Yup, this happened to me on a cross-country trip in December. It was a station where you got a discount if you paid ca$h money, so I gave the cashier a $100 bill I had. (I have a truck with 35 gal tank so I knew it would need about that much — and that was in the old days of slightly cheaper gas or diesel in my…

My friend got a Nissan Versa which I borrow sometimes, and if I had a choice between that and a vintage Geo Metro (My mother had on in the 1980s), even if not in pristine condition, no doubt I’d rather drive the Metro.

Yeah Stellantis sounds like either a disease, or a secondary character on Game of Thrones. “Lord Stellantis, will your armies join us?”

Why are we even getting on a friggin’ airplane???

We got net for meetings and communication, and a nice car to drive us somewhere if we need to physically be there. (or upgrade to the nice high-end Mercedes van/RV, though those are $$$ too).

When I used to fly a lot for work (20 yrs ago), if I had to long-term park, I would use my crap/communter/semi-worthless-but-reliable vehicle. Can leave it there, not worry about it.

Also I can see that MSRP and black-market-desirability are 2 very different things. A lot of luxury family-SUV-behemoths probably go for…

Man, that 15-year old Wrangler sounds way worse than my 1991 YJ Wrangler. If your’s was the V-6 instead of the classic inline 4.0l, there’s your problem right there.

Honestly that was the one sad (perhaps intentionally-sad) thing I noticed — that lonely bottom-end looking Chevy Cavalier dome light from 1998. Or something damn close to it.

On the other hand, I was seeing reviews and promos of the new Mercedes EQS and when I saw the focus was this LED light show broad-spectrum…

And Volkswagen for years had a single flashing dash indicator for turn signals, but it assumed you knew which one, so it didn’t feel a need to tell you. ‘cause Germans are smart that way?...

Well at least he wasn’t too chicken to admit it....

Wasn’t there a Ford LSD?

Oh, maybe that was the Ford LTD.

I almost always buy my PSN credit from Target. For me it works with various Target credit card and promos, so I pay 5-15% under the actual “redeem value.” Then put this in my Sony account and use when I need. Never have to give Sony my credit card. Would do the same thing if I ever try to buy on PS3 or Vita again. So…

as I read your comment, I think it’s more just a self-serving rationale for stealing.

There is nothing here about not being able to pay what you own for the “license to play the game.” Yes, we all know that it’s not “real” and that’s a choice you make, since you don’t get a physical disc or card (and many new games…

.. and early PS3 had a PS2. Not Emulator. Real HW just for that purpose. Only in a handful of launch models. Prime collector’s items now.
Also can run old Linux, if you want....

Yeah, about “bitter grumpy grouches who look for problems that don’t exist” — I work in Software QA (not for this kind of thing), and I’m proud to say that’s my job. Not writing about it; but at least looking for it. If you’ve done your job well, you won’t find much.

Personally as a PS3 and Vita owner I was glad to…

Getting to ancient history, but Sony has a long history of developing proprietary storage things that they control and maybe license to others.. and eventually fail. You’d think they’d learn?

I’m thinking back to the VHS vs Beta (Sony BetaMax) wars of the 1980s. Most here are too young to remember. And what survived…

I’d agree it’s a very good article. I work in the industry, but not this specific part of it, but what was presented seems accurate and easy to understand. It doesn’t go into the “why?” of how we ended up here, and my personal view is it was a combination of events that all added-up to this situation that the…

It may seem counter-intuitive, (i.e. the opposite of what you’d expect), but many that might buy a Mercedes like this are actually looking for that understated expensive BLAH look.

I remember when I used to drive in Germany a lot, the high-end cars usually had NO emblems on the back, The idea was you didn’t have to spell out that it was a 500S or whatever, or even AMG for that matter.
And don’t want any annoying drill holes on the trunk so they didn’t even come with a tag unless you wanted to…

Don’t know where you got that false info. Behind Olivia Rodrigo who just moved to #1, “Close behind however is Lorde’s highly anticipated third studio album Solar Power at Number 2, which leads on digital downloads.”

Also tours have to be scheduled months or even a year in advance. When the tour was scheduled, it was…

I do have to say the first apartment dishwasher scene will live on as some great literature in my memory long after the details of the Tesla story fade from memory.. because how much longer till the next Tesla or self-driving story. (Actually I do agree with the premise of the article and I thought it was well-argued).

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