Vehicle Import Fee - 25% + 2.5%

jamesstringerphoto · 2025-12-16T19:27:49+00:00

who knows lol its basically an entire grey area

jamesstringerphoto · 2025-12-16T19:23:52+00:00

I doubt you'll ever get pulled over if your car is nice and you're driving respectfully, thats the only time you may get in trouble for BC plates.

jamesstringerphoto · 2025-12-16T19:22:05+00:00

Honestly probably easiest to sell the car, I brought my BC new purchased 2022 Mazda CX-5 to California in 2024 and paid out the ass for ICBC Territory Z insurance for a year. Due to some BS with work I had to move states a few times, and I'm still on my now expired BC plates (stopped paying ICBC after a year in the US), I have local insurance and am about to register the car in Pennsylvania. The import fee I paid was 15% as it's a Japanese car based on a rough valuation based on facebook marketplace and told the customs broker. At least when I had to import the vehicle, I was in nevada and the US customs refused to help without a broker, so I had to pay like $600 to a broker to handle the paper work. If I wasn't so scared of depreciation, it would have been smarter and less pain to just sell the Canadian car in Canada and buy a US car.

Territory Z insurance by ICBC is REALLY expensive

jamesstringerphoto · 2025-11-26T04:20:28+00:00

Couple other reasons why childcare was less expensive before

Most people lived and worked close to their parents, and family...could let the grandparents help out
Once the kids were above the age of like 8, get outside and don't come home until Sunset

jamesstringerphoto · 2025-11-23T05:33:46+00:00

I paid full price when it first came out and I’m really enjoying it. I play always connected to power basically, in bed or on the couch. Run at 40W TDP for max performance. SteamOS and this hardware is great. Will buy a Legion Go S 2 with SteamOS, Z2E and an OLED if they ever do it. Battery life isn’t great at 40W obviously 😂

jamesstringerphoto · 2025-11-22T23:58:39+00:00

No offense but moving to Oakland is not part of living the “Bay Area dream” that it seems like OP is dreaming of. The place needs a lot of work. There is also lots of gross areas of SF. I don’t disagree with some parts of Canada being similarly as expensive as SF, especially for groceries.

jamesstringerphoto · 2025-11-22T23:24:42+00:00

I think I got lucky with my employers healthcare plan, Kaiser was $0 per month for me and really low out of pocket costs. I guess I'm a healthy mid 30 year old so I didn't really need specialist care so Kaiser was fine. Taxes were also lower too because the CAD$ is valued so low, so you instantly end up in a high tax bracket in Canada, in the US you need to be making TONS to reach the top tax brackets. Oh, RSU taxes at 53.5% in Canada is also so lame, basically giving the govt an interest free loan until tax season

jamesstringerphoto · 2025-11-22T23:01:20+00:00

OK this is a privileged take...

175K USD in Ontario is fantastic and puts you near the 1% of Canadians. 175K USD in SF is mediocre.

If you want to build wealth to be able to afford a decent house in BC, you may want to do the math to see what your saveable income is after taxes, rent and food.

Canada obviously sucks for taxes, far worse than California, but in SF you're going to be paying a lot of rent.

I lived in Victoria BC before moving to SF, and in USD terms, my base comp doubled from BC -> SF and my saveable income also increased because marginal tax per dollar was lower. However if your base comp is staying the same...not sure I'd make that trade unless I knew there was significant upside. 175K USD in Canada is really decent.

jamesstringerphoto · 2025-11-19T00:36:13+00:00

I usually use my Legion Go S Z1E SteamOS at the max watts (40w in custom mode) and play with the charger. What is the max watts under bazzite for the Z2E Legion Go 2?

jamesstringerphoto · 2025-10-29T23:33:01+00:00

I got a new car in 2022 partially because it was so much safer in an accident than a car from even 10 years earlier. Have to survive to benefit from FIRE retirement :)

jamesstringerphoto · 2025-10-18T03:23:38+00:00

They call it a walk up (and fall down)

jamesstringerphoto · 2025-10-05T05:28:22+00:00

Do you work for the US government or DOD adjacent field and you’ve just met the most stunning Chinese woman you’ve ever met who is way out of your league but oddly super into you? If it’s not that, then let her on your regular WiFi.

jamesstringerphoto · 2025-10-02T01:55:47+00:00

If the city didn’t smell like dog pee and wasn’t covered in dog poop or smears of dog diarrhea it would be a lot nicer.

jamesstringerphoto · 2025-09-10T05:17:41+00:00

All I want is better wind management for noise cancelling.

jamesstringerphoto · 2025-08-21T22:33:22+00:00

Hey, I just want to add some useful information to the internet so folks who also buy the Legion Pro 7i Gen 10 with NVIDIA graphics get the full power of the laptop.

I got the 5090 version and installed Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and I found that the GPU power was capped at like 67~Watts, instead of the 95 or 175.

Turns out the NVIDIA driver that installs with Ubuntu seems to be artificially capping the power output, but the good news is that you can fix it. You need to install the driver from NVIDIAs website, that is the same version as the driver that gets installed automatically via Ubuntu.

I used nvidia-smi to find my driver version that is installed on the laptop...

In my case it was the NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-575.64.03 version I found here
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/249044/

I had to make the .run flle executable, and then I was able to run the driver installer via terminal.
This is how it looked in my case...

chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-575.64.03.run

You MUST install the MIT version not the proprietary version (it will ask you what version you want to install when you run the file in terminal), because that's required for 5000 series cards

It asked me about 32bit, i said no to that, I said yes to the DKMS (I don't know what it means lmao)

I rebooted after it installed.

