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I can go anywhere at anytime without relying on the poor public transit in my city. Sometimes I just like driving around with no destination because it helps relax me and clear my head.

Back to Bluetooth and Google maps on your phone after the free data period ends. Such a bad move for consumers.

Air could be in the lines or in my case, my front pads were new with 10+mm of pad but glazed smooth. Whoever did my brakes before I bought it either did not do the break in process or rode the brakes all the time. I ended up replacing the pads and rotors to be safe. After the install it took my brakes from needing to start slowing down a block away standing on the pedal to pulling me out of my seat in my truck.

I still need to service my rear brakes but those are drum brakes which I haven't had to deal with before.

I had to go back to my Pixel 4 while my Pixel 6Pro had it's screen replaced. It felt like the same phone only I could unlock my phone easier. Maybe I'll look for an upgrade around the pixel 9 or 10 if it holds out.

Our local scene was decimated by pay to play promoters and it's never really recovered. We would have to pay in to presell tickets and then try to sell them just to try to break even when opening at 4:30 on a Wednesday. Not exactly a good way to gain new fans.

The actual promoters did nothing to really promote the gig since they were preselling to local bands they made their money that way.

If you're popular enough it's not tough to sell tickets once and awhile but if you want to play monthly, your pool of potential ticket buyers shrinks since not everyone can go to a show that often.

I'd second the Mazda recommendation. Depending on your family size now and in the future I can't recommend the CX-5 enough if you need more space than a 3 hatchback.

If you can't charge a phev at or work it it's more of a lead weight than a benefit since you would have to take it somewhere to charge. I am jealous you are getting the MX-30 R-EV which would have been my pick for a new commuter Mazda.

It would be cool to see it with the new inline v6.

If I waited until printers were completely fool-proof, I would never have gotten one. Instead I jumped in 6yrs ago and I've printed so many useful things and a lot of toys. Most rooms in my house have at least one printed item in them because of how useful it is.

Yes I've had my share of failures and have had to rebuild a printer a ton of times while learning how it worked, but I also learned a lot of new skills.

• Soldering used to be scary and now it's no big deal.
• I can de-pin connectors and build new adapters instead of spending $8-10 for someone to ship me one from Amazon.
• With TinkerCAD I can knock out roughly designed parts that are ready to go in a few hours instead of waiting days/weeks

From learning all of those skills I've swapped the motherboard and rewired my first printer to have bed levelling and be whisper quiet, 3d printed an RC car, designed parts for my vehicles, completely overhauled my sim racing setup, the list goes on.

If you want to get in to it and have the money to get started, go for it. I started with something like an Ender 3 and still use it today. You don't need an expensive machine if you want to learn how to maintain it. It all depends on what your goal is with 3d printing.

I hope you aren't running abs in an area you will spend time in. It stinks and is very finicky to print. I switched to petg and never looked back. I still have two rolls in their boxes I'm never going to use.

Back home, I could own more than an acre of land, not be told what I can and can't build on it and pay less than what I bought my house for with .25 acre. I would have to drive an hour and 40 min to get to anything I'm personally interested in if I still lived there though which is why I moved to a city.

Growing up I was on a school bus for 45 min to 1hr each way and my parents drove 40+miles each way to work. Now my kid can walk to school or a park, we have non-white neighbors and it's a short distance to so many experiences. The opportunities here heavily out weighed having more land but as I get more in to cars, I can't help but wish we had a double lot for car storage

I see the anti-car subscriptions getting much more traffic than pro-car subscriptions. It might just be the demographic here is less in to cars and more into city planning.

That is where I landed a week or so ago but it's still there and I keep thinking about the what ifs. Everyone I've talk to around me has said go for it, but don't have any rotary engine experience. So hearing someone saying avoid makes me think I'm not crazy for not picking it up.

Your estimates aren't far off for a complete rebuild. Those prices are also around just buying a remanufactured engine from Mazda. Interior would be tough to get back to OEM and I could get it wrapped if I wanted to make this a show car/daily driver but I already have one of those.

There's too many unknowns to for sure rebuild this engine. To me, it's really only for sure worth it for the wheels. If I could get away for $500 and rent a uhaul car trailer it might be worth it.