The current boom doesn't even show up as a boom in a long term plot of stonk prices.  According to FRED, the fed stopped printing money back in February, but the stonk market hasn't done anything.  The mane unknown is whether interest rates are really going anywhere.

The mane concern is the Dave Ramsey plan becoming the norm in the last 3 years: 100% index funds & no cash.  Higher stonk weighting as you get older.  If anything goes wrong, there aren't going to be any dip buyers besides the government.  The lion kingdom sees a short term pop, but selling in May & going away might come true for a change.  

The lion kingdom has found betterment to be janky millennial user interface design at its best.  There's a target allocation slider on a front page which selects how much is invested in stonks & a portfolio control on a back page which shows a detailed list of holdings.  The target allocation & the portfolio control are actually the same control.  Change the portfolio to a custom portfolio & the target allocation goes away.  Change the portfolio to a preset portfolio & the target allocation changes the amounts in the portfolio.

The portfolio control isn't multiplied by the target allocation control in a 2nd step.  Many  a generation Xer has changed to a custom portfolio with 100% stonks  only to find the target allocation slider gone & 100% of their money invested in stonks.  Betterment only allows making changes once every few hours.  After submitting a change, several hours have to go by before another change is allowed.  Instead of giving an error, the submit buttons just don't do anything until the last change is processed.  There's no cancel or undo.

Since 2020, XFinity/Comca$t is only able to provide 40 weeks of service per year to the 50,000 users in the county.  For the remaneing 12 weeks, the lion kingdom switched to a 10 gig T-Mobile plan, but it's very unreliable & requires frequently drop kicking the hotspot icon on the phone.  The 50,000 users all go dark at the same time & flog the T-Mobile network.

The phone reaches the home network through a macbook wifi uplink.  Macos doesn't allow a macbook to be used as a router if the LAN is on wired ethernet & the uplink is on wifi.  The only way around it is to run Linux in a virtual machine.  This too is unreliable.  The macbook has to be rebooted frequently.  Virtualbox doesn't provide any administrative tools for its own NAT scheme.  It just gives an address, DNS, & gateway to the virtual machine through DHCP.  There's no way to look up the source of the addresses or change them.  

When the phone is drop kicked, the macbook doesn't automatically reconnect.  It uses a fuzzy backoff algorithm which reconnects the 1st time but eventually never reconnects until the user manually selects the access point.

Lions have long dreamed of consolidating the phone uplink & Comca$t uplink on a raspberry pi.  It requires using wifi as both an AP & station.  This has been done with low reliability on the zero W.  If nothing associates with the zero W in a certain time, it shuts down wifi completely.  

Another idea is to use the CP33's audio processor as the phone uplink.  That uses only wired ethernet for audio processing & leaves its wifi derelict.  The mane concern is networking causing a buffer overrun.  Most of the time, it doesn't process audio.

The CP33 eventually became the router for LTE.  It uses the wifi script originally intended as its sole network connection.

https://github.com/heroineworshiper/cp33/blob/master/wifi.py

LTE still seems to have a timeout.  If it doesn't get any traffic, it requires a drop kick.  Specifically, the tethering icon has to be drop kicked & not the data icon.

At least the behavior is deterministic & consistent in native Linux.