Hello, I created an issue on github about my problem with the Windows Android Subsystem. WebViews are blank · Issue #558 · microsoft/WSA (github.com)
I got some suggestions but they were not solving. I know that they will end supporting the WSA by march 2025, but I think that until then, they should support it, at least solving the issues. I noticed that the github repository is sort of abandoned. But I still want to solve my issue because, I mean, WSA is a good tool for Android developers. I want to use it for an Android app of mine that serves as an advanced editor for the web app version of it. I enjoy being able to exploit my large desktop screen, because the app encompasses editing text and also displaying items with HTML, so it is better than using my phone. I also enjoy the performance of my desktop computer, and the file share feature. So I wonder how can I solve the problem. Do you have some suggestions or comments? Thanks in advance

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer limited to science fiction movies. It's woven into the fabric of our daily lives, quietly working behind the scenes to enhance our smartphone experience. From streamlining communication to fueling creative expression, AI-powered apps determine the mannerisms through which we interact with our mobile devices.
In this article, we will look at the ten best apps for iPhone and Android. Alongside this, we will weigh their pros and cons for optimal transparency. Make better data-driven decisions with AI and big data by the end of this article. Here are our top ten picks.

1. Otter.ai

Drowning in sticky notes and illegible handwriting? Otter.ai is your AI-powered solution for effortless note-taking. This app uses real-time speech recognition to transcribe conversations and lectures as they happen.
Focus on the present moment during meetings, interviews, or classes, knowing Otter.ai captures every word. Search through the transcribed text later to pinpoint key points, revisit specific moments, and ensure you never miss a crucial detail again.
Pros: Ditch notes, capture every word, easy search later
Cons: Less clarity, limited free storage, freemium account

2. Grammarly

Grammarly is one of the top ten Android apps for users. Its AI-powered app analyzes your text, identifying grammatical errors, typos, and awkward phrasing. It doesn't just point out mistakes but also suggests corrections and improvements.
Whether crafting an email, composing a social media post, or tackling a report, Grammarly ensures your message shines.
It can even suggest synonyms to enhance your vocabulary and recommend different sentence structures for smoother flow. With Grammarly by your side, you can confidently write, knowing your communication is clear, concise, and polished.
Pros: Flawless writing, improves clarity, boosts vocabulary
Cons: Limited free features, over-reliance, lack of human editorship

3. Moises App

Moises uses AI to separate audio tracks, allowing you to remove vocals from a song to create karaoke tracks or isolate specific instruments for musical experimentation. This app is a treasure trove for musicians, music lovers, and anyone who wants to get creative with audio manipulation.
Pros: Create Karaoke tracks, isolate instruments for remixes, a treasure trove for music lovers
Cons: Mandatory subscription, may require high-quality audio, limited editing features

4. Lensa

Lensa takes your selfies and transforms them into captivating works of art. Explore a library of artistic styles, from classic oil paintings and Renaissance portraits to whimsical cartoon filters and edgy pop art.
Lensa.ai utilizes AI to blend your features with these artistic styles, thereby creating unique and personalized digital masterpieces.
What’s more? You can even experiment with various filters, find your perfect artistic doppelganger, and share your creations on social media to impress your followers. Whether you crave a touch of artistic grandeur or a playful cartoon makeover, Lensa.ai offers a fun and creative way to see yourself in a whole new light.
Pros: AI art makeover, explore art styles, fun social media fodder
Cons: In-app purchases, subjective taste in art, privacy concerns

5. ELSA Speak

Regarded as one of the top ten apps for iPhone, Elsa is a pioneer in language development. Struggling with English pronunciation? Look no further than ELSA Speak, your AI-powered English coach. This app utilizes AI to analyze your spoken English, identifying areas for improvement. It provides personalized feedback on your pronunciation, highlighting sounds and words that need work.
ELSA Speak goes beyond simple corrections. It offers interactive lessons and exercises to help you master specific sounds and improve your fluency.
With regular practice and ELSA Speak's guidance, you can gain the confidence to speak English clearly and effectively in any situation.
Pros: Personalized feedback, improves pronunciation, gains speaking fluency
Cons: Limited languages, requires commitment, subscription format

6. WOMBO Dream

Ever feel creatively blocked or simply yearn for your inner artist? Look no further than WOMBO Dream. This art generator takes the reins, transforming your simple text prompts into unique and captivating paintings.
Describe a "mystical underwater city" or a "portrait of a courageous astronaut" to the app. WOMBO Dream uses its artistic intelligence to translate your words into stunning visuals. Explore a variety of artistic styles, from dreamlike landscapes to classic oil paintings.
With this app, anyone can become an art director, generating conversation-starting masterpieces in seconds.
Pros: AI art generator, explore creative prompts, instant artwork
Cons: Limited control, subscription for extensive styles, lack of artistic interpretation
Overwhelmed with AI? Here’s a step-by-step guide to AI basics and platforms.

