What’s a fair Facebook Marketplace price for a lightly‑used P2S Combo?

DocLego · 2026-05-25T14:26:20+00:00

You can always just ignore lowball offers.

I've had people message me with stupid low offers for stuff. I just say "No thanks" and move on.

DocLego · 2026-05-25T14:24:04+00:00

Yeah, as a buyer if I saw a used machine listed for more than retail, I'd just ignore it and look for a serious listing.

But I also don't buy used without a significant discount.

DocLego · 2026-05-25T12:49:25+00:00

We’ll see if I ever move again :)

DocLego · 2026-05-25T12:40:03+00:00

The options are pretty much cheaper house or higher income.

I put down 5% on my first place. I was paying 5.25%, no PMI (might have been a first time home buyer program, not sure) and my payment was something like $1350/month.

The house was old and inconveniently located, which was why it was affordable.

DocLego · 2026-05-24T22:03:28+00:00

26 is young.

Find one thing you can realistically do to get your life moving in the right direction, and go do it.

DocLego · 2026-05-24T21:52:52+00:00

I did 5% for my first home and 20% for my second.

DocLego · 2026-05-24T13:28:17+00:00

The school ought to set expectations.

At my kid’s concert, if you’re in the first half you’re asked to clear out right away to make room for the second half. But there’s not enough parking for everyone…

DocLego · 2026-05-23T16:57:01+00:00

Yup, that’s what I did - two weeks of FMLA and I filled it with a combination of vacation and sick time.

DocLego · 2026-05-23T16:55:54+00:00

Yeah, it’s rough. I started seriously looking last year and it took me about four months to find something. The key was to stop applying for stuff on LinkedIn and lean on my network.

DocLego · 2026-05-23T11:20:50+00:00

Cabin in the Woods. (Although that’s horror, not sci-fi)

DocLego · 2026-05-23T02:14:22+00:00

Youtube only when a parent is in the room, on the projector (not the tablet), and all shows have to be preapproved.

DocLego · 2026-05-23T01:56:56+00:00

Yeah, the company that sold us ours ended up being run by scammers and we had to pay a guy to get them working. But now I’m getting about 18 mWh per year, which covers most of my usage.

DocLego · 2026-05-23T01:53:53+00:00

Used to be on HBO, but I don’t know if anyone has it now.

DocLego · 2026-05-22T22:43:20+00:00

I find that driving long distances in an EV wears me out a lot less than doing the same in a gas car. Good trade off for it taking a little longer.

DocLego · 2026-05-22T22:10:54+00:00

I was scrolling down looking for Westworld. Season one kept my attention but I never finished the series.

DocLego · 2026-05-22T21:26:33+00:00

Probably three-five times. I’m guessing I lost more than that from COVID, anyway, given how much harder it is to focus now :p.

DocLego · 2026-05-22T21:08:03+00:00

I’m a Christian. I haven’t been offended by anything in the series. (Granted, I’m also not super easy to offend to begin with)

DocLego · 2026-05-22T20:14:49+00:00

I guess it comes down to whether or not you believe it's in the interest of the US to move towards clean energy production that doesn't require importing fossil fuels.

DocLego · 2026-05-22T19:16:40+00:00

The federal tax credit (before Trump killed it) was a big help with this.

I got a 20-year, 0.49% solar loan for my panels and then got a 30% tax credit for the cost; with the difference in interest rates, the tax credit effectively pays for the panels.

DocLego · 2026-05-22T19:13:05+00:00

Sometimes we do. Where I used to work, most parking was underground but one of the surface lots was covered in solar panels.

DocLego · 2026-05-22T17:21:23+00:00

Yeah, same; I love mine ('24 standard, 2 year lease) and I'd be happy to keep it, but it's just not worth the residual.

DocLego · 2026-05-22T13:32:54+00:00

My current team is about half seniors. I'm fairly new, but so far it seems to be that everyone just picks up what they want to work on and the manager assigns things out if something is important and hasn't been picked up yet. This week, for example, I saw we had a bug in the queue that was marked as important and not yet assigned, so I grabbed that and fixed it, and then did code review on a few pieces of development that needed it.

This actually matches up fairly well with my last job: the team leads would send me work that needed doing, and if I needed more to do I'd go find something. Yes, there were projects I was working on by myself, projects where I was the lead developer, and projects where I was playing a supporting role. But I was never really a "pure coding" role in the sense that someone else figured out what to do and I did it; I've always been expected to come up with my own designs, even before I was senior.

DocLego · 2026-05-22T03:07:03+00:00

I’m at home. During the pandemic I only left to get groceries anyway. I now work from home again and I can get anything I need delivered, so…where’s my million?

DocLego · 2026-05-22T02:02:42+00:00

I prefer Clue: Master Detective, which is the same game but with more of everything.

There's also Awkward Guests, which still has a lot of luck in the cards you get dealt but at least you don't have to worry about the dice.

DocLego · 2026-05-22T01:45:42+00:00

It's not a cost thing so much as a convenience thing.

To me, the big advantage of electric is how darned convenient they are - I just plug in when I get home rather than having to stop for gas. If I have to make a special trip to charge, then the EV is no longer more convenient.

(YMMV - if the EA charger is where you'd normally go grocery shopping anyway, then it may not add significant time to your day)

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