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[Indus]

Think I know how the stock market is up so much and keeps going higher.

The Treasury is just printing money and buying IVV/ VOO in disguise as "retail investors" and pumping up the market in order to get low interest rates from the fed and distract from tariffs.

It's working too on people like us that can't connect the dots.

 

[Indus]

Wall Street has no idea what Main Street is feeling:

 

[Pens1566]

Wall Street has no idea what Main Street is feeling:

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None of that is realistic anywhere in the country outside of the most rural, unpopulated regions.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Wall Street has no idea what Main Street is feeling:

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None of that is realistic anywhere in the country outside of the most rural, unpopulated regions.

maybe as a single person in a lower cost of living area.

But if that's supposed to be for a family, that is absolutely laughable.

 

[hal2kilo]

Costco, constantly moves your favorite items to different locations in the store, so you have to search around for the item, which exposes you to other parts of the store you might not ever to go. I'm sure they do it on purpose. No, I'm not paranoid, I'm not, I'm not,,,,

 

[pmv]

Costco, constantly moves your favorite items to different locations in the store, so you have to search around for the item, which exposes you to other parts of the store you might not ever to go. I'm sure they do it on purpose. No, I'm not paranoid, I'm not, I'm not,,,,

I'm certain they do it on purpose. My local supermarket does the same thing - they all seem to do it, and I always just assumed that was the reason they do it - to make you wander up-and-down lots of other aisles, with the chance you'll suddenly decide to buy something you don't usually buy.
Drives me mad, can never find the things I want without wasting an age wandering around the store (while lugging an over-heavy shopping basket). And then, when I'm exhausted from all that walking and searching, they expect me to scan and price and bag my own shopping. And _then_ implicitly accuse me of shoplifting by making me scan my receipt before the doors will open to let me out of the shop.

 

[hal2kilo]

I'm certain they do it on purpose. My local supermarket does the same thing - they all seem to do it, and I always just assumed that was the reason they do it - to make you wander up-and-down lots of other aisles, with the chance you'll suddenly decide to buy something you don't usually buy.
Drives me mad, can never find the things I want without wasting an age wandering around the store (while lugging an over-heavy shopping basket). And then, when I'm exhausted from all that walking and searching, they expect me to scan and price and bag my own shopping. And _then_ implicitly accuse me of shoplifting by making me scan my receipt before the doors will open to let me out of the shop.

Also, the Beer Battered Trident Cod went up $2 this week, and there are hardly any specials. People have been whistling past the graveyard on the effects of tariffs, it's just really starting.

 

[pmv]

Also, the Beer Battered Trident Cod went up $2 this week, and there are hardly any specials. People have been whistling past the graveyard on the effects of tariffs, it's just really starting.

Fortunately don't have that issue here. Am hoping all those US tariffs mean some prices go _down_ here, as countries redirect exports to us as the US doesn't want to buy those things any more. Just hope we don't impose retaliatory tariffs on US stuff, at least not till after I get a new PC.

 

[nakedfrog]

Fortunately don't have that issue here. Am hoping all those US tariffs mean some prices go _down_ here, as countries redirect exports to us as the US doesn't want to buy those things any more. Just hope we don't impose retaliatory tariffs on US stuff, at least not till after I get a new PC.

How much US stuff would you be using in a build anyway?

 

[pmv]

How much US stuff would you be using in a build anyway?

I don't really know where all the various components come from - I assume much of that stuff is physically made in Taiwan, but it's often on behalf of US companies, so don't know how that works out. And then there's Windoze - does software get tariffed? Anyway, so far there's little sign of such retaliation, I presume everyone in charge in Europe knows that it's the customers who end up paying the tariffs. Perhaps the plan is to just to wait it out and wait for Americans to get fed up with their higher prices and dump Trump?

 

[cytg111]

Maxwell is still running op for Mossad.

 

[Indus]

I don't really know where all the various components come from - I assume much of that stuff is physically made in Taiwan, but it's often on behalf of US companies, so don't know how that works out. And then there's Windoze - does software get tariffed? Anyway, so far there's little sign of such retaliation, I presume everyone in charge in Europe knows that it's the customers who end up paying the tariffs. Perhaps the plan is to just to wait it out and wait for Americans to get fed up with their higher prices and dump Trump?

Linux is your friend.. especially now that Windows 10 is approaching EOL.

You'll be surprised at how mature the linux distros have become.. I'm able to do everything I could on windows except game on 1 game! (Battlefront 2).. but I can shoot terrorists instead of imperial troopers!

 

[hal2kilo]

Wall Street has no idea what Main Street is feeling:

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Yea, watching the money shows is like a bunch of people fantasizing about how wonderful this is all coming together when hardly any tariffs have taken effect yet. The cheerleading is sickening.

 

[Indus]

Yea, watching the money shows is like a bunch of people fantasizing about how wonderful this is all coming together when hardly any tariffs have taken effect yet. The cheerleading is sickening.

Yeah my financial advisor who's been good so far is trying to give me FOMO vibes.. but I learned my lesson earlier this year..

Thankfully I'm mostly even but thinking of getting out before the tariffs start hitting.

No point getting in at all time highs. Sure it may got to 7000+ but I dunno.. it seems like market manipulation to force the Fed's hand to cut rates!

