Hello, good folks of Vietnam! A few years ago, I met someone on Facebook from Vietnam. I was in touch with him for a good amount of time. Unfortunately, I deleted my Facebook account, so I lost contact. I am also kind of fuzzy about his name. His name starts with Hoáng and ends with the letter L..... .His name was basically Hoàng L.... .Can you guys give me a combination of names so I can find him? I know I can't be certain that I'll find him, but I'm trying. So, your help will be much appreciated. Thank you.

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I don't necessarily like venting to my family or the little friends I have anymore about this since I don't want them to know how weak of a person I am because this breakup killed me back when it first happened. This all basically starts in 2019, I had just graduated highschool, started college in the fall and was heading into 3 years of being with my at the time highschool bf, now ex, and things were kind of weird. Maybe it was the high emotions of being launched into adulthood or maybe I was going insane who knows, either way I started getting really depressed that summer. So many things were happening all at the same time like my cat dying/running away, losing friends, health issues, etc. and it felt like the order of my world was crashing down. I felt crazy because I also felt like a child with so much on my plate and to be quite honest I still do. I loved my ex boyfriend I really did and I still have some love for him present day but we had already had some tensions built up from previous matters that I started just piling and piling up in my head and there was only so much more I could take honestly. The first time he really broke a piece of me was when I had to go to a scholarship acceptance banquet and they completely fucked me over so I left crying and since I went there expecting to eat I left hungry so I went to get food and drove to see him after his shift and we ate in my car or more like he ate in my car while I cried and he kind of listened because in the middle of ranting he turned up the music in the car because "it was a good song", mind you I was still crying. After this anything he did that slightly pissed me off started getting added into my pile of grievances. Also in my eyes after we graduated from Highschool he did start to seem distant at times, one of the habits he grew was constantly being on his phone while on dates, sometimes even texting a girl I told him to block because I felt insecure. I know what you are probably thinking, another girl that just won't let her boyfriend have a chick friend. You know yea basically but one thing that got me really insecure is he would constantly play games with girls and be all chummy with them but when I asked to play it was always "maybe later" and well later never came except for one time when he asked me to play minecraft with him so I bought minecraft just to play,even though I know it gives me severe motion sickness, and we played for maybe 30 minutes until he was tired left and we never played again even when I asked for it. After a couple more incidents of him just not caring about my feelings I won't lie my eyes did start to wander off of him a little, I never acted on this because this really scared me due to being with my ex for so long and only knowing him and all I could think of was how could I possibly be so cruel and just leave him like that, so I continued to stay and at this time I still had the motivation to work things out. A couple months pass and I am still pretty depressed and suddenly I start having this feeling of no emotion at all. I feel like maybe this is what some might call desensitization but I haven't looked into it all that much. I felt like I couldn't feel happiness, sadness, anger, anxiety, basically any emotion I had ever encountered was now gone out of nowhere even love was gone. This loss of emotion affected everyone around me not just my ex, I literally didn't even love my parents, that is how bad it was. Our anniversary passes and I'm going through out it but we make it to 2020. Of course like most people this is where shit starts going south because well 2020 was the year of the pandemic. I'm in my second semester of freshman year and I'm still struggling internally without telling anyone about what I am going through mentally. Worst thing about this was that I could barely tell my ex about it because he in the past made fun of his best friend for having to be in a psych ward, which was another addition to the pile might I add. Due to the nature of him casting me and my emotions aside once the pandemic was in full swing I slowly implemented my way of casting him aside slowly but surely to give him a taste of his own medicine. Was this petty yea but did I do it... yea. So during the pandemic of course we would talk but I spent more time playing games, doing exercise/losing weight, and getting back into my hobbies. At this time I don't think it bothered him that much because I was still giving him his doses of attention and he was giving me mine so like whatever I suppose. But then at some point during this shift I remember being on snapchat after hours after he said he had gone to bed and checking where all my friends were on snapmaps, and thats when I see him in the middle of a parking lot alone around 2-3am in the morning. I start trying to make rational thoughts like maybe thats the last place he was when he opened snapchat before going home to bed so I just snap him out of curiosity and I can't remember what I said but it was something along the lines of "i cant sleep miss you send a pic" and he opens it right away and I really couldn't tell where he was in the picture. I open the snap map again and he's still in the parking lot and I ask him what he is doing and he just says trying to sleep. Obviously not.... To this day