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- Tue Feb 27, 2024 2:03 pm
- Forum: Work & Education
- Topic: Dropbox alternative?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 683
Re: Dropbox alternative?
My recommendation may depend on your use case. If your goal to to have things easily accessible, then for things like your music you can set up an inexpensive Plex server on a home computer where you store all of your media and can stream it anywhere with an internet connection. The base Plex softwa...
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 11:55 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Buying a New Computer + A Sad Story
- Replies: 62
- Views: 11958
Re: Buying a New Computer + A Sad Story
I'm a stickler for PC noise and prioritize silent builds, so thermal optimization has always been an interest. I recommend Fan Control for controlling every fan in your system and HWiNFO for monitoring every sensor. They're both free and very powerful. Pulsing fans on CPUs are definitely annoying. H...
- Mon Nov 20, 2023 12:02 pm
- Forum: Emergent Renaissance Ecology
- Topic: How is the FIRE movement doing?
- Replies: 337
- Views: 129574
Re: How is the FIRE movement doing?
Yeah, it does feel like the sentiment around FIRE has changed quite a bit. Here are a few theories: 1. Google made a major algorithm change in 2019 that prioritized "Expertise, Authoritativeness and Trustworthiness" (EAT) and specifically targeted sites that talk about things that can impa...
- Sat Jul 22, 2023 9:31 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Art projects vs engineering projects
- Replies: 13
- Views: 993
Re: Art projects vs engineering projects
One of my first post-physics interests was bike repair. Here too there was a feeling of having done something (a repair) that made a clear tangible difference: "I took a broken bike and turned it into a working bike." It was easy to connect with others over that experience compared to my ...
- Sun Jul 16, 2023 9:57 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Art projects vs engineering projects
- Replies: 13
- Views: 993
Re: Art projects vs engineering projects
I suspect there's a major correlation/causation mix-up here. I've worked a lot with both artists and engineers, and I do find it believable that artists have an easier time thinking of compelling independent projects. But I would argue that the primary cause is internal rather than external. Artists...
- Sat Jun 24, 2023 2:16 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Low Income, Early 20s, Anti-Wage-Slave Living: Walwen's Journal
- Replies: 72
- Views: 8971
Re: Low Income, Early 20s, Anti-Wage-Slave Living: Walwen's Journal
You'll find loads of different approaches to investing on this forum. Indexing, value investing, permanent portfolio, butterfly portfolio...just to name a few! If you haven't already explored it, https://portfoliocharts.com/ is a great resource. I think it was actually tyler9000 on this forum who c...
- Fri May 26, 2023 10:01 am
- Forum: Money and Investment Questions
- Topic: Portfolio Charts
- Replies: 538
- Views: 163727
Re: Portfolio Charts
@frihet -- Interesting. Good catch! Regardless of whether he was influenced by the GB or came up with it on his own, it's cool to see the concept getting wider attention. I do think that the general construction has legs. In the context of his focus on gold, a fund like GLD or GLDM makes sense. For ...
- Fri May 05, 2023 4:17 pm
- Forum: Work & Education
- Topic: Monetizing interest in extreme personal finance
- Replies: 46
- Views: 8325
Re: Monetizing interest in extreme personal finance
To be clear, I have no issue with MMM growing and changing over time. I know I have! He has every right to live in whatever way that makes him happy, and that evolving definition is one of the more interesting things in life. Same thing when Jacob got a trading job even after becoming well-known for...
- Fri May 05, 2023 1:10 pm
- Forum: Work & Education
- Topic: Monetizing interest in extreme personal finance
- Replies: 46
- Views: 8325
Re: Monetizing interest in extreme personal finance
Maybe @Stahlmann can become a FIRE spending coach. "For $100/month I'll help you wisely get the most retirement luxury for the dollar."
- Fri May 05, 2023 12:41 pm
- Forum: Work & Education
- Topic: Monetizing interest in extreme personal finance
- Replies: 46
- Views: 8325
Re: Monetizing interest in extreme personal finance
Sure. And it replaced his old van. I'm just sayin' that luxury SUVs are a conspicuous new turn for a guy who made his name in frugality.
