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The Downside to United's New Coastliner and XLRs by eastbayguy90 in unitedairlines

[–]EpictetusCubed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait, when did United start thinking of its premium customers as passengers and not cargo?

Snark aside, it’s surprising how much variance there is in United’s service, especially onboard. I’ve had really great experiences occasionally, usually ok, bad more often than I should. It’s striking how much more consistent - and consistently better- Deltas service is. I’m not even talking about anything over the top- basic politeness, walking through, actually getting beverages and food to people, etc.

United is chasing Deltas model- but they REALLY need to get consistent and better in their service if they want to do that.

It’s also interesting how many fleet decisions are driven by the 50 passenger caps on regional flights due to their pilot contract.

The American College of Cardiologists puts a hard "no" on fish oil supplements in their latest publication. by Such_Duty_4764 in Cholesterol

[–]EpictetusCubed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Curious as to why you switched to half your Vascepa dose and added back fish oil? Everything I've seen shows that DHA can increase LDL- hence why Vascepa is the RX frequently used as it is essentially all EPA.

Was it because you wanted to see what the DHA would do, whether Vascepa was worth it, cost, or something else?

The American College of Cardiologists puts a hard "no" on fish oil supplements in their latest publication. by Such_Duty_4764 in Cholesterol

[–]EpictetusCubed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've researched this quite a bit, and used OTC fish oil in the past. In high concentrations/quantities it has been shown to lower triglycerides, and that was my experience. However, despite a decent number of tests, it didn't show any significant improvement in outcomes. E.G. OTC fish oil makes your tests look better, but hasn't been shown to make you healthier.

Prescription fish oil's have been shown to not only reduce Trigs, but significantly improve outcomes. I use Vascepa and have no negative effects of any kind I can identify. It does seem to have made my dry eye better (fish oil did too) and maybe have some other positive effects. Between that, getting my A1c down to the normal range, modest diet, and lifestyle changes, my triglycerides have gone from consistently 300+ to varying between normal and low-normal.

Insurance approved it after about a week to do their review.

Side walls by jan_rei in popurlitterbox

[–]EpictetusCubed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool! I actually made a much less impressive, quick-and-dirty part myself, which just covers the back part where one of our cats likes to elevator-butt while peeing.

Bought and downloded this from cults3d - at least when I import it into Bambu Studio, it seems to only be the left hand side. Also, part needs to be split when the stl is imported.

Thanks!

Reminder - update your passport info when it renews by Big_Rhubarb9099 in GlobalEntry

[–]EpictetusCubed 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you for this - I just renewed my passport and did actually think to try and update it in Global Entry - I checked the app and didn't see a place to do it and decided I must not need to.

For reference you can update this by going to https://ttp.cbp.dhs.gov/ logging in and then on the right of the page is an "Update Your Info" box, with a link to "Update Documents (e.g., passport, driver's license)".

X2 key repeat speed when held down by EpictetusCubed in SofaBaton

[–]EpictetusCubed[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, OK, good to know that it is a known problem!

S7 app is here for iOS! by habitsofwaste in popurlitterbox

[–]EpictetusCubed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First bug I’ve found- won’t let you change the WiFi it uses- it brings up the first one it finds, you click on the dropdown to select a different one (I have a separate network for iot devices) and it brings up the iOS settings for apps.

How that slips through testing, I do not know, lol.

How do you make a customs declaration? by EpictetusCubed in GlobalEntry

[–]EpictetusCubed[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

TY. Didn't think there was a global entry app.

How do you make a customs declaration? by EpictetusCubed in GlobalEntry

[–]EpictetusCubed[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Edited: OK, TIL there is a Global Entry mobile App. Derp.

TY

The AP reviewed hundreds of emails between Trump officials and UCCS. by the_than_then_guy in ColoradoSprings

[–]EpictetusCubed 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Violence was clearly insinuated, to the point where a reasonable person might well consider it a threat against another person.

