I love the word 'regime'.

It's so geopolitical.

dualstow wrote: ↑Tue Oct 28, 2025 12:24 pm

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 28, 2025 9:34 am Dualstow, you haven't driven in decades??

That's right. I stopped when I moved overseas. Spent a few years overseas and when I came back to the U.S., I always lived in big cities.
Nowadays, if I *really* need a car I take a taxi, Lyft or Uber.

Oh interesting! I didn't know that.

Dualstow, you haven't driven in decades??

They came in a box that said authorized Microsoft refurbisher. The warranty is whatever it says in the eBay ad. I generally don't pay a lot of attention to warranties because I don't like sending anything anywhere. Totally fair. I hate sending my gear off too! I never know if i'm going to get it ba...

Smithers, have you resurrected the All-Terrain portfolio? I thought you scrapped it. Or maybe just the book? It was just the book project that I decided I didn't have the time available to do justice to. I am still maintaining the website. The All-Terrain Portfolio went on the back burner a little ...

I was thinking of picking up one of these at my local big box retailer. https://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX00135097 A very decent price (for Canada). This is where I bought my two Lenovo's where I know someone else did. How do prices there compare to what you have here? https://www.ebay.com/s...

I wonder how much tilting to value or overweighting emerging markets will help over the next decade.

I feel like some of the richest members may have left in recent years haha.

I didn't realize that the current Shiller P/E was so high...

I was thinking of picking up one of these at my local big box retailer.

https://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX00135097

A very decent price (for Canada).

Nice. The X series along with the T series are especially legendary.

The Lenovo Legion line (made for gaming), has a lot of the hallmarks of the Thinkpad line, but still doesn't have that "hewn from granite" feel.

And as far as I know, having as little as 20% in any of the major asset classes still gets Browne's "blessing" as per his books. That's always reassuring. I will hold onto a factor tilt tenaciously as well. I have introduced a few coworkers to balanced investing over the past year. (In add...

I recently bought two used Lenovo laptops from EPC at eBay. First one was $250. Second was $170. Shocked at how powerful the CPUs are in them for being laptops and their costs. Indeed, I might just buy myself a refurb Thinkpad. At my local computer store they're selling some decent ones with 11th g...

dualstow wrote: ↑Wed Oct 22, 2025 9:51 am

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 21, 2025 11:00 pm ChromeOS is probably my favourite Linux distro at this point

Just need a robust Alt key

Nothing compares to the Thinkpad keyboard!

It's not a huge difference, but the 20% weighting to LTTs in the Golden Butterfly is more palatable to me than the 25% in the Permanent Portfolio.

Literally me.

You can thank me for the recent run up in gold, guys.

As soon as I started committing to Bitcoin as my hard money asset, gold started shooting up of course.

You're welcome.

ChromeOS is probably my favourite Linux distro at this point

So, regarding that Lenovo Chromebook I bought a while back -- I ended up going through 2 units before finally settling on one that didn't have a physical defect. The first unit ended up having a wonky Alt key that wouldn't actuate properly about 1 out of every 10 times or so I pressed it. Not freque...

Me too. Wasn't it Germany that tried to get some of its reserves back from the Fed bank in New York and it took years just to get a partial repatriation?

I guess in a severe inflationary scenario it could be considered playing with fire?

Sure looks like it. My Wealthsimple brokerage account is also having intermittent issues.

Was the forum inaccessible for a while for anyone else?

It's so funny to see so many people on that forum still try to "explain away" gold's role in a portfolio. Unbelievable levels of willful blindness.

Xan wrote: ↑Mon Oct 06, 2025 2:10 pm Don't worry, it's not a hard fork, it's just your money will vanish unless you jump through some hoops.

lmao touche!