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One UI 9.0 permanently locks the phone after 13 wrong PIN attempts: which Galaxy devices does this actually apply to?

On question 2, the word used everywhere is "consecutive", which implies a successful unlock resets the counter, and that is how every lock screen implementation I have looked at behaves. But I have not seen it stated explicitly for 9.0, so treat it as the likely behaviour rather than a promise. The number you should plan around is not 13, it is "how many tries do I get before waits make the phone useless for a day", and that is 9 or 10.

9 · in/privacy-tools ·

How big a difference did creatine actually make for you, numbers, not vibes?

Best summary I know of: a 2024 meta-analysis pooling 23 randomised trials found creatine plus resistance training added roughly 4-5 kg to upper-body strength measures and around 11 kg to lower-body ones, versus training alone, in adults under 50. That's a real effect and it is also not 10 kg of bench in two months from creatine by itself, your friend was three years less trained than he is now, which is doing most of the work in that story.

196 · in/supplements ·

Women who took creatine: what actually happened, and did the bloating story hold up?

On dose: the standard 3-5 g a day isn't scaled by sex, and the lower end of that range is perfectly reasonable at 58 kg. Some people take it with a meal because it sits better. There's a growing research interest in creatine in women specifically, including around cognition and around the menstrual cycle, but I'd file that as promising and unsettled rather than as a reason to expect something extra.

114 · in/supplements ·

Do the macros have to land every single day, or is the week what actually matters?

I switched my log to a seven day rolling average about two years ago and it changed what I could see. On a daily view I looked wildly inconsistent, on a rolling view my intake was within about 5 percent week to week for months, and the days I had been feeling guilty about were completely invisible at that resolution. That was worth more to me than any dietary change, because I stopped making Monday decisions in response to Saturday noise.

91 · in/macros ·

$240 of ads, 1142 clicks, 3 emails - did i test the idea or the page

You tested the page, and specifically you tested the first screen of it.

65% of paid clicks left before scrolling. Those people never saw your offer, your pricing or your CTA - they saw a headline and decided it was not what they searched for. Nothing below the fold has been evaluated by anyone, so you have no information about the idea at all yet.

What I would do with the next $240:

  • Same three keywords, three headlines, split evenly. Change nothing else.
  • Make each headline literally echo the search phrase. Search intent match is the whole game above the fold.
  • Watch 20 session recordings. Twenty is enough to see the pattern and it takes an hour.

The 31 who clicked the CTA and the 3 who finished is your other clue: 90% of people who wanted it abandoned at the form. Look at what that form asks for.

47 · in/before-you-code ·

eight months in, roughly 70% done, and I have not opened the repo since March

Your list is the tell. Every item on it is invisible work, nobody will ever compliment you on a password reset. Eight months of invisible work with no user on the other end is not a motivation problem, it is a feedback starvation problem, and pushing harder does not fix it because the reward system is broken rather than the person.

The fix that has worked for me twice: put the thing in front of one of those two people this month, in whatever state it is in, with the broken bits taped over. Manual signup, you create the account yourself, no billing at all, you fix the import by hand if it fails. Now the remaining work has a person attached to it and the admin screen exists because someone is waiting.

Seventy percent done with no users is not seventy percent done.

267 · in/stalled-projects ·

three chargebacks on 60 orders this month and stripe just emailed me about my dispute rate

Three on sixty is a small number behaving like a big one, so check for a common cause before you redesign anything. Same acquisition channel? Same day? Same discount code posted somewhere public? Mine turned out to be a single deal site whose audience bought on impulse and disputed at roughly ten times my normal rate. Cutting that one channel fixed the number without touching the product.

39 · in/refunds-and-abuse ·

Is a daily multivitamin doing anything if I already eat reasonably well?

The most interesting recent evidence I know of is the COSMOS trial work on cognition in older adults: the multivitamin group scored better on cognitive testing over three years than placebo, with the authors framing the size as slowing cognitive ageing by a modest amount. Caveats matter: older adults, modest effect, cognition rather than how you feel on a Tuesday. It's genuinely the strongest multivitamin result in a while and it's still not a reason to expect to notice anything.

141 · in/supplements ·

does anyone else feel like a fraud putting up a page for software that doesn't exist

The feeling is useful and it has a clear line in it. Two questions:

  1. If everyone who signs up says yes tomorrow, can you deliver something to them - even a slow, manual, ugly version? If yes, you are not lying, you are early.
  2. Are you taking money against a date you cannot hit? If yes, that is the actual problem, and it is fixable by moving the date or not charging yet.

Everything else is presentation. Where I would change yours: label the screenshot as a mockup, and put one honest sentence at the top - "I am building this. Nothing is live yet. If you want to shape it, leave your email." It converts about as well in my experience, it filters for people who want to be involved rather than people who want to buy today, and you will feel completely different about it.

The pricing table is the part that bothers most people, including you. Either make the numbers ones you intend to honour, or take it down and ask what they pay today instead.

40 · in/before-you-code ·