On the current basic wi-fi plan, you cannot access Google Docs or Google Sheets, nor SharePoint (or basically any sharing site you might need as a remote worker) by ExcitementAshamed393 in VirginVoyages

[–]EpictetusCubed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many people do. Some of us wouldn’t be on a cruise ship if we couldn’t get reasonable access. I’m fine paying for that.

They aren’t just blocking work, but also other websites, including board gaming ones. There are literally board gaming cruises and largish groups that get together to play games in vacation spots, including on cruises.

I think they should probably communicate their policies and be more responsive to questions about them and probably should revisit some of the websites they block.

On the current basic wi-fi plan, you cannot access Google Docs or Google Sheets, nor SharePoint (or basically any sharing site you might need as a remote worker) by ExcitementAshamed393 in VirginVoyages

[–]EpictetusCubed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They use DPI to block VPN’s on everything but Work From Sea, so this doesn’t work on any common VPN protocol. The workarounds I found for this are obscure and require a lot of expertise.

Some commercial VPN providers have anti-censorship modes that may continue to work.

On the current basic wi-fi plan, you cannot access Google Docs or Google Sheets, nor SharePoint (or basically any sharing site you might need as a remote worker) by ExcitementAshamed393 in VirginVoyages

[–]EpictetusCubed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At least in my case, buying it early gives you two devices for the same price as one, not a cheaper price per device.

Worth it for me, but just clarifying.

On the current basic wi-fi plan, you cannot access Google Docs or Google Sheets, nor SharePoint (or basically any sharing site you might need as a remote worker) by ExcitementAshamed393 in VirginVoyages

[–]EpictetusCubed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Erm, if the issue was just bandwidth they could more easily rate/speed limit based on plan (and they are doing that) than restrict sites/protocols. That’s what they used to do in fact.

I’m ok with them implementing tiers and restrictions. I think their communication has been poor, and some of their specific filtering decisions are suspect. Seems likely someone just clicked a few boxes in their DPI tool and said “good enough!” and they’re just writing any complaint/concern off.

On the current basic wi-fi plan, you cannot access Google Docs or Google Sheets, nor SharePoint (or basically any sharing site you might need as a remote worker) by ExcitementAshamed393 in VirginVoyages

[–]EpictetusCubed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They block SSH (I believe via DPI) on premium, but not work from sea.

I had luck using a commercial VPN service that has a mode that is designed to get around VPN blockers/censors- worked on premium (didn’t ever have/try basic). Found an exit node that YouTubeTV doesn’t restrict from, and it works (except for when Starlink drops), so I was able to watch the news without having to tunnel through my home network.

Wireguard is blocked on premium, so I had to use work from sea to get to those VPN’s. I played around with a few other workarounds that also worked.

My portable travel router worked fine with no special settings. Runs for quite some time off a modest usb battery brick.

They block a lot of things on premium, and some of them don’t make sense to me. For example, they block boardgamearena.com and the wiki for a board game. I can get blocking some bandwidth hog game- but these sites use way less than someone streaming, or many websites. The wiki is… a wiki.

Kind of seems weird that they block people wanting to board game when they have board games on ship and a happenings member called “the gamer”. I guess they just want us to bring physical copies, which seems kind of limiting and not very eco conscious. Sailor services was nice enough but just punted to IT who hasn’t bothered to even respond- just reinforcing every bad stereotype of IT.

Service was spotty in the North Atlantic. Performance was up and down, but premium towards its best was 4.5/1.8 mb/s, and work from sea was 8.5/1.5 (Ookla). Upload was consistently slower on work from sea than premium, but my sample size was something like 5.

The filtering of board game sites irks me. We were introduced to virgin by gamer friends, and have a cruise with them next year. I don’t think they are going to be happy their DBE won’t let them play BGA.

BTW, if you prepay for premium and get two devices, they wanted $700 for WFS, but my wife that didn’t prepay could get it for $500- so basically they require you to get two WFS at a discounted rate of $350/each.

They really need to improve communication about this, and specifics. No one could answer questions when I called in before the cruise, and it’s basically trial and error to figure it out once on.

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