It is astounding how fast and sharply the value of a custom built PC depreciates. Cell phones, macbooks, cars, clothing do not lose value this quickly.
Honestly I think the PC market is dying. If you want to play games a console is far more cost efficient, and if you want to do work a MacBook will do it all with far better battery life and resell value. The only value I can see in a windows machine is for an engineering niche that requires some Autodesk application not on macOS.
Upgradability seems to be a delusion when I see people with a 3900x and a 4070 super.
Sorry if I am hurting the feelings of PC enthusiasts, but it seems like gaming is the only attraction of this platform, and honestly that's not enough.
I'm trying to sell my PC and I'm gonna be lucky to get 60% what I paid a year ago.

Hi guys, after losing brain cells trying to find information on how to install the Guppy screen, I wanted to show y'all how to do it on your own if you choose to. I may be wrong on some parts, but these are the things that worked for me. Thanks to wolfie_the_king_574 for telling me some of the steps on how to do it, but some of it didn't work for me. I also used Wiki for Creality Helper Script (guilouz.github.io) and ballaswag/guppyflo: GuppyFLO is a self-hosted service that enables local/remote management of multiple Klipper printers using Moonraker (github.com) and ballaswag/guppyscreen: A native Touch UI for 3D Printers running KlippeMoonraker. (github.com) on the steps for some of it and will be summarizing most of it. I will also be adding in the common downloads needed here for easy access as I was jumping all around to find it. [I'm not sure if you have to keep rebooting your printer during this process, but I'll take the safe way and do it anyways]
[Edit: I'm not sure why upon posting, that the numbers are all 1. but I can't change it so bare with me]

1. [1] Reset your entire Nebula Pad

• Download and unzip this file: Creality_K1_Reset_Utility.zip
• Open the file Creality_K1_Reset_Utility.html in your Internet browser.
• Make sure your printer is on, and put in your IP address and click reset.
• Reboot to make sure it has reset.
• Turn off your printer now.

1. [2] Reinstall the firmware for the Nebula Pad

• Download this Ender 3 V3 SE Firmware.
• Add the Ender3V3SE_firmware.bin file into your SD card and plug it into the printer.
• Choose the Ender 3 V3 SE logo on the next page. Put in your settings and update to the latest version.
• Turn off your printer.

1. [3] Now you want to root your Nebula Pad

• Click on this Destinal Root and download the first link in the description.
• There should be a white usb that came with the Nebula Pad. Plug that into your computer and format it in FAT32 with 4096 allocation size.
• Now copy the file into the usb and insert it into the side of the Nebula Pad.
• Turn on the printer and there should be a popup to upgrade.
• After it finishes upgrading, take the usb out or else it will keep having that popup.
• You can reboot if you want, I don't think you have to right now.

1. [4] Install PuTTY and go into Helperscript

• Click on this PuTTY Download and download the right one for you and install it.
• Next, when you open up PuTTY, enter the IP address for your printer and press enter. The IP address can be found where your wifi settings are on the Nebula Pad.
• It's going to say login as: and type in root
• Now it'll ask for the password which is creality
• Next, type in ./installer.sh to enter Helperscript

1. [5] Uninstall Moonraker, Fluid, Mainsail, and the Creality OS

• Type in 2 to get into the remove screen.
• Go one by one and type in 1 2 3 to remove each one respectively
• Type in b to go back to the main screen
• Type in 4 to enter the Customize screen and type in 3 to remove Creality OS
• Reboot

1. [6] Update Helperscript

• ssh back into the Nebula Pad using PuTTY
• Type in git config --global http.sslVerify false to avoid encountering an issue, I'm not sure what.
• Type in git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Guilouz/Creality-Helper-Script.git /usdata/helper-script to install the script in the usdate folder.
• Type in sh /usdata/helper-script/helper.sh to run the script.
• There's two different way to now update the Helper Script
  • Go through the PuTTY, go through the user and password and enter ./installer.sh again and it should pop up with the update OR
  • When you access Fluidd or Mainsail, update it directly there.
  • You can access Fluidd by http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:4408/ (replacing xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx by your local IP address).
    • Go in the Settings tab and go into Software Updates and click Update for Creality-Helper-Script.
  • You can access Mainsail by http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:4409/(replacing xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx by your local IP address).
    • Go in the Machine tab and it should be there as well.
• Reboot