7. Color by Number

This app takes the classic coloring-by-number concept and injects a dose of AI. It utilizes AI to generate unique pixel art coloring pages based on various themes and styles. While coloring is a relaxing and therapeutic activity, the AI-generated aspect adds a touch of novelty and keeps things interesting for creative minds.
Pros: Short video clips, caption comprehension, target language learning
Cons: Lacks broader understanding of the topic, requires internet connectivity, does not emphasize speaking or writing

8. Socratic by Google

Stuck on a homework problem and traditional methods aren't cutting it? Look no further than Socratic by Google! This learning app is your virtual study buddy. Simply snap a picture of your math problem, science question, or even a historical passage you're struggling with.
Socratic uses its AI smarts to analyze the content and provide you with step-by-step explanations, relevant videos, and alternative solution methods.
It even tackles multiple subjects, making it a versatile tool for various academic challenges. While Socratic can't solve every problem for you, it acts as a powerful guide, helping you understand concepts and develop problem-solving skills for future success.
Pros: Step-by-step solutions, multiple subjects supported, explanatory videos
Cons: Limited problem-solving types, limited solving capabilities, best for understanding concepts

9. Adobe Premiere Rush

This is a great option for anyone who wants to create and edit professional-looking videos on their phone. It has a simple and intuitive interface, but it also offers a wide range of features, including the ability to add multiple video clips, music, and titles.
You can also use Premiere Rush to adjust the color and lighting of your videos and to add special effects.
Pros: Easy to use, mobile-friendly editing, rich asset library
Cons: Limited features, cloud dependence, export restrictions

10. PlayPhrase

This app combines AI and language learning to create a fun and interactive experience. PlayPhrase uses AI to analyze short videos and generate captions in multiple languages. You can choose a video clip, and select the target language you're learning, and the app will transcribe the audio with captions.
Pros: Engaging video clips, interactive learning experience, multilingual options
Cons: Limited context, Excessive comprehension, needs web connectivity
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I'm traveling in France and Italy and am unable to reply to texts or make calls from my US number that I ported over to Ultra Mobile. I have WiFi calling enabled on my local sim (tried 2 different ones, Airalo and Orange). I'm have roaming enabled and WiFi calling enabled on both Cellular settings on iPhone. In my Ultra Mobile package I have International credit and International Roaming balance.
Any ideas what I check next? Anyone have a good walkthrough of the set up to use US number on Ultra Mobile abroad? I'm about to start writing letters with fountain pen, this is driving me crazy!

I’m traveling in France and Italy and am unable to reply to texts or make calls from my US number that I ported over to Ultra Mobile. I have WiFi calling enabled on my local sim (tried 2 different ones, Airalo and Orange). I’m have roaming enabled and WiFi calling enabled on both Cellular settings on iPhone. In my Ultra Mobile package I have International credit and International Roaming balance.
Any ideas what I check next? Anyone have a good walkthrough of the set up to use US number on Ultra Mobile abroad? I’m about to start writing letters with fountain pen, this is driving me crazy!

My teen is overly emotional and likes to draw her absent father into her life during her moments of angst. Problem is he's a drunk and at night he will spam/drunk text her the weirdest most inappropriate crap, I'm talking 30 texts or more at a time calling his mother a liar and a whore, and so forth. I've tried to explain to her the situation with him and I've tried telling her that if she's insists on keeping in contact with him that she cannot say a bunch of rude crap to him about his issues or act mean toward him. I've asked her to just block him as soon as the texts start and unblock him later if she wants to. Yet again I feel like I'm just watching this car wreck happen through the shackles of motherhood with no idea of how to help without being demonized by everyone for keeping him away from her. And no, I can't take her phone away, she will run away to her grandparents and just get another one.

I only have one bridesmaid and we went looking at dresses a few weeks ago. I have stated before that I didn’t mind what style of dress she goes for as long as the color tones in with my flowers (I was thinking dusky blues or eucalyptus greens). My mom will more than likely be wearing blue.
So we went to the appointment, just me and her (at her request no one else was to come including my mom) and I thought it went well. There was a style she liked and out of it there was a blue that would work for me. There was no sample of the color only a swatch.
So we went home and she showed her mom the pictures (taken on her phone only at her request), and her mom liked the style and said that the emerald green suited her (the color she tried in the style).
I then get messages from her telling me this and she won’t wear blue because it doesn’t suit her - never brought this up before.
But what I haven’t told her is that this has all really upset me. I want my mom to be involved and I agreed for her not to come to that appointment but now we both wished we stuck to what we wanted because I would have had a backup. But she’s let her mom get a say before mine?
I said that the green doesn’t work and if she won’t wear the blue then we have to find another dress. I then sent her a link to an online store with loads of options to have a look at.
Yesterday I got a message (after not replying to that link) that she is ordering three dresses to try - without consulting me and only one dress is in a shade of green I could work with) I told her not to order them and have left it like that because I have too much going on at the minute to deal with this.
But how do I deal with this. Surely colour is my choice - obviously within reason I will work with her. But to keep on about shades that will not suit my wedding- is that not overstepping dramatically?

