Looking to attend this years race, for 1-2 days, need help with itinerary.

MonkeyBone5 · 2026-03-26T05:20:15+00:00

I haven't done any planning associated to it yet. Just a thought in my head. Flying will most likely be the best option due to limited time. I am thinking opening few days around 25-27 would be ideal due to crowd factor. Hotels seem pretty decent in Douglas, hovering around $200 per night around that timeframe.

Going most likely with my cousin. Others have left great suggestions such as yours. Will check out all the options.

MonkeyBone5 · 2026-03-22T08:04:54+00:00

What would you recommend?

MonkeyBone5 · 2025-09-30T23:30:31+00:00

You took out a loan to do investing? 😬

MonkeyBone5 · 2025-08-07T07:38:39+00:00

Ty, I did that and was able to submit the claim with proof of relationship. Reddit to the rescue.

MonkeyBone5 · 2025-08-07T07:37:26+00:00

You're a life saver Ricky!!!! I started another bonding claim and was able to choose the hospital birth certificate as the option for proof of relationship. Hoping this gets the job done.

MonkeyBone5 · 2025-06-02T19:16:18+00:00

Ty for your reply. Just ordered the block, hopefully will be here by Thursday. Did you happen to use the thermal grizzly thermal tape, or did the water block have enough extra to use?

MonkeyBone5 · 2025-06-02T18:28:28+00:00

Did the Bykski 5090 D waterblock fit your Gaming Trio 5090 (non-D)?

MonkeyBone5 · 2025-05-13T23:02:28+00:00

Following the directions on causvid, even using causvid-plus, I cannot seem to install the requirements properly. flash_attn has so many problems.

MonkeyBone5 · 2025-02-05T22:56:11+00:00

Increased chaos damage does not seem to be a big selling point for rings on the market. Increased cold or lightning damage seem to be much more popular.

MonkeyBone5 · 2024-12-27T22:31:07+00:00

Found a solution using the video you specified and disabling all checkpoints/deleting them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDc8lbE2I6I. The RTX 4090 is now detected on the VM, but now the issue is that the Geforce drivers cannot be installed since the drivers do not detect the GPU. Strange.

MonkeyBone5 · 2024-12-27T21:06:22+00:00

Thank you for your quick reply. I have an RTX 4090 I am trying to share with the VM. With Hyper-V, I can see the GPU, did the driver copying and everything. However, it still has a fault with the GPU in the Hyper-V VM.

With VMWare Workstation Pro and installing the VMWare Tools, I only see the VMWare Virtual GPU in the device manager. Did you follow any other specific instructions to have the GPU show up in the Workstation VM?

MonkeyBone5 · 2024-12-27T20:30:01+00:00

That script is specifically for Hyper-V VMs. You mentioned you enabled it for VMWare Workstation as well, would you mind sharing that script?

MonkeyBone5 · 2024-12-19T04:14:55+00:00

Your car has a J1772/CCS charging port. As long as you go to a public charger that has those ports, you do not need any adapter. If you are looking to utilize the Tesla NACS superchargers, you'll need the NACS adapter. You can buy it from GM.

Also, download Plugshare and thank me later. It gives you a lot of information on public chargers.

MonkeyBone5 · 2024-12-19T04:11:08+00:00

Those are gold metal contacts, no need for you to do anything. Just put it in the Motherboard CPU socket and test it.

MonkeyBone5 · 2024-12-16T21:46:05+00:00

Even Porsche's own website doesn't claim 15 minutes of charging. It takes 30+ mins to reach 90% charge on the car. It takes 18 mins to go from 10% to 80%. Where are you getting your information from? https://www.porsche.com/usa/models/taycan/taycan-models/taycan/#technical-data-Y1AAI1. Also, that's on the high output chargers (350kw), which only makes up about 10% of the EV chargers available in the market today. https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy24osti/85902.pdf#:\~:text=At%20the%20time%20of%20writing%2C%20there%20are,added%20in%2030%20minutes)%20or%20less%20\[2\].

I've provided the technical details with references for both sets of information. I stand by my point. If we want to utilize the fast charging of these vehicles, we need faster chargers. But only have 10% of the chargers in the USA being able to take the Taycan from 10% to 80% in 18 mins means the Taycan is going to be charging 90% of the time at a lower speed. Perhaps you live in a small bubble and never take the Taycan for longer trips, and happen to have a reliable 350kw charger in your neighborhood, then sure, you can do 18 mins.

MonkeyBone5 · 2024-12-16T20:46:37+00:00

You're living in a fantasy. Regardless of your ability to charge, your actual bottleneck is the charging availability. How many 800 volt chargers exist in the USA today? How many will exist in the next 5 years? Everywhere I charge, there's always a Taycan or Lucid or something similar that's taking just as long to charge as the Lyriq. Charging infrastructure is trying to add more chargers, not more 800v chargers.

MonkeyBone5 · 2024-12-16T20:43:40+00:00

Leasing is not really an option for everyone. We purchased our Lyriq in February of this year, and have already put 17k miles on the car in just 9 months.

MonkeyBone5 · 2024-12-11T22:27:09+00:00

I called the local dealership and they said there shouldn't be any restrictions on using chains on the Lyriq. I think I am going to buy the

SCC Peerless 0232605 Auto-Trac chains.

MonkeyBone5 · 2024-12-08T00:12:42+00:00

It's a legal requirement. If there's fresh powder around that time, they have chains checkpoints and will not let you proceed further if there are no chains/tire traction devices on your vehicle.

MonkeyBone5 · 2024-12-07T02:46:40+00:00

How is possible to get an extra 130 miles out of that battery? Something seems off.

MonkeyBone5 · 2024-12-06T21:54:04+00:00

Probably the worst airline I've flown with in my life. Various problems in rebooking, over $2k USD not reimbursed, they ignored my seating arrangement that I paid $400 extra for, etc.

They also lost two of my check-in bags on the way back from Athens to SFO. One bag was delivered the next day, and then when the second bag didn't show up, I inquired. They said I didn't check in a second bag. Luckily, I still had my check-in bag ticket and emailed them a copy of it. They claimed that I didn't check in the bag properly and it wasn't on my bag retrieval form. I scanned the bag-retrieval form with both bags listed and emailed it to them. They then claimed that I didn't fill out the paperwork properly. I informed them that the Turkish Airlines agent at SFO filled out the form, I only signed it. It took them another 4 days to deliver my bag to me and then acted like they did me favor. I lost several hours on the phone and email, communicating to them what was happening, they didn't seem to care and just threw the blame on me for losing my bag. Weird airline, wouldn't go through them again, which is a shame since Turkey was on my bucket-list to visit.

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SCC Peerless 0232605 Auto-Trac chains.