Likely the result of the last 2 years of gangbuster returns on the stock market.
Lets say on Jan 1 of 2023 you had $633,362 invested in the boring S&P500. Without putting another penny invested it would look like this:
Not worth it for a laptop. Making a laptop battery removable means wrapping the whole cell package with enough material that it can’t be casually punctured on every single side. Further, you now also have to build into the laptop the mechanical means to hold that removable battery, and lose space to the release mechanism. It adds a measurably large amount of weight and size to the laptop.
Way back in the days when you would have to own multiple batteries (with a swap in between) to have a long enough computing session to be useful it made sense. Today it doesn’t make sense. I recently replace the battery on my primary personal laptop, now 7 years old. I had to open the laptop one time to remove the old one and put in the replacement. I’m okay doing that every 7 years and don’t need to sacrifice the size, weight, and battery capacity to have a removable one instead.
That used to be the case because the peppers were specifically grown just for Huy Fong. However, Huy Fong screwed over their exclusive pepper grower to increase profits. The peppers they get now don’t taste the same.
“Buy Now, Pay Later” but for calorie consumption then?
I’m not going to hold your hand. Just lose gracefully.
Oh honey.
I think you just gave us a really good view to how you arrived at your racist beliefs.
assuming I’m worried about a smash and grab
For your specific use case, how about this:
Get a cheap USB thumb drive and a long USB cable. Put your disk unlock password on that thumb drive, and semi-permanently affix the USB drive to your building. You said you’re in a basement. Put it on top of a rafter with a metal fitting that would keep the drive from being taken without removing the screws. Run the long USB cable from the thumb driving in your rafter to the USB port on the machine. Alter your startup script to mount the thumb drive read the password from the thumb drive to unlock your main disk. Don’t forget to immediately unmount the thumbdrive in the OS after the disk is unlocked for extra safety.
If someone is doing a smash and grab, they’ll unplug all the cables (including this USB cable going to the thumb drive) and take your machine leaving the disk encryption password behind on the USB thumb drive.
Well, your own banned comment said you admit you feel “a bit” racist, so I know you are not asking me to present an argument that you’re racist.
Are you… asking me to present an argument that racism is wrong?
The moderator’s opinion is better if the mod is deleting your racist comments.
How long? My guess is that masked unmarked people that don’t even verbally identify themselves will be shot at (and killed?) by someone as they’re walking down the street when law enforcement are attempting to take into custody. My guess is that this shooter will either be killed by the unmarked and masked law enforcement or that person will be arrested and charged.
This is the point when all of the “every day carry” gun folks (and there are a lot of these) will then be faced with the question when they could every use their gun to defend themselves and not be facing charges themselves through no fault of their own.
I think thats when it finally tips enough people into the category to be against trump’s actions.
I would be curious to know how ICE got access to the sheriffs’ systems.
The way the article reads, the Sheriff voluntarily joined the info sharing system in question:
“An administrative investigation from the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office revealed Zwinck was part of a communication group that included local, state and federal law enforcement partners participating in “a multi-agency drug interdiction effort focusing on the highways throughout Western Colorado.””
Whomever they’re contracting with needs to have it terminated yesterday, or they might as well be complicit.
There’s no contractor to fire here. The Sheriffs office voluntarily joined for drug enforcement efforts. ICE use information shared for drug enforcement for immigration enforcement violating the purpose of the group. The Sheriffs left.
I see this as a good thing. While most of us don’t trust trump’s ICE, this is yet another example of other law enforcement arms also losing trust and cutting ICE off.
Presidential cosplay explains so much of the trump administration.
I could see your point about the questionable traffic stop for other possibly illegitimate reasons, but the Sheriffs actions to remove themselves from this information sharing with ICE afterwards is highly suggestive that its not doing the traffic stop for immigration enforcement reasons. I’ll take the small win.
“We were unaware that the communication group was used for anything other than drug interdiction efforts, including immigration,” the sheriff’s office said. “We have since removed all Mesa County Sheriff’s Office members from the communication group.”
So it doesn’t sound the like the local sheriffs are intentionally targeting people for immigration things in this case, but rather when the traffic stop happened, the data got put into a system that is completely unrelated to ICE, but ICE is apparently using anyway.
I doubt a renter in good standing would be kicked out of an existing apartment even at lease renewal. However, if the renter has to get new housing in the future your point is valid.
Good video. Accurate information.
Two notes:
For North American homes: I agree with the overlooked value of a downrated circuit for EV charging, but I don’t think he talked about a possibly better option for downrating: Using an existing 120v circuit (at whatever current rating) already wired in the garage . Remove the outlet, install EVSE (charger), and swap the breaker for a 240v one (at a current rating matching the original. So if you have a 120v 15A circuit (white romex) you can use the exact same wire for a 240v at 15A. If you have a 20A (yellow romex) you would end up with a 240v 20A. You get more than double the speed of charging with zero new wires added, only changing the breaker and removing the old outlets. Note: If you have multiple outlets in your garage all fed from this same circuit, this would mean all of your outlets in the garage are now 240v and not usable for regular 120v items.
