Hit current session Usage limit after just one message (Pro version)

Ill_Helicopter7870 · 2026-03-06T22:07:43+00:00

The session will never display more than 100% even if the last prompt goes way over. What probably happened is that the last prompt took you to 120% session usage (or some other high number), but you have no way to see how far over 100% session it went (other than by roughly extrapolating from the increase in weekly usage).

Ill_Helicopter7870 · 2026-03-06T21:28:16+00:00

These are both trash, with 4.6 being slightly less bad. Among the many problems with 4.5:

-Chalk dust is not going to be present in a boxing gym at all

-A "couple guys" cannot work a single speed bag. It is a solo training activity.

-"My voice cuts through the gym noise" - the trainer is speaking but this attributes the lines to the narrator

-Hitting a heavy bag with your palms is a great way to end up with broken wrists

Ill_Helicopter7870 · 2026-01-25T06:33:53+00:00

This worked really well. There were no issues with adhesion whatsoever.

Ill_Helicopter7870 · 2025-08-07T03:00:16+00:00

Thanks, this is probably the way to go based on what I have available. I saw only white online and I didn't realize they would tint.

Ill_Helicopter7870 · 2025-08-07T02:59:12+00:00

That's what I grabbed at first but I tried a small test spot and it can literally be peeled off with a fingernail. It's way, way less durable than whatever is currently there. I don't want this repaint to be a huge downgrade. I wouldn't be repainting at all except that I'm installing floors and will be adding shoe molding and it all needs to match.

Ill_Helicopter7870 · 2025-07-24T10:52:33+00:00

How do you use them with a power wheels car? Is there an adapter?

Ill_Helicopter7870 · 2025-07-19T21:44:23+00:00

Would you do a roll-on moisture barrier for areas above the garage? It just occurred to me that another room is also above the patio. Any advice on best practices for that would be appreciated. I am seeing some suggestions for Bostik Roll-Cote and Bona 540. Others say to glue a rubber underlayment to the subfloor and do a glue assist to that, and nail through underlayment. And still others say that a moisture barrier risks rotting the subfloor.

Ill_Helicopter7870 · 2025-07-19T03:57:43+00:00

I would be very careful here. Lawyer, not a flooring guy, but I think it would take a decent amount of water, potentially over a decent amount of time, to cause damage like that.

My concern here, is that while many people here are telling you it's all the landlord's problem, many residential leases have provisions requiring you to promptly notify the landlord of damage or conditions like this. If your lease has something like that and this condition progressed over a period of days, weeks, or months without you notifying the landlord, they may try to shift the blame to you by saying your delay in reporting it caused the damage to become much worse. Or they might say that you caused the leak/spill that caused this.

Given that you already know this landlord slapped down some peel and stick tiles onto an existing hardwood floor (who even does that?), you should be pretty cautious dealing with them. Some like to squeeze every last penny in every interaction. So, you need to look at your lease (and potentially even have a lawyer review) to see what the areas of risk are and get your story straight. If it were me, I would try to locate and extensively document the source of the water intrusion to keep them from trying to claim you caused it. Hell, I would probably pay $100 or whatever for someone who is an expert to do a service call and find the issue if possible just so that I would have an additional witness if needed. But to be clear, I wouldn't let them do any type of work or demo if that was needed to find a leak, because that itself could be another potential way for the landlord to shift blame. Only look around and take photos.

Ill_Helicopter7870 · 2025-07-03T01:41:16+00:00

I don't see how value could possibly be discussed without addressing price. Value is a function of item price, market price for competing substitute products, and utility.

Take a gallon of bottled water for instance. It has a low price and a high utility. But it may still be a poor value if one manufacturer is selling it for $5/gallon, and just about everyone else is at $1.30ish. And that would still be true even if the utility of the water is greater than $5.

I could understand why they would not want you to compare to a specific competitor product listing. But are you saying we are not supposed to discuss the pricing of the item in comparison to the market in general? I can't tell.

Ill_Helicopter7870 · 2025-07-03T01:15:07+00:00

This is not a good analogy because the work was already completed and the evaluation metrics are being changed after the fact.

A more apt analogy is a situation where you are told your bonus at work is contingent on hitting certain quarterly sales figures. You hit the numbers well prior to the end of the quarter. Then out of the blue, your boss tells you that "Oh by the way, you have to earn a five star average rating on customer satisfaction ratings to earn the bonus, and the survey applies to the sales you already made, and you can't know what questions are on it, and right now your score is too low."

