Carvana’s scheduled to pick up the Niro today. Hopefully that goes well.I’ve listed my comma3x on eBay, in case someone is interested in buying it. (I genuinely liked this device and I wish I could have used it more than I did!)I hyperfixated on a bunch of ebikes and conversion kits and so on and then ended up just...

I have two pending offers on my car: $13,300 from Carvana for a straight sale, and $14,372 from a local dealership for a tradein. Here’s some of my thought processes about which one to take. Car-free pathIf I just sell it outright to Carvana, I then have $13,300 available, and an empty carport. I could use a chunk...

In 2022 I traded in my Mazda3 for a Nissan LEAF, which cost me about $1000 all-in. The LEAF was a pretty great car that I liked a lot, but it had a couple of critical features, namely that the lack of active battery thermal management meant that its range got super low in the winter and the battery was degrading...

Amazingly enough, Valve have finally at least made an announcement breaking the “curse of three,” and their third1 VR headset is actually materializing soon™.Anyway. Aside from the lack of pricing I’m super optimistic about the Steam Frame. It doesn’t yet hit quite all the marks for me but it’s super close and...

When I was a kid, my mom always insisted on “cleaning” out my ear canals with cotton swabs, usually right after I bathed, and this ended up establishing a bad habit of using cotton swabs on my ears every morning after I shower. I am well aware of the many problems this can cause but I never feel like I’m quite done...

Remember that idea I came up with a couple months ago and then rambled about a bunch and then stopped talking about it?

I’d been with CenturyLink Fiber since I moved into this house in early 2021, and was mostly happy with it. I never had any major outages aside from occasional drops due to their crappy provided router, which I replaced with a Linux SBC running OpenWRT. The only real complaints I had was that they used PPPoE + VLAN...

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got another rejection for disability

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Since my last post about this I have obtained a Leap Motion 1 and have experimented with it a whole bunch, and unfortunately, it’s just not quite there for what I need out of it.

Hey! How’s it going? I think things are fairly okay on my end.