How long does the data refresh take, approx? Let's say I have an external portable SSD that I keep stored data on. Would plugging the drive into my computer and running
A full read would do it, but I think the safer recommendation is to just use a small hdd for external storage. Anything else is just dealing with mitigating factors
Thanks! I think you're right about just using an HDD, but for my portable SSD situation, after a full read of all blocks, how long would you leave the drive plugged in for? Does the refresh procedure typically take a while, or would it be completed in roughly the time it would take to read all blocks?
This is great information, thank you! Do you happen to know to what extent MTE is used on Android 16 when both Advanced Protection is enabled and when the newly-released "Device Protection" feature is enabled?
The stock OS doesn't use it for any of the kernel or most of userspace. It only uses it for specific processes where they're explicitly enabling it in that mode and apps explicitly opting into it. Nearly no apps are explicitly opting into MTE. On GrapheneOS, we dealt with third party apps by always using MTE with apps opting in, apps with no native code of their own and apps in our compatibility database. For the remaining apps with native code and no MTE opt-in, we have a per-app toggle and a global toggle to change it to opt-out instead of opt-in. We have user-facing MTE crash notifications providing a traceback to report to developers. We plan to significantly expand our compatibility database to always enable it for more apps like Signal but we're being cautious about that due to the potential for apps to ship a memory corruption bug occurring in regular use which not prioritizing fixing it. WhatsApp is an example of a widely used app which mostly works with our MTE integration but sometimes crashes in regular use and Facebook hasn't taken the issue seriously despite MTE not having any false positives.
He did - "the design of everyday things" is a book that has been around for decades and is still the best introduction to these. The book doesn't cover computers at all.
Though I warn you, I read it 30 years ago and I still cannot enter a kitchen without cursing how bad the stove is.
From reading the original comment, it is not apparent that "the design of everyday things" refers to a book with that title. When I read the comment the first time, I didn't understand it.
Communicating through writing is hard. Just as designing something that can be easily understood is hard.
In the US, the mortgage markets are propped up by the government and are basically subsidized as good investment vehicles. You can pretty much guarantee that governments aren't going to get their act together and make housing affordable (change zoning laws etc) so it makes sense to buy ASAP.
>In the US, the mortgage markets are propped up by the government and are basically subsidized as good investment vehicles. You can pretty much guarantee that governments aren't going to get their act together and make housing affordable (change zoning laws etc) so it makes sense to buy ASAP.
I have some thoughts on this. Not because owning a home is a bad idea, but because you should really factor what you're buying and why. None of this is to say your premise is incorrect, but merely there should be more nuance when thinking about this.
Buying a place you want to live in is fundamentally different than buying an investment vehicle.
I currently rent an apartment, but also own multiple investment properties. Why? Because it makes more sense for my situation, where I myself may need to move more often and therefore some aspects of being in a home that isn't turning profit into my pocket are undesirable, where as buying a house where I am going to live has a very different set of checkboxes, namely between economic issues in the macro and personal health stuff where myself or my wife have to travel a bunch, we're regionally limited and have determined we may or may not want to live in our current metro long term.
That said, I absolutely did buy one of the properties with the future intent of living there myself, I simply am delaying that to make money on the property rather than letting it sit empty. I'm easily a few years away from permanently moving into it myself, but in the advent I decide to live elsewhere long term than where I am right now, I at least have the income stream.
and absolutely, the regulations (and there by, the law) favors home owners every time. Renters get screwed in this I even tell this to young renters who rent from me. You simply can't get a break on the ever growing rise of rent vs a fixed rate mortgage, but you gotta understand what you're buying and why, and don't conflate the difference between a home and an investment vehicle, as many people do.
This is really good advice - the "your home is an investment" is realtor talk to get you to overspend.
A house is a depreciating thing you can live in, and is expensive! Once you correctly account for ALL the expenses (not just mortgage, insurance, and property tax!) you discover that renting may be advantageous.
But they do often go up in value over time (ignoring maintenance keeping them together) and sometimes beat inflation (especially when leveraged).
