While I do a daily Macrium Reflect backup on all my PCs, I’ve been happily upgrading my Microsoft OS, similar to your example. In addition when I upgrade my hardware, including the motherboard and CPU, I just pop in my old OS disk and let it adjust to it’s new hardware. I have on rare occasions restored my system from…

I stumbled across Wim Hof and in trying his breathing technique I’m convinced that there is something to all of this. I’ve just put a hold on Nestor’s book at our library.

I’ve done this for my kids whenever they’ve had earned income. Their income was small but we matched them 100% which went into their Roths. So it is not a lot but it is in an S&P 500 index fund and it will grow for a long time and they can add to it once they complete college and have full time jobs.

Nice, rock solid, fact based, boring ;-), advice. I was a poor kid who joined the military to help pay for college, who lived a frugal life (the other half of the FIRE equation) and retired early due to this kind of approach. When my young kids got summer jobs I matched their earnings by contributing to their s&p 500…

A couple of times I got a prompt from Amazon asking if I could answer a question that someone asked about a product I just bought. I think this confuses people and they answer “I don’t know” or similar and that ends up in the Q&A section. Something else Amazon needs to improve.

A few weeks ago I finally changed my Windows 10 laptop over to Ubuntu to avoid the carnage of one more Windows update. So far the battery lasts longer and since I use my laptop primarily with chrome, I’m not missing any Windows features (except the constant seeming productivity sapping updates). My desktop is still 10…

Ripped all my VHS and DVDs to disk many years ago. My library lives on a USB drive attached to my Windows Media center PC that lives in my family room. I automatically backup my library daily to another PC. I originally thought my library was obsolete with Netflix but Netflix changed and is unreliable as a source of…

I still use Amazon regularly but some time ago I relegated then to my last resort instead of the first place I go. It started when they sent me a box with supposedly three items and it only had one. There was literally no way I could tell them on their web site that I did not receive two items. Hilariously, I got a…

I loved civ 3, hated 4, reluctantly played 5 hoping I’d find the magic again, and now I love 6 as it feels like they took off the parking breaks that were built into 5.

Civ V 833 hours according to steam. Yet Civ V is not Civ. Civ 1-3 reflected our world (I could never get into Civ 4). I could watch the news and better understand what was going on in the world because of Civ 1-3. Civ V is an alternate universe, fun to play, but too many arbitrary game features (such as religion —…