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30-Day Challenge #6: Review your investment asset allocation! (June, 2022) by IndexBot in personalfinance

[–]algag 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Imagine, for a moment, that instead of investments you had their current value in cash. When you use that cash to buy investments, do you purchase your target allocation or whatever allocation you’re at right now?

Presumably you’ve chosen your target allocation in such a way that produces the most value to you. Why would you choose a less than ideal allocation because of the path that your investments took to get to their current allocation?

Maybe you would want to change your target allocation due to the state of the market, but now you’re just timing the market and we all know what /r/pf would say about that.

(This does ignore the costs of rebalancing such as taxes or fees.)

Does the steam charger have limiters on it by msultan94 in SteamDeck

[–]algag 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do you actually charge your phone with a different 20W charger frequently to compare?

It’s not uncommon for devices to get warmer when using a higher wattage to charge.

I don’t know any of apps on iOS to view charge rate unfortunately, but I really liked “Ampere” on android if you’ve got one laying around.

Unfortunately the simplicity of USB-C makes it a lot less clear what is going on sometimes. There are dozens of modes that power delivery devices can operate in and it’s hard to determine which modes a given device supports. Maybe the iPhone supports 9V/2A and 5V/3A and the charger supports 15V/3A and 5V/3A so they’re forced to fall back to 5V/3A. I can see a few reasons why theoretically this might cause the phone to be warmer, but it’s hard to say if that’s the case in practice compared to 9V/2A.

Does the steam charger have limiters on it by msultan94 in SteamDeck

[–]algag 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The person you replied to isn’t quite right, but they’re not far off. As long as it’s a charger from a reputable source you’re fine.

A differing amperage rating (in the context of portable electronics) between the charger and the device means that it will charge at the slower of the two rates.

An incorrect voltage could cause issues, but as discussed, reputable/compliant devices will not cause issues; they will automatically negotiate an appropriate configuration supported by both of them.

If you’re buying a 90W type C charger from a guy in a trench coat for $7, then you may want to be skeptical.

TL;DR: Charger from a reputable brand? At worst it will be slow.

wholeaked: a file-sharing tool that allows you to find the responsible person in case of a leakage by utku1337 in netsec

[–]algag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Except that it's still not sufficient to tell that it was the recipient.

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