 

[TheGermanChemist]

I don't really know where all the various components come from - I assume much of that stuff is physically made in Taiwan, but it's often on behalf of US companies, so don't know how that works out. And then there's Windoze - does software get tariffed? Anyway, so far there's little sign of such retaliation, I presume everyone in charge in Europe knows that it's the customers who end up paying the tariffs. Perhaps the plan is to just to wait it out and wait for Americans to get fed up with their higher prices and dump Trump?

Time for us in Europe to move on. Linux has been mature for a long time. My dad is 84 and he can double click the icon on the desktop or click the start menu in either, it does whatever he needs. OnlyOffice looks just like MS office unless you need something more advanced which would be LibreOffice. We're moving on in Germany and truth be told we used OpenOffice a lot before LibreOffice (though some still stick with Open Offfice because "I prefer this name of my office suite").

We have more than 70% of the world wide used software in the EU, it's not like we're going to suddenly going to be tariffed on software that isn't easily replaceable. The US OTOH...

 

[Fenixgoon]

Linux is your friend.. especially now that Windows 10 is approaching EOL.

You'll be surprised at how mature the linux distros have become.. I'm able to do everything I could on windows except game on 1 game! (Battlefront 2).. but I can shoot terrorists instead of imperial troopers!

What distro do you run?
I have a few games and programs (photography stuff) that I really need. I already use Libre office at home and it's great

 

[Indus]

What distro do you run?
I have a few games and programs (photography stuff) that I really need. I already use Libre office at home and it's great

Currently Ultramarine 42 - I have every game I needed working except BF2 and I'm having small hiccup with setting up a network share so my windows pc can see my linux computer's shared files.. more on that in this thread ( https://forums.anandtech.com/thread...and-overcome-microsofts-stranglehold.2630996/ )

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LMDE 6 for my wife - she just needs things to work and stay stable, not a gamer.



I tried Bazzite and really liked it but it was an atomic distro and while it works great for gaming, it's not versatile enough for a networking distro due to being locked down.

Then I went to Fedora but the nvidia driver was a nightmare there.. so on recommendation of others here.. I went with Ultramarine which is a refined version of Fedora and I really like it.

Basically Ultramarine is just like LMDE which is a refined version of Debian with included drivers and stuff works with mostly plug and play. Otherwise they function the exact same.

 

[Indus]

BTW @Fenixgoon since I often get accused of making things up or imagining things by internet assholes like brycejones unless I present proof..

Here's the proof.. check time and date.. I'm actually using it:

 

[WelshBloke]

BTW @Fenixgoon since I often get accused of making things up or imagining things by internet assholes like brycejones unless I present proof..

Here's the proof.. check time and date.. I'm actually using it:

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Your BF2 issue is still bugging me. have you done steam>settings>interface>client beta participation>steam beta update?
I think the steam beta helps with the way it uses Proton.

 

[brycejones]

BTW @Fenixgoon since I often get accused of making things up or imagining things by internet assholes like brycejones unless I present proof..

Here's the proof.. check time and date.. I'm actually using it:

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Damn I didn’t know I was living rent free in your head. You poor bastard.

 

[nakedfrog]

What distro do you run?
I have a few games and programs (photography stuff) that I really need. I already use Libre office at home and it's great

I just did a fresh install of Mint on a couple devices, it comes across as pretty noob-friendly now IMO. I hadn't touched Mint in years, but I've generally been pretty favorable towards it.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

Costco, constantly moves your favorite items to different locations in the store, so you have to search around for the item, which exposes you to other parts of the store you might not ever to go. I'm sure they do it on purpose. No, I'm not paranoid, I'm not, I'm not,,,,

Good news, you're not paranoid.... about this... Drives me nuts every time I go there! I just want my sweet potato crackers and guacamole.. is that so hard?

The Clever Reason Costco Is Constantly Moving Products Around

See Costco's strategies for putting unexpected treasures in front of you. Shop with a mission if you can, but store layout is one heck of a tool.

www.yahoo.com

Bad news... well... don't look outside.

 

[Indus]

I just did a fresh install of Mint on a couple devices, it comes across as pretty noob-friendly now IMO. I hadn't touched Mint in years, but I've generally been pretty favorable towards it.

Pretty solid but if you're the type of person who loves stability and only wants to update it once in like every 2 years.. choose LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition).

They look and feel identical but underneath the surface it's even better than standard mint.. no tweaking or something broken with some random update thanks to Ubuntu.

Debian is the father of Ubuntu anyways so you don't have to learn anything over again.. it functions the same way with the repository sources set to Debian instead of Ubuntu.

If my wife can use it who doesn't know a terminal command from a keyboard and uses virtual keyboard to do everything.. you can use it as a daily driver!

 

[Indus]

When a company like Tesla (with rapidly declining sales, on it's way to being a failed company) has a P/E ratio of 186, you just know the "market" is crazy and massively overvalued.

Buckle up for August 1st and what follows!

And it'll probably go up before it goes down.. lol

 

[Indus]

India is really piling on the fake news lately that the US is going to war with India and will actively support Pakistan to destroy India.

WTF is going on.. did someone pee in Modi's soup or something??