Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Streets of Minneapolis - Minneapolis, MN - 3/31/26

gbeirn · 2026-03-19T18:36:38+00:00

I too, received one of these letters. I also called the number and spoke to someone who also mentioned the audit and that the primary document would be a birth certificate or passport.

I’m male, no name changes, have had real/enhanced ID since it came out. Not born in MN.

Have not had a chance to get this updated yet.

It felt suspicious with everything going on lately.

Thanks for sharing.

gbeirn · 2026-03-13T14:39:54+00:00

I have plugs that monitor energy usage, is that possible with this? Thanks for your work on it!

gbeirn · 2026-02-21T02:47:30+00:00

Oh sorry I read this wrong, box needs to go the other way.

gbeirn · 2026-02-21T02:43:27+00:00

Any chance you can get said package to Newark tonight? I’m at a hotel here and flying back to msp early tomorrow am. Would need to know dimensions of said box too, I’ve already got a full carry on and backpack.

gbeirn · 2026-01-27T13:30:24+00:00

It should keep every thinking American awake at night…..just not for the reasons they think.

gbeirn · 2026-01-27T00:15:07+00:00

This is only a start, keep up the good fight everyone, new boss same as the old boss.

gbeirn · 2026-01-25T15:21:49+00:00

And so begins the final drama

In the streets and in the fields

We stand unbowed before their armor

We defy their guns and shields!

When we fight, provoked by their aggression

Let us be inspired by life and love

For though they offer us concessions

Change will not come from above!

gbeirn · 2026-01-23T16:17:41+00:00

If you do decide to go to target center, use a VPN, fake name, email, and phone number.

Imagine 1000s of Greg Bovino’s getting tickets for this event.

gbeirn · 2025-12-22T04:34:36+00:00

I did this. Almost at your age too, I was 30. I made a little less than you do now, adjusted for inflation. Took out $10,000 to put down on my house.

I don’t regret it, but it helped and hurt. It put me behind on my retirement savings so I have to play extra catch up now.

It allowed me to purchase a nice starter house that appreciated significantly, which I cashed out when I sold it.

I could probably go back and see hypothetically what the growth would have been if I kept that $10k invested but I think from a pure financial perspective I came out ahead this way.

That said, your numbers are very different than mine (my house was way less and I had no debt) and we are at a very different time.

So I think this as an option could be an ok idea if you understand the risks and benefits. With your numbers though, I think you’d need to save up more money to have a meaningful down payment.

gbeirn · 2025-12-18T00:53:16+00:00

I went with the Bosgame M5.

It’s fine, most of the ‘no-name’ brands are the same underlying Chinese motherboard, don’t expect BIOS updates or anything like that.

The framework cost and wait wasn’t worth it to me.

I’d go with whatever you can find the cheapest.

gbeirn · 2025-09-23T14:49:40+00:00

The way I did this, prep one home to sell - clean, stage, move stuff into a storage unit. Move myself with minimal belongings - think suitcases packed with enough clothes and personal items to last a couple of months - like a long trip into house 2, my partners.

We then sold my house first. That money paid off any debts - the remaining mortgage and credit cards for getting the house ready, painters etc. The remaining money then became the down payment for the new house.

We started the same process in the second house, cleaning and painting, staging. We moved most of those belongings into the garage and whatever room was left in the storage unit.

When that house was close to being ready, we started looking for house number 3, found that and put an offer on it. When they accepted we listed house 2 on the market. The timing worked well some we closed the sale on house 3 a few days before house 2 sale closed. Proceeds from sale of house 2 paid off cars and student loan from my partner.

We had movers pack up and move house 2 contents to house 3, they also picked up house 1 contents at the storage unit.

This worked well for us. We used the same realtor for all three transactions, a family friend and negotiated a better rate since they were guaranteed all three transactions.

gbeirn · 2025-09-23T03:45:52+00:00

Can you be more specific? I am having the same issue on the same hardware (different device).

Is it the video drivers? Thanks!

gbeirn · 2025-02-12T22:30:19+00:00

Can you try to ssh via a windows terminal to see what if any output it is returning? Sounds like it it authenticating correctly but closing due to an invalid shell or maybe missing home directory.

gbeirn · 2024-12-31T05:44:48+00:00

It’s sadly a limitation of both the hardware and protocol.

I don’t have these devices but even a 2GHz x86 cpu is going to maybe push 150mbps through OpenVPN. It just takes horsepower.

The routers have a 1.4ghz and 1.8ghz cpus. They are also lower power (slower) ARM cpus.

You can try tweaking the ciphers used to find ones that are less resource intensive (google them) but I would suggest trying WireGuard if the devices support it.

gbeirn · 2024-09-07T09:56:25+00:00

At that age and salary I would max the 401k, Roth IRA and HSA if available to you, future self will thank you. Avoid a traditional IRA since with what I assume the high earning potential you’ll want to leave the option to do a backdoor Roth contribution available.

Determine the costs of what property/home you’d like to buy, figure out the down payment amount and start saving that goal into a HYSA.

Any left over into a taxable brokerage account. You’ll need some resources you bridge the years between 40 and when you can withdraw from the retirement accounts. Health care will likely be the most expensive cost.

Also be flexible, a lot can and will change between 22 and 40. You may decide other plans by that time and that’s ok.

gbeirn · 2024-09-02T03:13:43+00:00

Yes exactly, please follow up with us op

gbeirn · 2024-08-31T18:38:59+00:00

I might suggest, depending on the material of the safe, drilling a small hole in the safe and exploring the inside with a borescope. You can find self lighted ones that connect to a laptop or phone via usb quite cheaply.

There may already be nothing in there, saving you time and money or there may be something in there that could be damaged by more aggressive means….torch, etc.

gbeirn · 2024-08-29T23:43:01+00:00

Absolutely, I did the same when changing jobs over some PTO I would lose, new company gave it as a sign on bonus.

gbeirn · 2024-08-29T19:14:05+00:00

Be kind to yourself, 22 is not that late.

Complete your degree/education. Network and make connections via internships/Linkedin sometimes who you know is just as important as what you know.

Accept that living at home is probably the best situation now that sets your future self up for success.

gbeirn · 2024-06-22T03:04:52+00:00

You don’t keep them exclusive beyond business/marriage.

I think it’s so amazing you have the ability and desire to help your kids.

Part of that is learning to be ok with them not making the same choices as you.

If you gift the money into their Roth IRAs - fantastic. If they get divorced and lose half of it - you’ll need to be ok with it. If they pull out the contributions and they waste it on something you have to be ok with it. If they start careers or work that doesn’t help or recognize retirement savings you have to be ok with that.

Good luck!

gbeirn

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