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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • Start buying a few shares of VTI every pay period. Use any left over cash to buy SPYG. Ignore the gains or losses, the market has never not gone up (eventually). Thank yourself later.

    Max out your 401k when you get a decent paying job. But make sure you hit every pay period to maximize your employer contribution.

    Consider using mass transit where possible, bike if you can, more or less avoid a car/insurance. If that’s not possible get a cheap car like a used Nissan leaf ($7000 in my area, costs a few dollars a month to charge using a wall outlet and extension cord)

    Minimize unnecessary expenses like using food delivery services. Meal prep on the weekends and make enough food for a week.

    If you do all this for 10 years or so, you’ll be in a really good spot financially. Buying a house will be a decent prospect, your VTI and SPYG will be making money, your taxable income will be small and you will have built up the ability to splurge on things without it making much of an impact on your finances.

    I’ve been following the YouTube channel Chris invests and he gives lots of similar advice like this.










  • So far I love it. I bought it brand new from Lenovo and you could pick from I think 3 or 4 distros. I picked fedora, which it came with 38. When I first booted up it had a bios update which honestly surprised me that they would bother. Then upgraded to 40 through the fedora upgrade path. All painless.

    I was fully prepared to make a windows live USB just to flash the bios/firmware.




  • I had one quite some time ago so my memory is probably not perfect here. it was almost good enough for most things. I feel like there was an issue where it only had 32bit support for some stuff, but this was years ago.

    I do remember it had decent support for Ubuntu out of the box.

    It had a ton of bios updates when it first came out, so step one is I’d go make sure you’ve got at least a recent version.