I've got a 2011 chevy silverado 1500 and a couple months ago the air conditioning started having problems. It would work about every other time I started my truck and then cut out entirely. I replaced the blower motor and resistor but that didn't fix anything. I can still feel cold air trying to come out but it's not blowing. A few days ago I hit a bump in the road and it kicked on for about 20 minutes but would only blow on high. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

My current car is a 2020 Tesla Model 3 Long Range with Autopilot and FSD. I want to compare Autopilot to PILOT ASSIST. I mostly drive in Los Angeles and Orange County in California.

1. One of my biggest with Autopilot problems is the Lane Centering (aka Auto-Steer); cars in the lane next to me sometimes decide to drive on the lane markings and every time I turn the steering wheel slightly to the left or right to get away from them the "Auto-Steer" turns off and I have to re-engage it to get my car to stay in its lane automatically. Would PILOT ASSIST turn off if I turned the steering wheel to adjust my position in my lane?
   
2. My Tesla's Autopilot will not turn on in all situations. For example if I'm waiting on a freeway on-ramp it will not turn on because it can't clearly see the lane markings. Will PILOT ASSIST turn on in all situations?
   
3. Tesla has a lot of annoying sounds when you make any maneuvers it disagrees with, these are a huge distraction. Does PILOT ASSIST have loud distracting alerts every time you do something like going through a large intersection where there are no cars in front of you?
   
4. Does PILOT ASSIST steer the car at low speeds, like in 3 mph bumper to bumper Los Angeles traffic?
   
5. Does PILOT ASSIST randomly turn itself off?
   
6. On my Tesla when it asks me to apply steering pressure to show I'm still driving usually it takes a bit of turning to get it to recognize my turning and if I turn too hard Auto-Steer will disengage. Although, instead of turning I can also turn the column key on my steering wheel to show I'm paying attention. Does PILOT ASSIST require a lot of turning pressure to register that I'm paying attention, and can I use the volume key instead of turning the wheel?
   
7. Can PILOT ASSIST stop for red lights and Stop signs?
   
8. Tesla's Autopilot stops for green lights, red lights, and stop signs. Does PILOT ASSIST stop for green lights?
   
9. When I signal to change lanes will a camera show me the lane next to me, Honda and Tesla have this feature.
   
10. Can PILOT ASSIST change lanes for me or do I have to change lanes manually?
    
11. Will PILOT ASSIST alert me when my exit is coming up and recommend I change lanes? Can it detect which lanes I'm driving in and alert me to which lanes I should be driving in so I don't miss my exit?
    
12. Unrelated to PILOT ASSIST, how is the ride comfort, temperature control, and road noise on the S60? My Tesla has horrible suspension, I can feel every little hole in road and the car will swing me around whenever I make a turn. Also, road noise and wind noise are horrible, I can't even listen to music because all I hear is my tires riding on the asphalt. Tesla also isn't well insulated and if it's hot outside I'll have to put the A/C on full blast to stay cool, if it's cold outside I will freeze my butt off even with the heater on full blast.
    

I would like to start by saying this is an honest review. I was an extremely loyal Carvana customer and the first to defend Carvana from anyone saying how bad they were. I have purchased 2 cars from Carvana over the past 5 years. I am going to provide an honest review of both experiences because I want to outline exactly how much the customer experience has degraded in my personal opinion.
If you finish reading this and have any questions, please feel free to AMA about my experiences.
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1st Vehicle Experience (2019) 5 Stars, amazing experience
I purchased a 2018 Ford Fusion. This vehicle arrived as advertised, all exterior markings were clearly listed on the site and I could find no issues on the exterior that weren't marked. They delayed my shipping which I was perturbed about as I had paid good money for shipping. When the car arrived, the driver had a gift card he gave me for some restaurants which I thought was an amazing gesture. The driver unloaded my vehicle and scrapped the front and back bumpers off the ground because the car was low and the ground uneven. I was assured this would be fixed. I got the car home and realized there was dog hair all through the back seat. I contacted Carvana about both issues. They sent me $250 to get the car cleaned and footed the entire bill for repairs (almost $2000) to get it fully repaired. This earned my loyalty to their brand and decided I'd buy cars from Carvana in the future.
TL;DR; Amazing experience, driver was incredibly respectful and Carvana fixed every complaint I had and I felt actually went above and beyond to ensure I was happy including a swag bag.
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2nd Vehicle Experience (2023) 1 Star at best, awful experience lost a customer
I purchased a 2021 Chevy Silverado RST 6 1/2 FT bed with DFM from their site. There were a few usual delays during purchasing nothing major. Delivery day comes. I receive a text from the driver with a 15-minute time frame for their arrival. Wait a full hour before texting the number, I get a response when the driver pulls into the parking lot 1 hour and 10 minutes after the arrival time they gave me. I'm out of their market so this involved me sitting in a parking lot for a full hour. No apologies, just a joke about how they needed to stop for an energy drink. I ignore it, shit happens... they unload the vehicle and I take it for a test drive. Everything seems fine, I sign for the vehicle and drive it home. At this point, I have a few parts waiting for the truck including a bed cover which oddly does not fit. I start doing some decoding of the VIN number and realize the truck is actually a 5 3/4 FT bed. I also notice there are some deep gouges in the paint that weren't marked (one side had no scratches at all marked) and there's also a dent in the tailgate. At this point, I'm a bit nervous but I've had good experiences in the past so I assume it'll all work out. I open a complaint about the bed, I wait to hear back. They offer me a $100 check which I feel honestly is a slap in the face. I ask to have the shipping fees waived as this clearly wasn't my fault and would like to return the truck. They refuse. At this point, I'm either out around $1200 ($190 to get it to my state, $520 to get it to me, and $520 to get it back for the return) or I take the $100 and just forget about it. I ask to have a manager call me. They assure me a manager will call in 24 hours as now it is getting close to my 7-day return window and I am pretty displeased. A manager never called me and today I finally just accepted this is my truck now and took the $100 as I didn't want to lose $1200 out of pocket.
As a side note, the truck was listed with DFM but does not have DFM. Another feature they miss annotated but I've decided contacting them about it is not worth the extra $100 as each time has been a significant hassle. I had seen this feature was missing and actually didn't want it anyway so it worked.
So now I move on to the next issue the gouges in the paint and the dent that weren't disclosed. I take pictures and submit a claim request through their website. The pictures are sent to their insurance company. In about 3 hours I am informed that these scratches while not disclosed anywhere are "normal wear" and are being refused to be covered.
TL;DR; The delivery driver was extremely disrespectful. The customer support has mocked me and belittled my problems. They sold me a truck with a 5 3/4 FT bed as a 6 1/2 FT bed that has multiple scratches and a dent they had no pictures of and did not disclose in any way. Their solution was to offer me $100 dollars and refused to allow me to send the truck back without losing money.
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Safe to say I will NEVER purchase another vehicle from Carvana. It's a shame really, they're usually cheaper than dealers around here and in the past have shown amazing customer response. However, the customer experience is horrible now. An online retailer that can't get the simple facts correct or mark obvious imperfections while refusing to work with the customer in any way does not deserve anyones business.
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EDIT: Corrected information about when I saw they mis marked the DFM feature.

I have a paid off 2016 Chevy Silverado high country with 65k miles and extended height leer camper. From what I can tell my vehicle is valued at $28k, but let’s just round down to $25k. I’m thinking I give it up while it still has value. Credit score is at 800+ so financing shouldn’t be a problem. Budget is ~$90k for both cars. There’s wiggle room.
I have a four year old, two 7month olds, and two dogs, and myyy wiiiffeee. I work from home and my wife commutes days a week about 20 miles away. The grandmas come over and provide day care, and if my wife is working that day and I need to run an errand, I borrow the grandmas car. Which leaves them stranded at the house waiting for 911 in the event of an emergency. Mayo is 2 miles away. So I’ve come to the conclusion we need two cars.
I know a minivan is in my future. I have my eye on the plug-in Pacifica pinnacle, but the sienna keeps pulling me back. This vehicle needs to fit our entire family dogs included, for our yearly road-trip from Wisconsin to central Texas. The plug-in looks cool because I think we can do 95% of our trips without going over the electric range. Those Toyota 4 bangers are hard to resist though.
Which leads me to the second car. No dogs need to fit. Just all the humans when necessary for when wife does drop offs and I do pickups. It would basically be my car. Preferably a used car that’s less than 5 years old and 35k miles, I don’t have time to wrench. I have connections in the classic Cadillac circles, and have restored several, but I don’t think it’s time to put vapor lock on my list of concerns. CTS-V wagon would a dream but it’s a little out of budget and pretty rare.
Finally, if I can find both cars at the same dealer, can I use that to get a better deal, or could they care less?
What would you do, sienna or plug-in Pacifica? What 4 door produced within the past 5 years would be fun to drive and fit 3 car seats without much hassle?

