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Layout is definitely worse on my machine, presumably I'll get used to the UI change, but right now the pages are harder to read for me, off to try out a thread and see...

Still working my way through Monarch, it is my treadmill show currently. It is dumb but fun. We binged 3 Body Problem in a couple days, it was entertaining as well, even if it really feels like the writing does not understand at all how scientists are motivated and how they would react to the...

I'm not sure why ours seems so out of whack with everybody else. We live in the bay area, and food has gotten a LOT more expensive the last two years, if we go to Safeway our cart is regularly $350-450 now, which is easily 2x what it was a decade ago, and about $100 more than it was before...

Relevant to the discussion: https://www.techradar.com/pro/heres-another-good-reason-to-dump-your-desktop-for-a-laptop-boutique-content-creation-specialist-finds-that-laptops-perform-and-cost-almost-the-same-as-their-desktop-counterparts The TLDR is that they get about 80% of their workstation...

I've used State Farm for car insurance for decades and still like them a lot. They've always been fast and efficient getting me my money when I've needed to make a claim. I added home and umbrella insurance back in dec 2020 when we bought the house and that has been straightforward, though we've...

I'm on my 2nd WaterPik in over a decade of owning one, they don't seem to have a longevity issue for me. They are great and a big part of why my teeth and gums get praise from the dentist when I visit. They were able to tell immediately when I first stared using it. I make sure to use it every...

Yeah Shingrix was painful but totally worth it compared to getting shingles. I'm hoping I can get a booster for Covid in May as that will be my six month mark but guess we will see how it shakes out for us under-65s. I'm down for paying out of pocket for it if I have to.

As usual I am very sad with the clock moving forward. I liked the extra light in the evening, and have no need for my day to start earlier. :/

Heh, yeah, I wish the analysis were simpler. At least I feel more assured that I'm correct for my particular circumstances that it isn't hugely beneficial to do Roth conversions.

Heh, in my case we intend to stay in CA, so as far as I can tell, no savings to be had. Ah well, like I said, seems to be a good problem to be having, not a bad one.

Thanks all, that makes me feel better about my inability to understand where the benefits were with my finances. If my wife didn't make so much money, and wasn't 9 years younger so keeping our income high even when I decide to retire, that would be one thing, but I guess this is just a "we are...

congrats! :)

Before I got married I was consistent in adding to my Roth, but post-marriage, my wife and I are way above the cut-off as a couple (my income has gone up, and she was already a cybersecurity engineer at Google when we met). Looking at Roth conversions it seems like our marginal tax rate is way...

we have these as well, but now that I've got the space of a house with a dedicated gym room, we bought regular weights and they are so much less annoying. We've got 2.5-50lbs barbells and being able to just grab the weights you need rather than having to constantly adjust is so much nicer for...

I wrestled in high school too, 119 freshman year, 130/135 (depending on which weight the better wrestler on the varsity team than me made for that day) senior year. These days I weigh ~200lbs, which is overweight, but I'm not sure I can get back to my lowest adult weigh (142.5) again healthily...

So my work setup is a Mac laptop, we had them so we could bring our work environment home every night, so now after work from home I have a cloned setup at home. My laptop drives its own screen, a vertically oriented monitor, and 34" ultrawide primary display. I have an external mouse and a...

congrats, it is definitely a good feeling hitting that milestone, but a little anti-climactic as yeah, there are no noticeable changes or acknowledgements generally. So: Huzzah! Congratulations! It's a big step! :)

In my case that's part of what I upgraded to an M1 Macbook Pro to do, it's a beast for video editing. My new gaming rig will beat it out once I upgrade, but that's just the relentless march of time... :P

My work laptop is hooked up to a real mouse, an Apple Magic Keyboard, a dell monitor that is rotated 90 degrees and a 34" Samsung Ultrawide. The laptop works fine driving both displays for work and web surfing related stuff.

My tower is a gaming rig, it is a (very old and out of date now) beast. My Macbook Pro, while also a beast is not capable of running all the games at the quality I want to. In the case of my next gaming rig, it will be substantially more powerful than my laptop, have better game compatibility...

and I thought <B>I</b> was bad with my Windows 8.1 machine that I'm retiring as soon as I break down and order a new gaming rig.

Yup, plenty of nice cities in the middle of the country that have reasonable amenities and are very affordable for housing, can definitely turn west/east coast housing into much bigger places by selling and moving. I'd absolutely look into building a giant party barn/workshop for instance if I...

My uncle retired to Thailand from England and loved it (though he had spent lots of time there during his career so it wasn't a culture shock to go to), it's pretty high on my list for international locations since we have so many family friends in Bangkok now (my parents essentially provided a...

Yeah, if I ever had to leave the Bay Area due to cost of living not working out, I'd strongly look at selling our house here and buying in Pittsburgh. I've still got high school friends there, and the city is relatively affordable, pretty fun, and reasonable travel distance to friends and family...

Not the person this was responding to, but since I've been beating this drum for almost 30 years now (WTF??) for some of us, the FI component of FIRE is the important part, not the RE.