Interesting. Thanks for sharing. (Not sarcasm)

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Ah, good insight about the Nazi party men with power, not soldiers everywhere. Thanks.

Thanks for sharing.

I’m guessing it felt a lot like the video games and books describe living in a fascist regime

Soldiers are everywhere, and you do your best to not stand out for any reason.

You are always worried about someone turning you in on false accusations.

You have to hide your joy, and save it for only the deepest parts of your home.

You make it appear you have knowledge, but you don’t want to share on the social network. Hmm.

How should we address you so you feel like we are worthy of learning from you?

Who are you?

You’re grilling OP on something they already said they have little experience with. OP is asking questions to learn, and the grilling is detrimental to that.

Getting yourself involved in a local charity will do more good for the world than what a normal person’s amount of money can do in any type of ETF.

I understand the moral desire to choose responsible companies.

I “interviewed” some advisors before I knew of ETFs. They asked if I had brand preferences, like Coke vs Pepsi, or McD vs Taco Bell, so that I could avoid investing in companies that I didn’t like. From that I realized those types of investors just cared about getting me into any stock to turn commissions and not about my personal income growth. I was way too small to affect anything, but I could lose out on income based on my personal flavor preference.

So I would say the same about picking socially responsible ETFs. What is socially responsible is completely up to some person and will likely not align with your preferences.

And after participating in many studies in college, and just life, I’ve learned that at large scales, when it comes to your pocketbook, the large majority of the time, the non-ultra-rich person should assume the system will go to selfish people over good-for-the-group people.

So, unless you are investing billions and trying to create the change yourself single handedly, just choose the ETF that works best for your pocketbook.

The amount of ownership, responsibility, and promotion you get of the evil a large corporation is doing through an ETF is basically non-existent, at the average human scale.

I would think the pre-known hardware configuration would make boots near instant. I never understood why this isn’t so.

No. When Microsoft is making the hardware, they can lock it down so nothing else can be installed. Mostly with signed boot loaders and drivers.

Remember when the PS3 actually allowed other operating system installations. Then, one day, they pushed out a new firmware that disabled that ability.

Maybe eventually someone figures out a hack. But these days, the hacks are complex enough, with many other available alternatives, that you’re looking at barely dozens of people doing it.

It’s the personality change of the owner. From being happy with making a crap ton of money per year to now wanting to see the profit increase 10% every year.

It’s always fun when, during a work presentation to higher ups, the XBox Game Bar or its notification popup on screen from an errant key press.

Ah, so that means you don’t live in Russia or North Korea. The toddler has thrown a lot of tantrums.

Sweet move!

They claim small government, even where they win, it is not. See Texas, Alabama, Florida…

Yup, all the people who only care about seeing a “mission accomplished” sign, but not about if it was actually done.

Don’t know what you really mean here. But Ukraine will just have to win again.

The main reason I upgraded was I wanted more RAM and maxed out the DDR3 stick sizes.

I got a 6th Gen i7, which has faster hard-core processing, but the Windows and MS Office UI was really responsive on those AMDs.

Can’t wait until we hear this immigrant is deported and his defense is he thought they wouldn’t come after him.