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So, for backstory- at the beginning of April, my girlfriend and I let some friends come stay because they were being evicted and we felt bad about the possibility of them becoming homeless. We told them upfront that everything would be split down the middle. We made it very clear, and tried to make sure everything was fair. When they moved to my town, they were both unemployed because one of the roommates had held a job closer to where they originally lived, and there would be no realistic way of her driving an hour to and from a Dunkin' Donuts everyday. We told them we didn't expect them to get a job immediately off the bat, because the town I live in is pretty notorious for being slow at hiring people. Near the end of the month, one of the roommates finally got a job at a fast food joint, and would make $30+ per day as a carhop. But as soon as she'd make the money, she'd blow it on fast food for her her and her partner. So essentially I was paying rent and electric single-handedly. About two weeks ago now, we told them that rent needed to be paid by the 17th. They've both made money from DoorDash and Sonic, but not a single penny has been given to help with rent. On top of that, last night I found out that they somehow purchased a brand new PS5 and a controller, but no rent money still. They're not on the lease, and they're currently staying at my daughter's mom's house. Am I in the clear legally to prevent them from entering my apartment to retrieve the rest of their belongings until they cough up the money owed?

Hey y’all! Happy Thursday. :)
Okay, so I’m trying to get my partner to expand their palate and try games that aren’t Fortnite (nothing wrong with Fortnite, just…there are other things!!). We tend to like opposite kinds of games so I’m finding myself a little strapped for recommendations. They get overwhelmed by the amount of things to do and lack of focused direction in open world games (think new Zeldas, Horizon, Skyrim). Once there’s more than a few quests on the board I think their attention span is just sort of zapped—and I get it, they play games to chill out and smash things. But I also think they just prefer something with a little bit more focused/linear of a narrative. And/or shorter campaigns/missions. Things that were semi-successful introductions:
—Tomb Raider (the newest one, but they didn’t make it all the way through)
—Hades (playing this now and seem to like it!)
—Detroit: Become Human (although a little less action oriented they made it all the way through the story lol)
—Hitman 3
And…that’s about it. We’ve played some Overwatch, too. And oddly enough made it pretty far through a run of Baldur’s Gate 3 (but I think they just liked playing with me hahahaha) I’ll take any suggestions!

I have two 2TB WDBlack SN770 M.2 SSDs which I connected to the onboard M.2 slots. I set them up as ZFS Raid1 and ran two VMs on them. This worked fine for about two weeks without errors. Three days ago, one of the drives suddenly stopped working and I got an email from Proxmox telling me that ZFS observed that one of the disks had been removed and thus the whole pool had become inconsistent.
Yesterday and today this kept happening pretty much as soon as I wanted to do a little more than just start a VM. I tried to rescue the VM disks to another ZFS pool I am running on the machine using an extension card and U.3 drives, but I don't have a chance. It will always fail with the "removed" message as soon as I start moving the disk from within the Proxmox UI.
I then tried putting the two SSDs onto another extension card but there the same issue occurred without any change. After restart the pool is being resilvered and continues to run without errors until the "removed" event.
It's not the temperatures, I double checked that.
I am a bit at a loss as to how to at least retrieve that data. What is the cause? Could ZFS not have worked well with those drives and corrupted them in any way?
If I at least get the data, I would then try to use the drives in an LVM setting to check if it was ZFS. Don't want to format the drives without the data.
Please let me know how to check what could have caused this and how to rescue the data (backup was not yet set up, early stage). Thanks!

I (M24) was with my ex (F21) for a year. That time was one of the most traumatic and damaging periods in my life - every aspect of my life is currently in shambles - no job, no energy, no mental health. We broke up after an argument got really bad and she repeatedly bashed my skull with my phone while I was driving and screaming to stop. We lived with my family and they saw wtf happened to me (again) and told her she couldn't be there anymore, had to move out, and this also just led to her being like "see you, don't fucking text me, I got my uber driver's number and I'm going to fuck other people"
This was March 11 - fast forward to now we started talking again and hanging out - I still love them, but it's the exact same shit as before. They don't give a fuck about me as a person, only what I can do or buy for them. Feels like I'm walking on eggshells with every fucking sentence I speak - god forbid I have to ask a question like if I could leave hanging out early to go to something like my little bro's bday. This mf straight up just looked at me pissed and said "so we're not going to fuck later today?"
I'm so fucking done with being treated like this and was wondering if it's normal. I never have money to go out anywhere nice or fancy so maybe that causes some stress. Not really an overly sexual person (anymore) either but I feel like if I was treated better that'd be way different too..