I've been struggling to find suitable housing, especially as a disabled person with no living family to fall back on, and isn't on SSI yet. The one advantage I have is being the sole beneficiary of an irrevocable Trust, but my family was never wealthy- just frugal, so there's not even a quarter of a mil in that Trust.
About a week ago, after a lot of panic, I finally found a great home in a great location, remodeled and updated kitchen, screened porch, 622$ lot rent, a 980 sq ft 2bed/2bath "Zimmer" from 1990 (quotation marks because they went under in 88, but the outside of the home had the Zimmer tag and the data plate showed it was from the company that bought out their Selinsgrove plant).
It looked (and smelled) okay during the tour, and apparently the 45k$ price tag was just because it was in an older, more rural park where all the homes were 70s-90's and some were falling apart and in the process of being removed.
Well, the inspection report came back today: -Roof is 30yrs old and at the end of it's lifespan, two shingles missing, some buckling at the sunroom connection.
-No attic access, vapor barrier is installed over everything else. So the inspector can't even check the wood.
-No window screens, but that's whatever imo (can get adjustable screens for 20$ and gradually buy mobile home screens)
-The back door has no landing and is a steep drop. I saw that in the Realtor photos but didn't know it was required (fire safety). The park just re-paved so if it needs to be anchored in the ground, we would have to jackhammer that.
-Water heater is nearing the end of its life.
-No receptacles on the outdoor outlets, kitchen needs GFCI, though I have a friend who does simple electrical like that.
-No CO2 detector, needs more smoke detectors. I don't think PA has a hard-wired requirement though.
-The breaker box needs the thing that prevents it from shorting out when power is restored after an outage.
-Shutoff for the water seems to be inaccessible.
-The worst ones: it's supported by a block foundation (cinderblocks, rebar, mortar) but apparently code requires it to have concrete footing.
-And the tie-downs are in dirt.
At 45k$ I was thinking, well if it costs 10k$ to fix all these things, that's 55k$ which is still good, and better than a 60-70k$ unit (like most of the homes I find) that will still require 5k$ in repairs even if it's just replacing the roof.
Sadly, the Realtor that was working for our side said it's just too much to do, and my Trustee who is controlling this sale and buying the home agreed to back out.
I'm supposed to be moving September 9th. That's still enough time to find a home, but I'm just worried that anything I find under my 75k$ budget is going to have at least one big expensive problem anyway, especially since that price is usually for 80's 90's homes where things like the roof, HVAC, and foundation hasn't been touched since the home was first manufactured.

I have a 1000 CF (10x10x10) grow tent in my basement that I am trying to dial in to optimal grow conditions.
Knowns: Mushrooms generate a decent amount of CO2, and I have a 24 year old and a 170lb dog in my basement, which also contributes to the CO2. With no cold air return, all CO2 in the house aggregates in the basement as there are 2 vents in the ceiling.
Ideal conditions are: CO2: < 800ppm Temp: Between 60° and 70° F (lower end is better). Humidity: 90-95% Tent keeping negative pressure so spores don't go into the basement.
My basement ambient is: CO2:~1300ppm Temp: Between 65° and 73°F Humidity: ~53%
Currently, I have a homemade humidifier capable of taking the tent from 80% Humidity to 95% Humidity in about 2 minutes. This pushes air via a 4" fan that pulls ambient basement air into my tent. The humidifier kicks on when the tent hits 80% Humidity.
My tent has a 6" exhaust fan that exhausts to the outside whenever CO2 hits 1200ppm. It runs until the CO2 hits 900 ppm. This results in my exhaust fan running almost nonstop as it is pulling ambient basement air into the tent, which spikes the tent CO2 to 1300+ppm and then slowly lowers the CO2 as it slowly exhausts basement air, pulling in lower CO2 air from under the basement door (rest of the house is normally around 500 ppm).
I have been chewing on this for awhile now trying to figure out the best route forward and am hoping for some advice as I am no hvac specialist.
My various thoughts (and their problems as I see them):

1. Run the intake to my 4" humidifier fan outside and grab low CO2 air directly from outside.

Pros: Would solve CO2 problem.
Cons: Lose benefit of conditioned basement air that is already at a good Temp, would need to condition the air somehow to proper Humidity and temp to not shock mushrooms in midwest weather (100° F heat on some days, sub 0 Temp in winters on some days).

1. Add cold air return to basement to better distribute air through the house and lower basement CO2.

Pro: Easy to do
Cons: Would increase ambient basement Temp resulting in the need to cool the basement or tent similar to above. Would increase CO2 in other areas of home. Don't know how big of an impact this would have overall. Don't know how badly this would impact cold air returns around the house. Need to check for CO backdraft from water heater chimney (have a CO meter and basement is open/unfinished so this shouldn't be an issue).

1. Add an hrv or erv system to my basement

Pros: ?
Cons: Don't know enough about HRV/ERV to know if this is the right approach. Cost...
Unknowns: Why the hell does it take so long for CO2 levels to drop when my exhaust fan is running. It is a 6" fan that can move 800 CFM. The tent is 1000 CF. Even when I have the tent door open and airflow is not restricted, it takes a long time to lower the CO2 levels to 900 PPM.
I understand I am cycling basement air as well, but at 800 cfm I should have done a full air exchange in under 10m, let alone just lowering values to an acceptable range.
When most people aren't home, sometimes the CO2 stabilizes, and the exhaust fan will stay off for around an hour before being triggered from mushroom CO2 generation, but when everyone e is home (6 people, 6 dogs, 1 person and 1 dog as mentioned above in the basement) the exhaust runs nonstop, which makes my humidity and temp cycle like a sine wave.
Any thoughts on the correct approach to hit my targets in this controlled environment?

I'm 32 with a physical disability with no learning disabilities and zero bad behaviours that would cause any concern for handling funds...
My Dad passed away and created a trust fund that has my uncle (his older brother) as the executor of the will and trustee to distribute the estate funds for my expenses, he's already retired so the plan is to eventually pass the role of trustee onto his step son I've never met instead ever passing any control over to me...
My uncle doesn't want any of the assets transferred into my name and instead wants to continue to keep me on ODSP (disability) low income support on a room and board account, so that he can pay some of the utility bills with the trust funds and thinks disability will cover all of my expenses, but my expenses are much more than what disability provides (less than 1k a month) and my Dad was financially helping me using the family gift allowance while I've been on ODSP that my Dad and I agreed for me to only be on temporarily and we were going to end the program this year, but he ended up passing away before that happened... I'm still currently on ODSP and trying to find remote work online because of the financial limbo I'm now in during the probate.
My Dad's investment portfolio has a yearly income of around 60k and there is an 800k value in his assets...
Though one problem is my Dad ended his TFSA so I was told there would be a 50% tax from the government, and that it might be possible for me to open an RDSP account to attempt to protect some of the money that's being lost?
Does that 50% tax only affect his savings or is it reoccurring for everything that my Dad had like if his investment portfolio creates 60k a year would it be taxed every time down to 30k?
There's also a mould issue in my Dad's home from a water heater leak, and I'm currently living in the home.
My uncle is wanting me to drastically downsize everything I own, sell the property at a massive loss as just a lot sale, and move into a small condo with higher fees much further away from any of my medical assistance and stores for the basics giving me much higher transit fees too...
My cousin that's a realtor said investing in repairing the immediate mould damage downstairs ASAP to make the house safe + slowly renovating for 100k over time while living in it would raise the house value to over a million and to not sell...
The will is currently still in probate and I'm not sure if emergency funds can be withdrawn from my Dad's money to professionally treat the mould?
I can't get help from house insurance because I found out my Dad renovated the bathroom downstairs not to building code and also did not update the insurance policy to include the 2nd bathroom where the leak happened...
Can my uncle as the executor and the estate trustee sell my Dad's house that I'm currently living in without my permission as beneficiary and force me to move? The house was only in my Dad's name and never in my name
Is it possible to dissolve the trust fund so I have everything just transferred to me? I'm the only beneficiary of the will

