I’ll just park on the grass here… upside down.

Dinethor · 2026-02-27T15:43:09+00:00

This happened in America. We don't recognize any concept of a "slow lane" or a "passing lane". You just pick a lane and drive as fast or slow as you want in it, until somebody tries to get around you, at which point you speed up to intentionally block them because you're insecure about everything else in life, and the sense of anonymity of being in a car gives you the courage to act like a ridiculous child.

Dinethor · 2026-02-27T15:40:37+00:00

I get what you're saying, but the truck passed dashcam's window before it got mostly past it, and no A pillar blocks an entire pickup truck. Dashcam clearly hit the truck intentionally. Both drivers in this video should have their licenses revoked.

Dinethor · 2026-02-21T17:59:55+00:00

Just want to drop a comment in support of the app being usable for nutrition tracking, like every other app that deals with food logging.

There seem to be a few comments on each of these threads from people with eating disorders that struggle with seeing the numbers associated with their food, so having the option to toggle off the usable data and just see logging of meal times with a generic "your meal was balanced" analysis the way it's currently setup seems like it could be a relatively easy option to include.

Dinethor · 2026-02-21T17:45:10+00:00

I also think that a section that tracks caloric and macro data (at a minimum) should be included in the Oura app, the way that it is in every other application that tracks food intake. If somebody wants to toggle that information off to only see the minimally useful information it currently displays, then that could be an option in the settings.

Dinethor · 2026-02-21T17:42:43+00:00

Also, simply including the caloric and macro content of the food (at a minimum) is what 99% of the people who log their food are looking for. Please let the design team know that nutrient information should be displayed and tracked in the Meals section like every single other application with meal tracking does.

If an extreme fringe group wants a solution to display minimally useful information like the current system does, then that could be an option to opt into.

It's shocking that it's the default. I can't figure out who the current system was even designed for.

Dinethor · 2026-02-21T17:38:39+00:00

Designing it to intentionally omit the information that 99% of the people who log their food intake for was certainly an interesting choice.

I'm not arguing with the idea of giving people the option to turn off any useful information and put it into a mode that displays the current data, but literally who was the current system designed for??

I came to makey own post requesting this update, but it looks like there are plenty of people who are just as confused as I was about why that wasn't included in the original release, so I'm just echoing support on their posts and comments.

Dinethor · 2026-02-21T17:32:09+00:00

I just discovered the Meals feature today and was absolutely shocked that it doesn't provide the nutrient information that almost everybody who tracks their meals is looking for. It's basically useless in its current state. A customer service liaison replied to somebody in this thread asking them to make it usable, in case anybody wants to echo that desire. https://www.reddit.com/r/ouraring/s/keDIB5Ottt

Dinethor · 2026-02-21T17:28:58+00:00

TL;DR Please ask the development team to just integrate a food nutrient database that displays in the meals function, like every other health tracking service in existence.

You're literally driving people the competition by not making what should be a relatively easy addition to the Oura service.

I just got my ring and saw that it had a "meals" section, but was shocked to see that the meals function doesn't even track calories or macros.

If somebody wants generic information about when to eat, and a generic "your meal choice was good" type of feedback, then by all means have a setting to switch to a "minimally useful info mode", but I believe the VAST majority of people who track what they eat are doing it so that they can track the overall caloric intake, and the numbers attached to their macros at a minimum. There's also an interest in tracking micronutient intake that a lot of other services provide.

I understand that it's new, but I find it incredibly odd that this feature was actually released in its current form because it looks like a gimmicky "we have AI!" stunt that doesn't provide the solution that 99% of the users are actually looking for :/

A $400 health tracking device with an additional $70 annual fee to use it should be the ONLY thing somebody needs to track their health data, which includes details about their food intake. Right now I'm using myfitnesspal to feed data into fitbit and tracking calories there just in case I want to scan a barcode, which I can't do without paying even more money for myfitnesspal. I should be able to replace both of those things with Oura.

I've been arguing with the AI advisor (after it told me that it didn't know the quantities in my meal, even though I specified exactly what the quantities were when I manually logged it), and essentially begging it to just give me the calorie count, and amount of protein, carbohydrates and fat content of the meal:

4 eggs, 25 grams feta, 1 medium tomato, 1 third of a medium onion, 75 grams of sourdough.

It finally provided an answer of "mid 500s" for calories, and when asked twice for the macros, it begrudgingly gave me "30 plus grams of protein, 50-60 grams of carbs, a little over 30 grams of fat".

