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  • Unless you are retiring in the next decade, it is highly advisable to invest a 401k in the stock market. You get significantly higher returns over the long run. And any losses due to a recession are more than made up for by the significantly higher returns every other year.

    When you are nearing retirement (5-10 years out), that is when you want to put the money into something safe and stable like bonds or CDs. That way if there is a recession as you retire, it won’t affect your fund.









  • Yeah, with the Intel 13th and 14th gen issues, it really shouldn’t be recommending them as much. I think part of the issue is they only have one CPU vendor per tier. If they improved that, it would probably fix the issue. That said, if we are going purely off price/power, I’m not convinced their choices are bad.

    For a beginner though, I really don’t like just shoving them at PC Part Picker. It’s too easy to get overwhelmed with choices.






  • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldData HDD with SSD catch drive
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    21 days ago

    The biggest thing is you have changed a random write to a linear write, something HDDs are significantly better at. The torrent is downloading little pieces from all over the place, requiring the HDD to move it’s head all over the place to write them. But when simply copying off the ssd, it keeps the head in roughly one place and just writes lineally, utilizing it’s maximum write speed.

    I would say try it out, see if it helps.


    Also, if the HDD is having to do other tasks at the same time, that will slow it down as the head can only ever be in one place.


  • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldtoPrivacy@lemmy.mlI'm losing faith
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    1 month ago

    But it’s getting so hard nowadays

    It’s a sliding scale; it isn’t just ‘full privacy’ or ‘no privacy’. Everyone makes compromises somewhere based on their personal preferences. Most people would agree posting their credit card number on a public forum is too far into the ‘no privacy’ band, for example.

    how does privacy improve the world

    It’s up to you, but I don’t like trusting my personal info with untrustworthy companies.