u/skill_tree

I was part of a CanadaLife RRSP group plan at my former employer and the account just kind of hung around for the past couple of years after they unceremoniously early-retired me (best worst thing that ever happened to me tbh).

I DIY with Questrade and this was a nice chunk of change that just kind of felt trapped inside the confines of CanadaLife.

I’d called CL not long after being let go and they made transferring the funds out sound like open heart surgery, but it turns out the process is dead simple and QT handles the whole thing.

I just went to the Move Money section in QT and chose Transfer account to Questrade. There was a small amount of information to provide, nothing out of reach, and they took it from there.

I got multiple emails from QT along the way (and not a peep first or last from CL, which should tell you something), and the whole thing took just over a week (though they say it can take around two).

My RRSP holdings were sold off in CL, the funds transferred to my QT RRSP, I’ve reinvested them and it feels great.

Being let go early can be scary, but if you’ve been saving and investing, you might be more ready for retirement than you think. I used SafelySpend to figure that part out and am loving early retirement. 

Now with my CanadaLife account closed and all my retirement funds under my control in Questrade, I feel better than ever. If you’ve been putting off pulling funds out of an old group plan, it’s probably a lot easier than you think.

Looking for feedback on a potential lav setup for DIY narrative short films.

I'm trying to avoid building a full sound kit with mixer and boom and XLR cables for this side project, and just focus on getting clean dialogue for a series of 2 minute no-budget shorts shot on a rigged iPhone with no crew.

Considering the Rode Go 3’s running to an iPad mini I already own as the field recorder. Transmitters wired to lavs hidden on actors, sending to receiver that is plugged into the mini and recording via the Rode app as separately monitored tracks (with backup 32 bit float sound recording directly to each transmitter).

Wondering if anyone has experience using these for narrative work who can speak to any pros/cons.

If you can recommend a lav mic as well that isn't total junk in the $100 range... my eyes and ears are bleeding from combing through what's out there. I'd be forever indebted for any advice there.

I can't be alone in noticing how the Power agent takes 2-3x longer on tasks now, and makes mistakes, deviates from requests, and produces shoddy results WAY more often.

This subreddit is teeming with complaints. Clearly decisions have been made within Replit that are not in our best interests.

It might be time to start a "how to" super thread for getting projects off this once-great platform.

Is there a setting somewhere where the agent can be assigned credentials to my app rather than wasting time and tokens on doing the whole song and dance of trying and failing and trying and failing and then eventually figuring out how to gain access for testing? This seems like something that should just be automatic but maybe I'm missing something.

Returnal is an 11/10 game for me. At least it has been right up to the finish line. Here I am on the final stretch for the true ending and they go and make it not just challenging, not just a struggle, but damn near impossible.

The game throws you into the gauntlet right at the start and you accept and it proves itself worthy as you do the same. But after all that, to just put you through an endless search with never any certainty what you’re looking for is even there (spoiler, it never is) is just a bizarre slap in the face from a game that until now commanded my utmost respect.

I might have to put the controller down and just watch the ending on YouTube. What a massive letdown this has turned out to be.

I've asked Siri why it can't refer to our private conversations the same way it can to my private Messages and Emails and it essentially boils down to a design decision by Apple that I'm not really understanding the reasoning behind.

If my conversations with Siri are private and secure, then there's no more risk involved in it using those conversations as context than there is with it doing so for other private details on my device.

Siri would be so much more useful if it could recall details we previously discussed.

I've submitted the suggestion through the feedback app. If you agree, maybe consider doing the same.

Or by all means tell me what I'm missing here because I'm really not seeing the issue that prevents Siri from doing this securely.

I'm sick of dealing with this, does anyone know a way around it?

You ask the agent to do something outside your skillset. They complete the work, checkpoint made, charge applied. All good.

You then open the file to make your own changes. Check the app, and the work the agent did has been reverted.

You tell the agent what happened, they redo their work and charge you a second time for their effort.

I would LOVE to know how I can work on my own app without undoing agent work I'm paying for. Does anyone know how to ensure this doesn't keep happening?

Google ads is complex and easy to get wrong. You'd think they'd have Gemini built in so it can actually help guide you, rather than whatever AI they have under the hood nudging you in every possible direction at once.

Even a low budget ad spend goes well beyond the cost of a Gemini subscription. Successful advertisers are more likely to continue advertising, which would mean more revenue for google.

Most new users at this point are turning to their AI of choice to help guide them with setup anyway. Having an AI that's actually plugged into everything you're doing in ads would be so much more effective.

So what gives?

I was several steps into a multi-step building process with the agent when an urgent issue needing addressing came in. I did what I thought was the right move and started a new chat to address it to keep the contexts for the build and for the issue clean.

I had no idea that replit automatically kills chats when you start a new one.

I was days inside this other chat, establishing context, answering questions, building in stages. Now I'm supposed to pick back up in the middle with a fresh agent who has no idea what the context is and just hope for the best?

Being able to multi-task and keep contexts separate and clean seemed obvious so me. Why would replit force quit ongoing chats like that? And with no warning? I'm really struggling to understand this.

My web app's development preview is currently extremely slow to reload. I have tried clearing cache, signing back into replit, but it still takes an unusually long amount of time to load the preview into the browser (30 seconds or more) and then when it auto reloads it's the same thing again.

Actions inside the app like deleting a document or duplicating take several seconds to go through, as opposed to being instantaneous like they normally are.

I also had an issue with the agent taking 45 minutes for a simple change request. A gargantuan amount of time compared to anything it's ever done with this app before.

The lights are all green on the status page. Is anyone else experiencing this?

Being able to try different ideas out, to build out entire features I’d been putting off, to make mistakes and not have to stress about any of it. It felt like what drew me to this platform in the first place.

It was nice to be back.