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We had been waiting for a while just because there was no reason to replace our car-payment-free household with a car payment before one of the vehicles crapped out… …But to be honest we’d wanted an EV for almost a decade at this point. I test drove my first EV back in maybe 2015… but couldn’t justify the price tag at the time to buy a new one, so we went with a cheap used car with high MPG and relatively low mileage overall. It’s just now that for the first time, it makes sense - not just from a “gas is expensive” standpoint, but from a “this might be cheaper than maintaining an older car (100k+ miles, 15+ years old)…” and also a “gas might not just be expensive but unavailable at some point given the supply shock currently wreaking havoc in other places besides the US” standpoint… We like to plan for contingencies whenever it makes sense to do so. We just bought our first ever EV - a used 2021 model with <50k miles for less than half the price of a brand new model… and it’s amazing. Already calculated that just in the few times we’ve charged it since buying - with gas being almost $4/gal… we have spent <$5 in electricity with just a little 120v (thanks @jjj4211) wall adapter (level 1) at only 70% efficiency to add roughly 250 miles of range. That equates to roughly $40 in gas… even with the high-MPG car. On top of that, being able to start it in a parking lot or even an indoor garage to cool it down in the summer or warm it in the winter before having to get in or worry about filling an enclosed space with carbon monoxide, a quieter drive, and just more modern conveniences and safety features thanks to it just being a decade newer than our last vehicle made it seem like a somewhat sensible purchase for us, if not perhaps a little “overly pro-active.”

Hey cool, someone else also uses Voyager in dark mode on iOS! 😎

I used to think this… but it’s just not true. Device software updates only make your device worse now. If it ABSOLUTELY MUST get online, you DO need to let it update for security purposes, but in most cases now when you buy it from the store, it’s got everything that needs and you just need to block it from getting online all-together. My LG CX from 2021 has not been online even once since I bought it.

I don’t know if people realize how amazing this is. People who make games work so goddamn hard and are treated like trash… usually thrown out right after working hundreds of hours in unpaid overtime because they’re so passionate about making something they love… …And for a studio as major and long-standing as id Software AND it being physically located within the heart of TEXAS is also big. The techno-artisan work of game development might finally become a field worth getting back into and actually sticking with - instead of how it has been now since the mid-2000s - where people burn out and leave the industry all-together… meaning we have almost zero long-term master game makers except for a handful of people who are at the very tip top. I personally left games after the studio I worked at for 2 years (making them literal millions per day in revenue at one point) closed down only about a year after our hit game was released. My heart goes out to the guys at id. They are some of the GOATs and this is something they’ve long-since earned.