Claire Blackshaw

Best thing: Champion or Improve arch distro that is doing good user defaults or UX.
Recommend them or help alternatives. Otherwise get involved with Omarchy to help improve that.
It is clearly solving a desire and a need.

Really is! No angels on any side.
Looking things up that happened two decades ago because the noise has cleared and academics and trusted sources have uncovered the facts.
The story around UK first satellite for example called SkyNet and what it did to US/UK intel relationship

YouTube video by Democracy for Sale We went undercover to buy access to Parliament

Bad enough democracy is up for sale, but at £5k for this level of access AFTER people have been warned about state actors and openly identifying as working on behalf of China.
youtu.be/HKofLc2lDZk

"Booms" hide a price—slavery, strip mining, or displacement. US poured $1.2bn into solar R&D via the 1978 Solar Energy Act. China now controls 80% of the global supply chain. Though net positive of cheap solar. But we ignore gov funded RnD. Public funds often are behind final "private success"

There are no "good guys" or "bad guys" there are complex narratives and interests. Obviously you can point at horrors UK, Germany and many other countries perform and there are good things to stand up for but interrogate it.

Plus European research & UK’s Tube Alloys. We gifted the blueprints before the Manhattan Project began. They just industrialized our science, then breached the 1943 Quebec Agreement by blocking data transfer post-war. The narrative is pure propaganda.

The reality of WW2 is it was the fire sale of the British Empire which funded it. We sold off everything cheap, capitulating trade agreements, sold private UK industry like American Viscose Corporation for pennies. We gave away a lot including payments to the US until 2006.

.. but importance of visual and aesthetic choices they made seems to be lost in critique. Framework likewise not perfect are doing great stuff. You do not need to agree with everything everyone does but in this moment of Linux triumph this feels like the exact jealous nerd spat that puts people off

There's a wonderful phrase I've been using more in regards to politics. The right seeks allies the left seems traitors. While I understand the values critique of both framework and omachy the summary reads like a purist snob. I don't know enough on this topic to drive deep ...

I can't provide further details due to NDAs, but have just been given the green light to confirm Godot runs on Steam Frame. There will be a PR soon to address controller support, hopefully in time for 4.6, but in the mean time Frame works with the touch profile.

It's also easy to forget early PlayStation was staffed by a lot of music people who were younger. Experience helps in biz but if you are making a decision try get at least one 20 year old in the room, esp with Art / Culture.

YouTube video by PlayStation Europe PlayStation advert: Double Life | #20YearsOfPlay

Coding hard, background YT reminded me of this gem from 1999 PS : Double Life Ad
youtu.be/QIW4HMl81hw

It's easy to forget how on the pulse of culture PlayStation was esp in Europe. It was the perfect ad for Europe at the time, but it was also VERY BRITISH. Local LEADERSHIP not just footprint matter

Used to play exclusivity in VR but some bugs a few patches ago out me off. I should try latest in VR it's a great VR game. Want to go relic redux this week but the texture bug is annoying

The Change is coming...

Going slightly mad with PS5 + No Man Sky texture bugs.
I've rebuilt the cache and still getting issues. Is my savefile toast? It's really robbing the joy to have constant texture corruption esp in UI & Discoveries

Anyone know how to fix?

Roll us a giant

Nah, but I got some dwarf's moss. It'll really blow your mind. Last time I took it, I saw fairies for three days!

Just got AI to summarise all my commits as I prep a massive PR of work I've been on/off since SEPTEMBER!
Big oof #gamedev #godot but yeah we are back to progress and shipping mode!!!
It produced a long report but this opening line was a gut punch because yeah it was.

Like money people aren't "evil devils" but if you allow people to privately invest into services people need and can't opt out of at some point you have to offer ABOVE market rates returns on investment otherwise they won't. Which means your just stealth taxing the poor the to fund the rich.

Yeah my favourite bit was when someone called out a Labour MP about NHS privatisation she got all faked upset and called lies... only for moments later to say oh what SHE means by privatisation is making people pay at point of care.
Sneaky re-definition, if your selling off bones its private

It's no mistake the unimportant stuff gets cheaper (TV, fashion ect...) while the requirements to live like food, health, shelter, energy get more expensive. They make the unimportant stuff cheap to maximize volume and the essential stuff as expensive as possible because you can't afford not to.

I'm still upset about the stealth privatisation of the NHS through the budget yesterday. With PPP (PFI 2.0) and "neighbourhood care centres".

They know they can't be too obvious. So they go private by using sub contractors and private finance initiatives racking public services with DEBT.

My only real concern is if it pushes people more to Crypto and unregulated gambling (-_-)#
Bloody well hope not, but yeah move in the right direction.

Oh this is actually a nice budget one they are cracking down on offshore gambling. Going up to 40%. Very nice though I do wonder what that will do to ad spend from those companies in the UK market. Shocking how much betting ad work supports creatives.
Though I consider this a win for people overall

More property and asset tax is good but its a TINY amount. The real scary part of the UK Budget is #NHS PFI 2.0 is back. The thing which wracked the NHS with debt rebranded as PPP model to deliver 250 new "Neighbourhood Health Centres"

There is a LOT under "Making the tax system fairer and fit for the 21st century" which is likely to hit higher earners esp the salary sacrifice cap

oh shit some big stuff I missed.
Capital Gains got tweaked (sorry missed because its already getting talk about a bunch). Also Dividends tax rate is up.
Also new regs on shareholder loans which I need to double check on, cause I know a lot of us have director loans ect... when setting up

Youth Guarantee and Growth and Skills Levy is getting a boost. If your upskilling staff or doing youth placements you can get funding to help cover salaries.
Youth Guarantee - Young person on UC up to 25hrs/week full salary (t&cs)
Growth & Skills Levy - Funding to train up staff

Obv UK min rate increase: The National Living Wage rises by 4.1% to £12.71 per hour from April 2026.
Though I hope your paying more than min rates.

Need to speak to accountant but looks like there is a change in allowances. Down to 14% from 18% but has a 40% first year thing coming in. Too late for us but good for setup?!

Film studio relief for those studios that are multi discipline