1. [7] Reinstall Moonraker, Fluid and/or Mainsail

• Go back into PuTTY, go back in the ./installer.sh, type in 1 to the installation screen and follow along for the installation of those. I don't think I have to baby steps that now.
• Reboot

1. [8] Update Everything

• Depending on if you use Fluidd or Mainsail, go back into those websites and update everything in the update section if it's not already updated.

1. [9] Install Anything Else + Guppy [FINALLY]

• Go back through PuTTY and into the Helper Script. Now you can also install anything you wanted to during. If you're unsure of what these mean, click on this Installer Definitions and look to the left side under "Install Menu" and look through whatever you want to.
• Some of these you won't have since this is meant for a different printer.
• You have to exit out of the Helper Script now by typing in q
• Now type in, to install GuppyFLO wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ballaswag/guppyflo/main/installer.sh sh
• Now type in, to install the Guppy Screen and it should change your Nebula Pad to horizontal format and have you calibrate it touching cursors.sh -c "$(wget --no-check-certificate -qO - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ballaswag/guppyscreen/main/installer.sh)"

1. [10] How to Connect to it on the Internet (I copied this straight this)

• Create a Tailscale account: Create Tailscale Account
• Install Tailscale application depending device(s) you want to use for remote access: Download Tailscale App
• Search up http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9873 (by replacing xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx by your printer's local IP address) to access the GuppyFLO Web interface
• Then, click on authenticate link to register GuppyFLO instance to Tailscale
• You will be redirected to the Tailscale website to connect device by clicking on Connect button
• Go to to your Tailscale Admin console here: Tailscale Admin Console
• There you will see the connected devices and their respective IP addresses:
  • guppyflo → Your printer
  • IP address assigned to your printer
  • The devices you have connected to Tailscale (here my mobile phone)
  • The IP addresses assigned to the devices you have connected
• Go to Tailscale DNS settings tab and enable MagicDNS feature
• Go back to GuppyFLO Web interface and click on Add Printer button
• Configure settings and click on Save button
• You can now connect to GuppyFlo Web interface remotely with http://guppyflo URL

Now this should be everything! Be sure to visit this Website or Demo Video or Website to understand how the screen works, how to connect to it with pictures, and whatnot.
Let me know if I did anything wrong, but these are the steps that worked for me.

