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I realize it isn't the best time to buy a used Prius, but if one were looking to buy a Plugin-Hybrid what would you recommend as search terms, or say in general about buying a used Prius PHEV.

Value, price and availability will be the deciding factors.

I don't need to be sold on owning a Prius. I have two and will still be using them -- a 2010 with about 320k and a 2014 getting close to 200k -- I just need another car and will soon be getting some wiring for a new septic (Florida), so it would be a good time to add a new or dedicated outlet.

A plugin/hybrid would also be the next step in a Prius journey.

As some might recognize, I subscribe to the sub and am fairly active. I have read a lot of stuff over the years, but because I am now in the market, it would be great to have some in one place.

Any recommendations, advice or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Because I didn't know until someone told me, I wanted to let everyone know that the ballots for Launch CU members to vote on the proposed sale to Suncoast may have gone to your junk mail folder. I am voting against it and urge others to fish it out and do the same. (I have accounts with big banks to do big bank things. I have always had an account at local credit unions to benefit my local community.)

Mine arrived on 7/2 and came from cuballot[.]com, not a regular Launch account.

A new business is being constructed next to Chipotle on SR520. Anyone know what it is gonna be?

I have become pretty adept at using Microsoft's CoPilot, but for a current project, there are things I would like it to do, but it can't. Gemini can because (according to CoPilot), it has "has live web‑fetching enabled".

I'm not opposed to paying for Gemini, if it would reliably work, but I'm having issues with it hanging or quitting.

Often when it quits, I get a "Problem with Gemini - I'm having a hard time fulfilling your request. Can I help you with something else instead?" message. I've tried several times to ask it something simple like the color of the sun in the same chat after I get the error message -- I've even asked hours later -- but it just refreshes and puts my question back into the prompt box and gives me a popup that says "something went wrong (13)".

This occurs after it had successfully made several passes producing acceptable result -- Gemini suggested that instead of trying to query 300 entries, I divide them into blocks -- the error occurs after it had successfully processed a few blocks, then it just quits.

On another aspect of this project, I have encountered the token shortage message that gives me a time to come back to do more. This is different. The thing just quits and can't even tell me the color of the sun.

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Somewhat similar...

I like the Notebook concept, but something I also find difficult is that within a Notebook, if I give Gemini a straightforward task -- do X with the following -- it will give bad results or will just quit without doing anything because (according to when I ask about it in a new chat in the same notebook) it wants to apply "the logic" of something I did in a previous task. I'm not asking it to apply logic or reference anything else. I just wanted it to do X.

If anyone has any suggestions, I'm interested, but I may be just venting. I will say though, I really don't think I'll pay for access until I can get it to reliably complete my tasks.

The fact that my main computer is still running Windows 10 might have something to do with it and for what it's worth, I'm a daily user of the version that comes with 365 and don't pay extra for Pro.

With that said, for months the app shortcut has been an easy click from my Taskbar, but the other day it disappeared. Since then, multiple times I have put it back, but it keeps disappearing. Sometimes it does it in minutes and sometimes it stays until I use it, but for maybe a week, the taskbar shortcut icon disappears.

Is this happening to anyone else? Any thoughts? It's a real PIA.

Thanks