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- Sat Oct 08, 2022 1:38 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Linux, continued
- Replies: 44
- Views: 13032
Re: Linux, continued
GNOME and KDE are the big kahunas of the open-source software world, but neither have huge offices of people working on them--mostly geographically dispersed volunteers plus some sponsored work from companies that use them or find them to be strategically important. This is something I'm working on ...
- Sat Oct 08, 2022 11:21 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Linux, continued
- Replies: 44
- Views: 13032
Re: Linux, continued
Pop!_OS is unfortunately likely about to go through some rough times. Its authors at System76 finally got tired with fighting with the GNOME people to make their GNOME fork work well enough for their tastes, and instead of migrating to KDE Plasma which is flexible enough for their customization need...
- Fri Oct 07, 2022 1:22 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Linux, continued
- Replies: 44
- Views: 13032
Re: Linux, continued
Pretty much anything will be reasonably robust if you're barely using it, so you want a distro that minimizes built-in faults in its choice of package management. That's not Mint, as it the end, Mint always breaks upon upgrade, at some point. That's typically why people stop using it. I would probab...
- Thu Oct 06, 2022 2:58 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Linux, continued
- Replies: 44
- Views: 13032
Re: Linux, continued
You want Kinoite, which is the KDE version of Silverblue. It is an experimental distro, but quite exciting.
- Fri Sep 23, 2022 2:31 pm
- Forum: Cash
- Topic: More Money != More Inflation
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3247
Re: More Money != More Inflation
I meant feds as in the elites in Washington. It doesn't matter to me if it's the Fed or Congress, some people are allowed to create money out of thin air and distribute it as they choose. Those who are closest to the fount benefit the most because the money they receive is "fresh". They c...
- Thu Sep 22, 2022 1:40 pm
- Forum: Cash
- Topic: More Money != More Inflation
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3247
Re: More Money != More Inflation
So how do we feel about the money supply expansion during COVID-19? Was it money well spent? I know I received money when I didn't need it. I agree, me too. I would have been fine with some kind of means-testing. Of course the political problem with means-testing is that you get complaints from peo...
- Sun Sep 11, 2022 3:22 pm
- Forum: Cash
- Topic: More Money != More Inflation
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3247
Re: More Money != More Inflation
The gap between excess demand and constrained supply showed up as sharply higher prices. Yeah, the money supply alone was always only part of the story; the balance of supply and demand determines inflation, with the money supply simply being a proxy for demand in most cases. The money supply can b...
- Sun Sep 11, 2022 11:05 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: 2nd asset in tax deferred?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4859
Re: 2nd asset in tax deferred?
I tried for many years to split assets across account types but ultimately found it much too complicated to integrate property into the PP concept because the different tax treatments interfere at rebalancing time, and the contribution restrictions in certain account types complicate your ability to...
- Sat Sep 10, 2022 11:31 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Scarce and high priced energy in Europe
- Replies: 76
- Views: 9285
Re: Scarce and high priced energy in Europe
Honestly, I'm so divorced from the lifestyle of these people that I don't really know how they think. That much is pretty clear, given the caricature being painted of hypocritical hyper-consuming anti-work authoritarians who approve of centrally-controlled sources of energy production (???????). If...
- Thu Sep 08, 2022 6:34 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Scarce and high priced energy in Europe
- Replies: 76
- Views: 9285
Re: Scarce and high priced energy in Europe
I've posted it before, but even if you still don't believe that global warming is happening, and that it's our fault...
- Thu Sep 08, 2022 5:31 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Scarce and high priced energy in Europe
- Replies: 76
- Views: 9285
Re: Scarce and high priced energy in Europe
Whenever environmentalists did total lifecycle cost analysis of fossil fuels and pointed out externalities like causing global warning (i.e. sea level rise, extreme heat waves and drought, stronger hurricanes and floods, etc), giving hundreds of millions of people asthma and other lung diseases, and...
- Wed Sep 07, 2022 10:00 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Scarce and high priced energy in Europe
- Replies: 76
- Views: 9285
Re: Scarce and high priced energy in Europe
Every action has side effects. Life has side effects. If you don't want to potentially have any negative side effects on anything, you can always jump off a cliff--a suggestion as absurd as suggesting to account for every photon or gust of wind.
- Wed Sep 07, 2022 8:06 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Scarce and high priced energy in Europe
- Replies: 76
- Views: 9285
Re: Scarce and high priced energy in Europe
At the moment EVs are not as good as gas cars for long trips. Used to be the bottleneck was the car but now that's mostly fixed with the current and emerging crop of long-range fast charging EVs, and now the bottleneck is the charging network. Tesla's is the best but it's still not as ubiquitous and...
