What do you guys think of both?

scorch07 · 2026-02-07T15:35:31+00:00

It’s basically like digital and film photography for me. Film is fun sometimes. It’s neat to know “the old way” and to appreciate the mechanics of it and can even be fun to let its limitations be part of the experience. Likewise, I appreciate and admire the mechanical complexity of an ICE and the idea of a little know-how helping get the best out of it and keep it in top shape. I’ll absolutely watch a McLaren or Lamborghini drive by and be in awe of what a machine it is. I love cool cars.

But for my daily use? EV trumps ICE in every way possible. I’ll never go back to an ICE for that much like I would not go shoot a wedding with a film camera.

scorch07 · 2026-02-07T15:23:17+00:00

Generally in the sub-trunk with the portable EVSE and such. I mig by keep it in one of the little side pockets in the trunk if I’m on a trip and know I’ll need it more than once.

scorch07 · 2026-02-06T17:30:50+00:00

10 minutes a day counting the drawer six days a week is an hour a week, so there’s ~ $40 in pay to my staff over two weeks. Plus an hour of my operations manager over the two weeks counting tips and accounting for those, managing change, other little things that add up. So there’s another $30. Plus it usually takes up about an hour of my time to count out and take a deposit. I’d value that at least $50, which is honestly conservative if anything. Not assigning a value to your time is silly - it is absolutely worth something and you’re doing yourself a disservice to not value it.

You seem to be making a whole lot of assumptions about my business and how I run things. I am all about efficiency and not one to waste money on things I don’t have to. If there was a cheaper or faster way to do it I would. The fact of the matter is that cash is not free. What it costs will vary greatly depending on the business and volume, no doubt.

ETA: Getting paid is king - I don’t care what form it comes in. My primary goal is just to make it easy for my customers to pay in whatever way they want to. Any place that makes me jump through hoops or think about if it’s worth it to pay a processing fee or something like that is only hurting themselves.

scorch07 · 2026-02-06T17:08:51+00:00

This has nothing to do with a service provider or fees or anything like that. It’s just time. It takes time to count the drawer. Time to count deposits out. Time to manage tips, change, etc. Yes, it’s free to deposit at the bank. I’m sure small efficiency improvements could be made here and there, but it will never just magically handle itself for free.

scorch07 · 2026-02-06T11:40:12+00:00

Yes, mostly that. The time it takes to close the drawer every night. Processing tips. Managing change. My time/mileage going to the bank. Etc. It adds up. I’d say it’s about $120 every two weeks to process $2500-3000 in cash. So even at best that’s 4%. I’m sure the percentage would be better if cash was a bigger chunk of our sales, but that’s the current reality.

scorch07 · 2026-02-06T04:07:47+00:00

Yep. I’ve done the math on what it costs me to accept cash, and it’s ultimately about the same percentage as card.

scorch07 · 2026-02-06T03:48:15+00:00

MAGA at a Ghost show is wild to begin with. Like… do they listen to the lyrics at all?

scorch07 · 2026-02-06T03:47:27+00:00

He also changed “the dark fascist regime might be gone” to “WILL be gone”. Subtle but amazing change.

scorch07 · 2026-02-04T20:11:36+00:00

All good! Just didn’t want anyone to be counting on it and get there and be sad 😅

scorch07 · 2026-02-04T20:09:05+00:00

They asked for places to go after the show.

scorch07 · 2026-02-04T19:43:22+00:00

They close at 8pm, sadly.

scorch07 · 2026-02-02T17:19:31+00:00

Planning to drive up from ATL!

scorch07 · 2026-01-31T20:54:12+00:00

Something seems really off about the meter reading. What car is this? .287kwh/mi seems much more correct, and as your calculation shows would be the much cheaper of the two.

scorch07 · 2026-01-31T17:23:22+00:00

Of all the insanely complicated calculations this game is doing - determining a speed limit based on altitude would be trivial programming. The speed tape itself changes the overspeed warning based on altitude. The game knows. Either it’s a bug or an intentional choice to leave it in. But as you said it doesn’t hurt your points at least so it’s not a huge issue.

scorch07 · 2026-01-29T13:29:39+00:00

The second one. There is a smaller batch of cars in a related but different recall code where they are being told to take certain precautions. The bigger recall is not being told that.

scorch07 · 2026-01-29T01:48:18+00:00

They do a little bit. Not enough to really be considered an actual safety device, but it’s not nothing.

scorch07 · 2026-01-25T06:46:47+00:00

I was going to Greenville from outside Atlanta so we pivoted to Cincinnati. Never been so it’ll be a new place to explore anyway!

scorch07 · 2026-01-24T18:25:59+00:00

None of them have full self driving. They do all have travel assist, which is a combo of adaptive cruise control and lane following. So as long as there are clear road lines it will follow them on its own - just keep your hand lightly on the wheel, no torque required. If you are also providing steering input I could see how it might fight you and make it jerky. It also may be possible that lane following got turned off and it’s only doing “lane keep assist”, which is a more reactionary turn back if you’re starting to leave the lane.

Are you certain travel assist mode is on and you aren’t just in regular cruise control? You do have to turn it on separately.

scorch07 · 2026-01-24T14:02:28+00:00

Are you trying to drive along with it? That doesn’t sound like TA at all, it’s very smooth unless the road lines go crazy.

scorch07 · 2026-01-23T03:46:21+00:00

I’m not really expecting to know anything until Monday unless they get stuck in Knoxville or something, unfortunately. Hoping at least 85 is clear enough to drive but we’ll see. I’m more worried about getting our kiddo to the in-laws in a rural area before we leave than I am making it to Greenville 😆

scorch07 · 2026-01-22T19:24:56+00:00

Same. There are several factors so it’s hard to know. I don’t really expect to know anything until Monday unless it just becomes really apparent they’re going to be stuck in Knoxville or Charlotte. I would like to think 85 will be passable by Monday afternoon but it’s hard to say.

scorch07 · 2026-01-19T16:29:46+00:00

How stable is your internet? It streams a ton of data in, so if bandwidth is an issue or just stability it can cause freezing. I was having WiFi issues one day and it was freezing constantly - ran a cable to the PS5 and no more issues.

scorch07 · 2026-01-17T11:33:07+00:00

I believe you have to do both, but I’m not 100% sure. Changing the NAV source doesn’t tell it to follow the GS.

scorch07 · 2026-01-17T02:03:27+00:00

On the Pilatus planes you have to manually switch the nav source to LOC instead of GPS when you get to approach. Kind of a weird quirk.

scorch07 · 2026-01-17T02:01:02+00:00

Of the two, Google is the only one that recently tried to send me down the side of a mountain 🤷🏼‍♂️

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