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All I can say is that for long-term success, the wisest thing to do is to keep your eye on the big picture and not worry about what happens in time periods of less than a year. When I first started, my motivation was being disgruntled with my salary and my strategy was to catch a few waves, but I realized it's easier and more predictable to buy shares of something you believe in (with an appropriate amount of research and analysis) and leave it alone. I panicked or got impatient way too much in my first couple of years of investing and it cost me because I was measuring success over weeks instead of thinking about what the money that I don't need anytime soon will look like in 10+ years. I got needlessly impatient with both AMD and NFLX this way and sold both for a small loss, which is honestly a pretty damn difficult dubious achievement. These days, I still look at my portfolio daily, but I don't worry anymore if the market drops 5-10% over a couple of days like it did last month. I want to say that every attempt I've made at a swing trade has failed. The only time I recall having marginal success with short-term trading was more of a trend trade without the fundamentals. I bet on my own company at the time following publicly announced news of a merger that would close in the coming months at a target price that wasn't reached yet. Even then, that was a painful ride because both halves of that merger were clown car operations and I sold well before our merger date because the price action was typically a long and slow downward trajectory followed by quick spikes that lasted no more than a couple of days before slowly trending down again. All that drama for a measly gain of $935. Now that I have a much better and higher paying job, instead of rolling the dice on meme stocks, my only goal for my portfolio is to outperform the market, especially Nasdaq, which it's done every year since I started a few years ago. Other than exceed the rate at which I typically dollar cost average into my Roth IRA by this point in the calendar year and buy some SHOP during the recent dip, I dumped the expected end-of-term interest savings from what would be my second 2021 mortgage refinance into GOOGL. I've now officially directly owned all of FAANG+M at some point and still own all except FB and NFLX. Then, even though I haven't been thrilled about the recent uptick in mortgage interest rates, I decided to proceed with the second refinance anyway for a double double-dip. I don't usually directly associate my allocations with certain life events since it's all really just one big fungible pile of assets, but in this case, I did in order to directly see what my end-of-term interest savings turns into years down the road.

I was on the hunt for local co-op games on PC years ago when I first set up my gaming-capable ThinkPad with Nvidia Quadro as an HTPC and have always kept an eye on them since. These are the best ones I've played. Broforce (local, Steam Remote Play, online) Left 4 Dead 2 (mentioned in my post in the other thread) Magicka (local, Steam Remote Play, online) Sonic Mania (local, Steam Remote Play as Sonic and Tails) Streets of Rage Remake (local co-op only) Streets of Rage 4 (local, Steam Remote Play, online random only) Trine 1 (local, Steam Remote Play) Trine 2, 4 (local, Steam Remote Play, online) I haven't played Magicka 2 nor Trine 3 yet, although I have both. I bought Trine 3 as part of a bundle, but I skipped it because of the negative reviews of the gameplay mechanics and because the campaign is incomplete and abandoned. Also, Left 4 Dead 1 isn't really worth playing for most people unless you just want the experience without melee weapons. Valve ported all of L4D1's content into L4D2 and the second game has the much larger modding community. I think all the map exploits and camping sites in L4D1 were patched years ago as well, so maps like the Mercy Hospital finale are probably the same as L4D2 now. I was a highly-ranked L4D2 player on one of the most popular modded servers a couple of years ago. I've since retired from the game, but I sort of want to pick it up again to play the new official Last Stand co-op campaign that came out last year. I've kind of left all that behind though and don't want to get roped back into playing the game more with my Steam friends from that server. I could play it single-player, but L4D2 is one of those games where the online experience, especially on modded servers, completely blows away the single player with bots experience. In what little free time I have now, I'm still actively playing Broforce, Streets of Rage 4, and Trine 4, but I also haven't finished at least a couple of the Magicka DLCs and Sonic Mania, so I need to revisit them as well. Also of note are the developers, since they've created other co-op games that I haven't played or completely played through. Arrowhead Game Studios - Magicka, The Showdown Effect, Gauntlet (2014), Helldivers Frozenbyte - Shadowgrounds, Shadowgrounds Survivor, Trine 1-4 Don't bother with GTA Online unless you like being griefed, victimized, or disadvantaged by hacks and cheats. Rockstar's games should only be considered rich single-player experiences because the online components of GTA V and RDR2 are trash.

