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Piatro

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  • Two in five not saving enough in pension for even basic retirement

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  • Yes I should have said "employed full-time" probably. This also doesn't account for the self-employed who have to manage it themselves too rather than having their employer do it.

  • Two in five not saving enough in pension for even basic retirement

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  • If you're British and employed your employer is legally required to provide a private pension I believe. You also get a state pension if you've been paying national insurance (most people will get this taken out of pay cheques before you ever see the money, same as income tax). Some employers offer "matching contributions" up to a certain amount. For example if you decide you want to send £100 per month into your private pension, your employer will also do the same, so your pension gets £200. These contributions are tax free so it's a tax-efficient way to save money when compared to privately investing where you'd have to invest from your income, which has already been taxed and then potentially have to pay capital gains tax on profits.

  • My brother claims that Vanguard for League can do the same to gaming PCs that install it as CrowdStrike did to businesses who installed that, is this true? Does Vanguard have as much access/power?

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  • That works until all* games come with root level anti cheat. It was the same with micro transactions which people still defend despite being utter shit.

    • Realistically this will never be 100% but it will be enough of the mass market AAA games like CoD etc to mean that if you functionally want to play a game made in the last X number of years you will need to accept this or stop playing games altogether. I think most people will continue to play games. Most people will continue to install root level anti cheat, knowingly or otherwise, and all of them will get fucked by an exploit of that software. They may never even know about it.

  • My brother claims that Vanguard for League can do the same to gaming PCs that install it as CrowdStrike did to businesses who installed that, is this true? Does Vanguard have as much access/power?

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  • Helldivers 2 does the same thing. If this continues it will be extremely advisable to move any non-gaming use-cases to a different computer as you have no idea what the "anti-cheat" is doing with that level of authority over your computer.

  • What is the best model of used ThinkPad to purchase?

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  • Literally just bought what I believe to be last generation's X13 on ebay for half the price of the new one. It's been great so far, especially with the power efficiency of Ryzen CPUs. My one complaint is the soldered RAM, which judging by the new lineup is getting phased out, thankfully.

  • SGE, ChatGPT and the likes are the stupidest thing to come from AI

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  • My specific point here was about how this friend doesn't trust the results AND still goes to Google/others to verify, so he's effectively doubled his workload for every search.

  • SGE, ChatGPT and the likes are the stupidest thing to come from AI

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  • I've had this argument with friends a lot recently.

    Them: it's so cool that I can just ask chatgpt to summarise something and I can get a concise answer rather than googling a lot for the same thing.

    Me: But it gets things wrong all the time.

    Them: Oh I know so I Google it anyway.

    Doesn't make sense to me.

  • gut pull

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  • I've been programming for too long, my brain just autocorrected the typo so initially didn't get the joke...

  • GOP Sen. John Kennedy Freaks Out When Reminded He Used To Be A Democrat

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  • Either works

  • Actual: How to import data with proper readable payee?

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  • Personally I rename them to something meaningful and they get merged if there are no other references. PayPal is especially bad for completely meaningless rubbish in the payee field and they tend to be ad-hoc purchases so I don't fiddle with them much. The category is the most relevant bit for me.

  • SSH protects the world’s most sensitive networks. It just got a lot weaker

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  • Bit of an alarmist headline here. The vulnerability has been patched in the most common clients (openssh) and it was because the protocol wasn't being implemented correctly. To say that the SSH protocol "just got a lot weaker" is just not true.