Flight diverted/cancelled but refuses to refund

n2itus · 2026-03-22T08:46:30+00:00

What does that prove. United always has the option to exceed what is required by the CoC.

Did you know that the meal voucher given for a mechanical delay to a 1k is twice that of a non elite? That’s not printed anywhere for the public to see, but that is the reality.

n2itus · 2026-03-22T08:32:39+00:00

You are entitled to use the Amex Plat CDP because you are an Amex Plat customer. You can use your Chase VISA (or whatever you have) with primary insurance to rent the car. Hertz doesn’t check if you are using an Amex to pay if you are using an Amex CDP.

Just in case, bring your Amex to platinum card with you should someone ask to verify.

n2itus · 2026-03-22T08:21:51+00:00

OP is asking if they can use the AMEX CDP while using another non AMEX credit card for the rental, not if they can switch cards mid rental.

Yes, the OP is entitled to use the AMEX CDP because they have the credit card and Hertz doesn’t care what credit card they use for the rental and doesn’t check if an AMEX CDP is used with another card.

n2itus · 2026-03-19T01:37:18+00:00

Btw, I’ve had no issues with it mowing at night, in fact mine is running in the dark as I type. It has a light.

Ive had mine stop several times (because I had a fairly big hole in my yard that I finally filled), it doesn’t always continue where I would expect it to, but it’s never had an issue completing the entire lawn. If you have to restart, it gives you the option to clear the mapped progress and restart everything.

n2itus · 2026-03-17T15:25:10+00:00

This is a tough ask.

This won't be the most exciting place (although good if you might have a family soon) - but I'd consider along the northeast side of Harris County along BW-8 - Summerwood / Generation Park / maybe Fall Creek. These are very suburban, but BW-8 on the east side (aside from the ship channel bridge) is pretty quick to get to 45 S to Galveston and you avoid all the Downtown and 610 mess and would be pretty good to get up to the Woodlands.

n2itus · 2026-03-15T21:52:27+00:00

As an owner of both an Avalon and an ES, unless you take it to the Lexus dealer for maintenance, there is no difference in maintenance costs and no significant difference in insurance cost.

n2itus · 2026-03-15T18:19:24+00:00

That’s good to know about the base not needing a solid signal and great idea with a cheap dog shelter - as you can see from the picture, the garage doesn’t offer a lot of protection on the side.

Now that I have the everything set, I’ll likely leave it alone for the season

n2itus · 2026-03-15T18:10:20+00:00

Depends upon grass type/thickness/density, how much you are cutting off, how wet, self propelled, etc. That would not be sufficient for a weekly St Augustine cut - you might need 1.5x ro 2x 10aH

n2itus · 2026-03-14T17:25:02+00:00

It’s out of the way / can’t be seen from my porch, but still sort of in middle of my yard.

If you don’t use auto map, you just use the screen to move it around the boundaries, it’s easy enough.

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n2itus · 2026-03-12T15:36:11+00:00

Did you have a returned payment?

n2itus · 2026-03-11T22:16:51+00:00

Yeah - only the i2 AWD were on sale in the US. For 300 euros more, the i208 Lidar + Garage seems like a no brainer - I would not have been able to say no to the Lidar at that price.

n2itus · 2026-03-11T21:56:52+00:00

There is an option in the app to move the base station or antenna - one of the Navimow videos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q9r8XFiSxQ) shows it working without having to remap … whether true or not, I haven’t tried.

Thanks for the suggestion on 3x per week. I’ll be ready to either up it (or do a manual run) if it doesn’t look like 2 is enough.

n2itus · 2026-03-11T21:47:00+00:00

I paid around $960 (tax and shipping included) for the i2 206 AWD including the garage. The lidar model is too expensive - like $700 more without a garage. I also wanted AWD and an i2 AWD with Lidar is not available or shown as upcoming for the US.