Couch, LAN, or Internet co-op? Genre? Portal 2 (re-read and saw you listed the Portal series), Left 4 Dead 2

Interesting side note that Hallock mentioned there. I remember previous leaks had the next-gen AMD desktop platform supporting PCIe 4.0 instead of 5.0. I thought nothing of PCIe 5.0 until realizing that PCIe 5.0 SSDs would basically be equivalent to DDR3 RAM in terms of sequential reads/writes. I don't feel like it would matter much in real-world performance, but it's impressive.

Was this a 27" iMac? Guessing it is because of the 3TB hard drive. If so, sure, a new 27" iMac with a 4TB SSD requires you to configure it from the highest spec Core i7 iMac which brings the price to $3500 with the 4TB, and now is the absolute worst time to buy a brand new Intel-based Mac product. If that were me...well, I wouldn't have an iMac in the first place, but I would have gotten a smaller SSD and an external hard drive because there's no way I would have nearly 3TB of applications. I can't imagine spending $3500 on a new machine and not getting an RTX 3080 or RX 6900 XT as part of the deal, even at scalper prices. Lately I've been discovering how damn expensive Macs are from cycling through MacBook Pros for work. If I ever wanted one for myself—and the 16" MBP coming soon with the M1X is the closest I've ever come to remotely considering the idea—there is no part of me that would want to spend the money for one when I feel I could get better value in spending that amount at the casino or on the next meme stock, or a Zen 4 Ryzen 9 and an RTX 4080 or RX 7900 XT.

I've come to realize Facebook probably has more value to me as a tool to keep up with local and Internet businesses than a friend network where people virtue signal, rant about crap that doesn't affect their actual daily lives, and deliberately test the limits of Facebook's censors all day. Even the car groups I'm part of kind of suck compared to forums. So at first I was kind of glad that people got off it for a day, but then I realized the platform is at least moderately useful although not indispensable for keeping up with some of my projects.

While some people across the Internet have been complaining about the lack of updates for systems with older CPUs, I'm thinking about how great it is that you essentially get Windows 11 Enterprise LTSC (at least in terms of system updates) on those machines without having to jump through any hoops. 11 seems like it'll be the first Windows since 7 that I don't expect to have reservations about installing with my next new computer.

Whether it's glue or epoxy, I never seem to have luck with liquid adhesives, and cheap super glues are among the worst of them all in terms of durability. However, a product like this might work. Industrieklebstoff, Industriekleber PASCO PASCOFIX.DE Der PASCOFIX Industrieklebstoff wurde ausschließlich für unsere Firma gemäß unserem Auftrag entwickelt und ist in seiner Art und Qualität... I've used it on a bracket that holds the computer on my washing machine to the front trim panel and it's been holding up fine so far after a few months of minimum twice-weekly use. I applied some excess glue and filler and then sanded it down flat, so the bond is a bit stronger than what you would normally be able to achieve with the cheaper stuff.

That's brutal. That's more than the going rate for a used 1080, which is unfortunately looking like my most realistic GPU upgrade for the next couple of years. Maybe I'll swing for a 1080 Ti. Really kicking myself now for not getting a $500 2080 Ti when the bottom fell out right after the RTX 30 series debut.

I see, that makes a little more sense. With few exceptions, once I sell a position, I'm not looking back, so I don't even want to watch them anymore, much less own any part of them. I've made enough bad purchases in the past that were usually attempts at swing trades for a quick buck, and almost all of them backfired on me. In four years, I've only ever reopened positions three times, all with the intent of long-term capital gains because I knew I screwed up when I sold them the first time: NVDA, DXCM, and SHOP. Even between those three though, I was on the fence with continuing to hold DXCM until their big spike at the end of July, but I also recognize them for what they are: a market leader in their sector with a solid business model and reliable revenue stream. My biggest regret (aside from ever selling SHOP in the first place because my original cost basis per share was under $100) was not buying back into SHOP right after the pandemic cratered the market in 2020 and still holding onto garbage like IBIO thinking that they could be a lottery ticket for the vaccine. That bad gamble spooked me off of far better COVID plays last summer like MRNA when it was still under $100 a share, which I even recommended to someone else. Meanwhile, SHOP was on my watch list to buy back into in late-2019 and early-2020, and if I wasn't screwing around with penny stocks, I could have gotten back in at under $500 a share instead of the $992 at which I did eventually buy back in. At least I was smart enough to pick up NVDA for the second time and buy more AMZN during that period. Stocks that were supposed to be short-term plays like airlines and cruises that ended up getting extended into long-term holds due to the continuing effects of the pandemic were a complete waste of time. I've held DAL for a year and a half now for a pathetic 8.4% return and it's going to be the first thing I sell when I decide on what my next purchase is going to be. Unless your timing is perfect and prescient to pull off a day or swing trade, putting that money into the less exciting FAANG+M over the same period of time would have been a far better move.

