I can’t wait for this. I’ve gone down a few rabbit holes looking into solar and battery storage, and even just battery storage by itself to replace the generator we have for when power is out and/or to offset peak use time rates. But batteries are really expensive and I’ve already got a hundred kilowatt hours sitting in my garage.

I’m not sure what you mean by cost-effective resources, are you wondering what things are worth investing into inside of a total budget versus which things you could be more frugal on? Overall I would say there’s not a big difference in terms of what to consider differently from running Windows: Linux will benefit just as much from good hardware (maybe more?) as window as will.

If you want to do plex and utilize hardware video transcoding you’ll probably want an Nvidia GPU but I’ve had better experiences with AMD graphics cards in Linux. The best home management tool I can recommend is home assistant, and it doesn’t have particularly high system requirements, you can run it on a raspberry pi.

Would love to have seen OpenPilot form Comma on this list to how it compared.

I could never get hardware accelerated video working with Firefox on my Linux laptop, and Google Meet (used for work) doesn’t work well ( but I guess I blame Google for that).

It looks like they’ve changed the way they do it a bit they now have these (this is light to med, there’s another one for med-dark roast): https://happymugcoffee.com/products/roasters-choice-a

I have been buying from HappyMug for years, I do a subscription thing with them that gets me one bag of one of their blends that I picked and then one bag of single origin coffee every month. I’m very happy with it.

https://happymugcoffee.com/

I don’t know about natively, but I’ve played both FFXIV and EVE Online in Linux in the past, and they ran well, but it’s been a little bit.

From the downvotes it seems like many people might be this:

It’s an XWing! 👍

Yeah, I like overwatch, have gotten my money’s worth from it and the steam integration makes it so much easier to run on Linux, so I’m happy with it.

Just out of curiosity, since I’m also considering bonds, what is “close to retirement” enough to consider non insignificant bod allocation?

hm, I’m not sure I know :) not really into jump scares, but do often love kitchy B horror. I also love scifi so blends of the two are good. Overall, I’ll take any suggestions for what you’ve liked on the platform!

Thanks for the input! I’ve been thinking that’d I’d probably just stick to index funds and avoid (for now) individual companies. My financial advisor does do individual companies (to fit the allocation targets), and does do tax loss harvesting, but I think that might be a bit complicated for my initial attempts.

I had thought about doing something like S&P 500 fund + some set of small and medium cap index funds, rather than trying to identify individual companies that fit into “large/mid/small cap & industry spread”, but even in those broad realms there’s lots of “index 500” funds and lots of “medium/small cap” index funds, how do I figure out which ones to buy and how to compare them?

Any other recommendations for what to watch on Shudder?

I’m confused. In the 5% bracket, a $16k tuition: this comes out to like a 900k/year job…is that where the top 5% is?

I would love a suggestion for a ups that could tolerate running off my generator when the power is out for extended periods, anyone have a decently priced recommendation?

I don’t think that’s a bad extension of the analogy

Basically I get 30 minutes to an hour after they’re in bed and that’s about it :-(

Yeah, I have one of those and love it. I use it between PC, SteamDeck and Switch all the time

I use cloud flare DNS and it has support for dynamic IPs, my current setup is through a plug-in in my PFSense router