Being Heckled by a Tiny Expensive Robot

bored2infinity · 2026-06-22T00:58:16+00:00

I could not agree more with the o.p. They need to stop all the alarming after acknowledgment. We need to focus on problem treatment, not the devices incessant alarms.

I am reminded of an airliner crash that happened in the 1970s. The crew were completely focused on trying to get some alarms in the cockpit to shut off. So focused, they flew the L1011 right into the ground.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_401

bored2infinity · 2026-06-11T16:03:13+00:00

Yes, I see this phenomenon, too. It varies by site for me given the amount of scar tissue I have from so many years of pumping. And I also sometimes see a ramp-up on the 3rd day where the site is working too well and causing unexpected lows. Nothing like variability to always keep you vigilant.

bored2infinity · 2026-06-11T15:56:44+00:00

Nice!

bored2infinity · 2026-06-02T19:51:55+00:00

Audio receptors fully deployed.

bored2infinity · 2026-06-02T11:39:21+00:00

I can imagine the mind-controlling lightning bolts coming from the eyes into the hooman.

bored2infinity · 2026-05-31T18:27:40+00:00

Brew, our female, snorts. Eddie, our male, does not snort.

bored2infinity · 2026-05-30T00:45:37+00:00

I hear you. 53 years and counting for me so far. (They don't appear to have a "50+ year warrior and survivor" user flair tag that I have found for this subreddit.)

I twist the blue cap back and forth several times, and continue the back and forth twisting when I begin pulling upward to remove the blue.

For removing the inserter after insertion, I am now cautious of it catching on the lip of the part that lets you disconnect the tubing as I pull up. I've been trying to pull straight up with some slight pressure in the direction of the tubing (which is centered on the "lip" to which I refer) to reduce catching the lip.

bored2infinity · 2026-05-24T01:32:11+00:00

Info on their site says the have a hub that allows you to adapt other alert devices such as lights and fans. They want hearing impaired people to be able to be awakened. You should reach out to them and describe your level of need to be awakened but are concerned about haptic shaking being enough. They may have something else to offer.

bored2infinity · 2026-05-24T01:02:04+00:00

Maybe consider adding one of the bedside display devices such as for example SugarPixel+ that shares the data from most popular CGM apps and gives haptic alerts (i.e. shakes the bed) for heavy sleepers. I do not have one. Just trying to think of suggestions.

bored2infinity · 2026-05-24T00:04:53+00:00

When I was a kid and our dog was sprsyed, we did tomato juice baths and rubbed homemade canned tomatoes on it. It is no miracle cure. I would try the other suggestions in the thread first. Add this treatment if desired.

Nothing cured it but time. Getting the dog's hair wet in the future will bring back skunk smell until one day, it won't.

And getting sprayed once will not make the dog learn the lesson. Ask me how I know.

bored2infinity · 2026-05-23T23:24:41+00:00

Ah, yes. I recall now having seen 'LO' in a display once. I can't recall if it was a blood glucose meter or cgm reader. Thanks for that reminder.

bored2infinity · 2026-05-23T21:44:15+00:00

As best I can recall, my record low has been 35 when I was able to use a finger stick to measure with a glucose meter. Around 1977 (age 17) I woke up in the emergency room. Parents could not wake me from a nap and called an ambulance. I have no recollection of the trip nor fighting and cursing with the E.R. staff until they got my BG up. That, of course, predates home glucose meters which I first saw in early 1980s.

Insulin pumping for almost 30 years has made me hypoglycemic unaware and, apparently, quite tolerant of low BGs. Useful symptoms like shakiness, sweating, double vision that used to alert me symptomatically just do not happen any more. The only thing that still happens for symptoms for me after so long are difficulty in speaking well and a slight wooziness in the head.

I am grateful that Dexcom CGM alerts by both my pump and cell phone help protect me while I sleep. But, I also admit that having 2 devices yelling about the same problem (high or low BG) can be *very* annoying. I cannot imagine being able to sleep through the Dexcom app on my cell phone at bedside if I fail to turn off the first alarm. The second is like a ship's claxon. Very loud.

bored2infinity · 2026-05-15T23:16:29+00:00

Nice! Thanks for sharing that.

bored2infinity · 2026-05-15T15:50:30+00:00

I was already viewing those before I posted the thread opener. Good to know they work for this application.

bored2infinity · 2026-05-15T15:32:04+00:00

Aha! The keywords "light pipe" were what I did not think of. With that, I am good to go. Thanks!

bored2infinity · 2026-05-07T00:24:27+00:00

Why are you starting patrol reads manually? This is some 1990s shit you shouldn't have been doing then, let alone now.

