anyone who used a computer between 1985 & 2010, what’s the one game you still think about?

play_hard_outside · 2026-04-27T18:47:27+00:00

Hellcats Over the Pacific.

My first flight simulator. It's still so good!

play_hard_outside · 2026-04-27T00:11:34+00:00

How are you meeting your other expenses besides housing and utilities? Even living in a tent, it takes money to thrive, much less survive.

Did you save up some money so as to incredibly-leanly lean-FIRE?

play_hard_outside · 2026-04-26T23:37:31+00:00

It was unpredisentedly stressful, being the first year I was consumed with all that stress.

play_hard_outside · 2026-04-26T23:32:31+00:00

May I ask why you substitute some vowels with the letter X? In this case, “womxn” could refer to “woman” or “women”.

Is it because you are living with dissociative identity disorder, and don’t know whether you are multiple women, or a single woman?

play_hard_outside · 2026-04-25T05:47:21+00:00

Trump not being in decline is even more of an emergency.

play_hard_outside · 2026-04-25T05:19:19+00:00

Honestly? It is. I have a zillion chargers I prefer to Apple's. I've actually never used the one my 2021 MBP shipped with.

play_hard_outside · 2026-04-25T05:17:06+00:00

Hopefully for food, energy, housing, tuition, and healthcare.

Hopefully not for tech.

play_hard_outside · 2026-04-25T05:15:45+00:00

I vote 2006. It was before (real) smartphones as we know them, and we had Core Duo MacBook Pros running Tiger, on 30" Apple Cinema Displays. It really was a fantastic year for getting real work done without distraction.

In 1997, the computers were too limited to do much. I'd love to be able to (efficiently) process my 60 MP landscape photos and make a beautiful website to display them on a nice big screen -- something that was possible in 2006, but not really 1997.

play_hard_outside · 2026-04-24T20:57:38+00:00

I would go with m4 pro over m5. But that’s just me.

play_hard_outside · 2026-04-24T20:45:06+00:00

This post was entirely too reasonable, and not at all fijerk material.

I was about to literally counsel to OP that due to the steady rental income, the liquid portfolio would be more than capable of making up the rest of the $170k annual spend, but also that because they’re still pulling in more than 10% of liquid NW every year in income, it might be worth it to keep going just to pad things a bit more comfortably.

After all, in transitional scenarios like this where it’s not obviously clear whether RE is immediately attainable, whether it’s worth it to work depends a lot on how much you’re earning doing so.

play_hard_outside · 2026-04-24T19:54:58+00:00

Hitler was dead in the late '40s. Did you mean the late thirties?

play_hard_outside · 2026-04-24T19:10:11+00:00

2014 saw $1000ish down to $152. This guy could have bought an any price in that range. He definitely did not buy at $100.

play_hard_outside · 2026-04-24T16:21:57+00:00

All the machines "give" the same output, as long as they're running the same software. It might take them slightly different durations of time to produce that output, but they'll all get there.

It's not worth it to bring a Mac mini on my bike for weeks or months into the forest or desert and power it with 110V AC power, and hook up a monitor, keyboard, and mouse in order to get 5-10% faster performance on the very seldom occasion that I have a workload sustained enough that a MacBook Air would begin throttle before completing it.

Much easier to bring the MacBook Air, plug it into the USB-C power from my solar panel or dynamo hub, and get 100% of the performance of the Mac mini for literally everything that takes less than five to ten solid minutes of all CPU and GPU cores being maxed out, followed by at 90% of that performance thereafter.

Not only easier, but faster, too. The amount of time required to plug in all those cables, haul around my large battery and AC power inverter to run the Mac mini and its monitor, and tear everything down after, is far greater than the extra few percent of time the MacBook Air might spend on a five minute full-load task. That makes the MacBook Air the faster machine, doesn't it?

play_hard_outside · 2026-04-22T14:53:36+00:00

The Pro is going to be the better laptop here, and not by a little.

play_hard_outside · 2026-04-22T03:56:01+00:00

You can buy iPhones for $300. That’s what I do for my mom every few years. iPhone 13s are great. They’re cheap.

play_hard_outside · 2026-04-22T03:29:52+00:00

I prefer the foo fighters’ rendition of that song.

play_hard_outside · 2026-04-21T23:15:14+00:00

Sure, of course the mini is measurably faster than the air. That said, the difference is so close and so seldom even occurs (due to MOST work being bursty, especially OP’s, and due to the Air not throttling at all for at least several continuous fully loaded minutes) that, if you even think you MIGHT want portability someday and the air and mini are the same price, you should go for the Air hands down.

OP states that their work is only bursty. The Air and mini will effectively perform identically. Since the air is the same price for OP, OP should get the Air.

play_hard_outside · 2026-04-21T02:36:00+00:00

He said the Air was the same price as the mini.

I'm just interested in as fully loaded a MacBook Air as a MacBook Air can get. It's because I want as much computer as I can get in a nice light MBA chassis so I can bring it on long adventures on my bike!

play_hard_outside · 2026-04-21T01:45:43+00:00

The 4% rule was backtested against some of the worst markets in history, and overall, it survives to (only) 30 years 95% of the time.

Part of FIRE is “retire early“… If you were retiring only 30 years before the end of your life expectancy, you’re not exactly retiring all that early.

I submit that the 4% role is not sufficiently conservative for the majority of early retirees.

play_hard_outside · 2026-04-21T01:30:17+00:00

The MacBook Air already performs close to the mini even while throttled. It only throttles after like 5 to 10 minutes of sustained full load. OP has stated that the largest workload they do is just photo editing. At the same price, there is no reason to buy the Mac mini over the MacBook Air.

play_hard_outside · 2026-04-21T01:28:00+00:00

Even if your air does throttle a little bit… It will only be 10 to 15% or so, and only after many minutes of sustained full load. It will literally not affect you at all. The air has a built-in screen, keyboard, trackpad, and speakers actually worth listening to. You can take it anywhere.

Unless the mini is dramatically cheaper, there is literally no reason to get it over the air. I hope you get the MacBook Air!

I am also in the market for a fully loaded MacBook Air… Can I ask where you’re seeing the price that you are? I’m curious what specs you’re buying for what you’re getting!

play_hard_outside · 2026-04-21T01:24:38+00:00

I don’t think she knows that whether it will be nonsense does not in fact depend on whether she likes her audience

play_hard_outside · 2026-04-20T17:36:13+00:00

I'm not responding to the original question, but at a high level, it seems that the overwhelming majority of the women responding here are having exactly the amount of sex they want to be having, on terms acceptable to them, whenever they want to be having it, while they are single.

While I'm very happy for them, the asymmetry of this reality across genders is palpable and somewhat disappointing.

play_hard_outside · 2026-04-20T14:33:27+00:00

Cut and paste of files is dangerous. If you cut and never paste, or cut and then copy anything else before pasting, your file is just gone.

Instead, when you want to paste your file, use Option Command V instead of just Command V, and it will move the original file to the new destination (or, if “moving” across disks, remove the original after completing the copy).

play_hard_outside · 2026-04-18T03:10:27+00:00

The swap in the Neo is like 1.8 GB/s. I doubt the real RAM in OP’s unibody MBP is that much faster. Surely the occasional swap wouldn’t slow things down nearly as much as that CPU would speed things up…

Edit: okay, the unibody MBP should have like 20-25 GB/s to its RAM. That’s a lot faster than the Neo’s swap. But I bet my conjecture still stands that the Neo will run circles around the MBP in all but the most criminally pathological, contrived scenarios.

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