u/richardricchiuti

I have a '25 I5 Limited. We just purchased a new home and the breaker box only has one shot left. Is there a way to share a section? My Emporia has a plug end but I'm guessing that can be replaced to be hardwired into the box. I seem to recall a post about sharing breakers. I haven't fully researched this but wonder if anyone here has a solution. Thanks!

I follow this group and not there yet on spending $500+ for cans.

Anyone listen to Fred Again, Portico Quartet or Girls in Airports?

My wife lived in Japan some time ago. I enjoy Japanese lifestyle videos, but the excessive plastic packaging—like wrapping a single scallion—is shocking. For a country known for innovation and efficiency, this seems like a massive blind spot. Does anyone have firsthand experience with how Japan handles all the plastic, living in or visiting Japan who can weigh in?

I often watch very well produced fun "life in Tokyo," etc. type YT videos. It's nice to see so many places, shopping, coffee shops and the cityscape.

The level of plastic in everyday life in these places is obscene. They wrap one scallion in plastic in grocery stores!

Japan especially blows my mind because they are so big on innovation and perfecting many systems but plastic use seems apparently completely overlooked.

Does anyone here have first hand experience with this living there, visiting there, being from there?

Thanks!

I installed One UI 9 a while back, when the Beta became available, on my S26 Ultra. This week I lost the swipe gesture with Gboard to move the cursor position by dragging my finger left or right on the Gboard Space Bar.

Samsung ran an update last night but it hasn't changed the lack of this feature. It still doesn't work.

Have others heard of this or had this experience?

Thanks!

I installed One UI 9 a while back, when the Beta became available, on my S26 Ultra. This week I lost the swipe gesture with Gboard to move the cursor position by dragging my finger left or right on the Gboard Space Bar.

Samsung ran an update last night but it hasn't changed the lack of this feature. It still doesn't work.

Have others heard of this or had this experience?

Thanks!

UPDATE (18 July 2026)...

I decided to un/reinstal Gboard late yesterday and that fixed it. Interestingly enough, Gboard saved my Pinned Clipboard...which now begs the questions, how? Does Gboard now save the clipboard in the cloud? The dictionary? I use the dictionary feature along with the dictionary shortcuts everyday.

If so, great. I don't remember a setting/feature for this. I've used Gboard many years and anytime I got a new device had to start from scratch.

I installed One UI 9 a while back, when the Beta became available, on my S26 Ultra. This week I lost the swipe gesture with Gboard to move the cursor position by dragging my finger left or right on the Gboard Space Bar.

Samsung ran an update last night but it hasn't changed the lack of this feature. It still doesn't work.

Have others heard of this or had this experience?

Thanks!

I’ve been sewing for about a year and have a lot of respect for the time, skill, and effort independent designers put into their patterns and sew-along videos. Recently, I found a great denim jacket tutorial on YouTube. The creator sells the pattern on Etsy for $25. Because I saw multiple listings for the same jacket, I reached out to ask if the $25 purchase included a layered PDF with various sizes (S, M, L). He let me know that the $25 fee is for one individual size only. Is pricing per single size, rather than a nested/layered bundle, a standard practice in the indie pattern community? I want to ensure I'm supporting makers fairly while also understanding typical market norms. Thanks.

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I downloaded a few apps to my phone when I leased a 2025 Ioniq 5 Limited AWD last September. Went from Fort Collins CO to Estes Park, CO last week and was at 38% when we arrived (140 +/- range left) and found a ChargePoint system at the Visitor's Center. My first time charging in public. The Charge Point display is fucking hard to read, even in shade. I needed their app. Downloaded it. The charge station said 200 kilowatts and no other vehicles were charging at this four unit station. I thought I should thus charge pretty quickly. I plugged in (with my adapter), applied my credit card to my new ChargePoint app and my wife and I walked across the street to Starbucks. In 20 minutes or less, charge went from 38% to 98%. Cost was $29

This was pretty easy yet cumbersome all the same. I was imagining what it would be like had we found a different system, using a different app and charger, winter rather than summer, etc.

Every network-whether it's ChargePoint, Electrify America, EVgo, or Blink--seem to operated like an isolated digital fiefdom. They want our credit card, they want our data, and they want us locked into their ecosystem. The fact I had to download a new app and pre-load a digital wallet just to get juice while squinting at a terrible charge unit screen is an example of corporate friction passing as "innovation."

I'm sure they're are many organizations fighting to rid this country of EVs and these "hiccups" just make the haters more embolden.

ICE vehicles don't require an app. ICE vehicles arrive at a "gas station" and push their CC into the machine, pump gas and go.

EV charging should be much simpler...it's not!

WTF?

My wife's S23 S View Case doesn't function any longer like it used to. BTW, I always loved the S View Cases.

Can it be a setting or did a firmware update break the functionality?

Thanks!

I've had a number of buds in the last 12 months. Sony, B&W, Bose all in the $250 range. Yesterday I received the Technics Reference EAH-AZ100-N. I use a Samsung s26 Ultra and immediately, right out of the box with no adjustments, these buds were the best I've heard in a very long time. That's all I have to say.

I'm a new sewist. Worked on learning to make clothes but want to go down a rabbit hole of bag making. More functional, tote, utilitarian types. I'll probably want to make aprons too.

What YT channels do you recommend? Bag maker pattern makers? Folks to follow.

Other resources?

I have a new Husqvarna Sapphire 930 and a new Janome HD9QCP.

Thanks everyone!

I purchased a new Janome HD9 QCP and am wondering if aftermarket feet are just as good. Janome branded feet are $30-$60 each while aftermarket are $5-$10.

Thanks!

I addressed this in the last couple of days and trying to use it again today is like trying to cure a major disease. Skylum is like the health industry - keeping people attached with nowhere left to go. How they get away with this is pure BS.

Skylum, if you're listening, I want a refund. I know you are. The frustration and aggravation you cause by not optimizing your crap software is beyond me. Trying to load 15 RAW files today and work on them is a nightmare.

I'm done.

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I'm guessing it's been covered but anyone here use linen bedsheets for clothing making? Amazon has a number of Oeko-Tex types at very good prices and it's too good a deal compared to buying from a fabric seller. Drape and weight are often hard to define but if I pick some up I can gauge the weight by hand/feel.

I can get about 16-18yrds in this manner for $100-$130. Many say GOTS or Oeko-Tex.

Thoughts?

I'm guessing it's been covered but anyone here use linen bedsheets for clothing making? Amazon has a number of Oeko-Tex types at very good prices and it's too good a deal compared to buying from a fabric seller. Drape and weight are often hard to define but if I pick some up I can gauge the weight by hand/feel.

I can get about 16-18yrds or in this manner for $100-$130. Many say GOTS or Oeko-Tex.

Thoughts?

I've stuck with Neo a long time but batch processing is still a huge disappointment.

I shoot events, convert the RAW files to JPGs in Camera Raw then open the JPGs in Neo. I can have 100-200 photos. I select a photo, add adjustments for color, contrast, noise reduction, pull out shadows add face light, then create a preset. I then copy and paste the adjustments to all the other photos and export. Selecting one photo to view the changes can take 15 to 30 seconds before the effects can be viewed.

It's always been super slow applying them. Exporting the files also takes a really long time. So long, I just leave and come back an hour or 2 later because it can take 2 hours to export 200 photos.

I currently own an M4 Mac Mini Pro with 24GB of RAM. Everything else flys on this machine except Neo.Luminar Neo had always been and remains super slow on any of the last 3-4 computers I've owned in the last 5 years.

I'm at a complete loss.

Troubleshooting advice welcome!