Sometimes you need 1 item, like a chicken for dinner or ribs to grill. Pro tip, don’t take a cart. Go in, get your two/three things and walk out for under $40.

Take a cart, always over $100.

People give me weird looks when I grab a recycled box as soon as I walk in and proceed to carry it around the store. But I consistently only need about four items (or rather, there's a ton of other stuff I sometimes get there, but there are only four items that I need urgently--coffee bring one of them).

I could use a cart, but having a cart makes navigating around the warehouse 10x slower. If I'm just carrying stuff under my arm or in box, I can walk quickly, I can walk around people, and I can get the the self-checkout aisle and GTFO of the store without taking an hour...

My wife and I always go in with a list of exactly what we need and stick to it. If you give into the impulse buys it kills any savings you would get from shopping there.

is savings what you are optimizing for, or... prosperity? :)

Some of us don’t, but for about $2k they will drain the fluid out and refill will floater free materials.

Changed my life, I thought I was living in a small crowd of fruit flies.

Really? I asked my last ophthalmologist if there was anything to be done about my severe floaters, and he said "no", and that I'd just have to live with them. What's the name of the procedure you had, and what are the downside risks?

There are probably high risks of damaging the retina, and there is an increased risk of cataracts, if I remember correctly. Both my eyes had a vitrectomy during retinal surgery and it is really great to live without floaters. But I can imagine doctors will not want to do it just by itself.

It's called vitrectomy. There are risks and that's why they generally only consider it for really severe cases. Look it up.

Thank you! Glad to know what to look up.

To be honest, I don't know where I'd rank on an objective severity scale. My floaters often make it difficult to read, and I've got one that can lodge in the wrong place for long enough to make driving feel a little scary. That's maybe not bad enough - given the risks, which I don't know right now - to argue against it. I'm not necessarily questioning the doctor's judgment - he's maybe right! - just mad that he didn't even tell me about this procedure.

Given it makes it hard to read and actually makes driving dangerous it sounds like it's bad enough to warrant treatment. Get a second opinion, mention trouble reading and unable to see properly while driving.

I believe there is also "Laser vitreolysis", which seems somewhat disputed.

I have similar issues and 5 years in, problems are only getting worse (perhaps combined with pigment dispersion syndrom making it worse, but not on the path to glaucoma, at least not yet).

There is a version for the Adafruit Fruit Jam Board. It’s pretty cool, it was fun to go back in time. About 75 all up in costs.

Does this mean my Beanie Babies are not worth $250 each? Asking for a friend... /s

One very overwhelming overworked volunteer. It’s a free service, so patience is a virtue.

I have the same system, todo become done. I also add done things that I didn’t expect/ plan to do. (Life’s curve ball). I also started tracking “what is the worst thing that happened today”. That’s added perspective that I may think I had a bad day, when in fact I got these things done and the worst thing was actually pretty minimal.

I think the BOFH answer would be “They ride Elevator #2 to sub-basement 3.” Plot twist, there is only sub-basement 2.

Two pints of ale please!

I have an iPad Air that I love, made in 2014, last iOS is 12.5. I’d love a slightly more current browser, but the rest of the software is working fine. I spend 6-7 hours using it each day.

Just a browser is all I want.

And this is a great example of planned obsolescence because Apple does not allow any other browser with its own rendering engine on ios - all browsers on ios are forced to use ios provided browser engine, and thus when they stop updating it, all browsers, even the non-Apple when become "outdated" to. All apps that also use WebViews also become "outdated". (Note that Safari is "bundled" as part of ios and thus stops receiving updates when ios updates stops).

Strangely enough they updated the kernel to one in 2021.

Any such unexpected updates they offer is often out of self-interest, often to patch and prevent some kind of jailbreak.

It’s like the days when I traveled for work, and some bright spark in finance said the bonus points belonged to the company. We had a few go-arounds about it. It got ugly in the company, and I refused to fly. Then about a dozen other employees refused to fly. I still went to customer locations, but I drove. What could be a one day trip to Chicago became 3 days out, one day there, 3 days back. Mileage, food and hotels were easily 4 times the cost of the flights. They backed down.

Boy, I hope you enjoyed driving! And had a bunch of audio books you wanted to listen to.

And there's an easy solution for them, too: pay with the company card. If the company expects me to use my personal financing on their behalf, then I get to keep the benefits.

Thanks for the memory reminder, I read them when they first came out. They are still highly amusing today!