I don't know what was up with that, sometimes I want to think he was maybe getting weed or something late at night but lying to me because neither of us did substances of any kind at that time but I suspect he was cheating maybe. This was like a huge break in my sanity and after this I became even more distant and sometimes I wouldn't even text him during the day and sometimes he would do the same for me too. Something completely snapped in me a couple of weeks later and when he was hanging out with his friends I decided I needed to call a break. I think this is truly where I messed up and where things could've gone positively for me if I didn't do what I did next. We met up a day later and he was crying while I explained to him everything I had/was going through and how all the things he did were finally getting to me and I remember looking at him crying and feeling nothing but telling him it was a break and that I just needed time to think and that we would more than likely get back together. The beginning of this break was like heaven to me. I felt pure bliss and it felt like everything that was wrong had washed away in an instance. I remember sunbathing outside with my cousins maybe a day or two after that meet up and just being so happy about just breathing outside. I don't remember texting my ex that first week much as my dad had also gone through emergency surgery and I was dealing with that. Second week we started just checking up on eachother a little and third week I think is when we met up and I once again told him we would get back together soon and it didn't feel like a bad idea anymore to be honest. I genuinely think I just needed a little time and space. After that we saw eachother once a week and we'd just chill and talk and at some point we started getting physical with eachother again and genuinely I felt pretty good about getting back together this time around. One of the last times I spoke to him in a loving way I remember him not having his glasses on and telling him how glad I was to be able to see his eyes without glasses on and how pretty his green eyes were... Then the next week we broke up because I found him, in my opinion, emotionally cheating on me with someone over the internet, which he denied. The way I reacted to finding this out was crazy, I felt so insane and don't even understand all the things I said and did but I did them. I was pissed off at myself because there was no way I had let myself get vulnerable all over again with him and regaining my emotions just for him to fuck me over like that. I was utterly devastated, especially thinking that I couldve broken up with him and ended up emotionally okay but then I let him break up with me. This breakup was a huge rift in our circles, my friends hated him, his friends hated him and some of them even asked me out after this, which was weird and still is considering these people are still friends with him but I digress. Although at the time of our breakup he acted like there was potential for us dating again and how he would always have a place in his heart for me he actually moved on rather quickly to the person I caught him texting. Felt like I gave him so many chances but he gave me zero. If anyones gone through a breakup they know that deep sinking feeling straight in the chest. I felt that shit from June to November nonstop everyday. I was going insane being in my own body. I became anemic and developed an ED because of how little I was eating. My mom tells me about how when I slept in her and my dads room the first month she would watch me sleep because she could see how much of a toll the breakup took on me, she said it looked like my eyes had completely sunken in and that my collar bone looked like it was cutting through me. Basically I looked like a walking lifeless corpse was how bad I took it. I won't lie I stalked my ex hardcore the next couple months because I couldn't fathom him being so happy when I was in so much pain. Thankfully once my birthday arrived I didn't feel as bad anymore and I was able to celebrate with a smile on my face with my family. Once 2021 hit I vowed to let go and stop checking up on him and start living my life and it was honestly going really good... at first. Because once I stopped stalking him he decided to make multiple accounts to stalk me. I immediately knew it was him and I won't lie I entertained it, I enjoyed the attention I received from someone who now probably regretted his decision. I let it go on a little until I sabotaged it, because in my mind if I exposed him to his partner at the time maybe just maybe he would come back to me. WRONG COMPLETELY WRONG. He lied his way out of getting into trouble somehow after I confronted him and his partner at the time and it left me feeling more drained than ever. This time it started a downward spiral for me so bad that I had to start antidepressants and to this day I still take. Yet after all of this I still miss him. I know I am weak and stupid and everything else inbetween but that's just who I am. I hate myself for wasting my early twenties to being depressed over this but I can't do anything about it now. I've been single ever since and he's on his second partner now since me. I didn't start finding people attractive again until the middle of 2023 and since then I have entertained the idea of bumble and tinder but I cannot fathom it. I want an organic relationship with some new but sometimes I want lovers to enemies to lovers again with me ex idk. The only reason I'm venting about this was because I went on facebook and one of my friends memories had him in middle school in it and I lost it. Hope someone can be entertained by my stupid love story or maybe someone can feel not so alone in this evil love filled world.
also I kept some things out because I don't want to embarrass myself more than I already have

