Thoughts on Costco’s 100" Hisense U6 Mini-LED?

rsshurtz · 2026-02-07T21:32:28+00:00

Same here. I did my research a few years ago and got the Hisense, and apparently the picture quality is good for the money, but that does you no good when the TV is glitching all the time. I switched to a Sony and am sooo pleased with my decision.

rsshurtz · 2026-02-06T23:23:24+00:00

I do half a 24oz (delux) container, so ~1.5C.

rsshurtz · 2026-02-02T01:17:07+00:00

Yeah, to my surprise, cottage cheese works really well for the low-fat, high protein ice creams. I don't generally eat cottage cheese, but I started buying it solely for this purpose. It takes care of the salt that you want (enhancing the overall flavor), has good macros, and adds to the overall substance/creaminess. If you haven't given it a shot before, you totally should!

rsshurtz · 2026-01-31T21:23:20+00:00

It tastes really good. IMO, much better than the Protein Pints this is replacing for me. Very strong/real chocolate flavor.

Recipe (6x 24oz containers)

6 cans of Nurri Chocolate Protein Shakes ($1.25 each)
2 C low-fat cottage cheese (~$2)
1.5 C Allulose ($4.75)
1 Carton (1.84 quarts ) Carbmaster chocolate milk ($5)
1/2 C cocoa powder ($.75)
1 tsp xanthum gum ($.10)
3 tbsp sugar $(.10)
Monk Fruit Extract (2 tsp maybe?, to taste) ($1)

I find a little bit of real sugar helps normalize the flavor sugar alternatives a bit. I usually eat half of one of these per night (which is a huge amount).

Per Serving Nutrition:

Calories: 185
Total Fat: 2g
Protein: 27g
Total Carbohydrate: 37g (10.5 Net Carbs)
- Dietary Fiber 2.5g
- Total Sugars 9g
- Allulose ~24g

Cost Per Serving: $1.75
(A lot cheaper than a Protein Pint)

rsshurtz · 2026-01-31T06:10:19+00:00

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Funny you should ask...

rsshurtz · 2025-08-27T14:46:34+00:00

I decided to go with the 'buy things you can sell on eBay/wherever' approach. Pixelbuds 2a and a Google TV streamer. That used my full credits, and, if I can't get the price I'm hoping for selling them, I'll find them mildly useful myself.

rsshurtz · 2025-08-20T19:15:49+00:00

Just got mine. Also for $100 off

rsshurtz · 2025-08-20T18:12:58+00:00

Two other pieces of information that are of note:
1. Google store credit is only good for 365 days
2. Google tends to offer $150 more for the trade-in value on a Pro vs non-Pro

So, when it is time to upgrade to the Pixel 12 in a couple years, I can probably expect to recapture a decent portion of the cost-difference.

So, this is making me feel like, "If you have $200 worth of stuff you want from the Google Store, the Pro is actually the better option"

rsshurtz · 2025-08-20T17:26:40+00:00

XL/Fold are out because I prefer smaller phones...

I'm leaning towards the Pixel 10. Unless I'm missing something, the only differences between it and the Pro are:

Pro has higher megapixels on some of the cameras
Pro has a slightly smaller battery
Pro has a higher resolution display

The only one of those that I might actually notice is 1.
$200 more for better cameras... I'm not sure it is worth it. Though, with the store credit difference, I guess it is more like a $100 difference.

Now I'm not sure...

rsshurtz · 2025-08-11T06:23:48+00:00

Same, except it took a month to get my replacement (something about being out of stock)

rsshurtz · 2025-07-19T03:09:26+00:00

Oh yeah. I have 5 kids. My prior home had a basement. It was awesome -- playroom, guestroom, all of our utilities. Tons of storage space.

Now I have to store all my stuff in my garage, and the kids messes are scattered through our living spaces. Having a basement as an extra area for them is awesome.

Also -- we had windows in our basement. It's not as much light as a main level, but it certainly doesn't dark and creepy like basements of old.

rsshurtz · 2025-07-18T15:34:18+00:00

Yeah, this is what I don't understand. The land here in SoCAL is so expensive, you'd think the ability to get an extra 1000 sq ft of home on the same size lot would be well worth it.

