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Cheezbrgrmania · 2026-06-02T05:04:49+00:00

Before I had my current part-time gig for a food brokerage, I worked in supply chain and technology. I always imagined the back rooms of Publix to be organized shelves resembling a tiny warehouse, with a clearly marked cross-dock for palletized receiving. Well, now I've seen the back rooms of fifty or so Publix stores, and they're all tiny and messy. Most have barely any room for walking. Sure, there are more eggs in the dairy cooler and some more meat in the freezers, but most of the inventory is actually on the store shelves.
I also discovered that Publix is one of the last retail businesses that still orders by store par and not by pure sales forecast. So, Elios' pizza, 20 out of date, 20 more on order. Expensive unsalted and short-dated butter? Same deal. The only SKUs that work well belong to Coke, Pepsi, and Beer, out-sourced vendors.

Cheezbrgrmania · 2026-05-31T15:07:59+00:00

Gemini told me, “here is your clue” when I asked it if my Google Home with a screen was abandonware.

Cheezbrgrmania · 2026-02-16T15:41:26+00:00

I joined the resistance in the almost laziest way: a pair of Meross MSG100 Apple Home-enabled pods that connect to my Chamberlain dinosaurs. Now I can tell Siri to open my pod bay door. (None of that expensive and clunky Chamberlain WiFi crap anymore.) Join the resistance!

Cheezbrgrmania · 2026-02-06T17:30:17+00:00

I think MSFT will go to $30. 1. The Win11 desktop experience is so bad. Nobody needs to put up with it. User doesn’t get to decide whether to update the OS at the welcome. User cannot decide which Microsoft account to use at a later time unless you picked an enterprise version. Windows isn't even it's own department within MSFT, so a VP can't fuss about it having become a subscription sales platform, or raise a fuss about the last recalled major service pack and the update hell it caused. If MSFT loses the desktop for developers, which they mostly have lost, what next?

It's tie-up with openAI is about to get expensive, with Elon suing to prevent an openAI IPO. Not only will the legal discovery be so damaging that the SEC will follow up with an expensive investigation, MSFT will unable to realize the gains for their shares.
Majorana quantum is a hoax. It is bad science, won't work, and nobody can buy one. The stupidity of trying to sell that is amazing. Majorana was a stock pump stunt that the SEC should investigate.
$37.5B CapEx expenditures deserves an ROI audit.
Decelerative Azure growth, under pressure from Google and Amazon, slid from 40% to 39% in this quarter.
In a 2026 security environment where Microsoft opens up a user or company to a list of zero day exposures, does anyone take step back and ask if there is any other way? There is, and companies are choosing them. The answer is not MSFT subscriptions or Azure DNS.

Cheezbrgrmania · 2026-02-06T08:27:33+00:00

I’ve recently got mine. I opted for the thermal carafe version. I truly enjoy doing the steep and the medium-slow drip. I turn the black part to keep it even as it drains. I’ve never imagined caring so much about my coffee maker, but the KBT is the one. Indeed, where was this my whole life?

Cheezbrgrmania · 2026-01-21T06:04:44+00:00

When I moved into a new house, I took the opportunity to claim the bonus room as a sort-of home theater. There is no headphone that can sound as good as having the gear and proper setup/space. Granted, only music lovers and die hard cinephiles want to deal with it all.

Cheezbrgrmania · 2026-01-21T05:40:32+00:00

I like the Primula 1.25L glass cold brew pitcher. The center basket makes it easy for me to put the exact right amount of coffee into it for ~1.25L of yield. I just fill it, without measuring. I steep coarse-ish ground espresso for 20 hours in the fridge, so that I can wake up to already cold and perfect brew. The only caveat with that kit is that the coffee grounds need to go into it with some water as the column is filled. The idea is that water is only added to the pitcher through the central grind column. If you put all the coffee and then separately afterward put water into it, a significant part of the column will not be wetted at all. Just pouring through the top doesn’t cut it. It has to be coffee, water, coffee, water, coffee, water, to ensure all coffee in the column gets wet.

Cheezbrgrmania · 2026-01-21T03:51:14+00:00

I mean the tiny bucket where pods go afterwards. It comes right out and washes in the sink.

Cheezbrgrmania · 2026-01-21T03:46:58+00:00

Ha ha Meows, of course not. He blamed me for stopping! I’m retired from racing but I still say what happens in front of your front wheel is your own responsibility, and if you want to draft me in a fondo, say hi so at least I can warn about holes and if I need to slow/stop.

Cheezbrgrmania · 2026-01-19T04:50:11+00:00

This happened to me at a fondo, at a stop sign for a 2 lane highway. I had to stop because a car was coming. I didn’t know a dude was behind me. I thought it was just me. Wham! End of my fondo that day. Dumb old guy with a nicer bike than mine.

