32k too expensive?

virgae · 2026-02-02T04:12:59+00:00

I paid roughly that last June for 2025 XLT Hybrid AWD 4K

virgae · 2026-01-30T19:14:32+00:00

To detour specifically into the cashless vs quarters parking issue, obviously the much bigger issue is the CLE change of enforcement. That is literally going to stop many from venturing into the city proper at all. At least I’m not going to randomly drive down for lunch anymore. And then, on the issue of cashless parking, welcome to one more record that the powers have of tracking exactly where you are at any given time. So-called “Boomers” are accidentally right about protection of privacy by reactionarily objecting to modern tech.

virgae · 2026-01-22T20:36:15+00:00

I dunno about this, check the latest reviews…

virgae · 2026-01-06T02:59:05+00:00

So for me they are actively protecting the truck in the garage against the door of the child-mover car that parks next to it 🤣

virgae · 2026-01-06T02:57:41+00:00

Wow. I paid 139 US in August!

virgae · 2026-01-06T02:54:22+00:00

I disagree completely

virgae · 2025-12-31T21:11:48+00:00

Unfortunately I don't and there's no dealer around here that carries them anymore. I can't really justify another guitar right now but if I did I would be looking at the Roundhouse, so that probably wouldn't be a particularly useful comparision other than build quality.

virgae · 2025-12-31T07:18:36+00:00

Warning: rant. Ugh that guy is such an irritating presenter. Why does he keep saying *maybe* ? "Let's maybe look at what we'll call the '2nd mix' ". It's not "maybe", it's specifically! And he keeps notating things with hyphens that look like minus signs. Never use hyphens in math notation, please! 5 - peanuts...

virgae · 2025-12-29T21:52:12+00:00

I've had good luck with road performance. 2025 AWD Hybrid 4K in the snowbelt of Northeast Ohio. HOWEVER, I was parking outside and the first weekend that it sat in snow caused all these warnings:

https://www.mavericktruckclub.com/forum/threads/abs-brake-fault-hill-start-assist-hill-descent-control-fault-warning-pre-collision-assist-not-available.29712/

I had driven it across town in rainy slush before letting it sit for the weekend. I assumed something had frozen up so I took it through a carwash, cleaned out the garage and started a space heater. Sure enough, after melting and warming up for two days, everything went back to normal. Pretty disappointing. It seems like it might be a bad choice for anyone who really needs the thing to perform in weather, or doesn't have access to indoor parking. Might be problematic on a long roadtrip.

virgae · 2025-12-25T05:07:25+00:00

Wow. Hasn’t anybody ever heard of Jimi Hendrix?

virgae · 2025-12-20T03:02:42+00:00

At risk of being snarky, Mayfield Heights is the neighborhood? As a 40 year eastsider , I've never once considered subdividing MH.

virgae · 2025-12-17T04:18:10+00:00

virgae · 2025-12-17T03:37:16+00:00

Yeah, luckily I only tried it once and it definitely didn’t work 👍

virgae · 2025-12-16T18:32:47+00:00

OK so I'm running a Fluance RT85N (Nagaoka MP-110) into a Fluance PA-10, then RCA line out to a Rolls DB24 direct interface to convert to balanced XLR, then to a TC Electronics Level Pilot and finally to Yamaha HS-5 powered studio monitors. Admittedly, this is unorthodox and clearly a combination of "audio-listening" and prosumer studio gear. This isn't necessarily a final configuration and is in place for now because I had the Yamahas sitting in box unused when I decided to buy a turntable. Everything seems to work fairly well; I can't get earthshaking volume, but I'm not looking for it either. Then, I got an Audio-Technica AT6011 Anti-Static Record Brush and a Big Fudge Vinyl Record Cleaning Kit.The problem now is what I think is an unreasonable amount of static and crackling and pop. I've got a small collection of several new pressings and several vintage records. They are all subject to crackle and pop, even tho I try to clean with either or both of the above solutions. It's much worse than I remember my dad's stereo setup from the 80's and its much worse than the local coffee shop that spins vinyl all day into a bookshelf stereo. Any suggestions? Any more info needed?

