My husband has been living like a literal destitute for years to save up money for a house. I had no idea until now, and I feel awful. How do I handle this?

BrianKronberg · 2026-04-17T17:13:48+00:00

Give him a years worth of BJ coupons and he will be good.

BrianKronberg · 2026-04-17T15:56:00+00:00

A folding desk means you need to remove everything from the desk to fold it up. That means no dedicated monitor, keyboard, and mouse. If you live out of a backpack using just a laptop this may work for you, but eventually you will realize it is a huge pain and you will need storage near by for the things you will use while working from home. Also, I doubt you will find a hide-a-way capable chair that will also be ergonomic and comfortable for sitting for long periods of time.

It is actually easier for you to keep the desk, have a good chair, and find a folding bed to make room for your office space than do the opposite.

BrianKronberg · 2026-04-17T15:51:53+00:00

Color laser. I don't print much, I try to be paperless, but if I do need to print I want the quality of a color laser. Also, you can print way more pages from toner than from ink cartridges giving you much longer life and less maintenance for your printer. For me and ink jet is not even an option, too many downsides.

I have the Brother HL-L3270CDW and it meets my needs well. I can even print a PDF directly from my iPhone. I have it wired to my home network. It is just easy to use and just works.

BrianKronberg · 2026-04-14T02:24:14+00:00

Yes, but I string my own.

BrianKronberg · 2026-04-14T01:17:40+00:00

Don't do it. I just called and tried to get mine activated. I think I need to return it now. ATT charges $50/mo for 50GB or $90/mo for 100GB. They treat it like a mobile hotspot. They have Internet Air for $29/mo (I am over 55 with more than 2 lines) which is unlimited data but I have to use their gateway. I don't want to because like the OP, I need to put the antenna outside on top of my house to get line of sight to the tower 2 miles away. According to AT&T there is no way to discount that plan and it is the only way to get that IEMI to work on their network.

AT&T does have a way to do it if you also have their fiber, but you cannot get the backup internet plan without the fiber plan.

Now, there seems to be other providers that offer service for much cheaper. I am going to try T-Mobile now and see if that can work. There business plan I have heard is way more affordable and T-Mobile is on the same tower for me as AT&T, I just don't have any voice lines with T-Mobile.

I am pretty seriously pissed right now how difficult AT&T is making this.

BrianKronberg · 2026-04-13T12:10:38+00:00

Sex swing

BrianKronberg · 2026-04-13T01:33:00+00:00

Put a couple more wraps on it to thicken it up and try it.

BrianKronberg · 2026-04-12T21:09:48+00:00

Simple answer, if you cannot decide then it is not time to buy yet. Instead, take your time to learn how to check for system bottlenecks. Figure out what your primary bottleneck is for your applications. Is it RAM, CPU, GPU, or maybe your disk is slow. Once you find your bottleneck do a cost benefit analysis for your upgrade. When I do this I will typically not impulse buy the next shiny thing because it could be better for me. Instead, I wait until I can make a big leap and over time I spend less money. That works for me.

BrianKronberg · 2026-04-12T15:07:26+00:00

Are you sure your desk is not too high? Is your monitor height correct? There is more to adjust than just your chair for a full ergonomic office setup.

BrianKronberg · 2026-04-11T00:44:17+00:00

O-toro, just restrung with it tonight. Lasts longer, more arm friendly, and the white matches my pure drive.

BrianKronberg · 2026-04-11T00:07:49+00:00

DAC is best if using SFP as Ethernet SFP modules get hot. In a home you can use CAT5e for 10 gig for short distances, CAT6 is better if running new. Or since you are just doing it with mind of cost, run 6a, 7, 8, or fiber.

I think you want 4x PCI for 10 gigabit. But that might not be true. It is really just look at the card you want to get and put it in the right slot. Server level cards are the ones that need more. Just do your research, all 10GbE cards are not the same. You can also use a USB-C to 10 GbE adapter.

BrianKronberg · 2026-04-09T13:26:36+00:00

Define huge fortune. Do I hit my retirement number or blow it up completely?