Hi guys so as the title suggests, can you guys please help me in listing out some of the good companies for Salesforce role ?
I’m currently working as Salesforce DevOps Engineer and want to switch in a similar role due to poor pay and toxic, exhaustive culture.
Any help/suggestions will go on a long way for me! Thanks

As the title says on the tin. In the Facebook group I saw a thread about the “worst” fear, and was surprised by the amount who said the lonely. It’s obviously subjective, but for someone who has extreme social anxiety and bouts of deep isolation, I personally can’t put myself in those shoes - to the point where in a few of the lonely episodes I actually thought the lonely sounded almost pleasant. No judgement i just want to try and understand!

Hi everyone,
As per title. The current company I'm in (investment funds industry) has a very good referral program. They're based in the EU but they also have offices (and job positions ) in the US, Mauritius, Asia and Australia. For tax reasons I'd prefer EU referrals though.
Is there a sub where I can find people who want to work in the field and are open to a referral? For junior positions usually a bachelor's degree in economics is required. If things go well I can start recommending people by the end of this year.
I tried looking up a few subs but no options and my university friends are starting their careers in other fields. As of now my only choice is LinkedIn and checking each recommended profile with the opentowork hashtag.
Thank you in advance!

Good afternoon folks!
Well, the 2023/24 snooker season didn't disappoint in drama and action. While the World Championship may have disappointed some, a worthy winner in the form of Kettering's Kyren Wilson took the trophy and £500,000 in prize money, bringing an end to a season dominated primarily by Judd Trump, Ronnie O'Sullivan and Mark Allen in the tournaments they won, but it also brought a light to many new talents and winners, notably Zhang Anda winning his maiden world ranking title in China, and the beginning of new professional careers for He Guoqiang and Liu Hongyu. Si Jiahui followed up (belately) with his 2023 World Championship run with his first world ranking final in Germany, even if he did not win the title.
Snooker is in a really healthy place, fan numbers are up and all of us can't wait for the 2024/25 season to begin, with changes already afoot on the World Snooker Tour that we'll be seeing in the new season!
Before we get into the meat of this update post, there's one thing we want to call out, and thats you, the community. We're all fans of the sport and it is always a pleasure to be able to converse about all things snooker every year and during every tournament. The growing importance and fanbase of snooker isn't just an anecdote either: we can see that clearly in our own member numbers.
Two years ago, we had around 39,000 members in the community. This time last year, when we posted an important announcement during the 2023 World Semi-Finals, we had 43,000 members. Now, as of the conclusion of this years' World Championship, we're now over 60,000 members, meaning we have grown by 17,000 members in just one year. Snooker is growing year-on-year and this community is quickly becoming the hub and premier discussion portal to the sport, both for brand new fans, old fans returning after a hiatus and our long-term fandom.
All we can say, as a moderation team, is thank you for continuing to participate in this community daily, weekly, monthly, or sporadically. Whichever way you choose to consume snooker, this community will always be here to discuss, debate and comment on the sport, in all forms. 👏
So now, onwards to some of the changes we'll be making for next season. At the end of every season, we make changes to best accommodate the changing needs of you, the fans, using this forum to discuss the sport. We use your feedback (sent to us directly via Modmail or in the tournament discussion threads), as well as general observations over the course of the season, to best shape how the community is served by the functionalities offered to us by Reddit, but also to make sure that the community is protected from the malicious actors out there who seek to do nothing but disrupt our space.
Here is a summary of some of those changes we're making to improve our community, but also to protect you from malicious users: 1. A new link filter to block compromised accounts linking to cryptocurrency scams. 2. A variety of new flairs to best categorise discussions and opinion pieces. 3. New rules relating to the discussion and promotion of bootleg and illegal streaming websites, as well as a rule change regarding the re-selling of tournament tickets. 4. A few minor updates regarding the Tournament Discussion threads for next season.

Link Filtering

Some of you might remember this, but many will not: at the start of the 2023-24 season, we experienced issues relating primarily to scambots, compromised accounts and general "spam". The issue primarily related to the linking of malicious cryptocurrency/phishing websites, designed solely to scam you out of accounts on the internet. Initially, we fought those efforts using the AutoModerator but over time, we realised that this was not going to be a long-term solution, as the links would keep changing and it would be a losing battle.
So as a moderation team, we decided that the best way to block out a lot of the scam link attempts was to make use of Reddit's native "link whitelisting" feature. Basically, the link whitelist means that all links are blocked from being posted, EXCEPT if the link comes from a trusted domain that we have specified. This increases trust that when you click a link in a post, it takes you to where it says it will. Going forward, the only links you will be able to share in the opening post of a new thread will be links to verified official websites, most of which will relate to Snooker.
While we're unable to filter out comments within threads themselves using this feature, we believe that this will help to ensure the safety of the community by blocking out scams. Since implementing this feature, we have seen a 100% reduction in scam links being posted, so it is a net positive!
This link filter is not a static thing: as new sites are discovered, they will be added to the whitelist. The current whitelist is lengthy, but it includes the domains of the BBC, Eurosport, WST, snooker.org and a number of other verified sources of snooker information. If you find your post is getting blocked because of this link filter, and you believe that the URL is safe, please reach out to the moderators using the Modmail feature by clicking the "Message the Moderators" button.

Post Flairing

The community has long had a number of flairs available for users to categorise posts, however for a significant period of time, these flairs weren't enabled for users to use on their posts and as a result, a majority of posts on the community don't have any flairs to categorise them. We've decided that adding flairs is a great way of helping to categorise discussions, so we've expanded the range of flairs available to you. When posting a new thread, you'll see the option to add a flair to your post.
To make things easier for everyone, we've enabled the setting requiring that all new posts be flaired. This means that users will be able to immediately tell what kind of topic you have posted and won't need to guess it from the title. Moderators reserve the right to change the flair on a post if its deemed that the wrong one has been used.
For those who use the Mobile Reddit app, or New Reddit (whether v1 or v2), you will be able to filter by flair using the "Filter by Topic" section. Use these to quickly find your discussion or see if new discussions have been posted in your favourite topics!
NB: The Tournament Discussion and Community News flairs are restricted to only being used by the mods. Additionally, you won't be able to change the text of your chosen flair, so use the right one from the start! :)