My Pixel 7 is getting really hot right under the sim tray slot. So hot sometimes that the metal frame gets uncomfortable to hold. The worst temperature I've seen on the battery (which is next to the spot) was 46°C so I assume the hot spot was over 50°C.
It happens both on 5G/4G and it's way worse on low signal. Looking at the motherboard pictures online I assume it's a modem thing. I also tried it on another network 4G only and it seemed to be way cooler? I'm really not sure what's going on.
Is this normal? I heard this phone overheats but I never heard it happpening after 5 minutes of web browsing and I haven't seen anyone complain that they can't even open a webpage.
On the other hand my Motorola edge 40 is completely cool with full signal even on 5G on the same sim/network.

So long story short... together almost 10 years no problems before like this. We've never done anything like this before together. My partner and i had a 3 way with someone we know. Our connection was through grief (my best friends widow/gf, he passed away a year before the encounter) we trauma bonded and we all agreed to try this with each other. Things did not go well, she reciprocated with my partner but not fully as discussed and then pulled back after and said they specifically said they weren't really into that. We triple checked everything in texts back and forth and that was not what they said to us. Leaving my partner unfulfilled and hurt. During the year after that talk about our encounter became a regular thing. Despite both of us at separate times telling each other we should stop that kind of talk. It didn't happen and we both kept doing it. We don't see each other much on a daily as we live the high five life because of family. I have a problem with hypersexuality and one day got drunk and asked if it was OK to have relations with that person again. My partner has had reservations about this person the entire time. I ignored that and my partner texted us both that it was fine and they would love for us to play. We did the deed and after I didn't pursue that person again. It was not a great encounter and very bad.... The other person asked again to do it and neither us responded about doing it again. A month later my partner asked to branch out and do things with other people. At first I said absolutely not and then later said it was fine but didn't want to know. This went back and forth in my head and after trying to get in my head and give the approval I just couldn't anymore and said I just can't. I tried so hard to give back what I've been given really I did. It seemed fair and deserving. My partner confronted me about having an affair with that person cause we would text alot (bs and nothing related to hooking up again) but we had a long discussion and I finally said that I couldn't go through with it cause during sex I would go there and imagine them with another person and would lose it. I have been in a ltr with my previous partner of 14 years with a couple of people that were a constant the entire time. My partner said they were jealous that I had that and because of our age difference I did have a while life before them with a spouse and kid.
But they said there was no one else and then a week later they came home late after we've been texting all night and I went to bed. I was in a bad place and hating myself and was reassured that I was perfect and exactly what they want and they don't want me to change and stop being who I am. I saw my partner in the shower because I woke up to use the restroom and they said hey baby. I felt the vibe and knew something was not right. I couldn't go to sleep so I left and went to work a few hours early.......I decided to be that person and look at phone and texts records on our account and saw there was almost 200 texts back and forth between them and another person in two days. I knew exactly who it was (the person before me) I confronted the same morning when they woke up to do the daily with our family. At first they denied then quickly admitted to cheating. I lost my shit at the betrayal and left work and power drank. It's been several months and we've talked about each other's side on shit about how we both felt and it's not easy at all. I left them feeling like they were not enough and I needed more. Hypersexuality is a problem for me. And my porn addiction hasn't gotten any better (worse). I feel totally betrayed and cannot believe at times most of what they say about the other person or even how much they love me and want to make this work. They are actively doing their best to show me. For lack of better words my partner wanted to get back at me and even the playing field. Alot of the time they are crying hating the person they became and talked shit about. We've had a few friends do this kind of shit. I'm trying to seek help for my shit but with our family lives I cannot get to a support group with family commitments. It's created a huge ripple in our lives and idk..... it's there anyone who's dealt with this kind of thing? Yes I am prepared for the comments and fully accept responsibility for my actions. This is/ was until recently the longest I've ever been with someone and only one person so I am new to monogamy and totally shat on it. My partner has never had a real relationship before either. We've been talking non stop and are opening up to each other about things we've not discussed like personal depression and anxiety. I'm trying and they're trying but it's the downward out of control moments when it's really hard.