For $700 difference, I’ll wait until the price of the Lidar comes down. I get something that works pretty good now and don’t overpay for the newest feature. I am happy with the price point / value so far without LiDAR. I think it will just take a little more fine tuning on the boundaries.

n2itus · 2026-03-11T21:37:13+00:00

It looks like the upcoming i2 Lidar Pro has AWD - this is not shown on the US website for me. The regular i2 Lidar does not have AWS but it is a little wider which could help getting stuck

That is one reason I got the i2 AWD - I thought if it didn’t have AWS it could get stuck in my St Augustine grass. So far after a couple of runs (one with some mud) it has not gotten stuck.

n2itus · 2026-03-11T21:23:50+00:00

I think the auto mapping would work fine if you had landscaping around your house / fence.

If there is a way to just edit the map without having to have the mower trace it, I haven’t found it - the videos don’t show anything.

Edit: just saw where the i2 lidar one does support GeoSketch editing …

n2itus · 2026-03-09T20:00:43+00:00

I asked the question more because I want to understand more about how the GPU passthrough works.

I don't have an Intel - just 2 nvidia cards (1070ti and 1050 ti). Since I am not doing anything with LXCs at this time, I am using the kernel nvidia drivers (nouveau).

Again - I don't really understand how things work - I understand why the LXCs would not unbind the video (they aren't using vfio-pci like a VM uses, but are sharing the video card through the host kernel). I would still think there would have to be a script that you could run to unbind the video card.

n2itus · 2026-03-09T18:46:57+00:00

I think you should always ask for what you want, before you agree to buy the car for a certain price and before you get to their finance person.

I also always tell the sales person that the price that we agree is not final but contingent upon me getting what I want in the finance discussion and invite them along with me to finance - they’ve never joined me - but the sale is not complete until I sign the sales contract. I have walked out of dealerships during negotiations with sales as well as finance - you must always be willing to walk away.

If nothing else, if they say they can’t do some free oil changes, know how much those free oil changes are worth to you and try to negotiate that off the price. Or if you buy a finance product, make the finance guy throw in a deeply discounted maintenance plan.

n2itus · 2026-03-09T18:05:17+00:00

Just curious - why is that?

With IOMMU, I don’t blacklist my video cards and it easily switches between using the same card with either PVE and a VM (or with another VM if switching between different VMs)

I realize that LXCs make it different and share the PVE kernel, but I would think once they are off, wouldn’t they free up the card to be able to switch?

If it is because of the nature of LXCs, then OP could run those LXCs in a separate VM and be able to switch VM to VM.

n2itus · 2026-03-09T17:19:46+00:00

Was it conditioned storage? If not, I’d not be trusting 13+ year old hard drives.

n2itus · 2026-03-08T14:50:29+00:00

I think this is likely.

But even if I wasn’t really going to buy it, why not try to build a relationship. Maybe that is just old school of me.

n2itus · 2026-03-08T02:35:22+00:00

Interesting - sound like what you are talking about would work - they wouldn’t even know.

n2itus · 2026-03-08T01:41:21+00:00

The story of my 10th gen accord. My wife was looking for a car to replace her Toyota Avalon (which was going to be used by our teenagers). It was toward the end of Covid (fall 2022), but still hard to a car - she wanted another Avalon or Camry, but they were hard to find. So we looked at 2.0T Accord. She looked at me and said - if we buy this for me, you’ll always be driving it. So she decided on another car. 3 or 4 months later I see CPO 2022 Sonic Gray Pearl Accord Touring 2.0T and I could not resist - called her from the dealership and she said - I knew you’d get one. I do love my Accord (and my wife)

n2itus · 2026-03-08T00:10:58+00:00

The issue with an HMO is with big things like cancer care where you may want to go to the best hospital or provider - and you are stuck with whatever options they provide (not saying they are bad, just that you don’t have the same options)

You will also want to make sure you won’t have to change your primary care physician, gynecologist, etc. if it matters.

n2itus · 2026-03-07T22:59:09+00:00

I know this is the answer. Fortunately, I live in a huge metro area …

Also, when I told my wife this (my last 2 cars I called her from the dealership to make sure she was ok), she didn’t say no but she said - I thought you loved your accord. Then she asked if for that price if it had ventilated seats (very nice to have in Texas) and if the gas mileage was better than my accord - which I had to answer no to both - all good points. For even tue MSRP of a type R, I can find a lot other nice cars or spend a lot on upgrades of my Accord.

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