In my experience, KDE has too many features that are buggy and don’t work. Like hiding the task bar automatically will break the search shortcut because the search is attached to the task bar, so it won’t come up unless you mouse over the task bar

Gnome has no features, yet it’s buggy and doesn’t work. You alt tab out of a Wine game and it will think the alt button is constantly pressed down when you tab back in.

Choose your poison

Let’s say I browse to a YouTube link. I have an ad-blocker, so ads don’t load. How can I read the TOS when the video already played? I can’t agree to the TOS yet because I haven’t read it yet

Because his video got removed for ad blocking and/or talking about third party clients

Who said I don’t understand them? I’ve done point and click tutorials. They don’t only take forever to follow, they also take forever to make.

Look at this monstrosity:

https://iopq.wordpress.com/2023/12/02/free-censorship-resistant-vpn-when-you-self-host-with-oracle-free-tier-and-cloudflare/

Holy shit, the copy and paste parts are the easiest parts of them all

We already knew about back to school sales, they happen every year and they are priced in. If there was a real stock market dump every year in September, everyone would short September, making a drop in August and covering in September, making September a positive month again

Thrusting in an unfamiliar environment is how I got an STD

The broader market did the same thing

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SPY/

$560 to $510 to $560 to $540

So why did $NVDA have larger swings? It has to do with the concept called beta. High beta stocks go up faster when the market is up and go down lower when the market is done. Basically high variance risky investments.

Why did the market have these swings? Because of uncertainty about future interest rates. Interest rates not only matter vis-a-vis business loans but affect the interest-free rate for investors.

When investors invest into the stock market, they want to get back the risk free rate (how much they get from treasuries) + the risk premium (how much stocks outperform bonds long term)

If the risks of the stock market are the same, but the payoff of the treasuries changes, then you need a high return from stocks. To get a higher return you can only accept a lower price,

This is why stocks are down, NVDA is still making plenty of money in AI

How about Wikipedia?

But that’s several pages of point and click vs. a few lines to copy and paste,

Canada?!

There were companies that didn’t survive the dot com crash despite being worth billions. Amazon is a company you would recognize, even though a better company is pets.com

If you bought their stock you would be very rich for a very short while until it went bankrupt

Did I say zero revenue? I said didn’t make a profit. Lots of companies made money, but couldn’t make more money than they spent. You can easily have an investment that is valued high that you can’t cash out

Let’s say you bought some stock now, at the end of the year it’s worth $1,000,000 and you get charged $150,000 in April. Big problem, the brokerages stopped allowing you to sell the stock and it crashed down, so now your GameStop stock is worth $100,000

How do you pay?

Amazon had its first profitable year in 2003. It was worth 21 billion dollars.

You expect them to backport security updates to pixel 3 or whatever for free when even the manufacturer doesn’t?

It would if everyone already had it installed.

Let’s say I give $100,000 to a friend that starts a start-up. You claim after some years that investment is worth $1,000,000 and want me to pay $150,000 tax

I take out a loan for $150,000 because the startup didn’t make any profit. The startup goes bust. I now have a $100,000 loss and I paid $150,000 in taxes. Thankfully I can write $3000 off on my taxes every year until I die!

Maybe tell them you are using signal and that they don’t have a choice but to use it

Yes, we take the best from all over the world

The part where it’s compiled is what makes it have no dependencies to actually execute

Wait at this point, and check out what AMD puts out. It’s sometimes a good value. If the 5070 has 12GB of VRAM and the same price AMD model has more, it could be more relevant for 4K gaming