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I was thinking more along the lines of this:

That's one thing that irritates me about the Windows team. Do they not do any user testing, and if they do, do they ignore the feedback and results? The complete idiocy that has been discovered since its release (Ryzen L3 cache, convoluted right-click menus, Start menu Pinned vs. Recommended balance and not collapsing Recommended if hidden, kicking the Android app integration can down the road, etc.) wouldn't be acceptable on my software development team. These clowns have not only mastered how to crater the UX but also expose the whole operation for its amateur SDLC. But congrats on re-rounding window corners after implicitly acknowledging Metro design as a failure and providing a centered taskbar that nobody really asked for but was overhyped in lieu of actual UX achievements. Personally, I don't even care that much about whatever stupid busywork they do to the UI as long as the shortcut keys still work. I'm going to Rainmeter the whole damn thing anyway. They need to fix the damn UX so people stop feeling like they have to fight the OS to do what they want. This is the third major release in a row where Control Panel and Settings coexist. I sort of praised Windows 11 when it first came out, mostly for cleaning up the Start menu at first glance and improving multi-monitor support. However, now that users are actually getting their hands on it and finding out that barely any thought was put into it, it's hard to comprehend how a high-profile product team can present themselves so incompetently to the general public in 2021.

Most importantly, it works the best for sorting lines of plain text and filenames.

Maybe Intel should inform their idiot marketing department of this as well.

I dabbled with Chinese stocks a couple of years ago, mainly BABA, which I held for for an up-and-down cycle over two years and eventually sold for a $30 loss in 2020. I also got roped into the meme trading nature of HUYA and IQ back in 2018 and lost nearly $3000 on those. All garbage. Of course, with how the political climate has changed regarding China since then, I basically treat Chinese stocks as if they don't exist these days.

Those early 3D accelerator days were a wild time with that many competing chipset manufacturers. At various times I was pulling for Matrox, Nvidia, ATI, 3dfx, and even PowerVR and wishing I could afford some of those cards that were coming out at the time. When I think back on the video cards I've owned, I always bought them asynchronously from the rest of my system build, and I went through a period where I was cycling through ATI cards like I had nothing better to do with my money. Used GPUs were cheap back then though. Matrox Millennium (OEM) - Not a 3D card, but one of the first times in PC history people paid attention to their video card; I have no idea what the hell was in the 386SX box I had before this Pentium machine (Did I own a RIVA TNT here? Something had to be paired with my overclocked Celeron 366 build in 1999 and I don't remember it being the Millennium.) Nvidia GeForce 2 GTS ATI Radeon 9500 - The first time I bought a card only to upgrade it shortly thereafter. I also can't confirm that I actually ever got this card, but I remember the softmod to turn it into a 9700 and I thought I might have done this. Or maybe I got some variant of the 9600. I really don't remember. Hercules 3D Prophet 9700 Pro - Also bought an Arctic Cooling GPU cooler to go with this card; card later had an unrelated memory chip failure ATI Radeon X800 Pro - I honestly don't know what I was doing here because I got the X850 Pro two days later ATI Radeon X850 Pro - How did both this card and the X800 Pro cost me only $40 each? Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 - I forget the AIB partner, returned because it was depicted as having an aftermarket cooler and I got the crappy stock Nvidia blower instead PNY GeForce GTX 560 - Returned another for the same reason EVGA GeForce GTX 560 - This is where I more or less started favoring EVGA's custom PCB and cooling designs Zotac GeForce GTX 760 PowerColor Radeon HD 7790 - I never even used this card; I originally got it for an eGPU dock before learning that AMD cards were sub-optimal for eGPU usage for some reason EVGA GeForce GTX 980 - Used for less than a year before upgrading EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti - Used for a little over a month up until last month before realizing it didn't support HDMI 2.1 EVGA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Every card I ever bought was pre-owned except the Millennium, first two 560s, 760, HD 7790, and 3060 Ti.

It's funny, I made that edit to my post following a random thought after you replied and now I just might refer to Elon as X Æ A-12 Sr. more often. At one point, I made a cursory effort of trying to be an investor with personal ethics and justifying my picks that way, but that didn't last. I actually sold a small portion of my current NVDA holding for SOXL when the news came out that Nvidia was bullying Hardware Unboxed. SOXL has been pretty nice, but it's a triple-leveraged ETF that's gained 75% since February, while NVDA's gained 133% since then. If I had left NVDA alone, I think it might have become my top holding by portfolio percentage instead of ENPH. I think the only personal investing ethics I still have are that I just don't like X Æ A-12 Sr., and truthfully, my avoidance of TSLA is mostly because the stock is so ridiculously overvalued that I'm not sure I could ever just get on the bandwagon without concerns. That and I still kind of hate their cars. As for AMD, I think that was a perfect storm. Bulldozer was so bad, Ryzen was so good, and Su has been a fantastic leader for the company. They were kind of a meme stock before those were a thing, but unlike contemporary meme stocks, the case for AMD was fundamentally justified and aided by a confluence of positive developments.

Very true. The difference for me is that I no longer lament those missed opportunities because I figured out my path and am happy with it now. The stock that got me interested in investing was the AMD turnaround in Lisa Su's early years at the helm. I also can't say that I haven't benefited from massive gains as well when my portfolio's big hitters are ENPH, NVDA, and PYPL. I missed numerous opportunities to get into TSLA for instance, but I never liked the idea of investing in a company that at one point was so volatile that some dumbass tweets from X Æ A-12 Sr. could send it flying in either direction.

I have a paltry amount of crypto in a wallet but it's increased 6X since I first opened it. The problem is that I only put about $20 worth of Bitcoin in there. I feel like I could take a shotgun approach to crypto though. Not enough to hurt losing it all, but far better odds of getting something meaningful by spreading $100-1000 each into a few different cryptocurrencies versus playing the lottery. It's all just a hindsight daydreaming exercise though, not too different from daydreaming about winning the lottery. If I had tossed even $10 in SHIB at the beginning of the year, never mind the fact that I didn't even know it existed then, I would be set for a couple of lifetimes if I could find a way to liquidate the gains as well as have the guts to hold the entire time. I'm content with my plans to retire before 50, which is still way far ahead of most people. My problem, which I still have a few years to figure out, is how and whether I plan to change my investment strategy when I reach that magic number for my total assets. I got into stock investing in 2017 with a hyper-aggressive growth strategy because I was upset with my salary and not getting a raise at my job at the time, as well as not investing my extra money beyond the Roth IRA annual limit back when I opened one well over a decade ago. If I did, I could be retired right now. I think back to when a coworker from my first job introduced me to opening a Roth IRA. He's about my age and told me then he planned to retire at 40. I didn't completely believe him then. Now I realize he easily could have pulled it off and I should reach out to him in the coming years to see if he did. I now make over 50% more per year with my current job than I did at the one I was unhappy with in 2017 and my aggressive "catch-up" strategy has worked so well that I don't want to change anything now, even though I know the last several years have been nothing like the broader history of the stock market.

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.