I, too, need a car. But I choose not to go down this route.

I bought my current one five years ago for $4k and spent another $2k to get it reliable. Minimum liability insurance is like $20/mo.

I’m looking to trade up in a bit for something twice as pricy, and I’ll skip the loan part then, too.

I want to spank your sister with a slice of baloney.

Struggling with car payments, you say.

Our EU household doesn’t make $150k/y even if you’d consider the hidden supergross taxes.

I’ve never had a car loan in my life, nor anything beyond the most basic insurance.

If you can’t afford to buy a car, then you can’t afford to wreck it.

It’s better to send that extra money into my savings account or stock portfo rather than waste it on interest and extra insurance. Then I’ll at least get too see that money again some day.

Amperage determines how much current something gets.

Voltage times amperage determines the power something draws.

More current needs thicker wires, while higher voltage does not.

My wife swears by it. For me it does nothing. She gets wasp-sized bumps from mosquito bites.

Same here. I had been sticking to Ubuntu flavours for over 15 years.

Below -18°C.

I use a probe thermometer to verify. Mine hovers between -20°C to -22°C

Until you try to sort your log files alphabetically.

I live in a 50 year old house. All the breakers are 16A, so 220V x 16A = 3.5kW

The electric sauna does three-phase @ 400V. My energy tracker usually peaks around 9.5kW when it’s heating.

Sweden. 30 days of PTO per year.

I usually do three weeks in summer, two over Christmas and save the rest for random extended weekends when the public holidays align.

Also, I have about 90 days of paid, and 45 barely paid days parental leave left to take out. There was a total of 480 days for me and the Mrs to share in-betweenst ourselves per kid. I took four months off. Plus another 10 daddy-days to use immediately after baby was born.

I started 28 years ago with Slackware 3.0, then Gentoo, Ubuntu, took a detour via OS X, then back to Ubuntu, now Arch.

Thanks. It hit close to home. I hate it.

Ahh. 2000.

When Alpha and Transmeta was the future. No more of this Intel and AMD crap.

I’m going to place an angled mirror from the bathroom to the kitchen so I can blink to my wife to bring toilet paper. Or a towel.

Just because you’re the best at something doesn’t mean you should stop trying to improve.

OP didn’t say anything about their financial situation, so we can only speculate.

Maybe they’re a landlord. Maybe they have a hedge fund. Maybe they’ve made good financial decisions in the past and have a big buffer saved up. Maybe they just sold their yacht and have a lot of cash burning in their pocket.

OP never said anything about being light on money.

It’s actually easier when you don’t have to plan your travel around your work schedule.

I thought we solved this for good in the 80s?

I guess that particular question didn’t age so well.

It’s still spring. But everything is in bloom.

I’ll have strawberries, cherries, plums and apples. Month by month.