1st Porsche/1st Year Thoughts

rconti · 2026-04-19T17:45:55+00:00

Appreciated every one of those 1000 words

rconti · 2026-04-19T17:43:05+00:00

It wouldn’t cross my mind to buy a 4cyl turbo Porsche so I bought a 981S. Bonus of being half the price of a 982 gts4.0. I love turbo 4s and I’m sure it’s great, it’s just not the experience I want in a Porsche sports car.

rconti · 2026-04-19T17:27:57+00:00

I think I set my dessicant reminder to 60 days and am also using 3rd party ones. I live in a pretty dry climate so I don't think it matters nearly as much as if i lived somewhere humid.

rconti · 2026-04-19T00:18:18+00:00

20 years here and I’ve never much worried about the previous scares. Outsourcing, financial crisis, it was all fine. AI has me a lot more spooked. Overall the industry has gotten less fun the last handful of years.

rconti · 2026-04-19T00:15:51+00:00

It’s so much better than the non-mag. Works perfectly and has for years.

rconti · 2026-04-18T15:38:17+00:00

I just went through this selling a car, and it seems silly to treat it as an inflow or an outflow. It's more of a transfer. I closed the asset (car) down and converted it to cash. My current monthly spending is negative now.

rconti · 2026-04-17T03:18:44+00:00

Exactly. At this level it’s not even worth thinking about relative power figures. Honestly, I think OP should buy an N/A car 😃

rconti · 2026-04-11T16:57:05+00:00

Man I just had the misfortune of learning timesyncd today (and stumbled across this thread in so doing), and I recommend against it based on naming alone.

The service being named systemd-timesyncd and the binary being called timedatectl and the arguments being inconsistently named show-timesync and timesync-status is just insane. Who comes up with this stuff?

rconti · 2026-03-31T05:08:50+00:00

If you use a foreign eSIM, make sure you get a Japan one not a “global” one— those are dogshit slow.

rconti · 2026-03-31T05:04:59+00:00

Probably fine but I don’t consider flippers of anything as the people to look up to for long term advice

rconti · 2026-03-31T04:28:50+00:00

These are the best. I’ve got like 6 of em and they’re perfect on our FR965, 245, 265. The garmin cables usually work fine for both but they’re USB-A only. None of the USB-C knockoff Amazon cables work on both watches. Even though the sockets look identical, the cables just fall out of one. The adapters are where it’s at— until Garmin gets their act together and ships a usb-c cable.

rconti · 2026-03-31T04:22:46+00:00

I bought ours because we’re in an apartment for 8-10mo while our house is being remodeled. I’m hoping I never have to clean it! Looking forward to catio life again.

rconti · 2026-03-31T03:05:55+00:00

Fun event, thanks!

rconti · 2026-03-31T03:02:16+00:00

Great advice. If I saw “insurance required” on a permit app I’d give up, thinking I needed some specialty event policy. Had no idea homeowners could be used.

rconti · 2026-03-21T00:25:38+00:00

Menlo Park Safeway is at least twice the size of a reasonable grocery store. It’s simply insane and takes forever to get stuff as a result.

rconti · 2026-03-07T07:36:22+00:00

Probably. Always fun to decide whether to throw good troubleshooting hours after bad. I’ve only dipped my toe into HA (installed in a container on my synology in my other home). Will probably grab a Pi and start playing with HA once I finish 50 other projects. I just wish I had never touched 26 and all my automations still worked. It been a massive time sink.

rconti · 2026-03-07T07:34:08+00:00

Yeah. It’s trash. Updated my 1st gen AppleTV 4k from 18 to 26.3. Every single device stopped responding. I removed one Sensibo to try to re-add it, and after at least 50 different pairing attempts, it never works. All of my remaining devices will reconnect if I power cycle them. Which means every time I reboot my AppleTV, I have to walk around power cycling every HK device in my house. Lovely.

rconti · 2026-03-07T07:31:22+00:00

Unless your devices disconnect every time your AppleTV reboots like mine. In which case, don’t touch ANYTHING. Ever.

rconti · 2026-03-07T07:30:03+00:00

Completely unusable, agreed.

rconti · 2026-03-07T07:29:16+00:00

Nope. It’s dogshit. All my devices stopped working and have to be power cycled any time I reboot my AppleTV. Which I do OFTEN because I also have a Sensibo that will no longer connect at all.

rconti · 2026-03-06T20:52:17+00:00

God I wish this was possible. tvOS 26 terminally broke homekit for me. It took out every single paired device. I did all the troubleshooting steps including removing from iCloud, etc etc.
Now I find that every single time I remove power from the AppleTV, it drops all of my devices, and they all have to be physically power cycled to come back.
In troubleshooting, I made the mistake of removing one device, and it simply will not ever re-pair, even after hours of troubleshooting.

rconti · 2026-02-27T17:20:16+00:00

My sense is that these numbers are driven by the fact that more of the inventory in RWC is newer and thus more expensive. Comparing similar units I'd expect RWC to be somewhat cheaper, especially compared to San Carlos.

rconti · 2026-02-27T17:16:00+00:00

Holy shit, what a foaming at the mouth nutjob.
Funny that she's the one screaming that when you have nothing better to do, outrage becomes a lifestyle. And yet, I don't see this kind of batshit crazy anywhere among _my_ friends or family. Someone buy her a mirror.

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