A lot has progressed in the past couple of days and it would be only right to update you guys on what happened and get some advice from you guys regarding everything. but to answer multiple questions I received from my last post about why hasn’t maya been further punished. to put it quite simply Maya was arrested the night of Lia’s attack. She was charged with felony child endangerment & 2 misdemeanors. The judge was very nice to her and made her pay a 2,000$ fine, 60 hours of community service & 3 years probation. plus I took her car but after this update, I maybe should have given her a harsher punishment. but back to the update. TL;DR at the bottom.
On Thursday afternoon, me and maya got into a fight. The dispute happened because Lia came to me virtually upset and on the verge of tears. because 5 people messaged her that day, expressing condolences about her attack. Lia has been very clear she doesn’t want anyone that she knows to know that she was the victim of the attack. upon further investigation it turns out Maya told a group chat of 27 people that Lia was the victim. Lia vocalized to me how humiliated she feels and that she can’t ever go back to school next year. I of course then go confront Maya about it. she kept saying I was overacting and that Lia was being dramatic. I tried to reason with her to see how she hurt her sister and she did not see the issue. She stopped me off mid-lecture from me and said, “ jesus christ Mom, you need to let her deal with this shit instead of always rushing to her defense, lia is not different from other women in the world that deal with rape, at least they don’t make it their entire personality like she does. also, she’s fine I literally overheard her talk to a boy on the phone last night.” It just clicked for me at that moment that she was not actually remorseful at all and that I just witnessed her mask slip. I just responded with pack your shit up and that she will be staying with my parents until I allow her back. That’s exactly what she did.
but the next morning I got a text from Maya to meet her at her therapist appointment that was later that day. looking back I wish I had never gone because her therapist majority of the visit only saw her POV, But At the start of the appointment, it opened up with Maya apologizing and explaining her thought process of why she told her friends and it was because she was venting, plus she didn’t think of it as a big deal because its public case that was on the news and lia seems fine these days… (Lia is listed as a Jane Doe and not named nowhere but I digress. )
we then get into the nitty-gritty of it all, Maya then tells me in front of the therapist that she feels emotionally neglected by me and that I never seem to care about her trauma when it came to the situation. which is for her is having to stay in jail for a weekend and loosing one of her friends ( which is one of Lia’s literal rapist. ) I wish I can say I’m joking but I’m dead serious. we were talking about that for the first 30 minutes. her therapist was guilt-tripping me for not being more emotionally there for Maya and that I should try to see as her mom since their father is no longer with us. But Call me an awful parent but I don’t want to be emotionally there for Maya if it involves me having to help her mourn the friendship of the person that ruined her sister’s life. The therapist was on one especially since she kept referring to what happened to Lia as an accident or that Lia seems happier these days because that’s what Maya has been telling her, when Lia is quite literally high off antidepressants and still scores extremely low on the mental health evaluation…but I finally just had an outburst, (feel free to skip over the next paragraph, because there is a massive trigger warning, I get very graphic here. But I’m just reiterating what I said. )
what I said to both Maya and her therapist was, “ I think it’s kinda disgusting that the two of you are refusing to acknowledge Lia’s trauma in this and keep referring to it as an accident. You spent a weekend in jail, while your sister was in the hospital suffering from something YOUR friend did to her. Ironically enough if you ever listened to Lia, she has said that friend of yours was the most violent towards her during the attack and was the catalyst for the majority of injuries she sustained including strangling her. So for you guys to sit here and berate me for not caring that you lost your friend because of something terrible your friend did to your sister is absolutely disgusting. My biggest regret right now is helping you obtain a lawyer I should have let you rot in that cell and let you figure it out yourself. “
Maya started sobbing in the office at this point and saying it wasn’t fair that I blamed her for what happened to Lia, she told me the only thing she was trying to do was have Lia come out of her shell because she kept hovering next to her at the party. The therapist then interjects and asks Maya how did Lia respond to her when she apologized. Maya in such a defensive manner says, “apologize for what? I didn’t rape her”. Even the therapist was shocked when she said that and at that point, I heard enough and l stood up, threw my hands up, and left. I haven’t spoken to Maya since then and this was Friday afternoon.
Maya has been texting me and calling me begging to come home so she can apologize to both me and Lia. But I don’t know at this point, I never thought I would be that parent that will have to go no contact with my daughter. But I don’t know if I can stomach being around her, I can’t trust her and she’s not remorseful whatsoever about what happened. A part of me wants to try to make it work for the sake of Lia because she asked yesterday if she ruined our family. And that broke my heart. Lia loves and looks up to Maya and I don’t think she can comprehend at this time that Maya also failed her. I’m just stuck or tell me if I’m wrong for not understanding maya I’m sorry for the not-so-happy update..
TL;DR: Maya got kicked out from the house after she exposed Lia for being a victim in her group chat with friends and we then went to her therapist appointment together, where it was just a lot of gaslighting and them trying to hold me accountable for not being emotionally there for maya which involves me not feeling bad that she lost her friend that was one of Lia’s rapist or didn’t care enough she went to jail. By the end of the session, Maya vocalized she didn’t think she needed to apologize to Lia and showed zero remorse. I’m on the verge of going no contact with her.