• I am so sorry about this being long but I feel like it’s necessary for you all to get the full story. I’ve been following this Reddit for 2 years now and I want answers!!! I am 25(F) living at home with my dad (54) and my brother (23) My parents separated back in 2017 leaving me, my brother and my mum in the house. My dad went to stay at his brother’s house. Soon we got kicked out of our house because my dad wrote a letter to the real estate to take him off the lease as he wasn’t living there anymore. So that led to us getting kicked out due to the letter and my mum not paying rent (this has always been a problem so me and my brother are used to it). So me, brother and mum lived at my grandparents house for nearly a year until we found a family friend who was renting out their house and so we moved in but we only lived there for a short time until we got kicked out AGAIN because mum didn’t pay rent, she was hanging out with her abusive boyfriend. So we moved back to my grandparents house for a GOOD while. It was actually the best time of my life living with them. Anyways, my dad started taking us out to McDonald’s on Friday nights for dinner because that was the only creative thing he could think. My mum? Never really saw us, was hanging out with her boyfriend. My dad would always talk about us being so happy together in our own home so he started looking for houses to rent. He was so nice back then, so happy but I wasn’t happy about living with my dad. I knew it wasn’t going to be a happy home and I was right. He eventually found a house to rent back at the start of 2020. This is where things started going downhill like I thought they would. He picked a suburb a little far out. I don’t drive so it would be an hour on public transport to go see my extended family. We were moving in and the previous tenant was there picking stuff up, so we talked to her. We asked what the owner was like and she described him as a man who doesn’t like mess and something snapped inside my dad because we got all our stuff moved in, he started being so pedantic about every single little thing. He would start cleaning 24/7. He has never been this clean before, my mum would always do the cleaning but she wasn’t this bad. Now, present day. I suspect that my dad is an emotionally abusive narcissist. I just want to know if I am overreacting or if he really is one. He’s never laid a hand on me physically, the only time he has was when I was little and would smack me when I was being “naughty”. I copped some of his outbursts whenever my mum wasn’t around. But when she was around, she was directly in the firing line. But at the time they were very discreet about it. My brother? He was the favourite so he never got shouted at. But ever since we moved in with dad, he has been shouted at but not alot. I’m the one who is yelled at the most. My mum is a whole other story… Here’s some of the evidence that might say my dad is a narcissist: Very pedantic about cleaning the house. He told me that it’s ok to miss a day of cleaning, but when he gets home from work he asks me if I have cleaned the house (he can somehow tell it hasn’t been) and when I don’t clean it, he shouts at me before roughly banging to get the vacuum out and mumbling under his breath about how lazy I am. And when I do end up vacuuming, he would get it out again and redo the floor himself. I didn't do it right. I do all the chores, without being asked. I clean the house when I am home, empty the dishwasher, fold and hang clothes, clean the litter box, mop the floor, vacuum, ect. My brother? Sitting on his video games, I have to say something in order for my dad to get up and yell at him to help me clean. And when my brother gets up to do it, my brother calls me names saying that I’m lazy. Everything is about him. It’s about what he wants in life. He wants to get a house out in a rural area but I don’t want to live in the country. Whenever he is angry he would call me all these names (c*nt, b*tch, smartass b*tch, lazy, ect) He even said to me that once he dies he won’t have to worry about paying off the house because it’ll be me and my brother’s problem and laughed. He (and his side of the family) makes me feel guilty for not having a full time job. I’m a casual but I am also living off government benefits but I am living within my means. (This is a whole other story. Will definitely post about it because his side of the family is just like him. I’m always the punching bag.) My dad has something nasty to say about my brother behind his back. He always talks badly about my mum and her side of the family. He will always say that I am "exactly like my mum and her side of the family”. Sets a time limit for when the heater can come on (5:00pm - 9:30pm) and gets angry at me for leaving it on for longer than that. I understand you can’t have it on all night, but it’s winter now and it gets really cold. I can’t handle the cold. The electricity bill isn’t that much either. I get rent assistance and the bills are in my name because I get them cheaper. Whenever we are fighting, he tells me to “get out of his house” “I don’t want you here anymore”, even though he was the one that WANTED ME TO LIVE WITH HIM IN THE FIRST PLACE. And now he doesn’t want me to live with him? While the heater is on at night, when he cooks dinner he’s always “hot” and turns it off. the house will go cold again. Before grumbling and talking to himself about how he has to cook all the time and that I am lazy. Speaking of cooking, (I can’t cook much, I can do basic stuff like microwave meals. I know I should learn but I admit I am kinda lazy) but I would help him prepare for dinner by peeling potatoes, carrots and preparing the beans. But when he comes home he would inspect the kitchen and yell at me every time that there’s a bit of water on the bench, or the sink isn’t washed out properly or there aren't many potatoes in the pot. Small things like that. I was helping him dish out dinner one time. I was getting some carrots out of a pot and then some fell onto the bench by mistake and then he sneers “You’re so fucking awkward” “You’re making a mess" and snatches the pot away from me and served dinner himself. I thought cooking was messy? A learning process... Whenever my cats make a mess, he threatens to give them away to someone else. But then is all loveable with them + if I didn’t empty out their litter box ( I do it all the time) he would bang and roughly slam and open the door, mumble stuff about me being lazy. The laundry is right next to my room so I often hear him, so when he gets into that type of mood I would put my airpods in and listen to music to drown out his horrible words and names. Every time I was sick and stayed home from my last job I was severely depressed at work (I called off ALOT) and he would always say “you’ll be fired” every single time. I wasn’t allowed to get sick or take a break either. He once said that my smart mouth will ruin his and his marriage with his overseas girlfriend, when she eventually comes. She is now here and she isn’t very lovable to him. Another story lol He says I am being a smartass b*tch whenever I say something opposing him, even when I didn’t say anything like that. Dad promised me that I would only have to pay $200 a fortnight for grocery shopping but now recently my dad is demanding $100 dollars a week from us both because “he wants money to spend on himself too”. I don’t know much money under $900. And whenever I do buy something for myself, he would always tell me to stop buying crap. My dad is illiterate so he gets mad at me when I don’t know his email addresses and passwords Whenever company is over, or he is in front of his wife he would act nice to me and talk politely to me and if I do something “wrong” in front of him and that other person, he will bite his tongue and control his anger. He called me a smartass because I refused to eat something that didn’t look cooked enough. And would yell at me to cook your own food and roughly slam stuff around the kitchen But when I told him months later that I will cook for myself from now on, my dad went and said that I was selfish and wants me to cook for everyone not just myself. And there’s a million of other similar things that have happened. I want to move out but I am scared to take the leap. I’m autistic and have anxiety, my grandparents and boyfriend have offered for me to stay with them but I don’t want to burden anyone…I don’t want to be annoying either. At the end of the day, I hate living with my dad and I hate him. My dad and I used to have an alright relationship until now. Everyday I dread it when he comes home from work and I can’t wait until he goes to bed early so I don’t have to talk to him and feel like I am on edge all the time. At night, I stay up late, because that’s the only time I get to myself, to be myself. To be as messy as I want and be relaxed. He really needs to be checked for something, I suspect he has some type of mental disability. Maybe even autism but I can’t be sure, he’s too proud and tells me that there’s nothing wrong with him. Look, I would love to go to a therapist, but it’s really expensive and I just don't like talking to people about my problems because I feel like I am annoying and a burden. But I am here now seeking your help…

we have a 2023 model x and due to numerous quality control issues including the front doors not quite opening right, we got a 2017 model s 75 loaner vehicle.
I have a chevy volt, it has 256k miles, and nothing major has gone wrong so far. but it's literally worth $1500 less if it's broken than when it's running, so it just makes financial sense to run it into the ground and pocket that $1500 instead of trying to sell it for $3000 right now with everything I already did to it (not that much, but still cost too much for the value it added). I also don't even have the money for a new car right now anyway. smart financial decisions people, make them.
but lemme get to the controversial opinion of the old vs new model s. I think it looks better (compared to the model x), drives better (of course its a sedan vs an suv), I like the controls on the wheel that I don't have to touch the screen to change the functions of. the horn, turn signals, everything is where they should be and can be used efficiently (even the hidden away cruise control stalk can be easily used without look at it once you know how it works. thats the genious of stalks instead of buttons). also, the ride of the 2017 car is way, way better. specifically when going over our driveway. I really hope the fluidity of the current cars touch screen doesnt deteriorate like the old cars though. Because if it doe , I can see shifting on the the low repsonsive screen being really annoying and possibly even dangerous. maybe this wont hapeen to the new cars, but if it does, i hope it doesn't ruin the experience for a 2023 model s/x in 7 years with heavier software + age, but I digress.
I think the automatic closing feature is cool. but from a practical standpoint, but there are too many times where they are more of a pain than anything, I would seriously just rather do it myself every time, it takes literally no effort. energy usage in the gauge cluster is like a tachometer and I love it. the only real problem I might have with this generation tesla, is the screen responsiveness and for some reason, with this car, the screen color ratio is just really muted and bland. if the new and old screens were cookies, this one would be plain dough and the new one would be an m&m cookie with funfetti dough
I mean there are other small things like the fact that it's a bigger car so it might not be as fun around corners as a model 3, but its rwd and you can actually break traction in a straight line! on a 75! and I recorded a 0-60 of just over 4 seconds, it is absolutely fast enough.. even if by Tesla standards it's on the slower end, 4.2 is 4.2 and that is fast. and im coming from a car that does it in 9-10 lmao but it still ties the model 3 long range to 60, with a single motor instead of a dual motor, so you can do stupid stuff with it :). a p85/85+ would be even better with longer range, but I would rather have the updated seats, face lift, and headlights instead. plus that speed is only really gained in 0-30, so it would have the illusion of it having less top end because of the more violent bottom end.
Anyway, that's my take on it from having driven a 2023 x long range and then driving a 2017 s 75 for a few days. I'm more of a function-over-form guy when it comes to interiors. the style you'll get used to, but if something is annoying to use, it will always be worse than if it was just designed will the efficiency of use in mine. which is why I hate the yoke + no stalks, and which is why a new model s/x even if it was in my price range, would simply not be an option at all. am I alone in this way of thinking or are there others that would rather stick to their pre refresh model s/x because of these interior design changes. its cool dont get me wrong, but the usability of the controls at least for me, was significantly diminished, even having driven the new care more than the old one, some things are just better left unchanged.

"Would you like to have a near-death experience? By crossing the boundary between life and death."

Yukari Yakumo

Themes:

• Necrofantasia:
  
• Night Falls ~ Evening Star: 7.5, 10.5, 15.5
  
• Yorimashi Between Dreams and Reality ~ Necro-Fantasia
  

Yukari Yakumo is a legendary youkai with the ability to manipulate boundaries. She is one of the sages who created Gensokyo in the first place, and a good contender for its most powerful resident. Despite this she is also exceptionally lazy, spending most of her time sleeping and foisting most of the problems off on Reimu or Ran. Still, her incredible intelligence and completely inhuman nature means one can never tell quite what she's thinking, and making her angry is a very bad idea.

Notes

• Source Index
  
• Perfect Memento in Strict Sense and Symposium of Post Mysticism is an in universe book written by Hidea no Akyuu. She has a tendency to exaggerate and speculate, so her claims should be taken with a grain of salt.
  
• Yukari herself is noted to lie quite a lot, so her own claims should also be taken with a grain of salt.
  
• In 15.5 Yukari makes use of the urban legend Teke Teke, but her attacks while using this urban legend are fairly in line with her normal capabilities. As it's unclear what effect the Urban legend is having, these feats will be included in this section but marked with Occult
  
• Yukari scales to a large number of characters, so here is every Touhou respect thread for the games
  

Defining Some Terms

Spell Card System: The Spell Card Rules were put in place by Reimu Hakurei in order to make duels between everyone fair, formalized, and safe. It is also the method nearly all Touhou characters will use in-character. Spell card battles have very clearly defined rules and attacks that are agreed upon before a duel with the purpose being that the most beautiful attacks win. In general Spell Cards are characters going easy on the foe, with ZUN outright stating they're not something the characters would ever use if they were serious.

