RamRabbit

it could become the new standard for industry benchmarking/testing

Exactly. We are already seeing game companies specifically mention the Steam Deck in patch notes. This will give them a standard item to validate compatibility against. Any game company that wants to make sure their game works well will have a Steam Machine on-hand to QA with.

And I fully agree with you on benchmarking. It will be a very standardized system to point to in game reviews.

However, Steam offers numerous deals several times a year, so it will be worth the investment. In the long run, owning a Steam Machine or PC will pay for itself.

And you also don't have to pay monthly for multiplayer!

I hate, hate, hate when I fix something and I don't know why the fix worked (or what the fix even was...). I want my suffering to result in something learned so it doesn't happen again.

Same. Had to call my CC company and tell them to stop blocking payments to this 'vendor'. Haven't personally had issues after that call.

I'm not an expert on this, but I know it's common to use things like tranquilizers intended for farm animals.

Links for people:

• Contact the President

• Contact your Senator

• Contact your Represenative

is it the fault of my 15 year old amd fx cpu, or is it linux? I have a gtx 6700

It's your CPU. If you are up for purchasing new hardware, a Ryzen processor (5000 series or better) will be a massive upgrade and are very prevalent on the used market.

If your plan is “just don’t get caught in a crash”

Absolutely not. The transition from stocks and into bonds and cash in high yield savings accounts is something you do slowly as you approach retirement and only completes well into retirement. The point is you don't know what the market is going to do right around retirement, as you mention, so you need to move to more stable investments.

Money invested into things like a high yield savings accounts cannot decrease, a crash does not affect it at all. That is the entire point of transitioning to them as you approach retirement.

You’re smart, you’ll obviously see everything coming.

Employing time-tested strategies is the way to go. Accounting for potential crashes is the way to go. The problems you bring up are real, and the solutions I mention are the time-tested way to account for them.

As you approach retirement, you transition your stocks into bonds as well as into cash in high yield savings accounts. You do this because those investments are less risky and you need stability, not growth at that point in your life. You do this to avoid exactly the issue you bring up.

Indexes like the S&P 500 increase an average of 8% per year when held for decades. It isn't 'getting lucky' and 'hoping', it's investing in your future.

We’re propping up the oligarchs in the hopes that we fall into a “good” time to retire.

A rising tide lifts all boats; helping yourself helps others. You can choose to help yourself, or be defeatist and ignore the best, time-tested strategy there is: investing part of every paycheck into index funds.

Yes. But also, this is exactly why you hold index funds for decades, not days.

For an external drive? I guess I have never experienced that since external drives are already pretty slow.