40 years ago, in 1985, $15,000 was worth $5,000. The S&P 500 was valued at about $185/share. 5000/185 = 27 shares. SP500 today is about $6,664. 27*6664 = $179,928.

Go ahead and ask every 59 year old in your life if they’d feel better about their retirement with another $180k sitting in an S&P 500 ETF.

Open an account on Vanguard or Fidelity or Schwab or whatever, buy an S&P 500 ETF, and leave it the fuck alone.

This was not any sort of nudist camp though.

Sure sounds like it was. And nudists are weird.

Some small children, too.

Yep, weird.

I (male) am in the upper regions of this bracket

That makes you, in the eyes of the weird, weird.

I had my misgivings about forcing him to leave.

And that whole situation, if all the other weird shit wasn’t already enough, that should have been your cue to behave as though a nun were constantly present, scowling at you, slapping a ruler into her palm. You did not, ergo I agree with JASN, you deserved this.

Sorry man, but next time you want to hang with the weirdos, ask yourself constantly whether you vibe with the weirdos.

Milwaukee fastback?

…“fairy”?

I work with several people who believe this.

By not detected I assume you mean it didn’t auto-mount and show up in Nemo file browser. Maybe try running the Disks app in Linux Mint and see if your SD card shows up there and just needs to be reformatted?

Does your laptop have an SD card slot? Maybe you could do a backup that way?

Once you get your backup sorted I would just do a fresh install of 22.1 Xia. You’ll be fine with that older hardware. I don’t think the new stuff from 20.3 to 22.1 would make you notice a severe difference. If you have 4 GB of RAM that’s your limiter, but I’d have said the same thing when 20.3 came out.

They rarely get hurricane direct hits, but deal with the remnants of major hurricanes a lot. Not many homes are storm proofed like you’d see in Florida though. Clearly their city storm sewer infrastructures are not equipped to deal with the combination of a high annual rainfall followed by a deluge like this.

Edit: I want to clarify that Eastern NC is more prepared than out west, the eastern half sees stronger hurricane remnants more often than out west, where they still get them but they’re weaker from the mountains. Not this time, apparently.

win + x brings up a useful alternate start menu

Yeah ‘etc’ of course stands for ‘et cetera’ which implies that’s all just a bunch of extra shit, right?

With every update Windows becomes more annoying.

With every update Linux Mint (and every distro) becomes more refined.

There are still gaps; HDR isn’t really there yet, never mind Dolby Vision… but if all you want is a PC that acts right and doesn’t piss you off with ads and upsells… honestly, a default Linux Mint install is at least as good as Windows at this point.

Second for Rescuezilla, it’s a Clonezilla front end with sane defaults you’d probably pick anyways.