I don’t have info here for a full system, but my airport is one of these that allows the non-passengers through TSA permission. When you scan your boarding pass at the jet bridge to get on the plane, a picture of your face comes up on the display and the airline gate worker appears to verify the person with the boarding pass matches the person entering.

Can we just jump to the end of this meme coin idiocy and make one called “RugPullcoin™” then go through the inevitable run-up and short order liquidation leaving coin owners holding the bag?

Appliance based DVRs are turn-key solutions. I hope we both agree setting up a Linux box, obtaining a compatible OTA tuner, downloading and configuring Jellyfin all on hardware that is easily integrated into a general home entertainment setting is not a trivial task that most non-technically inclined folks can accomplish.

I personally ran PC based software DVRs for many years predating Jellyfin, but even in those years we had a Tivo for the wife.

Depends on the use case. If you’re someone that wants to watch shows that air on broadcast television, OTA (over the air) DVRs are a great way to get TV content without a cable or streaming service subscription. With the increased number of OTA stations now that represents a lot of ad-skippable content. We get close to 40 OTA stations at our house with just an antenna in the attic.

about how he would fix a nonexistent problem

Nazi-Musk aside, Its not exactly a non-existent problem. Its just a very very small niche problem that doesn’t justify the tremendous resources poured into creating it. Its also an old problem that doesn’t exist much anymore.

There was a time when solar panels were pretty ugly and expensive. Those two things would deter a certain number of people from installing panels. So the idea of cheap solar panels that matched the traditional look some buyers wanted did exist. Heavy emphasis on some buyers because it was a pretty small pool to begin with. What really made solar shingles largely irrelevant was the dramatic drop in cost of regular panels, the drastic increase in performance of regular panels, and the noticeably improved aesthetics of all-black regular panels. So the prior tiny market for solar shingles shrank even more, and the costs of Tesla solar shingles continued to rise without any performance improvements. It was a tiny market before and its a nearly non-existent market now. Solar shingles are bad business.

Lastly, social attitudes changed and having solar panels on a roof switched largely from being seen as an eyesore to a point of pride for many. This last point isn’t totally solved yet. My own housing community doesn’t allow panels on the side of the house that faces the road…except in some circumstances (making the rule even more stupid).

I’m looking forward to the day when I can slap some panels on the other side of the house for even greater solar generation! I’m still have no interest in solar shingles though.

They’ll sell you custom dietary supplements so your farts can smell like your favorite celebrities.

I’ll occasionally spend frequently flyer miles for a business class/first class domestic ticket. Buying tickets with frequently flyer miles is a bit different than paying with dollars. When paying in dollars, most everyone’s idea about the price difference between economy and first class is mostly accurate. In dollars, its double, triple, or even more for a first class ticket over economy. However with points (miles) its sometimes only 1.25x more for the first class ticket. Its not like you can spend airline miles on rent or groceries, so spending a bit more for a much more comfortable experience can be worth it. This is especially true if you only fly a few times a year and you’ll have enough points re-earned by the next time you need it for a ticket.

Any day now he’s going to claim credit for naming an element after America even though one already exists (Americium, atomic number 95).

the group had requested that the private visit be organised in such a way as to limit “interactions with women”.

It sounds like there was already a way the delegation could achieve their goal of limiting “interactions with women”. They simply didn’t have to go to the Eiffel Tower.

Whats the problem with it on air-gapped machines?

I just have a very hard time internally generating those kinds of goals that matter enough to have staying power.

…and…

It does leave me feeling a little hollow though, like I don’t have anything of importance inside to actually care about and be motivated by.

I don’t know if this is what you’re facing, but there was something else I learned when I was younger that matched this situation. I wasn’t able to find joy in my hobbies/activities/diversions because I was avoiding doing something else specific I knew in my heart I should do instead. Not having accomplished this specific thing made me privately feel like a (partial) failure, even if I was taking care of all my day to day responsibilities and everyone else thought I was doing well in life. I spent a few years trying to avoid it before finally coming to terms with this understanding I’m laying out right here. I then sat down and started the hard work of planning how I’d move forward to finally accomplish what I had been avoiding. It took many years, but I was eventually successful. It was a lot of hard work and sacrifice but not only did I feel the great sense of accomplishment, but I was able to enjoy my hobbies again without any subconscious guilt from not working toward the goal I needed to but was avoiding.

Again, I don’t know if this is what you’re facing, and you don’t have to tell me if it is. However, take some time to ask yourself if you’re in a similar situation explore the idea and get it into words. Just that alone is progress. Its not the end, but its the required beginning to finally moving forward on addressing the primary challenge.

