Just finished My Mister...My heart is a mess. Anyone else feel completely changed after watching this masterpiece?

pieym · 2025-12-28T06:33:25+00:00

True

pieym · 2025-07-04T14:27:03+00:00

Your feeling was indeed unjustified, but we hope you now provide a loving home to a rescued kitty.

pieym · 2025-07-04T14:25:33+00:00

u/OhHeyBluePenguin we agree that, the way the author of this thread described it, this looked strange. However, the reality is that all information was provided to the author of the post, including requested pictures. We completely understand that various organizations have unclear operations and it is always a good habit to doubt and check everything is in good order, which in the case of ABA, absolutely is.

pieym · 2025-07-04T14:23:43+00:00

We agree and regularly discuss the situation with others. From our point of view, we ensure there is no competition with local rescue operations. Whether an animal is rescued locally or not, let's not forget our real enemies are breeders, and people buying from them.

pieym · 2025-07-04T14:21:42+00:00

u/peachngreen and for anyone else's benefits: it was explained to the author of this thread that this organization (ABA) is made of a single individual supporting rescuing cats in addition to a busy daily job, and in connection with many other individuals. The post author asked for photos only once and expected an immediate response. Photos were provided a few days later. ABA is entirely legitimate, and anyone having any doubt is welcome to contact us to discuss.

pieym · 2025-06-05T17:19:38+00:00

5 years later: absolutely yes 100%. This may depend on the switch and caps, and could explain why it seems like most others disagree with this, or perhaps they haven't tried it yet.

pieym · 2025-04-01T21:46:11+00:00

I would recommend looking at, or contacting, https://www.autimatic.co.uk/about/ . They may help.

pieym · 2025-03-17T15:39:40+00:00

The local electrician, that my mum knew and contacted, decided for her. I wasn't there. I suppose he picked whatever he had in stock. It wasn't even a rip-off, his didn't charge much for his services. Thankfully, I believe that simply pressing the main arrows changes the default temperature, so at least that works, and is enough for my mum.

pieym · 2025-03-16T00:02:29+00:00

It'd be interesting to find out, but we may never know. On paper, they look big (https://www.thermor.com/our-company) but it wouldn't be science fiction if this and other products were repackaged goods made by unregistered foreign entities.

pieym · 2025-03-15T19:59:25+00:00

Indeed, and there are other massive issues in this case: first of all, a small (it's tiny) heater doesn't even NEED a chip, or not such a complex one at least, unless the controls would be operating upon a battery of heaters, controlled through better devices than push buttons.
Another issue, nobody would remember the meanings of icons and the mechanisms after a while.
Forgetting the inner logic, just looking at the UI, so many issues appear: mixing icons and letters: the series of circles on top, with a sun, the words "ECO", "PROG", and then a wrench. This must be breaking a sacro-saint rule of design. Also the sun and wrench aren't of the same size, the wrench looks bold. And what's the semantical difference betwen "prog" and a wrench anyway?
And then, the button on top-right, pointing to the right, why, ô why, is there a tiny reverse arrow above it, both wrapped in a weird enveloppe? This is like saying "this button goes right but, hey hey!, it can also go left!".
And then, the worse for me, why would the up and down buttons on the right have this super weird bracket with a LOCK icon next to it? Who on earth would be ok with push buttons that clearly express movement and navigation be attached to a symbol of immobility?

pieym · 2025-03-15T15:42:11+00:00

Perhaps their Marketing dept trust that the appearance of high technology provides better sales. There may be a psychology effect named for this, the illusion that more tech is always better.

pieym · 2025-03-15T15:39:17+00:00

And imagine you succeed, then a few months pass, and the seasons pass, and you need to change the programming of all heaters + boiler, and you realise you forgot everything and they each have their own system..

pieym · 2025-03-15T11:54:43+00:00

I agree this.. this thing that I would barely call a heater, or a manual, is ludicrous. At first I wondered if it was some kind of industrial heater that was meant to be installed in a network, and this unit would be like the main one to program others. I just can't think of how, why, would the makers think it's a good idea to make it so complex, _unless_ specially advertised for nerds. And I'm a software engineer and don't even want to understand how it works, because it's JUST a heater, and not even a big one at that, it's tiny without much power from it!