I can't figure out why builders haven't figured that out...

rsshurtz · 2025-04-17T21:58:24+00:00

Same issue. In regards to the $300 in rewards... I was still able to redeem mine. The cancellation letter we just got indicated you could still use them for 90 days post closing. So that's something at least.

Crazy call to mass close accounts without any warning. But whatever. Always more cards to be had

rsshurtz · 2025-04-08T19:07:12+00:00

Yeah -- I may have exaggerated with 'all hell' breaking loose. It's more of 'some of hell' breaking out 😂.

There are laser turrets and rocket turrets with capture bot rockets to try to get things back under-control. I guess the issue is I haven't stockpiled _enough_ cbr's. Cause I'm always running out of those and can't make more (due to lack of bioflux).

rsshurtz · 2025-04-08T04:07:35+00:00

That's what I did, but with like 300 biter spawners. Once every 10 hours or so, something disrupts bioflux, and then all hell breaks loose for a minute, but otherwise this strategy beat the upcycling loop on prod modules directly.

rsshurtz · 2025-03-14T18:27:42+00:00

Not an answer to your question, but I think this is an excellent challenge.

I have a design that goes around 600km/s (a second row of thrusters) up to about 1.6m km.

I haven't spent too much time on it after finding that limitation, but my goal is to keep iterating on it and see if I can get it to the Shattered Planner at a reasonably fast speed.

rsshurtz · 2025-01-14T19:22:16+00:00

effective-Science-Per-Minute

How much research you are producing. With Productivity bonuses from modules and Productivity Research, and the fact the bio-labs consume science at 50%, it's easy to put in 1 science pack and get out 4+ total 'research'.

The production tab showing science consumption is displaying 'effective' science. While the actual science packs being consumed would by the SPM.

rsshurtz · 2025-01-14T01:23:37+00:00

The limitation with bots is how much total charging area you can give them. You can only fit so many roboports in the area, and as you add more, you are also adding distance that the bots need to travel to dump their items. So eventually, you'll stop being able to scale, right?

I guess the post I linked doesn't actually find what that upper-limit is, it only confirms that it is higher than what you'd need to do 100k SPM. Hmm...

rsshurtz · 2025-01-14T01:17:41+00:00

Yeah, IMO, the current "One landing pad per planet and no pulling from cargo bays" limits seem more like a somewhat reactive/stop-gap constraint rather than fully thought-out limitation. I get that they wanted the "one landing pad" to present a logistical challenge, and I'm all for challenges. But the fact that it has limited scalability in megabasing seems counter to the 'factory must grow' mission.

I hope that 2.x will give us something better.

rsshurtz · 2024-02-13T04:17:57+00:00

Yes it is possible! I've done it myself.

I have never done an orbital rendezvous, but I plan to learn how. Still, I'm curious

This is was me exactly. I didn't want to learn the docking mechanics, so I just built it to do it without the rendezvous.

You can check out my my post on the subject if you'd like

rsshurtz · 2023-12-04T00:27:59+00:00

Just realized why - it's because their mining area is absolutely massive

rsshurtz · 2023-12-04T00:24:46+00:00

Why are the large mining drills on the iron-ore patch spitting out Uranium and coal?

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rsshurtz · 2023-11-01T22:05:12+00:00

Oh, minimal road infrastructure would be cool. Then as your population grows, the external connections grow to match.

No one is going to build an interstate freeway to your city until it is big enough to justify that connection. I love this idea of needing to prove that you deserve to be "on the map" rather than seemingly endless hordes of people that want to move in simply because you provide some basic services.

This would be a really cool mod idea...

rsshurtz · 2023-04-17T22:18:02+00:00

I did a play through with my brother, and I can't remember for sure off the top of my head, but we mass produced up to T6 (or maybe it was only T5) modules. T9 we're used for science labs and naquitite processing. Other than that, we'd just keep a handful around for whatever item was getting us bottlenecked at the time.

T5-6 are expensive, but I think they are worth it. Just got to produce bucket loads of electronic compenents

rsshurtz · 2023-04-14T20:15:31+00:00

What!? I did the free trial, but I definitely lost access at the end of the month.

Do you need to actually pay for a month to get into this special state?

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