• Given the original rules of spell card battles and a characters being introduced to the spell card system stating it would prevent useless bloodshed, there is at least a decent amount of implication that Spell Card battles are inherently non-lethal.

Danmaku: Danmaku are the "bullets" fired in a bullet hell, take many different forms, and are able to be fired by most Gensokyo citizens. They're an essential part of duels in Gensokyo, being used to control an opponent's movement and overwhelm them. They can either be fired in intricate patterns, or just fired rapidly from a single point.

• Danmaku is intentionally not efficient or effective for serious combat
  
• Danmaku in general can be lethal to normal humans
  
• Danmaku from major characters is very consistently able to break rock
  
  • Seija is considered notably weak
  • Sanae is considered nothing special as far as humans in Gensokyo are concerned

Youkai: Supernatural beings typically born from humanity's fear of the unknown, and the primary residents of Gensokyo. Youkai can be highly varied, but tend to be highly resistant to physical attacks while far more weak to spiritual attacks, such as names and traditions.
Gensokyo: Genoskyo is the region Touhou takes place in, and is a small landlocked region of Japan. It is fully enclosed by the Great Hakurei Barrier (more information bellow). The clearest picture of it shows it containing a few mountains, with it also being noted Gensokyo is small enough to see almost all of it from the Hakurei shrine

• The Sages of Genoskyo (of which Yukari is a member) are the beings responsible for the creation and maintenance of Gensokyo

Urban Legend Incident: Due to the occult balls various Urban Legends begin to manifest in Gensokyo, and some characters are capable of controlling an urban legend in battle that matches their tempermant. It's worth noting that the effects are present even after the occult balls are removed from Gensokyo though Reisen notes it will soon settle down.

Boundary Manipulation

General Description: Summarized, Yukari's power allows her to manipulate the boundary between any two things.This can apply both to physical boundaries (such as between Gensokyo and the outside world), or even the boundary of concepts (such as human and youkai or night and day).

• Both her profile and she herself state that she can manipulate the boundary between any and all things
  
• An official magazine says her power can affect anything, and that for narrative purposes she has to limit herself to the spell card rule or it wouldn't even be a game
  
• The manual states the danger and potency of her power is beyond imagination
  
• Akyuu states that her power fundamentally undermines reality. She states that it can create new existence and reject existence, is the most powerful ability held by any youkai. Additionally she states it can be applied to pictures, peoples dreams, and even stories
  

Direct Combat Usage

• Feats/Statements
  
  • Being able to draw boundary lines along surfaces means there is nothing she can not split in two
    • Sumreiko comments on her seemingly cutting space, with opening gaps in space also being her main method of transportation (see below)
  • Her barriers can destroy large amounts of enemy danmaku and damage her foes
  • Creates a large boundary around the entirety of Suika's mist form, and then suddenly makes it much smaller to force her back into her physical form.
    • Suika's mist form covered all of Gensokyo
• General
  
  • Uses a barrier to block enemy danmaku and strikes
  • Creates a boundary line with her strikes to hit her foe
  • A fan granting her powers is able to crash through all obligations, directly hitting a foe while they're guarding
• Skills
  
  • Boundary of Intellect and Feet: Runs a straight boundary to split her foe
  • Universe of Matter and Antimatter: Creates two gaps that do nothing on their own, but when they collide they create a huge distortion attack
• Spell Cards
  
  • Border Sign "Quadruple Barrier": Creates several overlapping boundaries to produce a barrier that can strike foes
  • Sign I "Quadruple Barrier": Another version of the above spell card
  • Barrier "Charming Quadruple Barrier": A larger version of quadruple barrier that sucks the foe in
  • Boundary "Quadruple Barrier of the Imperishable Night": Creates a larger quadruple barrier to protect herself and attack her enemy
  • Border Sign "Boundary of 2D and 3D": Creates a boundary that travels along the screen edge and changes directions to follow the movements of the screen
  • Barrier "Objective Barrier": Fires off four linked borders that travel along the edges of the screen
• Last Word
  
  • [Occult] Lend Me Those Beautiful Legs!: Locks her foe in place with boundary lines and then uses a gap to split them in two before putting them back together

Gaps and Warping

• Feats/Statements
  
  • General
    • Able to travel to entirely different locations by opening up gaps in space, with (according to Akyuu) it being said that this can also access pictures, dreams, and even stories
    • Can open gaps in thin air
    • Opens up a large gap, and is gone when it clears away
    • Repositions a gap to use as a seat
    • Spiriting away Kosuzu doesn't leave a single trail any other youkai can follow to locate her, not even leaving a trace of her soul behind
  • Travel/Range
    
    • Uses gaps in space as her main means of transportation, with her warping around Gensokyo, up youkai mountain, and even to and from heaven (though how direct these trips are isn't clear given how the time of day changes)
    • Reimu states Yukari can travel anywhere she wants to in a flash
    • Is able to freely travel past the Great Hakurei Barrier into the outside world, and pulls Rinnosuke back into Gensokyo after he's accidentally pulled into the outside world
      • Casually travels out of Gensokyo to see cherry blossoms
      • Comments to Mamizou about what's currently going on in Sado
      • Sends Sumireko and dream Sumireko from Gensokyo to the outside world
    • Off screen travels overseas and brings back a Hobgoblin, which she states are a Western creature
    • Instantly sends Marisa from the Hakurei shrine to the forest of magic
    • Easily travels to the netherworld (though in Gensokyo the netherworld is a location you can physically travel to
      • Summons Ran and Chen to her while within the netherworld
    • Suddenly goes from behind Luna to in front of her
    • Disappears to somewhere... literally
    • Placed a gap in a doorway so that Flandre traveled from the Scarlet Devil mansion to deep underground without even realizing she had done so
    • Pulls Sumireko out of the dream world (though Doremy implies this isn't something she's supposed to do normally)
      • Reimu refers to the dream world as another reality that is two sides of the same coin with the real world
      • Is often lurking in the dream world
  • Utility
    
    • Claims to have an undending supply of electricity, kerosene, and nitroglycerin, and fills up Rinnosuke's heater with fuel while having a conversation with him, without him even realizing she had done anything
    • Covertly drops money into the shrine's donation box while having a conversation with Reimu
    • Puts a hand through a gap to block a hammer and grab a gameboy
    • Makes food disappear from right out from under Reimu's nose
    • Summons other characters like Reimu or Chen
    • Reimu implies Yukari can send just some body parts through the Great Hakurei Barrier
    • Left her arm dangling through a gap while asleep, and then puts her hand through another gap to douse a candle
    • Hid some of her own energy inside of a gap to revive herself after having all of her magical energy drained by Mizuchi's possession. Though she states it will soon run out and she needs to rest after. Also sticks her hands through gaps to grab cookies and wave at Reimu independently of her body
• General
  
  • Warps from one side of the screen to the other and grants Reimu the ability to do the same
  • Vanishes to dodge a spell card
  • Leans back into a gap while firing projectiles
  • Sticks her arm into a gap to strike her foe with an umbrella from another location
  • Drops into a gap and then appears in midair
  • After being knocked to the ground, creates a gap below and above her to redirect back to standing up
  • Opens a gap through which several pieces of wood fly out at her foe
  • Spawns street signs to attack her foe
  • Opens gaps through which rapid fire danmaku and lasers fire out
  • Summons a monstrous arm out of her gap to grab or strike her foe
• Skills
  
  • Rest on Stone, Rinse in Rivers: Opens up a hole that swallows up projectiles and stores them
  • Rinse with Stone, Rest in Rivers: Fires off stored projectiles
  • Chimera's Wings: Places a gap that she can then warp back to.
  • Fantasy Maniacal Rift: Disappears into a gap and keeps moving, before coming out to strike her foe
  • Flesh Dismantler: Drops down into a gap before leaping out while spinning her umbrella
  • Urashima's Box, Filled With Lament: Opens a gap in the sky to drop debris on her foe
  • Home is Where One Lays to Rest: Hits her foe with several pieces of wood
  • [Occult] World's Most Agile Torso: Uses a gap to send her upper body forward to attack her foe while her lower body remains in place
• Spell Cards
  
  • Evil Spirits "Yukari Yakumo's Spiriting Away": Repeatedly teleports around while firing off danmaku
  • "Boundary of Humans and Youkai": Vanishes entirely and attacks the foe with danmaku patterns while not physically present
  • Splitter "Thing That Splits All Into Two": Repeatedly jumps in and out of and moves through gaps while spinning her umbrella
  • Fantasy Nest "Flying Noctilucae's Nest": Opens up several gaps that fire danmaku forwards, always in the direction of the foe
  • Boundary "Overflowing Flotsam": Sends several pieces of wood flying at her foe
  • Abandoned Line "Aimless Journey to the Abandoned Station": Opens a gap through which an abandoned train comes from, though (in gameplay at least) it takes time to open the gap
  • "Unmanned Abandoned Railroad Car Bomb": Summons three train cars that fly into her foe before exploding

Great Hakurei Barrier

• The Barrier Itself
  
  • Feats/Statements
    • The Great Hakurei Barrier is a barrier of sense that surrounds all of Gensokyo, and keeps living creatures and their tools from passing through while allowing non-living things to pass through without issue. Via non-Euclidian space a person attempting to pass through the barrier will find themselves wandering endlessly, and they will find themselves back where they started upon turning around.
    • Even when Reimu and Marisa traveled to the moon they never left the barrier, and they consider getting through the barrier to be harder than going to the moon
    • Gensokyo is designed to be the opposite of the outside world, and things that contradict that concept cannot pass through the barrier
    • Akyuu states the barrier is a barrier of common sense and keeps the outside world's common sense outside, and that it's composed of multiple smaller barriers, but that it periodically weakens every 60 years
    • There is at least some difference in the seasons between Gensokyo and the outside world
    • Sumireko was unable to fully penetrate the barrier from the outside
  • Limits
    • Non-living things and certain creatures are able to pass through the barrier more easily
    • It's noted Remilia's scarlet mist would have spread past the boundary into the human world
    • Objects that violated common sense from the outside world being used on the barrier would threaten its very existence
• Manipulation
  
