dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Sep 25, 2023 2:35 pm So sorry, Mountaineer! May you and Mountainess enjoy a quick recovery!

Thank you. Much appreciated.

:'( FWIW, My wife and I managed to avoid getting COVID-19 since it first reared its nasty head approaching 4 years ago. We are both fully vaccinated and boosted. She tested positive this past Thursday morning; felt really bad Friday - massive headache, cough, congestion. I tested positive this morni...

Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity... I’m reading a weighty tome on North Korea. It’s very interesting to learn that Kim Il-sung, Dear Leader #1 and grandpa of the current Dear Leader, had a Christian background. Both he and his wife came from observant Christian f...

"Any country grounded in Judaeo-Christian values can't be overthrown until those roots are cut ... Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity... in the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches ...

Fear not, Mountaineer, for Apple is ready to sell you a $29 dongle O0 I have exactly one lightning device, and when I trade it in I’m going to send my cables in for recycling. Will they accept them all? Maybe not. This I know. Lightning round followup question: How many dongles will I have to dangl...

But lightning can also go in upside down. I wish they would have made it the standard. O0 But, I don’t know the details with regard to speed, etc. I just know C has triple the number of pins. Engineer here. My iPhones, ear pods, etc are lightning. My MacBook Pro is USB-C. I don't have a preference ...

Every Saturday on Labor Day weekend I go to Keene New Hampshire for a music festival. They have 7 different impromptu stages set up on Main Street. The music starts about 10:30 AM and ends about 12 hours later. One of the bonuses for me that day is meeting a lot of peoples' dogs. This year I counte...

I have an Apple "monitor". It is firmly attached to the computer/keyboard/touchpad of my MacBook Pro. Excellent display quality. It is much more user friendly than this monitor:

I don’t think anyone has yet mentioned the very worst thing. As best as I can tell, it’s not an Apple monitor.

Smithers, please tell your friend to RUN, RUN, RUN Forrest, RUN!

Wow, were the duPonts ignored?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89l ... 9e_du_Pont

Mine is: The Man From Planet X

glennds wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 3:52 pm I would have voted Steve Jobs if he had been an option.

There is a difference between an investor and an entrepreneur. Investors invest in entrepreneurs. I think of Buffett as an investor.

Agree.

I’ve never tried Bitwarden. I tried Lastpass several years ago (before it was hacked) but didn’t like it as much as 1Password which I’ve now used for several years. It’s quite easy and fast and the integration between the MacBook and iPhones is seamless. It is not perfect but plenty good enough. I a...

dualstow wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2023 5:54 pm Saw the title, thought it was spam. Glad it’s you, Mr M

dualstow wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2023 5:56 pm Did you feel funny about giving your Mac’s login credentials to NordVPN?
I guess it’s necessary, but I only used it a short while and decided to forswear VPN’s.

I’ve thought about it several times. In the end I trust (somewhat) Nord more than a potential unknown man-in-the-middle snooper. YMMV

You all might like this course. Very interesting. I'm guessing Vinny might especially like since he says he spends much time listening to various topics. Enjoy! https://academy.1517.org/courses/faith-and-reason (6 sessions of about 25 minutes each plus a quiz on each if you like) If you like this on...

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2023 11:53 am What browser do you guys use?

Mostly Safari (in my opinion best blend of security, privacy, stability, system resource load) and I use almost all the time with Nord VPN. Sometimes I'll use Firefox, DuckDuckGo, Edge, and very rarely Chrome - all on a MacBook Pro.

Perhaps more importantly.. is that MacBook Pro's keyboard still working? :o Yes, the 2018 keyboard is still working. FWIW, I do prefer the keyboard on my "really old" 2009 MacBook Pro; key strokes just feel better. What did the 2018 cost? I don't remember exactly, but somewhere in the $2k...

Xan wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 8:21 pm So many machines are RAM starved. I think it's a major problem with Maca actually. 16GB is just not enough. 64 in my daily driver.

My "old" 2018 MacBook Pro has 32GB RAM and a 2 TB SSD. Works great for me.

Could be. Newspaper writing just isn’t what it used to be. In the same Financial Times issue, I saw an article about grain exports, mostly wheat. It says Russia is already the world’s largest exporter of wheat, and now that they’re targeting Ukrainian grain terminals, they want to push Ukraine out ...

vnatale wrote: ↑Mon Aug 07, 2023 7:51 am

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Aug 07, 2023 5:44 am I don’t know how they sleep at night.

The same way all other businesses do that behave in an unethical manner or is a detriment to society.

Cigarette companies.

Coca Cola

Other junk food producers

The list is endless

Add:
All non-Apple electronics.

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 24, 2023 4:26 pm In other news, I just got a pink slip today along with about 100 other people in our business unit.

New beginnings on the horizon I guess.

My very best wishes for a successful and rewarding new beginning, whatever the direction in which you go takes you. Blessings!

Have you back tested your portfolio vs. the various Vanguard Target Retirement portfolios or other “commonly proposed” portfolios mentioned on this forum? It would be good to explain why yours is better. Just a suggestion.