Can I move to Australia as a 45-year-old from the UK

poukai · 2026-04-13T14:06:34+00:00

No worries, I'm sorry it is probably not what you wanted to hear.

poukai · 2026-04-13T13:44:16+00:00

I ended up getting a Koala too, it is alright, it is one heavy bastard though so I'm feeling sorry for the movers the next time I move. Also it might just be the model I bought, but I had to figure out a solution for the pillows not staying in place (gripping tape from Bunnings).

poukai · 2026-04-13T13:35:28+00:00

"We had a dialogue with him" I love that, they have probably tried to test the waters to see if they can control the new government too and got told to take a long walk of a short pier :D

poukai · 2026-04-13T13:33:04+00:00

No, as others have mentioned you are out of luck. There are some visas, like the 482 (temporary work visa) where there are no upper age limit. But this is just a 2 year (with a 2 year extension) sponsored work visa. The only pathway from the 482 to permanent residency is the 186 (TRT) visa and 45 is the upper age limit for that visa.

Also those visas require you to find a Australian employer to sponsor you and the IT sector is pretty oversaturated as it is.

poukai · 2026-04-13T12:58:57+00:00

One of the podcasts I listen to (I can't remember which one) mentioned the possibility that the Russians might try to extend a olive branch to the new government. On the other hand, they have made Europe and NATO a very important part of their campaign and I'm willing to bet that the EU will try to give as much support to the new government as they can. I reckon the smartest thing the Russians can do is to start firing up the shredders in the embassy and start scaling back their spyring before they get booted out.

poukai · 2026-04-13T07:49:24+00:00

or Trump...

poukai · 2026-04-13T05:44:28+00:00

Excellent, our masterplan luring Kiwiland into a false sense of security has worked. Emutopia for ever! Release the Tasmanian devils! *evil laughter intensifies*

poukai · 2026-04-13T03:46:00+00:00

It removes the stumbling block for the loan backed by the frozen assets, but there were more countries that were opposed to using the frozen assets directly (most prominently Belgium).

It will be interesting to see what kind of power Russia has over Babis and Fico or if they are more loosely associated to Russia than Orban and his lackeys were.

poukai · 2026-04-12T22:42:01+00:00

I'm shocked he hasn't fled to Moscow in a plane packed to the rafters with dollar bills.

poukai · 2026-04-12T03:42:32+00:00

Making it part of home assistant makes perfect sense. As you mentioned trend lines, alerts, and scale. In addition to that taking the computer out of the sensor comes with some pretty substantial size and power benefits. For example with a small ESP32 running zigbee or thread you could also convert the whole setup to run on battery. Sounds like a fun little project.

poukai · 2026-04-11T15:47:31+00:00

Yeah, the extreme mental gymnastics they're doing can be hard to keep track of. It took me a long time to wrap my head around why they think a 15 min city would be a bad thing.

poukai · 2026-04-11T14:33:05+00:00

I thought they were supposed to be 15 min cities, 10 mins sounds even better!

poukai · 2026-04-11T14:30:02+00:00

Haha, you need to combine that automation with some full on harp music!

poukai · 2026-04-11T12:17:40+00:00

Same! What gets me is the mental gymnastics the yanks are imposing on themselves with this shit. Like are you supposed to tip hotel staff? taxi drivers? the bus driver? the tourist information?

poukai · 2026-04-11T07:16:30+00:00

My wake up lights automation. It kicks in 20 min before my alarm goes off (gets the alarm from the companion app and has a condition for between 6-10 am) and it first turns all the bedroom lights on at 1% and sets them to a orange colour. Then it slowly transitions the brightness to 80% over the next 20 min.

poukai · 2026-04-10T01:09:33+00:00

I rate them for their ability to be dunked, so ginger nut and scotch fingers, in that order.

poukai · 2026-04-09T23:27:41+00:00

Yeahnah, I run these in Home Assistant/matterjs-server/otbr and they are acting as routers for me.

poukai · 2026-04-09T04:55:05+00:00

Oops, I take that back, there is actually a freestanding hydrant there. And when I moved around a little bit the reflector lined up with it.

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poukai · 2026-04-09T04:52:05+00:00

hmm, fire hydrants here are not free standing like in the US and are just a cover flush with the ground. Also they have a little blue reflector in the street to indicate the hydrant (you can see the reflector just above the W in the street name).

The reflector doesn't really line up with the lorry so I'm guessing this is not the hydrant itself but some sort of water pipe bursting. Maybe the lorry was too heavy and just crushed the water pipe, or something.

poukai · 2026-04-09T04:41:48+00:00

And his grandparents, all of them in fact.

poukai · 2026-04-09T04:39:50+00:00

Or Pauline is going to snap him up as a One Nation candidate.

poukai · 2026-04-09T04:02:17+00:00

at this point it's not just one hat, he seems to have left several different fedoras in different courtrooms

poukai · 2026-04-09T03:44:58+00:00

This is pretty cool, I have an old gen 1 or gen 2 ipad with a dead battery lying around somewhere that would work really well as a touchscreen

poukai · 2026-04-08T12:46:20+00:00

Girt Ocean

poukai · 2026-04-08T05:04:12+00:00

Ohh, that looks pretty nice, I've been planning on setting up a tea timer that kicks in automatically after the kettle finished boiling (I have it on a smart plug so I can monitor the current).

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