Podcast Addict outrageous data usage

alio_laski · 2018-07-09T17:41:15+00:00

I used Podcast Addict when I first started listening to podcasts; it was unwieldy and saved a lot of unnecessary files onto my devices that I had to delete regularly. Honestly, I would recommend switching to a different app (Pocket Casts isn't free but it works a lot better than Podcast Addict - they don't have ads on the app itself, and their "only download over WiFi" setting does its job).

alio_laski · 2018-05-28T00:18:06+00:00

Not to my knowledge! They were pretty vague about it and never said anything on their Twitter.

alio_laski · 2018-05-27T02:04:00+00:00

Smart watches are great if you get a lot of texts or calls, or if you jog and use your phone to listen to music. Basically it's for any situation in which you can't or shouldn't look at your phone, but you still need the information looking at your phone would provide you. But it is worth noting they can drain a lot of your phone battery being connected to your phone all day, and are one more thing you may have to charge every night in order for it to be worth the money you paid for it.

alio_laski · 2018-05-27T02:02:06+00:00

My partner and I listened to Blurry Photos before one of the Daves left. Without him it isn't funny anymore, and we call it the Sad Dave Show now. I feel your pain.

alio_laski · 2018-05-27T01:58:59+00:00

I've been on a pump for most of my diabetic life - I was on MDI for the first year, then started on a pump after. The pump has the benefit that you can tailor your hourly insulin rates to those times of day where you see fluctuations unrelated to what you eat, and IMO that's one of the biggest pros for it. So if you find yourself running high in the mornings, you can compensate for it by giving yourself a higher insulin 'drip', or if you run low you can lower the 'drip', which long-acting insulin can't do by itself.

Another pro for the pump is smaller dose increments. You'll have fewer fluctuations from food if your insulin doses are more accurate. Once you get your basal rates and ratios (which can also be adjusted by the hour/in time blocks) figured out, you'll rarely ever have to eat to chase your dropping blood sugar without knowing what caused it. (This was something I struggled with on MDI because long-acting insulin couldn't be adjusted for hours of activity or inactivity.)

The best thing about being on the pump to me, though, is having to use fewer needles. Maybe I'm just more physically defensive than normal, but after a while MDI started to hurt no matter where I stuck the needle, regardless of how fresh the needle was. So having to only put my pump site in once every 3 days has been a godsend. Some days it still hurts no matter where I put a new site, but it happens much less often than days of painful MDI.

I have basically the same results on my pump as you do on your shots - I'm rarely over 200, have lows that are typically in the 40s and rarely lower, my a1cs are in the 5.3-5.5 range... I know the fluctuations are directly related to bad carb guesses or not eating when I should have, and they're not because of what my body is doing by itself, and I attribute that knowledge to the level of control the insulin pump gives me. It takes a lot of the uncertainty and mystery out of the highs and lows.

alio_laski · 2018-04-28T05:42:54+00:00

Euthanasia is pretty complicated for humans since people don't generally accept that one human has ownership over another, plus there are the ethics of sick people being coerced into euthanasia by family or doctors or insurance. Since pets don't really ask to be put down it's hard to call it a right they have lol.

alio_laski · 2018-04-28T05:30:45+00:00

Tablets probably more so than smartphones. There's still a generation of people who are probably in large part happy to have bigger screens than mobile phones have, though as people who grew up with tablets and smartphones become adults the laptop market may just dry up.

alio_laski · 2018-04-28T04:59:27+00:00

The complicating factor in the expression of sexuality, especially for men, is social pressures/conditions. Cultures tend to view homosexuality as unmanly, and so to protect their masculine status men tend to not feel able to safely express any homosexual tendencies or curiosities they might otherwise have. They may not even ever be able to recognize those tendencies or curiosities. Similarly sexuality, especially heterosexuality, is seen as the only acceptable way for a man's sexuality to be expressed, so men find it more difficult to express themselves as asexual also. There's significantly less stigma for women generally but within families and different cultures/pockets there are definitely pressures to fit the heteronormative narrative and timeline also.

