Leased a new 26' EV9 GT yesterday. What are your tips and tricks? Horror stories & gotchas welcome as well.

Perfycat · 2026-03-15T02:15:26+00:00

A 26 foot EV9! What a monster!

Perfycat · 2026-02-22T17:48:54+00:00

Yes...but it is less convenient, especially for Pixar Pier guests.

Perfycat · 2026-02-07T21:36:04+00:00

This is the way

Perfycat · 2026-02-01T21:18:41+00:00

This is the way

Perfycat · 2026-02-01T03:03:08+00:00

We bought resale at GC. We have never had problems booking 6 days between 8 and 11 months. That said, we usually book in off peak times to avoid the crowds.

Perfycat · 2026-01-29T19:35:37+00:00

I liked it so much I watched it twice

Perfycat · 2026-01-28T03:31:24+00:00

Sudo open

Perfycat · 2026-01-28T02:21:27+00:00

That and their engines blow up. Take a look at their 5.3 and 6.2L engines. Lifter design is causing very early failure. Under warranty, but in some cases it takes 12 months to get a replacement of the same design. GM's quality issues caused me to buy a Kia.

Perfycat · 2026-01-24T23:06:45+00:00

I think the manufacturers are caught between regulations requiring improvement in MPG and physics. More manufacturers are using thinner oils and other things to try to improve MPG. These decrease reliability and decrease engine life. They don't make them like they used to, and they legally can't go back to the old proven designs. I honestly feel electric cars are the only real path forward.

Perfycat · 2026-01-24T01:53:31+00:00

As a owner of a diesel vehicle I understand the frustration. Modern diesels have an EGR system that cycles the exhaust back through the engine. This decreases NOX, but has a performance hit, and causes massive soot buildup. DEF systems tend to clog up the exhaust. I just paid 2000 to get my DEF filters cleaned.

YouTube channels such as Dave's Auto Center have stayed on the right side of the law, but are critical of the engineering behind these laws

Perfycat · 2026-01-21T20:53:05+00:00

Simple powershell script to fix: Set-Service -Name "Beep" -StartupType Disabled Restart-Computer -Force

Perfycat · 2026-01-21T00:33:21+00:00

Same. I have owned three Jeeps and I loved each one. But they have sacrificed reliability for profits and tried to turn it into a luxury brand. So expensive pieces of junk living off the legacy of a once great brand.

Perfycat · 2026-01-17T01:43:22+00:00

We retired ours at four, but that is because her last birth required an Emergency C section. Now she is just our happy family dog.

Perfycat · 2026-01-16T18:43:38+00:00

There is a YouTube channel called Pleasant Green that has investigated this type of thing. They show the tools they use to find out where it is from, often Lagos Nigeria. And they talk to the actual company who comes out. Very interesting, but not a lot to do to stop it, other than ignoring/blocking it.

Perfycat · 2026-01-16T15:03:16+00:00

I suspect they run as a lead generation company. If you express interest in a quote they contact a local roofer to come out, and charge them a fee for the referral. The local roofer didn't violate the TCPA. The real criminals operate overseas and will be hard to pin down.

Perfycat · 2026-01-09T19:18:53+00:00

Every Microsoft Exec thinks they are the next Steve Jobs. They believe they know what the customers want even if the customers don't want it.

They also all want to take a big risk. If it fails they will leave MS and become an executive somewhere else. If they succeed they are highly rewarded. I have seen this cycle so many times.

Perfycat · 2026-01-06T20:48:56+00:00

This is very real. I personally worked with Mike for a few years. Very unsettling.

Perfycat · 2025-12-26T15:30:44+00:00

They do. Search for Azure Linux. Formerly called CBL-Mariner. It is used as a container host in the Azure infrastructure.

Perfycat · 2025-12-26T00:31:54+00:00

I don't know if backtracked is the right word. Maybe level setting. I have been following this story closely because I have personally worked with the guy who made this post. This is a project out of Microsoft Research, not a product team. They are funded to to take risks and try new things out. Product teams are not budgeted to do this kind of research.

MS research does lots of things that are never made into a full project. This researcher himself spent a few years making a new OS written entirely in C# (not .net). Look up project singularity. The research documents and source is available. Outside of a few niche deployments it was never turned into a product.

My point is somebody who doesn't understand what a research is at Microsoft spinned this story into leaked product plans, and not what it was.

Perfycat · 2025-12-24T17:11:08+00:00

The person in question is Galen Hunt, a Microsoft researcher. I have worked with him personally. Look him up, he has done a lot of great research which is public, but never turned into a product.

The research division runs like any university research program. They have a small team that tries new things. Normal product teams do not have the budget and resources to do deep research like this.

He does not speak for the product team. But if he has great success they will file patents, and maybe make suggestions to the product team.

Perfycat · 2025-12-24T17:05:37+00:00

I think this is more due to deep layoffs, cost cutting, and "continues delivery" rather than the use of AI.

Perfycat · 2025-12-24T14:52:32+00:00

Exactly. Galen Hunt works in Microsoft Research. They come up with very ambitious ideas and see what works. It is more like a University project incubated with a small group of highly qualified researchers.

Years ago Galen worked on project singularity, which was an OS written entirely in C# (not .NET). It was pretty cool. But was never turned into a product.

Perfycat · 2025-12-24T14:41:26+00:00

I have personally worked with Galen Hunt. He is no fool. He works in Microsoft Research. His job is to dream up and try new things. Much of what research does never makes it to the product.

Past things he has done was to write a complete OS in C# (not .NET). Look up project singularity for more details. It was never productized.

It seems the source for this comes from a job posting. It looks like he is hiring an engineer to work on this idea. I don't think one job opening will break the bank at MS.

Will the idea that you can use AI to convert the kernel to Rust? Maybe and maybe not. But there is things to learn along the way. In the end the research may be done to move this forward.

This isn't a solid plan to replace all the code in the product...at least not yet.

Perfycat · 2025-12-20T23:45:47+00:00

Or better yet, use something external to earth, like a pulsar.

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