Bootleg/Illegal Streams

For many years, this community has tended to advertise a variety of "unofficial" streams on platforms like Twitch and YouTube, or endorse the use of VPN's to access geoblocked content.
In the past, we tended to take a view of removing links like this a few days after the fact, and not necessarily moderate it straight away. Unfortunately, as this community grows in size and in visibility -- not only with the fans but with officials involved in the sport and in the broadcasting world, it is a topic of conversation that we have to become more strict about over time, and even more so since the WST and various broadcasters have started to clamp down upon these illegal streams.
While I'm sure that many of you will probably continue to use such platforms anyway and will continue to shun official platforms -- despite the fact that shunning such places discourages the growth of the sport in under-represented countries -- unfortunately from a moderation perspective, it is a topic that we now have to change our position on. Therefore, effective immediately, discussion and promotion of bootleg and illegal streams is forbidden across the community. As the WST grows, more and more official streams will become available via its broadcasting partners, and it is not in our best interests to permit the continued promotion of bootleg/illegal streams here.
Users who promote bootleg and illegal streams, as well as methods to bypass geoblocking restrictions, will have their posts removed when spotted and will receive appropriate moderation actions deemed necessary by the moderators. We'll also be taking proactive measures to block many of these bootleg streams from being linked using the AutoModerator, and moderators will also reactively remove any comments trying to evade our filters or hinting at locations where to find such content.
If you want such streams to exist, shouting about it on this community isn't the way to go about it.

Ticket Reselling

Like with the topic above, this sub has often been used from time to time to resell tickets. Often, this involves just advertising that you have a ticket that you can't use and asking users to DM you if you want to purchase.
From our point of view, using this community to resell your tickets is very questionable and you're also putting a lot of stock in the other user not being a scammer. This community is also not a marketplace, and thus using it to sell your tickets could put you in some hot water from a legal sense. There are also the Terms and Conditions with regards to buying tickets from WST's official tickets partner and local box offices, which make it clear that reselling tickets is not permitted and the additional security put in place by WST means that purchasing a resold ticket could leave you disappointed.
Therefore, effective immediately, ticket reselling is forbidden on this community. If you have purchased a ticket from an official WST ticket partner, or the local venue hosting the event, and you are no longer able to make it to the tournament in question, then you should not attempt to tout/sell your ticket here. Instead, if you have bought your ticket from the WST's SeeTickets platform, then log into their web portal and sell the ticket back to the WST: this way, the WST can sell the ticket legitimately to another fan, who will be able to enjoy snooker in person. Similarly, if you have purchased a ticket from the local venue or used one of the other official platforms offered by WST for buying tickets (eg Ticketmaster for the UK Championship), contact them to discuss a refund if they allow them.
Just for the avoidance of doubt: we're fine with questions relating to tickets (where to purchase, how to get refunds etc), but we're no longer permitting the use of the community to directly sell and buy tickets.

Tournament Discussion Threads

The following changes will take effect for Tournament Discussion threads:

1. For the last two seasons, the Tournament Discussion threads have been posted by AutoModerator. For the most part, this worked well, but we ran into some issues with typos or errors in the opening posts, which only came to light after the posts were made. Reddit doesn't allow us to modify these posts once they're posted by AutoMod, so this required us to delete and repost threads to correct typo's. Going forward, all of the tournament discussion threads will be posted by SnookerMods as this account is owned by our moderation team, thus we can correct typos more easily.
2. We'll no longer provide a sticky comment of a list of matches to be played. This is due to a lack of time from our end to maintain this aspect of the community, and also because it duplicates existing information that we provide in the form of links to external platforms. A sticky comment may be used for any important information on an ad-hoc basis: this will be posted by SnookerMods to allow any of our moderators to update the comment as required.
3. The table of links to platforms for information on draws, match schedule etc will be updated to include links to more than one platform. Prior to the start of last season, we always preferred to use the WST official data source, but that was replaced with snooker.org. Rather than providing links to just snooker.org, instead we'll include links to at least 3 platforms per tournament: the WST official match center, snooker.org and cuetracker.net. We'll expand this list over time with other official scoring platforms as required.

Feedback

Thanks for reading this thread! We hope these changes will help to continue growing our community, fostering discussion, but also protecting the masses from malicious actors and ourselves from the WST.
We won't always get everything right over the season, or even from those changes we've announced in this thread, but we always listen to user feedback and we'll be monitoring this thread for the next few weeks to see if there's any other changes we can make to improve your experience. Outside of this thread, you're always more than welcome to share feedback with our moderation team directly by clicking the "Message the Mods" button. While we can't respond to every feedback post we receive, nor implement every change asked by the community, we do our best to listen to all users and implement as many changes as we are able to.
Enjoy the 2024-25 snooker season and let us hope it is just as exciting as the last!!

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So like the title states, been paying PTPTN loan consistently for a year plus now. I still owe them about RM30k.
What would happen if I stop paying it? Monthly I’m paying RM300, and thats a huge chunk of my salary. I’ve heard stories that some didn’t even pay but still their CTOS score were good and they are able to get house/car loans.

