The irony in that quote is thick

Combined over 20% last November, great times!!

Combined means we have:

first 1k kwh rate Above 1k kwh rate

And the above 1k kwh changes seasonally.

They lost me a while ago when they first started moving existing features behind paywalls.

Going public just means they’ll need to find ways to grow 20% a year or be failing… Seems like subscription increases incoming! They no longer get my engagement or data so it won’t impact me.

The article was interesting, and they are trying to say there’s a chance that people who genetically have a lower HR, may tend to end up being more athletic which might lower it even more (and also put them at the higher scale of performance abilities) it’s a lot of guessing.

And the last paragraph of the article was kinda stupid. Ain’t nobody cruising around at 34bpm or 40bpm. I assume they mean to say if your training partners RHR is 34 to your mid 40’s don’t lose any sleep over it, but as worded using ‘cruise around’ and ‘same mileage’ makes it sound, to me, like they’re referring to while exercising.

So if your training partner can cruise around with a 34 bpm heart rate while you sit in the mid-40s on the same mileage, that may reflect genetics as much as grit. That may be a frustrating or reassuring conclusion, and it may depend on which side of that heart rate threshold you sit on.

Indiana price increase in 2025 ~20% (I believe the new rates went into effect in November, and this does not include a base increase for having your house connected to the grid. I believe it was $10/mo increase making that % even larger.

100% this I do everything I can to ignore shorts

Our bowl works pretty well, and is not tracking our data!

This would be pretty cool, if you build it I’ll come :)

I moved away from Strava when they first started putting stuff behind a paywall, and just keep everything inside Garmin. But can’t stand that they’ve come up with connect+ BS

I won’t watch it there either

Ya, good to see for sure but I’ll stick with my 5.7 for a bit longer!

They’ve extended the recall into 2024 models so I guess we’ll see how that goes!

So, I see Toyota, expensive Toyota, and Subaru.

I’m a bit of a Toyota fanboy, I own a 2008 Tundra I bought new that’s been the best vehicle I’ve owned, however the new one has not been fairing well in the reliability department (the new engine has issues). I have heard from a few sources (one personal friend) that Toyota quality has dropped the last decade too. If that’s the case, what does that say about the others below these three?

You can still be best even if the “whole” group’s quality/reliability is going down I guess.

Ya, I get it, and anything smart now needs to be able to work with home assistant locally.

If we had to do it over again we’d have likely gotten something different, but the features you do get can be useful!

Ya, hard disagree here, while 100% the new features could have been kept in device, vs cloud but the difference between our (770?) that just bounces around until it runs out of battery (and gets stuck in the SAME place Everytime it hits that spot vs. the newer one vacuums the whole floor and can be told to avoid the problematic area(s) is pretty huge.

Now, the new one has a host of its own issues but when it works it’s a much better product that produces much better results.

All that said I think the software has gone to crap over the years and the newer (i7) actually is less reliable than it was the first 6-8 months we owned it.

Or, perhaps we can stop funding THEM

I’d have bet against that, but good to hear!

No, we don’t buy breeds, we generally rescue our pets, our current two came from SAAP.

Guess the food in their bowls will sit uneaten or when they get fed junk (human) food they’ll just not be interested?

Obviously there are exceptions but that’s not driving fat drugs for pets.

Or stop feeding them so much? I’ve had pets my whole life. A cat and dog now, but multiple cats and dogs since I was born . My parents had cats when I was born.

Not one was ever fat. This doesn’t seem complicated.