I 44F have a 20 year old daughter who is soon to be 21. She has a boyfriend who is 28 years old. For the past several months, my daughter had been living with me. She had a roommate but asked to move back in so that she could save up enough money to get herself an apartment. I told her this is fine. I never charged my daughter any rent.
This is my issue. Her boyfriend is a loser. He has a job but always asks my daughter for money. It is small money, but he tells my daughter he will pay it back and never does or falls behind on his bills. He is a father of two, so I am sure he is not the most fortunate considering he has responsibilities. He has been dating my daughter for the past 7 months. I do not like him one bit. I also do not like my daughter leaving my home at 2am to hang out with him. My doors close at 11pm. I have other small children in my home and she will not be running around here with those low standards allowing men to see her on THEIR time. Sure, he sees her mornings also but I just don’t like him.
My daughter uses her cell phone talking to her boyfriend all hours of the day and night, this is annoying and disruptive to my household. I had had enough when lastnight I heard her on the phone with her boyfriend saying that they are planning a child and to become pregnant by “hopefully January” she also said she is tracking her cycle and when she gets her apartment in July, they will start trying more often. This really infuriated me, especially since my daughter does not need a child. I am disgusted.
When my daughter got off from work today, I explained that I heard her conversation, I yelled at her and told her she is disgusting given she had a pregnancy at 18 and didn’t go through with it. Why does she keep giving herself to all these guys? Does she really think she can just have a child? I told my daughter I wanted her out of my house by tonight, she had 2 storage bins and she folded all her things and left. I do not know where she went but I cut her cell phone off. He can pay it. She told me she will follow her dreams and be a mom, she wants someone to love on and she is beyond ready to be a parent. She also told me I am controlling and that she would never speak to me again. I told her that is fine, but I want you out of my house.
I am hoping she doesn’t go no contact, I love my daughter I was just i a rage of the moment. We have had a bad relationship and last time I told her to leave, I didn’t hear from her for a year. I understand I may have been harsh, but I believe all my points were valid. My daughter thinks otherwise. AITA?

Posting in hopes someone might know what's going on, cuz Mint doesn't.
My husband and I have had mint mobile for over a year now. Never had any issues until two days ago, we can't make calls out 99% of the time, and texts and voicemail take forever to show up. My husband has had the same android phone the whole time and I just switched from an iPhone to an android phone. Mint customer service didn't know what to do so now e are awaiting a response from their "back office."
This is definitely related to location as our phones still work fine in the next town over. Mint says there are no network issues at our home. When I try to make a call, the little LTE by the reception status is replaced with "G." Husband's phone doesn't have anything there. Both our phones support 4G and are set to 4G.
My mom just moved to us and was going to get Mint because her carrier doesnt work here. now she doesn't know what to do because her next choice was Tmobile, and it seems like its either an android issue or a tmobile issue. So all three of us don't have working cell service right now lol.

We are traveling to Canada next month for a week and would want at least one of us to have cell service to use data for phone calls and maps, since we are driving. We both currently use Visible and I know they have an option to upgrade to an international plan, however, that would change our monthly rate once we return since I would have changed it. What is our best option to have international cell service for just the week?

tl;dr - I got fired 7 months ago and today I received a cease and desist from my former employer’s lawyer, accusing me of logo misuse and harassing former colleagues, including bizarre claims of "misdirected revenge." I've never harassed employees and need advice on how to proceed.
Hey everyone,
A little background - I worked in marketing for a home builder for about a year and a half. Last October, I took a bereavement day, and when I came back, I found out I was let go because I missed a meeting I was supposed to lead on that bereavement day. That was seven months ago, and since then, I've moved on to a new job and tried to put everything behind me.
But then, out of the blue, I received this official-looking cease and desist letter from my old employer's lawyer. They're saying I misused their logo on my portfolio site, which, to be honest, I did. After I left the company, I wanted to update my portfolio to showcase the work I did for them, so I included some stuff with their logo. I know I wasn't exactly allowed to, but I had a lot of work from my time there, and I was just trying to find a new job after getting let go. So for now, I password protected my site until I can figure out how to blur out all the logos.
That was honestly to be expected. What really has me confused are their other accusations of harassing former colleagues. The letter says I did all sorts of crazy things like “misdirected revenge”, publishing employees' cell phone numbers to mess with vehicle sales (???), and registering personal addresses and phone numbers with sales services. I've never even heard of anything like that, let alone done it. I'm totally confused as to where these accusations are coming from.
And isn't it kinda odd that they're checking out my personal website seven months after I left?
I'm feeling pretty lost and confused about all this. Should I get a lawyer and respond to all this, or just it go? Any advice or similar experiences would be a huge help.
Thank you!

