Just got a steam deck and love it. I also got the official dock and can’t believe how bad it is. I have to unplug it and my TV half the time to get the dock to connect correctly. It works fine for a few days, then stops. I’ve had picture issues and audio issues and even issues with the deck right after disconnecting it.
Welcome to a life of investing. I started investing in '08 and everything that was a once in a generation crash. And in '10 when the market recovered, so many thought it wasn’t real. And as the market kept going up '11-'15, so many kept claiming the crash was coming so it was smart to change your investments. I saw so many run for the hills in the dips in '15 and '16 and then completely miss the run up over the next few years. I have some colleagues that panicked following the COVID19 dip, and never got back in and missed the recovery and new all time highs.
The truth is your entire lifetime of investing, it will always feel like this time is different. This time it’s obvious we’re about to crash or it’s obvious we’re about to go on a run or it’s riskier than it’s always been. I’m not going to tell you the market is going to be up in the next year, or next five years, or next ten. But since the late 1800s, a great strategy has been to just keeping investing over time and not trying to time the market.
Initially, your swings of hundreds of dollars will keep you up at night, but if you keep at it, eventually those swings will be in the thousands or tens of thousands and you’ll be able to handle them better. I can’t promise you you’ll win with this type of set it and forget it strategy, but there has yet to be a period of a couple of decades in US History than you haven’t ended up a winner if you have that long term horizon.
As someone who has spent most of their life in Ohio, but grew up in New Jersey … there is a lot of corn in New Jersey.
Its too jarring in the middle for users of Dark Mode. I’ve used your app and paid for premium on reddit. I haven’t here because the price to value isn’t there compared to other options at its current price point. I’ve been using your lemmy app since it released but this ad change had me immediately switch.