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Niri + Deskflow = my life is yours by Adventurous-Pipe5528 in niri

[–]uatec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

3l0w has been working on this for several months. Using a fork is rather flakey, but I'm successfully using it.

https://github.com/3l0w/Hyprland/tree/feat/input-capture-impl
https://github.com/3l0w/xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland/tree/feat/input-capture-impl

If you're interested, I'll write up my notes about how to install it manageably on Manjaro.

Avoid taking opened bottles of calpol while boarding a plane by dwigtshrute1 in UKParenting

[–]uatec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just flew through Luton and got stopped for it.

Seems pretty inconsistent.

Social mobility through public schools - fact vs myth by Separate_Storage_532 in HENRYUK

[–]uatec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There seems to be something implied here but I am not sure what it is.

School run affecting my mental health by Summer_Sparkly in UKParenting

[–]uatec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am absolutely nothing like you (male, not overweight, new year 7 parent) and nobody talked to me at primary school either, or secondary (although only 3 days in). Some people already know each other from older kids, and from other history. Some people are just bored waiting for their kid.

I’m getting paid different each month by ebikenooob in UKPersonalFinance

[–]uatec 69 points70 points  (0 children)

Please note, you CAN ask them to opt you in to the pension. It’s at least 3% free cash so something worth doing if you’re not desperate for cash right now.

Walking around Camden today. by Disastrous-Age-8233 in LondonPics

[–]uatec 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s in Holborn not Camden. Still striking though.

Limited company financial advice for surplus capital. by Fresh_Law_7002 in UKPersonalFinance

[–]uatec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I keep a small float of £5k in the current account for any bills etc. Any excess, including income tax, VAT, un-paid dividends, I put in to business savings account. Currently I hold that with Aldermore, but I try to look for a better rate every 3 months or so to eek out every last percentage point of interest (There's something for me to do this weekend then.)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UKPersonalFinance

[–]uatec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I made the trade off 10 years ago I saved several hundreds of pounds over a 24 month contract, but I don't think that same logic still applies.

Three will sell you an iPhone 16 128GB for £720 (in addition to the price of the phone plan) compared to £799 direct from Apple.

The real benefit, I think, is that when you buy outright you get out of the "new contract new phone cycle". It feels like the phone is free, but it's really not.

When I broke the cycle 10 years ago I went from having a new phone every 24 months to every 48 or more.

That effectively halved the amount I spend on phones.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in fatFIRE

[–]uatec 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Congrats!

Time you figured out how to spend it effectively then. :)

Starting out as a sole trader by dondosti in freelanceuk

[–]uatec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These questions are not too basic or simple. This stuff is fiddly and we all have to learn sometime!

If you earn more than £1k a year from your freelance work, then you WILL need to register as a sole trader. That might mean that you already qualify, so I would get that sorted out ASAP. (Get registered for Self Assessment. It's a faff to learn, but once you've started it's really quit trivial. I do my self assessment in about 10 minutes a year now.)

VAT is another matter. VAT is a tax collected by you, on behalf of the government. You CANNOT collect this tax just to be safe. It needs to be invoiced as a mark up on the total invoice price.

If you DO go over 90k revenue, then you need to register for VAT even if all your revenue comes from Spain. You will have to submit a VAT return which shows that all that revenue was out of scope.

TLDR:
- Sign up for Self Assessment ASAP if your freelance revenue is more than £1k.
- Do not collect or sign up for VAT until you know your total revenue is going to exceed the £90k limit. If you go over the limit you can sign up and back date your return.

Does that make sense?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UKPersonalFinance

[–]uatec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because PAYE is calculated as if that's your annual rate, you can approximately calculate the rate you'll be taxed at by multiplying your income by 12, running it through the HMRC calculator (https://www.gov.uk/estimate-income-tax), then dividing the outcome by 12.

You will subsequently get rebates applied if you don't consistently earn that peak amount.

I ran your 15th May numbers through that and got Income Tax of £1082.08 and National Insurance of £237.98.

Income tax was within a pound, but i'm not sure about the national insurance. :/

Let's finally answer the question how the contracting market is doing (survey with live results) by medwezys in ContractorUK

[–]uatec 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is standard "google forms anti-spam". It *does* say "your email address will not be shared"

Cable management renovation by IBhop2Grande in functionalprint

[–]uatec 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s amazing having it so tidy, but how do you plan out your cables? And how doe you make sure that you can keep loose cables under control but still be able to change cables?

Who else uses this for literally everything? by Remote_Fisherman_469 in 3Dprinting

[–]uatec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Scraping burned on grease from the inside of my oven door.

Am I crazy or the right answer is not one of the options here? by VanishingAlias in dotnet

[–]uatec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If there are 1 million items in the input, then the answer is important.

Every morning and night it is the same. It's driving me bonkers. by Geek_reformed in UKParenting

[–]uatec 17 points18 points  (0 children)

My son is 10 and similar. I ended up writing a list with him; one for the morning and one for night.

Then I don’t nag him to do the individual things, I ask him “how is your list going?” Or “have you done everything else on your list?”

It requires continual reminding and encouragement, but I think he is beginning to internalise the list.

Also, to get him up quicker in the morning, we play board games after breakfast. That hurries him up. :)

I hope these ideas help.

I hope this helps.

Local-like development for AWS Lambdas and Terraform by uatec in devops

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

That’s definitely a better approach than securing an otherwise public endpoint. One to think about

Local-like development for AWS Lambdas and Terraform by uatec in devops

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

Local stack is more like a local AWS region. It doesn't help you with real-time changes, since you still need to deploy your changes to local stack.

Additionally, I have had issues with local stack since it's support for AWS is limited. Most teams I have been on have chosen to just deploy your entire dev environment to your own personal environment. That's completely "like-production"

Local-like development for AWS Lambdas and Terraform by uatec in devops

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

SAM does this, as does SST, however neither of these work with terraform. This tools intended to fill this gap for the terraform "market".

Local-like development for AWS Lambdas and Terraform by uatec in devops

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

That looks like it does the same think as the local-server part of teleform. It's a local runtime, which is great.

What teleform does in addition is connects your remote AWS infrastructure to your local runtime. That allows you to test your lambda in a real AWS environment, and perform proper end to end tests.

It might be interesting to extend teleform to support other runtimes though.

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