Also just curious what makes a good agent to you or services that you'd like provided?
Moved to the area about 3 years ago part of a family team operating here and back in California (and you don't have to say it Cali sucks, and I def didn't move here to change Texas I'll leave it as it is gun and queso filled) A lot of our business is people moving from there obviously. We help locals when we meet them by chance, but looking for a way to reach more people here since typical marketing hasn't had much success.
Me and my wife really love Arlington. Love the central location, sporting events, concerts, solid food with plenty of great places in surrounding towns too. I know a lot of agents are "Dallas" agents or "Fort Worth" agents and only work them. But Arlington has become home and id like to service my own backyard more. Not that I'm opposed to driving all over to help people. Was is Bonham last week for a client.
So anyways any insight on how to better serve or reach my neighbors would be appreciated. Moms been doing it for 22 years, me for 7, my aunt is our TC. So totally family based and we treat clients like family.

Hi everyone.
My gf drives a 2010 Toyota Corolla. It's at about 240k miles and while she has taken very good care of it, we anticipate it lasting maybe one more year.
We have been planning for it so I have contributed and saved about $5000 for her this past year for a down payment towards a new car.
She also will contribute $5k or more depending on where she end up when the car goes out.
Assuming we hit the $10k minimum goal by that time, would the smart thing be to save a bit more and put $10k+ down on a new car (2024-2025 Toyota Corolla, ~ $29k after all additional add ons), or go with something used for a bit less (maybe $18-$20k)?
My understanding is interest rates are higher on used cars than they are on new cars. So my thinking is the lowest monthly payment would be going the route of a new car with the largest down payment we can afford.
We both have credit scores over 780 so we're confident we can get the lowest rate possible and are both 25, so hopefully this means we will also be able to get a relatively low insurance rate out the gate.
How would you suggest we go about paying for it? How many months financing is ideal for long term savings?
Let's assume a scenario where we only put $10k down vs putting $15k down.
Thanks!
Edit: forgot to add that together we make $9000/month and have about $3000 left over after all of our bills and expenses.

Note from mom-after having these fish for 10-ish years, their aggressiveness has gotten out of control. Clownfish sometimes get like this. No flaming please, I’m sad enough about all this.
So guesses wat? Our fish servant put us back in the big tank and we chased and nipped and got to tortures our old tanks mates for a couples dayz. Fun fun! Then someting weird happened… servant netted us and puts in a bag! Says we get to go get rehomed. Took us to “pet store” who said Dey would find us new home togethers and new servants wood knows we had to be ONLY FISH. Means whole tank to ourselves! Dey took down our names and ages and put us in a “quarantine” or somethin to “make sures we healthy”. Anyway. All seemed ok for about a week while we quarantined. DEN GUESSES WATS! Our new pet store had a tornad-Leo-Leo! I do t know what that is but sudden like da windows all broken and some roofs went away and den it went dark. DEN WE GOTS SCOOPED UP AGAIN! and went for a long drive with lots of other fishes to another PET STORE. Was a little worried because we lost our names along da way. But apparently old fish servant got ahold of the PET STORE and we got our names back and a big label saying DO NOT SEPERATE-AGRESSIVE. Whatever dat means. Just thought I’d update our new frens here! We is survivor fishes! We is toughness, GRRR.

Long story short - we have a 2016 Hyundai Tucson that has had multiple problems since we bought it. The car broke down while driving a couple hours... we were on the freeway and suddenly it felt like the gas pedal wasn't giving the car power. Pulled over to the shoulder, boom, car wouldn't start back up, battery and oil pressure and various other lights flashed.
We got it towed to a mechanic and they said the cat convertor was cracked or otherwise compromised in some way. They quoted $850 to cut and weld a new one in, or $1100 for a direct fit replacement. Is this reasonable? Any advice here is much appreciated!

Just came back to Fort Stewart from deployment to Eastern Europe, and I pinned SSG last year right before I left, so I moved off post for the first time after I got back. I got my first taste of the infamous gate congestion during PT rush at Main Gate, after getting stuck in a traffic jam starting about a mile out on E General Stewart Way. Is it worth it to drive all the way around the cantonment area to the Miyamura Gate instead for morning rush hour?
What are your thoughts about the morning traffic problems?