No worries at all. I wouldn’t expect anyone to know this unless they follow markets personally or professionally. Even what is said on the news doesn’t lay this out plainly.

The weird part is everyone knows we’re headed for a market correction, but nobody knows when. I honestly thought it would have happened years ago, but it keeps going up. I’m a long term nonprofessional investor, so I’m okay with the downturn for myself when it eventually happens.

But bare in mind the economy is all kinds of messed up right now.

I’ll be the first to say that investing in the stock market is no sure thing. I’ll also say that past performance does not predict future results. I’ll also post this chart which shows the annual returns of the S&P 500 over the last 8 years. Even during the disruption of the global pandemic the returns were substantial.

With the exception of 2022, its been absolutely crazy crazy good! Even if someone invested at the worst time in 2022 absorbing the all of the losses from that year, they’d would have already been cash positive by the end of 2023.

That being said its the lowest risk way for your money to make money.

The S&P 500 is not the lowest risk way to make money. It is maybe the lowest risk way to make the most money. US Treasuries or even an FDIC high yield savings account (or NCUA for credit union) are far safer, but don’t earn nearly as much.

Years ago (maybe still) you can buy them in-person at the Bureau of Engraving and printing in DC. I have a sheet of $2 bills.

I get really jealous of people who are passionate and genuinely love what they do for work/fun, people who just can’t be stopped.

To me it sounds like you are describing people that have a purpose. They have chosen to try to accomplish something they find value in. The energy (and possibly accomplishment) you’re seeing in them is them working toward their chosen goal.

Have you sat down and decided what you’d like your purpose to be? It doesn’t have to be something you do for the rest of your life, so don’t feel pressure to “choose correctly”. It just has to be your purpose “for now”. There is no wrong answer here because the measure is simply your own values. While some choose noble purposes (ending world hunger, war, poverty, etc) it can even be something small and inconsequential like “I’d like to be able to do a kickflip skateboard”. Your engineering mind should work nicely with this. You’d break your goal down into smaller steps and identify what you need to learn, do, acquire, to accomplish you goal. When you’re not working or sleeping, you have something you can think about and work toward. I’d recommend setting a goal/purpose that you know is objectively achievable.

If even this seems too daunting, set a purpose that helps others. If you can’t do it for yourself, sometimes its easy to do for others. Again, it doesn’t have to be building a house single-handedly for someone unhoused. I could be pickup up trash on your street or helping an elderly neighbor carry something heavy. In this case you could define your purpose as “Helping others in ways you can”.

Invest in s&p500 index. See bogelheads.org for the investment playbook.

This. If OP got this $150k on Jan 1 of this year and put it in a boring old index fund tracking the S&P 500 OP would now have $168,810. That’s right, $18,810 in growth just from Jan 1 2026.

I don’t know who downvoted you. You’re right of course. I corrected my post.

I’d never heard of this product, but completely understand the need at the time. Walking into a shop selling computer hardware and software meant most of the shop was unavailable to you because you had to find the one corner where your specific brand of computer was featured. Commodore (64 and VIC20 to the left, Apple II (C and later E) to the right. In the middle a mix of Texas Instrument, Spectrum ZX, and even Tandy in the Radio Shack next door. PC hardware existed too, but was so expensive you’d usually have to go to an “Office supply store” for that.

Having a device like the one featured in the ad makes sense to let Commodore users access Apple hardware and software.

I’m wondering if Collins had the best of both worlds (ha!) by being celebrated in all the main events around the moon landing, but just enough obscurity to be able to walk into a restaurant to eat a burger without being swarmed by fans. Everyone knew Glenn Aldrin and Armstrong. After the return to Earth I wonder if they were ever able to live lives with any level of privacy.

edit: fixed the right Apollo 11 astronaut

I had no idea who Blevin was besides a voted-out conservative former governor. I had no idea how much of a piece of shit he and his now-ex wife were in their treatment of their adopted kids.

The adopted son suing (Jonah) for back child support was brought from Ethiopia when he was 5, didn’t speak English, neither adult Blevins spoke his language, and eventually shipped him off to abusive “schools” out of state, and eventually out of the country. I found an article where Jonah tells who whole history.. Matt Blevin apparently tried to trick Jonah into choosing to go back to Ethiopia by telling him he had living family there after years of telling him as a child his mother was dead.

Even more laughably the now-ex wife’s pet project as First Lady of Kentucky was working against child abuse. The former governor even said he initially ran for office to reform the adoption system that prevented him from adopting before. It makes me think the Kentucky adoption process was perhaps well working if it protected children from would-be adopted parents like the Blevins.