Appreciate it! It’s just my name, Joel Kalich. I also upload to my own PeerTube Instance if you prefer, https://joeltube.com/c/joel_kalich_

Yeah, there are other reasons than just money for me too, though I do want to have one or two some day.

I dunno, usually paperwork must be done correctly. I’m not sure AI has much of a place in healthcare at all.

My OnePlus 13 seems to have a moon mode where it detects you’re taking a photo of the moon, so it lowers the exposure a bunch. Of course, since Samsung did it, I can’t trust that it isn’t just swapping it for a saved image of the moon of course.

I’m not sure why others don’t get the relevance… Samsung saw that moon photos were bad, so they “fixed” it.

Maybe a bit more… I was talking about current value as well, not what I paid.

Hard to say what Grandpa’s car is worth, it could be worth thousands to the right buyer, but it’s also pretty heavily used. The Subaru is worth about 2k. BMW about 7k. Volvo about 3k. Motorcycle about 1.5k. They’re just not expensive vehicles haha.

I am fairly handy, yeah, not a professional by any means haha, but I can get quite a lot done.

Some people might be into that…

Government endorsed mastrubation? Sign me up!

Because I’m a gearhead and I like them.

I would’ve hoped that was obvious… So, to be more specific, if that’s what you were asking:

• '84 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale
  • This was my grandpa’s, so it has sentimental value.
  • No one preserved these, so it’s also super unique.
  • I’ve always loved the old land yachts, there’s nothing like driving a couch down the freeway.
• '85 Honda Shadow VT500C
  • It’s a good little motorcycle. Reliable, cute, and slow enough that I’m less likely to kill myself on it.
• '93 Subaru Loyale 4x4
  • This is probably the least rational, considering I own another station wagon, but I really like it. It’s easy to work on, super practical, fuel efficient, and comically slow. I take it offroading and camping often. It also isn’t worth much and doesn’t cost much to keep going.
• '06 BMW Z4 3.0i
  • It’s a sports car. It’s fun, and probably one of the better deals in the category these days.
• '07 Volvo XC70
  • I’ve converted this into an RV with an office, bed, and kitchen. I go on multi-week-long trips in it without needing to take time off of work.
  • It’s also been heavily modified by myself to be quite offroad capable.
  • My small community of viewers on YouTube also love this thing, so I can’t really sell it haha.

I’ll also mention that all of these vehicles combined are worth like 10-15k, which is signifigantly less than if I owned a single “nice” vehicle, and I haven’t had to go into debt to own any of them.

I’ll also also mention that, even as a gearhead, I generally agree with the fuck cars movement and whatnot. I want better public transit and such to get those that’d rather not be driving off the roads. Plus, driving in cities suck, I’m relieved to leave my car at home or a park ‘n’ ride and take transit into town. For how “free” America supposedly is, people sure don’t have the freedom to not own a car.

That ended up being rather lengthy, but what’d you expect asking someone about their hobby…

Newsflash: all combustion vehicles do that

I’m curious what you’d like for organization, I have all of mine sorted into categories.

So far we’ve just been using it manually to plan meals and go shopping, I hadn’t thought about having it automatically choose meals.

Not to be that smug guy who drives old cars, but I can fairly safely gaurenteed my vehicles, from '84, '85, '93, '06, and '07 are not spying on me.

I set up a navidrome server. It’s been great to be more intentional about my listening habits, even though my excuse was previously that I didn’t have time to make playlists and whatnot. I’ve heard so many songs that I haven’t listened to since college, when I switched to YT Music.

I have a OnePlus 13 and have been largely very happy with it. I just don’t care much for Google’s and Samsung’s skins. I’m hoping my next phone is a Nothing, but they haven’t been exactly hitting home runs recently. What other non-google/Samsung phones are even around these days?

I could totally afford a child, but if I chose to do that, I wouldn’t be able to afford anything else fun, so I haven’t chosen to. By all means, I make a pretty decent living and would’ve probably been in the upper middle class 20 years ago.

Our government is just trying to help the people of America by tackling the obesity crisis with this all natural ozempic alternative!

/s (if it wasn’t obvious)

Use whatever the manufacturer reccommends. If they don’t reccommend premium, you don’t need premium.

Don’t be scared, be knowledgeable.

I’ve never self hosted a discord alternative, but it doesn’t seem like it’d cost anything to just spin it up beside existing self hosted infrastructure.

I don’t think I get what’s happening in the third panel of this one, it looks like a guy is coming after her with some sort of gleeful expectation. Is the joke that the heart shaped trail blazes would lead to love and she’s sitting at the end of the trail?