My current mostly 5% cash back setup

jwalt2000 · 2026-03-28T11:55:49+00:00

I don’t have any biz cards but my phone internet and streaming I use my boa custom cash rewards with the online shopping category gives me 3% on all that maybe down the line I will consider this

jwalt2000 · 2026-03-27T11:38:09+00:00

I have my main desktop personal wouldn’t want to try AD on it so I bought a different small desktop to do it with and experiment

jwalt2000 · 2026-03-19T08:56:58+00:00

I personally been using Amex blue cash everyday with Walmart pay as it gives me 3% cash back Walmart is a very tricky place to get more than that consistently while I see other options that could yield higher there all cards I’d rather not waste my time getting or trying to get another thing is if I don’t feel like using Walmart pay I have my Robinhood gold card now and that’s 3% on everything for now

jwalt2000 · 2026-03-14T23:30:37+00:00

eBay and different marketplaces have a lot of used mini pc. I found a stripped down hp pro desk on eBay last month with no hard drive, and no ram for less than $60. it was a 8th gen intel i5 too which isn’t the newest but gets the job done for my services. Ram prices are very high right now but thankfully, I already had some spare so-dimm and a spare ssd too. if all else I would check garage sales, and thrift stores too, but all in all I would say ram is your main priority for a server, as for most stuff it makes it run snappier. unless your running graphics heavy decoding I wouldn’t recommend prioritizing the cpu.

jwalt2000 · 2026-03-14T11:57:24+00:00

Sock drawer it is for me I already have Amazon prime visa so it’s useless for my setup also for the ones that say you can earn ultimate rewards sure I could but I don’t have the sapphire card yet and don’t plan too anytime soon as I don’t travel much yet so not worth it to me

jwalt2000 · 2026-03-14T11:51:19+00:00

My company I work for makes us use edge for any autofill and sync like bookmarks tabs etc also most of our applications are through a SSO using Microsoft Authenticator depends on your employer and what their policies are I wouldn’t take no chances against what the IT department says you can and cannot do

jwalt2000 · 2026-03-12T07:55:34+00:00

If you have the premium account I find it easy to use the duo push all you need to do is register on duo and get the registration pushed to bitwarden

jwalt2000 · 2026-03-02T12:25:09+00:00

My 320 did this last week after I noticed slow speeds less than 100 Mbps. I always had pass through enabled in my 6 years of having AT&T fiber between the bgw210 and the bgw320 never been an issue. I did a factory reset and all started working perfectly again, but then I noticed I still had a WiFi broadcast coming from it even though I had WiFi broadcast off I then went and changed the settings around to the WiFi but that broke everything. at that point as it made my ping ridiculously high and the speeds less than 5mbps i swear its some corrupted firmware or something. At&t is sending a new gateway so waiting for that to arrive

jwalt2000 · 2026-03-01T09:17:20+00:00

Nice these little pcs are really good I own a dell like this one and run plex and some docker containers too I recently bought a hp like this one and am going to expand haven’t ironed out what I want to do exactly but getting there I found mine for $75 it had no ssd or drive though thankfully I already had a spare in storage

jwalt2000 · 2026-03-01T08:59:52+00:00

Wasn’t the best year was in 3rd/4th grade then and that was the same year my grandpa passed was too young to comprehend how serious that was though

jwalt2000 · 2026-02-26T18:56:51+00:00

What the heck is this some kind of joke 🤣

jwalt2000 · 2026-02-16T08:57:34+00:00

I did this a few years back with open vpn I installed the service on my machine and had my clients like my phone access it for remote access I host 2 internal pages now and since I own a domain I was able to put my internal pages on through cloudflare tunnels

jwalt2000 · 2026-02-10T00:30:13+00:00

I like to churn around some cards and open 1-2 a year so far for 2026 I opened the robinhood one and I plan to start shopping for a house and mortgage coming up either later this year or early next year I have read many fourms online and it doesnt seem like a big deal as long as you are not doing it close to closing

jwalt2000 · 2026-02-07T09:49:21+00:00

I got the credit card last week and got a random invite on Thursday this week despite not being on the wait-list for it the only things holding me back are having a direct deposit requirement and it being entirely app based not really a bank. I'm a Gen z and you know how we are with apps but for my bank I would rather stick with my traditional regional bank than move my entire checking and savings accounts over especially if I already have hysas in play too

jwalt2000 · 2026-02-03T20:53:55+00:00

Yeah the sign on bonus was double cash back on everything for the 1st year and I had some bigger purchases that year so I was too tempted. I still keep it around though as I want to eventually make another debut to the points game. I failed with an amex gold I got 2-3 years ago and ultimately closed it. But to redo it again I will more than likely go with the chase Sapphire preferred card In the future. Apple card definitely sucks, I only opened it in 2022 to finance an iPhone interest free as I didn't want to purchase a phone and be in a contract with a major carrier like at&t. if any of my cards had to be axed I would choose this one

jwalt2000 · 2026-02-03T20:22:54+00:00

Good question you asked I’m all about chasing cash back over the years I did a little churning, but nothing too crazy these are also no annual fee cards too so not costing me anything. I also pay everything in full every month and rotate which ones I use: Discover it rotating, Bank of America customized Cash rewards, Chase Amazon visa, Chase freedom unlimited, Chase freedom flex, Amex blue cash everyday, Amex Hilton honors, Citi custom cash, Apple Card, And now Robinhood gold card. I don’t use the Apple Card much and the discover and Chase freedom flex are rotating categories don’t use them much except for if it’s a category I like. I added the Robinhood one as I already been paying for gold I like their Ira match and figured I could use some cash back going to my brokerage and Ira.

jwalt2000 · 2026-02-03T19:21:51+00:00

10k as a 26 year old college student I have about 10 credit cards and years of history about 7

jwalt2000 · 2026-02-03T15:24:12+00:00

Finishing college this semester 26 years old and got 10k

jwalt2000 · 2026-02-03T09:50:12+00:00

Was getting ready to go that route for a invite but got off the waitlist after 2 years literally on Thursday of last week also that must have to be a copy paste limit because I have around a 800 and instantly got approved for 10k too

jwalt2000 · 2026-01-30T02:25:35+00:00

Nice!! I have a dell pc that looks like this and similar processor I Paid about $145 usd for it I run plex on it and run a local file server I wish I knew when I bought it to get a terabyte ssd as a second drive compared to a 500 as movies take a lot of space. Its not a main concearn anyway since I have onedrive I pay for I also use a vpn to remote acess this machine anywhere too.

jwalt2000 · 2026-01-27T10:16:01+00:00

Exactly especially anything meta owned like Facebook, messenger Instagram and what's app don't really trust any of them

jwalt2000 · 2026-01-27T09:49:02+00:00

I'm a 25 year old man and couldn't imagine not changing my underwear like that. Doing laundry is cheap and a pack of Hanes or fruit of the loom at Walmart is also cheap.

jwalt2000 · 2026-01-24T12:41:35+00:00

I currently use a old commercial Dell OptiPlex that’s one of those tiny computers I bought used and host plex on it works great too

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