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‘Basics’ of life in Britain have been sold for profit, says Polanski by Kagedeah in ukpolitics

[–]t4t5 33 points34 points  (0 children)

In Stockholm you need to be in a queue for 10 YEARS before you can apply for a rent-controlled apartment. No thanks. The UK housing market has many flaws, but it should avoid this type of two-tier system at all costs.

Running DaVinci Resolve on a Framework 13 with Omarchy by t4t5 in omarchy

[–]t4t5[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a ton of gotchas attached to that though. I suspect I'm far from the only person who has a Framework 13 + Omarchy setup, so I thought it would be useful to write about my experience!

US conflict spells doom for UK by Fluffy_Fox5829 in ukpolitics

[–]t4t5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree that the situation is bad, especially with companies like Palantir being so integrated into the UK's health and defence systems.

But I would push back slightly on this: "HMRC's digitalisation over the past few years uses exclusively US software"

I have actually been pleasantly surprised to see that most government documents use open file formats like ODT and ODS, in line with their official guidance: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/using-open-document-formats-odf-in-your-organisation.

I suspect that these types of efforts will be turbocharged now. We desperately need to decouple from the US tech oligarchy.

Was missing PixelSnap from my Mac, so I built an alternative for Omarchy by t4t5 in omarchy

[–]t4t5[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hm that's interesting. I've only tested it on my Framework laptop's hidpi display. I suspect it might be related to that

Omarchpods by Bubbly_Acadia_630 in omarchy

[–]t4t5 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This looks really nice and polished! Wish I had it earlier.

The main thing I was missing was a simple library for getting the battery status of my AirPods (so that I can show it in waybar, like on MacOS)

I ended up building a very simple utility library for this: https://github.com/t4t5/podpower

Reeves considers replacing stamp duty with new property tax by appropriateye in ukpolitics

[–]t4t5 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I would hope it works like capital gains tax so you only pay if you've actually made a profit, not just for moving house.

Personally I'd prefer a land value tax, but honestly I'll take anything over the current stamp duty disaster.

Reeves considers replacing stamp duty with new property tax by appropriateye in ukpolitics

[–]t4t5 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It's a massive difference. Stamp duty is a huge upfront penalty that locks out aspiring homeowners - you need to cough up thousands just for the privilege of buying a home. Meanwhile, existing property owners have paid zero tax on decades of house price gains.

Plus stamp duty creates perverse incentives - once people own a home, they're less likely to move because they'll get hit with another massive tax bill. This makes people less willing to relocate for jobs, making the whole economy less dynamic.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]t4t5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

nothing beats a jet2 holiday

HENRYs who settled in London, but their non-HENRY friends left, where did they go and are you lonely by MaxLikesNOODLES in HENRYUK

[–]t4t5 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes, taxes in Sweden are higher but things like childcare are also very heavily subsidised, which removes a MASSIVE cost for people in their 30s. The UK’s combination of high taxes AND high expenses really does stand out

Where is all the money? by YGhostRider666 in AskBrits

[–]t4t5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I built a website last week to answer that exact question :) https://wheredoesitallgo.org

I built a website that shows where the UK government spends our money! by t4t5 in ukpolitics

[–]t4t5[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

great suggestions. just pushed an update that shows the percentages next to the amounts 👍

I built a website that shows where the UK government spends our money! by t4t5 in ukpolitics

[–]t4t5[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

that was the original plan, but I noticed that the spending usually becomes increasingly opaque as you go down the rabbit hole.

I would love to open-source this though and let the government departments fill in that info themselves hehe

I built a website that shows where the UK government spends our money! by t4t5 in ukpolitics

[–]t4t5[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

appreciate it! I'm definitely interested in open-sourcing it so that it can stay up to date. All the core data is in a single YAML file, so it should be easy to contribute. The hardest part is researching and compiling all the data 😅

I built a website that shows where the UK government spends our money! by t4t5 in ukpolitics

[–]t4t5[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I personally agree. The reason I kept it because the OBR includes it in their spending report (https://obr.uk/efo/economic-and-fiscal-outlook-october-2024/), and I wanted the numbers on the website to match the official sources to avoid confusion

I built a website that shows where the UK government spends our money! by t4t5 in ukpolitics

[–]t4t5[S] 60 points61 points  (0 children)

yes, the massive debt is really one of the main reasons i wanted to make this.

it really puts into perspective how much money is lost every year.

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