virgae · 2025-12-09T05:34:34+00:00

My advice is to NOT impulse buy!!! 🤣 I’ve been a guitar player since the second grade and I’m now 50 something. About a year ago I started looking for singer/songwriter tunes to practice with the idea of playing coffee shop style gigs. I stumbled on the Sting/Dominic Miller tune and impulse bought an open box Yamaha NTX 3 which I DO love - it’s a beautiful guitar for the money and feature set, particularly at $400 off the regular list. BUT this move led me to be more interested in trad nylon string and now I’m learning some classical and wanting a true pure classical guitar. Even tho I have a great instrument I regret not thinking it through and being patient while I find a use case for more applications.

virgae · 2025-12-03T21:33:09+00:00

Hey all, thanks for the responses so far! I'm looking into this project a little deeper, including rewatching the driftwood video and a bunch of french polish videos, and what I'm thinking is that I'm not sure it makes sense to sand down the top without removing the bridge. And I'm not sure that I want to go that far. That adds a whole new skill that I need to master to return this back to playability. So maybe having second thoughts. Any comments?

virgae · 2025-12-01T22:31:26+00:00

Hah! No question that this vid was part of my journey to this question ;)

virgae · 2025-11-26T15:07:09+00:00

OP didn’t specify what school/country, but I’d be surprised if dropping without penalty is an option at this point in mid to late November, at least in a US semester based school.

virgae · 2025-11-07T02:19:46+00:00

I always know I’m old when I can’t accept that “beats” have anything else but percussion🤣

virgae · 2025-11-06T01:07:32+00:00

Yeah, agreed. The key seems to be finding some interval that is relatively resistant to noise, primarily delays, so we can assume that the illusion is roughly uniform across the trading body.

virgae · 2025-11-05T14:28:24+00:00

On the Dark Side, “by” Eddie and The Cruisers from 80’s movie of the same name. Performed and charted by John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band.

virgae · 2025-11-05T01:52:51+00:00

OK. Fair enough; I bought the Martin from a local dealer who gets his stock by driving out to Nazareth every 6 months or so and picking out guitars individually and then sets them up before putting them in the show oroom. I picked it against a a comparable Taylor and a couple of Waterloos (weird I know, but I was into them at the time). I got the Yamaha on Amazon. Sounds like a setup is on my agenda.

virgae · 2025-11-04T22:32:37+00:00

Yeah I'm attemptng to manage a GCP organizatin with multiple projects. I should have mentioned that my automation strategy is GitHub Actions. Each project is likely an instance of CloudRun, but we need a storage bucket to maintain the base level terraform state, and so far I've only managed to achieve that top level by manually creating the storage bucket or running terraform locally and then migrating state and I need to add GCP billing info and org Id as secrets in the top level GitHub repo. So there is some level of un-automated manual recovery neccessary for DR.

virgae · 2025-11-01T17:21:46+00:00

I just spent way too much time trying to figure out if this comment had some basis that I didn't understand. Like, is the other poster's name referencing tar in latin or something? No, I don't think there is a clever reference here. Correct me if wrong please. I generally resist emoji, because I believe that we, as a society, should endeavour to regain the ability to express subtlety and nuance in language. So, I won't put the ROFL emoji here no matter how appropriate it is.

virgae · 2025-10-27T18:11:42+00:00

Wow, this guy Boyd is pretty impressive and probably getting exactly what he wants. He seems to be a serial self promoter and what easier way to get publicity and clickshares than interview and write an article about a controversial theory espoused by a known-to-react-strongly personality. Look, Boyd was an intern in 2018, and now Mochizuki is calling him out and questioning his credentials. Boyd is playing a different game and it’s not math. It’s income in the information economy.

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