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Stick smoothing only takes you so far on this thing. I’ve had better luck just accepting the turns look rough and keeping the pans short instead of fighting it with slow inputs.
I keep the plan info in my calendar with the expiry date on the day itself, not a reminder days ahead. That way it pops up when I actually need to deal with it instead of getting buried. Missed one anyway last year because I ignored the notification, so it’s not foolproof.
Room choice barely matters if there’s nothing drawing them in, in my opinion. I had mine in a spare bedroom for close to two months and it did nothing, then moved it near the kitchen trash and under the sink and I actually started seeing less activity within a week. Same device, same settings. My take is the food and water source matters more than the room label. If the kitchen is where they’re getting into stuff, that’s where I’d put it, not because kitchens are magic but because that’s the actual problem area. I’ve also got a second one in the garage now since one unit clearly wasn’t cutting it across the whole place. Two outlets covered way more ground than one ever did. So no, I don’t think you’re wasting time moving it, just don’t expect the room itself to fix anything if there’s still a mess attracting them.
Not buying the germ-killing angle either. Mine shoots out hot steam but it cools the second it hits a surface, so whatever it touches is basically just damp and warm after a pass. It cleans grime fine, sanitizing is a stretch.
Mine does the same thing and I’ve come around to thinking it’s just the tradeoff you get with those side pieces. I’ve had mine about four months now and it’s great for walking the dog or running errands, but the second I sit through a long meeting or drive somewhere far it starts digging in around the sides. Not painful exactly, just noticeable enough that I’m aware of it the whole time. I don’t loosen it because then it slides down my leg when I stand back up, which is worse. So I just live with the stiffness during the sitting parts. Whether that’s a dealbreaker depends on how much of your day is actually spent parked in a chair. If you’re mostly moving around at work it probably won’t bug you much.
Night only doesn’t make much sense to me. The thing sits there doing whatever it does while it’s plugged in, so pulling it during the day just cuts your coverage in half. Either leave it in or skip it.
Hiding under the bed isn’t the problem. Mine did that for a bit and turned out fine, so I wouldn’t read too much into where the cat parks itself. The thing I’d actually pay attention to is whether it’s eating and using the box.
Mine mostly just sat on the shelf after a couple weeks. It buzzes and that’s about it. For actual desk-work shoulder tightness I got more out of just standing up every hour than from the pads.
I’ve had mine for a few weeks and the actual pause button is unreliable, but the emulator menu usually has a save option buried in there. Takes a bit of digging but it beats losing your spot.
Mine has held up fine without any fancy storage. I just keep the remote on my nightstand and it hasn’t wandered off yet. Small remotes get lost when people toss them everywhere, not because the fan is missing a slot.
I pull mine as soon as it’s been plugged in for about an hour, light color doesn’t matter much to me. Had a cheap drone years back that sat on the charger overnight and the battery puffed up, so I don’t leave any of them unattended now. Red or green, I just go by time.
Wider bottles are hit or miss with mine. It grabs some and just spins on others, so I keep a cheap manual opener in the drawer anyway. Not worth fighting with it when the bottle doesn’t want to cooperate.
Mine’s in a spot where the IR kicks on around dusk and the birds don’t seem to care one bit. They keep coming back to the same perch every evening. If the light were bothering them they’d have found somewhere else by now.
If I’m being blunt, I’d skip it for phone finding. The tag makes your phone ring, sure, but that only helps when the phone is actually nearby and you just can’t see it. It’s a Bluetooth connection, so the range is what it is. If the phone is in another room or the tag isn’t close, pressing the button does nothing useful. I’d rather just use my watch or a cheap second phone to call it if the concern is losing it around the house. For keys or a bag, fine, the tag does its job. For the phone itself, it’s backwards. You need the phone to find the tag, not the other way around. So if finding your phone is the main reason you’re buying it, I’d pass.
Moving it around is overrated. I spent an afternoon shuffling mine between three different spots in my apartment and the scan results were basically identical each time. Same handful of channels, same ones missing. The only thing that changed was how annoying it was to keep unplugging and replugging the coax.
What actually made a difference for me was doing a full factory reset on the TV before scanning, not just hitting the scan button again. Apparently my TV had cached some old channel data from a previous setup and it was skipping over stuff. After the reset I picked up two extra channels that never showed up before. Not a huge win but it was more than moving the antenna ever did.
So no, I don’t think you’re doing anything wrong. Rescanning in place does nothing, and moving it around is mostly a coin flip. Sometimes it helps, sometimes it’s just wasted effort.
Angling it doesn’t really change much in my experience. The head grabs hair either way, so just go straight in and make sure you’re actually hitting the folds around the ear opening. That’s where I kept missing spots at first.
Mine pulls about the same watts as a small space heater, so the heat is real, not just a lukewarm fan. That said, 800W isn’t going to do much in a big open living room. Fine for a bedroom or bathroom.
I haven’t used it on myself, but I did try it on my dad once when he choked on a piece of steak. Worked, but I’m not sure I’d trust the self-use angle. When you’re actually choking, you’ve got seconds and you’re panicking. Trying to position a mask on your own face and yank a plunger with enough force while you can’t breathe? That seems like a stretch. Maybe if you practiced enough it becomes muscle memory, but most people won’t. The device itself seems fine for someone helping you, that part I get. The self-use claim is what I’d question. Feels like marketing covering all bases rather than something they really tested. I’d still keep one around, just not counting on being able to use it on myself.
Mine survived the top rack fine but the coating started looking cloudy after a couple months of that. Hand washing keeps it looking new, so that’s what I do now.
Mandarin offline is the part I’d actually question. Mine needed a connection for it even though I’d grabbed the pack beforehand, so if her place has dead wifi, test that before you count on it.
Mine survived a full wash cycle in my jacket pocket, backpack is nothing. That said, I did have one weird stretch where it kept showing my home address for a day even though I was at work. No idea what that was about.
The noise wasn’t my issue, it was the airflow. On low it’s fine but the cooling mode kicks the fan up a notch and that’s what kept me awake. I ended up just using it before bed to cool the room down, then switching it off.
Matcha is actually the one thing I use mine for and it does fine as long as you add the powder after the water. Toss it in first and you get a little ring of green paste stuck to the bottom. Protein shakes clump less than I expected too.
The wallet bulge thing is what I’d actually question. 1.8mm doesn’t sound like much on paper but if your wallet is already tight, adding anything makes it worse. Mine made a card slot basically unusable, so I ended up pulling a card out and it’s fine now. As for interference, I’ve had mine sitting against a debit card and a building access badge for a few months and it still shows up on Find My. I can’t say it never drops a ping but nothing I’d blame on the cards. The ringer is loud enough that I found it under a couch cushion, which was the whole point. It’s not invisible in your pocket though, that’s my gripe.
Mine gets treated like every other kitchen knife I own, honestly. I hand wash it because the wood handle is the only real variable. Left it in the sink once overnight by accident and the handle looked a little dry afterward, but nothing cracked or warped. Blade itself has never given me any trouble.