If you want, you can see my previous very long post about our breakup for more details (this one will also probably be pretty long tbh). Everyone’s comments along with a few therapy sessions made me realize how one sided our relationship was. I’ve been in much longer and more committed relationships than this one, and had much worse breakups all things considered. But I’ve never felt like this. I know that grief isn’t a linear process. It comes in waves. However, I’ve always prided myself on being calm and collected even in the worst of times. I managed to hold it together pretty well when I lost my dad a year and a half ago, and worked through that in a healthy way. Why can’t I do that now? It’s been a month and a half. This should be so much smaller in the grand scheme of things.
I saw her yesterday at the grocery store, we were using self checkouts right next to each other. We ended up basically walking out together. I think she noticed me and just tried to pretend I didn’t exist. I immediately felt sick to my stomach, with this mix of deep sadness and anger. It took everything I had not to fall apart right then and there. I couldn’t eat dinner, and still managed to puke when I got home and then again in the middle of the night after waking up from a dream about us.
A realization that I had after my last post is how little she would compromise on things. A few of you that said that I was a doormat, and you’re right. I somehow let so many things slip that I shouldn’t have. It was her first serious relationship, she wasn’t used to having to compromise much. I gave her the benefit of the doubt. She asked so much of me, maybe too much, and I gave to her maybe too freely. But the few times that I asked things of her, she’d almost always say no.
I wanted to watch Home Alone over Christmas. It was a tradition that I shared with my dad, some of my earliest memories are about that. I wanted to continue that tradition and I couldn’t bring myself to do it alone, so I asked her to watch it with me. I explained how important it was. She refused, time after time, every stay at home date we had between Thanksgiving and New Years. She went on rants about how traditions are stupid, and how she hates movies about kids (yet we watched the Harry Potter movies at her request, the first few are made by the same people that made Home Alone). It’s like she didn’t even hear me asking for support when I needed her, she only heard that I was asking her to put up with something she didn’t like for an hour and a half. On the other hand, I never said no to her.
This played out time and time again, in small and big ways. My mom was going to give us the money for our dream vacation to Ireland. All she wanted in return was a nice picture of us in front of something recognizably Irish, a castle or something. She was doing this incredibly nice thing for us, and just asked for that one thing. She just wanted to see me happy, traveling the world with the person I love, after having to give up the last 4 years of my life dealing with my dad’s illness (along with losing all of my grandparents and 2 uncles in the same timeframe) But my ex didn’t like having her picture taken. She would put up with it for friends and family, but if I asked her? Never. We have 3 pictures together, all of which are shitty group photos with her friends. Can’t even tell we were a couple.
Then there’s the big thing that led to our breakup. She wanted me to anticipate her needs without her needing to say them. She hated when I asked how best to help her when she was struggling and overwhelmed, saying that I needed to show initiative. She talked a lot about “mental loads” and such. I tried to support her as much as possible (often doing too much, as many of you said), but sometimes I’d miss the mark. She’d get so frustrated with me, and we’d sit down and talk things out. She’d tell me all of these things she needed from me, and I genuinely put in so much effort trying to work on it.
The only thing that I asked for in return is if I missed the mark, to please guide me to what she needed. I did it all the time for her, she was honestly awful at supporting me. If I was venting, had a bad day, all she’d say was “I’m sorry”, and pat me on the back like a puppy. No effort to dig deeper. No words of support or encouragement. Not even a kiss or a hug. I had to show her how I needed support. I never got mad or frustrated, I recognized this was something we had to communicate about and it was my job to open that communication.
So when we’d have those conversations about how she needed support, and she was asking all of these things of me that felt like mind reading, all I asked of her was to do what I did when she missed the mark. Just that one little thing to save our relationship. It was nothing compared to what she was asking from me, and it was for her own benefit. I put in the work, got us 80% of the way there. I knew I couldn’t bridge the gap on my own. I begged her time and time again. But instead of listening and guiding me to what she needed, she did the exact opposite. Full silent treatment at the very first text of support from me, because she wanted something more/different.
That refusal to compromise ruined everything. I know anger is part of the stages of grief, but I’m just so angry all the time. I know you can’t tell based off of what was said here and in my other post, she is genuinely a great person. She didn’t do any of this maliciously. I don’t believe that she’s evil. But I can’t help but to look at all the work I put in vs all the work that she put in, after being told that I wasn’t doing enough and she was putting more effort into the relationship. Being told that she didn't know me when she didn't seem to put in the effort to know me. Being told that it's my fault we didn't have a plan for the future, when I was always bringing it up and she was always shooting me down. Is this what gaslighting is? None of it makes sense and it's driving me insane.
I don’t even know if I’m more angry at her or myself. Should have I been more proactive? Enforced stronger boundaries? Been more clear in what I needed from her? I don’t know. Maybe I am just a doormat. I just know that I hate feeling like this. I don’t want to be that guy that’s angry and bitter about their ex, and I’m terrified that’s exactly what I’m becoming.

