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by Tyler9000
Tue Feb 27, 2024 2:03 pm
Forum: Work & Education
Topic: Dropbox alternative?
Replies: 9
Views: 642

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...
by Tyler9000
Mon Feb 12, 2024 11:55 am
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Buying a New Computer + A Sad Story
Replies: 62
Views: 11808

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...
by Tyler9000
Mon Nov 20, 2023 12:02 pm
Forum: Emergent Renaissance Ecology
Topic: How is the FIRE movement doing?
Replies: 337
Views: 128885

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...
by Tyler9000
Sat Jul 22, 2023 9:31 am
Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
Topic: Art projects vs engineering projects
Replies: 13
Views: 987

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 ...
by Tyler9000
Sun Jul 16, 2023 9:57 am
Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
Topic: Art projects vs engineering projects
Replies: 13
Views: 987

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...
by Tyler9000
Sat Jun 24, 2023 2:16 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Low Income, Early 20s, Anti-Wage-Slave Living: Walwen's Journal
Replies: 69
Views: 8684

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...
by Tyler9000
Fri May 26, 2023 10:01 am
Forum: Money and Investment Questions
Topic: Portfolio Charts
Replies: 538
Views: 162952

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 ...
by Tyler9000
Fri May 05, 2023 4:17 pm
Forum: Work & Education
Topic: Monetizing interest in extreme personal finance
Replies: 46
Views: 8295

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...
by Tyler9000
Fri May 05, 2023 1:10 pm
Forum: Work & Education
Topic: Monetizing interest in extreme personal finance
Replies: 46
Views: 8295

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." 8-)
by Tyler9000
Fri May 05, 2023 12:41 pm
Forum: Work & Education
Topic: Monetizing interest in extreme personal finance
Replies: 46
Views: 8295

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.
by Tyler9000
Fri May 05, 2023 12:26 pm
Forum: Work & Education
Topic: Monetizing interest in extreme personal finance
Replies: 46
Views: 8295

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...
by Tyler9000
Fri May 05, 2023 11:18 am
Forum: Work & Education
Topic: Monetizing interest in extreme personal finance
Replies: 46
Views: 8295

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 ...
by Tyler9000
Sun Mar 26, 2023 10:00 am
Forum: Housing and Transportation Questions
Topic: US Apartment sizes are shrinking
Replies: 49
Views: 4578

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...
by Tyler9000
Thu Jan 26, 2023 12:23 pm
Forum: Emergent Renaissance Ecology
Topic: Alternatives to classical logic
Replies: 17
Views: 2322

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...
by Tyler9000
Sun Jan 08, 2023 2:17 pm
Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
Topic: Setting up a website - ERE style
Replies: 82
Views: 20033

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 ...
by Tyler9000
Thu Dec 15, 2022 1:14 pm
Forum: ERE Book/Blog/Forum
Topic: ERE1 vs ERE2, forum culture
Replies: 117
Views: 760541

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...
by Tyler9000
Thu Dec 15, 2022 12:01 pm
Forum: ERE Book/Blog/Forum
Topic: ERE1 vs ERE2, forum culture
Replies: 117
Views: 760541

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...
by Tyler9000
Wed Nov 23, 2022 11:43 am
Forum: Work & Education
Topic: Any Data Analysts?
Replies: 93
Views: 17225

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'...
by Tyler9000
Sat Oct 22, 2022 10:21 am
Forum: Money and Investment Questions
Topic: Portfolio Charts
Replies: 538
Views: 162952

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...
by Tyler9000
Thu Oct 20, 2022 9:21 pm
Forum: Money and Investment Questions
Topic: Portfolio Charts
Replies: 538
Views: 162952

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,...