Hello everyone, I’ve been using the Pixel 8 Pro (P8P) for about half a year and the OnePlus 12 (OP12) for about a month. I thought it would be a good time to compare these two phones. As an Android Developer with 10 years of experience, I consider myself a demanding user who uses the phone for a variety of purposes including normal usage, fun, and work.
To start with, I purchased the Pixel 8 Pro 12/256 version for 1159€ from the Google Store, which included the Google Pixel Watch 2 as a pre-order bonus. The OnePlus 12 (16/512 version) was bought from TradingShenzhen for approximately 670€. Currently, the Pixel 8 Pro can be purchased for around 850€.
Let’s talk about the packaging. The Pixel 8 Pro comes only with a USB-C cable, which in my opinion, is of really poor quality. I’ve had connection issues with these cables from Google from time to time. On the other hand, the OnePlus 12 comes with a 100W charger, a USB-C cable, and a classic case. Considering the package and price, the OnePlus 12 is a clear winner for me.
Moving on to the battery and charging. The Pixel 8 Pro has a 5000mAh battery while the OnePlus 12 has a 5400mAh capacity. But that’s just raw data that anyone can Google. In practice, I find the Pixel 8 Pro’s battery to be quite disappointing. Despite numerous optimizations, I was only able to achieve around 5 hours of screen-on time (SOT) (with lower resolution, disabled 5G, location and other permissions disabled for most apps, and battery optimizations). On the other hand, achieving 7 hours of SOT on the OnePlus 12 is quite normal without any optimizations. I use both phones with lower resolution and higher refresh rate. The Pixel 8 Pro can be charged at a maximum speed of 30W, but we need a special charger for that (the same is true for the OnePlus, but they provide the charger). I tried charging the Pixel with a bunch of chargers that I have at home, and the maximum speed that I reached was 20W, which is quite poor. The combination of poor battery life and slow charging speed is really annoying. In this case, the OnePlus 12 with its 100W charging speed is the clear winner.
Let’s discuss the screen. The Pixel 8 Pro has a flat 1344x2992 6.70" screen and the OnePlus 12 has a curved 1440x3168 6.82" screen. Both are really great screens. The OnePlus 12 has slightly higher brightness and resolution. However, the main differences for me are that the Pixel’s screen is flat and the OnePlus’s is curved, and the screen color options (Google gives us 2 options and OnePlus gives us 3 options and an additional manual adjust option). The OnePlus 12 is my first phone with a curved screen and I often feel insecure about it. I’ve stopped placing the phone screen down because I’m worried about it. Also, when I look at the screen from a specific angle on the curved side, it looks strange (different colors). But for normal usage, it’s okay, and gestures may be easier. If we are looking at specifications, the OP12 is the winner (higher brightness, higher resolution, and curved screens are more expensive), but for me, both of them are at a really high level.
Performance / Heating When it comes to efficiency and temperature management, the OnePlus 12, powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, completely outclasses the Google Tensor 3 in the Pixel. The Pixel tends to heat up during normal usage on mobile data (LTE), and even more so during gaming, leading to a noticeable drop in performance. On the other hand, the OnePlus 12 only gets slightly warm when unplugged from its 100W charger, and it’s still cooler than the Pixel charging at 20W. Comparing the OnePlus 12’s performance with the Pixel 8 Pro feels like comparing this year’s flagship with a mid-range phone from 2020-2022. The OnePlus 12 is the clear winner here.
Connectivity Connectivity might seem like an odd category, but it’s quite important to me. I have the Chinese version of the OnePlus 12 (without eSIM), and I must say, I was initially worried about network coverage. However, it’s noticeably better than the Google Pixel. Even when testing my Wi-Fi range, the results were shocking. I connected both phones to the same Wi-Fi network and moved to the farthest corner of my home. At this point, the OnePlus still had full range (4/4), while the Pixel was down to half (2/4). Running several speed tests, the OnePlus consistently achieved about 120 Mbps, while the Pixel only managed 20 Mbps - that’s a five-fold difference! The OnePlus also outperforms the Pixel in terms of mobile data coverage.
Camera I’m not a professional photographer. Like most people, I use my phone’s camera to share photos on social media or send them to friends and family. As we know, apps like Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger tend to degrade photo quality, and in 2024, most flagship phones have good cameras whose potential we don’t fully utilize. However, I did notice some differences between the two phone cameras. Both phones have quite good cameras, not the best on the market, but still very good. Pixel photos have more subdued colors, while OnePlus photos are brighter . Both companies should work on video stabilization. The Pixel has a slight issue with maintaining focus on one thing, making other elements a bit blurry. I like both cameras, and it’s hard to choose a better one - they’re different for sure. If you’re interested, I can take some photos and upload them for comparison (we can do a blind test).
System The primary reason I opted for a Pixel was its operating system. I was quite frustrated with certain aspects of Android that didn’t function well, and I had heard that Pixels are akin to iPhones in the world of Android. Although I’ve never owned an iPhone, I found little difference between Pixels and other brands. The same issues persist, such as missing notifications (a significant problem, I believe, with the Pixel 8 Pro), and apps being killed in the background. In my view, the main distinction between Pixels and other brands is the absence of certain features. Brands like OnePlus, Xiaomi, and Samsung have their own software packed with useful features like Samsung Dex, app cloning, floating windows, etc. Thus, when the system/software behaves similarly but offers less, the choice is clear.
Additional Annoyances on Pixel:

• As previously mentioned, I encountered issues with notifications. They can be delayed or may not appear at all when the phone screen is off. However, as soon as I turn on the screen, the notifications suddenly appear.
• While using the “X” app on Pixel, I often found that post pictures wouldn’t load as I scrolled. Occasionally, switching between Wi-Fi and mobile data or killing the X app and clearing the cache seemed to work. I never experienced this issue on other devices.

Additional Annoyances on OnePlus:

• The OnePlus weather app falls short when compared to the Pixel’s. It’s frustrating that I can’t search for another town’s weather without adding it, or view a more detailed forecast for another day without being redirected to a rather poor website.
• I noticed that when I reset the phone (turn it off and then on again), some of my settings revert to their default values. For instance, I had disabled 5G, but it would suddenly be enabled again. Also, the order of my apps/features in the notification bar would reset.

In Summary In my opinion, the OnePlus 12 significantly outshines Pixel 8 Pro, When compared to the OnePlus, the Pixel appears to be a mid-range phone from 2022, albeit with a commendable camera. The OnePlus 12 triumphs over the Pixel in numerous categories, including:

• Performance
• Temperature Management
• Battery Life
• Charging Speed
• Connectivity
• Value for Money/Box Contents

Pixel fight back only in the following areas:

• Camera Quality
• Display Quality

(I know it's not the main focus in the title but I'd also be super keen to talk to people in the UK, either London or somewhere in England or Scotland around like Edinburgh as there's a near 100% chance I'm moving there this year)
Hi everyone!
My name is Jack, I'm 21 and I'm a recent cyber security and forensics and internetworking and network security graduate, but I hope to go on for a few more years and do post grad studies! (this year my goal is to move to Edinburgh for my masters!)
Hobbies!: For the past few years I've been heavily into formula 1, never missing a race (even the 3 am ones and even worse, the 7 am ones!)
I also enjoy doing photography, I mainly do cars but I have recently started thinking about more landscape/urban photography.
Now for games! My main ones are Destiny 2, and rainbow six siege, (for those wondering my highest rank is diamond 3 (when rank actually meant something lol)), but I haven't been playing them much these days. I play heaps more than that but I can't think of them off the top of my head lol. To try and list some id say project zomboid is one I'm very into as of right now, that and hell divers 2. I really enjoyed elden ring so I want to try more souls like games. Red dead redemption 2 is amazing and my favourite game of all time is probably watch dogs 2.
I love JDM cars and unfortunately haven't been to a car meet in over a year now. My introduction to photography was through cars so if you'd like to see some of my photos do let me know! Most of my part time work went towards getting my dream car so I definitely plan on going to more meets!
As for what I look like I'm 5"11' brown hair that touches my shoulders and never acts normally. I am 75 ish kg and I have brown eyes. That's a basic description of me but if you want a picture that's not an issue.
I'm not really too good at writing these advertisements or making titles or finishing them off so I'll just say if I sound appealing to you or you wanna know more, feel free to shoot me a message! For those in WA I'm down in the Mandurah area but travelling up to Perth isn't an issue for me! And hopefully I see all you Scots later this year!
Thanks for reading! Stay safe people!!

