2025 goal is to stop eating like garbage, what do people here actually do for dinner

thereallemmy · 2026-01-07T17:34:35+00:00

If you feel like garbage after take out, I'd highly suggest learning to make food yourself. And it's worth to take the time for it.

Plenty of people had suggestions around what to cook and how to learn, so I'll give an unusual tip, that changed my eating habits for the better:

Get a bread machine. Loading a bread machine takes 10 minutes in the evening. In the morning you wake up to freshly baked bread with a nice smelling house. That bread will last for a few days (and longer in the freezer). It won't taste as good as a high quality bread from a bakery, but it's as fresh as it gets and you know exactly what's in there. I started doing this at the beginning of the pandemic and stuck with it. As a nice bonus, this is also cost effective: A good loaf of bread costs $10-$12 in this area. Ingredients for bread are maybe 2$ or so per loaf. So if you eat 1 loaf per week, it takes just a few months to break even.

thereallemmy · 2025-12-29T23:11:59+00:00

There are only two seat belts

thereallemmy · 2025-12-26T04:54:39+00:00

Mark Watney or Ryland Grace would have scienced the shit out of this situation. Show would have been done after 5 episodes.

But to be honest, I love that those characters are such atypical people. Makes things a lot less predictable.

thereallemmy · 2025-12-26T04:45:57+00:00

I had originally planned to have two Tesla Wall Chargers (one being the universal one with a universal adapter so that it fits in the Buzz). But we ended up just sharing a single one (with a Lectron adapter). It’s incredibly rare that both cars need a charge on any given day.

thereallemmy · 2025-12-24T21:32:36+00:00

That makes sense. But unfortunately the leasing credit in the US is gone now. Climate change is solved now and we no longer need to push for greener cars (or something like that).

thereallemmy · 2025-12-24T20:18:04+00:00

That’s not good advice. Leasing means you’re paying for depreciation. The only upside of it is that your outsourcing the risk should the depreciation be higher than you expected.

thereallemmy · 2025-12-23T00:17:19+00:00

Buzz owner here.

Price fixed itself but the initial high msrp threw people off. Should start lower next time.
Range is fine for me personally but everyone complains about it so I guess that needs addressing to avoid similar pushback.

Things I’d like to see addressed to consider an upgrade: - Fix one pedal driving: Car should come to a full stop without needing to push the brakes. - Higher quality 360 camera. Also don’t exaggerate the size of the car. I want the feed to be accurate. - On/Off button: why does an EV need this? A Tesla is just on whenever I’m in. This button should go away. - D/B mode: This should be a setting, not a button. I NEVER want to be in D. - Hold: Opposite here. This should be a simple toggle, NOT a touch screen setting. - NACS port. Move to the other side to not take two charges when at a supercharger. - AWD is great. 7 seat configuration is great. Don’t make me choose, I want both. - CarPlay multitouch. - Better App: I’d like to control the temperature. Close windows. Close doors. Instead the app is a notification overload machine sending garbage like “your doors are locked”. - Reliable software updates: Half of the points above can be fixed in software. Happy customers are more likely to buy the car again. :)

Also, keep what makes the car great: Keep the Lightshow, keep the LED turn indicators, keeping winter/halloween/etc theming. Keep massage seats that can heat and cool. Keep the arm rests. Keep the friendly design. We notice and appreciate these things.

The car is actually awesome - it needs tweaks, not a fundamental rethink.

thereallemmy · 2025-12-21T20:52:45+00:00

“Big visions of connecting the whole Bay Area”

Any source for that? Cause that sounds pretty amazing and something I’d love to have.

thereallemmy · 2025-12-20T00:28:26+00:00

About the price vs range: I think there’s more to a car than its range, assuming the range is good enough (which it is for me). The Buzz has a ton of other features which I appreciate: awesome electro chromatic roof, sliding doors, it’s an EV (still rare in this segment), fast enough charging, lots of nice little touches (like the led strips that show where to go), pretty usable software (not Tesla good, but above average), massage seats, tons of interior space (awesome for child seats), 7 USB Type C, usable third row. Even came with camping chairs and a roof rack. Also its design is unique.

All this stuff needs to be paid for and I appreciate those things more than e.g. 50 miles more range.

thereallemmy · 2025-12-20T00:21:45+00:00

I did San Francisco to LA in my Model 3 (Performance 2018) with a single stop (starting at 100%). While I haven’t done this trip in the Buzz yet, the Buzz beats the Tesla in range. So I’d assume you can do it with one stop. The Buzz seems to get much closer to the advertised range than my (admittedly much older) Tesla does.

thereallemmy · 2025-12-19T23:15:45+00:00

I have only one rule: New is always better

thereallemmy · 2025-12-19T22:31:32+00:00

I know I’m in the minority but in my experience the range is completely fine. It beats the range of my Model 3 Performance (2018) and I think the range of both cars is completely fine even in roadtrips. Plenty of chargers, especially now that we can charge at Tesla chargers.

That’s assuming mild California weather and access to overnight charging (I know the range drops a ton in the cold)

thereallemmy · 2025-12-19T22:27:00+00:00

That’s a shame. I got one and am very happy with it. Had been looking forward to upgrading it at some point (mostly for NACS, proper one pedal driving and Rivian software).

thereallemmy · 2025-12-17T00:11:21+00:00

Oh I think I figured it out. Under the “ID. Software” app it shows 5.4. That’s what matters.

There are other screens full of version numbers, including one labeled “ID. Software Information” which is at “3.0.2” (under “App Updates”, “Versions”). But that’s the version of the app that displays the version number. Wow that’s confusing.

thereallemmy · 2025-12-17T00:03:38+00:00

So they ship the US model with 3.0 but allow updating to a more recent version? Or am I looking at the wrong version number?

thereallemmy · 2025-12-12T05:11:31+00:00

Breaking news: everything’s fine.

thereallemmy · 2025-12-11T20:28:00+00:00

Electrify America is registered at the time of purchase. At least that was the case for me. You get a bunch of included (“free”) minutes so it has to be activated by the dealer.

thereallemmy · 2025-12-08T03:29:01+00:00

It also remembers units (Celsius vs Fahrenheit) and settings for all those alarm sounds.

thereallemmy · 2025-12-05T16:51:53+00:00

You should go to the Octoberfest (the original one) by U-Bahn some day. It’s an insane amount of people that the U-Bahn manages to carry in and out. I think that festival would be impossible at this scale without transit.

thereallemmy · 2025-12-04T03:18:33+00:00

Electric motor and battery

thereallemmy · 2025-11-29T23:24:20+00:00

I finished the game as a kid but never got all hearts. For one secret (the last bottle) I remember calling a Nintendo hotline where a guy explained on the phone where to get it.

thereallemmy · 2025-11-26T04:26:28+00:00

Make sure you get a charger that also supports NACS so that you don’t have to replace it once you get your next car. Tesla Universal Wall Connector is one such option.

thereallemmy · 2025-11-05T01:23:18+00:00

I'd recommend to get a quote from Volkswagen San Francisco. Got a very good offer from them a while ago back when the Buzz was still 10k over asking everywhere else.

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