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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I filled out my taxes this year on TurboTax, FreeTaxUSA and TaxAct, both FreeTaxUSA and TaxAct messed up my state taxes to the point that they were basically unusable, TurboTax also messed up my state taxes… but it wasn’t nearly as bad.

    Of all three services, as much as I wanted to not use TurboTax, it had the greatest refund, so that’s what I filed with.

    We seriously need to get rid of personal tax crap for people who aren’t making money from anywhere but their regular jobs, the government already knows how much we paid, shouldn’t have to math it.

    Anyways, just letting anyone that’s curious know what it was like filing taxes this year.

    Edit: One year I had a CPA do my taxes, it ended up with a larger refund, but it cost more, so it kinda washed out. Maybe ended up being a difference of like $20.






  • I don’t think that’s really the gist here, I shopped for M2/M3 before, and the prices are stupid, buy a cheaper one, which you feel like won’t be enough for the lifetime you want to use it for, or go all out and hope that it is what you wanted for however long you need it.

    By the time you get to storage, which you can never change, you’re stuck deciding if you go with what you feel you need, or go big and pay big.

    The entire model is broken, and 8GB of RAM by default is also really really stupid, unless all you do is email and browse the web, but you shouldn’t be buying a pro model if you’re just needing a larger phone >_>

    So you get stuck, do I pay for the future and hope it’s big enough for all the years I want to use it, or am I okay buying another laptop in less than 2-3 years just because I can’t change it afterward?

    I understand your sentiment, I don’t mind building and maintaining my own PCs, the biggest problem with the newest MacBooks is that you’re stuck with your purchase, for better or worse until you get another one.

    This might not be a big deal for people with light workloads and low usage, but for some of us, it makes it really hard to say yes to their prices, not knowing if it’s going to be enough for 4-5 years.