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Do you honestly see yourself ever retiring and how?
  • Barring any global events probably. I am quite fortunate.

    To start with me and my wife are both sw engineers.

    I earn some nice big company stock, from when I started to 5 years later it's 10x'd. I was a few years late to really hit jackpot but I still made a lot and will hopefully continue to gain. My company also matches the first 6% of my rrsp (a 401k for canadains) and I contribute 8%. I also have a maxed tfsa.

    I am a pretty aggressive budgeter so I make sure we spend below our means and build uo other savings as well.

    There's a bit of a "problem" at my company where many of the senior staff basically have blank cheques because only they understand the overall architecture. I hope to also end up in this position. I knew a guy that worked 2 half days a week for at least 2x my salary with vacation time to boot. All he did was answer questions for a few hours then go home.

    I bought a house during a panic price drop in 2020 got a really cheap price and then sold it for a huge profit and bought a run down duplex that is a bad investment property but a good place to live for my polycule (in a super walkable neighborhood to boot!). I plan to die in This house. I got what will probably be an all time low interest rate of 1.7% and have been paying it off faster than necessary. When it renews next year at 4-5% I will hopefully keep the same monthly. If my monthly doesn't grow above that then I'll be pretty on track to have it paid off before I turn 45, giving me more money to save and also lowering the amount I need a month.

    If interest rates go down or me/wife gets some nice promotions or my company stock does another big climb then kids might even be on the table.

  • FearNoPeer is open for 48 hours
  • couple things:

    • generally the rules prevent torrents from becoming incomplete
    • usually theres a request system, which can be very useful for old or obscure stuff.
    • usually much faster for all but the most popular stuff
    • way more timely and consistent. Less problems where it takes a few days after a release for it to show up or for a series to stop being uploaded half way through a season.
    • less chance of honeypots or other malicious behaviour (you should still use a VPN though obviously)
    • more consistent quality and naming enforcement (which means it usually works better with *arr)

    I can't vouch for this particular tracker but in general (free) private trackers are very nice.

  • FearNoPeer is open for 48 hours
  • I looked up some reviews for the tracker and reddit was shitting all over it, claiming it's pretty pay to use and the admins are tyrants. Can anyone share their experience?

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    Quick Note on the Election:
    1. No self posts.

    I strongly think this rule should change, it is important we are able to humanize each other, make our own arguments. Self posts are important way to do that. I think some guidelines to keep it constructive and high effort is warranted but an outright ban I'm against.

    1. No meme/image/shitposting.

    I'm fine with this, but maybe a weekly mega thread to blow off steam in would be healthy?

    No calls for violence. Full stop.

    I understand the legal obligations here. I'll also point out the president elect is openly calling for widespread violence. If some can say "cops should shoot/arrest/deport <xyz>" that is a call for violence.

    Mods, You have a hard, thankless job, so thank you.

  • "I can't believe anyone would vote for Trump," says smug Canadian man planning to vote for Poilievre
  • ABC is always my vote (that means green for me). This could actually be quite the opportunity for NDP/green to pick up seats. If Mr.PP really steps in it andloses support and NDP gets off their ass and gains support it wouldn't be totally impossible to have some freaky 5-way power struggle. Probably wishful thinking, but I think with a lot of coordination and luck it could happen

  • Hacker says they banned ‘thousands’ of Call of Duty gamers by abusing anti-cheat flaw
  • Vizor said they could simply send a private message — known as a “whisper” in the game — that included one of these hardcoded strings, such as “Trigger Bot,” and get the player they were messaging banned from the game.

    That is so fucking stupid.

  • Steam to remove support for legacy (international) family sharing
  • Perhaps my experience is atypical but with the old system I'd have to sign in and reset everything every few months, so that doesn't really seem very different for me at least. But then again I dont have much if a remote setup anymore.

  • What are some small things that grind your gears?
  • Where I live you can either use those cornstarch types or paper bags (very similar to yard waste bags). I like the paper bag for the big bin that goes in the roadside, but cornstarch ones for the one in the kitchen that only sticks around a day or two. Perhaps raise the idea with your local council.

    I prefer curbside system because it is able to accept many things that my at home compost can't handle like dog shit, meats and those biodegradable "plastics" that need industrial facilities. Also apartments.

  • 🇨🇦Canadian here, AMA! 🧞‍♂️
  • I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "voting is done" but I think our parliamentary system is somewhat more resistant to systemic fuckery than the US system.

    I don't mean we are invincible, but 1 conservative term is not going to end democracy in Canada.

  • 🇨🇦Canadian here, AMA! 🧞‍♂️
  • that'd be a huge pull, but if it were to happen we'd probably end up with a very exciting 5-way split which would be quite exciting (and probably extremely unstable). if ABC voters can heavily coordinate AND PP says a bunch of quiet stuff out loud then it could happen.

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