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FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early)

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FIRE is a lifestyle movement with the goal of gaining financial independence and retiring early.


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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are you still looking for a way to automate these posts? I'd be happy to do it. I was a lurker on r/fire.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That'd be fantastic if you could!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Done! Right now it's set to post at 8 am Eastern Time (12 pm GMT).

[–] BrightFadedDog 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is there a way to automate posts here? I would really love to be able to do that for my group, would you be able to point me in the right direction to find out how?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, I don't know of any established tools. There are a number of libraries for various languages, or you can make API calls directly. But if you don't have programming experience, none of those are really an option.

For now, if there's an extremely simple action you want done on a schedule, I'd be happy to add it to the script I'm using for c/fire. Just let me know what you have in mind. In time, I'm sure people will make powerful botting tools that don't require as much technical knowledge, but they're just not here yet.

[–] BrightFadedDog 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks for responding. Unfortunately my programming experience is about 40 years out of date. I'm working on learning a bit more, but it is rather complicated figuring out where to start. At the moment I'm still at the stage of working out what applications I need to use, so every little bit helps🙂

By the time I figure it all out the tools to do more easily it will probably be available, but a bit extra learning is never a bad thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Absolutely. I wish you all the best with your project. :)

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Apparently I have mod powers now. I'm still not really sure what that means, but I'll try not to abuse it.

On other news, I've been really busy at work recently, so that kinda sucks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I'm usually off social media Fri-Sun, weekends are busy and I'm not around the computer or on my phone that much, but had to log in to make the daily!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not FIRE-related, but I wish I took the money that I spent on a Switch a year ago and put it toward a Steam Deck. I mostly play Rocket League and Apex Legends when I’m traveling and woof… it’s rough.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's a bummer. Can you sell the switch and put the money towards a steam deck?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Probably could, but that sounds like work. For a while I bought/sold on r/hardwareswap but I’m continuing my protest. I’m lazy :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

FWIW, I have both a Switch and Steam Deck and prefer the Switch honestly. The Steam Deck can do more and take advantage of better sales, but we find ourselves using the Switch far more often

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Makes sense! Truthfully I’m not a huge handheld fan. I have a Miyoo Mini + to play some Gameboy and SNES games on the go. Otherwise I just want something that I can plug in when I visit cousins or BIL.

I actually have some leftover laptop RAM and a Ryzen 3400g so I may buy a Deskmini X300 for my travel PC. It’s not quite as powerful as the Steam Deck in gaming but it would only cost me $150 versus $400+

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Sort of a half day at work today as we have a team building activity at TopGolf. It will be really nice to see people I haven't seen since before COVID, since I never go to the office anymore.