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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • The goal of an emergency fund is to be available for an eventual emergency. If you lose your job and need to live on saved up money for a few months, you might be forced to sell stock at the wrong time, losing capital. There is a middle ground where you invest that money in a low-risk investment product that will grow with time, without the volatility of the stock market.
    To be fair, 6 month is a lot, and most likely not the first goal someone should have when it comes to personal finance starting from zero.





  • I toyed with a Pinephone last year. Most of my complains were toward the hardware, although I didn’t try every basic functionality either.
    It took me a while to setup the OS because I wanted to try a few different distros and screwed up a few times here and there. Arch was the most stable of those I tried. It also comes with a built-in right to brag about using Arch, which is cool. I think that using a more recent and higher grade phone could make it usable in the day to day, as the pinephone is more of a development tool. Otherwise, give it a few more years.