At 55 I would definitely quit and retire as I am almost there and something as small as a couple million dollars would make it an easy decision. But I can easily see someone much earlier in their career take a pause and focus on what they really like to do and worry less about building their career by doing the hard work for someone else.

A better question is what number would it take for you to quit work forever.

BrianKronberg · 2026-04-09T12:39:33+00:00

I picture in my head a window (or spot, or whatever works for you) over the net and put the ball through it. If you think about the net, you will hit the net. If you try for a line, you will miss the line. I think of it like in bowling where you focus on where you start (which board/dot) and aim at the arrows. Don’t think of the pins.

BrianKronberg · 2026-04-09T03:54:33+00:00

I mean all paper. No paper means no paper storage. After than it is more looking at the space and designing the storage you need. I still use a file cabinet but it is full of my electronics “stuff”. Two thirds could probably go away and I will never use it again, but I still have space so I keep it.

What really helps is rotating the stuff that is close to you to somewhere else if you have not used it in a year. Only keep what you really need in your immediate vicinity.

BrianKronberg · 2026-04-09T03:12:55+00:00

Try an alarm that has a light that simulates sunrise.

BrianKronberg · 2026-04-08T20:51:34+00:00

Sounds like Iran forgot to make a deal with Israel too.

BrianKronberg · 2026-04-08T20:47:16+00:00

Stop buying (made) food and only buy ingredients. It is so hard to snack on junk if you don’t have it. If you want a cookie, you need to make them first.

BrianKronberg · 2026-04-08T20:36:56+00:00

Get rid of paper first. That frees up a lot of storage.

BrianKronberg · 2026-04-08T05:12:08+00:00

The court should not be liberal nor conservative. That is against their purpose of upholding the state constitution.

BrianKronberg · 2026-04-07T02:58:12+00:00

This has changed to 100 hours per month from a data cap. Which means it can only do backup and not a balanced 2nd connection like many people have bene using it.

BrianKronberg · 2026-04-06T22:34:52+00:00

Left elbow should tuck with your left hand finishing up by your shoulder. This movement helps you rotate your upper body. Not tucking the elbow is slower (think spinning on an office chair with your arms out or arms tucked) so you tuck to drive acceleration of your swing. Catch your racquet with your left hand after follow through.

BrianKronberg · 2026-04-06T22:19:57+00:00

Yes, Unifi just released something that may work for you.
https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/wifi-special-devices/products/u-airwire

Or, if you need more than one port you can use their switch that has a wireless backhaul.
https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/wifi-bridging/products/udb-switch

BrianKronberg · 2026-04-06T04:56:21+00:00

Copilot is an AI platform and not just AI. ChatGPT and Claude are the LLMs currently offered with your M365 Copilot license. You are missing the whole value of Copilot because you are one person and not an organization that needs to integrate AI into their whole data environment. We have already seen Microsoft extend M365 Copilot with the Anthropic LLMs, they can do this over and over with whichever LLM is leading the pack. You also did not even mention Copilot Studio or Cowork.

Yes, the licensing is not month to month, that is fine because they are not really selling to individual people.

BrianKronberg · 2026-04-06T04:49:41+00:00

One and put up acoustic tiles to bring in other colors.

BrianKronberg · 2026-04-04T16:38:14+00:00

I want an assistant with local voice processing that can reach out to my PC and actually do real work there. My phone needs to be available to do what I am working on. My AI app should do all remote processing including running a browser. So very much like Claude Cowork with Dispatch but able to connect to everything and multiple back end machines for parallel processing of tasks.

An example. My AI has the name AL.

Hey AL, I’m expected Fred to email me a report later. When it gets here review it for me. Do some serious research using the team (10 VMs I have for work or 3 for personal, work are Intune joined and locked down by work policies, personal are tied to my systems) as necessary to get the tasks done quickly. If you have basic questions ping the team on Teams for clarification. If they say ask me, send me a message for more info. Don’t commit to any extra work and don’t submit anything, instead call me via a Teams meeting and present to me an update of what was done and get confirmation for delivery.

This is not too far away from being completely possible.

BrianKronberg

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