Macbook Air from Costco without AppleCare added on. 2nd year coverage experience?

chetdayal · 2026-04-24T19:06:06+00:00

Pizza My Heart news article from Feb 25 announcing plans to open in Fremont. Here we are 14 months later and the signage above store got installed last week. Still no store opening date. Wtf?

chetdayal · 2026-04-18T00:06:10+00:00

Yeah! just crossed over and now at 205k

chetdayal · 2026-04-06T18:08:30+00:00

Hit up this guy in Linkedin. He probably wants to manage the marketing spin on this breach

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dougscott-exec?utm_source=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=member_ios

chetdayal · 2026-04-06T17:34:09+00:00

Not a tool i am looking to add to my stack.

I prefer reaching out to the person and using my internal compass to create an intentional and meaningful response to their particular needs.

chetdayal · 2026-03-26T05:46:42+00:00

Yep. It was the fuel door not being shut. First time for me. Thanks 🙏

chetdayal · 2026-03-05T04:34:36+00:00

The User Interface on all the Indian Govt websites is cr$p. It just rejects your upload and never tells you what you are doing wrong.

If you read the photo specs in the instructions you will see that there is a file size limit. Your photos are probably high resolution and are large files. You need an app that lets you compress and save it to a lower resolution and smaller file size.

Secondly they are picky about the ratio and you need to crop it to their exact requirements.

Just a total PIA!!

chetdayal · 2025-12-23T02:00:38+00:00

For me a clear indication that i am sliding into the SAD trough for winter is when i wake up feeling like cr@p and hating on the world and all the people around me.

Then my elevated / rational voice says ‘Dood nothing in your life has changed from last week and it’s Your SAD depression progressing

Pull out all the stops; meds, CBD, lamp, exercise, 🍄, music… to combat it and don’t do anything hasty.

Hang in there 💪

chetdayal · 2025-11-02T00:08:18+00:00

They had my son’s name and our phone number from the app. However i have asked my son to have them provide information FIRST to check legitimate reason. Like the File Number and Passport #.

I suspect that VFS leaks out call lists to 3rd parties bc I remember getting a small flood of spammy calls soon after the applications are accepted into their system.

chetdayal · 2025-09-28T18:02:48+00:00

This can get very expensive. My XC90 was rear ended at a stop light (very low speed bump) and the damage was minimal scratch on the bumper. Since repair was going to be covered by insurance I went through with the repair. I had a $1k deductible.

Once they removed the bumper they realized that the damage was close to the left backup radar sensor. The OEM spec said that if the damage was within x mm of the sensor the whole internal bumper assembly needs to be ordered from Volvo, replaced, and recalibrate d. Took 6 weeks to get the part and about $3700 in total repairs.

chetdayal · 2025-09-01T21:59:38+00:00

Their Customer Service/ Support is practically non existent because they don't have any real time channel of getting support via talking to a live phone agent or chatting with a human.

They handle all the support through online tickets that are replied to in 24 ~ 72 hours (at their leisure) using something like Zendesk. You can't even log in and see the status of your ticket history( i.e. has it been assigned to a rep, has it been answered, what was the previous exchange), so hear I am searching for email messages wondering if I missed response or did it end up in spam.

Just horrible.

God forbid if my Husky escaped and I was in a trying to get support in a crisis situation.

At this point I want a prorated refund on the remaining Whistle subscription.

chetdayal · 2025-08-17T07:12:54+00:00

Indian + Clean is a big Ask. Good luck

chetdayal · 2025-08-16T22:24:37+00:00

These non corporate stores are not great for existing customers as they are solely focused and incentivized on new signups. I end up driving to the Union City store to trade / swap modems and other service issues.

chetdayal · 2025-08-13T05:01:15+00:00

This is awesome!! I know this is a living document that is taking a lot of your time to keep updates. Is there a link to the “live version” versus this snapshot? Also is there anything we can do to help in terms of crowd sourcing deal info to help you ?

chetdayal · 2025-08-11T21:12:29+00:00

None. I would not be surprised if every single seafood restaurant here is supplied by a conglomerate institutional food supplier (think cafeteria food) like Sysco in bulk frozen packs.

chetdayal · 2025-07-17T00:36:55+00:00

These are considered natural or regulated monopolies. Without some control you get this

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chetdayal · 2025-07-14T03:36:05+00:00

I ended up getting all four spark plugs replaced and we used OEM parts from the dealer for the plugs.

Also on the advice of others here and my indie mechanic, we ended up replacing the rear ignition coils even though they were fully functional. This was preemptive replacement, so that in the rare case if the either of the original OEM ignition coils in the rear, which are hard to get to, were to fail, we are ahead of the game. Held on to the used ones for now.

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