  • Yukari was one of the sages to suggest the creation of the Great Hakurei Barrier, though whether she's the actual creator is unclear. Reimu refers to her as the original creator but Yuyuko thinks the barrier is too strong for Yukari to make
  • States that she has torn holes in the barrier
  • Creates a powerful distortion in the barrier
  • Repairs the barrier after Reimu does something to weaken it
  • Whenever a human from the outside world wanders into Gensokyo, it's because of fluctuations in the barrier caused by her

Gensokyo's Boundary of Reality and Illusion

• General
  
  • Created a boundary of illusion and reality around Gensokyo, defining Gensokyo as illusionary and the outside world as real, so anything that becomes viewed as fantasy is pulled into Gensokyo, even from outside Japan. This was performed 500 years ago and still going strong.
  • Yukari seems to have at least some amount of awareness of those who enter and leave Gensokyo through this method
• Living Things
  
  • A snake wakes up in Gensokyo as soon as he transforms into a youkai, with Mamizou stating that when you turn into a youkai you wind up in Gensokyo. Said snake is potentially originally from India
  • When there's a demand for Zashiki-Warashi in the outside world they start vanishing from Gensokyo, and later return when that demand fades
  • New youkai created in the outside world immediately appear in Gensokyo as well, but due to not having a clear form they disappear just a quickly
  • Rinnosuke notes that Gensokyo is rather multicultural, as youkai brought with them foreign cultures as they were pulled into Gensokyo
  • A real life human shows up in Gensokyo after becoming a god
  • Animals that become endangered or extinct (at least in Japan) are more prevalent in Gensokyo
  • A completely ordinary seal winds up in Gensokyo after being forgotten while a youkai well integrated in human society could remain in the outside world
• Nonliving
  
  • Items that fall out of use in the outside world wind up in Gensokyo
  • People doubting or forgetting the moon landing is enough to cause several magazines about it to appear in Gensokyo as well as the Soyuz spacecraft
  • Lyrica implies that instruments and even noises can fall into fantasy
• Buildings
  
  • The Scarlet Devil Mansion is a western style mansion housing multiple powerful youkai that is assumed to have arrived in Gensokyo fairly recently, with Akyuu also noting that it seemingly wasn't designed for Japanese climates
  • Another western style mansion housing the Prismriver sister also exists in Gensokyo
  • Unused radio towers occasionally appear in Gensokyo
  • After Miko is forgotten by the outside world, her entire mausoleum arrives in Gensokyo
• Large Scale
  
  • Due to Kanako making it fall into fantasy the Moriya shrine and the nearby lake move to Gensokyo
  • According to legend the Bamboo Forest of the Lost appeared in Gensokyo after being washed away by a tsunami
  • It's thought (according to Keine) that Youkai Mountain in Gensokyo is the original mythical form Yatsugatake, before it had been torn down by a god, back when it was taller than Mt. Fuji

Misc

• Boundary of Reality and Illusion - Moon
  
  • Erases the boundary between the real and illusionary moon, turning a reflection of the moon in the water into a portal to the moon itself that allows for instantaneous travel
  • Can return to Earth by doing the same thing to a reflection of the Earth
  • Leaves the portal open by shoving an umbrella into it
  • The Watatsuki sisters state she can freely travel between the Earth and moon, and that she once brought a throng of youkai to the moon with her
  • Implies this can only be performed when the moon is completely full, and that she was trapped on the moon when the full waned more quickly than expected
• Netherworld
  
  • Weakened the barrier between Gensokyo and the Netherworld so Yuyuko could more easily enter Gensokyo. She is also responsible for its repair
    • The Netherworld's barrier weakening causes the boundary between life and death to become vague, with Youmu wondering if it's okay to leave the boundary between this world an the next so ambiguous, though Youmu also notes it hasn't changed up the natural order too much
  • States that she caused the borders between Hell and the Netherworld to fade
    • Both the Netherworld and Hell are massive, but it's not clear to what extent she actually merged them
• Lunar Capital
  
  • Breaks through the barrier of the lunar capital, but it takes her a while due to the complexity
    • This barrier separates the living fantastical moon from the scientific dead one, and requires a specific route in order to reach the capital
  • Opens a whole in the barrier hiding the house of the Lunar sage with her thumb, and leaves her glove in the gap so that Yuyuko and Youmu can later use it to enter the Lunar Captial
• Misc Conceptual
  
  • States she can manipulate the boundary between Gensokyo and the outside world, the worlds of the living and the dead, human and youkai, or even day and night
  • Claims she can give the immortal Mokou a near death experience by manipulating the boundary of life and death
  • States she thinned the barrier between human and youkai, possibly making Reimu a youkai temporarily
    • States she could set the boundary between human and youkai for Mai and Satano to make them one or the other
  • Manipulates the boundary between daylight and moonlight to cause both to happen at the same time
  • Makes the moon as bright as daytime by manipulating the boundary between day and night
  • Marisa speculates that Yukari manipulated the border between danmaku for play and danmaku for combat for one of her attacks
  • States she can easily manipulate the boundary between spring and winter
  • States she causes noctambulism (sleep walking) in humans by manipulating the boundary between asleep and awake
  • Manipulates the boundary of master and slave, causing both teams using perfect possession to swap said roles
    • Doing this required interfering with the dream world

Other Abilities

Note that a number of feats here potentially involve boundary manipulation, but it's less explicit
Energy Projection

• Feats
  
  • Individual needles can break rock, and destroy a large boulder with sustained fire
  • Effortlessly defeats the three fairies of light, throwing out projectiles made of light and non-light
  • Marisa considers Yukari's danmaku harder to deal with than Yuyuko's
  • Surrounds herself with rings of danmaku
• General
  
  • Fires out large amounts of danmaku in various patterns
  • Fires off danmaku in front of her with a swing of her fan
  • Attacks with lines of energy
  • Fires off several orbs trailed by lines of energy
  • Creates spirals of energy around her body
  • Using a bomb, unleashes a pulse of energy that knocks back her foe
• Skills
  
  • Purple Needles of Painful Reproach: Rapid fires needles in front of her
  • Bewitching Bait: Creates a bird's eye that high speed projectiles then fly through at random paths
  • Spacetime Seam: Creates a pulse of energy projectiles in all directions around her, possibly by cracking space
• Spell Cards
  
  • Standard Danmaku Pattern
    • Barrier "Curse of Dreams and Reality"
    • Barrier "Balance of Motion and Stillness"
    • Barrier "Mesh of Light and Darkness"
    • Evil Spirits "Dreamland of Straight and Curve"
    • Evil Spirits "Bewitching Butterfly Living in the Zen Temple"
    • Sinister Spirits "Double Black Death Butterfly"
    • Barrier "Boundary of Life and Death"
    • Yukari's Arcanum "Danmaku Barrier"
    • Outer Force "Infinite Superspeed Flying Object"
    • Border Sign "Boundary of Form and Emptiness"
    • Border Sign "Boundary of Wave and Particle"
    • Photon "Doppler Effect"
    • Aerial Bait "Hyperactive High Speed Flying Object"
    • "Yakumo's Nest"
    • "Impossible Danmaku Barrier"
    • "Casebook of Luck, Resilience and Perseverance"
  • Combo Attack with Others
    • "Perfect Possession and Dream Seal": With Reimu
    • "Boundary of Spirit Medium and Divine Spirit": With Reimu
    • "Secret God Barrier": With Okina
    • "Shoot the Danmaku Barrier!": With Marisa
    • "Unauthorized Danmaku Photography is Strictly Prohibited": With Reimu
    • Paper Sign "Barrier-Enclosed Zener Card Shuriken": With Sumireko
  • Misc
    • Aerial Bait "Addictive Bait": Opens several locations through which high speed projectiles travel from
    • Fantasy "Perpetual Motion Machine of the First Kind": Creates a perpetual motion device that automatically fires danmaku without her input
    • Spirit Medium's Melancholy: Fires off danmaku that only hits one part of a perfect possession duo
• Last Word
  
  • "Profound Danmaku Barrier -Phantasm, Foam and Shadow-": Creates an everlasting bullet pattern with her finger deciding its life and death

Shikigami: Shikigami are spirits that have been turned into tools via a patter, that have software installed to control them

• Feats/Statmenents
  
  • Has the ability to control shikigami, which like computers will follower her commands exactly. Her primary shikigami is Ran, who herself has her own shikigami Chen
  • Has shikigami possess various crows which she uses for scouting
    • A crow rapidly flies over large swaths of the lunar surface in what is implied to be a short span of time. Its flight is also described as unnaturally straight, with it following the special path required to reach the Lunar Capital with computer-like accuracy
    • [Limit] A crow is killed by being possessed exposed to the vacuum of space
  • Has eyes all over Gensokyo... literally, with this eyes noted to be her familiars
• Skills
  
  • "Apparotation Needle": Has Ran chase after he foes while firing off danmaku
  • Eyes that View Change: Opens a gap holding an eye, which attacks the enemy when it sees a weakpoint based on specific programming
• Spell Cards
  
  • Summoning Rand and or Chen to attack enemies
    • Shikigami "Ran Yakumo"
    • Sign III "Ran Yakumo"
    • Shikigami "Ran Yakumo +"
    • Shikigami "Chen"
    • Shikigami "Ran Yakumo & Chen":
  • Other
    • Magic Eye "Laplace's Demon": Opens up several gaps holding eyes which attack when they see an exploitable weak point

