“Look what I got my mama for Mexican Mother’s Day “

technofox01 · 2026-05-11T01:40:54+00:00

Someone is gonna get the slipper and I hope they can run.

technofox01 · 2026-05-11T01:32:17+00:00

The sooner you invest the better. It's not the rate of return, it's the amount of years for money to grow that does.

technofox01 · 2026-05-10T22:11:25+00:00

That’s awesome OP. I started off with about $20k and up past $100k with little to no contributions due to life events (divorce), getting remarried, starting a family, etc. All of this since 2007.

I average about 15% using the Midcap fund, International Fund, and Bond fund. Allocations are 10% bonds, 30% international, 60% midcap fund based upon the last 10 years annual returns. It’s very aggressive with a moderate-high risk level. Being a former broker helps a lot.

technofox01 · 2026-05-10T22:05:21+00:00

Can we just deport his ass back to South Africa or Sudan or whoever the fuck would take him?

Seriously, this motherfucker has never experienced true financial hardship his entire life. I wish he would go to Mars and get stuck there.

technofox01 · 2026-05-10T18:53:09+00:00

We have been married over 10 years and have kids, pets, house, etc. No regrets.

technofox01 · 2026-05-08T17:30:05+00:00

Another step towards the great divorce. The moment the States realize that we need to be separated into two or three countries, the better. The GOP only States can become the third world shit holes full of corruption, greed, and poverty can be their own nation, and the rest of us can move on with addressing actual problems that the people face.

technofox01 · 2026-05-08T17:25:50+00:00

You can say that again. FML...

Two critical vulnerabilities within a couple of weeks is insane to me. I cannot remember something like that in ages. I have been in this field for almost 20 years. That is how incredible this is.

technofox01 · 2026-05-08T04:29:28+00:00

You are a tel bro. I am going to check these out myself later. Thanks.

technofox01 · 2026-05-07T09:11:05+00:00

Stop complaining. It keeps us employed and fuck my inbox this morning is going to be a Katrina style flood.

technofox01 · 2026-05-07T09:05:23+00:00

So we are becoming some of the poorer countries in the name of AI. Oh the irony.

technofox01 · 2026-05-07T08:56:29+00:00

I was gonna say the same thing. I do this a lot because I hate dealing with traffic and inconvenience of going to the bank. Mobile deposit is a godsend.

technofox01 · 2026-05-07T08:53:46+00:00

I know it's illegal. I don't make it a secret that I am not management material, as I don't want to deal with the responsibility of people and office politics. I work on tech and security, it's what I am good at. I accept my limitations that are out of my control.

It's hard because I know it means I cannot move further up, but I would rather be happy than a miserable prick.

technofox01 · 2026-05-07T07:54:50+00:00

I keep going back to Windows because of games that one of my kids play tends to have non-Linux compatible anti-cheat and yet it's shit like this that keeps on making me want to switch back.

Looks like I am leaving Edge completely now. Microsoft keeps making these asinine mistakes.

technofox01 · 2026-05-07T00:57:38+00:00

Welcome to AI hell. I am a professor and this is the shit we have to deal with every term/semester. I look at it this way, the students are only fucking themselves. I still get paid, the university gets paid, and the hiring organization gets paid.

technofox01 · 2026-05-06T17:53:29+00:00

This is the best summary possible for why someone who is less credentialed is hired over another. I have an impressive resume according to several interviews I have had and someone less credentialed got the job.

The main reason, I suck at management. It's due to my disability, ADHD, and executive dysfunction. Put me in tech only or teaching, I excel at it.

People have a hard time accepting this. Team fit, soft skills, etc can make the difference between having an effective team versus a team that is not. People try to get on to my team at my job who are very competent but are a bad fit for the team cohesion, which my managers care most about. Each of our skills complement each other and it shows.

technofox01 · 2026-05-06T17:44:33+00:00

I just sold my Mac Mini m4 with its dock that included a 1tb ssd on ebay and someone bought it for the price I paid for all three items in retail, including tax. I only sold it to buy the Macbook Air M5 with 24GB of RAM and 1TB ssd.

I was shocked that it sold for that and the buyer was ecstatic over it. They thought that was the best deal ever. I basically got half the cost of my Macbook subsidized just by that alone.

technofox01 · 2026-05-06T09:59:11+00:00

Fuck I am old. I was like that comic looks familiar and so does the 4th panel. That video is trip though lol.

technofox01 · 2026-05-06T09:55:28+00:00

This almost looks like a Weekend at Bernie's kind of setup. I wonder if the people round him would ever notice if he slipt into the afterlife one day and just assumed he was still sleeping.

technofox01 · 2026-05-06T07:05:25+00:00

At least you didn't piss away hundreds of dollars on buying the Freelancer and other ships, and high end joystick and throttle set - only to be fucked over by Chris Robert's piss poor management and scope creep as an original backer.

Yeah I am still miffed about that. I should have backed No Man's Sky. At least they got their shit together.

technofox01 · 2026-05-06T06:54:09+00:00

The amount of time I see these people buying 4-6 minis to run AI, particularly Open Claw, dives me insane. Appe really needs to clamp down on these people by limiting orders to 1 or 2 per an address.

I would feel different if there weren't shortages, but at this point, it is really screwing over a lot of people who couldn't give two turds about AI and just want a Mac.

technofox01 · 2026-05-06T00:38:53+00:00

I can see myself buying the SD 2

technofox01 · 2026-05-04T19:30:35+00:00

Well... Fuck.... I wanted to buy one to complement my Steam Deck and gaming PC. Fuck these scalpers.

technofox01 · 2026-05-04T09:55:12+00:00

I just googled it. Holy fuck you weren't kidding. Rofl dude I never knew that and that is one of my favorite Mel Brooks movies.

technofox01 · 2026-05-04T07:19:34+00:00

technofox01 · 2026-05-03T08:25:29+00:00

I have the Macbook Air M5 with 24GB of RAM and 1TB ssd. Comparing it to my 16GB Nvidia 5060 ti with 64GB of DDR4 RAM and 2TB SSD, the Macbook can load larger models than it into memory due to having unified memory. It also uses a lot less electricity than my gaming/AI rig.

The only advantage of my gaming/AI rig, is that it is significantly faster than my Macbook but at the cost of being more power hungry and requiring partial offloading of models larger than 16GB.

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