In the US. They have a more complete platform in the UK that includes stocks, ETFs, commodities, and forex. Based on some quick reading about their UK platform, I don't recommend their copy trading features because most people are idiots and you don't want to copy their portfolios, and it provides a potentially detrimental shortcut to performing your own research. Also, having looked through the previous posts in the thread, in the spirit of trying to help you optimize your portfolio, you have more ticker symbols than what I'd feel comfortable tracking. 28 symbols is probably double or maybe even triple the amount of what most people would consider manageable, and a lot of those single-share stocks you have are serving as clutter rather than diversification. You're spreading yourself too thin at the bottom end to the point where, for example, even if cruise lines have an exceptionally good day, you've still gained less than $10. However, you're also too top-heavy with MSFT to the point where your portfolio basically goes in whatever direction Microsoft takes it.

I'm not familiar with the details of this regulation but the Lexus LS in the US never got those fender side markers. At one point, I looked into making the bumper running lights on my GS work with the blinkers, but I opted for side marker mirror housings instead. I never paid any real attention to what Toyota/Lexus was doing with those side markers, but it seems that only their cars that weren't bound for North America got them. Fender side markers were a staple on BMWs of that era, but not so much for other makes appearing in the US market, domestic or import.

I missed this feature from the old site. This implementation looks much better too!

If microstuttering in games, sluggish multitasking, laggy VR playback, high CPU usage on 4K, and a general desire to keep stalling because my greedy ass wants a Ryzen 9 on AM5 despite the obviously predictable supply shortage that will exist after its launch all isn't going to get me to upgrade my i7-2600K now, Windows 11 certainly won't push me over the edge.

Who wants 10-year-old source code anyway? ?

And with the way things have been going, they'll be just as readily available to consumers as high-end GPUs when they debut. I bought a new 10 TB Seagate BarraCuda Pro for $210 a couple of years ago. It now sells for $300 new. Not that I need it, but I can't upgrade to 12-16 TB right now without paying something stupid.

The Apple of iPhone battery throttling infamy is involved after all. You can safely assume the other side would be in favor of the consumers.

I say get the Michelin Pilot Sport 4S and don't look back. I think Lexus was probably more attentive to ensuring good NVH qualities with the LS considering how iconic the wine glass pyramid TV advert was, but I can tell you that Michelin Pilot Sports often end up being the last piece needed to solve the vibration puzzle for many GS owners.

I think that was the G5 where they introduced their LG friends gimmick. I vaguely recall one of the contraptions was some kind of BB-8-looking robot and I don't really care enough to Google it any further because that's how uninterested I was and still am with that concept. I bought the G4 on launch, then got another G4 as a warranty replacement for the first one, and the replacement G4 died about a year later. Both failed due to the notorious bootloop issue. I currently own a pair of rooted V20 phones that I'll probably keep around as long as I can because of the second screen, built-in DAC, 3.5 mm jack, removable storage, and removable battery. Even after they reach EOL as phones, they're still fantastic portable music players because of the DAC. LG's problem was a mixture of a few things: Poor quality control, poor product life cycle support barely supporting one major Android OS update after release, and not understanding that they were never going to succeed by playing me-too with Samsung. They tried a bunch of experimental features with their products but didn't keep the ones that worked and got rid of others that would have helped them stand out. The second screen on the V20 is one of my favorite features because I use it to quickly access my home automation apps and my music. Then they got rid of it as well as removable batteries in later V-series phones. The V20 was the first flagship phone to ship with Android Nougat, but LG took forever to roll out Oreo for it, and even then it was only 8.0 instead of 8.1 and the update broke a few features on the phone that were never fixed. In some ways, LG reminds me of HTC from 10 years ago. They made some innovative products that gained an enthusiast following, then squandered that userbase with a series of bad decisions and an incoherent vision of what they wanted their products to be. I'll probably keep the V20 as my phone until LTE networks begin to be retired or apps stop working on Nougat. By then, I suppose I'll look at anyone who makes a phone that includes everything except a removable battery, since that's about the only thing that seems to be universally off-limits to flagship devices. Recent Motorola and Asus flagships have been one feature away from ticking all my checkboxes. Compared to Europe, the right-to-repair movement is nearly nonexistent in the US, so I can't even consider options like the Shift 6mq or mu.