Umbrella

• General
  
  • Hits her foe by spinning her umbrella
  • Creates spirals of energy around her umbrella
• Skills
  
  • Bewitching Butterfly Lurking in the Zen Temple: Envelopes her umbrella in energy and spins it while slamming into her foe
  • Fantasy Manji-Parasol: Gathers spiritual energy on her umbrella, then spins and fires it off as a projectile
  • Full Moon Umbrella: Creates a ring of energy around herself with a swing of her umbrella
• Spell Cards
  
  • Sign II "Manji-Parasol of Yakumo"

Senses

• Sees the human village despite Keine attempting to hide it by trying to make it appear that nothing had ever been there by eating its history
  
• Youkai can see perfectly by moonlight
  
• Claims to see the backside of the moon bathed with sunlight, even during a new moon
  
• Detects that a tree is from the outside world
  
• Eavesdrops on Sakuya's conversation while not physically present, and speaks to Reisen before warping to the location
  
• Claims to clearly see the launch of the Scarlet Devil Mansion's rocket from a ways away
  
• Senses Eiki's presence
  
• Senses the weakening of the Great Hakurei Barrier while presumably asleep
  
• Realizes the Shinmyoumaru in front of her isn't the normal one
  
• Sees the outside world beyond the Great Hakurei Barrier
  
• Sees the flow of energy from living things and helps Youmu to understand it
  
• Able to see the god that Utsuho had absorbed the power of
  

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Hello, spacers!
On this episode, the group takes a stab at historical reenactments, the author takes some… “subtle” comedic jabs at certain contemporary events, and we find out where they’ve been hoarding the post-apocalyptic Twinkies.™
As always, I hope you enjoy. :)
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As the group exited the Air Force base and began heading towards their destination, Kate looked at the surroundings as they walked. The area looked relatively untouched by the chaos of the past few weeks. The only evidence of it was an enormous pillar of smoke in the distance.
As Jack noticed Kate and a few others in the group staring at it, he nodded in understanding.
“That’s downtown Saint Paul, or at least the remains of it. From what we’ve been able to gather, the nuke we couldn’t stop in time exploded almost directly above the Capitol building. We only managed to put out the last of the fires in what little remains of downtown earlier today.”
“…How many people-“
Anticipating the question, Jack cut her off.
“We don’t know. …We may never know. We can only speculate.”
Kate’s face fell.
“Yeah, I figured that’d be the answer…”
Kate remained morosely silent as they approached the fort. Jack turned to address the crowd.
“Welcome to historic Fort Snelling. …Well, historic to us humans, anyway. Having a fort two centuries old is probably chump change to all of you from a time perspective, eh?”
Kate’s brow furrowed in confusion as she looked up at the stone walls of the fort, its stone tower chock-full of early-1800’s firearm loopholes meant for muskets.
“Wait, what?! …When they said we were going to “Fort Snelling,” I figured it’d be an active military base. Why’re we using a historic site…?”
Jack chuckled.
“It wasn’t actually the military’s decision to do that. A couple days after the bombs fell, a group of survivors moved into the fort. When questioned, I believe the leader of the initial group was quoted as saying “EMPs can’t knock out a big damn wall.” She was right; the stone walls of the fort are a great deterrent to looters and other kinds of people looking for trouble, and it’s easily defensible. Given that we obviously had way bigger things to worry about at the time, we just let them be.
Then, as more and more people showed up to our Air Force base looking for help, we decided the fort would make a good site for a refugee camp. The original group didn’t object; they actually welcomed the security having others around brought, especially once we started the organized armed patrols a few days ago.”
Y’ggdrasog piped up from beside Kate, a bit of indignation in his tone.
<“That’s all well and good, but what about respecting its historic significance? …Preserving the past, and all that?”>
“Relax. The only truly historic things here are a few of the buildings. The vast majority of what was on display inside said buildings- antique-looking tin cups, butter churns, muskets, that sort of thing- were just modern-made replicas, to give visitors an idea of what the fort used to look like back when it was still in use.
…We’ve actually thrown the vast majority of that junk into those “assimilator” thingies you Collective types brought along with you. It was either that, or burn them to keep warm. …Way I figure it, we can always just make more fake “historic” tchotchkes when we’re not fighting for the survival of our species, eh?”
Y’ggdrasog crossed his arms, and while he was clearly still unhappy about it, relented.
<“…Alright, fair enough...”>
As the group finally passed through the fort’s front gate, Kate could see a veritable sea of tents in the center of the area. They had passed plenty of tents on the way there in parking lots, boulevards and so on, but not nearly to this level of density.
Kate marveled at the sight, leaning toward Y’ggdrasog to murmur.
“People must have fought to get placed in here until there was literally no room left, and the tents were packed in like sardines.”
Y’ggdrasog gave her a quizzical look.
<“…What’s a “sardine?””>
“It's just a- …nevermind, it’s not important…”
Migtryl began to speak as the rest of the group filed through the gate.
<“Here and a few spots outside the fort are where you’ll be working for the most part. We reserved several tents for you to use both in and outside the fort, customized with your biologies in mind. I’ll start by giving you all a tour of the premises, so you can familiarize yourself with the different areas you might be needed.
…Starting off, over there you’ll see the impromptu medical center we’ve constructed. If you have any prior medical experience in your work history, you will be placed there. Next, we’ll be moving to…”>
Migtryl began walking off, talking and occasionally pointing with a wing or leg as they went and the group trailed behind them. As Kate tried her best to keep pace with Y’ggdrasog’s long strides, she could see that the crowds of humans inside the fort were parting like a sea around them, just like they behaved at the runway. Many looked at them with fear in their eyes, others with disgusted sneers.
Kate’s shoulders slumped as she finally realized:
Almost no one trusts them yet.
She was so lost in thought over the implications of this that she bumped into Y’ggdrasog, who had abruptly stopped walking. She glanced up at him to see him staring toward a group of humans near the edge of the medical center. His glow was crimson, his eyes haunted. She followed his gaze to see-
Her eyes widened.
Oh no…
The man he was staring at lay on a cot under an improvised tarp-tent. They were being tended to by several medical personnel (both human and alien) that were changing the bandages covering their body, and little wonder; they were absolutely covered in burns.
Before Kate could think of what to do to help her friend, she saw J’Ffrane almost literally materialize between Y’ggdrasog and the bandaged burn victim. Their voice was warm and soothing as they spoke.
<“Feel this moment, accept it, then let it pass. Remember? …Don’t let yourself drown in it.”>
It was like Y’ggdrasog was awakened from a dream as he blinked a few times and glanced at J’Ffrane.
<“Y-yes, I- …I remember...”>
He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, slowly letting it out in a shaky exhale as he turned to Kate, opening his eyes once more to meet her concerned gaze.
<“Come on, let’s not fall too far behind.”>
“…Are you alright?”
Y’ggdrasog gave her a weak smile, though the crimson of his stressful glow remained.
<“Of course I’m not. …But that’s not going to stop me from helping your people.”>
He took one last glance at the burn victim before turning and setting off once more towards the tour group.
J’Ffrane gave an approving nod as he walked away, leaning towards Kate and whispering.
<“He’s come so far... Half a cycle ago, he likely would have been nearly catatonic for the rest of the day.”>
Despite the encouraging words, Kate’s shoulders fell as she started walking after Y’ggdrasog.
“I should have thought of this... There have to be thousands- no, tens of thousands, maybe even six figures worth of burn victims from the bombs, in these two cities alone!”
<“And we will be with him to hold out a limb to grasp when he needs it. Just as he and I will be there for you, and you two for I, should the need arise.”>
Kate looked up at J’Ffrane, surprised.
“How would we help you?”
J’Ffrane smiled down at her.
<“You already have. Every person who asks for my assistance helps me immensely just by doing so. It helps me remember that I have a place in the world, and that place is giving the help they so desperately need. …Now then, let’s catch back up to the crowd and find out how we can best do that here, hm?”>
And with that, J’Ffrane’s dissipated as they flew forward towards Y’ggdrasog and the rest of the group trailing along behind Migtryl.
“Hey, wait up!”
——
Despite the brief interruption, Kate hadn’t missed much by the time she caught back up, and she was soon learning more and more of the facilities and service centers the Collective had constructed around the fort.
While the local military stationed in the fort were (rather fittingly) occupying the fort’s centuries-old barracks, they were actually the main supplier of the vast majority of the tents around the compound.
“More tents are being constructed every day for use in the surrounding area,” said Jack. “We ran our own supply of military-grade tents dry a few days ago, but we’ve been able to scavenge more from places like camping supply stores, alongside manufacturing our own from tarps and the like. Not exactly comfortable to live in, but we have to take what we can get.”
Kate put her good hand up to ask a question, shivering a bit as she did so in the crisp, late-autumn air.
“How well do they retain heat in all this cold?”
“A very good question. Normally it would be quite the problem, doubly so given just how damned cold Minnesota can get in fall weather alone. Luckily, however, the Collective came up with a solution. …Migtryl?”
<“We used a few of the fabricators we have at our disposal to create personal solar-powered heating units to heat each tent. …It’s a bit inefficient given the cloud cover, but on even the cloudiest of days they’re able to achieve over 150% of the solar exposure needed to get a full, week-long charge in a matter of hours.”>
Jack chimed in with a smile.
“It certainly beats the bonfires we filled with whatever we could lay our hands on to burn before you all got here, that’s for sure!”
From there, they moved on to the camp’s utilities.
As the water purification plants of the area had been rendered mostly inoperable by the EMPs and cyberwarfare attacks, the Collective had repurposed a few industrial sump pumps to direct water from the Mississippi River into an assimilator system. The assimilator broke it down and removed all the pollutants in the river water until all that remained was potable water, and distributed to locals to drink-
<“…or at least, to those who don’t refuse to drink it, that is.”> Migtryl said.
An alien of a species Kate didn’t recognize (one that almost resembled a snake if not for their arms and upright stature, who was strapped to a mechanical walker to get around the terrain) piped up, beating her to the punch.
<“Why wouldn’t they drink it?”>
Migtryl paused, glancing at Jack and weighing their words carefully before speaking.
<“…A small, but nonetheless very vocal portion of the local population seem to be under the mistaken impression we’re putting chemicals, nanites and so on in the water to do things such as influence their actions, up to and including controlling their sexuality, for some reason. …Anyway, such people often choose to simply boil and drink water taken directly from the river itself, instead of taking the purified water rations we offer.”>
In contrast to the shocked and horrified reactions of the aliens around her, Kate merely sighed and rolled her eyes.
Yeah, that sounds about right…
Another alien, this time a kentzaré, timidly raised one of their manipulation tendrils.
<“...Have many people gotten sick from doing that?”>
<“Unfortunately, yes. Even boiling the water sometimes wasn’t enough to prevent many such individuals from developing symptoms of several waterborne-based diseases, and that’s not even going into the possible long-term effects of the various pollutants in the water.
We also have individuals here and there who even refuse the fallout-proof masks we offer. …Something about “not using them before, not using them now” and “not living in fear”…?”>
As Kate facepalmed hard enough to leave a handprint mark on her forehead for a minute or two, Migtryl shook his head in frustration.
<“…We must make an effort to always remember that the majority of these people are hurt, scared, and in all likelihood grieving the death of at least one loved one, friend, or what have you. Most do not trust us. We must simply be patient with them, help those willing to receive it, and not give those who are unwilling any further cause for suspicion or hostility. …Now, come along; we have much more to look at.”>
With that, they both turned and began walking towards a long but narrow stone building. As they reached it, Jack turned to the group.
“This is the commissary. It’s where we keep the supplies we distribute to the civilians. It may look small, but looks can be deceiving. …C’mon, let’s step inside. Just remember to dust yourself off first!”
Y’ggdrasog glanced at the door clearly made for human proportions and shook his head, sighing as he turned to Kate.
<“You two go on ahead. I have no desire to work out the kink in my back later from having to be hunched over inside.”>
Kate smiled in amusement as several other taller species of aliens nodded, muttered their agreement and so on.
“Well, sorry on behalf of humanity for us being so short. …Anyway, see you in a bit, Yiggy!”
He winced.
<“…Kate, please, not in front of others…”>
Kate’s smile only widened as she turned and followed J’Ffrane with the rest of the group as they entered the building.
As they descended a set of stairs, Kate was surprised to see that despite its outer appearances, the building went several stories underground. As she descended down the first flight of stairs, a feeling of unease began to eat away at her. Her hairs began to stand on end, goosebumps rising despite the heaters inside the building.
Jack continued his explanation as they continued descending.
“The ground where this building stands was where they initially quarried out a lot of the stone necessary for building the majority of the fort’s walls and buildings back in the 1800’s. When they finished, the line of thinking was “well, we’ve made a really big hole, may as well use it for something.” So they built this commissary to act as a mega-cellar of sorts; it could store enough food to last the initial inhabitants of the fort an entire year.”
As they descended to the final level, Kate looked out across a sizable collection of boxes of various shapes and sizes stacked upon pallets. As she gazed at them, an eerie feeling of familiarity and something being inexplicably, terribly wrong settled onto her, and she only barely heard Jack continuing to speak.
“Most of the supplies that don’t belong to anyone in particular are either stored here, or wherever we can stuff them in what little free space there is left in the other buildings of the fort. Groups go out every day to scavenge for more food, general supplies, raw materials to put into your “assimilators” to make things like our filtered masks-“
150 spare air filters-
<“-as the assimilators and fabricators can only do so much at one time, we scavenge as much food as possible due to most of their time being taken up purifying the polluted water-“>
75 spare half-year water filters-
“It’s important to keep track of everything else we store here, so a lot of the work is just tallying everything up. It’s tedious, but very important; we need to know what we have to give those with very specific dietary needs-“
500 cans of spinach, 300 cans of olives, 700 cans of baked beans-
“Members of our species still have occasional issues with allergies, diabetes, that sort of thing. I’m told we likely will continue to have those for at least a decade or so before you Collective folks can develop those “immunity implants” necessary to sort them out. …Assuming the average Joe is willing to work with them, when the most advanced tech they had before was-“
3 spare radios, 50 packs of AAA batteries-
Kate only just barely managed to drag herself back to the present as she felt J’Ffrane metallic hand gently tugging at her sleeve. She turned to see them wordlessly gazing at her, a concerned expression on their face. Only after their intervention did she notice she had begun to start breathing erratically as Migtryl kept talking.
<“…Beyond moving the supplies where they need to go, the job’s not very physical. For the most part, it’s just counting how much of any one item we have and writing down the results. We usually give the job to people who are injured or otherwise not at their best, but still want to contribute.”>
Migtryl glanced over at Kate, who unbeknownst to him was having a desperate internal struggle to try and keep herself calm.
<“You’d be a perfect fit here, heh!”>
Kate sunk into herself a bit at his words, and found herself wishing she could turn invisible as the group turned to stare at her. Her voice was barely audible as she felt obligated to murmur out a response.
“…I, uh- pant …d-don’t think that- pant …would be a good idea…”
Not again, not again… Just stay cool, don’t keep hyperventilating, just move on, just- stop it. Stop stop STOP oh god why can’t I just breathe normally?! Just k-keep cool, just-
OH DON’T YOU START CRYING YOU WORTHLESS BI-
She felt the touch of J’Ffrane’s metallic hand on her shoulder, bringing her back to herself.
<“Come on, Stardust; let’s take a walk.”>
Kate hesitantly nodded and let herself be led away from the group and up the stairs by J’Ffrane’s gentle leading hand, wiping her tears away as she went. Migtryl glanced at Jack, who was staring after the pair, his expression worried.
<“…Was it something I said?”>