I'd go so far as to say - though this is based on my experience, keep that in mind - in saying that your first home should be seen as an investment vehicle so you can understand the mechanics of owning a home while reaping the upside of another income
This helped us tremendously. Rental income while not game changing when you own only 1-2 properties, does help build up your assets. It also allows you to offset some expenses as business expenses, which is nice.
There is overhead of course, and we pay a property management company to do things on our behalf and they get a small percent of the rent every month, but overall it taught us a ton and we did it without incurring significant additional expenses thankfully.
Now we are up to our 6th rental property and things are going smooth so far.
This is building true wealth via real estate in my opinion. Assuming we keep going, we'll likely own 12+ properties eventually, which we will sell down the road many years from now likely for significant upside, all the while having steady income coming in from them until we sell.
The danger in real estate investing is that 80% of the time it's (moderately) easy money, 10% of the time it's annoyingly break-even, and 10% of the time it's absolute soul-crushing, bankruptcy-inducing devastation.
And since you're usually in one or two properties to start, if your first one is the tenant from hell in a downmarket, you're going to feel it.
There is truth to this, you have to structure yourself a certain way.
The best thing you can do is structuring everything through a corporation. This also allows some additional avenues when considering financing too. It also gives you the liability shield in case things go sideways.
There's overhead here though, for sure, and plenty of ways to go about it the wrong way, many footguns exist. Its not stress free.
If you want truly passive investments, index funds are the way to go. Which is why I think buying a home for living should fundamentally have different criteria
All renting gets you is the "privilege" of paying someone else's mortgage. The entire point of homeownership is to build equity and pay off the mortgage.
That way, when you retire, your nest egg can go further because you only have to pay the property taxes, and when you die, you can pass the value along to your heirs and build generational wealth.
Houses are not index funds; ideally they should only appreciate at the rate of inflation. But they are absolutely long-term builders of generational wealth through the equity in the home. Heirs can sell them and then invest the proceeds, or live in them themselves without a mortgage.
They can be great, but you need to really run the numbers and check the assumptions.
Housing where it is "affordable" (read: median salary can afford a house) is a great way to get a leg up on the pile - though remember that the average age of a person RECEIVING and inheritance is 60.
But in places were buying a house is $2m but renting the same one is $3k a month, it's hard to ever make the numbers work.
>All renting gets you is the "privilege" of paying someone else's mortgage. The entire point of homeownership is to build equity and pay off the mortgage.
Where I live, what renting currently gets you is an enormous discount compared to the cost of a mortgage and the opportunity cost of parking your cash into a downpayment. Renting and investing downpayment level money is literally a better deal than buying a house.
Why do I care if I'm "paying someone else's mortgage"? The interest payments to the bank aren't building me equity either! It's all money, going one way or another, equity is just more money, and sometimes buying a house means more money goes out than in compared to renting, even if it's more intuitively satisfying.
You care when you're 60 years old, trying to figure out how to live the rest of your life on a fixed income, and still either have to pay rent for the rest of your life or spend a big chunk of cash on a house, because you didn't spend 20-30 years paying a mortgage.
I don't necessarily agree with the advice, but I think there's a few reasons to consider it.
A lot of people find their first house too small and buy a larger house later. IMHO, most people have an idea of how many children they'd like to have and some idea of when. I think the idea of the advice is not to buy a small house that fits your needs as a single person and wait until you have a family to buy a larger house that fits your needs as a family, but to just buy the big house?
a) If you buy your first one big, maybe it will be big enough and you won't need to switch. That saves transaction costs, and keeps you price anchored to your first purchase. If your house is in a state with something like Prop 13 that effectively anchors property tax to purchase price, buying the final house earlier can save you a significant amount of property tax over the years.
b) I think house prices rise faster on larger homes than smaller homes (especially condos and things). If that's the case, buying a right size house first then a new right size house later if your needs grow means you'll have a larger gap to cross over time.
c) probably something about house prices always going up, it's implied in a lot of arguments (and it works except when it doesn't ...)
Because in the USA the deck is stacked so hard toward home ownership that it's completely batshit.
Nothing else will let you take a government-protected 30 year fixed rate loan at rates barely above what the US government itself pays, that you can pay off anytime and cannot be called, leveraged to 80% or more.
And then the loans are often non-recourse, and the asset protected in bankruptcy.
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