There are older models you can get that work that way. They’re just less convenient in that you have to clean them out yourself. I had one for a long time, but I wanted one that is self-emptying.

Hello friend.

This seems like a good time to inform you that you have the option to communicate in such a way that you don’t make yourself look like an asshole.

Yeah, mine has it. I have to go into the app once a week and manually delete it.

I am really, really glad I replaced my PC’s a year ago.

This is insane. I’m kinda sorta rooting for the crash now. These unregulated billionaires are ruining all the things.

They forgot to put the word ‘upgrade’ in air quotes.

I’ve seen a bunch.

Had my phone wish me a happy birthday on the wrong day. I had a whole folder of emails inexplicably moved back into my inbox, and yes, various wacky hardware problems.

It’s clear that a bunch of the people they laid off were QA people.

IT has been an interesting ride the last two months, encountering some of the weirdest bugs I’ve ever seen, after two decades of Windows working just fine for the most part.

Love how they’re pretending that an LLM is useful for any task that needs precision.

Important to note here that if you are running Windows or a dual-boot, the new version of O&O ShutUp has a utility that allows you to delete CoPilot.

I have a dual-boot with Linux Mint. I don’t access anything personal from my windows installation. It’s just for games that don’t work on Linux.

Proud that my only pwned password is three decades old.

Oof, yeah. Having to make group decisions with money is tough.

Partly why I love being single and childless.

May the odds be ever in your favor.

that is the time to buy in more, not the time to sell.

1000000%

That’s the other side of my strategy, having my portfolio in cash means I can reinvest at the new fire sale prices.

I was able to pay off my student loans by buying oil stock at a 90% discount in March 2020 and then waiting a few years for the rebound. You don’t even need to be rich to do it, just patient.

Yeah, this economy has given me the heebie-jeebies for the last quarter now.

Unless you’re a billionaire or on a signal chat in Washington, I don’t know how you can feel good about what’s happening.

My plan is to stay invested until dividends hit in December, and then I’m going to evaluate moving my investments into a money market or bonds. Amazon’s numbers show that consumers are still buying, and my assumption is that consumer spending will hold off the pop for now.

I 100% expect a massive crash, and when it’s just seven companies propping up an entire economy, the pop is going to be very bad. I’d rather lose a little value in the short term than have my portfolio drop to a calamitous degree and have to wait 5-10 years for it to recover.

*not a FA, just my personal plan

Bleak.

But you’re not wrong. Motherfuckers.

The wrong founder died, unfortunately.

There are going to be so, so many false positives.

Not that it matters. The shitty data LLM’s produce hasn’t stopped them yet.

I got an older laptop and set up a Mint dual-boot, just because there are a few things I need Windows for, but I’m on Linux 99% of the time.

I did find in the past that a dual-boot didn’t work well on an old Lenovo I owned, so I picked Acer this time, and it works really well. I just don’t want to have to worry about my privacy all the time, so Linux + my Proton VPN helps ease my anxiety.