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- Comment on Nearly a quarter of U.S. households live paycheck to paycheck, report finds 1 week ago:
paychecks dont arrive for another week (or more), sometimes it’s a necessity
Absolutely. And then when the bill comes in six weeks, pay the balance.
Credit card use is fine, carrying a balance on credit cards is what eviscerates your finances.
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 1 week ago:
I believe the FairPhone is pretty solid.
- Comment on Nearly a quarter of U.S. households live paycheck to paycheck, report finds 1 week ago:
Don’t carry credit card debt, the interest eviscerates your finances. It is a fact much of America does not take to heart.
- Comment on Nearly a quarter of U.S. households live paycheck to paycheck, report finds 1 week ago:
Agreed, that is very much a ‘it depends’. A $1000 pro max every year is opulent, a used SE every 5 years isn’t.
- Comment on Nearly a quarter of U.S. households live paycheck to paycheck, report finds 1 week ago:
Cutting out Uber Eats, restaurants, and bars goes a long way to paying those off(groceries are so much cheaper). Even the people in giant holes on Caleb Hammer’s show walk away with a budget to kill their debt.
If you are holding credit card debt, stop adding more and start paying them down. The interest is worse than many realize.
- Comment on How do you respond to unwanted advice? 1 week ago:
from a, a coworker and b, a manager
A coworker and a manager at your company gave you advice about your job?
If that is the case, you should take it seriously. Make sure you know why they think their suggestion is better than what you are doing. You don’t know everything, there is a darn good chance they are trying to make you better at your job.
- Comment on What's a 'common sense' thing that you genuinely don't understand, and have been too embarrassed to ask about until now? 2 weeks ago:
I normally just cut it in half and scoop out the insides. Peeling one of those is a PITA.
- Comment on How likely do you think game streaming as DRM is to become a thing? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, Steam in-home-streaming is great and is something I have used on many an occasion.
Game streaming over the internet is simply miserable.
- Comment on How likely do you think game streaming as DRM is to become a thing? 2 weeks ago:
Customers have roundly rejected game streaming. If streaming is the only way to play a game, that game will see a colossal hit in sales. This won’t be acceptable to companies trying to make money.
- Comment on God ****** dammit, here we go again 2 weeks ago:
I’m a big fan of the Keep It Simple method, and went with Password Safe. Works on Linux, Windows, iOS, and Android. It’s big thing is it just makes an encrypted password file which then you can sync between devices however you like (Box, Dropbox, etc)
Which one works on all browsers including mobile safari and mobile Firefox?
It has an auto-type and copy feature, so no need for browser support.
- Comment on God ****** dammit, here we go again 2 weeks ago:
Protip for the room: Use a password manager with a unique password for every service. Then when one leaks, it only affects that singular service, not large swaths of your digital life.
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 3 weeks ago:
The good news is. Even if you don’t change your strategy. You can just chill on index funds, when the bubble pops, they will go down. Just keep buying more. In the long term, you will still make money. Index funds earn ~8% per year on average when invested for long periods of time.
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 3 weeks ago:
I never got into options investing, but I believe you keep re-upping them. Every time you do so you pay a small price. So, the game is: ‘can you stay liquid long enough for the bubble to pop’.
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 3 weeks ago:
Capital gains are taxed. Profits from this are capital gains.
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 3 weeks ago:
Mid-Cap index funds should be fairly insulated from the damage as well, given they would exclude companies as large as nVidia.
Either way, biggest thing people is when the bubble pops, that is the time to buy in more, not the time to sell. The buy high-sell low strategy is easy to fall into emotionally.
- Comment on Microsoft Task Manager now tasking PCs with running multiple copies of itself 3 weeks ago:
Preview updates, including this one, are offered to everyone, not just people in the Windows insider program. They show up in Windows Update with a ‘Download & install’ button, but will not automatically install.
- Comment on The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You 3 weeks ago:
This is pretty much my response any time Google or Microsoft does anything negative at this point. My good will for those two was spent years ago. Swapped over to Protonmail, non-google phone, Linux. Done with this shit.
At least EA was easier to get away from. Just…not buying more EA games solved that one. :)
- Comment on NVIDIA's H100 GPU Takes Data Centers to Space 3 weeks ago:
By harnessing low-cost, nonstop solar energy and avoiding land use and fossil fuels
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“low-cost” - Nothing about launching data centers into space is low cost
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“nonstop solar energy” Continuous solar energy is certainly nice, but that is a pretty minor buff compared to current ways of making power. If you think nuclear or solar+battery is expensive, go calculate the price for space-based solar per GW…
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“avoiding land use” - We have a fuckload of land. Datacenter land use is removing a bucket of water from the ocean.
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“fossil fuels” - I have bad news about how you get things to space…
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- Comment on The Value of NVIDIA Now Exceeds an Unprecedented 16% of U.S. GDP 3 weeks ago:
The United States has tethered 16% of its entire economic output to the fortunes of a single company
Yeah, this article should compare nVidia’s revenue to the US GDP (both measure of annual production). But we know why they aren’t, as it wouldn’t produce an alarming stat.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says the company doesn't have enough electricity to install all the AI GPUs in its inventory - 'you may actually have a bunch of chips sitting in inventory that I can’t plug in' 3 weeks ago:
Why the hell are they spending money on things they literally can’t use? Who authorized that purchase?
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 3 weeks ago:
Same for me and everyone I know.
It’s borne out in the stats too, SteamOS is only 27% of linux use on steam. Mint increased in proportion this month as well. People are increasingly using it on desktops and laptops.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, from the world’s perspective, this is a problem that solves itself in a few years. Plus, the idea of ‘doing something’ about a country is not a very common action. The most common action is to ignore the BS best you can, focus on building up allies, and focus on building up your own country.
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 3 weeks ago:
Veritasium did a great video on it. Anything I can say about it will be 10x worse than that video.
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 3 weeks ago:
Side rant:
To make it worse, SMS is incredibly insecure. Nothing should send you codes via SMS, and if you have the option to use an authenticator app, do that. It’s atrocious so many banks only have SMS as an option.
The really dumb part is, the SMS codes are literally the same authenticator program, but running on their servers and sent do you via an insecure medium.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Signal? No.
I’m running Signal right now on Linux Mint.
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 4 weeks ago:
Can you run Battlefield 6?
Why the hell do you want Saudi Arabia and Jared Kusher* to have kernel-level access to your machine? Why, why is that worth it for just a game?!
- I really wish I was joking with this part
- Comment on Microsoft's cloud admin portals appear to be down worldwide 4 weeks ago:
Remember when the sales pitch of The Cloud was it would always be online?
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 4 weeks ago:
I 100% get what you are saying. But I’m also 100% fine with voting with my wallet and not support game developers that want kernel-level access to my machine.
Think about the EA stuff. You install one of their games, and now Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner* now have kernel-level access to your machine. Why, why the hell is that worth a game?
*I wish I was joking
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 4 weeks ago:
Should i unplug everything other than the new drive, and have the installer do it automatically?
This is what I did. Made the installer mostly a bunch of hitting ‘next’.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 4 weeks ago:
The chart is based on ProtonDB, which covers all Steam games.