Chill. Voyager can accidentally downvote if you try to swipe back and miss the edge of your screen.

Me too

Yeah, coming down with a cold and decided to call it quits with the title. Feel free to carry on!

lol, love it

lol, fantastic!!

Just in case anyone else needs more convincing.

Hear me out: Cats.

Maybe

Not sure that I would eat what he cooks, but I approve of the hat. 11/10, would pet.

Would pet

Bitty!

I’ve been on it for about a year. No real side effects to speak of. Helps a ton.

What is your uncle’s name?

I get a few of these every week. I used to just report and block, but lately I’ve been sending them messages that the delivery is important and that I’ll pay to have it expedited if they request money from me at <insert link to shock websites like meatspin or goatse>.

Their messages are probably automated without anyone monitoring it, and I haven’t gotten a response yet, but I’d like to think that a few of them have been tricked into staring at a photo of some dude’s giant asshole.

I’m waiting for the price on used i5s to drop a bit before I trade my car in for one. Since they’re only a year old, they’re still super pricy. i4 is a bit small for me if I have people in the back.

The 530e is pretty perfect for me in the meantime. Only 20 mile range on full electric, but that works pretty perfectly for me since I can charge at home and at work. On longer trips I can still burn dinosaurs, but I only fill the tank up a few times per year. I think I’ve put gas in it 6 times this year, and that includes a couple ~3 hour trips.

I’ve thought about Tesla, but there’s so much I don’t like about them.

Totally fair. I have no allegiance to BMW, just relaying the experience with my car. I bought it 2 years old and the original owner purchased about every possible option for it, so my experience is probably different than most. I also haven’t had to pay to use the app, but again that could’ve been something the original owner outright bought.

I hadn’t heard about the HEPA/ionization thing. That’s super weird! It must depend on the model of car, since I don’t believe mine has it. If they are building that hardware in and not using it, it must cost them a fortune.

Overall, I’ve been super happy with the car, and the app lets me remote start or turn on heating or cooling. It also ties in with Home Assistant for automation and lets me do things like have it automatically heat or cool itself when it’s plugged in at work before lunch or lock itself when plugging in to charge at work so I don’t forget.

That said, BMW could totally remove or charge for access to the API used for Home Assistant and I’d be in the same boat as the Tesla folks. Here’s to hoping they don’t! 🤞

Haha, perfect

I think they are very mistaken about the options requiring a subscription and their price. Most of the options you could get a subscription for also are available as a one time purchase… the same way they were in the past. Heating and air conditioning aren’t among those options, they come standard in every car.

BMW did drop the subscription for heated seats after backlash. That one was stupid. The other options I’m a little torn on. There are costs associated with developing the software used for most of the options like driving assistance. I have no problem paying for that development, and the subscription lets me try it for a month to see if it’s worth it. As long as there is the ability to outright buy the option instead of locking into a perpetual subscription I’m chill with it. I also hope that once unlocked, the option is still available when resold. This part I’m not so sure about, but mine seemed to maintain the options purchased by the original owner.

It’s not a super recent article, but a list of options and pricing is available at the bottom of this page: https://www.kbb.com/car-news/bmw-quietly-launches-in-car-subscriptions-in-u-s/

Same