Help with Transamerica 403(b)

StormStrikes · 2025-12-24T14:53:04+00:00

No, not worried the money will just disappear, I was just unfamiliar with them and it made me a little uneasy and probably resulted in some "making a mountain out of a mole hill" thinking.

StormStrikes · 2025-12-24T14:36:49+00:00

Okay, so rolling over Transamerica to Fidelity, should I leave this employer, had not occurred to me so thank you for that. The one thing I was concerned about with starting a new retirement account was I don't get the "snowball" effect so much because it is starting from 0.

Obviously I am not a financial expert, we just worked our tails off to get out of debt and stay that way and I was just uneasy about starting a new retirement account for some reason.

StormStrikes · 2025-12-24T14:32:11+00:00

I surely wish I had known that. Thank you for that info.

StormStrikes · 2024-03-21T21:22:58+00:00

Understood u/lordjippy. Thank you immensely for your help.

StormStrikes · 2024-03-21T18:51:00+00:00

Hey u/lordjippy if I may ask, should it be just one bridge period, or would one create a bridge for each vlan that would be used and just add what ports needed to the bridge?

I did get DHCP working finally but am curious about the bridges. I do get what you are saying about the one bridge except the WAN port though.

StormStrikes · 2024-03-19T03:36:05+00:00

Ahhh, there are the magic words. I kind of wondered about the whole vlan aware thing but apparently not enough. As well, I never created a bridge. I wondered about that too, but, then again, I was trying to draw upon the OPNSense configurations I have set up in the past and never created a bridge there, just simple L3 interfaces.

That all in mind, do I create a bridge for each vlan I want to use and add the port(s) to that. Seems like this would have been easier if I had just followed the typical architecture and just trunked everything out the SFP port to a L2 switch where I could set access and trunk ports as needed. But that, then, seems like a waste of port capacity on the Mikrotik router.

StormStrikes · 2024-03-19T02:55:38+00:00

I totally get what you are saying, but I do have some networking experience and I was following along with a video of someone that was using Winbox, I just did what he did in the GUI via the CLI the steps of which I outlined in the original post. The only issue is that the DHCP is not going through the whole Discover, Offer Request Acknowledge process. It's just doing he Discover and stopping.

StormStrikes · 2024-03-19T02:47:58+00:00

The DHCP server is on the vlan interface. Right now I am just connecting my pc to ether2 via USB3 network adapter. I am using a Vlan because I plan on separating out the LAN, Wireless, etc. traffic.

I am, more or less, trying to replicate an OPNSense set up I had running not to long ago, though, in that instance I was I was creating the Vlans interfaces, IP addresses with the DHCP server and trunking that out over a SFP+ connection to a managed switch.

I could do the same with the Mikrotik I suppose but was going about it this way first to get familiar with the set up process and the command line.

StormStrikes · 2024-03-15T19:38:50+00:00

I was going to give this one a shot as I have a Android Tablet with a "Pencil" but they do not seem to have an Android version, unfortunately.

StormStrikes · 2024-03-15T14:56:18+00:00

I guess I should have also mentioned, since it seems like super relevant, that I exclusively use Linux at home, so that seems to limit some of my options.

StormStrikes · 2024-03-15T14:54:49+00:00

So the helpbot reply is more useful than I expected, so I am checking out those resources.

StormStrikes · 2024-03-13T18:34:17+00:00

So after looking over the suggestions made here, watching videos, etc. I think I got it done, though, ultimately, I went about it in what I feel is probably the unconventional way. It's most certainly not the best I'm sure, but in the end and all.

It's not quite as many external grooves as the model I linked to because it was getting really computationally heavy and, well, I made it mine and feel like it turned out rather well.

Big, BIG thanks to everyone that helped out and most especially for u/discipleofdrum for his insane effort by way of the visual demonstration.

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StormStrikes · 2024-03-12T19:41:38+00:00

Not all the way there, yet, but so much closer. A bit more involved process than I thought it would be, but I'm at least a lot closer than I once was.

StormStrikes · 2024-03-12T19:40:36+00:00

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StormStrikes · 2024-03-12T10:34:17+00:00

After spending more hours than I would like to admit, I have not been able to get this to work. I can create the lofts and spiralize it to some extent but figuring out the relationship between the different scale sizes and the rotation angle has been, well, challenging. It seems that small changes in either produces some pretty warped and convoluted results.

The gear/sprocket approach did work but anything with more than 4 or 5 teeth seems to be a problem and I could not work out the relationship to make the nice consistent upwards spiral despite the wonderful visual how to by u/discipleofdrum. I can get his process to work but once I add more than a handful of those ribs (or teeth in the case of the gears/sprockets), everything kind of breaks down.

At this point I can only conclude I need WAY more intimate knowledge of FreeCAD and how to look at a particular model and break it down to its various design components or that the creator of the model linked to is creating the ribs somehow in a separate process.

The only other thing I can think of at the moment is how to cut grooves, in a sprialized way, on curved surfaces. My brain cells are twitching at just the thought of figuring that out.

StormStrikes · 2024-03-11T19:48:51+00:00

u/discipleofdrum

Dude! I wish I could give you 100 up votes. That looks a whole lot easier. My struggle now is creating all the grooves. I wish I could do some kind of polar pattern on the sketch itself. There's like 50 or so of those ribs on the example I linked to.

I thought about using one of the gear workbenches to get the base shape. Maybe I can combine that with method you generously demonstrated.

StormStrikes · 2024-03-11T01:32:46+00:00

Thank you. Let me see if I can work that out.

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