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Question to ask would be can your make Roth contributions. If you are earning less than $120k your income tax is going to be zero. So making Roth and paying all the tax today and none when retired would be ideal.

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It’s great, for about 2 weeks

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Run iozone to test pool.

Small tests will reside in ARC and give you false high. 512gb is minimum, or change tunable to reduce arc size

Iperf to test network.

FYI Scale has a bug limiting ARC to half your physical ram. Apparently there is beta test for fix posted on TrueNas forum. And should be in production in 6 months-ish. This won’t impact synthetic tests, but in real life you may want to have the extra cache

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only want to stay for 6 months

Have you been to Malta before? Tiny Islands, most people are bored after 2 weeks.

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I sent them to a friend in the US that was planning to meet me when in Colombia. The flight for them from Florida was stupid cheap.

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https://www.irs.gov/publications/p54#en_US_2022_publink100047372

Table following this section. Won’t formate correctly for me to paste it here

"Earned income.

This is pay for personal services performed, such as wages, salaries, or professional fees. The list that follows classifies many types of income into three categories…"

Publication 54 tells you everything you need to know about FEIE in easy to understand language

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Free File Sync can auto run when a sd.card is inserted. But you are probably going to want to give a unique folder name for each disk not sure how to do that.

I use a robocopy script to inject photos. Simply enter the drive letter and what you want the folder called.

I all likelihood having 6 SD cards reading at once is going to be slower overall than doing 3 batches of 2. USB kind of sucks that way.

Unless you are going to put 6 dedicated USB hosts in your PC.

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I certainly would not expect Thailand to be more expensive than Philippines.

Certainly lots of locals in PH are living in $100 a month apartments, but if you want AC and Internet you are spending significantly more. BGC, Makati, Cebu City where most DN would stay seem much more expensive than BKK or Chaing Mai.

Similar story for Thai vs Pinoy food.

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Cuba at nearly $5k seems inaccurate.

Offical exchange rate is 24:1 USD. But real life was 80 last time I heard. This may be the problem.

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If you own a car, car camping around the state lands and national parks would totally be doable.

I did a 2 month road trip. Fuel is cheaper in US than muxh of the world. Groceries too. Restaurant food has gone way up with inflation.

Problem is you can’t really buy a car as a foreigner. And renting one for 3 months is going to be insane.

Van, campers rentals were expensive when I looked in 2019. Cheaper to stay in a hotel. I can only imagine now after the COVID hype how expensive they are.

Hostels aren’t really a thing in the US, so finding a place to sleep for under $50 a night is a challenge

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