My gf and i have been together for 5 months and things are pretty rocky right now. Especially now actually, because she said she wanted to go on a break until she returns from her trip in 2.5 weeks. The reason is because I did not blow up her phone at 12 AM last night saying happy birthday or say happy birthday to her in the early morning. Keep in mind this week I have finals and as an engineering major I have to make sure i focus really hard and pass my courses. Instead I said happy birthday at 2 PM (her time 4PM), when i woke up from a late night study sesh. She then texted me saying she was really really upset and that my effort did not match her idea of effort.
The kicker is because she left on her trip on Saturday, I celebrated her birthday with her on friday. I bought her a birthday tiara, then a gift she said she wanted from her “list” and set up a whole surprise thingy from my trunk with lots of balloons and decorations and some flowers. I tried my best because money for me is really tight right now. But I spent 1 week doing all that, and it was a lot of effort from me. I also brought her out to eat and had a outing with her. And as someone who never celebrated my birthday, i didn’t know what to put together and it was really out of my comfort zone but i really enjoyed putting it together and i thought she would really like it!
But apparently that was not good enough. Today she said to me she wished i put a note inside or made it more sentimental since i couldn’t afford what she really wanted. She said what she really wanted wasn’t what she mentioned in her “list” but something else. To put it simply, she thinks my gift was not birthday worthy because what i gave her was a regular gift you give when you think of someone when you’re out and about. Essentially this girl expects me to read her mind or in between the lines. But unfortunately i am not a psychic. There’s just so many rules to this relationship.
In addition to that she compared me to her friends and all the things they’ve done for her on her birthday, like order food to her hotel or spam her phone at 12 AM. Or someone who drove 3 hours to see her where she is right now. I just think it’s so unfair how she expects me to do all these things and compares me to her friends. I’m trying my best. I also already celebrated your birthday 3 days ago!!! Especially since she said her love language is acts of service, I try my best to fulfill that! I didn’t know it was gift giving too!
I am really upset and just so exhausted with this relationship. It feels like nothing i can do will be good enough. And if i try to defend myself, she says I invalidate her feelings. I’m almost at the point where i won’t even defend myself and explain my side and feelings anymore because she will just say i am making it all about me and invalidating her feelings. So, where do i go from here?

TL;DR tl;dr Girlfriend kissed someone when we just got together, I found out by going on her phone. How can i learn to trust her again? Its making me feel insecure and mental but I want to move on. I think she genuinely fucked up. But part of me cant see past her having fun and enjoying it. Its crippling me. Reasoning in full text but I want to move on.
I started seeing this girl in october, in december we’d been dating weekly, she went on a works night out.
Her behaviour on text was weird that night and I suspected she’d done something. For the next few months I was very insecure and quizzed her on this a few times a month, causing problems and arguments, gave her plenty of opportunity to admit something had gone on.
I was so insecure as she was starting to push away due to me constantly going on at her, i checked her phone. I shouldn’t have but I did. And it turned out she had kissed a coworker. This has obviously made me feel very very insecure as she had denied it for so long and had so many opportunities to admit she’d done this. And would she have even told me had I not sneaked around and checked her phone?
She said it’s because it was the beginning of us getting together and my ex was still trying to make contact. Would this cause women / people to feel insecure even though I told her at every opportunity my ex texted me and told her it was nothing to worry about? Is that a valid reason to go behind my back when we were clearly exclusive and I’d told her this was all I wanted, for her to kiss a guy from work?
She said he came onto her and then they said they shouldn’t. She knew this person it wasn’t random. However claims she doesn’t speak to him anymore. She wouldn’t block on instagram which is where they spoke to him when I’d shown insecurity, and noticed she was deleting messages from him. She says she hasn’t spoke to him on there since the morning after that night.
I kicked off the day after this happened, when i said she had acted strangely, not knowing she had kissed him but suspected it back in december. And i think this solidified that i was serious about her, she apologised and this was the first time I’d really shown i cared and been really emotional. To the point she introduced me to her parents the next week and showed genuine sorrow. We then spent 2 weeks together, still not knowing she had done this and it was the longest we’d spent together to date. And thats when it was serious,she told me how much she wanted this and how this was what she wanted, all she wanted. I think thats when she realised.
I understand people make mistakes drunk but can I forgive her? She says she won’t do it again, do you think it was to do with my Ex or did she want to do this for my attention, or just because she wanted attention from someone else? I can’t stop thinking about her being on nights out and further hiding things from me as she kept this from me for around 3 months til i checked her phone. Its less about the kiss but about her lying to me. She says its because she didn’t want to hurt me, thats understandable but can I trust her or should I trust her again?
Is if a valid reason that she thought my ex would crop up over christmas (a week after this happened) after texting me all the time, and that she thought i’d go back to her. Or is it a shit excuse

TW: Self-harm
Don't know how to add a NSFW tag as I'm on mobile, sorry. Not entirely sure if this fits this sub's rules, I figured it's fine because it's a past mental health issue and the advice isn't about the mental health issue itself. I apologize if this does break the rules.
I don't want to go into much detail but I used to SH a lot as a kid/teen. I never considered it to be a big deal and when I eventually got into therapy for different reasons, my therapist remarked that my relationship with SH is quite unique (whatever that means).
I stopped about five or more years ago and had very few relapses so I consider this part of my life to be in the past. The reason I stopped is because it annoyed me that everyone always made a big deal out of it, kind of a silly reason, I know.
The scars are barely visible except for a few although my friends say those are only noticable to me.
Now onto the issue at hand:
My BF and I have been together for almost a full year by now (10 months) and everything has been picture perfect. It's the first romantic relationship for the both of us.
He was looking through pictures on my phone trying to find some old embarrassing drawings I made that I had confessed to minutes prior. Just to clarify, he has full access to my phone and I have full access to his. Despite that, we've never really thoroughly checked each other's phones because there's never been a reason to do so. He wanted to tease me, that's why he was looking for those drawings.
He found some pictures of SH. Not mine, but I have these pics saved because they help me when I get the urge and they're decently hard to find. It's the best way to cope with this that I've found so far.
He immediately got very concerned and started checking my arms while asking if those pictures are of me. He somehow didn't see my scars. I said no, those pics aren't my arms (true) and then said I got them from people being edgy in group chats (halfway true). He didn't ask me if I still SH or if I did so in the past, thankfully, he just dropped it and the mood was kind of ruined.
I asked my friends who know and they say I should tell him but also that I don't owe this information to anyone. My problem is I know he's gonna make a big deal out of this and I quite honestly don't wanna deal with that. I also don't want to be the cause of the emotional hurt this is gonna cause him. But on the other hand, I value honesty. Hiding this from him and "lying by omission" is making me feel like shit.
One of my friends said I should wait until I feel ready but this is terrible advice as I have no problem talking about it, I just don't want to deal with the dramatic reactions. And the longer I wait to tell him the worse I feel because by hiding this for so long I'm the one making it a big deal.
I feel very confused about all of this so maybe this doesn't make sense, sorry.
Tldr: I used to SH. BF doesn't know and I don't want to tell him because I don't want to deal with a dramatic reaction to something that I consider to be no big deal. Should I tell him anyway?