As the title suggest, should I do Jee? I will give a quick background check, for you to understand why I am asking this question. BEWARE,ITS A RANT
In, 2021, My father died because of covid, when I was like 12 years old(I was so called bright child), unkowingly at that time I did not know that I will suffer from pangs of depression, anxeity, and my dear little precious helplessness.
My finacial situation was quite good, you may say. I did not had any problems regarding money until my father passed, even after my passing of my father, he had bought a new house, had some insurances and we got some help from government and NGO.
Now, my father had 3 siblings, and my father was most educated among them, the other 3 siblings were 10 failed/Passed at most, my father came from a village, so did they but they did not got any jobs because of their education, so my father helped them get on their feets, buying one a taxi, making other a farmer at the village, and smallest one came with my father, and my father got him a tailor machine for now, and after some years got him some accounting works that, my father used to do, which salary is around 50k (MONTHLY) or more now.
My father and mother used to quarrel, all the time, they used to beat each other, while I watch the scene with my older sister, I was a scaredy cat, you may say but my sister used to step in to stop father from beating mother, we can say that my father had anger issues. But funnily enough, my fathers side or my uncles never stopped them from fighting even when my father was very unreasonable, even my fathers mother, It was like they were trying to break them apart. But on the bright side, even we were on the verge of divorce, my father never abandoned us, my father used to love us dearly, even though he may have disliked mother sometimes.
I never thought bad about my uncles or grandfathegrandmother even then, because when i visited them they always greeted me with a smile and always were kind to me, maybe it is because of those cartoons, that are heavily relied on kindness and love based theme, that I always forgot, how cruel people are.
After, my father died, the next day after the funeral, my fathers side called a meeting, and announed that they wanted the house, the 2nd house which my father had bought way earlier than our new house. My mother obviously did not want that, because of sister and my future. when my father was dying at the hospital, these so called brothers, did not know that, that their father had died due to heart attack at night, until morning.(Sometimes, I think they may have killed my father).
After, when my mother said, ''NO'' for giving the house for free, my smallest uncle who was residing in that house because of father (even then, my father took rent from his brother), took my grandmother to lawyers, and had her fill up the a Notice to the government and to us, about partaking in my fathers property, his insurances, and even his new home, my mother was devasted.
About, my mother getting my fathers job, as always corruption wins ( My mother is studying to get my fathers job at a university but its very unlikely to get the job because of corruption)
I cleared my 10th just now with 90 percent, with no real tuition, no one to teach me.
Any insurances and any compenstion have not been claimed by us because my grandmothers interruption, they all have a good source of income, every other 3 siblings, expect my mother, who goes to job, and studies at same time for like 10k month. Even when I did have to not suffer, or my mother or my sister, it seems its getting worse only, I can only see or do much. I have loosened very big chunk of weight, Have gained anxiety, fear of failure, procastination. I always wanted to become a scientist from a young age(Even though I am young now), I always wanted to do research, I always wanted to be studying, I always wanted to be intelligent, I wanted to achieve greatness but now all seems distant dreams now. Everyone, when I say I want to be a scientist, they say its amazing, Like I am small child, my uncles and some kids taunts me about being scientist, And sometimes I feel they are saying the truth.
My sister may not be clever or smart or intelligent as me but I have always thought she was a hardworker as she got 92% in ssc board, but she too have failed miserably in NEET. I always wanted my sister to do something worth mentioning in life, I wanted her to be a docter, but..
My sister panicked because of our situation, and chose a very bad class or a cheap one.
I do not want to do that, I believe that I can do jee because of my love for science, but I think I am the only one thinks like that, I am the only one who believe in me( Maybe I am saying a lie, right now).
But the good coaching are like 3 lakhs and more, and about the coachings classes scholarship, I am totally underconfident and I believe that I will totally underperform and Because of that fear of failure is eating me alive and I procastinate more as I do not want waste my mothers money, what I mean is I am thinking I should go college, get a mediocre education, get a mediocre job and live a totally mediocre life, maybe, because, it does not matter how much intelligent you are, if you are destined to mediocrity.
OR SHOULD I TAKE THE GAMBLE? SHOULD I BELIEVE IN INTELLIGENCE? SHOULD I PURSUE JEE? SHOULD I IGNORE MY CIRCUMSTANCES FOR THE SAKE OF DREAMS?.......

This isn't a post about how I'm feeling bad, depressed or whatever the title could maybe indicate. It's an appreciation post. A post for my gf of almost 3 years!
I don't really like to talk to my friends about my relationship, but I want to tell someone because I love her so much so I'm here.
My gf and I are same age, living together for about 1.5 years now, of course not everything was sunshine and rainbows, neither of us is made out of sugar and spice and everything nice, we had our problems and stuff but we worked through it, I'm very glad we did!
She's a really sweet girl, smart, beautiful, insecure about some stuff, but I love those things as well and I'm doing my best to make her feel good about herself. She's trying to respect my boundaries about wanting to spend time by myself a bit more and I'm trying to make the time we do spend together into a more quality time.
After we've gone over some boundaries we set and talked honestly about stuff that is an issue for us that we didn't say before, I noticed I feel more attracted to her, I feel more love and the relationship kinda feel rejuvenated I guess?
I'm so glad I get to be her bf, she's so nice, pretty, supportive, just all around awesome. I don't let out much negative emotion, I've always kept it in me and just tried to solve it myself, but 2 times when I did talk to her about it she was so supportive, I love her. I try to be a supportive boyfriend as well, if she needs something that I can help with I'm there, someone to talk to, I'm there.
Now back to the title. I tell her I love her often, I hug her, kiss her, cuddle, scratch her back, go to the store so she doesn't have to, sing her to sleep sometimes, help with uni stuff if I can, get her games she likes, just anything I can do to show i love her. But I sometimes don't feel she really knows I love her, so I try harder but get worried I'm annoying her and I don't want the words "I love you" to lose meaning to her when coming from me. We're in our early 20s and early on in uni, it's pretty nice. She's awesome. I love her. :)