He didn’t like Smart chargers. Thats a valid opinion, but smart chargers can do some nice things that I like. Some will also talk to each other if you have two chargers, such as if you have two EVs. They can be configured to share the same wire to the breaker box, so you can plug both cars in at night, one car will charge, then when that is complete, the other will charge automatically without having to unplug one car and then plug in the other. It will charge the least charged car first ensuring the best balance of charge to both cars assuming both cars can’t be charged to full in one night. If you have solar panels, some smart chargers can talk to the solar system and be instructed to only charge when there is excess power that would otherwise go to waste. It can do this automatically so if clouds go overhead and not enough juice is available from the sun, the charging stops. As soon as the clouds clear and there is an excess again, charging resumes automatically. For outdoor charging, you can also configure most Smart chargers to only charge you authorized cars. So you don’t need to worry about someone rolling into your driveway when you’re not home (or a bad neighbor) and running up your electricity bill.
Another vote for Bosch.
BTW, you know you’re old when you get excited about dishwasher features. I accept I’m old now.
If you can get a higher end 800 series, it has two really cool features: Crystal Dry and Eco mode
You know those silica desiccant pouches that get shipped in everything from our electronics to our beef jerky? Just by being exposed to air, the crystals absorb water. You can even reuse the crystals if you heat them and the water evaporates out. The Bosch 800 series has a large container of these type of crystals (Zeolite) in the back of the unit.
During the heating step, the container is opened allowing the hot moisture to escape. The container then closes, and the wet washing cycle begins. After the dishes are all clean, the container opens again, and the hot wet air inside the dishwasher is pushed through the desiccant container. Because its a closed system, all the water in the air and on the dishes is absorbed by the desiccant and they are bone dry ready to be put away! The desiccant lasts decades so its not like a wearable part.
This feature used to be only available on the high end Thermador Sapphire dishwashers costing a minimum of $2000. A few years ago Bosch allowed this feature in their high end models, the 800 series.
Another feature the 800 series has is “Eco mode”, which saves a lot of water and energy at the cost of a longer dishwasher cycle. Instead of using a 6 gallons of water and a huge amount of electricity to heat the water super hot (for most effective quick washing), it uses only 2.4 gallons of water and half the electricity not heating the water as much, but using that water for much longer cleaning to get the same cleaning in the end. A Eco cycle runs for about 2 hours (which the unit is crazy quiet too). The run time doesn’t bother me a bit because I usually start or schedule the dishwasher to run when I’m not in the kitchen anyway. Also yes, you can run Eco mode and have it finish with Crystal Dry.
Let’s happily fight fire with fire and once we win it all make it so it could never easily happen again
Your strategy is “to defeat the horrible enemy, we must become equally horrible as the enemy”?
There are going to be lots of things ahead of you in life that are going to be difficult, uncomfortable, and yes even sometimes dangerous. A number of these things will not be optional. Life will just do them to you, and you’ll have to deal with the fallout. Its an important life skill to be able to navigate these type of situations, and also know how to build yourself back up when they happen. You will need this going forward. Also, as you master difficult things, your skills become better at identifying risks, and building mitigation strategies.
Example:
I had a pretty bad car accident due to failing to yield the right of way (I struggle with multitasking)
Knowing this, you can and should change your driving environment. What were these other distractions?
As you get more confident you could remove some of these rules. Further, you can improve how you prioritize while driving. My wife and I follow the login that airplane pilots do and it helps:
Aviate, Navigate, Communicate
“‘Aviate, Navigate, Communicate’ is a phrase widely taught to aircraft pilots, to remind them of priorities during an emergency. The first priority is to keep the aircraft flying, avoiding undesired aircraft states and controlled flight into terrain. Next the pilot should verify their location and navigate towards a suitable destination. Communication with air traffic control, while important, is a lower priority”
If I’m overloaded with stimulus while driving with my wife and trying to negotiate traffic I just need to say “Aviating” and she knows that means to stop talking/distracting because I’m close to my limit. If I’m in an unfamiliar place reading street signs while driving and say “Navigating” she understands that, and many times can just tell me “don’t turn left here, but take the next left”. I do the same for her. Once the needed extra attention has passed, the driver can communicate that and say “okay where were we?”.
So to answer your question, should you give up entirely? I would recommend not giving up yet. Get back in and learn what you need to change about yourself/your environment and develop the strategies to master it. If after that you can drive without fear, and simply don’t like it and prefer other modes of transportation, sure, stop driving entirely.
This is one difficult thing life has handed to you that can opt out of, but if you do now, you’ll lose the education on how to navigate the next one that isn’t optional which will make it that much hard.
I don’t disagree with you on that point.
Being “a millionaire” ain’t what it used to be. If you wanted to quit your job right now and just live off the dividends of your $1m, you could safely pull about $44k/year and never touch your $1m, meaning you’d never run out of money and always be able to take out $44k/year.
On one hand: “thats awesome! Money forever!” True.
On the other hand: $44k/year is equivalent to a job that pays $22/hour. Certainly not horrible, but that’s not livin’ large.
Further, inflation will continue to eat away at the value of your money and you’re taking all your earning every year, so it will never grow. My guess is, 40 years from now $44k/year would be considered wages below the poverty line.
Keep in mind, this is the path if you never want to touch your $1m. If you’re willing to “pick a date when you will run out of money” you can take larger withdraws greater than that $44k/year. This is the big challenge for retirees. You have to decide when you’re going to die so you don’t run out of money before that.