When I had trouble concentrating and learning 7x8 and random ones around there, my dad made me stand facing a wall so I would concentrate lol. Not in a forceful way, but it was his tool to make sure I concentrated til I got it.

I can't imagine him watching me make a major life mistake like trying to learn and practice my work on a phone instead of sitting down at a desk.

If Microsoft is losing 65 year olds, they've got a problem.

I put a strip of yellow or blue painters tape on it, and write with a sharpee a general description of the box.

Might just add another piece of tape to add marks for usage. Peeling dots would kill me.

25 year old buys a knife set he didn't really need because it's on sale 50% off.

If he invested that $49, eventually it's worth $200. So buying it costs $200 by the time he's old, and clutter for 40 years.

We were talking about people sueing AI for mistakes.

Employees do not get sued by their employer for mistakes. If your employer wants you to dig a foundation per plan, and you measure it wrong and dig it in the wrong orientation on the lot, you might get fired, but you will not pay the $50k+ to rip out the cement and put a new foundation.

When a construction guy messes up measurements and thousands of dollars of work has the be removed and redone, no one thinks of taking the employee to court. Why would you want to take your Ai to court?

It easily takes 11kwh to charge a Volt. It'll go about 35 miles in the summer on that charge, and more like 28 in the winter.

It also gets 35 mpg on gasoline, while providing free heat in the winter from the gas engine heat, and for most of the last few years was doing this for $3.50-$4 a gallon.

There are people on Southern California/San Diego that pay more. Over there people say the Prius Prime is WAY cheaper to operate on gas because it gets 50mpg gasoline.

I've even heard people running their home off gasoline because it's cheaper but that would require an impressive gas generator to do long term.

I've replaced transmissions, head gaskets, and done all work for our family cars for two decades based on a Costco toolkit, and 20 trips to the autoparts store or Walmart when I needed something to help out.

Maybe I'm being a little forgetful that yes I bought a jack, and Jack stands, and have a random pipe as a breaker bar, and other odds and ends. But you can go very far for $1k as a DIYer.