Our token is brand new. A good CEX listing is it just learning to crawl. As it grows and matures it will learn how to ride a bike and grow a little more. We are sooooo early and wait till the markets take off. Think longer term. To really make it. Seriously. U wanna be here all the way till our baby learns to drive a car. Than you can fully reap the benefits. Good luck all. 🚗💨

We have two cats, brother and sister. We have tried separating to different parts of the house and supplying them each with their own litter boxes. We have tried clay litter, crystals, clay pellets, pine pellets, soft animal bedding material. We have tried different size and configurations of litter boxes.
Brother - Poops only on tile, not hardwood floors or carpet. Urinates on tile but will urinate on an absorbent pad (soaks an entire large pad).
Sister - Same as brother, only poops on tile. Urinates in pine pellet filled litter box.
I feel like we have urination under control to a certain extent. But the defecation takes place in our entry way tile area. I'm not sure what is going on here or what can be done. They are 4 years old, and we adopted them from a foster when they were about 4 months old. This has been an ongoing issue since we adopted them. We don't use negative reinforcement, and we are genuinely caring for them. It just drives us crazy to constantly mop.
Any ideas?

If you want, you can see my previous very long post about our breakup for more details (this one will also probably be pretty long tbh). Everyone’s comments along with a few therapy sessions made me realize how one sided our relationship was. I’ve been in much longer and more committed relationships than this one, and had much worse breakups all things considered. But I’ve never felt like this. I know that grief isn’t a linear process. It comes in waves. However, I’ve always prided myself on being calm and collected even in the worst of times. I managed to hold it together pretty well when I lost my dad a year and a half ago, and worked through that in a healthy way. Why can’t I do that now? It’s been a month and a half. This should be so much smaller in the grand scheme of things.
I saw her yesterday at the grocery store, we were using self checkouts right next to each other. We ended up basically walking out together. I think she noticed me and just tried to pretend I didn’t exist. I immediately felt sick to my stomach, with this mix of deep sadness and anger. It took everything I had not to fall apart right then and there. I couldn’t eat dinner, and still managed to puke when I got home and then again in the middle of the night after waking up from a dream about us.
A realization that I had after my last post is how little she would compromise on things. A few of you that said that I was a doormat, and you’re right. I somehow let so many things slip that I shouldn’t have. It was her first serious relationship, she wasn’t used to having to compromise much. I gave her the benefit of the doubt. She asked so much of me, maybe too much, and I gave to her maybe too freely. But the few times that I asked things of her, she’d almost always say no.
I wanted to watch Home Alone over Christmas. It was a tradition that I shared with my dad, some of my earliest memories are about that. I wanted to continue that tradition and I couldn’t bring myself to do it alone, so I asked her to watch it with me. I explained how important it was. She refused, time after time, every stay at home date we had between Thanksgiving and New Years. She went on rants about how traditions are stupid, and how she hates movies about kids (yet we watched the Harry Potter movies at her request, the first few are made by the same people that made Home Alone). It’s like she didn’t even hear me asking for support when I needed her, she only heard that I was asking her to put up with something she didn’t like for an hour and a half. On the other hand, I never said no to her.
This played out time and time again, in small and big ways. My mom was going to give us the money for our dream vacation to Ireland. All she wanted in return was a nice picture of us in front of something recognizably Irish, a castle or something. She was doing this incredibly nice thing for us, and just asked for that one thing. She just wanted to see me happy, traveling the world with the person I love, after having to give up the last 4 years of my life dealing with my dad’s illness (along with losing all of my grandparents and 2 uncles in the same timeframe) But my ex didn’t like having her picture taken. She would put up with it for friends and family, but if I asked her? Never. We have 3 pictures together, all of which are shitty group photos with her friends. Can’t even tell we were a couple.
Then there’s the big thing that led to our breakup. She wanted me to anticipate her needs without her needing to say them. She hated when I asked how best to help her when she was struggling and overwhelmed, saying that I needed to show initiative. She talked a lot about “mental loads” and such. I tried to support her as much as possible (often doing too much, as many of you said), but sometimes I’d miss the mark. She’d get so frustrated with me, and we’d sit down and talk things out. She’d tell me all of these things she needed from me, and I genuinely put in so much effort trying to work on it.
The only thing that I asked for in return is if I missed the mark, to please guide me to what she needed. I did it all the time for her, she was honestly awful at supporting me. If I was venting, had a bad day, all she’d say was “I’m sorry”, and pat me on the back like a puppy. No effort to dig deeper. No words of support or encouragement. Not even a kiss or a hug. I had to show her how I needed support. I never got mad or frustrated, I recognized this was something we had to communicate about and it was my job to open that communication.
So when we’d have those conversations about how she needed support, and she was asking all of these things of me that felt like mind reading, all I asked of her was to do what I did when she missed the mark. Just that one little thing to save our relationship. It was nothing compared to what she was asking from me, and it was for her own benefit. I put in the work, got us 80% of the way there. I knew I couldn’t bridge the gap on my own. I begged her time and time again. But instead of listening and guiding me to what she needed, she did the exact opposite. Full silent treatment at the very first text of support from me, because she wanted something more/different.
That refusal to compromise ruined everything. I know anger is part of the stages of grief, but I’m just so angry all the time. I know you can’t tell based off of what was said here and in my other post, she is genuinely a great person. She didn’t do any of this maliciously. I don’t believe that she’s evil. But I can’t help but to look at all the work I put in vs all the work that she put in, after being told that I wasn’t doing enough and she was putting more effort into the relationship. Being told that she didn't know me when she didn't seem to put in the effort to know me. Being told that it's my fault we didn't have a plan for the future, when I was always bringing it up and she was always shooting me down. Is this what gaslighting is? None of it makes sense and it's driving me insane.
I don’t even know if I’m more angry at her or myself. Should have I been more proactive? Enforced stronger boundaries? Been more clear in what I needed from her? I don’t know. Maybe I am just a doormat. I just know that I hate feeling like this. I don’t want to be that guy that’s angry and bitter about their ex, and I’m terrified that’s exactly what I’m becoming.

