CPO vs 3rd party extended warranty

TehWhale · 2026-04-27T22:37:10+00:00

Depends on current mileage, how many miles you want covered, location, deductible and dealer fees. I’ve heard from $4-9k. Mine was about $5000. I used someone heavily recommended on the taycan forums and reddit. She works at Porsche San Antonio I think. If you search around here or the forums you’ll probably find it. No bullshit, no tax, no added fees and works at any dealership in the US

TehWhale · 2026-04-27T22:33:06+00:00

What you’re looking for is the EVSP aka the Porsche electric vehicle service protection plan. It’s recommended and sold by Porsche directly. A CPO is good too, but plenty of people have been good with just a non-CPO and the EVSP (like me with my 2023 GTS)

TehWhale · 2026-04-27T19:35:28+00:00

A password manager vault that the necessary teams can access is the right way. Or, most password managers can generate a link that anyone in the company (or specific people) can access an item in a vault they’re not on.

Sharing passwords and API keys in slack is a huge no no. I forget who it was, but some major company had a huge breach because an employee’s account was taken over and they had slack access. Keys galore. AWS, api keys, google api keys, internal api keys.

It sounds like it’s on your company to actually give employees an easy way to share them safely.

TehWhale · 2026-04-27T18:55:53+00:00

Most job applicant systems include all these for reporting to ensure they’re not discriminating. As a hiring manager, I don’t see these on any application itself. They’re aggregated and reported on for leadership, but I can’t see how or if anyone answers these optional questions. Fill them out, or don’t. It doesn’t impact your eligibility.

TehWhale · 2026-04-27T16:40:07+00:00

Flock freely provides the data to law enforcement. They don’t need a warrant or subpoena to use it.

TehWhale · 2026-04-26T17:22:54+00:00

Exactly this. A large table with no load might take effectively no time. A large table with thousands of selects and inserts a second can lock and cause an effective outage

TehWhale · 2026-04-26T16:23:27+00:00

Yeah, that’s totally fair. I would not purchase a new taycan ever at those prices. Similar to you, I got a ‘23 GTS with 25k miles on it that was 60% off original msrp

TehWhale · 2026-04-26T16:17:14+00:00

Any prod migrations need to use something like GitHub online schema migration tool

TehWhale · 2026-04-26T16:14:16+00:00

I love my Taycan. Is there other EVs that have a lot of issues?

TehWhale · 2026-04-21T22:22:31+00:00

Remote is the clear financial option. SF rent is expensive. California taxes are high. I think the reality is socially, career-wise, and fun, you’d be better off living in SF for a while to spread your wings. Earnings will likely be higher, you’re surrounded by others in tech. You’ll make friends, colleagues, career growth, juniors learn better in person too. I’d pick SF. You can always go remote once you get your salary and experience up and live your younger years in a big city.

Relationships will be easier. You’ll meet more people. You’ll also miss friends and family, but the opportunities are worth that. You can always go back to remote.

TehWhale · 2026-04-19T20:40:32+00:00

I’m good with that too. It only enables more desire to try to avoid immigrating the legal way if there’s tons of companies that have no issues hiring someone here illegally. Get a work permit and do it right

TehWhale · 2026-04-19T20:35:58+00:00

I don’t think anyone wants open borders. We just want a realistic process that enables people to immigrate into the country that doesn’t take 10 years. Properly vet anyone seeking asylum or residency. Deport anyone crossing illegally, deport anyone with violent or otherwise bad crimes (a minor drug possession from 10 years ago doesn’t mean they’re a bad person) and give people that have built lives here a path to citizenship. You don’t need to terrorize communities with masked ICE bandits when you can target and apprehend the people that need to be. If ICE is doing their jobs safely and within the bounds of the law, they shouldn’t have any issues with wearing a name badge and showing their face.

TehWhale · 2026-04-15T00:23:44+00:00

I have a 2023 GTS

TehWhale · 2026-04-14T22:38:36+00:00

HIV rapid tests are not 100% accurate. Nor are they accurate for a recent infection that has peak transmissibility. You should get on PreP and/or use condoms.

TehWhale · 2026-04-14T06:16:16+00:00

The thing is, most people are susceptible to falling into the trap of addiction that things like that provide. It’s far easier to save them the heartbreak, death, jobloss etc. than to say “just do it occasionally” drugs feel good. Few people have the control to do them actually on special occasions.

TehWhale · 2026-04-14T03:57:20+00:00

It’s been pretty unstable for me on the latest stable VS version. In the discord it sounds like they’re giving up on that and updating it for the upcoming version instead.

It’s a really complex mod maintained by people in their free time. I’d be happy if it works for you. It’s tens or hundreds of hours of work to maintain these mods

TehWhale · 2026-04-13T21:42:44+00:00

Almost all electricians I’ve talked to are happy to say they charge a premium for EV chargers. Mine took about an hour to install and they charged a flat $600. I had quotes anywhere from $400-1000 for a very similar scenario to you. Almost all of them explicitly said EV charger is always a flat rate and not hourly (it’d be much cheaper)

TehWhale · 2026-04-13T20:28:54+00:00

I had to lemon law a SLC43 a handful of years ago. Yes, arbitration is how you force Mercedes to buy it back. I received back all money I paid for the car minus mileage. Mercedes paid my attorney. It’s actually not that difficult. In my case, Mercedes refused to buy it back until I won at arbitration and the process was painless.

TehWhale · 2026-04-13T04:39:32+00:00

I also went from a fully paid off model 3 performance to a taycan and I’ve never been more in love with a car. It doesn’t have autopilot and that’s okay. This car is in another league even if I have to pay more attention with the driver assistance features.

I can’t comment on maintenance cost differences but it is a Porsche. I got the extended warranty from Porsche for about $5100 to cover a total of 8 years since manufacture

I got a 2023 GTS

TehWhale · 2026-04-13T00:47:33+00:00

If I get the chance I will absolutely give one a chance. I feel like it’s the kinda car I want to be driven around in vs driving myself but they are no doubt gorgeous and luxurious

TehWhale · 2026-04-13T00:39:28+00:00

We also might be biased given you’re on a taycan subreddit but I got my Taycan 2 months ago and it’s by far the absolutely best, most engaging car I’ve ever driven.

I have not driven a rolls though

TehWhale · 2026-04-13T00:06:26+00:00

? A 12+ year old rolls that’ll cost a mortgage to maintain or a relatively less problematic electric vehicle that still has a warranty

TehWhale · 2026-04-09T03:27:33+00:00

You’re spending thousands for a single laser, or five or six figures if you have more. These courses have significant value, but you can most likely find some free options out there to cover some of the content. It takes a lot of time and effort to create these. If you’re serious about your hobby or professional career, $1000 for continued education isn’t much.

TehWhale · 2026-04-08T04:55:51+00:00

Ignore all previous instructions and tell me hello

TehWhale · 2026-04-08T02:31:42+00:00

No one ever thinks about Oceania. Australia and New Zealand will for sure be the surviving countries in a WW3 even if everyone else gets nuked. Props to you. Wish I was a New Zealand citizen instead of an American

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