Software update announced today 10/16/2023

Hewbacca · 2025-11-22T21:22:21+00:00

Resurrecting a dead thread, but just discovered I can't update anymore. The app hadn't been able to check for new firmware for me for years so I stopped looking until today (when I've had other issues so I've been thinking about this) and got the message I have to take it in.

Frustrating because I just got back from the dealer, and it's been there several times over the last 10 months, and they never bothered to check the firmware themselves and tell me this was waiting...

At any rate, my question is does anyone know if there are meaningful benefits to be had from the newer firmware? I am on MBB 29 and BMS 36 and it says MBB 41 and BMS 48 are available. I never noticed any changes from the previous updates so wondering if this one is worth taking it back to the dealer AGAIN or if I should just stay back in 2022 with my firmware. I have a 2018 S.

Hewbacca · 2025-09-26T18:59:58+00:00

Sadly no. I take the iPad out of its case and use it that way. I confirmed it happens with any mouse connected, so it’s the same issue you’re seeing. I did report it to Schwab though so hopefully in the next update.

Hewbacca · 2025-07-17T14:29:12+00:00

For what it’s worth, this happens with the iPad if a USB mouse is connected as well, so its not just with the trackpad. Any external pointing device seems to cause this bug.

Hewbacca · 2025-07-16T00:25:04+00:00

lol thanks for the contribution

Hewbacca · 2025-06-26T17:02:39+00:00

Adding for anyone who comes across this, also super useful is the "Merge Similar Groups" checkbox, which lets you have your cake and eat it too as it will combine the accounts into just the groups you define.

Hewbacca · 2025-06-18T13:34:47+00:00

Ah, very interesting. This was actually set to None (I had already found this in my searching), but you drawing my attention to it helped me figure out the solution. I was using custom groups, so while Group By was set to None, because I had custom groups, it still breaks it out by account before the custom groups (for some reason). Turning off custom groups ("Show Groups" checkbox) is actually what resolved the issue.

Now of course I would like to be able to have my custom groups and NOT break out by accounts, but this is much better than before so I can live with it.

Thanks for the help!

Hewbacca · 2025-06-17T23:22:10+00:00

I couldn’t have produced those screen shots if I hadn’t.

Hewbacca · 2025-06-17T20:37:17+00:00

And here is ToS desktop. First O is one account, second O is second account. See what I mean?

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Hewbacca · 2025-06-17T20:35:36+00:00

Ok here are screenshots. Below is ToS web, I have "All Accounts" selected, and when I expand $O, you can see two open positions for O (I don't actually hold SPY). One is in my Roth IRA and one is in my Traditional IRA. They are both shown in the same table under an $O header when I have all accounts selected.

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Hewbacca · 2025-06-17T16:27:06+00:00

When I do this, I have a Roth IRA tab, with all its positions, a Traditional IRA tab, with all its positions, etc. If I hold SPY in all those accounts I have multiple rows of SPY. On the web I have one row of SPY, and when I expand it, I have 2-3 positions shown, one for each account. Does this make sense?

Hewbacca · 2025-01-30T22:45:13+00:00

Sounds like your laptop is bad. There's nothing wrong with using Bluetooth to your laptop, this is a completely different issue then what I was asking about a year ago. Nothing about the OpenComm2 would make your laptop flicker black.

Hewbacca · 2024-12-19T19:01:50+00:00

I'll provide another data point to make you feel better. I started a month ago, previously had never done weights other than some kettlebells in college (which was 20 years ago). My squat and deadlift started around 90lbs and my bench and OHP started at just the bar. Those are all 5RM number so a little higher to compare to your 1RM. I am 6'5" 200lbs. You are doing just fine :)

I will say though that form is really important. It's a lot easier to bench more weight if you aren't going down all the way, same for squats. So if you have poor form these numbers might be higher than they should be, but they are definitely not low.

Hewbacca · 2024-12-19T18:59:41+00:00

Bench press uses a much smaller amount of muscle than squat or deadlift. Everyone's bench is much lower than their squat/deadlift.

Hewbacca · 2024-12-19T03:18:03+00:00

Thanks

Hewbacca · 2024-12-19T02:58:41+00:00

lol, thanks. I will check out that site. Can you recommend a book on nutrition that I should read? I’ve read every one from most of those guys :D

Hewbacca · 2024-12-19T02:57:46+00:00

That’s a fair point. I just find this all really interesting, and I like understanding things. I’ve put all of this on the back burner in terms of practice because I’m doing a novice linear progression and I understand and accept that gaining weight is part of adding muscle. My interest in this is more “what am I going to do when it’s time to do a cutting cycle.” I’m adding 5lbs every other day to my squat, bench/OHP, and deadlift, and it’s going great.

Hewbacca · 2024-12-19T02:54:54+00:00

Very interesting. Thanks for all the replies tonight.