This takes a small amount of preparation but it is worth it to keep your own voice number while travelling. The savings in roaming fees and convenience of not giving out a new number to your friends and family is fantastic. Use these steps BEFORE leaving your home country. Follow these steps, use the amazing Airalo service along with the code.
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Step 2. Forward all voice calls to your VOIP (Textnow) number. This way anybody who calls your cell phone gets forwarded via data only when they call your number. Test the forwarding ability to your Textnow number before you leave your home country/region. Have someone call your cell phone. It should forward and ring your Textnow number on your phone.
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Has the issue with the business platinum card not recognizing Google Fi for the cell phone credit been resolved?

And his dumb Cult followers are titilated with his "superpower" over an hour on a phone bill.
I don't care how you followers spin this FACT. No one cares he was "almost" out of the military, so this brazen act is nothing, its just so fucking pathetic.
He flew to fucking Britain without permission from the military. You would think between the 15 brain cells combined a few of you probably could possibly see a pattern and confidence. Especially since he had he done this before and literally got away with murder.
For now anyways.
I hope all you sycophants who despise and disrespect women in every aspect of your life while shilling for the killer are charged with something regarding this case. Accessories after the fact, just something. Online terrorism.
You should be ashamed but how can you be if you share the same traits as a woman abuser?
I implore the community to stop engaging with these known losers.

This is a great sub with great folks and great posts. But, we’ve had a bunch of odd and low quality posts recently compared to years past. This is a PG-13 sub for local events, places, history, culture, and interests.
Please be considerate of the following: - No personal or adult ads…nuff said - Look up reviews on sites like Yelp, Google, and Facebook before asking for reviews…AI accounts are flooding reddit with reverse spam - Have a descriptive title…if your post doesn’t match your title, your post will be removed - No business or political ads…local events ok - No survey links. - BE KIND…troll posts and comments will be removed - Asking for direct messages (DM) will get your post/comment removed for safety reasons - Lost pet/people posts with any phone number or email other than police/animal welfare will be removed for safety reasons - Doom/gloom/conspiracy posts will be removed
If you just moved here, check through the sub for recommendations on certain areas. Repeats of commonly asked questions will be removed.
And yes, all of the internet providers and cell providers down here suck. Call them, complain to the FCC, and leave reviews with the BBB. We’re in a rural area which means rural internet.
Every so often, I go through old posts and prune out things like garage sales and old review posts. If your post got deleted, it’s just cleaning house :)