Looking for assistance/advice, I have a 2017 chevy Silverado 1500 with the 5.3, currently have a kn air intake and borla exhaust, I recently had a bbk shorty headers installed and I’ve been having issues. Check engine light, traction control light both flashing, truck doesn’t shift well and smell of fuel. I plan on having it professionally tuned next week which should fix these issue but anything I can do in until then? Anything to be concerned? These issues started once I put the headers on

I have a customer with a 2008 Chevy Suburban 1500 5.3L. The truck has almost 400K miles (he'd like to see half a million). It's mainly used for long distance travel. I've had the truck in the shop 3 times for this issue already, and I'm out of ideas.
Symptoms:

1. Vehicle is losing approximately a gallon of coolant before the engine starts to run hot, at which point the customer notices and refills (maybe over 1000 miles?)
2. The cooling system builds no pressure on it's own. I can let it run for a half hour or more and the pressure tester gauge sits at 0. If I manually pump it up to 13-15psi while running, it will hold it.

Diagnostics Performed:

1. Coolant dye test: No external leaks found. Not even the rear heater core or common areas such as the water pump gaskets. I allowed the vehicle to idle for over a half hour and not even a drop on the floor.
2. Combustion leak test (twice): negative both times
3. Cooling system pressure test (several times, both hot and cold): Holds pressure and slowly leaks 1-2 psi over a couple hours. I can't even count that as a leak because it's so slow that it could easily be from the tool or the reservoir seal.
4. Compression test: All cylinders well within factory specifications.
5. Cylinder visual inspection: Checked all cylinders with borescope cold as well as hot. Cylinders were dry and had no coolant present or evidence of coolant leakage. Cylinder wall condition was surprisingly good.
6. Leakdown test: Changed the spark plugs because I removed them for borescope/compression test and they were due. Cylinder #6 had a sussy plug, so I leakdown tested that cylinder only and it was perfect. Didn't test others because of time and no evidence that they needed to be.
7. Visual check of oil and transmission fluid: No evidence of cross contamination. No sludge on oil cap.
8. Visual check of exhaust: not really an accurate test, but nothing other than normal amounts of water vapor were present at the tailpipe. No coolant smell.

Before anyone immediately yells out "cracked head," this truck has the 799 casting heads. The head cracking issue was a problem with the older 706. That doesn't mean 799s can't crack too, it's just less likely as they didn't have a factory flaw.
I'm going to lose my sanity over this truck soon! Nothing makes sense anymore! If the coolant is not leaking externally, then it must be going SOMEWHERE. These things have dry intake manifolds too. Please help me! 😂

My (36m) in-laws are coming this weekend to celebrate my wife’s (36m) birthday, her moms birthday, and Father’s Day. We lump them all together and celebrate. Our pool heater has been a bit wonky lately. Sparing everyone the details a 25 dollar membrane is the fix. I purchased the membrane, but the pins were delicate on the board and I accidentally snapped them. I tried unsuccessfully to repair with soldering iron.
We need a new control board. I ordered the part on Amazon for $395. It was a third party seller and will be here as soon as Thursday or as late as next Tuesday. Company is coming Saturday. Wife wants to call a repair service so that it’s fixed by Saturday. I think there is no guarantee they have the part or the time to get it done by Saturday. More importantly, we can’t really afford this $395 part let alone a bill for likely 2-4x that much to pay someone to do it. She is worried that I already broke it once and that her family will be cold. Saturday, as of now, is supposed to be cloudy and 73. (Will we even want to swim?)
WIBTA if I didn’t call someone to service it? I am plenty capable of swapping a board. I’ve done so on our fridge, built plenty of computers, and have repaired other problems with the pool heater, and other devices over the years. But more importantly we scraping by and I am concerned she isn’t taking that seriously.

