kiddblur

@kiddblur@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  do they think somehow people like me will change our minds?

  Yeah. I use Firefox too, and when a site doesn’t work, I open it in chromium

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People put down deposits for every electric truck in development, leaving dealers in the lurch when they eventually cancel all but one⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Underwater means that I owe more on the car than it’s worth. I bought it at $52K with a 15K downpayment, and at this point I owe $33K on it. Carvana estimates it’s worth $30K, so if I totaled it tomorrow, my insurance company would give me $30K, but then I’d be on the hook for the other $3,000. So gap insurance takes care of that. In fact, my gap policy says that if I total a car two years old or newer, they’ll pay it off and get me a brand new one as a replacement, and if it’s older than two years, they’ll get me one a year newer.

  So I’m paying $8/month for the peace of mind that I don’t have to worry about out owing money in the case of a crash.

  Obviously when I bought the car, I wasn’t expecting Tesla to drop the price so much and crater the used market

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People put down deposits for every electric truck in development, leaving dealers in the lurch when they eventually cancel all but one⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, same. I never dreamed that a Tesla would be the cheaper option (summer 2022 at peak prices) compared to a Mach e, ev6, or ioniq5, but my dealerships all had 15k markups, and each car has features I wanted gated behind higher trims, so they were all like 60k+ after markups (don’t remember specifics since it was over a year ago)

  Thankfully I got a ridiculous trade in check from my ID.4, so I was able to afford a huge downpayment on the model 3, although thanks to the price drops, I’m underwater again… good thing gap insurance is only $8 a month through my insurance

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People put down deposits for every electric truck in development, leaving dealers in the lurch when they eventually cancel all but one⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, dealers are the last group that I feel sorry for

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your preferred fitness tracker/smartwatch?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My battery health has gotten awful recently too. I’ve got a series 5, so yes it’s 4 years old, but I genuinely only get about 12 hours of battery life these days. I went through and uninstalled every single app I don’t use, but it’s still awful.

  Love everything else about it though, so I set a slickdeals alert to hopefully pick up a cheaper series 8 sometime between now and when the series 9 launches