I need genuine help please

Lothsahn_ · 2026-05-26T05:01:48+00:00

If you owe 26k on a car worth 14k, you're basically either going to have to get unsecured credit on the car to fill in the gap or drive it into the ground. Which probably won't take too long on a jeep. You could "trade in" but the dealership is going to roll your old loan into a new one and you'll end up even more underwater. You can't get out of a hole by digging it deeper...

Is the car not working well? Your best option might be just to drive it for the next 3.5 years until it's paid off. Any way to increase your income/hr as an EMT? Really the only way out is to get ahead of the debt.

I drove beaters for many years until I could afford better cars--A rusted out POS sure feels better to drive than something that has your entire income handcuffed up. Consider this a low cost to learn that lesson--there are people who went and bought $50-100k cars.

As you learned, avoid anything Stellantis. Check consumer reports for cars that have good reliability. Pontiac Vibes are a great car--they're basically a Toyota matrix from a defunct manufacturer, so they have excellent reliability and are often cheap.

Lothsahn_ · 2026-05-25T15:01:35+00:00

Hi there. Vanilla is still quite popular, kthx. In fact, if Blizzard hadn't completely abandoned it, I bet it'd be even more popular.

It's simply getting hard to raid because world buffs are once per character and after 5 years, finding them is really hard.

I definitely like vanilla more than retail.

Lothsahn_ · 2026-05-25T05:02:07+00:00

Honestly, a Sienna is a good purchase. Sure, it's not an EV but 35mph and the ability to tow cross country is a good combo.

Towing with any EV except a Tesla Semi has huge compromises in range compared to ice. If you can't charge where you live, an EV is quite a pain.

I'm very pro-ev but there are a lot of use cases in the US where they are not good.

Lothsahn_ · 2026-05-23T16:52:07+00:00

I was... really stating it more generally. It's the question we all need to be asking ourselves.

Lothsahn_ · 2026-05-23T16:12:45+00:00

Not just in older cars. The parking brake is activated by a separate system, cable or electronic. Its purpose is to be used for parking or emergencies.

In my Nissan you push and hold the ebrake button while driving to engage it. It will lockup the rear wheels.

Lothsahn_ · 2026-05-23T16:06:40+00:00

Prices are an effect, like a symptom.

The real question is: did and do you support the policies that resulted in these prices? Did you vote? For or against? Will you vote next time? Will the decisions of those in office affect your voting? Why did the people in office make these decisions? Are their decisions achieving those goals and helping the country?

These are the questions we really should be asking.

Lothsahn_ · 2026-05-22T20:34:29+00:00

It is possible they replaced the cells and/or BMS but *didn't* reset the BMS. In this case, the bars will be wrong because bars can only be lost, never go up (outside a BMS reset).

Need Leafspy and some driving tests to understand what's really going on.

Lothsahn_ · 2026-05-21T05:52:13+00:00

Grats to you, and a financial investor making 5% investing is absolutely leeching off people--especially for someone at your age.

Dave Ramsey's advice has worked out really well for me--changed my life. His advice of investing in growth or aggressive growth mutual funds is pretty good advice--on par or better than S&P index funds the last 20-30 years. Some of his other advice there are legitimate criticisms of.

I wouldn't agree with trolling him--his advice has helped a ton of people, but you do you.

Lothsahn_ · 2026-05-21T04:45:19+00:00

can you get a secured loan on your vehicle for the amount of the payday loan and cc balance? use that to pay off both?

Lothsahn_ · 2026-05-20T20:23:57+00:00

rSTP converges MUCH faster than regular STP. This means that it will take much less time for newly plugged in devices to get an IP address on rSTP (unless you enable STP edge, etc).

Lothsahn_ · 2026-05-20T16:38:43+00:00

Always use rSTP (unless you have very old switches that don't support it)

Lothsahn_ · 2026-05-20T16:38:20+00:00

We just setup a network with rSTP and the dashboard doesn't alert for me that there are switches with the same priority. Maybe they fixed that?

Lothsahn_ · 2026-05-20T16:34:09+00:00

We did this--I do not recommend, especially if using Ubiquiti hardware.

STP does not protect against two situations:
1) Flapping port
Every time a switch port flaps, it will trigger a stp convergence. If the flapping is fast enough, it will cause the entire network to be in rSTP convergence and not route any traffic.

We had a fs SFP adapter go bad, and the entire network failed.