Hello, I hope I format this all correctly and I'll try and make everything understandable as it's a bit of a confusing situation. I'm sorry that this is a bit long, I'm just trying to cover all the questions people may ask.
We (myself, husband, and 5 month old son) live on an island in Washington State. We're currently in employee housing provided by his work. We pay $825 per month for a 2 bedroom, 1 bath condo in town. The building of condos is quite old and rarely receives maintenance. For the 1.5 years my husband and I have been living together, it's been a battle to get things fixed.
Here is a short list of some of the larger problems:

• The property management allowed our dishwasher to remain broken and unusable for over a year, even when they were aware it was holding water that we couldn't drain, which is a mold concern.
• We reported that our electric stove stop was smoking heavily whenever we used it (the plates had never been replaced in at least 10 years and it got to the point where normal cleaning wasn't cutting it). We weren't able to cook for weeks as the smoke was too heavy to all be controlled by the vent over the stove. They never responded to our request. We replaced the plates ourselves after several weeks and sent them the bill, they only over $100 of the $250 charge because they were upset we replaced it ourselves.
• Our dryer vents have not been cleaned in almost 10 years. We feel it would be best for a professional to do this due to the fire and electrical risk of working with a dryer system. Our vents have yet to be cleaned, 2.5 months after our request.
• There is a hole under a cabinet in the kitchen that lets birds into our home if left open that would lead to bird droppings in our house. They never responded to our request for repair over a year later. The hole is stuffed with towels and no other signs of infestation have been noticed.
• Our only toilet was broken for over 4 months of my pregnancy. They never came to fix it and I had to repair the handle myself. During that time, the plumbing worked but we had to manually flush the toilet from the lever in the tank.
• Our kitchen faucet sprang a leak that would spray water towards an outlet the fridge is plugged into right next to the sink whenever the water was turned on. We couldn't use the sink (ie, no access to running water on the whole first floor) for 2 weeks until it was finally repaired.
• Our water heater is covered and inaccessible to us (it's in a closet, encased in a wooden shelf). When I became pregnant, my OB instructed us to lower the temperature of our water heater as to not put me at higher risk for miscarriage due to the excess heat. This request has not been completed to this day (14 months later).
• We have concerns about the structural integrity of our home, the floors are bowing when we walk on them. The only maintenance worker came to look at it and stated that he didn't smell rot and left without any other inspection. The floors still visibly sink under our weight. We are in earthquake territory and I worry about whether our home will collapse in the event of an earthquake as I have no idea if the building is up to code. I wouldn't even know who to contact about it.

I should also note that our home isn't like traditional employee housing (ex. group housing or one room apartments). It's just a line of about 8 condos (or maybe they're technically town houses) in town, not on any property associated with the business. The owner of the company is a very wealthy man who has a great love for his community. He bought the apartments in AK and had them shipped (don't ask me how cause I don't know) down to us in WA for employees to live in at a reduced rate. As I stated, we pay $825 a month (water included, everything else we cover) and the typical going rate for our area is $1,500 - $2,000 per month. It's not deducted from his paycheck, like other employee housing sometimes is, we pay by check every month. The only thing that makes this employee housing is the fact that the company owns the grocery store my husband works at and the building we live in. There's separate management for both, but they influence each other.
Now here is a list of sections of landlord tenant law I believe they are violating:

• Maintain the premises to substantially comply with any applicable code, statute, ordinance, or regulation governing their maintenance or operation, which the legislative body enacting the applicable code, statute, ordinance or regulation could enforce as to the premises rented if such condition endangers or impairs the health or safety of the tenant
• Maintain the structural components including, but not limited to, the roofs, floors, walls, chimneys, fireplaces, foundations, and all other structural components, in reasonably good repair so as to be usable
• Provide a reasonable program for the control of infestation by insects, rodents, and other pests at the initiation of the tenancy and, except in the case of a single-family residence, control infestation during tenancy except where such infestation is caused by the tenant
• Except where the condition is attributable to normal wear and tear, make repairs and arrangements necessary to put and keep the premises in as good condition as it by law or rental agreement should have been, at the commencement of the tenancy
• Maintain all electrical, plumbing, heating, and other facilities and appliances supplied by him or her in reasonably good working order
• The landlord shall commence remedial action after receipt of such notice [notice of necessary repairs] by the tenant as soon as possible but not later than the following time periods, except where circumstances are beyond the landlord's control:

(1) Not more than twenty-four hours, where the defective condition deprives the tenant of hot or cold water, heat, or electricity, or is imminently hazardous to life;
(2) Not more than seventy-two hours, where the defective condition deprives the tenant of the use of a refrigerator, range and oven, or a major plumbing fixture supplied by the landlord; and
(3) Not more than ten days in all other cases. * There is also a section that requires the landlord to pay any bills we accumulate for repairs that they fail to make, which they refuse to do (ie. not paying for the stove repair in full)
I don't want to sound ungrateful. I know I am very lucky to have a roof over my head. But I also think my family deserves a home that isn't constantly in disrepair or that is possibly hazardous (mold, fire risk, structural issues, etc).
I should also note that we've been told in the past that we're the best tenants they have. We always pay rent on time and have never missed a month. We've also been told that we keep our home the cleanest out of all the other tenants and they always make it a point to mention that. So they seemed to like us before we started reminding them of all these repairs we needed. I also want to say that in the notices I've submitted, I've used very polite language and have never mentioned anything about legal action (ie, not threatening them).
These are serious and, in some cases, ongoing concerns we have. As of March of this year, I began keeping record of all of the verbal communication we had with our property management and would submit written requests for repairs when possible. These requests have largely gone ignored as it was reported that the written requests "annoyed" the head of property management. That confuses me though as I've moved around the country quite a bit and my parents have been tenants to almost a dozen different landlords over the years and they've always communicated with their landlords through some kind of writing.
Due to the nature of our living situation being provided by my husband's employer, we are concerned about retaliation against his job. I've done extensive research into landlord tenant law for WA state, but can't find much on protections with employee housing. Are there different laws protecting my husband's job with it being tied so closely to our housing?
Our lease is month to month, so we don't have to worry about breaking it if we find somewhere else to live. We've been actively looking, but being on an island limits our housing opportunities (we cannot afford to move) and we can't find anything else we can afford on our minimum wage incomes.
We cannot afford a lawyer (beyond an initial free consultation I know some offer), my income alone cannot support out family, and would have no where to live if we were to be evicted in retaliation.

My car is an 2019 86 TRD with less than 35k miles. I have been the only owner and I have been on top of the maintenance since I bought my car. However 2 months ago what started as a misfire in cylinder 1 has evolved into a laundry list of error codes that have put my car in limp mode.
I swapped the plug on cylinder 1 and nothing changed. Code was popping for the 02 sensor as well so I changed that. I looked at the fuel injector and it was clogged to hell so I swapped out all of them and now if the problem doesn't persist it goes into limp mode or shuts down completely.
These are the codes this far and what I've done.
P0300 Random/multiple misfire P0301 Cyl 1 misfire (swapped port injector+plug) P0304 Cyl 4 misfire (wasn't an issue before but now it is swapped port injector as well/note: cylinders 2 and 3 aren't showing any issues even after swapping port injectors) P0031 02 heater control circuit low (swapped 02 sensor) P24B9 system EVAP leak detection pump pressure sensor circuit range/performance (no idea what that is or what it means) P0201 (cylinder 1) 1. injector circuit open/2. port injector circuit open (no idea what that means)
Now the car is in limp mode and I'm at a complete loss of what to do next. I'm especially frustrated as well considering the car has so few miles over 4 years of driving.
Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.

My wife bought this red and black "Expert Grill" brand bluetooth dual probe BBQ thermometer.
Online, people complain about the low range of the communication, but otherwise it seems to be a pretty decent little remote sensor. The one little caveat which I think might cause problems for the typical HA user, is that the device powers-down when there isn't a phone connected to it.
I'm not a programmer, and my preferred tinkering domain is more in the physical or electrical areas.
I'm wondering, is this device interesting or useful enough to warrant an integration to Home Assistant?
I followed some guides and obtained the BTSNOOP HCI logs of my phone connecting to, getting some readings, and disconnecting from the thermometer. I also looked inside the device and made notes of what's inside. Will that be enough data for someone to be able to create an integration using the stock firmware?
On the subject of firmware... I have noticed that the SOC of this device is "WLT8258" which seems to be a similar device to the Telink TLSR8258. I found that the PVVX online "Telink OTA Flasher" utility https://pvvx.github.io/ATC_MiThermometeTelinkOTA.html seems to connect to this device and doesn't generate any error which might offer a handy means of uploading a firmware "update" should one exist for it.
The only other chips I cold find inside was the LCD driver chip "TM1628A", and battery charge/power control IC "2SES-01NG-004984" This device uses a rechargeable lipo pack inside which appears to have it's own protection circuit on the pack. This device is recharged using a USB-C port on the top, which doesn't pass any data lines to the board, so no firmware update over USB.
If This could be integrated into HA, I would use it for monitoring my swimming pool solar heater performance, and possibly automating the heater to shut it down if there's not enough solar energy available, if the performance is negative(cooling the water), or if the pool is too hot. All of those situations have been affecting my pool now that the weather here on the prairies is warm enough to go outside and play. I already have HA control over my heating and filter pumps thanks to a pair of Sonoff Mini DIY WiFi remote switches, so the last piece of the puzzle is getting temperature feedback to close the loop.
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Thoughts?