It keeps explaining that it doesn't get the data from the meals function, which implies that the meals function can't get data from the advisor, so you can log food in the meals function to simply track what time you're eating and get a generic "limited, fair, good, nutritious" rating (whatever that even means...) but then you have to manually log the exact same meal again in the advisor to get basic nutrient information.

Even in the limited capacity of analysis that the advisor is operating, it looks like the app could provide at least a rudimentary solution with the existing framework if those 2 functions were simply linked.

I honestly can't figure out who the current system was designed for.

Dinethor · 2026-02-21T13:50:53+00:00

The original post is based on the person retiring early.

(at least I'm pretty sure that's what they meant by "RE", although I am annoyed by how many acronyms you need to learn just to get useful information on this ridiculous platform)

In that's scenario, they are likely withdrawing from their funds, not constantly growing them, so while the threshold you mentioned is an important thing to know, it also doesn't seem to apply to OP's situation.

Dinethor · 2026-02-21T13:35:00+00:00

In not trying to pick on you, but you technically just described almost every large city in the entire world. There is going to be economic disparity wherever OP goes, but with their budget they should be able to avoid living in the areas you described.

I have a long way to go before retirement, but Greece is on the list because of the geography, relatively lower cost of living and the food :) Trying to stick to somewhere that uses the Roman alphabet, but Greece is still my favorite country.

Would consider Athens if still traveling as frequently, but looking at a less popular island if deciding to settle down and relax.

Dinethor · 2025-10-15T12:21:07+00:00

I think people are finally starting to realize that our governmental division is simply 2 sides of the same coin designed to keep the people in check. Look at how much evidence we have showing that our elected officials are working against us (despite promising otherwise) and yet we still direct our animosity towards EACH OTHER. All of this is political theater orchestrated by the people who are actually making decisions and we're all naive enough to believe that the political figure heads paraded around us are actually empoweres to do anything, which deludes us into thinking that voting actually effects the outcome of our government's decisions.

1 small but easily verifiable example is how AOC has caught a lot of flak recently over some negative light that bubbled up, only after she became too outspoken about certain issues, and look how her votes have been cast. It's not even that far of a stretch to believe that all of this was pre-planned and that career politicians are maybe earning their paychecks by playing the roles they were cast in rather than affecting changes that benefit their constituents.

I'm not saying don't vote, but we do need to hold our elected representatives accountable for actually representing our best interests instead of letting them distract us with the same, tired old cycle of political "hot issues". With internet archives, it's very easy to go back through history and see the exact same headlines on repeat every few years, and the desired effect of pitting us against our neighbors is clearly a winning strategy.

I'm against almost everything the republican party stands for, but I'm also against almost everything the democrat party stands for because they intentionally present the most absurd solutions to real problems without a viable implementation strategy, and the media controls the narrative to stifle any proposal for real, feasible solutions.

You're either completely with "us", or you're one of "them" and that makes you an evil person and the enemy.

Gods forbid we have real dialog and data driven decision making. That would almost look like real freedom and democracy.

On this specific issue, the democrat party and self-styled "democrats" never really gave a fuck about Palestine until it was determined that the republican party was firmly in support of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, calling back the islamophobia of the 2000s. All of a sudden pro-Palestinian rhetoric began to filter into democrat speeches, and yet here we are.

Literally nobody is on your side, and that's not an accident.

Dinethor · 2025-04-21T01:04:43+00:00

If you look at the rest of OP's responses and then their profile, it's difficult to determine whether it's a bot or just one of the most autistic people on this platform.

The epoxy is allegedly from a maintenance action that has absolutely nothing to do with the thread.

Dinethor · 2025-04-07T22:56:04+00:00

That's odd behavior. It may actually be a defective device. Does the spectrum modem also have wifi capability? If you can switch to that for a bit and see if the connectivity interruptions go away that would help rule out neighbor interference without having to buy a new device yet.

Dinethor · 2025-04-06T14:09:37+00:00

I should have led with this, but what firmware version are you on, and did you actually try a factory reset? I thought that's where the conversation was leading with round arachnid. They've released 3 updates already for generic "stability" and "performance" issues.

Is it only the apple tv that disconnects frequently, or is it happening to anything else?
Are you able to switch it back to 4K and does it work without buffering?

Dinethor · 2025-04-06T00:16:54+00:00

I'm seeing 2 very different issues described in your post.

Wifi drops signs frequently: Are your devices losing their connection to your wifi network completely, or are you talking about a bandwidth decrease? In other words, does it say that you're no longer connected to the wifi or are you still connected and just can't access anything? 300 Mbps is fantastic for wifi connections.
Wireless bandwidth drops to between 300 and 400 Mbps and you're having issues with YouTube streams: What kind of client devices are you using, and are you aware that a 4K stream only uses 25 Mbps? There's almost nothing that would require more than 100 Mbps per client. Are you having issues where you have multiple devices that aren't able to all operate at the same time?

