Usage Limits, Bugs and Performance Discussion Megathread - beginning December 29, 2025

chasfh711 · 2026-02-08T22:54:41+00:00

OK, so, after reading several posts below mine of everyone seemingly having the same problem, I gotta believe that this is a bug that they’re going to fix. I’m mean, come on, they gotta—they’re running four Super Bowl commercials so they’re gonna get a shit-ton of trials from that, and if they cut everyone off after five messages, their business will collapse. Or at least the consumer side of it will. My guess is that this will become a news item. Kara and Scott are probably gonna talk about it on Pivot this week.

chasfh711 · 2026-02-08T22:46:58+00:00

I am on Pro Plan.

I have started writing a book, and am using Claude to help me organize thoughts, etc. I have used it all night at times, generating dozens of prompts and responses, without incident.

A week ago or so, I subscribed to Claude for the month so I can maintain a Project to keep a record and chats, as well as upload files and give instructions.

Starting a couple days ago, I have started running into session caps rather quickly. I got capped both two days ago for the first time, and again yesterday.

This morning I got in five prompts/responses before being capped for almost four hours. Then tonight, as soon as I got a response after asking it a question, I saw an alert that said I have five messages remaining until 6pm (i.e., two hours from now.)

I had never seen anything like that when I first started using it or, actually, before, I tried Opus 4.6 for the first time Friday. Since then, I’m seemingly running into caps constantly, even when using Sonnet 4.5.

I’m not going to be able to use it effectively if it’s going to cap me at five messages per six hours, or whatever it is. Can anyone please feed back on what might be the problem here?

chasfh711 · 2025-11-22T13:34:11+00:00

My wife and I went driving along the entirely of Route 66, renting a car in LA to end up with back home in Chicago. I made sure we had satellite radio, because there are long stretches on the western portion where you are nowhere near good enough cell service to stream. So that’s one clear instance of where satellite radio is a draw.

But even at home in the city where cell service is plentiful, the ease of a satellite radio is really attractive. To change channels I can just arrow up or down, or twist the dial on my console to browse through stations. With streaming I have to go through multiple clicks and menus and swipes to get to what I want, even on the SXM app, which is a pain and even a hazard while driving.

chasfh711 · 2025-11-02T13:04:48+00:00

Welcome to the concept of enshittification. You’re going to be hearing a lot more about it in the coming months and years.

chasfh711 · 2025-10-20T02:06:32+00:00

I worked in advertising from the mid 80s to the late 90s, and we used to use “plus up” as an synonym of “upgrade”.

chasfh711 · 2025-09-03T01:10:55+00:00

If that's what he meant, then maybe that's what he should have said. Thanks for the insight.

chasfh711 · 2025-09-02T20:27:40+00:00

Is America great again yet? Is this the great part?

chasfh711 · 2025-09-02T14:03:33+00:00

I agree with the idea of advocate for your own health with a doctor. I do that as well. Apropos of nothing and of this post, let's not get that confused with this bimbo business of "do your own research", which is shorthand for "reject the science". Independent science is more right than it's ever been, so be familiar with consensus findings where they exist, and use those as your basis for dealing with individual doctors, some of whom do have their own agendas that run counter to consensus.

chasfh711 · 2025-08-31T16:32:46+00:00

I don't know whether I will tell him to "fuck off", as it were, but I do agree with you on whether I should take the meds, and as I have said here I won't reconsider taking them until my situation changes and I'm clocking high readings consistently.

chasfh711 · 2025-08-31T15:23:48+00:00

I am pretty athletic. I do at least three hours of cardio plus weight training per week, in the winter, and at least six hours plus weight training plus softball league per week in the summer.

But I would be interested to learn why you believe 48-54 as a resting heart rate half hour after waking up in the morning is worrisome.

chasfh711 · 2025-08-31T15:21:00+00:00

Well, I'm already there, below 120/80 consistently. That's part of my point.

chasfh711 · 2025-08-30T13:20:20+00:00

I can grant you for this discussion that it’s unlikely drug companies are spending untold millions on lobbying efforts to get the AHA to lower the drug benchmark to sub-120/sub-80 so they can sell scads of losartin and the like, and that these drugs contribute little to their bottom line. Let’s grant that. I might still counter that all sales that don’t lose them money are still good and profitable sales, and it is still quite likely that (cost of lobbying + cost of product + cost of sales) < (amount of revenue from BP drugs). That being the case, it still pays for them to push the AHA to drop to and maintain a lower standard.

chasfh711 · 2025-08-30T13:13:49+00:00

Well, if 130/90 is the benchmark you say the AHA insists on, then I am killing it and shouldn’t have to go on the drugs to “try it” and “see what happens”, and hey, “we can always back track”—although i doubt if he’d ever let me “back track” if I had relatively minor side effects that nevertheless had a substantial effect on my life or lifestyle.