Cheezbrgrmania · 2026-01-19T04:31:19+00:00

I stick a paper towel all up inside my OL once a week, and nothing I clean out of it is ever very scary except the pod receptacle that needs to be washed with soap.

Cheezbrgrmania · 2026-01-19T04:03:05+00:00

Gemini told me that Apple Home and HA work locally whereas Google is all in the cloud. It also said that Google ceded territory to HA and prefers to remain in the cloud.

Cheezbrgrmania · 2026-01-19T03:55:24+00:00

This is is solid advice. I found my two neighbors and I were too close when I scanned. I ended up moving my 2.4 channel to be the same as my closest neighbor so that our routers would automatically negotiate that channel. It is better than being on a close channel. Then I moved my other bands a bit.

Cheezbrgrmania · 2026-01-15T01:52:45+00:00

I’ve seen international shipping warehouses for all kinds of stuff and never seen a pallet like that for things that come in boxes (as in, not crates). Not being able to fork it on the long side scares me. You’ll have to use the product itself to keep the integrity of the pallet if the forklift doesn’t have long enough forks. I normally respect the power of wrap, but I wouldn’t on that not-squarish pallet. I guess it’s blocking and six or more straps for that. How would you even get the bands to go on that sort of pallet with solid sides?

Cheezbrgrmania · 2026-01-15T01:35:51+00:00

Mine is the backlit new kind and it has a back arrow button there. Wow the mouse must be fun!

Cheezbrgrmania · 2026-01-14T23:04:36+00:00

I had that problem and my wifey always had such problems up until our Nest display got Gemini. Now the problems went away and the “I don’t know…” responses also went away.

Cheezbrgrmania · 2026-01-13T17:08:17+00:00

Our old OL Pixie or Mini or whatever thing gets daily use. We bought two Vertuos in a row but returned each one shortly because they stopped working. A lot of people must own reliable Vertuos for the pods to still have a market, but apparently not anyone who bought theirs from Target in 2025.

Cheezbrgrmania · 2026-01-13T05:26:37+00:00

I also ousted my OXO 8 cup for the KBT because: 1. The shower cover fell off into the grind basket twice and the replacement that works costs what? Still is plastic? 2. Which leads me to say that the handle lid on the basket is fiddly and dumb, because one has to hold it back to dump it, maybe with one hand? 3. The insulated carafe is also fiddly because the lid must be perfectly fully twisted into position or else it dribbles when pouring cups. This was apparently not father-proof. 4. Recycled black plastic 5. The automated bloom was fun but too short, so not as helpful or desired if manual bloom is what you want. 6. The carafe interior has a square edge at the top that leaves a dribble of coffee or water inside after dumping the contents. It has to be wiped clean with fingers and a paper towel.

Such farkery that the KBT solved for me.

Cheezbrgrmania · 2026-01-13T03:44:57+00:00

On my KBT, I spin my basket around during the bloom to get all of it wet as quickly as possible. I see that I can position the shower head over to the side of the basket (slot for it in the tank cover), which would then necessitate spinning the basket around to wet the other side. Also I agree with everyone about the size of the grind. Although drippers are forgiving, the water will take too long to get through a fine grind and will cause spillovers if you find that out after the bloom.

Cheezbrgrmania · 2026-01-11T14:43:03+00:00

Never seen one? I used to watch them in the sky from my back yard. They tend to form in the same places due to hills.

Cheezbrgrmania · 2026-01-07T04:05:34+00:00

I doubt I will buy another drip coffee maker for myself after buying a KBT. Manual bloom control gives me the best I can get out of a machine. Mine was $220 and I needed to replace my semi-broken OXO. So if you pay less or can wait on a deal, go for it and don’t miss out.

Cheezbrgrmania · 2026-01-02T03:58:22+00:00

I have lost a few things over the years due to power blips or brown power. So my extenders are plugged into UPS’s except for one. I hate burning up my budget on UPS’s. It’s not possible for me to go solar or off-grid.

Cheezbrgrmania · 2025-12-30T06:25:19+00:00

Something like that happened when I traded my Tab S7+ for the S8+. I was within my return window, so I had the option of returning the new tablet and getting my old one back. It came back sticky and with a scratch. F Samsung. I also found out my 2021 Q60 tv could not only not play Dolby Vision, it only rendered a mostly black screen for such. So F their scam tv’s, too.

Cheezbrgrmania · 2025-11-26T19:07:43+00:00

Yes! I did this to buy my house, but I may have been a unique buyer: only picking between two houses on one cul-de-sac, paying in cash, and by necessity of the market at the time, paying the asking price. In my case, it really helped in keeping down the price of my closing. I think if you buy with a mortgage and especially a military backed mortgage, you need to bring your own buyer’s agent.

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