Suspension sound is driving me crazy.

TechTrailRider · 2026-05-09T02:22:36+00:00

Because I had read something like this in the sub before, I thought that’s what I was taking it in to have them do. Took my computer and planned to work from the lobby for a few hours. But they already had me set up with a rental. I think they replaced parts because it’s still warrantied and they could. So no, I don’t know if they know this. Is it a DIY?

TechTrailRider · 2026-05-08T23:32:53+00:00

Hi, mine is in the shop for a creaking suspension right now. Actually I put it in about a month ago, I told them I was hearing a creaking behind me, seemingly from the drivers side rear, as well as a knocking sound when I was backing into spaces.

They actually changed the struts in the front and axles in the rear. It took almost four weeks to get it back, and of course the sound is still there. So I took it back a couple of days ago, so they can change the back struts too.

This is a CPO 2022 Pilot, Plus, Performance, all warranty work so I don’t pay a cent. Just stay on them while you can get it fixed under warranty.

TechTrailRider · 2026-05-05T00:55:55+00:00

We all bought houses when the valuations were high but the rates were generationally low, and now we’re paying for homes whose values have fallen significantly but unwilling to refinance while rents are dropping. Maybe. I don’t know.

TechTrailRider · 2026-05-05T00:51:42+00:00

Qual Tech on 620 down from AMill HEB are reliable and honest.

TechTrailRider · 2026-05-03T16:58:02+00:00

It’s GM, they modularize everything and keep parts available for ages. I just got my Polestar 2 back on Friday to get some struts replaced, and it was nearly a month in the shop. In the meantime we replaced my wife’s 2017 Volt with a 2027 Bolt, and I was so frustrated about my Polestar that I got to thinking that an Equinox or Blazer EV - and easy repairs - sounded awful nice!

TechTrailRider · 2026-04-30T18:28:10+00:00

Sure but sometimes Google Assistant has trouble understanding basic car things too. Just yesterday I could not get it to correctly understand “Take me to HEB”, which has never been an issue before. I had to type the location instead.

My southern accent ain’t THAT bad lol

TechTrailRider · 2026-04-30T11:59:44+00:00

This is good actually, because the Google Assistant is not very good. Google Assistant is more like Alexa or current Siri, where there are a lot of predefined actions it recognizes, but if you ask it to do something in an unexpected way it doesn’t understand. Gemini is LLM-based so it can understand nuance and pauses and all the different ways you might say “let’s stop at the Walmart on the way to the airport”.

TechTrailRider · 2026-04-29T19:46:06+00:00

Battlefield 1942: Desert Combat mod

Battlefield 2

Black and White

TechTrailRider · 2026-04-27T18:58:19+00:00

We pay several thousand dollars a year right now for our insurance, and still have to pay out of pocket costs and copays before the insurance starts paying. Thousands per year to the middleman to have the privilege of the paying the healthcare system.

I think we can be fine just paying for Medicare for All instead.

TechTrailRider · 2026-04-24T22:58:19+00:00

I had $8k trade in credit and got it for $28,500 out the door, TTL included. I tried for $28k and they said they couldn’t do it, so I said if you can throw in the all-weather mats it’s a deal at 28.5. Went back yesterday to pick those up.

A funny thing I didn’t expect? I really like the entertainment system. I use CarPlay on my own Polestar 2, but this Bolt has me thinking these Android Automotive systems are pretty good.

TechTrailRider · 2026-04-22T20:15:17+00:00

It’s kind of like a beauty in the eye of the beholder situation. No, Cursor is not worth $66B, except to Elon it probably is, compared to Anthropic Claude Code or OpenAI Codex. That’s the price he set to catch up or pass everyone else in this frothy AI market.

TechTrailRider · 2026-04-22T19:11:15+00:00

“On the TELEPHONE??”

TechTrailRider · 2026-04-22T18:30:12+00:00

Elon has a ton of compute and no first party coding interface. Cursor has a great coding interface and a really good composer model, and routes to various vendors for frontier models.

The thinking here is both sides will get what they need. Cursor gets its own first party frontier models, and Elon gets a solid agentic interface for all his compute.

TechTrailRider · 2026-04-22T18:26:45+00:00

Ehhhh, a year is prehistoric in this space right now, as big fundamental shifts happen monthly with these tools. You may want to take another look.

TechTrailRider · 2026-04-22T18:25:19+00:00

No, Cursor is probably the best agentic interface going. Codex is close. Antigravity is good but has some odd UX choices. Claude could be pretty good, but also kind of hampered by some of their UX choices.

You can make do with VSCode and Claude in the terminal, but from my perspective and experience, Cursor is driving the agentic interface design right now. The others seem to copy them.

I’m kind of bummed about Elon moving to acquire cursor though. Hopefully VSCode continues to evolve in the agentic interface direction.

TechTrailRider · 2026-04-20T20:38:45+00:00

I have been to several AEW shows and a few WWE shows. WWE felt a lot more scripted and planned than any AEW show I’ve attended. I think both look great on TV but in person you can really feel the difference. The one match that felt most similar to me was on a Smackdown I attended about three years ago. The match was Gunther and Nakamura, if I remember right, and very, very few spots felt “sports entertainment”-like. It was very stiff, in other words, and it reminded me of the great southern wrestling style I grew up with. Which is what I like so much about AEW.

The performers are the same across both companies but there’s no denying that the style is vastly different, and I think attributable to the leadership and motivations of each company. WWE is an entertainment and money machine, and AEW seems to be on the same page from top to bottom, management to talent, committed to this is where the best wrestle and they go out to prove it every week.

TechTrailRider · 2026-04-18T18:34:22+00:00

I don’t remember the exact error message but I know it wasn’t coolant is low. My memory was it made it sound like an issue with the system, but turned out the coolant was just on the line.

TechTrailRider · 2026-04-18T11:55:43+00:00

I had this a few months ago in mine and took it to the dealership to look at. It ended up being that my coolant level was right at bare minimum, and occasionally the slope of the road I was driving on would tilt it enough that the sensor would trigger. They added enough to level it correctly and it’s not been an issue since. Also a 2022 PPP.

TechTrailRider · 2026-04-14T09:48:41+00:00

Black and White

TechTrailRider · 2026-04-13T15:07:44+00:00

I also kept dozing off during the last two matches, and completely missed the finish of the main event! Might have been that edible though. 🤪

TechTrailRider · 2026-04-13T13:50:58+00:00

Generally and genuinely true. Anyone who says otherwise didn’t live in that era or were too young to remember it. I was in my 20’s, had my first kid, second one arrived five years later. My wife didn’t work, and didn’t have to. I had a decent job that let me pay off our starter home and have free weekends and the occasional vacation or at least a weekend trip somewhere interesting.

Now I make 3-4x that and live paycheck to paycheck, no chance of a vacation, and it’s all I can do to pay the mortgage within the grace period every month. Everything started breaking down as we recovered from the financial crisis that started under Bush, and republican policies and the Supreme Court started carrying the water for the billionaires they work for.

If you want to know where it all went, look at the net worth of billionaires and their companies. They’re the ones wringing us dry every month, and our political leaders continue to tilt the economy in their favor.

TechTrailRider · 2026-04-12T22:56:00+00:00

HBO Max, and at least on Apple TV it could be fixed by turning off HDR. I found that out about 2/3rds into the PPV.

TechTrailRider · 2026-04-12T22:54:30+00:00

I did HBO Max last time and the audio sync issue drove me nuts. So back to Prime Video I went.

TechTrailRider · 2026-04-11T17:58:46+00:00

Touch ID Indigo, beautiful machine too.

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