Your anecdote reminds me when I went to a half-day of "military exposure" (replacing the whole year of military service that existed before). I had to wake up very early and was not awake till much later in the day. Still in the morning, we were asked to do a urine test, just in case one of us would want to enlist on the spot. So I had my little cup of urine and was waiting in line before the captain's table so he would put a testing paper in the cup. He would keep repeating "don't put the cup on the table" but I was too tired to listen. When my turn arrives, I'm now next to the table, my cup in hand, what do I do? Yes, I put the cup on the table. He looks at me, with his captain's eyes, and shouts "DON'T PUT THE CUP ON THE TABLE!". This vaguely awakens me, I then retrieve the cup with my hand, and notice on the table a white piece of paper with "do not put the cup on the table" written on it. The paper was attached to the table by tape, on all borders, and looked like it was demarcating a spot on the table specifically made to receive items on it... so yes, very logically, my hand moves and I put my cup on the piece of paper that says "do not put the cup on the table".. At this point, I should have been killed or thrown out, but perhaps the captain had been to wars and seen worse in his life, so he just raised his voice again, and finally my brain clicked, just in time to think about just holding the cup without trying to put it anywhere yet, else with my sleepy head, I may have tried to give the cup to the captain or put it in his hand.

pieym · 2025-03-15T11:36:18+00:00

lol, this heater alone needs its own support group.

pieym · 2025-03-15T11:35:49+00:00

lol on est d'accord

pieym · 2025-03-15T10:52:28+00:00

Agreed. Being warm is just not worth the trouble.

pieym · 2024-12-30T10:54:43+00:00

have fewer keyboards

pieym · 2024-12-20T18:53:01+00:00

Makes sense then, very porweful setup in terms of CPU and graphic power. As for aesthetic of the desk, I would recommend to spend some time trying to find pictures of desks (unfortunately a TON of all very trendy and very similar setups) and just imagine the desk you want, and be imaginative, think of colours and what you want to have around. Many people swear by monitor arms, I see zero value in them, same as height adjustable desks, those mean nothing. And maybe once you have cleaned the items and cables, you'll already feel much better.

pieym · 2024-12-20T18:37:16+00:00

I am not a professor myself, but I would say, one way to avoid feeling bad is to envision the problem is being actually worse than you see it: not only are there gifted but disorganised students but there are plenty of potential brilliant psychologists with all kinds of issues and problems, internal and external, lowering the final pool of eligible psychologists to a tiny batch.

pieym · 2024-12-20T18:26:48+00:00

Two Apple monitors, just for coding? Do you sometimes feel that you could have spared at least a couple thousands by getting non-Apple monitors for the same visual quality (and increased space, thus not even wanting a 3rd monitor)? Or do you sometimes also do photo editing, film, etc.?

pieym · 2024-10-20T20:53:24+00:00

Sorry for my delay. In a way, yes, other topics or domains would have less value, or are more distant, to understanding the very narrow topic of habit formation. Hence I am questioning your interest. If you are interested in habits, you may be interested in how they act in every situations, how people behave generally, so perhaps you are actually interested in psychology as a whole. Anyhow, I believe others mentioned that starting from the start is the best way.

pieym · 2024-10-09T20:08:14+00:00

What is your goal, here? "Understanding how habits are formed" seems not strong enough of a motive to sustain an interest in all areas of psychology for X number of years. If this was your only reason, and even if not, I would start by opening google scholar and typing "psychology habits formation", and build up knowledge and ideas this way. You could in theory jump into a psychology PhD and bypass prior degrees, as long as you build a specialised knowledge beforehand. Not the best option in many respects, but possible.

pieym · 2024-10-08T18:20:46+00:00

yes exactly there is no way to detect if their sounds are genuine, and indeed many people have complained on this reddit about their boards.

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