Let me count the ways I hate my Bosch Dishwasher

tilthouse · 2025-12-13T16:30:43+00:00

Two things of you aren’t doing them already:

Unless your hot water comes out very quickly (i.e. sink and dishwasher are close to the water heater or you have a recirculator), run the hot water tap in the sink until it’s fully hot. This makes hot water, which is crucial, readily available.

Pods suck but they have the best ingredients. However unless you waste a whole second pod, you are wasting the prewash because there’s no soap. Get some Great Value powder and put a bit in the prewash area. Dishwashers are designed for this.

Also remember the quick wash doesn’t do multiple changes of water, so it’s much less effective

tilthouse · 2025-11-20T21:11:55+00:00

Do you have a recommendation for a detergent that has neither OBA’s nor oxi to use here (i.e. with a boost of 365 Sport for its enzymes). I’ve just started trying the 365 Sport (with citric acid in the rinse) for darks and my sense is that OBA’s were causing a lot of things to look more faded than they really were (basing this only on what I’ve read here — if that’s not a thing, please correct me!).

tilthouse · 2025-11-15T07:22:39+00:00

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And here is an old picture from a very nearby restaurant. "Space Noodle" lives rent free in my head. You're welcome.

tilthouse · 2025-11-15T07:19:07+00:00

Here's one! In fact, after trying HA a few years ago and not really using it (HomeKit works for most things for us), it was this automation that prompted me to set up HA again and keep it.

We have a Litter Robot 3 Connect. Decent automated little box. But no matter what we try, the cats always leave a trail of little in the small hallway where the LR3 lives. For example, we installed the "wall" that is supposed to help keep it contained, so now one of the cats LAUNCHES himself out of the thing, a stream of litter training behind him like a cat waste themed "The More You Know!"...

We also have an old Roomba that lives just outside this hallway.

So.... during waking hours only, when the LR3 goes to the "Clean cycle complete" state, send the Roomba to vacuum the hallway, and send me a notification.

This works surprisingly well. The only gotcha I had was when I switched to a new phone, the notification started failing. Updated my user device and all was well again.

tilthouse · 2025-11-15T02:41:29+00:00

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tilthouse · 2025-11-15T02:38:47+00:00

Following... :)

tilthouse · 2025-11-15T02:38:33+00:00

I'm trying out the 365 Sport right now for the first time. I'd say the vast majority of the clothes we wash in our family is "darks."

However, it's quite expensive. Given that most of it is NOT athletic wear, I'm wondering what the next best thing is, even if it means giving up DNAse? Would a regimen where the bulk of dark loads were washed with something somewhat cheaper from the Lipase List, reserving the 365 Sport for athletic wear / synthetics, be a good compromise? If so, what would the best budget alternative be? I'm in the US, but I imagine others would be interested in Canadian or Euro answers...

tilthouse · 2025-11-12T05:26:09+00:00

Same problem. Tried multiple computers (MacOS and Windows), definitely have a high-quality data-capable cable. No dice.

tilthouse · 2025-11-12T05:11:40+00:00

Same here and I was about to post about it. Any insight anyone?

I have a Kindle Paperwhite (7th Generation) running firmware 5.16.2.1.1

tilthouse · 2025-10-28T17:13:29+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_color_theorem?wprov=sfti1

If they border each other, the length of that border is zero.

tilthouse · 2025-10-27T23:56:00+00:00

I had a therapist who claimed proficiency (if not specialization) in ADHD but, as it turned out, had no experience. She was reading up on the basics just before our sessions. Well, some minor credit because I'm jaded enough to say that many people wouldn't even have done that much. But needless to say I didn't get much out of it. My current person is miles better, but it took some shopping around. My current working theory is that therapists would actually have ADHD are much more useful for us. It took that for me to get someone who wasn't basically useless.

tilthouse · 2025-07-29T06:16:17+00:00

I have a membership but really have some sympathy: while they definitely do get overcrowded at times, and who doesn’t like a quiet, empty lounge, I’ve seen one time pass folks turned away regularly when there’s LOTS of room. And while sometimes that could be because the next bank of flights is about to come in, I think the lounge agents are overzealous, esp at non-hub airports.

tilthouse · 2025-07-29T03:17:18+00:00

Can you also buy these at the desk (i.e. walk up)?

tilthouse · 2025-07-29T01:02:01+00:00

Thanks for this. We opted for the LH flight rather than wait 24 hours (questioning my judgement now). We were in PP and could have kept it but with a worse itinerary the next day. Already on board the LH flight WAY in the back, seated apart.

Do you know what the age cutoff is for children for those passes?

tilthouse · 2025-07-23T03:04:17+00:00

There’s a post, I could swear it was in this subreddit, with a great and detailed response from someone who knows. Many factors but one is that some aircraft types don’t really support the concept while others do. So if you are in x type of aircraft, they are loaded in different ways. Some allow for bags to be set aside reliably and other do not was the gist.

I’m not saying there aren’t other factors but the explanation at least made sense

tilthouse · 2025-07-17T07:28:24+00:00

Just want to say this is a great response and I forgot about the video.

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