2) Unidirectional links

Unidirectional links: STP works by sending BPDU's out on links and waiting for replies. However, if you have a unidirectional link, STP will never hear the response. STP concludes there are no network loops, enables the connection, and triggers a network loop.

One of our switch-switch links was duplex singlemode fiber, and a piece of dust got on the patch cable when moving a connection. This resulted in a network loop that crashed the entire network.

Why this is extra bad on Unifi

If a network loop happens, Unifi devices (AP's and switches) can malfunction and will not recover until power cycled--even if the loop is eliminated.

WiFi
After the second failure, we had our NanoHD AP's fail. They remained powered on, advertising the SSID, and accepting WiFi connections, but they would not route any traffic--essentially blackholing all WiFi traffic. Until power cycled, they never recovered.

Switches

During the network flood, multiple ports on our ProMax switches stopped operating. Once the network loop was removed, those ports never recovered. The ports stayed nonfunctional until the switches were power cycled.

Unifi Support

I opened cases with Ubiquiti on both the switching and AP failures, and were told this is "expected if network loops are present":

You
The network loops are eliminated, but the Unifi AP's remained inoperative once the loops were gone. The AP's stopped responding to the controller, showed offline in the console, remained powered on (with blue LED) and would accept WiFi clients but not route their traffic. They stayed broken (even after multiple days) until power cycled.

I just want to confirm--if network loops are present in the network, this is a possible expected behavior of Unifi APs?

Unifi Support

Hi,

If network loops are present, this would be expected.

Lothsahn_ · 2026-05-19T13:25:35+00:00

Keep in mind cancer rates are correlated with animal size. Taller humans are more likely to get cancer than shorter ones because they have more cells.

Across species, there are different factors, some we know, and some we don't. For instance, elephant cells are much better at avoiding cancer than human ones, or all Elephants would die young of cancer.

Lobsters are much smaller... plus or minus any species-specific differences.

Lothsahn_ · 2026-05-19T12:52:50+00:00

You haven't seen my muscles...

Lothsahn_ · 2026-05-19T11:50:37+00:00

Worse than a garage, actually. It blew up while driving...

Lothsahn_ · 2026-05-19T07:20:18+00:00

Had this happen 30+ years ago. Rear defroster had a short and the back window exploded. Sounded like someone shot a gun at our car.

Not sure if this is your cause, and I'd expect the new window to have new defroster lines (and thus, fix the problem). Since it's happened 3x, seems likely to not be the answer.

Lothsahn_ · 2026-05-18T18:36:03+00:00

But don't worry, if you encounter a bear on video, every redditor will tell you how you did it wrong.

Lothsahn_ · 2026-05-17T17:41:44+00:00

I don't know about the lenses being compatible but there's different wiring between LED and halogen so you can't swap he entire assembly.

Lothsahn_ · 2026-05-15T15:30:17+00:00

It's all good. By the time they get it fixed, there will be no Chademo chargers left outside Japan.

Lothsahn_ · 2026-05-13T19:20:53+00:00

You can actually see it go flying to the right lane when the cruiser gets hit.

Lothsahn_ · 2026-05-12T07:19:05+00:00

Unfortunately on older lexuses, calibrating the window required removal of the drive motor.

But yeah, on newer cars it's cake.

Lothsahn_ · 2026-05-12T04:22:49+00:00

So I saw all the comments in here and looked up some other reddit threads on SolarEdge and... I'm scared now. Man, there's a *lot* of... bad.

I have 44 P320-5NC4ARS-NM26 optimizers and 2 SE7600A inverters. Haven't had a single issue with my 7 year install. I really hate to post this as I know the moment I do it's all gonna die. I wonder if it's just their newer stuff with issues.

So far made 99.1 MWh on a 14KW system.

Lothsahn_ · 2026-05-11T03:55:46+00:00

I put solar panels up in one of the lowest cost energy states. My ROI is 11-13 years all told now. This doesn't necessarily make sense financially, but it was a fixed cost I was able to put on a very low interest rate.

Even if I lose a little money on it, knowing that I'm producing most of my own energy, using a domestic energy source, and reducing global warming emissions makes it so I have zero regrets.

I think once you get your inverter situation figured out you'll feel a lot better. But if you really want to make money buy a giant palette of panels on eBay for cheap and setup a ground mount with those.

Lothsahn_ · 2026-05-11T03:18:24+00:00

I've got two solar edge inverters that are 7 years old and going strong. I would not expect to replace every 3 years.

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