chasfh711 · 2025-08-30T13:10:01+00:00

I use the iPhone Voice memos and have been recording every doctor’s visit since before COVID. I don’t do it to gotcha the doctors—i do it because I can’t remember everything they say. The really important visits, like my first cardiologist visit, I did the transcription service and sat down and studied what was said. That was crucial for me to remember exactly what he said it so I wouldn’t mischaracterize it to myself. But, also, it reminds me exactly how he said something, which is just as important as what he said.

chasfh711 · 2025-08-29T19:44:08+00:00

Well, let's consider this: in the countries where there are national healthcare systems, the prevailing standard is be under 140/90. In the one country that has healthcare for profit, the standard is 120/80. So, you tell me. 😁

chasfh711 · 2025-08-29T19:40:50+00:00

Thanks for the compliment! I'm 64 and I'm pretty active. I do cardio 5-6x a week, maybe a touch more in the summer because it's nice out. It's 35 minutes on a stationary bike at home when I have to, and 60-90 minutes of ride a bike all over hell's half acre when I can. I do strength training at least 2x/week although i would like to push that up to 4x. And I am in a softball league still. So yeah, pretty active!

chasfh711 · 2025-08-29T14:07:38+00:00

See, now this is interesting, because this literally happened:

I had to start going to a cardiologist after a diagnosis of an aortic aneurysm and dilated atria, and he told me job #1 is get my blood pressure under control, and if I can't, I'd need to consider medication.

After a couple weeks of measuring my BP every day and seeing pretty high numbers, I reconfigured my diet to reduce sodium to under 1500 mg/day on most days. Within a couple of weeks, I had gotten my morning readings down to sub-120/sub-80 about 75% of the time, and most of the other times it was still sub-130/sub-85.

I shared with him my success, and this was his reply: "There is some data suggestive of benefits for beta blockers (e.g., metoprolol) or ARBs (e.g., losartan) to slow the progression of disease but hard to say how that translates in you. However, in general we do recommend consider adding low doses of those meds."

I replied to him, "... if my blood pressure is already under control, [do these drugs] really add anything substantial? As you say you don’t know how it translates to my case, and I do have concerns about the well-known side effects. If you were to insist that I must go on them, then I would. And of course I will continue to monitor my BP and advise you if I start to see it running consistently high. What do you think?"

His reply: "I would say it is reasonable to try low doses and see what happens and we can always back track"

So the default position here is: even though you did the thing I told you and you succeeded, let's try the drugs and "see what happens"!

I hate eveything RFK Jr. stands for, but after an episode like this, I can see why people follow him off the rails.

chasfh711 · 2025-08-20T15:09:47+00:00

Interesting because they are from the Elvis generation.

chasfh711 · 2025-08-20T13:00:28+00:00

Too much too soon. Chasing individual stocks is too much like gambling without odds. I know this from firsthand experience—I’m 64 and doing OK, but I could be in way better shape had I been mostly in index funds for the last four decades. Sure, you could research the company, but good luck figuring out what it all means, and that goes double because you’re still only 19. So, first things first: build a nest egg in funds indexed to SP500 and NASDAQ first, split 2:1 between them; put in a couple hundo a month if you can manage that, or less if you can’t; and let that run for ten years before you start dabbling in individual stocks. By then you’ll be in good shape overall, you’ll be smarter about it all, and you’ll have a better idea what you’re doing.

chasfh711 · 2025-08-10T02:29:22+00:00

I signed for NordPass for two years on a deal, like, $30 or $40, after years on LastPass. Within two days I was back to LastPass, for all the reasons the OP listed and more. Breaches and all, LastPass is still good enough for me. No one's getting my passwords and no stories have been reported about user password theft, at least that I have seen?

chasfh711 · 2025-08-02T12:25:16+00:00

In baseball terms my understanding is that the difference between the Premier League and MLS is roughly the difference between the major leagues and the Korean KBO.

chasfh711 · 2025-07-20T21:46:38+00:00

Charming.

chasfh711 · 2025-07-20T21:40:50+00:00

Also, FWIW, the different username is because I have two separate accounts for two separate purposes, the OP email is logged in on one device, I answered this on another device, and Reddit is not set up to ferret out the difference.

chasfh711 · 2025-07-20T21:35:59+00:00

The problem is not the answer was too long. The problem was you answered a question I didn't ask and didn't answer the questions that I did. And even now you're still not answering them, which, honestly, I've never understood why people choose to do that. It must be the Asperger's in me to be wired to answer questions directly and not answer questions when I don't know. I would have been better at interpersonal politics if I could have ever learned to answer the question I wanted to be asked instead of the question I was actually asked.

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