u/thumperj

I just received a pop-up advertising message from the Masterbuild application on my iPhone for a discount for the up-coming holiday.

This is really shitty practice, Masterbuilt. Please reconsider this decision. At LEAST make opt-out available.

I bought my XT on 04/14/2026. The longer I own this, the more I think I made a mistake buying from Masterbuilt. The app is just barely more than useless. The XT itself has had problem after problem (Random ejecting screws, melting plastic smells, and I still have to use a stick shoved under the baffle handle to get it to close...). But hey, at least it's sturdily built.

I'm eagerly waiting for the Fireboard replacement to come out and I can remove all Masterbuilt related electronics and apps out of my life. This push advertisement just reinforces my feeling.

We are getting a water softener, an RO system and a backwash carbon filter. We live in a septic and well water area with old trees and lots of great dirt. I really want to protect the trees, ground, the septic system and the well from any damage, even slow accumulating damage.

I know the RO and backwash filter effluent don't contain anything that's bad for the yard, but the water softener effluent is different. It will contain salt (in our case, potassium chloride). How do most folks handle the discharge safely?

We have extremely hard water so I expect quite a bit of water output.

Thanks!

I'm a tech consultant working with a mid-8+ figure manufacture/sourcing company with probably 150,000 SKUs not including special orders. They have customer showrooms in <10 locations, all fairly region in the same state. They handle POs, single orders B2C order, large C2C orders. However, their inventory management system is pretty home grown and a terrible gluing of two different off-the-shelf solutions, neither of which do the job even 50%.

The sales people are using one to quote, but the other to generate sales tickets. One has "customer friendly" data entries and the other company internal abbreviations.

And they want to transition HARD to e-commerce. As the tech consultant, I'm telling them there's absolutely no way until they fix this.

Full disclosure: I'm a tech consultant (software architecture/business systems), not a consultant for this sort of stuff. But I want to steer them the right direction.

a) Is there an industry trade group, magazine, consultant organization I could point them at that can help out?

b) Has anyone transitioned to NetSuite and can share the experience with me?