- Tue Sep 06, 2022 9:44 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Scarce and high priced energy in Europe
- Replies: 76
- Views: 9285
Re: Scarce and high priced energy in Europe
France went all in on nukes a few decades ago, which was a good geopolitical bet during a time when solar and wind weren't yet economically practical. And even today, nukes are great in the same way fossil fuels remain great: they have an absurdly high power to weight ratio. That's why both of them ...
- Sat Sep 03, 2022 5:48 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Are most people here sticking with Treasuries?
- Replies: 341
- Views: 174950
Re: Are most people here sticking with Treasuries?
Right, and that's true of all assets. But like the fundamental value of a stock is based on the value of its company, the fundamental value of a long-duration treasury bond is based the current interest rate compared to its coupon rate. And the future direction of "the current interest rate&quo...
- Sat Sep 03, 2022 5:42 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Are most people here sticking with Treasuries?
- Replies: 341
- Views: 174950
Re: Are most people here sticking with Treasuries?
AGG != TLT. Corporate bonds are affected by a lot more than interest rates and often behave in a very stock-like manner in their actual performance. There's a reason the PP focuses on long treasuries, and not medium duration bonds of all sectors.
- Sat Sep 03, 2022 4:47 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Scarce and high priced energy in Europe
- Replies: 76
- Views: 9285
Re: Scarce and high priced energy in Europe
Seems like pretty bad. I have two colleagues in the UK who say their energy bills have quadrupled recently. Quadrupled! A German colleague is kicking himself for replacing his oil boiler and tank with a new one a few years ago instead of the heat pumps I recommended at the time. Now he's looking int...
- Sat Sep 03, 2022 4:27 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Are most people here sticking with Treasuries?
- Replies: 341
- Views: 174950
Re: Are most people here sticking with Treasuries?
As an asset class on its own, long treasuries are uniquely terrible when interest rates are going up, which should be quite obvious. As part of a PP, you could still conceivably harvest some gains from them with tight rebalancing bands as they oscillate up and down within their general long-term tra...
- Tue Aug 30, 2022 5:53 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Maintaining Coding Skills During Break
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7659
Re: Maintaining Coding Skills During Break
I'm willing to put up with older, frozen software if it means I don't have to worry about updating everything other than once every 2 years. Bugs are always reported to Debian first, where they can deal with upstream if appropriate. Although more often I find I'm filing Debian bugs to have some ups...
- Tue Aug 30, 2022 7:25 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Maintaining Coding Skills During Break
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7659
Re: Maintaining Coding Skills During Break
You're welcome! Though... honestly I don't recommend Debian Stable for KDE. They freeze on old versions that are out of support by KDE, meaning they take on the burden of support themselves. And in my experience they are not currently resourced to handle it. I've become the primary bug triager for K...
- Mon Aug 29, 2022 10:00 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Maintaining Coding Skills During Break
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7659
Re: Maintaining Coding Skills During Break
PS: you still doing work for KDE? How's it going/how was it? Still doing it and it's going very well. KDE is entering a period of rapid growth, which can always be a bit uncomfortable as old ways of doing thing are challenged and resources are stretched thin, but I think the results have been very ...
- Fri Aug 19, 2022 8:33 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Any Mac Users here?
- Replies: 66
- Views: 5285
Re: Any Mac Users here?
I haven't used Macs in a while, but the last time I did, it went like this: 4. Go to file> save as in the app 5. In the open Finder window that shows the folder you want to save into, drag the proxy icon the titlebar into the Save dialog's main view 6. Done. This works in all document-based apps, to...
- Thu Aug 18, 2022 6:03 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Renewable electricity sources are now a no-brainer
- Replies: 131
- Views: 66990
Re: Renewable electricity sources are now a no-brainer
I think you're over-analyzing. :) What you end up with is never going to perfectly match your calculations and predictions. At a certain point you just have to take the plunge, if it's something you actually want to do. My take? - Get a 6 kW system for a bit of wiggle room (always build in wiggle ro...
- Wed Aug 17, 2022 1:42 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Are most people here sticking with Treasuries?
- Replies: 341
- Views: 174950
Re: Are most people here sticking with Treasuries?
I personally cannot buy into the long deflation arguments, if only because I think our politicians and central bankers would throw any amount of money they could at such a situation in order to keep prices moving upwards. Plus we do have a citizenry who (although they claim they hate higher prices)...
- Wed Aug 10, 2022 9:59 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Renewable electricity sources are now a no-brainer
- Replies: 131
- Views: 66990
Re: Renewable electricity sources are now a no-brainer
I already have a metal roof, but it required Tesla to send a contractor out here to tell me they don't install onto my type of roof. That kind of discouraged me from the whole thing. Is that just some lame Tesla policy and I should find a better solar contractor? I actually did have another solar c...