- Fri May 05, 2023 12:26 pm
- Forum: Work & Education
- Topic: Monetizing interest in extreme personal finance
- Replies: 46
- Views: 8325
Re: Monetizing interest in extreme personal finance
When they started organizing these FI pilgrimages for thousands of dollars it was the exact time that I stopped reading MMM. I look at it once or twice a year now, but it has become too Hollywood for me ;) Then I imagine you probably missed his most recent post about buying a brand new $52k Tesla S...
- Fri May 05, 2023 11:18 am
- Forum: Work & Education
- Topic: Monetizing interest in extreme personal finance
- Replies: 46
- Views: 8325
Re: Monetizing interest in extreme personal finance
I guess one could argue I qualify as someone who has found a decent niche adjacent to your target market. My audience tends to be already successful savers who want to learn how to become equally successful DIY investors. So it self-selects to a natural demo that most companies would covet. Because ...
- Sun Mar 26, 2023 10:00 am
- Forum: Housing and Transportation Questions
- Topic: US Apartment sizes are shrinking
- Replies: 49
- Views: 4643
Re: US Apartment sizes are shrinking
Well.... you have to consider that more people are living alone so they need less space, which is not a good trend for many reasons. Exactly. I see this as less about housing and more about societal trends. "Real estate firm RentCafe attributed the plunge in average apartment sizes to an incre...
- Thu Jan 26, 2023 12:23 pm
- Forum: Emergent Renaissance Ecology
- Topic: Alternatives to classical logic
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2331
Re: Alternatives to classical logic
As you can see from the different responses, I think this question depends a bit on context. In a meta sense, there's the high-level conflict of observation vs feeling as two different means of establishing "truth". From a mental model perspective, there's also a difference between left-br...
- Sun Jan 08, 2023 2:17 pm
- Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
- Topic: Setting up a website - ERE style
- Replies: 82
- Views: 20259
Re: Setting up a website - ERE style
I use Wordpress.com and have been very happy with it. The CEO of Automattic was a co-founder of the same Wordpress that you can install on your own, so they know what they're doing. They handle all of the server maintenance behind the scenes and it's about as hands-off as you can get. And they also ...
- Thu Dec 15, 2022 1:14 pm
- Forum: ERE Book/Blog/Forum
- Topic: ERE1 vs ERE2, forum culture
- Replies: 117
- Views: 761305
Re: ERE1 vs ERE2, forum culture
You may be dealing with your equivalent share of people who complain that you're overthinking your portfolio designs and just data mining a very deep hole when "everybody knows that time in the market is better than timing the market" and that simply owning the entire market creates its o...
- Thu Dec 15, 2022 12:01 pm
- Forum: ERE Book/Blog/Forum
- Topic: ERE1 vs ERE2, forum culture
- Replies: 117
- Views: 761305
Re: ERE1 vs ERE2, forum culture
I guess I fall into the category of long-time forumites who have fallen off on the post frequency. Most of that is just other interests that capture my attention throughout the day. But I do admit that stopping by and seeing arguments over stuff like ERE1 vs ERE2 makes me feel like the scene from Co...
- Wed Nov 23, 2022 11:43 am
- Forum: Work & Education
- Topic: Any Data Analysts?
- Replies: 93
- Views: 17324
Re: Any Data Analysts?
I've found several times both as a physicist and as a quant that using something different than the standard XY-graph made all the difference: "Well, when you put it like that it sounds really interesting!" ... "Ehh, cool. You know it's the same numbers as before, right?" There'...
- Sat Oct 22, 2022 10:21 am
- Forum: Money and Investment Questions
- Topic: Portfolio Charts
- Replies: 538
- Views: 163727
Re: Portfolio Charts
“A long string of impressive numbers multiplied by a single zero always equals zero” is probably my favorite Buffett quote Ha! Perfect. I'm totally going to save that one for later. I'm tempted to model leveraged investing, but only with an additional feature of including what happens with a margin...
- Thu Oct 20, 2022 9:21 pm
- Forum: Money and Investment Questions
- Topic: Portfolio Charts
- Replies: 538
- Views: 163727
Re: Portfolio Charts
I feel like the articles pushing investing with leverage peaked late last year before inflation took off and markets cratered towards recession, but it looks like there might be a few holdovers. ;) I'll admit that I'm personally not a fan of leveraged investing at all. As good as it sounds on paper,...