I'm an independent person and I like being skillful but I must admit, there's one particular thing I'm glad that someone does instead of me: planning everything when it comes to a trip or a holiday. I'm going to Spain with small group of people next week and I'm glad that my cousins (which have way more experience than me were the ones who created the event) organised the whole vacation, from the apartment to what we're going to do, tickets and tracking expenses. I like to travel but searching for weeks every single detail drives me crazy, I'm always thankful for them

In 2018 my boyfriend at the time died. I am not from Virginia but lived there with him at the time, ive since moved back home. I have had his promise ring he gave me sitting in my safe for years as it’s the last thing I have of his. I drove to Virginia for many reasons, but one was to put flowers on his grave and say my final goodbye as I will probably not ever be visiting his grave again. I still have love for him in a way and always will, but I need to live my life and making a 10 hour drive to see a grave isn’t exactly ideal with a daughter and the life ive made for myself at my home. The first 3-4 years postmortem were hell, I was inconsolable. Over the past few years I have made peace for the most part. Being as this is my final goodbye to his grave, my family keeps hounding me to put the ring on his grave too and leave it. But it is the only thing I have left of him, but they hounded me before I left. I took it with me. I dont want to leave it, i want to keep it in my safe with my dead relatives keepsakes that I have. But since it was just “some kid i was with when i was 19-20” they’re telling me I need to let it go already. Theres a small voice in my head saying I should leave it there to give myself “closure” or something, or give it back to him. But leaving it there and never seeing it again is going to really, really hurt. I dont wear the ring. I just have it. And i have no idea what I should do. Sorry for this being all jumbled up. Being here is overwhelming me. My final good-bye to him is one of the 20 different reasons I am here so my head is in knots.

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I'm currently running bitwig in demo mode so I cant test this myself. I'm working on two different computers. Currently i store my ableton projects and samples etc in dropbox. No problems opening the projects on either one of them. However I noticed that Reaktor presets use filepath all the way up to Volume/the hard drives top layer. Which means that when opening on another computer I need to relocate the file. Is it the same way with Bitwig? I ask because when setting locations for Library and Projects it looks the same as in Reaktor.

My computer recently forced an update of PredatorSense (5.0.1341), and now it has a bunch of "experience zone" features like built in GIMP, ProClip, PurifiedView, PurifiedVoice, and In-Game Overlay. I don't want any of these features, but I ESPECIALLY don't want any kind of overlay whatsoever. Is there a way to completely disable it? I couldn't find any options in the program and I really never, ever want to see it again. Ever since updating I have a bunch of awful weird other stuff going on, but this is the one that's driving me craziest :/

Last night I met a man named Eric and his mother at SJC rental car center who ended up driving me all the way to Hollister due to a mishap with my rental. I wrote done my number in his phone but since I was so scrambled I hope I wrote it down correctly. I would love to tell him thank you again and would love to stay in contact. Eric call me 🤙🏼