Mastodawn

Still working on getting my new computer up to speed after my old laptop crashed.

Was able to reinstall #TurboTax 2024 & reload the tax file. Important because I have a huge tax loss carryover that I need to be able to continue to carryover. 😎

Reinstalled a copy of #Quicken Deluxe yesterday. Only negative about that is that I now have to pay a subscription to continue to use it but I've been using Quicken for decades & I know how it works.

Am willing to try something new if it's free but my search for a free Quicken alternative came up empty.

Still have to restore some #LibreOffice text & spreadsheet files. Have hard copies & could try to scan & OCR read them but there aren't many but will probablyjust retype them manually. 🤷‍♂️

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MathiasTCK.bsky.social Jan 2

"The emergence of magic, the outbreak of the #VITAS plagues, the #ComputerCrash of 2029, the Euro-Wars, and the fevers for independence of Amerindian tribes,"

N-gated Hacker News Oct 8

💡The real reason we "need" SIMD? Because apparently, more #performance is the antidote to all life's problems, according to Nicholas Wilt's love letter to computational complexity. 🛠️ Meanwhile, the rest of us are still trying to figure out why our computers crash every time we open a spreadsheet. 🤷‍♂️
https://parallelprogrammer.substack.com/p/why-we-need-simd-the-real-reason #SIMD #computationalcomplexity #techissues #computercrash #spreadsheetwoes #HackerNews #ngated