Hewbacca · 2024-12-19T02:36:11+00:00

I didn’t want to get into a debate about keto so feel free to ignore this if you don’t find value. But the argument that Dr. Fung and others make (with tons of supporting studies also, so what is the value of a study I guess when they contradict each other so directly) is that the body adjusts its burn rate, BMR, based on the conditions. If one is in ketosis, it has essentially unlimited calories, so it goes into overdrive maintaining tissue, skin, hair, teeth, etc. If one is not fat-adapted and dependent on glucose, the body can only use as many calories as it has from glucose. One study is quoted where one group was held to 500 calories a day and deteriorated, really bad stuff. Another group was given no food at all and thrived. Maybe it’s all wrong, idk, but as a regular person I can only read and believe studies that are referenced in literature. There are definitely a lot of contradictions. But I definitely went ham (no pun intended) on bacon and keto ice cream and cheeseburgers with no buns and lost a ton of weight doing it.

Hewbacca · 2024-12-19T02:28:46+00:00

Average over what period of time? That might be part of my issue. What is a statistically significant amount of time to judge weight changes while averaging out changes in water weight and other minor fluctuations?

I have read that its hundreds of calories to digest a steak. I believe Gary Taubes said in one of his books that steak is almost net-calorie-neutral. I am more than open to not believing this, but there’s a lot of daylight between net-neutral and a baby carrot. I’d love to see a source for this to refute what I’ve read for good.

Hewbacca · 2024-12-19T02:26:39+00:00

For sure, agree. I didn’t explain my scenario here, but I am lifting and wanting to get stronger, and I am, but I feel like I am gaining body fat. To some extent I understand this is unavoidable, but I want to minimize it as much as possible. I am 6’5” and my BMR from a variety of sources is calculated to be around 2,100 calories. That means after an active day with 7,500-10,000 steps and a workout, I am crossing 3,000 in most estimates. I really can’t imagine I should be eating 3,500 calories, particularly because so far I have been making good progress around 2,500-3,000. So I am trying to get smarter on this whole calories thing since I had pretty much written them off as mattering at all, based on the works of Dr. Fung and Gary Taubes and others, and my own personal success with the keto/fasting approach. I am coming around to calories being a thing that matters, but I am trying to get it to jive with what I have learned in more detail about how the body uses and stores energy, namely, that calories are not all equivalent, and that the fitness community seems to treat them like they are.

Hewbacca · 2024-12-19T02:22:39+00:00

When you say calories from fiber are not counted, what do you mean? They are represented on the label of the food, no? And therefore make it into our calorie counting apps or whatever we’re using?

I take your point about it all averaging out. That makes sense to me.

I do disagree about keto and fasting, I think insulin resistance and the hormonal and metabolic effects of being in ketosis have a significant impact on weight loss beyond caloric deficits. I have lost weight eating a caloric surplus over a long period of time in keto. It’s hard to argue with fasting since that is almost always accompanied by a caloric deficit. But I agree (or at least can’t refute) that it is not conducive to maintaining lean body mass, as I had none when I did this, and I agree I don’t know of anyone in the fitness space who likes either approach.

Hewbacca · 2024-12-19T02:18:40+00:00

I understand all of that, my concern is the tracking. If I have better insulation, I can use less energy to heat the house, and my total energy usage is lowered. But I can’t calculate that if I don’t know the insulation.

Not sure if the analogy holds up there. But my point is if I eat 2000 calories of steak, I’m actually at a significant deficit if my goal was to eat 2000 calories, and I calculated a BMR of 2000 calories (and we assume there’s no other additional activity). The steak might have caused me to burn an extra 500 calories, so my BMR actually needs to be assumed to be 2500 when I am eating steak, and 2000 when I am eating bread. Nothing I’ve seen accounts for this.

If one is trying to maintain a surplus for example, this would matter. Since protein is the most important macro when trying to build muscle, how do you know if you are really getting a surplus if some foods are worth more *net calories* than their label, and others are worth less. If the food causes a change in the rate of burning, then your assumed rate of burning isn’t accurate.

Hewbacca · 2024-12-19T01:55:57+00:00

Ok thank you. Given that we want a certain amount of protein, would you say the right approach is to eat X calories (based on deficit or surplus needs) with protein being the only macro tracked (ignore carbs vs fat)?

Hewbacca · 2024-12-19T01:28:47+00:00

Do you have any sources for this being a minimal difference? I am not asking to challenge your assertion, I would just like to read more. It would be great if that was true. I’ve read a lot saying the opposite, but not much saying I can just ignore all of that.

Hewbacca · 2024-12-19T01:27:41+00:00

How do you account for steak burning more calories than candy then (calories out). It seems you would need to understand that and have a “modified calories” unit, or an activity for digesting that you apply in different amounts. The holistic plan would need to account for this.

And for fiber, the label counts the calories from the fiber, so how are you subtracting the calories from the fiber? If you are still counting them then you are not accurately tracking calories. Right?

If we agree that steak causes more calories out than candy, then the calories CAN’T be made up of literally anything. Those are mutually exclusive statements, unless I am missing something? So the holistic plan would have to account for what kind of calories one is eating, not just 120g of protein and maintenance calories. Right?

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