So there this girl(22, me 24) at my work which I have great connection with. Each time I go to her office to take a break from my work and it is so fun to go there I can be with her in there for a long time but at a certain point I need to cut it to go back to my work. Right now I know her for 2 months. I also most say that if I am not going there for a long time she tells me to come by. When I enter her office she is always smiling and blushing a little bit and then I sit there and talk with her she always tells me about her day,week and work she also tends to show me pictures and tells me the story behind them. I always tease her by indicating things that she does and laughs with her about everything. A few times she told me about her previous relationships and that she didn’t had a serious one, that it was all for fun and from things that she said it sounds like she doesn’t want one. When we text each other she sends me selfies of her and videos from her vacation and the conversation suddenly becomes more flirtatious and sexy, but at some point when it becomes too “risky” i cools it down. When I wasn’t at my work and on another place she told me to tell her so she could go with me to that place and she kind of sent me a signal to meet her outside of work. I didn’t catch the signals or kind of ignored them. And now the conversation became very cold she ignored a messages I sent and left me on seen on instagram and when we meet in person she acts like nothing happened and talks with me both not on the same level. I want to say that i am interested in that girl I don’t know yet how but I am. I think I am a little intimidated by her experiences and her past relationships. I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO.

I have a mind mapping app that has been running well on Android for a few years now. I have been trying to publish it for iOS and MacOS for some time now. On iOS (as an app) and MacOS (in the browser for testing) I have a problem with the export. The app is a project in Angular, Cordova, Typescript. The problem only occurs in the Safari browser, which is also used in the Cordova version for iOS. I was able to test it on my Mac and an iPhone. The error does not occur on the Mac in Chrome.
The error
If I export a mind map that contains images as an image (.png), the images of the nodes are not displayed in the exports. Everything else in the map is exported correctly, only the images are missing. Only when I export the map three times are the images present in the export. If I add a new image and export it again, the image is only visible in the exported image after 3 exports. It is interesting that the export as SVG, which I also offer, contains the images of the nodes. So the SVG string that I create has all the necessary information.
The base
The mind map consists of various things. HTML and CSS for the frames, lines etc... The images of the nodes are saved as Base64 and each node is in a Foreign Object.
Example of the SVG export
Mindmap with 2 nodes and the Base64 characters of the node images have been replaced with XXX.

This is how I create the .png file to be exported.
I can view all this content in the map view of the app. When exporting to an image, I take this information, turn it into an SVG, have the browser draw it on the canvas and then output it as a graphic. Something must be going wrong at this point.

private exportAsImage( mindMap: MindMap, scale?: number, type: string = "png" ): Observable { return new Observable(o => { this.progress.start(this.progress.PROGRESS_MAJOR); this.mmpMap.export(this.mapVizService.getExportClassList(mindMap), (svgStr: string) => { this.exportService.imageFromSVGString(svgStr, type, scale).pipe( switchMap(img => of( Utils.dataURItoFileObject( img.dataUri, `${Utils.sanitizeFilename(mindMap.title)}.${type}` ) ) ), switchMap((fileObject: FileObject) => this.mapsService.saveAsTemp(fileObject, true, { message: this.translate.instant("mdz.mindmap.saveas.message"), // subject: this.translate.instant("mdz.mindmap.saveas.subject"), subject: fileObject.name, url: `www.myURL.com` }, true) ) ).subscribe(() => { this.progress.stop(this.progress.PROGRESS_MAJOR); o.next(); o.complete(); }, err => { this.progress.stop(this.progress.PROGRESS_MAJOR); o.error(err); o.complete(); }); }) }); } 

