If you don’t want to drive somewhere else, as mentioned already the top of the hill behind the Albertsons on Los Serranos has a pretty good view of multiple firework shows to the north and east. I went there last year and there were multiple groups there, but not too crowded.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/gvLB2Qx9T4vibhUG8

I’m on the latest beta, and I believe that note must be referring to settings for the main app, not the Safari extension. The extension only has:

15 Minutes

30 Minutes

1 Hour

2 Hours

1 Day

1 Week

2 Weeks

While the main app has:

Immediately

1 minute

2 minutes

5 minutes

10 minutes

15 minutes

30 minutes

1 hour

4 hours

8 hours

1 day

1 week

2 weeks

Never

Yeah, this makes way more sense. A 1 is just an infinitely thin stick, while a 0 is a big, round, fat thing. Therefore an empty drive full of chunky zeros should weigh a lot more.

Same for me. At the end of the day, it’s all the same apps doing the same tasks. After the initial newness wears off, a new iPhone is basically exactly the same as any from the last several years in terms of accomplishing 99% of tasks. Not nearly worth 1000 bucks or more for that, even when I can easily afford it.

I can wait for the AI stuff - the only major new feature with new hardware - to settle and become useful and reliable. I’m guessing the 17 Pro or the 18 Pro will eventually replace my 11 Pro (which is still plenty responsive for now), and hopefully they’ll be more future proof on the AI front than the 16 Pro.

My best guess is iOS 17 being a lot more power hungry on older devices. I replaced the battery in my 11 Pro seven months ago, and it’s already down to 93% health. It’s not uncommon to hit 20% charge by mid afternoon with basically the same usage pattern as before. The original battery took a few years to get to this point.

https://forums.garmin.com/beta-program/fenix-7-series/f/announcements/366235/beta-version-17-12---check-for-updates-only

Links at the bottom of the page. They generally put links to the previous stable version in the first beta announcement of a new series.

https://www.costcoauto.com/save/model.aspx?makeid=6&model=lyriq

I’m curious, has this been confirmed by GM? All I can find is rumors and speculation. The original GM announcement about CarPlay/Android Auto only said that the 2024 Lyriq (and other existing EVs that had debuted before 2024) would retain CarPlay. I haven’t found anything from GM that 2025 models would drop it from vehicles that still have it this year.

A new Lyriq next year should still support CarPlay - it won’t go away until the next major refresh (second generation), which is typically still a few more years away. This is only because Lyriq debuted in 2023 before CarPlay was axed. If it had debuted in 2024, it would have been out of luck.

GM announced a while back that all new EV models introduced in 2024 and later would not support CarPlay and Android Auto. So the Lyriq supports it because it came out in 2023, and will continue to have it in future years until the next major refresh. But the Blazer EV, Equinox EV, and Optiq, which debuted in 2024 or 2025, don’t have it. Nor will any other future vehicles.

It’s kind of frustrating because the Optiq would probably be a slightly better fit for us than the Lyriq, but no CarPlay is a deal breaker. I don’t care how good the integrated system is in the car, it can never match the seamlessness and flexibility of CarPlay/Android Auto from a connected phone.

The only thing OP is going to gain by cycling is a mangled asshole.

And yet Palpy forced everyone else to look at his own horribly disfigured mug every day. I’ll bet he didn’t even own a mirror so he didn’t have to suffer the same torment himself. Total power move.

Honestly, I would have loved it if he had come to pick up Grogu in The Mandalorian instead of Luke. We never saw Mace Windu die, and it’s plausible that a powerful Jedi survived that fall, even weakened as he was. I mean, if Maul and Palpatine somehow survived much worse…

Don’t get me wrong, Luke was awesome there, and probably the best choice. Certainly the obvious choice and it was great. But Samuel L Jackson would have been totally badass too, and he would have been the right age for the part, so no silly de-aging CGI.

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Yes, the wording is very vague and could use a lot of improvement. Also, "midday" is not a specific time - just state 1:00pm.

I suppose perhaps for the beta period they didn't want to state a specific time so the beta server wouldn't get overloaded by people trying to get in. But it certainly was frustrating as a user - I wasted a week trying at noon ET every day, only to get the "now closed" message. From what I saw, I couldn't even tell if the site was working and letting anyone in at all!

Thankfully I finally found this post and got in right at 1:00 today, no issues. I guess when it comes out of beta it'll be open 24/7 and this won't be a problem anymore...

My grandson has the one with the blue band.

My grandson. Has thid product. Not sure its my kind of thing but i love my grandson!

FYI, multiple credit pulls for the same type of loan count as one within a certain period of time. According to Google, that can be from 14 to 45 days, but it’s not entirely clear what determines the exact duration. Bottom line though, don’t worry about shopping around for the best deal/loan within a reasonable period of time.

In CA most grocery stores, shopping malls, strip malls, movie theaters, YMCA etc., places that you would be inside for 30 mins.

You must mean Canada when you say CA, because I can tell you that in California, very few of these places have charging stations near me. There are a few scattered here and there, but far from “most.” And the places that do have them only have a few plugs for parking lots with hundreds of spaces (and you’re lucky if none of them are perpetually broken).

I’ve been driving an EV for over 12 years, and it’s been frustrating to watch the rollout of public charging go so slowly. I’ve been saying for years that networks like ChargePoint should have a system where merchants can validate charging with purchase. If you make a purchase, your charging is free; otherwise you pay whatever rate they’ve set. I can’t believe nobody has done this yet. Merchants would love it because it would attract more customers, and customers would love getting a little free juice while they shop, eat, watch a movie, etc. This would incentivize the installation and ongoing maintenance of many more stations instead of what I’ve often seen - which is that a station gets installed, people come and leech off it without ever setting foot in the store, and eventually the store has it taken out because it’s just a cost with no benefit. Seen this play out so many times.

Of course, this is all aside from the fact that the majority of charging would be done at home anyway.

Ah yeah, that must’ve been it. :)

I don’t know how many minutes you think are in a day, but it’s 1440. 62130 minutes divided by 1440 minutes per day is about 43 days, not 2600.

The wheel weaves as the wheel wills… you to SLOW DOWN!

I don't have words for how impressed I am.

That’s because the surgeon probably removed them by accident!

But seriously, that’s awesome.