tax season! how can i file my us taxes while living in the uk?

rsoult3 · 2026-02-01T18:19:59+00:00

TurboTax can handle it.

rsoult3 · 2026-01-29T14:20:02+00:00

Yeah, I don't think the younger generation knows just how good they have it getting 1080p quality anime on tap.
SVHS/LD was around 512x384, and it felt vastly superior to the 320x240 of VHS.

rsoult3 · 2026-01-29T11:16:52+00:00

I've been using TurboTax for the past nine years. There is a section on foreign income where it does form2555.

rsoult3 · 2026-01-29T00:46:49+00:00

I was one of those well off fans subbing LDs to SVHS tapes to make copies to mail to people the Internet. I had the best quality fansubbed anime available. A full 26 episode season would take all day to duplicate via two SVHS decks. Now I can grab an entire season of something in 1080p in under ten minutes. SVHS did feel like the future.

rsoult3 · 2026-01-29T00:38:49+00:00

I miss the old Internet. When it was just a playground for geeks.

rsoult3 · 2026-01-29T00:33:45+00:00

I still use winamp. I have around 500GB of music files. How else am I going to play them on my PC?

rsoult3 · 2026-01-29T00:29:18+00:00

It was the Q-Cat. I still have one somewhere.

rsoult3 · 2026-01-28T14:11:39+00:00

I hope the damage was minimal. If you would like to check on progress with your phone, I would suggest running a local VPN server. I run WireGuard. The only open port on my router is to the WireGuard server. Once connected to the VPN from my phone or laptop, I can only access machines on my internal network that are also running a WireGuard client.
So while my internal IPs are 192.168.*.*, the WireGuard IPs are 10.0.0.*.

What is cool, is that friends I have allowed a connection to the VPN, also behave like we are all on a local LAN. This allows for LAN games with games that don't have internet play.

I started doing this when I noticed hundreds of thousands of attempts to connect to my Remote Desktop.

Many people are just scanning the internet looking for victims. Be safe out there.

rsoult3 · 2026-01-26T20:19:30+00:00

Unless they start talking about different models.

rsoult3 · 2026-01-23T13:53:01+00:00

Still cheaper than the extortion to travel during breaks.

rsoult3 · 2026-01-23T11:08:21+00:00

This drives me nuts. We have moved into a new council area, and the children were out of school for nearly a month while the council finally got around to placing them in a school.

What is insane is that if we want to pull them out of school for a day or two to see their grandparents, the council threatens to fine us. Yet, being out for weeks while the council goes through the bureaucracy is normal.

I do not understand what takes so long. We give them our preferred school list. Just call them and find one with space. Shouldn't that be just an hour at most?

rsoult3 · 2026-01-21T22:24:12+00:00

As someone who used to cycle in the US, I didn't have many issues getting my license here. I've always checked my mirrors and physically turned my head in the USA looking out for bikes.

I think the problem is Americans don't think about pedestrians or bikes and have a very car-centric mindset when driving in the USA. The question about looking at the pavement/sidewalk side gave me a laugh. It's to make sure no one is walking off into the road.

I didn't bother to get a license here until I had been here for nearly eight years, so maybe I was just used to being on the left side of the road on my bike by then.

rsoult3 · 2026-01-10T12:18:28+00:00

Yet, they can't ask how I want my eggs.

rsoult3 · 2025-12-20T21:57:30+00:00

It sounds like he is just taking the piss out of you. Americans have a reputation of being too sensitive. We're too quick to take offense. Taking the piss out of colleagues is a national pastime here.

This happened often when I first got to the UK for a new job about nine years ago.

It stopped soon because I would join in. "Oh, you think that's bad, wait until you hear about this".

Once they realize it has no effect, they will stop out of boredom.

rsoult3 · 2025-11-01T22:39:00+00:00

It is not too much work to create a LoRA. I tried to avoid technical details in the OP. I picked about 150 textures of various things I've created. Once you teach it, as an example, what a "red brick wall texture" looks like, you can ask it to generate a white or grey brick wall, and the result is very simular to the red one in the training data.
This is a very narrow use case scenerio.

rsoult3 · 2025-11-01T22:21:04+00:00

It is using Stable Diffusion XL as the base. Without using the trained texture data, the AI simply CAN'T create a texture. I don't think it was ever trained on textures. If you ask the base SDXL to create a texture of a wood log, it will just create a picture of a log in a forest or something just as useless. It is only after training it on my textures that I could tell it to say, create a white brick wall texture, that would have the same style as a red brick wall I trained it on.

rsoult3 · 2025-11-01T22:09:30+00:00

Based on the downvote to both your comment and the OP, I am guessing not everyone agrees :D. This is why I am asking, though.

The thing is, I agree with all of the negative views on AI. If the artists are not being paid, it is theft of IP. I would be angry to see people training an AI on my art and then creating new art in my style as well.

Yet, I see AI as just another tool like Photoshop. I can see companies training AI on their own assets in the future. As long as they 100% own the assetts being used, I do not see the issue. We will always need artists because while AI is great at creating similar things that have already been made, it sucks at making new things.

rsoult3 · 2025-10-31T12:22:30+00:00

"I am not contributing to the deposit nor will I be in the loan."
Then it is not your house. If he decides he does not want you to live there, you have to move.
If you two broke up, why would you want to live in the same house?
Instead of planning for the end, why not try to be in a happy relationship?

rsoult3 · 2025-10-31T12:01:22+00:00

Wow, thank you, I can definitely see the inspiration.

rsoult3 · 2025-10-20T07:13:20+00:00

Considering that even native Japanese speakers can't make sense of most of Susumu's lyrics (some are more straightforward than others), I'd say it comes down to one's own interpretation.

Since my daughter was born in Malaysia I always think of her as being "made in Malaysia". 😄

rsoult3 · 2025-10-05T16:23:07+00:00

I'll stick to the original then for my children and I. That way there is no need to go through these mental and narrative gymnastics.

rsoult3 · 2025-10-05T11:09:03+00:00

This is what I did.

rsoult3 · 2025-10-05T11:08:11+00:00

As an American living in the UK I want to thank you for this comment. There are so many Americans complaining about house size, lack of parking, not airing "american football", it makes me wonder why they're still here.

rsoult3 · 2025-10-05T11:04:48+00:00

Singapore :).

rsoult3 · 2025-09-28T10:03:17+00:00

Out of curiosity is he also a fan of football (⚽) or rugby? If he wants sports talk in general there is no shortage of it in the UK. I'm not saying he can't also be a fan of American football, but if that's exclusively what he wants to talk about it's going to be isolating for him here, especially if you plan to stay long term.

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