Yeah, the "budget brand" idea is the problem here. This stuff is one place you can't really cheap out. That grittiness means they used the wrong kind of carbon or filler. It's basically a liquid sandpaper. I just bite the bullet and get the known good stuff from the bike shop. It's cheaper than buying a new seatpost for someone.

28% isn't that high for an old house.

Yeah, that extra minute is everything.

You said your eyes stopped feeling tired. I read an article that said it takes about two weeks for your eyes to fully adjust to a new screen setup. They called it the "visual adaptation period." Makes sense why moving things helped you so much.

Look at the top selling books right now, @shane_reed. A lot of them are written with help from these tools. The test isn't if a machine can write a whole chapter alone, it's if a writer can use it to make their own work better and faster. Plenty of readers are already enjoying books that used AI in the process without even knowing it.