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casenmgreen
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- casenmgreenI have a 12th Gen 13. No problems like that.
- I can swap out my mobo for a RISC-V mobo, or ARM.
Get away from Intel and management engine.
- Do we need to be skeptical of NIH because of Trump? or they're still okay?
Also, remember - don't take D on its own. Always with magnesium, or you get harmed by it, for all that it also does you good. Body is not built for raw D.
Also also remember, D2 is a vitamin, D3 is a hormone.
- If you work full-time, you are in most countries penalized by progressive taxation; you pay say 20% on the first NN thousand, and then it moves to 40% or something more on the rest (or on everything, in some countries).
It seems much better to work three to six months per year, and remain in the lower tax bracket, and then have the rest of the year off.
I think this isn't widely recognized, because it if it were, I'd expect a lot more people to work as contractors, so they could work in this way.
- It seems petty, vindictive and childish.
- Having returned the address to the original address, the warning has gone away and it all seems fine...
- How the mighty have fallen.
- Well, I mean, on a contract I might make 60k GBP gross over six months, and it just sits in the account. The bank seems to get a fair bit of money in its accounts, for it.
- It's not quite what it seems.
I'd picked up a contract in the UK and relocated to the client and created a company for the contract.
I then tried to get a business bank account with a normal bank, and failed.
Metro bank took forever and tons of info and then said no.
(I issued a GDPR data access to see if I could find out anything. After a while, they sent me the same letter twice, arriving on the same day, telling me they had performed the data deletion I had requested.)
HSBC seemed to lose the application - it disappeared. It had been challenging to make in the first place, the application process was confused and confusing (and that was in the bank with help). I didn't try again (and there wasn't really time to try again - the client was already having to hold off paying me, which is awkward for them).
I looked at some others, Lloyds and Barclays, and it's been a while so I can't remember why but they didn't pan out.
TransferWise was my final choice.
When the contract was done, I left the UK, so no opportunity to open further bank accounts in UK for the business.
- I have to say, I am very tempted :-)
- I had a chat with Support. I spoke to two people, as I had a first conversation, then after finished remembered I wanted to ask what "all funds in the account will be refunded" meant.
From the first person;
1. TW cannot confirm or deny if standing payments on the account will go through.
2. It is clear I cannot directly or easily produce a suitable document to prove address. The only route I can see is is to contact the accountant, get him to change the trading address with Companyies House (the State registrar), and get that document from him. (I don't normally do this, because digital nomad - I'd be doing it every three months, if I did.)
As it is, I may have a better solution - I have reverted the address to the original address.
Interestingly, this has removed the warning that documentation is needed. I am curious to see what comes next.
From the second person;
1. The message fro TW that "if we don’t hear from you in the next 2 days, we’ll need to refund any money you’ve paid in" in fact means that you will no longer be able to make payments from your account, and any payments you do make will bounce back to you two days afterwards.
It turns out "paid in" means "payments you make to other people".
I would have written "you will not be able to make payments".
I'm not completely convinced about what's actually going on here, because of the strange co-incidence between TW saying "if we don't hear from you in two days" and the Support guy saying "payments come back in two days".
In any event Support here have asserted that payments from the account (to AWS, for example) are expected to stop working as of Sunday evening.
This also means the subject of this post is exactly wrong; it reflects my misunderstanding of TW's meaning.
2. TW cannot confirm or deny if payments into the account will still work.
- I may be wrong, but it seems to me it may be this happens quite a bit to quite a few people, but I am different in that I get annoyed and write about it. Other people get over it :-)
- Just add "Hetzner" logo along the bottom :-)
- It was only quite recently I understood the profile of the keycaps was actually something you could buy elsewhere, and then I realized I could in effect compose the keyboard I wanted.
- Seems to me this is a kind of advanced persistent threat.
You defeat them one day, but they're still there, and they keep trying, day after day after day.
- Dailymail in UK is a really grotty, low-class, nasty paper.
I have no opinion about the story - I've not read it, don't know anything about the people involved - but DM is what it is and for non-UK people, want to surface this.
- Historically, before I went to laptop, I always bought Cherry.
I was looking for a portable external keeb recently, and I looked to Cherry and they simply had nothing which even approximately matched the form factor I needed. I wanted to buy from them, but couldn't.
- I sensed you were one with dark side, Katie :-)