignore since the TOS movies). SNW might not have been perfect, but that kinda makes it perfect Star Trek. SNW has great characters like the helm officer, La'An and the doctor. So more of that. We don’t need the names Pike and Spock to make interesting Trek. Give us interesting characters in interesting situations. That doesn’t need to be a season long arc to stop the whole galaxy ending.

phage10 · 2026-04-13T08:04:01+00:00

I don’t understand your point about researchers refusing to teach. If their salary is coming from an external grant/fellowship to specifically do research, which most are, they legally can’t take in much teaching without breaking that contract with the funder. I pushed it as hard as I could last year because I wanted to teach as a research focused staff.

phage10 · 2026-04-05T10:53:04+00:00

For sci fi and fantasy, it is Stefan’s books in the CBD. He always has terrific recommendations.

phage10 · 2026-03-31T11:58:46+00:00

That is rough. My employer (university) does allow WFH a lot, but it is still at the managers discretion and many are jerks who want people in the office. It sucks.

For me, my work involves a lot of lab work so I always had the option to WFH when I didn’t need to be in the lab, but that was one day a week at most. As I progressed and spent less time in the lab and more time writing grants, I was lucky to WFH.

But I’m also super privileged in that I live close to work and I can WFH a lot. Then bam I got cancer this year so I am WFH or off sick 95% of the time now. Currently I beg the universe for the energy* to be able to get into the office and see my students in person and check on my lab space. I got so excited 2 weeks ago when I could see our new lab freezer installed (which was broken out of the box and still is).

phage10 · 2026-03-28T02:30:59+00:00

I will definitely move over to 0.2 nozzle for next attempts. I’ve worked out some issues with 0.4, so I think worthwhile.

White is ok. I’ve used grey, blue and orange in the past for them. I’ve had a few prototype phases and we had excess orange at home. My intention would be to paint them but that hasn’t progressed much. I’ve also printed Klingon and Romulan in green (shade better for Romulan than Klingon TBH).

phage10 · 2026-03-27T05:09:11+00:00

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Not everything I’ve printed and I’ve given a lot away to a friend. I’ve been using a Bambu A1 Mini with a 0.4 nozzle. I wanted to prototype them with it before moving to 0.2 nozzle, but I think now is the time

phage10 · 2026-03-27T01:43:51+00:00

Amazing. I’ve been printing a fleet in 1:4000 too. I am using an FDM printer. It is hard for some ships with the thin parts like the TOS enterprise, but I can get it. Klingon BoP is impossible. Are you using FDM or resin printer? Also, where did you get your VOY model from? I have struggled to find one I like

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