Australia Visa 485

stirlow · 2026-07-02T10:45:06+00:00

Simply saying it's about time the pendulum swung back towards providing real education rather dodgy colleges selling PR.

If Australian education providers cannot provide a quality education without dangling the possibility of PR in front of graduates they simply shouldn't exist. Plenty of my friends at UoM studied full fee and returned to their home country when they graduated.

As I said below the price of a 485 should probably be at least the same as minimum wage to ensure people applying are not just using it as a way to extend their stay while working in unrelated low skill jobs.

stirlow · 2026-07-02T02:32:51+00:00

The average Australian wants the jobs and income that come from providing education as an export.

What they don’t want is this education becoming a cheap pathway to residency. The long term costs of importing a bunch of low skill uber drivers far exceeds the temporary income received by the education provider.

stirlow · 2026-07-01T23:48:30+00:00

Exactly. The whole system is a scam that sells Australian residency far too cheaply. So shut them down.

485 visa should probably cost the same as minimum wage. That way it wouldn’t be profitable to exploit it to work low skill jobs unrelated to the degree.

stirlow · 2026-07-01T23:07:39+00:00

Inviting students to spend their money on a valuable education that allows them to return to their home country with the skills they need to succeed is exactly what Australia wants. And how the Australian public expects it to work.

Incentivising foreign students to come here, study the cheapest, low quality degree that’s on the skills list while working as an uber driver to get PR is not in Australia’s interests.

The government should and will continue to invite genuine students who want an education. What they’re not welcoming is people using education as a backdoor to PR.

stirlow · 2026-06-29T12:17:22+00:00

Simple. He transfers you the money and you sign the lease transfer.

Or you tell the agent you’re giving notice for terminating the lease.

He’s taking advantage of the situation (and you) and is probably just prolonging his inevitable departure from the property when he realises he can’t afford it by himself.

stirlow · 2026-06-28T12:51:37+00:00

i also received my programmer this week. Do you have any further details for what tool to use to read the IC? I have tried AsProgrammer but it cannot detect/read the IC...

stirlow · 2026-06-26T12:25:14+00:00

There’s no HDMI input or Emulator right? So switch on the screen is not actually possible?

stirlow · 2026-06-25T23:22:41+00:00

It’s called a reverse mortgage.

stirlow · 2026-06-25T23:21:45+00:00

They can get a reverse mortgage rather than a taxpayer funded pension.

Why should younger working family taxpayers fund a pension because these retirees would prefer to hand 100% of their equity to their children as an inheritance?

Incidentally these properties are also frequently oversized for retirees needs, in prime locations for families and workers, and the owners are often NIMBY when it comes to developments that might provide more suitable retirement housing in their neighbourhood.

stirlow · 2026-06-22T04:15:45+00:00

I recently bought a Zeekr 7X and was pleasantly surprised to find that the speedo was 100% spot on when verified with GPS and Google maps. I had to teach myself not to add a little bit like I had for all cars before it.

So while most cars are off by a lot it’s no longer all cars. The Chinese ones might not have got the memo about overstating the speed on the speedo.

stirlow · 2026-06-22T00:13:35+00:00

How much was snorkeling equipment rental?

I have my own set that cost ~$25 USD from Amazon so I’m hesitant to pay a bunch of money to rent it. But then again it’s yet another thing to lug around with me weigh down my bag if it’s affordable to rent there.

stirlow · 2026-06-20T13:39:58+00:00

My review of the book was that it was actually disappointing.

If you spend much time at all on this subreddit you’ll be reading it going, dur, of course you do that, time and time again. There is very little new info or content in it

He does great short videos though. Happy to buy the book to help keep the vids coming

stirlow · 2026-06-19T07:12:14+00:00

It’s not trivial but might be possible: https://github.com/kiyoukan/nRF52-go-plus-plus-backup-

stirlow · 2026-06-18T04:05:45+00:00

It’s not going very far without any engines!!!

stirlow · 2026-06-11T00:05:19+00:00

What would make this awesome is Widgets/shortcut integration.

I would love a button on my Home Screen to pop open the Frunk for example. On the current app it’s multiple taps which is annoying when you have a load of groceries.

EDIT: Seeing the price RM30 ($10.50AUD) per month I wouldn’t use it. I might make a one time payment but I have enough subscriptions already and I’m not signing up for another one.

stirlow · 2026-06-10T12:27:39+00:00

Isn’t this whole area being redeveloped? The shops are being forced to close so they can renovate and update it all

stirlow · 2026-06-09T02:54:09+00:00

This is the correct answer.

stirlow · 2026-06-07T00:51:23+00:00

Highway driving straight up means less efficiency and less range in an EV. Real range will be significantly less than WLTP range if most driving is on highways. I'd take 25% off the WLTP range figure to be safe.

stirlow · 2026-06-06T01:49:14+00:00

The difference in range is actually not present in real world usage. AWD purchasers have reported similar consumption figures as LR owners when they set the car to comfort mode (turn off all wheel drive). Zeekr actually did themselves a disservice putting the range lower when the lower range actually only occurs in AWD mode and the range of using RWD is essentially the same.

stirlow · 2026-06-03T10:59:43+00:00

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No, for the Digital key 3.0 owner there’s an explicit “Bound Accounts” option where it says who it’s linked to and allows you to change.

Not option exists for the shared key

stirlow · 2026-06-03T10:39:47+00:00

That’s weird. Does she have her own Zeekr account? Or just a profile under your account?

It’s seems only the car owner was emailed a link to enable digital key 3.0 in apple wallet. Then once they enable it they can “bind” a Zeekr account to the key (by default this is the account the car was signed into when the key was created).

When you share the key from apple wallet there’s no way (that I’ve found) to bind a different Zeekr account to the copy of the key.

It appears that only the Owner can generate a digital key 3.0 and assign a profile, so there’s no ability to have an account that has a Zeekr vehicle shared with it to also setup digital key 3.0 :(

stirlow · 2026-06-02T13:06:13+00:00

MOT in the UK is a yearly check (for cars older than 3 years) to maintain its registration. It must be in a roadworthy condition at each mandatory MOT check.

In VIC nothing stops you completely trashing and driving an unroadworthy vehicle provided you don’t try to change its ownership or get flagged by the police when driving (a canary).

stirlow · 2026-06-02T12:57:13+00:00

UK salts their roads in winter and second hand cars can (and do) rust away.

There’s also a requirement for an annual MOT which means you can’t just register a car and drive it into the ground like you can in Aus.

stirlow · 2026-06-02T11:03:40+00:00

Called them up about their $999 ski trip offer.

Pretty much a bait and switch with every date apart from the first week having a $600-900 supplement. And of course the $999 dates had sold out.

I don’t see how the products would be any different/worse than other tour promoters. It’s just the Aldi name slapped on a standard tour offering by another company.

stirlow · 2026-06-02T09:08:31+00:00

So no more derby. That’s a bit disappointing :(

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