Hey there...I need some advice about this. My boyfriend (35M) and I (30F) have been together for about 10 months. I started dating him a year after I got divorced from a very unfaithful man. Ex-husband cheated on me (online and physically) for the entire 7 years we'd been together (married for 2). Yes, I was stuck in a very unhealthy cycle with this man. I regret sticking it out past the first year and I've been in counseling since before the divorce. I know where I chose to ignore all the red flags by the time I found out he had cheated on me. I've been working hard to do what's right for me since. By the time we got divorced, I was so unattached, I really do believe I just stayed because it was what I knew for so long.
My counselor has been with me every step of the way during my dating journey after the divorce, and I'm brutally honest with her about everything because I don't want to make the same mistakes again. My nervous system is triggered by small things here and there still, and my boyfriend and I have been able to with through them and talk things out for the past 10 months. He knows my history and how badly I was hurt by my ex-husband (self- inflicted after the first time I caught him cheating with a girl from his hometown, I'll admit.)
My boyfriend, who has been nothing but warm, doting, patient, and consistent with me since the beginning, was also hurt pretty badly by his ex. He proposed and she took off with the expensive ring without telling him that she was leaving for good. She was in another relationship quickly after she dumped him over the phone a while later.
We agreed to be open about our cell phones, and we talked about all that a couple of months into the relationship. I'd never had a feeling in my gut that he was hiding something at all, and if I did have a question about something, he was quick to say that I could look through his phone if it made me feel more secure.
The other day, I reached for his phone to take a photo of us, and he grabbed it out of my hands, nervously saying that he'd just take the photo since I was laying down. My gut squirmed instantly. Then he told me I could look through his phone if I wanted to. So I did. I am always open with him about my phone, and he's always been open about his until this weird little interaction.
Initially, I saw he was just hiding some porn he was watching (I don't care about that, I watch a little porn sometimes, too. He gets embarrassed easily about that stuff, so I give him a hard time about it and joke with him. He is really shy when it comes to porn, but I like that about him. If anything, I've even mentioned we should watch it together just to see him blush.) So I didn't think too much of it.
Then, I saw in his Instagram messages that he had sent a few kissy face emojis along with a "Happy New Year!" to some lady. I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt, and figured maybe it was just an old friend. He has a lot of older ranch friends from the area he's from, so I chalked it up to that. Turns out, she had lightly been putting it out there to him the week before my birthday, saying he checked off a bunch of things on her wishlist, but she wanted to know if he could ride horses. He didn't respond right away, but he did respond a few days later with a photo of him on horseback. This back and forth went on for about a month, where they'd take a few days to respond to each other, and it seemed pretty harmless, but still a little flirtatious, talking about riding horses and how they both like air planes. She was obviously flirting from the get go. He wouldn't respond initially, and she'd send another message to try and get his attention again.
She gave him her number, and he gave her his number on my birthday. We were together that day. So that stung quite a bit. He called her cute as hell at one point, and they sent each other a selfie of just their faces. They fell off from talking right after that, except for when she wished him a merry Christmas, happy new year, which he responded to once each (the new years one had the kissy emojis), and that was it. The weird thing is, she's an older lady than me, like in her 50s (nothing against older ladies here at all), and she's not attractive. She tried to reach out again one more time for Valentines Day, and he didn't respond. He continued to interact with liking her photos on instagram every once in a while. Most of the time she's on horseback or hiking somewhere. He likes everyone's photos, though, except for Instagram models because he knows that I don't feel respected when that happens, so I'm not sure what to think of it.
I took screenshots, and showed them to one of our mutual friends to get some perspective. She said that it seemed pretty harmless, but it still crosses a line. She said she'd be hurt, too, if her husband did that. She also said that she doesn't think my boyfriend would ever physically do anything with anyone like my ex did. She said I need to decide if I can forgive him or not, and work on building trust with each other if I did forgive him and if I felt like he was trustworthy after a while.
I confronted him, and he said he didn't remember it (even though he deleted the thread at that point). I told him he was hiding something, and I had pictures of it all. He told me he didn't want me to think that there was anything going on between him and this old lady, and it wasn't carrying on at all (which I believe). I told him what's hurts me more is that he tried to hide it and he wasn't upfront about it. He told me he was just bantering and it was more of a joking back and forth than anything. Needless to say my nervous system is shot from this whole thing. It's May now, and these messages happened back in September (besides Christmas and New Years). I didn't see anything else that rang any alarms in me, but I'm still hurt that he'd hide something dumb like that.
I've contemplated just leaving, and he knows that. He was devastated to find out that I was thinking that, and he started to cry so hard it took me by surprise, but I told him this feels too familiar for me and scares the living sh*t out of me. He said he'd do anything he had to to build up that bit of trust he took, including couples counseling. He said I could just take his phone if I wanted to. But I don't want to do that. I don't see my counselor for another week, and I don't want to drag family into this. I know from other threads people will say to just leave, but I'm struggling with that. No excuses for hiding it, but it was harmless and she's not attractive, so I don't feel threatened that he'd try to go after her or something. I believe she lives in another country. It just seems so dumb to lie and hide something like this. Am I overreacting?

