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Dealt with them a couple of years ago (check my post history here for the story).

They solved my issue and I've had no issues since.

Having to have them step in burned several decades of trust. The account they had to save was from early in the OS X/iCloud days, when I had a G4.

I have no experience with Europe or the UK but do with Japan, and I do see this type of cultural whiplash and regret quite often from expats there. Very few are willing to speak about it due to the prevailing online opinion of Japan being amazing in all ways. I also spent over a decade living in Hawai'i and Guam, and see this type of issue there due to the much larger difference in lifestyle than most would assume.

I tend to think that those who get the whiplash were blind to what they were giving up as much as what they thought they were gaining, which seems to agree with the article.

I do have autoimmune issues, but I had a totally different gut issue that they basically hand waved as IBS due to those until a different set of docs realized it was a dysfunctional gallbladder. I had been dealing with weekly gall bladder attacks for a decade and then they pulled it.

Just to say, be careful with the diagnosis. They can be rather imprecise.

Yup, stopped using SLS toothpaste because I heard that it could be causing my canker sores. I've had ONE in the three years since, when they were a weekly occurrence before.

I just bought the family all new 10a's last week and didn't even realize the price had jumped!

Wow, dodged that one!

I second this. I carry my xteink device everywhere and its vastly better for reading than my phone.

Some unsolicited advice couched as experience that may or may not help you:

I struggled with this off and on for years, and still do if I don't take some specific actions. They aren't a total fix but they help.

Turn off the air handling in your house and open it up at one point in the day, preferably a few hours opposite of the seasonal trend (early morning in the summer and early afternoon in the winter). During this time go take a decently long walk in appropriate clothes. When you come back close back up and set the thermostat to whatever the temperature cycled to.

This tends to work to shift seasons more naturally as well. If its hot outside it will feel cooler inside even if the temp went up a degree, and this compounds all season. The reverse is true in the fall/winter.

If I don't do this I struggle very similarly to you all year.

Maybe that can help you?

Typically daily. They were used for troubleshooting and repairing military avionics. They survived decades onboard ships, etc. They got temperamental in their later years, but we kept them going.

If you have any interest you can search up the (sparse) information on the AN/USM-484 Hybrid Test Set (or System).

The Harris 100 launched in 1978 still used a bank of toggles for initial load.

I was operating and maintaining several until about a decade ago.

We picked up a used 2022 Leaf S+ a while back and it's been amazing.

Also just about the only shade tree mechanic EV. Even swapping a battery is doable by the typical car guy. Rebuilding one isn't much harder due to no cooling.

Sorry for the late reply:

I'm in Japan more than a month out of the year, as that's where my wife's family is. At least in that area, which I just returned from, I didn't see anything but the usual food displays that have been omnipresent for decades.

When I did Process Improvement we used MiniTab for this.

I honestly was not a fan of that program and would have loved to be able to use Excel, but there are so many statistical things you just can't do in it.

Having worked on nuclear plants (as a reactor operator) around that time this doesn't surprise me in the least.

Thats far more advanced than the systems I worked with, one of which reported rod position via resistance measurement on a brushed cylinder (one for angular and one for depth).

Cleaning and calibrating those was a constant maintenance item every time the reactor was shut down.

I had to keep a disturbingly old machine with GPIB running until a few years back. They are still in operation in Australia (who we sold them to).

It was a test/repair bench for military aircraft avionics, with the only flying platform left using it being the legacy F/A-18 (A/B/C/D). Harris H-100 minicomputer hooked to an HP terminal and several full racks of GPIB test equipment with half of a rack of solenoids for switching between stimulus and response and which pin.

Not what you asked, but the question brought back memories.