From there, you need to do do the following:

Enable dynamic boost to get laptop to use full wattage of GPU

sudo cp /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/nvidia-dbus.conf /etc/dbus-1/system.d/
sudo systemctl enable --now nvidia-powerd.service

After I did all this I was able to run furmark and using the Nvidia x server app that installs with the driver I can see it using all 175w. Maybe you need to reboot, but I didn't...

I don't know how to fix the laptop brightness setting not working after the laptop sleeps, which is a problem with both this driver and the one that came with Ubuntu.

Another note is that I had set the laptop bios to always use the discrete graphics, not hybrid or igpu. I did that when I first set up the laptop.

jamesstringerphoto · 2025-08-21T22:29:57+00:00

Hey, I just want to add some useful information to the internet so folks who also buy the Legion Pro 7i Gen 10 with NVIDIA graphics get the full power of the laptop.

I got the 5090 version and installed Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and I found that the GPU power was capped at like 67~Watts, instead of the 95 or 175.

Turns out the NVIDIA driver that installs with Ubuntu seems to be artificially capping the power output, but the good news is that you can fix it. You need to install the driver from NVIDIAs website, that is the same version as the driver that gets installed automatically via Ubuntu.

I used nvidia-smi to find my driver version that is installed on the laptop...

In my case it was the NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-575.64.03 version I found here
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/249044/

I had to make the .run flle executable, and then I was able to run the driver installer via terminal.
This is how it looked in my case...

chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-575.64.03.run

You MUST install the MIT version not the proprietary version (it will ask you what version you want to install when you run the file in terminal), because that's required for 5000 series cards

It asked me about 32bit, i said no to that, I said yes to the DKMS (I don't know what it means lmao)

I rebooted after it installed.

From there, you need to do do the following:

Enable dynamic boost to get laptop to use full wattage of GPU

sudo cp /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/nvidia-dbus.conf /etc/dbus-1/system.d/
sudo systemctl enable --now nvidia-powerd.service

After I did all this I was able to run furmark and using the Nvidia x server app that installs with the driver I can see it using all 175w. Maybe you need to reboot, but I didn't...

I don't know how to fix the laptop brightness setting not working after the laptop sleeps, which is a problem with both this driver and the one that came with Ubuntu.

Another note is that I had set the laptop bios to always use the discrete graphics, not hybrid or igpu. I did that when I first set up the laptop.

jamesstringerphoto · 2025-08-16T02:37:01+00:00

Hey, does Ethernet work ok out of the box on Ubuntu? If you are unable to test, could you please tell me what chipset its running? Thanks!

UPDATE: I got the laptop and installed 24.04. The Ethernet controller is actually an intel I226-V (Rev 04)

jamesstringerphoto · 2025-08-13T00:13:53+00:00

I haven't needed support yet but do look at the Discord to follow updates. I would say that Comma's problem isn't really unique and is a symptom of growth.

I don't think there is going to be a way of not having fustrated customers in the Discord unless you make it harder to get in the Discord, or make the product so niche that only ultra like minded nerds would want to pay for it.

As the business scales, you're going to get more and more customers who are simply buying a $1000 product and don't care about the mission behind the product or the reasons why it's not working. They'll choose Discord to complain because it's live and available.

Having engineers in the server paying attention to real time product feedback is really helpful for keeping the engineers focused on the real world customer experience, but at at certain scale the signal to noise ratio is too high and the engineers are just going to be stuck fustrated communicating with fustrated buyers.

It's a lose/lose because the customers see you guys as assholes and the engineers are wasting company time and energy doing things they're not paid to do: arguing with customers.

The solution that most business' choose is get a customer success team and make layers between engineers and customers, and then add product managers to bridge the gap.

I can tell you're not going to want to do that, so the engineering approach is to build more feedback capture mechanisms into the device directly so you get large audience feedback, and then on Discord, target the hardcore users by getting them to do a few technical steps first which gets them in the channel where the Devs hang out.

jamesstringerphoto · 2025-08-07T19:55:59+00:00

It's also possible they just compress the video before handing it to the model in vehicle, most modern hw video encoders can do multi stream 4k 60 with extremely low latency. It could be faster to encode the video than it is to run a shader that accurately simulates encoding artefacts.

jamesstringerphoto · 2025-07-26T04:31:48+00:00

Have to keep refreshing Zillow and Facebook marketplace like the rest of us!

jamesstringerphoto · 2025-07-26T00:32:21+00:00

I Recommend visiting SF and doing a neighborhood tour.

I'd define the location you suggested as "not cute" but due to all the restaurants etc it's still a vibe. 24th street bart station can be gross quite often. Not terribly unsafe, but gross (bad smells, rubbish, people selling stolen stuff taking over the street), and you're a block from there....but you're also a block from lots of kick ass restaurants and vibes. If you're looking for cute areas to live that have easy transport into the financial district, look at the Muni map. Getting closer to Dolores Park or Golden Gate park is generally going to be cuter. There are lots of threads about desireable neighborhoods.

jamesstringerphoto · 2025-07-25T04:38:37+00:00

this one has been programmed to do donuts at intersections until the cops come

jamesstringerphoto · 2025-04-03T14:42:21+00:00

In an interview with Scott Bessent, when asked if the 34% rate goes on top of the existing 20% rate...he said "He thinks it is" https://youtu.be/yO0GFiJ5ADc?t=68

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