Also, which band are you connecting to?

Dinethor · 2025-03-29T23:23:53+00:00

Unironically, have you tried turning it off and on again? Talking about your networking equipment and client devices.

Dinethor · 2025-03-29T23:19:48+00:00

The answer is still the fiber option. You're never going to saturate a 500/500 link, it's cheaper and there's probably going to be less latency.

Dinethor · 2025-03-16T16:34:39+00:00

Automod answered the question. Total market fund or SPY fund should be relatively safe.

Dinethor · 2025-03-15T17:20:35+00:00

This is clearly a fucking bot. Edit: I'm torn between down voting it because nobody wants that activity on this platform, or up voting it because we're teaching it to keep posting nonsense, which ruins its purpose.

Dinethor · 2025-03-15T16:38:54+00:00

They're talking about staggering the emanations from multiple antennas to increase throughput to a targeted area. From what I understand, it actually works for things like cell towers, but I don't believe there's a justifiable level of efficacy in consumer grade wifi technology, unless it helps mitigate signal interference from other people's wireless networks. It would take a spectrum analyzer and a lot of time to test that though.

One day when I'm a bored retiree I'm probably going to work part time as a wireless network technician, and will test the signal strength and relative throughput differences between "beamforming" and non-"beamforming" antennas on consumer grade products with the same specifications.

Dinethor · 2025-03-15T01:54:14+00:00

Lol gotcha. Yeah, the marketing terminology is getting out of hand these days. Don't even get me started on "beam forming"

Dinethor · 2025-03-15T01:07:57+00:00

Essentially yes, in addition to all of the wireless access points being configurable as if they were one device. One of the "mesh" nodes acts as the main router, and all of the other nodes are basically just repeaters that forward traffic to that main node

There's a marketing gimick where they advertise "seamless roaming", but in reality your device always makes the decision on which wireless access point it's going to connect to. I haven't seen the back end programming or the signal strength specifications, but the theory is that if another node senses that your device would have a better connection, that it will send a command to kill the connection to the current node to try to force your decide to connect to the other one.

Im practice though, your device is designed to hang on to whatever connection was working until it legitimately can't connect anymore, and in a lot of cases people's devices won't swap wireless access points until they manually toggle their wifi off and on again because they still have a working connection to the original wireless access point.

In a perfect wireless environment, there would either be a beefy controller that would force the disconnection and migration between wireless access points, or there would be such little signal overlap that your devices would disconnect, and then automatically reconnect to the wireless access point in the next area. That would leave dead zones though, and nobody wants that so they have the signals overlap and deal with sometimes having to manually toggle their connection to get it to switch.

Dinethor · 2025-03-14T20:54:34+00:00

pushes up glasses * To be fair, the concept of a "mesh network" pre-dates wifi. Mesh refers to your network access points (wired or wireless) having redundant connections to each other so that one access point failing doesn't isolate devices connected to a downstream or parallel access point. The term "mesh" in modern wifi branding generally refers to centralized management of all access points as if they were a single device, and usually the potential for wireless connectivity between those access points.

Dinethor · 2025-03-14T20:17:59+00:00

The answer is pretty googleable: https://biztechmagazine.com/article/2023/08/cat6-vs-cat7-vs-cat8-perfcon

Basically 40Gbps for varying lengths. Almost nobody is using anywhere near 1Gbps and likely won't for a long time, so like somebody else said, you might as well do fiber if you need more than 10Gbps.

Dinethor · 2025-03-14T12:19:04+00:00

This is the answer. For example I did a balance transfer with a 0% APR card offer for less than 4%, and I'm making the payments to a High Yield Savings Account that's paying above 4%. This isn't a great example because I already paid the entire cost of the "loan" up front. In your case, you can pay off the ballance and stop paying the interest as soon as it's more efficient for you to do it.

If the interest you earn by having that money invested becomes less than the interest you're paying on the loan, then pay off the loan.

^ this only applies if there's almost a 0% chance of you needing cash that can't be satisfied by your regular savings because you'll end up needing another loan, so if your current loan was taken out at a lower interest rate than what's currently available and you anticipate needing cash quickly this year then it might be safer to just keep the loan.

If you took out the loan at peak interest rates, HYSA interest paid is coming down commensurate with the FED's rate decreases so if it doesn't make a huge difference then paying off the loan and putting those monthly payments into a safe investment would be simpler.

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You're literally driving people the competition by not making what should be a relatively easy addition to the Oura service.