Recent content by McLovin

Sadly, I am not. One sunny day in the summer of 2000, I had $80k in Sun Microsystems. A few weeks later I had ~ $15k. I avoided the housing bubble as we'd refinanced just before it went belly-up for ~ 4% (down from 6.5%). But, yes, I do agree that you have to take other things into...

I recently did this with my wife’s MB. We’re listed on my parent’s condo as owners, so technically it’s legit. But, oh, does it feel so good to NOT pay personal property tax on a $80k vehicle in VA.

True, you need to run the numbers and see what’s best. Which is why I haven’t traded in for a Gen 2 R1T. I’d be paying twice as much for basically the same vehicle. But I gotta believe you can get decent financing if you have a spare $60k to drop on a vehicle. A quick search shows a local...

Well, I’m happy for you. But the majority of us don’t have a spare $65-80k burning a hole in our pockets. And honestly…why commit so much money, when you could invest it and earn 8-10% on it, while paying as low as 1.99% interest (R1 Tris are 1.99. Others are 3.99).

But if you finance, you will pay more than that, and possibly be underwater on the value of the vehicle. Leasing insulates you from massive depreciation. If you finance an R1T Dual right now, $6,500 down, you’ll pay $1,500/mo. If you lease it, $6,500 down, you pay $1,200/mo. In 3 years, you...

For the record, my wife’s shiny new Mercedes CLE 300 has the same problem.

Not sure how "out of the way" this one would be on your way to Tech, but there's a few at the "new" Sheetz in Gainesville, right off I-66: https://www.plugshare.com/location/757217 I've stopped there a few times heading into work. Was quick, and pretty inexpensive ($0.39/kWh as I type this).

Nice! Our youngest daughter graduated last spring ('25) w/ her MS from Tech. We took our R1T down a few times, and were pleasantly surprised by the charging options. But even better, a few of the hotels also had free L2 charging on site, so we got a full charge overnight. I presume you went...

Well, you could always ask ChatGPT…

I remember as a kid listening to "VH - II" on an 8-track. During one of the songs (might have been 'Beautiful Girls'), it faded out, then flicked over to the next track, and then faded back in. Classic.

Ok, this is getting ridiculous. 4 pages, and not a single comment about how OS2 will differ from OS1 on R1s, other than "they're pretty significant" (although the IBM OS/2 comment made me chuckle). Can we please leave the complaining to another thread? Or just start one where you can go in and...

Define “easily”. And I’ve got some bad news for you RE: security updates: By the time the “security update” is released, the hole that they are fixing has already been exploited by the majority of hackers, and they’ve known about it for months.

We were in a rare position: the residual was $34k. The leasing company kept the extra, since we didn’t “own” it. Sucked, because we were considering buying it out (lease was up this October):

In the words of Ygritte…you know nothing, Jon Snow… I was hit in the parking lot this spring in my wife’s Audi A5 Cabrio. I was standing still, the other guy was going maybe 7mph. Drove right into the driver’s side door. Side airbag deployed. Anti-roll pylons deployed. Vehicle was worth $40k...

Here's yet another example for the OP... Today I spent 30 minutes tracking down a display issue in my app: Adding & removing CSS classes based on a boolean property had stopped working. I was in Chrome, and inspecting the elements to see what was up. Amazingly, they'd all had the CSS classes...