I just bought an old dell optiplex, it was surplus from the university. I could take the ram out and double my money. Ridiculous....
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The whole world needs to turn on the wealthy. I don't want to be rich. I want to be able to buy more with the money I have. The wealthy don't even think about money anymore.
Time for a world revolution. Most people of the world want to be left alone to do their own thing. It's the wealthy that are always harassing people and trying to take control.
Don't forget turning the peasants against other peasants. That works awesome!
And "wealthy" isn't really it. The superrich do that. Being wealthy just means you don't need to overly worry about money. I'm wealthy, but I hate the system and how the world is doing. I'd prefer socialism, even if it meant to give up certain standards.
Being wealthy just means you don't need to overly worry about money. I'm wealthy, but I hate the system and how the world is doing.
This. I make low six figures and support myself and my spouse on a single income. We’ve had to be careful in choosing where to live, how much house to buy and all that. I’m not baller, but I’m comfortable. Amenities are fine and I pay my bills without much thought. I’m working toward retirement.
That’s a reasonable amount of wealth for most. The problem is there are people with so much wealth it provides them the means to manipulate society in sweeping gestures.
- Don’t like the news? buy the media outlet.
- Want unfairly low taxes? Bribe a politician or 50 of them. (Oh, sorry, “lobby” them)
- Politician is against you? Fully fund their opponent’s campaign and now they owe you.
- Another company competing with you? Buy them.
- etc.
Also, while insider trading is illegal, someone with this much wealth, influence, and power can’t help but have inside information just for existing in the circles they do, and wealth leads to greater wealth simply because there’s no way to regulate it reasonably.
Exactly. I retired in my 20s and couldn't complain. But compared to those that fuck everything up, I'm as far away from them as the next homeless guy.
When I grew up, having a million was considered rich beyond imagination. Kinda. Nowadays it would probably not even be enough.
And you're right. It's not just their money, it's what they do with it. Control, scheme, manipulate, and whatnot...
And everything it's done for me has been fucking shit.
Every fucking app. I want spell check, grammar check, fuck off the rest, if someone sends me ai emails that shit gets junked.
The iPhone’s auto-correct is the worst by far. And I don’t get it because it was actually good around iOS 16 or so. Since 17 it’s been utterly terrible and constantly corrects words that are already what I wanted, making them wrong.
One time I was really high at an unfortunate time and the Gmail AI helped me with the time sensitive email my lawyer needed from me. Like, to actually sound like I speak English as a primary language and make the formatting cohesive instead of scattered.
That's bout it tho lol
So that means that HDDs will also stay expensive ):
I have a big choice here.
A. Bite the bullet and buy two more 8TB HDDs and complete my NAS as planned.
B. Wait and hope for lower prices.
C. Bite another bullet and run the NAS as a 24TB ZRAID1 instead of a 32TB ZRAID2.
Sigh....
I was planning on a NAS home server. I was setting aside money to make the purchases. Prices have forced me out of that little side project for the time being...
Ditto. My homemade Mac mini file server just bit me with an APFS drive corruption. Needing to get something put together with redundancy. Like NOW! and these shit heads are killing the market!
and the openai deal is not even binding
A1, where it's always April Fools'.