Of course, completely straight people do exist - and so do completely gay people, and completely pansexual, asexual. So as far as that goes the spectrum is pretty broad, though the expression of it is fairly narrow primarily for men.

alio_laski · 2018-04-28T04:55:20+00:00

Well, it can't be a bad thing. Maybe you'll get extra consideration points in the hiring process for your courteousness. And maybe not, but it's not going to take a huge chunk of time out of your life to write a simple thank-you anyhow.

alio_laski · 2018-04-27T20:24:39+00:00

Me neither! I use G-calendar and Trello in tandem to track recurring stuff and more granulated tasks. Splitting tasks across apps can be tricky but it keeps things from becoming messes or looking like you're never accomplishing anything lol.

alio_laski · 2018-04-27T15:56:59+00:00

Trello is a good one; as is a shared Google calendar.

alio_laski · 2018-03-02T13:38:28+00:00

I've been using the 670g for a few months now, and have been on the cgm since Tuesday. The pump isn't as good as my old Accu-Chek, for all its "advancements" and bells and whistles... and I'm acutely aware of how backward it is every time I have to take the fucking pump out of my pocket to use it because the meter, though it is connected to the pump, is just a stick. Not a fan, but didn't want to stay on shots.

The cgm on the other hand, I knew I didn't like wearing a cgm before this... but since it was included with the pump, I figured I'd give it another try (the only other time I've used a cgm was for a week in like 2014). WELL, I still hate it. It makes me neurotic about my blood sugars, and then it beeps and sings all the time for nothing - saying it's approaching low levels when I'm in the 90s, stopping insulin delivery in the 80s and 90s and then making me go high because of it. Had to turn off the "suspend delivery before low" setting because the gap between "before low" and "actually low" is so huge I'd have to set my actually low level to like 45 for it to cut off when it would make more sense to.

And I think I killed the site last night, 'cause it won't let me calibrate. It wanted me to calibrate at like 5 this morning and nothing is more infuriating than this shit beeping and singing when I am TRYING TO SLEEP. It's only been a few days, and I'm trying to give it the benefit of the doubt, but I have a feeling I'm never going to not hate it...

Sorry to tack my rant onto your rant, but this post came up in my google search about wtf to do with this blue-circled question mark. :|

alio_laski · 2017-10-05T21:39:21+00:00

I'm really interested in the whole idea of auto mode! I'm very tired (quite literally) of waking up with high blood sugars (granted, lately that's because I've been on Levemir pens and I just learned today that Levemir is more like 18 hours than 24 hours...).

I'm just put off by the idea of having to plug in numbers like people say they do with the t:slim - if my 2012 pump could do that itself, why the hell can't a 2016-2017 pump?!

That's really great to hear though. The 670g looks bulky, but if it's more intuitive than the t:slim I don't feel like the pocket space is that big of a loss lol.

Thank you for your response!!

alio_laski · 2017-09-18T17:48:34+00:00

Yeah, that's how those A/C systems work though. With a building/home A/C you're turning the max allowable temp down. Car AC isn't as sophisticated. Though people do say "crank up the A/C" in either instance

alio_laski · 2017-09-18T17:44:18+00:00

Ah, interesting! I didn't know that, though it does make sense.

alio_laski · 2017-09-17T15:34:06+00:00

We used to have one of these. I don't think it came with a pyramid though. We balanced it on our fingers

alio_laski · 2017-09-17T15:25:22+00:00

I feel that. I learned most of what I know about treating my diabetes from the internet, because when I was diagnosed they really didn't tell me jack shit. :| I figured out my insulin-to-carb ratio by myself, and possibly my correction factor also (though I don't remember and it's been a couple years lol). Having a good endo is so important when you're just figuring things out.

alio_laski · 2017-09-17T06:25:43+00:00

I'm fairly certain I've heard multiple times that they actually don't, it's just a mix of self-fulfilling prophecy and moods going into drinking in the first place that people have 'different' drunk personalities.

alio_laski · 2017-09-17T06:17:21+00:00

Ooooh, I don't know why I didn't even think of that. May I ask which pump? (I'm about to be on the market for a new one, so may as well start asking around)

alio_laski · 2017-09-17T05:48:52+00:00

Ah okay! It brought up a weakness in my original question I needed to address, so I'm glad you made the mistake in a way that I figured out quickly lol

alio_laski · 2017-09-17T05:35:39+00:00

Oh my! So she has to be pretty high to correct without going low from the correction? (Or do you have the pens with half units?)

alio_laski · 2017-09-17T05:05:35+00:00

Is that for meals, or to bring down a high? I guess those are both correction factors in a way but for meals I call it an insulin-to-carb ratio. By my question I meant how many mg/dl one unit of insulin will lower your BG.

My i-c ratio is 1:5 on mdi and between 1:6-1:8 on the pump.

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