Tax residency laws. They make my brain hurt.

Set-top boxes (eg. Apple TV) and streaming service apps (eg. BBC iPlayer and Acorn TV) that have a UI where the icon or thumbnail for the selected app or show, is shown as slightly larger than its neighbours. I often find these difficult to identify - need to move the cursor to enlarge another one to be able to spot which one it’s currently resting on. It’s irritating.

Much better IMO to simply indicate the selected option by putting a highlighted frame around the thumbnail - as Netflix and Neon do. Very much easier to see.

My emotionally needy cat, who won't leave me alone when I am sitting at the computer.

Handle9:

Tax residency laws. They make my brain hurt.

On another forum, there are two identically-titled threads in different subforums for two different versions of an app. Both threads appear identically in the tab title and history menu, and I accidentally posted in the wrong one. When you see someone do this, do you:

A) Ignore it and move on
B) Gently point out that the post is in the wrong thread
C) Attack the poster, accuse him of breaking the rules and then make a mock apology for being "snarky" before proceeding to attack the poster a second time?

If you picked C, then you're apparently the person I just ran into!

networkn:

 

AT Park App - You have an active ticket in zone xxx. Makes my heart race every time. 

 

In actual fact I have an active parking session. 

 

I understand tickets to be fines for overparking or breaching another rule. 

 

 

 

A very annoying App.

Works well for the most part, but it is excessively hard to add a new car to it. 

trig42:

 

Works well for the most part, but it is excessively hard to add a new car to it. 

 

The big problem was I added my wife car and now it defaults to that. I got a ticket because I didn't notice one time. 

I can remove her but it's handy.

Annoying me today is the sauna conditions I am enduring: got flooded a few weeks ago. Water damage remediation experts came around today - lifted the edges of the carpets and measured moisture in the floors and walls. 

Massive fans going now for the next few days with the carpets pulled back. Furniture scattered all over the place (to make room for the carpets to be pulled back). Aircon on heat and full fan speed. 

Floorboards (chipboard) are still wet two (or is it three?) weeks after the event. 

A wall and probably our entire kitchen will need to come out and be rebuilt. Floorboards will be cut up and replaced in sections. Underlay will be replaced. Carpet intact as is Rhino (nylon). 

Thank god we're insured. This should only cost us $400

Didn't seem like a massive leak. Thought we'd dried up OK. Wasn't going to make a claim. 

You have my sympathies. I've had to deal with that twice!

Geektastic:

The concept that you owe them money in country A when you have only worked in country B for the whole year is just bonkers.

I'm not so sure... you may have received benefits from country A despite residing and working in country B. An example is that Swiss citizens have to pay extra tax if they're unavailable for their annual military service obligation. They gain a benefit of being Swiss and knowing that their homeland is defended, despite not being there, and rightly have to pay for that. If they give up their Swiss citizenship (and the benefits thereof) then they're no longer liable for the tax.

Geektastic:

Handle9:

Tax residency laws. They make my brain hurt.

The concept that you owe them money in country A when you have only worked in country B for the whole year is just bonkers.

Rikkitic:

My emotionally needy cat, who won't leave me alone when I am sitting at the computer.

Geektastic:

Handle9:

Tax residency laws. They make my brain hurt.

The concept that you owe them money in country A when you have only worked in country B for the whole year is just bonkers.