Only some batches of these model numbers, though. I got an email saying mine had been recalled, but when I put in the serial number on their website, it said the batch was unaffected so mine is still safe to use.
Building a computer from the components. Bicycle maintenance and/or building a bicycle from the components. Building a skateboard. Car maintenance. Doing a project in your house, like installing a new toilet.
I can think of a million things, but ask him what he's interested in doing.
CVTs are not very common, although they have certainly become more popular lately. Regular automatic transmissions feel very sluggish compared to manuals.
Honestly, it's not hard. Just buy a pair of wider toe box shoes, nothing too extreme or minimalist, and start wearing them for normal everyday tasks like going to the grocery store, then build from there. I recommend Lems (I like the Primal Zen) or Altras (I like the Lone Peak style).
After a little while you'll have more foot strength and can start working out in them and/or transition to wearing barefoot shoes 100% of the time. It takes some time to build the foot strength so I wouldn't go too minimalist to start.
It depends on where you live. Where I live on the west coast, you can find lots of used Nissan Leafs on craigslist for less than 6-7k. That's actually affordable. And there are some for under 4k, junk car territory.
Granted, they're 10+ year old cars and can only go ~50 miles on a charge (originally 80 miles but the battery degrades). But if you want a cheap car and live in a city or a close suburb, especially if you can charge your car at work, it's a doable option. These fully electric cars require less maintenance so they actually are cheap to run.
Where I live, Kroger used to do their own delivery, but they've switched to Instacart for fulfillment now. I've stopped doing Kroger delivery because the Instacart people are WAY too annoying to deal with; I hate having to babysit every single decision the Instacart shoppers make. I would happily pay more for in-house Kroger shoppers, but there's no option to do so.
At my Kroger in the midwest, you have the option for either. But you dont tip when you use Kroger and tbh, they do a much better job at picking out the items. If they went to Instacart only, I would cease to use the service.
I have a slightly older iPhone, and the "Optimized battery charging" setting only kicks in maybe 10% of the time for me. I don't love your proposal of mislabeling the percentages, but I really wish there were a way to make my iPhone only charge up to 80% and then stop.
I'm going to get downvoted for this, but I do wonder if Sam's firing wasn't Ilya's doing, hence the failure to take responsibility. OpenAI's board has been surprisingly quiet, aside from the first press release. So it's possible (although unlikely) that this wasn't driven by Ilya.
My point is that it's possible that Ilya was not the driving force behind Sam's firing, even if he ultimately voted for it. If this is the case, it makes Ilya's non-apology apology a lot less weird.
It's possible, although contradicted by Brockman's statement, that Ilya voted merely to remove Brockman's board seat, and then was in the minority on the Altman vote.
I doubt this is what happened, but the reporting that Brockman was ousted from his board seat after Altman, and wasn't present in the board meeting that ousted Altman, doesn't make much sense either.
I also switched from Mint to YNAB a few years ago, and YNAB is head and shoulders better than Mint. I've always had good finances / self discipline and didn't think I needed YNAB, but it's been way better than Mint for me. It's easily worth the cost.
If you don't mind me asking, what makes it worth the cost for you? I'm a long time mint user with very good financial discipline and can't imagine paying $100 per annum for such a service. But I'm open to learning new things and would love to hear your experience...
I didn't understand this until after I switched to YNAB, but Mint wasn't future-focued enough for me. I've always been good about saving and tracking my spending, but with the way I used Mint, I usually only focused on the current month. I had good savings so I easily had ~5k of comfortable wiggle room floating around if I needed it for random expenses, but I also wasn't planning ahead in detail.
Example: Need new tires? Yeah, I had the cash, but I wasn't really expecting/tracking those things, so sometimes a bunch of expenses would all hit at the same time.
YNAB has a philosophy called "give every dollar a job." At first, this feels so intuitive that it's almost silly, but after you've used YNAB for 3+ months, it builds steam.
For instance, if I know now that I'm going to need new tires next summer, I can think "Do I want to spend $50 on dinner out today, or put the $50 into my 'new tires' fund to use in May? With Mint, I wouldn't be thinking about May. I'd be focused on the current month, or maybe one month ahead. But with YNAB, I budget much further out into the future, and I do so in granular detail. So no more "5k wiggle room cash on hand for random things in the future" -- everything is planned. I'm probably more type-A than most YNAB users, but I have 50+ categories to stash money into, including things like future vet bills, future car maintenance, specific funds for vacation in Spring 2024, Summer 2024, December 2024, etc. (Most people probably have fewer categories)
Pre-YNAB, I'd think "Do I want to spend $50 on dinner now, or do I want to save it?" With YNAB, I think, "Do I want to spend $50 on dinner now, or do I want it for my vacation in December 2024?"
The result is that mental tradeoffs are significantly more clear, and I can prioritize better. In terms of value, I'm honestly not sure if I save $100 per year, since I was very frugal even before YNAB, but the mental clarify of having full transparency into my current and future choices is easily worth $100 to me.
YNAB is definitely very "opinionated". You have to convert to their "give every dollar a job" budgeting method, but I found really works well for me.
I moved off of Mint when they were acquired by Intuit, so I felt the price was worth it maintain full auto-import capabilities in an ad-free app. (The way Mint advertised at the time didn't really bother me, but I assumed that ads would get more intrusive under Intuit)
Exactly. I didn't think that giving every dollar a job would be that important, since I was good at saving even with Mint, but it makes the mental tradeoffs so clear. Love it.