I'm a service manager at a heavy truck dealership. I'm thinking about hiring another service advisor at the entry level. 3 years experience max.
Would any of you work 40hrs no OT for $23/hr no percentage of parts or labor?
There are benefits such as 401K matching up to 10%, a monthly bonus of $100, insurance, life insurance, dealership discounts including Ford and GM on brand new vehicles, company paid cell phone, education reimbursement.
There is really no salesmanship required most customers are going to fix it no matter what because their livelihoods depend on it.
Edit: I'm trying to see I'm in the ballpark competitively for the upper midwest.

An AT&T technician told me that bundling our phone and internet services will result in lowering our costs. He said this would cause our phone to work through the internet. I've heard that before, and based on my previous understanding, if one goes out, the other won't work. We don't have a cell phone - just a landline. Speaking of landlines, he also told me that our area is one of the ones that will be phasing them out. They've been busy working on burying the fiber. Also, people have been stealing the copper lines.
The tech also told me that at a certain point AT&T will no longer repair the copper lines, so we won't have much of a choice in going to fiber. My understanding is that if we go to fiber, we won't have a choice when it comes to bundling (meaning that if we go to fiber, our services will be bundled). We should also be able to keep using the handsets we currently use for our phone service as well as our current gateway/routewhatever you want to call it.
Does all of this sound about right?

Apologies as this is probably going to be a long entry.
Earlier this year I started a new job in the police, to do this I left another job in the prison service where I was doing well. This was a position which my girlfriend told me to apply for as it was where she worked and was more money. I accepted, applied and got the job. She appeared really happy that I got the job and it was supposed to be our way out of my mum's house where we both lived.
On the evening of my second shift I had to stay up to the early hours of the morning to pick up my girlfriend. She had to stay late as she was having some serious issues with her mental health including self harm and suicidal thoughts. I have been supportive of this taking up extra duties in the house and doing my lions share to sort her as I always have. She told me that she stayed late to talk about previous traumas. She told me about them when I picked her up and I stayed up to talk to her to make sure she was ok. We had a really good talk where I was supportive and said we would get through it together and I'll do what I can to make life easier. I woke up and went to work and when I finished I was walking to the gate and 3 detectives asked me to follow them and took me to the gate where everyone was leaving took my eppilettes and badge and informed me that I was under arrest for an alleged assault on my girlfriend.
Just for context I would never lay a hand on a woman especially not in anger or frustration, I know the second you lose your temper you lose the argument so if anything ever started feeling heated I would leave so we both had time to cool down and have a proper conversation.
I was very confused however pressumed they had mistaken me with an ex-boyfriend who I know had assaulted her and she was talking to her manager about it. Because of this I wasnt to worried as I knew I had never done anything that was even close to assault, I'm not saying we were perfect , we argued but it was always verbal (at least from my end) and always came to a reasonable end. We never lost our temper with each other.
When I got to the station they said that she had said that I slapped her once outside a bar, I was shocked by this and when they said it was 9 months ago I knew they hadn't mistaken me for her ex as we were together for four years by this point. I was placed in prison Grey's and put in a cell then interviewed. They released me on bail with conditions not to contact her and they took my phone for evidence incase I had messaged anyone admitting that I slapped her. I need to stress at this point that THIS NEVER HAPPENED.
The case was classed as a no further action after a month of pointless attempts to crack my phone and trying to persuade myself and my girlfriend to give them the pin which I refused to do without being told by the court that I had to. As a result of this whole incident I lost my job in the police and cannot reapply as now I have an arrest on my record. My life fell apart as a result of this whole thing and now my degree in policing and criminal investigation seams like a complete waste. Any jobs I want and suit are in public service or military and this throws a massive spanner in the works.
When I first saw her we went through everything that had happend and why she said it. She said that we were playing about and that I had tapped her face which she found disrespectfu but that she never meant that she wanted police involvement as she had kicked me first. Again this had never happend. I have spoken to many police officers and staff that I know who have said that it sounds suspicious and that they had absolutely no reason to arrest me if what my girlfriend had told me was true. When I said this and said would she get the transcript of what was said as it was a recorded session she said "what if I have remembered wrong" this shook me to my core as it strikes me as she has said more than what she told me. She had also changed her story about when and what happened.
As a result of this whole thing I have lost loads of trust, money, motivation and I'd be lying if I hadnt suffered some darker thoughts such as driving my car into a wall at 100mph. I was looked at by people I didn't know as a wife bearer and it made me sick. To top it off she got everything she wanted as she wanted to move out but financially we couldn't save money for a house and we would also be leaving my mum in the shit if we left as we payed all the bills. To avoid this I let her stay at my mum's and I slept in my car so she was close to work and could continue her way of life. However she decided she knew best and got an appartment which we now both live in and I can't afford. She's also saying that she's more confident now and showed me messages of guys who are trying to get in her pants. Meanwhile I have gone from being confident and strong to being a complete shell of my former self. And she didn't want to take any responsibility for any of it. She also told me that she had my back and told the manager that reported me to the police that she was upset with her however looking at the messages to her manager she was nothing but friendly with her.
My head's fucked, I feel betrayed, small, insignificant and like everything that happend to me just didn't matter to her. I don't know what to do, I'm trying to get my head right by going back to the gym but my motivation is shot. I don't know if I can trust her anymore and I feel bitter and resentful. What do I do to start feeling better and should I confront her about what I've gone through because of her bullshit story or should I just leave. I want to make it work as this is the only bad thing in our relationship. But it's fucking written me off and I don't know how I can get past it. I appreciate any advice or guidance to help me get past this portion of my life.

