u/MrNerd82

Update: in a hilarious twist of irony - not even 12 hours after making this post, the USPS tracking updated and saying a scheduled delivery of (today) lol. Should be enjoying the new remote here in about 8 hours :)

So I got the shipping notification for my u3+free base about a week ago. USPS Tracking number, cool!

I know it usually takes 24 hours or more for tracking info to populate once the package stars moving. Problem is, it's been almost a whole week and it's simply showing "Shipping label created" usps waiting on package.

So did they create a label and are just waiting for it to arrive from China or something? Or did they drop it behind a bin and just forgot about it?

Was originally going to get a Beelink Ser5 with the 7735HS for ~500 via amazon but did some comparison shopping and found out there's some pretty awesome deals on minisforum direct sales site.

got a UM870M barebones for $225 shipped. Yes, I'll have to add ssd and ram, but I have those laying around the house collecting dust. Plus seems the 8745H chip + 780M onboard graphics are a pretty nice upgrade from what I was originally going to get.

Funny enough when I went through with the purchase on their site it automatically and randomly added a discount code (LIMITED10) for another 25 bucks off what I was going to spend.

Got shipping confirmation 24 hours later and excited for it to arrive :)

So I have quite the commute - 75 miles round trip, all mapped highways in a large metroplex. Found out OnStar is offering 1 year of SuperCruise and can use code to get 80% off bringing the 1 year price to 85-ish dollars for the year.

It's a nice feature I suppose but it's not THAT useful unless I'm taking a twice a year 500 mile road trip in rural texas. After reading confirmation of the same things I've experienced with OnStar (shady billing practices, terrible customer support, poor quality product) I'm keeping my money. Over the 60k miles I've put on my Bolt EUV I find that supercruise in any sort of populated area is a huge liability on your part. Other negatives are it's slow to react in stop and go traffic, and I have to tap the gas pedal each and every time the car stops, to tell it to resume? Why not just drive myself at that point.

I genuinely hope someone from GM/OnStar reads this and understands: even when you are practically giving it away for free, people still don't want it. That's how bad it is.

Not to mention the vastly reduced mapped road amount because I drive a Bolt EUV, the 600k mapped miles is a straight up lie depending on what car you have. Bonus: all the driving data they stole and sold to insurance companies behind my back, they got paid selling my data, didn't pay me, and tried to keep it a secret.