Person investing account got drained during my last family emergency, so none.
401k? Haven’t checked, but probably about 15% since the last time I checked on it, right around the time Trump took office. Probably lost around 2% over the last 12 months based on the S&P 500. Looks like I’m probably still up somewhere between 50 and 90% since I started with my current employer.
Advice? Don’t panic sell. Odds are pretty good the market will be back up eventually.
If you’ve the spare cash handy now might be a good time to invest in individual companies with a solid track record of paying out dividends. I generally aim for dividend yields in the 5 to 10% range, but there might be some good bargains right now with higher yields. Just make sure they haven’t announced that they are suspending dividends or going out of business or something.
He hasn’t done so because he doesn’t actually want to do so. He wants to put on a dog and pony show and make himself look good. Not actually solve real problems.
Additionally, regarding the Ukraine War, there’s not a damn thing the US could do to end the war except wipe one or both parties off the map completely, killing everyone.
As far as Israel’s aggression, we could put a damper on it for a little while by not selling Israel any more weapons, but that again wouldn’t actually stop the fighting. Israel is actually pretty good at making weapons themselves. Again the only way to stop the fighting in the region, for real, would be to go in and just kill everyone. The bad blood between all the parties runs too deep.
A slower more peaceful solution in both regions might have been possible a few months ago, but our international credibility has gone down the tubes faster than I would have thought possible.
The best advice I can give anyone right now is stop listening to what they say and start watching what they are actually doing.
Best not to spend too much energy worrying about what’s going on the other end of the globe right now though. I suspect things in our own country are going to get a lot more interesting before too long and it may not hold off till midterm elections, let alone the next Presidential election.
On the one hand, this could actually be true. It’s President Trump after all. On the other hand it’s The Onion doing the reporting. Fuck! I hate this damned timeline.
I also attempted a semi-successful build of Gentoo on a PPC Mac around the same time (nothing before or after that has compared in its level of nightmare).
It's doable. I personally run my Jellyfin instance publicly available and there's maybe 3 people who use it regularly. With my internet connection, WAN side users are limited to about 720p but I've had the 3 of us all playing different media at the same time on occasion. The main limiting factors on the number of simultaneously active users is how much upload bandwidth you have and how quickly you can transcode video files. Any 10 year old box will be able to handle 1 or 2 users at a time provided it doesn't need to do a bunch of transcoding. If your building a box, would use a 11th or 12 gen Intel or if you must go AMD, have a graphics card to handle the transcoding. The "build a box" route can probably handle 4 or 5 simultaneous users, possibly more depending on your hardware choices. The main limiting factor in that case would be your upload.
Didn't read the article and I haven't really used Android in a almost a decade, but aren't most android devices on seriously old versions and sold with 2GB RAM or less. Or are shit Android devices less common nowadays?
Last time I seriously considered an Android device was 8ish years ago and devices running Android 2 were still being sold new.
Starting blind, I’d start with cleaning the case, fans and heat sinks with compressed air (canned is fine, do it outside). Dust builds up, and prevents proper cooling. DO NOT LET THE FANS SPIN WHILE CLEANING THEM, the reverse current will damage your system.
Check for any failed fans.
After that, changing the thermal paste might help depending on how well or how long ago it was applied originally. Paste is cheap so no need to be stingy. Generally lasts about 5 years before beginning to degrade.
Person investing account got drained during my last family emergency, so none.
401k? Haven’t checked, but probably about 15% since the last time I checked on it, right around the time Trump took office. Probably lost around 2% over the last 12 months based on the S&P 500. Looks like I’m probably still up somewhere between 50 and 90% since I started with my current employer.
Advice? Don’t panic sell. Odds are pretty good the market will be back up eventually.
If you’ve the spare cash handy now might be a good time to invest in individual companies with a solid track record of paying out dividends. I generally aim for dividend yields in the 5 to 10% range, but there might be some good bargains right now with higher yields. Just make sure they haven’t announced that they are suspending dividends or going out of business or something.