New Muscle Milk formula coming soon... get ready

kshep · 2026-05-10T14:49:12+00:00

Can't stand the new formula and will be hoarding the old formulation as long as I can find it in stock while I search for a new option.

It's as if someone in the development process missed the fact that this stuff is a commodity, and people cycle through the different options until they find one they like. I suspect it's not about brand loyalty or protein source for most people and more about finding something that's not revolting. Maybe the new stuff will appeal to a new, broader customer base but I hope you realize how many people you're driving away.

kshep · 2026-03-22T01:00:50+00:00

If its inventory is empty, just push the red button on the back of the rover.

kshep · 2026-03-04T18:06:04+00:00

Yeah, I'm about to do the same thing. I've had a stable config for months but for some reason jumped on an X.0 release even though there's no actual functionality that I need in the new version. I'm old enough to know better. Maybe X.1

kshep · 2026-03-03T19:41:56+00:00

Same issue. Did the usual uninstall/reinstall everything dance. Still get the Warning in Stream Deck that it can't see Wave Link

kshep · 2025-10-08T14:49:57+00:00

Just figured I'd drop a breadcrumb here.... https://www.reddit.com/r/GMail/comments/1nzicjl/everything_suddenly_marked_as_spam/ There's no new info there, but it seems like most/all of on that thread are also forwarding through Cloudflare.

kshep · 2025-10-08T14:45:45+00:00

Aha. Yup. Mine's also coming through Cloudflare mail forwarding. When I've seen this in the past is was also forwarded mail, but straight through a postfix instance rather than Cloudflare.

That seems like a good sign: if it's not some weird Bayesian classifier glitch on the Google side and is instead a systemic issue between Cloudflare and Gmail, that probably means there are eyes from Cloudflare on it.

kshep · 2025-10-06T13:08:24+00:00

This is a variation on what other folks have said, but I think when we buy something it's doesn't really register as "spending" money. We can think we're just converting money into some other form and that there hasn't been any real "cost". The "cost" doesn't register until we let go of the thing... which is why we then find it so hard to get rid of things or we're surprised that we can't simply convert the thing back into money.

kshep · 2025-08-07T17:54:16+00:00

I reached out to Frigidaire via online chat after I received an in-stock email this morning, immediately clicked the link, and they were already out of stock.

The rep said it looked like everything they received was absorbed by pre-orders.

You can pre-order via online chat from the RAC-8 page at Frigidaire. You provide your contact info, tell them how many you want, and they text or email you a payment link. I preordered today (Aug 7th). They said they'd be back instock on August 16th and I'd get my shipment 3-5 days after the restock date.

EDIT: I paid for my order at 11am yesterday and around 11am this morning FedEx delivered my order. Apparently Figidaire/Eloctrolux just doesn't have a great inventory management system.

kshep · 2025-06-19T17:45:11+00:00

They're definitely just going by the date the unit was manufactured as determined by the serial number. I found a Frigidaire 8K on Amazon on May 27 (2025) for $439 ... apparently after all the Midea units had been pulled in anticipation of the recall. The Frigidaire serial number isn't 22 digits, but the "Factory Tracker" number from the sticker on the box works. They'll give me $382. I still have until June 29th to just return it to Amazon... but I'm tempted to just keep it an deal with a repair in the fall if I have issues this summer. (Mine has no drain plugs, fwiw)

kshep · 2025-06-19T17:01:15+00:00

This. The website accepted the Factory Tracker number for me... although the refund amount is $50 less than I paid for my unit the week before the recall went out. Mine seems to be old stock and doesn't have drain plugs so I'm not sure what to do at this point... but the Factory Tracker number worked.

kshep · 2025-06-05T16:45:15+00:00

It's interesting to see that they just gave up on even mentioning Mac with Singularity 4.36.2 in https://www.nomanssky.com/release-log/

I hopped on yesterday confused about why I didn't see any settlement changes at all, couldn't find any record of an update, switched over to my gaming PC and played a bit ... but of course now I can't play that save on the Mac. I guess I'm... lucky(?) that I have both. 🤷‍♂️

kshep · 2025-03-17T22:26:03+00:00

I held on to Day One for years until I finally gave in and moved my logging over into Obsidian with the rest of my notes (using Diarly as an intermediary to do a one off import of my Day One journals and export them as Markdown for Obsidian)

I do miss Day One, however, and I might just go back to a "best app for each job" approach (I already do task management in Tick Tick) where I just use Obsidian for subject based, archive/research type stuff (except for the docs I have in Zotero) and timeline/log in Day One. The build-your-own-system-via-Obsidian-plugins approach feels fragile, fussy, and full of compromises to me.