What I have already tried.
I have already tested various things such as time delays etc..., none of which change anything. It seems to me that it's a combination of the caching and the order or speed at which the images are loaded. Only the speed can't be, because built-in delays don't change anything.
My guess
But it must have something to do with Safari because on the Mac in Chrome it runs without problems... Maybe it can't handle so many base64 images or it exports faster than it renders? Whereby the SVG export contains all the information and when I open the SVG, all the content is also displayed in the browser in seconds. So something must happen when painting on the canvas and outputting as an image.
It doesn't really make sense, I'm really at the end of my ideas. What can you do?
I really hope you can help me. A mind mapping app without image export makes little sense. And since the app otherwise works great, I'm really getting desperate. :(
Thanks a lot!
Rob

Hey everyone! I've always been fascinated by castles, and I've compiled a bucket list of the ones I'd love to visit most. While I know I won't get to see them all, I'm determined to experience as many as possible. Here's my list:
Neuschwanstein, Germany. I feel like this one would be on all castle lovers lists. Disney inspiration!
Hohenzollern, Germany. Just picture perfect on top of a mountain. I imagine the views are out of this world.
Schwerin, Germany. 10/10. It looks jaw droppingly amazing.
Mont Saint Michel, France. It looks like something out of a fairytale, so mysterious.
Carcassonne, France. A whole fortified city. What's not to like?
Krak des Chevaliers, Syria. A symbol of medieval military prowess. Supposedly never conquered by any enemy.
Alhambra, Spain. The architecture and hidden mathematics it was build with.
Alcazar of Segovia, Spain. Just a quintessential castle. It doesn't get more "castlelly" than this in my opinion.
Himeji, Japan. A national treasure of Japan and UNESCO heritage.
Castel del monte, Italy. This mysterious octagonal castle is a testament to medieval ingenuity and design.
Edinburgh, Scotland. This one is just oozing with history.
Malbork, Poland. The castle of the "Knights of the Teutonic order" and suppossedly the largest in the world measured by land area.
Caernarfon, Wales. The iconic symbol of Welsh heritage.
Conwy, Wales. A masterpiece of medieval military architecture.
Dover, England. Guarding the English Channel for centuries, Dover Castle offers commanding views and a rich history to explore.
I'd love to hear what castles are on your bucket list! Share your favourites or any must-visit destinations I may have missed. Let's swap travel dreams and castle tales!

Hello guys. This one'd like to share something about the recent situation about Legends Asia in China Mainland.
This article has two parts as title tells. First, 森林屿海 has decided to relauched ESL Asia on Google Play, which will be opened to players in the Asia Pacific region for direct connection. The time is tentatively set for May, which may be delayed for further testing of various performance aspects.
The officials did the same thing as Todd Howard. They boldly predicted that they would develop the server connection function, allowing the ESL Asia server of Google channel to connect with the ESL Asia server of Chinese Mainland, so that the two sides could fight across servers.
That is to say, these are two separate servers, and their accounts are two separate accounts. And due to the deletion of the previous server library, the previous data will not be retained.
The language switching settings are already under development. According to currently known intelligence, the official will continue to translate Japanese and Korean based on the previous game. As they have not done any subsequent text translation work before, the studio will encounter difficulties in localizing the translated content. For example, Japanese is mostly katakana with almost no Chinese characters. Languages of other European countries are also on the agenda.
This also seems to indicate that the game content of ESL Asia, which is about to be launched on Google Play, will be consistent with the unique version in China.
At present, there is a way to play the unique Chinese version of ESL Asia: By changing the area of the App Store to Chinese Mainland, you can search the app store for the name of the game. However, playing the unique version in China still requires a Chinese citizen ID card and a mainland+86 phone number.
Second, ESL Asia in China Mainland has encountered a worrying situation. There are roughly two reasons. Firstly, the official productivity is low, and the launch time of new cards has been infinitely extended. Secondly, players have increasingly strong opinions on the quality of unique new cards, and their wording is almost harsh.
Considering the official is working on the Google Play version, we temporarily understand the huge workload of their small studio. However, at the same time, players have to go through a "Blank Period" similar to the original game situation.
In order to avoid deck similarity and malicious sniping, the official closed the deck copying function of the leaderboard and professional leaderboard during this blank period. This undoubtedly increases the difficulty of the game for new players, and players on the leaderboard no longer receive profits of deck copying. Although this is similar to the international server, most people still hope that players can choose whether to publicly display their decks.
Apart from the above situation, the biggest debate is undoubtedly about unique cards. The opinions of players are divided into two parts:
Conservatives: We should innovate while retaining the TES IP to avoid the introduction of new cards that would cause the old cards useless. But the most important thing is to avoid adverse conditions that govern the environment of rank mode like Invade before. Secondly, due to the influence of the original IP of the ESL, almost all cards can find prototypes in the game, and the design is also interesting. Therefore, our design should pay more tribute to The Elder Scrolls, which is the biggest difference between us and Hearthstone, which removed World of Warcraft Heroes..
Progressives: The basic design of ESL is outdated and inferior, and compared to similar card games such as Hearthstone and Shadowverse, its game model is not outstanding. Nowadays, creating unique new cards is to improve this situation. Therefore, we should follow the example of other card games and make improvements to the poor performance of this game, such as drawing cards and improving the quality of high cost creatures.
In addition, the third voice is mutually agreed upon by both parties, which is that we need to strengthen some systems in order to diversify the environment.
Both sides naturally engaged in a debate on this point.
Conservatives believe that Legends should not be measured by the standards of other card games, even if their game modes are similar. However, this is still unreasonable, as overly powerful designs will only make these card packs meaningless.
Progressives believe that the conservatives approach to designing cards is wrong. They are deliberately catering to the mess of previous designers, and the cards they design have no impact on the game, even being considered weak. Progressives believe that some conservatives have no experience playing other card games and are simply not qualified to participate in card design.
Recently, the news that Hearthstone is about to return to China undoubtedly has a huge impact on Legend's domestic market. In fact, the main players of ESL Asia in China are actually TCG players rather than TES players, and the huge influence of TES in China is limited to Skyrim and ESO. Despite some players playing both games simultaneously, conflicts continue to unfold.
Someone once proposed a solution, asking TCG players to provide design ideas and asking TES players to work on designing Lore. But there's an old saying that goes well: War, war never changes.
That's all, thank you for reading. If you can give some advice on the subsequent new card development, this one will be appreciate.