I got this device solely because of the airplane mode feature since I never want to connect the band to my phone and don't want bluetooth on.
Initially this a PITA to use.
I had to download two apps:
Samsung Health
Galaxy Wear
It crashed after installing. I had to unfreeze the Samsung Account system app.
Then I had to go make a dummy Samsung account with all fake data, which was a PITA. Initially it automatically fetched my cell phone number so I removed the SIM card and uninstalled and reinstalled.
Then after verifying using fake data do I'm not tracked, I connected the band, waited for it to set up. Without all this I could not even use my Fit3, it will not let you do anything until connecting.
After this I froze the system app, Samsung Account, Samsung Health, and Galaxy War apps.
Next I turned on airplane mode by swiping down and left and click the quick icon.
Finally I can use my device for the first time, 1 to 2 hours later.
This is all unnecessary. I bought your device, now it's mine, let me use it offline out of the box.
Not to mention, without the radios, the battery should last a lot longer.
So far I like it, I am tracking my heart rate, o2, and stress. I will track my sleep tonight.
I have some disappointments.
I don't want any notifications, but swipe left us a blank notification screen. I regret that I can't put something I'm using there, like summary or a calculator and then I put heart rate and sleep in the right. But there is no option.
I can't reorder the screens on the right without removing them all and adding in a new order
Looks like there are missing features only available in the app, like VO2 Max, which I'm not sure if this band does
I liked that I can disable all buzzing vibrating notifications, and sounds.
One thing that would be awesome is a simple pomo timer which vibrates at the end. Also a vibration for certain metrics, for example, completed your run time, heart rate went too high, stress too high, etc, with ability to customize or disable this when you don't want it.
A focus vibration would be a killer feature. Somehow use it to detect if you get distracted and buzz to remind you to focus.
Alternatively set a buzzer every few minutes to simply remind you to stay focused. A very light, non-distracting nudge just to bring you back into awareness, so you stay focused.
This is my feedback so far. Thanks for the device, I hope you improve it further and make ability to use full offline with manual sync by touching a button. I don't mind manually doing a sync now and then maybe once every day or two. But I want all radios off the rest of the time.
Update: when you sync, it erases your watch and replaces with what's on your phone, so you lose everything. This makes the device useless for me unless I never connect, ever.