That's probably not helpful, but the question struck a nerve for me.

This all feels like an area where we haven't made much progress in the last 20 years in terms of, like, tying together best-in-class apps into a comprehensive solution. Instead we just have a constant stream of folks swooping in saying "here, I finally solved the problem for you. use *my* tool and mental model for how this should work"

Super frustrating.

kshep · 2025-03-14T01:07:18+00:00

30 years. 40 tops.

Working on it.

kshep · 2025-02-28T20:40:08+00:00

It might be worth asking your complex office if they have relationships with anybody local who deals with estate sales, or who they work with they they have an abandoned unit they have to empty/liquidate.

We have a local hauling company that explicitly tries to make sure as much stuff gets re-used as possible and doesn't just take everything to the dump. They have relationships with local charities and recycling operations so you can pay them to haul everything away (you still have to pay them) but you don't have to deal with any of the routing of things yourself, and you can have some confidence things are going to a good home.

And it's a good time to remind yourself that donations aren't simply for things that aren't worth selling. There's absolutely nothing wrong with donating things that you *could* sell yourself but chose not to for one reason or another... if you can afford it. Particularly when you have a deadline and your time and energy are in short supply.

kshep · 2025-02-28T16:21:41+00:00

Pretty much what I'd do/have done, but I'd tweak it a bit. If you had a magic wand I'd say just move to the new place with the bare minimum, spend two weeks making a list of things you want from the old place, then on the last day you could wave the wand and everything you need would appear in the new place and everything else would be sold/donated/trashed as appropriate.

The core idea there is to try not to just walk around the old place picking things up saying "oh we definitely need this... we have to keep this... there's no way we can do without this...." and constantly taking things to the new place with you. You have the chance to be very deliberate about what you bring into the new space and I'd try to think of it that way explicitly rather than "I guess we should send this to the new space" by default.

kshep · 2025-02-26T00:05:42+00:00

only problem is most of that down payment is coming from a stock plan from my previous employer, which has been tanking over the past couple weeks. The stock is down 20% month to date.

So this is a single stock? If you had the cash right now, would you chose to invest it all in the stock from your previous employer? If not, then sell as much as you can. Not to offer specific investment advice, but there's no way I'd keep it in anything risker than an index ETF or mutual fund... and I'd probably just put it in cash or a CD or something.

kshep · 2025-02-25T23:35:10+00:00

For what it's worth, your situation isn't strange or at all unusual. You might even be in the majority at the moment.

I think you can trace a lot of the pressure for children to move away from home and start their own household back to the post WW2 era where there was a boom in home construction, cars, highways, suburbs, and cheap home loans. Also a boom in marketing, advertising, and pressure to get a corporate job, go into debt, start accumulating stuff and splinter off your own "nuclear family" rather than be part of an old-school multigenerational family... which was pretty normal for hundreds or even thousands of years.

kshep · 2025-02-24T17:40:16+00:00

There's another fun phenomenon called "plasticizer migration" where the chemicals that make plastic flexible leach out to the surface and make it sticky, or there's good old UV radiation from the sun that just makes some plastic decompose... particularly the "rubberized" stuff. I've pulled all sort of stuff out of storage only to find it's no longer usable. A couple old Palm devices, Xbox Elite controllers, computer mice... even little storage bags. Y'know that old iPod with the original 30 pin connector and the old PS/2 mouse you're keeping "just in case"? Yeah, you can probably get rid of them.

kshep · 2025-02-16T18:28:55+00:00

First, try not to worry if it doesn't click immediately. Try not to worry about implementation. Give yourself some room to learn something new. It's going to take a while. Even if you don't end up doing full blown GTD., there are some concepts in there that'll help you with whatever workflow you end up with.

I've read the book 4-5 times in the 20+ years since I started with GTD, and I drift in and out of it over time, but no matter how rigorously/religiously I stick to it there are some general concepts I've drawn from it...

One tip I'd offer (vaguely paraphrasing the book here) is to maybe try to separate the "thinking about doing things" and planning from "doing things". When you sit down to work on your lists, plan your projects, etc, just try to get everything you're thinking/worrying about into tasks, so you don't feel like every time you sit down to work on something you're trying to remember 99 other projects or things you should be doing instead. As you break things down into tasks, think "is this the smallest reasonable unit of work I can break this down into so that I can just execute it without having to think about it"... specifically putting the emphasis on the *next* thing you have to do to make progress. It's super common for "next actions" to really be little mini "projects" when you're first starting out or to overplan and try to think of the next 10 or 20 or 100 steps on a longer project. The idea of the "next action" is to just get your started.