Hello Reddit,
I come seeking some insight into my actions this past Mother's Day to see if I am truly out of touch with reality and everything good in this world.
Let me set the stage, this is important; We met over 2 years ago. As with any new relationship there's that initial period where everything is new, you're exploring each other. A few weeks later she was celebrating her daughter's birthday. We had bought her an iPad together. She set it up while everyone was eating cake with the family and unfortunately never checked what synced. Her daughter saw photos and videos of me and made a big scene. She turned 8. She also has a son she adopted away a few years back before going to prison.
Since then she has freaked out every time I am mentioned. Full on meltdown. As such we've had to keep our relationship a secret and hidden. Removed me from all social media and has me muted on Messenger, just to keep the peace with her daughter. This has been going on for almost 2 years in a couple of months.
This Saturday before Mother's Day she went camping with her kid and sisters kids. I didn't know at first, we usually talk in the mornings before she spends the weekend with the kids, our usual morning routine. Sent her 3 messages in the morning, one around lunch and one in the afternoon. She didn't respond until nearly 6pm where she said she went camping and sent pictures.
It was raining for me so I told her I was jealous and wish I could be there. I love her, I'll see her tomorrow, have a great evening and all that. If she or the kids needed anything to just let me know, I'll make myself available. Like 3 short messages and one just spanning 4 lines.
Mother's Day comes around and I sent her a message in the morning telling her shes the best mom and woman in the world, she works so hard for us, try her best and take care of business. She's a gift and a blessing. Told her she's amazing and I love her.
I got a single "Love you" back an hour later. I went to my parents for lunch a little after 9 and texted before going saying I had saved $200 for that day for her so if she or the kids wanted anything to use my card and hoped she liked my gift. (Scented candles and a silver necklace with her birthstone in a heart shape)
Get back from lunch a little after 11 and sent her another message and told her I made a post on FB. Basically just recognizing her for the amazing woman she is and attached 3 of the most beautiful pictures I have of her, two of them where she posed with her daughter. Told her to get something for herself or take the kids out to eat.
3:35pm rolls around, she hadn't seen any of my texts so I text her saying I'm sure she's being kept extra busy today and I wish we weren't apart on special days like today and holidays but hopefully it changes soon and that she liked the gift I had gotten for her.
I didn't expect her to respond so after sending her the text, I went on FB and saw she had posted a new header picture of her kids playing the ipad while sitting on the bed with them, being visited by the son she adopted away. I thought it was beautiful and shared it to my FB with a heart emoji.
Not even a 2 mins later she responds back telling me to "Chill the fuck out, I'm spending time with my daughter!!!"
Followed by: "Dude I'm fucking blocking you! Who the fuck are you to put pictures up of are you fucking serious!!!"
I quickly respond: "I'll remove it"
And she said: "Posting pictures of my daughter so she could possibly see or her dad flip the fuck out!!!" and she blocked me.
Later that evening she still hadn't unblocked me so I sent her an email telling her to please talk to me, I apologize if I did something wrong or to upset her, all she needed to do was voice her disapproval and tell me to remove it. (As I already had) Why do it like this?
She responds back telling me to "Leave her the fuck alone" because she's not "dealing with this psychotic behavior all the fucking damn time. Your mom can be in the hospital dying and you don't post a thing about it, but you put a fucking picture up of my adopted son! Are you fucking serious!".
My response back was I don't post sad shit on Facebook. Never have, never will. I post things that make me happy. I didn't make a post when any of my grandparents died, (last one this Jan), when I was going through 2 surgeries + 7 months of chemo and radiation for melanoma, and certainly not with tubes and wires coming out of my mom. Wasn't even a thought that crossed my mind in the middle of it.
So, Reddit, was I wrong here? Am I so morally wrong and out of touch with reality that I got what I deserved?
I haven't heard from her since. She has used my card though.