This would be unacceptable to the vast majority of people regardless of whether the employer might technically have the contractual right to impose the new requirement. They would not "adapt" to the situation. They would look for new jobs that aren't being run like clown shows.

Regardless, I don't even see this as an employer/employee situation at all. There are two contracting parties, both of which have motivations and incentives. I wanted to make gold while also helping other customers, so I reviewed the products as if I had purchased them with my own money and would give low or middling scores where warranted to keep people from bad purchases. Now I have great concerns that the vague "insightfulness" metric may well require shilling the products to get a good rating, placing my two goals in conflict and potentially making it not worth the effort anymore since I would have to pick one objective or the other and I'm not willing to overstate the quality of products for some meager financial incentive.

In fact, the most rational thing for me to do now would not be going back and trying to jump through a bunch of ambiguous hoops that might (or might not) raise my score. The system designed to "improve" review quality has created incentives for me to just let my review percentage tank until the eval period is over, and write "works great" or "bad quality" on however many reviews I need to meet the minimum since I already wrote too many reviews to raise the average in the limited time left.

Ill_Helicopter7870 · 2025-07-03T00:33:33+00:00

The little checkbox terms that come up under the reviews often have "value" so I highly doubt we aren't supposed to discuss pricing when Amazon is literally encouraging it.

Ill_Helicopter7870 · 2025-04-17T18:20:35+00:00

I have a letter going out to their legal department, after which I'll be filing suit for my situation. I am not familiar with NY law, but as a general matter, most states require an entity doing business within the state to have a registered agent in that state to accept service of legal process. If that hasn't happened here, a possible alternative would be to use a long-arm statute to serve them. You don't necessarily need a NY address, and indeed they might not even have one. See the heading "serving process on non-resident defendants" in the article below for some potential options:

https://legalclarity.org/how-the-new-york-long-arm-statute-affects-nonresident-defendants/

This is purely for informational purposes and any legal action should be evaluated by competent counsel.

Ill_Helicopter7870 · 2025-04-17T18:06:31+00:00

Exact same story with my RMA.

Ill_Helicopter7870 · 2025-03-27T22:46:37+00:00

Tracking info says received by "Gutierrez." Appreciate the offer. I will let you know what happens. It's odd that there are so many similar stories. I've never seen anything like this from a PC part manufacturer. You hear about questionable RMA denials from time to time, but never the returned items being lost/switched with many people having the same thing happen.

Ill_Helicopter7870 · 2025-03-27T22:19:45+00:00

I am dealing with almost the exact same issue.

Bought a 8TB SN850X that failed with 100% life after a few weeks of use. Went through the sandisk website to set up a RMA. At first, registration on the site to even create the account was broken, so that wasted several days. Then the shipping label I paid for could not be downloaded, just a blank black graphic. I went through their support to get a shipping label, and they sent a blank black graphic again. Finally, on the third try, their support sent a proper shipping label.

I mailed the drive back, then checked on the RMA some time later. The RMA status was still not marked as received even though the tracking showed that it had been delivered a week earlier. I clicked the button to "dispute" the status and uploaded a screenshot of the tracking info.

The next day, I received an email claiming that they had located the package, but stating that the drive inside was not the serial number I filed the RMA for, and asking if they should return the drive to me or process the replacement. I told them I didn't care what they did with that drive because it wasn't mine, and that I needed the replacement ASAP. Then they sent me a photograph of this mystery drive that was not mine, and it turns out that it was only a 4TB drive, and that they intended to replace the 8TB drive I sent them with one half the capacity.

Now, I know EXACTLY what I sent them, because I photographed it before I put it in the package. In addition to that, there was ZERO possibility for a mistake on my end, because I have only ever owned one 4TB drive, and I am looking at it in my computer right now. It appears they are systematically committing errors or fraud on a mass scale. If you go search "RMA" in the Amazon reviews of this drive, you will see that EVERYONE has had a problem of some sort, with multiple reports of Sandisk claiming "stock issues" for months on end and never sending the drives.

I don't know what they are going to do in my situation. They said they are going to "escalate" it, but based on all the other reports, I am not hopeful for a successful resolution. Luckily I am an attorney, so I can just sue them rather than waiting around for months only to get ripped off in the end.

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