I've worked in software since 2012. Not all of the companies I've worked for understood or accepted that was their contemporary function regardless of their supposed primary industry, but as a company, you're not serious about technology if you don't invest in it. I've been fighting the SSD fight for 8+ years now. Only two out of the five places I've worked for in the last nine years had any respect or understanding of their employees' needs, especially for their software development operations. That includes getting your employees hardware that won't be a bottleneck to their productivity. With the first of these companies I worked for in 2012-13, I got on very good terms with the IT support guy and he told me privately that a salesperson wanted to swap out their 256 GB SSD for higher capacity storage in their laptop. Since management was too broke and too ignorant to spend money on hardware, he offered to swap that Samsung 830 into my workstation after hours one evening as long as I stayed quiet about it. No problem, but that said a lot about how miserly and clueless that company was. They were in the telecommunications industry, for what it's worth. The next place I worked for in 2013-14, I got a new 2013 MacBook Pro 13" when I started. There was never a chance for me to be concerned about slow storage or the company not spending money on their employees considering I was just a contractor and they did that for me. The next place I worked at from 2015 until last year, I got a brand new HP workstation with an i7-4790, 12 GB RAM, and...a damn hard drive. Like seriously? Once again, this company was in the telecom industry and was obstinately regressive when it came to software development. I got a brand new workstation bogged down by a tired and used 320 GB WD Blue from IT's spare parts bucket, which unsurprisingly ate dirt within the following year. IT then replaced it with a 1 TB Seagate, which also eventually ate dirt because it probably also exceeded its rated MTBF by a factor of 10 before it was installed in my machine. Now with my workstation out of commission, I finally had a request for a new SSD approved in 2017, but it took over a month for someone in IT to get off their ass to install it, forcing me to use my own personal ThinkPad at the office for a month in the meantime. I consulted at a place last year that didn't have an SSD in my workstation at first, but I was also working remotely for a couple of weeks due to COVID-19. By the time I was actually using the workstation, it had a 256 GB SSD installed with a cloned image of Windows 10 from the hard drive that was in it previously, meaning that there was about 10 GB free on that SSD. All of the workstations there were bargain bin builder PCs. I remember the case of my workstation only had three feet, so I leaned it against the wall so it would stand up straight. It had either an i7-4770 or 4790, but it also had a GTX 970 in it for no logical reason. In hindsight, I wish I had snuck the 970 out of the machine after hours one night and resold it this year along with my personal EVGA 980 Ti Classified to make an upgrade to a 2080 Ti seem at least halfway reasonable in cost. This year, I got a new 2020 MacBook Pro M1 from my new company upon starting. Companies should have stopped dumpster diving for their software development operations before I was building my parents a new i3-6100 machine with a 480 GB Micron M500 SSD in 2016. It's completely inexcusable now.

The way Apple operates, if it's officially announced, it's for sale. I may not be a big fan of buying Apple products (other than their stock) for my own personal use, but I am a fan of their "no paper launch" strategy. As for the MBP M1, I will say that its battery life is phenomenal. I can easily get more than two workdays of regular business productivity use without charging. That's a bigger deal to me than it having the fastest CPU in my household right now out of five computers.

The article only mentions the M1, so that's the current-gen chip. Here's another article that talks about leaked benchmarks for an M1X, but that appears to be a 12-core variant of the M1 also clocked at 3.2 GHz, so its single-thread is the same. https://www.macworld.co.uk/news/m1x-mac-3801943/ https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu-apple_m1x-1898

End of the year? I'm staring at my work MBP M1 right now.

Oh, this is precious. ?

I have a Pioneer AVIC-W8500NEX which was their flagship 2019 model. The indexing isn't that big of a deal since it only happens when you insert an SD card or USB, but it's there. Once indexed, it's cached until the head unit detects a change in the file listing which would only happen if I removed the SD/USB, added/removed files on it from my PC, and put it back in the head unit. When it does have to refresh though, it's slow with a 45 MB/s SD card full of MP3s and AACs. Even if I get a faster SDXC card, it's still getting capped at a theoretical 60 MB/s over USB 2.0.