I’m in a similar situation, after dealing with the deaths of multiple parents I don’t want my descendants to have a huge burden of stuff and I’ve been on a mission to purge as much as possible. Facebook Marketplace has been great to get rid of a lot of the more bulky stuff. It’s great, you post a picture and someone comes to your house to pick it up cash in hand. Low value stuff gets donated to goodwill or my local Buy Nothing/Free Stuff group on Facebook. Also been doing a tidy amount of sales on eBay for smaller/more valuable items.

Still have a lot of progress to make. At least my game collection on Steam will be easy to clean up.

Don’t forget about cloud-something!

Related: HP Offers 'That Cloud Thing Everyone Is Talking About’

https://youtu.be/9ntPxdWAWq8

On the web 3.0 blockchain.

I was also surprised to find that out the other day when someone on Reddit was complaining they couldn’t get a good price on a /17 they were hoarding to sell for a profit. Good riddance.

Same, I think at one point I was reinstalling my (pirated) copy of Windows 98 SE at least once a month. In hindsight I should have pirated Norton Ghost as well.

I recently passed the CCNA again and they really spend a lot more time on IPv6 compared to 15 years ago. It inspired me to go all in this time and configured my home network with a PD allocation from my ISP. I also came up with some fun labs and even got a IPv6 sage T-shirt from Hurricane Electric.

Did you have to do anything special to get the t shirt? I got the sage cert ages ago and they never sent my shirt...

No, but it did arrive several months later. Maybe they wait and send it in batches?

It arrived. Maybe the send them out yearly.

Any recommended courses? I'm a SWE and never felt compelled for the CCNA but my intersection with networking-related problems seems to continuously increase and I would like to up my game before getting in over my head at work.

I just bought the official exam guide found Neil Anderson’s videos helpful. One thing that bugged me a bit was they spent a little too much time on their WiFi, including the obsolete Airie OS.

Heh. When I was in high school, cell phones and pagers were banned based on the assumption that only drug dealers could afford them.

I was in Cub Scouts in the early 90s and got a Swiss Army knife. I thought it would be cool to show it off to the kids on the bus. It got confiscated by the principal and I was suspended for one day. I think I got off light. I can’t imagine what would happen these days.

> Be aware of unintended consequences when you (try to) cut a child off from computer use.

In the mid 90’s I got my first PC when I was 13 but my parents would not let me online. I ended up finding a way via nefarious means. I bought a 25’ telephone cord from Radio Shack and when my parents weren’t home I would unplug their bedroom phone. I discovered that if I ran the Prodigy installer it would connect to the Internet briefly to download the latest phone numbers in my area. I found that I could alt-tab out of the full screen installer and use the lnternet unfiltered for about 10 minutes or so before they kicked me off. This worked for about a year or so.

I then had to resort to stealing my parent’s credit card and signing up for free trials and cancelling them before the charges incurred. I eventually screwed up big time. I downloaded a “free porn” BBS dialer and it made an international call to South America and ran up the phone bill $300 or so. I lost my computer privileges for a couple of months. I guess the silver lining was when I turned 16, I immediately got a job and my drivers license so I could pay for my own phone line. I kept my grades up to maintain privileges and was a straight arrow since.

As an ex-Mint user, Monarch has been a very useful and I feel I spend way less time monkeying around trying to recategorize transactions. I really like the budget rollover feature, it really helps smooth out things like yearly insurance renewals. My only fear is if they start getting greedy and jack up the yearly subscription fee. I feel like around $100/year is just about right.

At my first job in finance I worked at a trading firm that recruited people off the street to electronically click trade futures. They would ride the intraday market moves and constantly open/close positions. At the end of the day they would be flat. It was a lot like gambling, but with CNBC on the TV instead of sports.

It’s kind of funny to see the similarities in this book. Like the bucket shops, there was a simulation environment with live market data where trainees had to prove themselves before they can move onto live trading. It turned out that a lot of folks were pretty good at the fake/simulation training but failed miserably with live trading due to their orders actually influencing the market. The firm only lasted a few years.