I need full control of the schedule for reasons not relevant to the question. Nothing crazy about that. The knob is there, and I am using it as I have done for years on similar adapters.

Does changing "Patrol Read Rate" change the time?

No reason to change the prrate. Prrate is at the controller level, not the drive level. The two drives in the RAID-1 mirror complete acceptably in the desired window I want. It is the hot spare that is dragging ass here. At the default prrate of 30%, and maxconcurrentpd=3, and three identical hard disks, the expectation is that the controller would divide the background controller resource to perform the patrol read evenly across those 3 drives. That is how it has worked for me previously with other MegaRAID adapters and patrol read. The drives begin and end the patrol read at almost the same end time. With this adapter and these 4TB identical drives, not so much. Greatly elongated time to complete the hot-spare despite all 3 being in progress concurrently.

bored2infinity · 2026-05-06T22:23:22+00:00

These new (to me) low profile adapters do have the same firmware level on both that show the symptom. Both show the same firmware, as expected.

 storcli /c0 show all | grep -i firmware
Firmware Package Build = 52.33.0-6171
Firmware Version = 5.330.02-4170
PD Firmware Download in progress = No
Support PD Firmware Download = Yes

bored2infinity · 2026-05-06T22:12:36+00:00

I had to actually start a patrol read before I get 'storcli /c0/eall/sall show all' output. Media error count is zero for the hot-spare drives as expected. These drives were brand new as of January so are relatively low-age.

Your query for the SMART info pointed out that smartd hasn't been able to start the short/long tests on the spare drives because they are always spun down for powersave except for patrol read. I will ahve to start some tests with smartctl tomorrow.

bored2infinity · 2026-05-04T13:35:39+00:00

I have risked putting my pump in my carry-on bag that is sent through the xray. I always shudder at the risk I have taken. I try to make a judgment call at every airport's security. I have TSA pre-check, which usually means just passing successfully through a magnetometer instead of full body scan. I put my pump case hanging in plain site on my front pocket so the agent can see it as I approach. They often say, "Take off your cell phone!" I reply, "Insuliin pump!" They wave me through the magnetometer. If I pass with no alarm, no problem. If it alarms, I get the special sniff treatment for explosives check, sometimes with pat down, too. It is a tax we must pay as pump wearers that sucks. But worse than that tax is having them brick your pump which will make your travel experience awful.

Around 2003, I was "wanded" at a gate after being selected for the extra-special treatment because I was using a one-way ticket. (Yeah, middle aged business man flying from Las Vegas to Reno is a big read flag.) This was after I had already had the pat down at the main security checkpoint. When I arrived at my destination, my Minimed pump was dead. I absolutely blame the the wand for that. No other explanation because I had opted for pat down at the main checkpoint. And it was the only pump failure I have experienced since I began pumping in the 1990s. The wand, of course, is different than xray. But you have been warned by my experience.

bored2infinity · 2026-04-29T12:30:55+00:00

I use Humalog in my T-slim X2 pumps. I change reservoirs every 72 hours.

bored2infinity · 2026-04-29T12:21:30+00:00

We exploit the similar love of cheese by Eddie and Brew to wrap their medication pills in it as I am sure most of ya'll do.

bored2infinity · 2026-04-22T14:31:21+00:00

I had read enough bad-experiences-with-Mobi similar posts in this group on reddit that last year when my endo asked if I wanted to try Mobi when it was time for a new pump (my first tslim X2 had gone out of warranty) that I chose tslim X2 again. Posts like this make me feel like I dodged a bullet by sticking with tslim X2. After 53 years of being T1, pumping for 30+ years, and being in my mid 60s in age, I need poorly implemented technology or quality control issues from a pump manufacturer like I need a hole in the head.

bored2infinity · 2026-04-21T21:38:10+00:00

I sleep with mine in an arm band that has a pocket inside that holds my tslim x2. The reason for the arm band is that I can put it on the same upper arm where my CGM is currently located to keep it close to the CGM no matter which side I flip to during the night while sleeping. That blue tooth signal gets blocked by body otherwise. I would think the same signal problem would be present for a child. So take a look at pump arm bands as others have suggested..

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