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Cake day: August 2nd, 2024

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  • Having replaced the batteries in mg index controllers, because they died and wouldn’t charge anymore, this is a huge improvement. Replacing batteries in the index was seriously impractical. Required special tools to open the controllers, and batteries are glued in. For these i will just keep a bunch of spare rechargable batteries ready to go and swap as needed. This also solves the issue of getting replacement batteries, for the index controllees and also the tracking puks you have to resort to (at the time i was looking) a single seller on aliexpress. With AA it is a universal standard with lots of options.












  • its not as bad as it sounds. But it is the other side of the coin of academic freedom. You can do what you want, but that just means i end up wanting to do everything and then of course failing to finish evreything. But i have learned the solution is to find collaborators, and to accept that some things will simply not get done. The only problem is that the things that do not get done are sometimes important, even if they are not the most interesting (such as filing travel reimbursement forms). TL:DR no worries but do think carefully before going for a phd, there is very little external structure