I love my Instinct Solar. I have never connected it to my phone though — I don’t want notifications or anything. I can manually take the workout results and plug them into my phone.

The solar part is really nice. I did a three hour hike in Colorado a few weeks ago (GPS off) and added like eight days of estimated battery.

Got my annual “raise” today at 3.5%. The average for the department was 3% so I guess it’s better than a stick in the eye.

(Disclaimer that I’m still new-ish to Linux)

I just went about a year between EndeavorOS updates on a laptop and uhh… it wasn’t happy. I just installed Kubuntu which hopefully will be more forgiving haha.

Not really, however I’m fortunate to get 33 days of PTO per year, so once my bank got near the limit of 40 days saved I was able to arrange for one day of PTO to be used every two week pay period. The extra day off really helps!

This is totally not the intent of buildapc, but if you’re willing to go ITX, I’ve been meaning to sell some “old” parts through the hardwareswap Discord. If you’re interested (and in USA :)) it may save you some money to go for a higher end GPU.

I have:

• Asrock Fatal1ty B450 Gaming ITX/ac. Works with up to 5000 series CPUs with a BIOS update
• Ryzen 3400G (about 10-15% slower in CPU benchmarks)
• 2 x 8 gb 3200 MHz Samsung B-die RAM

Yes. I keep 25-30% in international stocks. FZILX in my IRA, I-fund in my old TSP, and whatever the institutional equivalent is in my employer plan.