I’ll take the risk. I’m certainly not recommending it for anybody else, just saying it’s what I’m going to do. Worst case scenario, I’ll be in a VA nursing home. But I own a home - it would be cheaper for the VA to send an attendant to me. That’s what they did for my dad and brother.

Anyway, my dad racked up some pretty hefty bills from hospital visits over his last decade, and the VA paid for almost all of it. We only got billed $500 each for a few ambulance rides. The military isn’t a glamorous job and certainly not for everyone, but that retiree health plan makes a huge difference.

But the 4th of July is coming up, so that means a few days of staying up till 3am so I’m not startled out of my sleep thinking I’m in a mortar attack, so … there’s that.

Sorry for the late reply. I’m collecting a military pension and semi-retired now, so SS isn’t going to make or break me. I’m just thinking it’ll be better to spend it on vacations and fun when I’m 63 vs pills and nursing homes when I’m 70.

I was fortunate enough to get everything paid off a couple of years ago, so unless I buy another house, I shouldn’t have to worry about debt.

I guess what I’m saying is that even though it’ll be more money, I don’t think it’ll be much good to me at 70. Also, being single w/ no kids, I’m not trying to leave a bunch of money laying around when I kick the bucket. I’m trying to get as close to zero as I can.

Fun fact: The US Gov’t never broke even on that bailout https://www.nbcnews.com/businessmain/u-s-exits-gm-stake-taxpayers-lose-10-5-billion-2D11716261

Thank you for that explanation. My regex impaired ass thought he wanted to hurt generation[x|y|z].

I’m like “what’d we ever do to you?”

Anyone thought about when they’ll apply for Social Security(or whatever you have in your country)? I used to think people were dumb for taking SS early; obviously the longer you wait, the bigger your payment. But lately I’ve started to rethink that. I’ll probably take it right away because:

1. I don’t know how long I’m going to live: I just hit 50 and I still exercise every morning and try to go jogging occasionally, but that’s getting harder and harder to do. Plus I have this heart murmur my doctor hasn’t figured out yet.

2. I want to use the money while I can still enjoy it: I never used to pay attention to old people, but as I’m approaching that age, I’ve noticed there can be a sharp drop-off between age 60 and 65 or any given time span. Also, there’s a history of dementia in my family(both parents, brother, and now sister) so I’m on borrowed time.

3. There’s no telling when SS will become unsustainable. I think the projected date is around 2034 when they’ll have to start making reduced payments, but it’s hard to predict anything that far out. I’m just going to take my money when I can.

Any thoughts? Anyone out there already drawing SS?

Switched from Kubuntu to Mint + KDE last week. Very happy indeed.

At least the article points out that this is a Wall Street valuation, meaning it’s meaningless in reality, the company doesn’t have that much money, nor is it actually worth that much. In reality, Nvidia’s tangible book value (plant, equipment, brands, logos, patents, etc.) is $37,436,000,000.

$37,436,000,000 / 29,600 employees = $1,264,729.73 per employee

Which isn’t bad considering the median salary at Nvidia is $266,939 (up 17% from last year).

It sounds like the processor is the real limitation. Plenty of stuff from Windows XP era and before ran in less than 512MB.

Nice! I’ve been saying I’m going to go to Canada, but I have no idea what to do or where to go when I get there. It’ll be nice to get away from home, though.

Have a safe trip!

I came here just for that comment.

I ran it on a Ras Pi 3B+ and it did ok with 1080p and below. There were a few movies that had stuttering issues, so I’m guessing the Pi’s better with some codecs than others.

If you replace winning with whining, it’s correct.

It lifts pivots up.

https://vistapointe.net/holden-hurricane.html

But I thought they were “very fine people™”

I liked it better than the 914 & 944, I’ll give it that.

IRS makes free tax return program permanent and is asking all states to join in 2025

Good news!(if you live in the US) But there’s already opposition to the program, plus it’s on the actual states to join(and we saw how that went with the Affordable Care Act).

I’ve grown to like watching Dennis Quaid onscreen. It’s not that he’s an especially good actor, he just gives me that 80’s nostalgia vibe. The cocaine story is peak 80s.

I don’t really have any suggestions, but I can say that your Weekly Discussion is hugely successful in getting people to post. As you can see, you get way more engagement in the weekly thread than from regular Posts in the community.

Like most people, I don’t post or comment much because I hate all the negative responses you get on Lemmy (and anywhere, for that matter), but I’ll try to be more active.

Slammed, you say? Good heavens!

I think this is just how they keep in touch over social media.