Drew Dowdell

This is really annoying. I noticed yesterday that traffic on the site was exponentially high. Turns out we were getting crawled by apparently all of China. I had to use Cloudfare to block the entire country because there was no pattern of repeats in the IP addresses. You can see where I installed the rule. That's 80k hits in about 18 hours. Before discovering this, we were getting 500k hits per day, super high for this site. There are still some getting through from Hong Kong, but not nearly the same volume. Def something going on as the other countries surrounding China are also hitting.

It's probably a bit late, but there is a $0.99 plug-in on the Windows Store from Microsoft that lets your computer read HEIC files and do any conversions locally on your computer. I bought it a few years back to avoid that kind of hassle. Once you have that, I have used Irfanview for 25 years to do batch photo conversions and with the Windows plug-in, should be able to convert HEIC files to jpeg for you.

Sure has been a while. We're about to head into our 25th year!

They may be functional, but they still look silly. The ones on the one @G. David Felt posted look better.

I almost posted that first, but we only got the cross country here unless you special ordered one

yeah, but I could totally get into one of those as a wagon. (minus the silly wing and hood scoops)

Call me old fashioned, but as much as I like two-tone exteriors, I don't like all those colors and stripes. Looks like a basketball shoe.

OMG this! Everyone is doing it now. Tesla too. It's like 1986 Mercury Sable all over again.

By far, the sexiest wagon since the CTS-V Wagon.

Purely on appearances... it's the nicest Kia Soul you can buy.

Trying an AI Genesis G60 again with the link @G. David Felt provided. I like this interior a lot more, I'm not sure about the look from the front. Here's the ones from the other thread

Exterior was Gemini Nano Banana 2, but then it hallucinated on the third picture and used up my free tokens. ChatGPT did the interior.

I think that interior is a little too close to the original HI6, but it's a step in the right direction

Genesis needs to build a G60 sedan based on the Ioniq 6. I really like everything about the Ioniq 6 except its rather spartan interior.

The new Solterra is finally worthy, as is the Trailseeker.

I really like this! It would be on my shopping list if it was out now.

yeah, matte paint is a big wealth flex. I've never thought it looked like anything more than primer.

I've spent more time in the Supra than the Z4, but they are fantastic driving vehicles. The Supra is faster than the 86 obviously, but in both cases, they are like slipping on a perfect fitting running shoe that feels like part of your body more than a vehicle.

I have always liked these, but they are impossible for me to get in and out of.

Great range, hate the face though. Still too jellybean

While him being good looking is a factor, this feels like a French Revolution type thing. Health Insurance companies are largely evil and people know it. They literally continued the meeting after the CEO got shot, that's how heartless they are.

That just means that it needs to be trained on what you're writing on. The more you use it, the better is gets (usually). I did quit grammarly because it was making changes I didn't like, but Microsoft's grammar checker seems to do pretty well now that it knows me.

I'm not sure why I want it deleted yet.

Why is it always a Nissan Altima with a missing hubcap, smashed mirror, and bumper cover flapping in the wind who needs to go 20 mph over prevailing traffic? What are you late for besides your car payment?

Yeah, can’t really argue against the technology. I think Porsche is stuck in a hard place with their styling. There’s not a lot they can do style wise without alienating their traditional buyers. If they do like what Jaguar did with the last XJ when they dropped the traditional styling, they’d piss everyone off.