Actually those trackers are still pretty useful for most daily stuff. The driving thing is a known glitch but it's easy to fix by just deleting that part of the data. You just have to know how to work around its limits.

Wait you almost took a 20% pay cut? That's a huge drop! I get being nervous to ask for more money but that's your whole rent or car payment gone. You have to at least try to match what you make now, they should want to pay for your experience. Seriously glad you didn't just say yes right away.

My 2002 can still works fine, and @the_william just needs to mix smaller batches.

Yeah, that "single bad part breaking a whole machine" feeling is the worst. I get what @lily_black44 is saying about surprises, but a knot launching wood into the next yard is pure chaos, not a happy accident. It's just a total project stop.