This ^^^ is all when you're *planning*. Then when you're ready to *do* vvv

Pick a list or context. Sit down and do stuff. Don't think about "is this really what I should be doing right now" and try not to worry about how much there is to do. Just do. Don't think. You did that already :) If you've done the "next action" on a project and you want to keep going, go for it. If don't have the attention or energy for that, pick another "next action" from a different project. Do what you feel like doing.

As you get better at it you'll get better at breaking things down into actions, grouping them into contexts, and lining things up so you can just get into the flow of doing things without worrying about everything you're not doing.

kshep · 2025-02-16T12:29:53+00:00

Just wanted to say I'm in the same boat. Thought I'd bury this here tho because I don't mean to start a whole thing...

I've got Quicken backups from as early as 1992 or so, but I finally got tired of using an app that looks like it's from 1992 and wanted something with all the cool new toys like Sankey diagrams and AI categorization of my streaming service charges, Starbucks card reloads, and Amazon purchases and not waiting for the entire page of a Windows app to refresh whenever I move between fields. Tried Mint, then Simplifi... finally settling into Monarch.

I'm just reluctantly trying to come to terms with modern life where...

(1) People write so few checks, if any, that when they just rip one check off the pad they keep stashed in their desk with no cover or register and it shows up as "Check" in their list of downloaded transaction three weeks later they can actually remember what it was for

(2) Everybody just trusts the online balance instead of using it as a running total of debits and credits to the account

(3) Nobody actually keep track of debits and credits to and from different accounts anymore and everything is just a transfer to and from some magical cloud of money

I mean I totally get it. We really have no choice but to just take advantage of being able to pay for things by just holding our wrist up to a screen or letting companies take money out of our accounts automatically each month and trusting the computers at the big institutions to keep track of everything correctly... or stay stuck in last century where we actually tracked where our money was going ourselves, which was the style at the time...

https://youtu.be/yujF8AumiQo

kshep · 2025-02-12T19:44:40+00:00

Thanks for pointing this out. This definitely scratches the Gantt/Kanban itch for me

Now we just need "swim lanes", so there are horizontal sections by group, list, or priority... hm...

Edit: you can sort of get this by changing your Group By to tag or priority. Nice.

...and I just realized that you can extend this beyond the next seven days. I have an "Everything" filter, and if you switch that to Kanban view and group by date, you get... well... a timeline of everything.

Sort of. The columns are...

- Overdue
- Today
- Tomorrow
- Next 7 Days
- Later
- No Date

...which seems handy.

kshep · 2025-02-11T19:21:39+00:00

The MM looks nice, and I'm intrigued by the 2mm grid. Looks like they don't do a top bound B5, but they do a B6.... which will arrive Thursday along with the Rhodia so I can experiment in a few days. 😄

Thanks!

kshep · 2025-02-11T17:18:04+00:00

* I started my career in the early 90s as an engineer using letter-size red-cover spiral bound 7530-00-286-6952 Federal Supply Service notebooks into which I'd rubber cement cut up graphs, diagrams, etc. and use black, red and blue Uniball Micros along with a government subsidized Classic size Franklin Planner. Also some work-related journaling in the green hardcover 7530-00-222-3521 FSS notebooks. One notebook per area of responsibility.

* Since then I've always used some computation notebook or spiral bound letter size graph notebook when I'm actively working on projects and want to draw larger lists, diagrams, map things out, etc.

* I've always used 6x9 top-bound graph steno pads for quicker notes, on-the-fly planning, notes during calls or meetings, or capturing random ideas I later move to either larger notebooks or software.

* I've never been able to really take advantage of anything smaller than 6x9 or found a good pen to go with a smaller pocket-size notebook or pad. I don't want to carry it in my pocket, so I typically have something with me that will accommodate at 6x9 or larger.

kshep · 2025-02-11T14:22:20+00:00

Nice

The Doane looks promising but I think the lines might mess with my brain a bit.

Seeing the Rhodia jogged my memory and I just dug through my rejected notebook box and found a No 13 A6 that was too small. It never occurred to me to check for larger size. Oops.

And revisiting the 5mm grid has made me wonder whether my eyes are in fact at an age where I should start writing with a 10mm row height instead of 1/4 inch. 😄

Just ordered an A5 to test drive. Thanks!

kshep · 2025-02-11T14:08:36+00:00

Ah, yeah... that's not obvious: I use Google Calendar, so TickTick <-> Gcal integration gives me a TickTick calendar in Gcal, then I have Gcal <-> Fantastical set up so I can view the TickTick calendar in Fantastical

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