I am 19, I work a pretty decent job as a video editor whilst also freelancing, and I am in my last year of college majoring in film.
I had this argument with my mom yesterday regarding her sorta controlling me. I have not had as much work this week so I've had some more free time to go out. Firstly, I asked to go out. This is something I honestly feel like I do not need to do but I do it anyway out of respect I guess? Anyway, I went out and cane back pretty late, like at around 12am-1. On my way back, my mom was blowing up my phone, saying what I was doing out late, asking what I was doing so far (I was in DTLA, about 20-30 mins away, she has me on life360), etc. I ignored her since I was eating dinner with my friends, and because I ignored her she kept sending more texts. I came back and she pressed me about it, and honestly I blew up because I was tired of it.
I told her that I'm not a kid, I am an adult that pays my bills, and if I feel like going out, I'll do so. She yelled back at me, and it just turned into a screaming match.
Our living situation is kinda different than most of the people I know. I don't live with them for free, actually we moved to a bigger place together since an apartment in LA for just me is unrealistic for under 2k a month, and I really wanted my own room (We used to live in a small 2 bedroom apartment, and I have 3 siblings, I'd sleep on the couch). We moved into a 3 bedroom house, where we pay 3k a month. I pay them about $1200 a month for rent, and we split any other bills like utilities and such. We moved at the beginning of this year but I am starting to regret it. I am tired of my parents bossing me around, I would understand following all these rules and such If I was under their roof for free with no job, but thats not the case.
I have no idea what to do. Realistically I dont think I could afford supporting myself in LA (I make like 5-6k a month on average, sometimes I'll have really good months where I make 10k), and I hate living under these strict rules especially when I am contributing to our household.

So my ex ex met this woman in November and after 28 days of knowing her proposed to her. I have three little girls with him. However, from the beginning, this woman has manipulated me unknowingly texting from his phone pretending to be like him, and then other times via his his phone, pretending to be him tells me that he would rather I go through this new fiancé (who is now wife). Who has zero boundaries. She literally came onto the scene as a random stranger, him having known her only a month. And then them getting engaged two weeks later, trying to take over the scene and telling me I'm going to deal with her instead. And I try to tell her I do not have any interest to coparent with a strangerand she always replies with. I'm his wife now it's so bizarre.
t's been this way all along long, since November, and then they got married in January. Since he married this girl, he's maybe total out of the entire year had maybe six or seven weekends. And before, he would never miss a weekend with his kids. She comes up with these bogus excuses, whenever I don't wanna bend to her will.
They don't attend our kids events, i've literally told my kids the reason being because I'm going to be there clearly it's a matter of jealousy and hatred for whatever reason I have no idea this is wicked. Anyway, I have not seen or spoke to their dad ever since they got together. And I mean that. Maybe on an occasion of once or twice on a house phone and which he just repeatedly kept telling me I'm gonna learn to respect his wife. It was so strange. It was like a broken record. But it's just so bizarre anyway, if I'm not able to do what, she desires which sometimes it's insisting that I go through her with coparenting like literally telling me any problem I have the girls I'm gonna go through her, down to cutting off his cell phone and not any of us allowed to have the new phone number and limited to a house landline That he never calls me back and every time he talks to my kids, he always mention things like did I tell them to, to listen or stalk?. or making statements, insisting that the reason they're calling me is because I told them to Call him for whatever reason. It has really affected the entire scheme of things because this woman has cut off and blocked all contact that I've attempted only to address parenting things, my kids are not allowed to call me when they're there, and my oldest has to turn in her cell phone. Which point now she doesn't even bring it. She's afraid. And as per my Childrens report, when they're there all she does is scream at him and they fight.
Additionally, anytime that they're with their dad at their new house that technically is both of their homes. (Dad moved into her place before marrying all so soon), this woman loves bombs the crap out of my kid, the oldest. And the youngest who is 2. But stonewalls the middle child and makes like she's the problem sort of. It's so messed up. And then she pulls these things where they're showing my girls. It's totally OK and easy for them to just drop out of their lives as they've done a few times. With no contact.It's so emotionally confusing and honestly traumatic to them especially because she imposes these ridiculous periods where dad is not gonna be able to care for the children because of all these impairments that come up and I'm not allowed to know what they are. She told me none of my business. So the fact that she's cutting off my kids from contact with her dad and he doesn't even call and then all of a sudden they wanna pop back in their life like nothing changed It's very very very detrimental to my girls.
What can I do legally? To where I don't have to deal with her at all. Or where it's a violation for her to even contact me? She keeps referencing the court order between he and I which she knows is so entirely vague. It literally just says " three weekends a month, visitation as mutually agreed by both parties" and that's about it. As, it says as mutually agreed which was fine with us because we definitely had our own thing going for a few years that was totally fine, but she keeps mentioning it that the court order there's a lack of mention on the Transportation, which she keeps forcing me to bring them out there, knowing I don't have a vehicle and uses that as a reason to not take them, it's also messed up
. What can I do to cut her out of our parenting? And force him to talk to me?this lady is so twisted. I can't imagine what is being told to him, that he's just totally OK with this