They keep threatening me over my neural interface. They say a bunch of things followed with "That was bullshit" I'm not sure what they want anymore. I offered to do whatever they wanted years back just so they won't hurt my family, and they rejected the offer and that was a long time ago. They said to me, when I said that I would say whatever they wanted me to, just as long as they dont hurt my family, (and I quote), "No, that isn't good enough, you have to do it the Facebook way".. As they demanded that I post something lude of myself on Facebook, which I didnt have an account on. They tried hard to force me to make an account under threat of death and rape, of me and my Ex girlfriend at the time, they were demanding that I make an account and post something lude for an excuse to have me arrested for anything..
It's mostly death threats and lies that I am hearing now. They keep saying that nobody will know something?? I've been pretty transparent with what they are doing to me and the people that I care about in my life.
They did so much damage to my body today, that I don't know if I will ever recover. My neck and back feel like they are disintegrating, from whatever they have done to me all day, month, years. They say that they will never stop and that their lies/deceptions will go unknown by the others.
I'm not sure what else to do about this. I guess the lesson is just "sit there and die silently and remotely" or they will smear you after they kill you, and make you look like things you weren't. I suppose that means that the average person goes along with it and even believes the story that they spin after you're gone..
My life has been stolen from me and they will never give me back what I'm rightfully owed. Be them remaining there, or not.
Sincerely, -Robert C.

As title said, where it was written. some ladies deliberately get pregnant up to 4 months to their birthday for their b**bs to become big, terminate the baby weeks to their birthday just to look good in their photoshoots
I read this on Quora, and many girls accepted so I wanted to know from this sub is this true and do really girls do this?

Hi, as I said in the title, I will probably be a volunteer for refugees in Münster for about 2 months.
I'm not sure at all where I will stay as it depends on the organization I will work with and they haven't confirmed at all if will be chosen for the role.
My questions are:
1) How safe is Münster? Which places should I avoid? (I'm from a city from the south of Madrid, Spain, where the crime rate is quite high but I have lived there my whole life and I know where to go and where not to go no matter if it's on the daylight or at night).
2) I was looking for a GYM which could allow me be member for just one month. I have been searching and most have a good price but they have an initial fee that makes the price rise till 100€. This is out of my budget as I'm still an student and I don't have too much money to spend.
3) I know I will have a bicycle that the organization I volunteer with will provide. How much time would it take me to go from one place to the opposite of the city by bike?
4) Will be a problem not speaking German in Münster? My English level is quite high but idk if people there also tend to speak or want to speak English. I know from friends who work in some other places from Germany that English is normally not sponken.
5) This question may be for Germany in general. Does any supermarket as Lidl sell products high in proteins? I'm diabetic and I have to have a diet high on proteins not to lose weight as is a tendency I have and that it could carry me some health problems.
6) I'm concerned about far righ having more influence in Germany recently and as I will be working with refugees I have a little fear about the possibility of being the target from this groups of people with this ideology or who wouldn't want me there.
7) You may not have the answer for this but I have the European Health Card as a citizen from the EU. Will I be admitted at general doctor offices? Do I have to associate my European Health Card to an insurance? Are there any specific doctors that work for public health system who would accept the European Health Card to get an appointment for free (as it should be having this card), in case this is affirmative, how can I know which doctors work with the public health system and that will allow me to set an appointment with just my European health card? I have also read in the EU page for European Health card that each prescription cost 10€ but idk if it refers to prescriptions related with physiotherapists or also with meds prescriptions. German health system is really different from Spanish one and I don't understand at all what the European Health Card will cover or not and I'm worried as I have two chronic illness which I could need meds prescriptions as I'm staying for that long time.
Thanks in advance for your help

2 days ago she told me it was over again in a complete overreaction after I called her out on her avoidance. We have 2 or three good days then she vanishes and closes herself away at her home. Makes me feel like absolute shit and I’ve pointed this out repeatedly to absolutely no gain.
I just went silent this time and didn’t respond and the following day she is sending me messages telling me how I don’t do this, don’t do that and generally just makes me out to be the person who has fucked this up.
Unlike previous times where I’ve tried to keep the peace and get her back on track I’m still not budging and am not engaging much only to call her out now and then on her shit. I feel fucking angry this time rather than sad.
She refuses to take any accountability even though she has created a major wedge in our relationship just by being fucking weird and avoiding me on and off.
Apparently this is due to me being not loving enough. That’s the take away I’ve got from this madness.
She’s getting more and more irate in her messages, calling me horrible, posting sad memes on Facebook saying ‘how can he love you if he doesn’t even act like he likes you’ for attention from her cheerleaders from work who I ncidentally I’ve never met but have been triangulated with regularly by proxy.
I can’t see this ending well but fucked if I’m backing down now. She’s finally pushed me to the stage where I know I have no alternative but to stand my ground and fuck the consequences.

Hey! I'll try to keep this part as brief as possible. I'm a 21-year-old guy from the Netherlands, currently studying both physics and data science. After a while of being single, I'm once again looking for someone for whom I can be their favourite person. I'd really like to meet a great girl (like you!) and experience falling in love once again.
About me:

• I have a lot of hobbies like hiking, bouldering, playing the piano, chess and of course video games. I'm also planning to start going to dance lessons soon. Currently, I'm playing a lot of Stardew Valley in my free time, but I also like games like Rimworld, Fallout, or the Civilization series.
• My favourite book genre is sci-fi, I just love imagining the far future. Currently, I'm reading the Children of Time series, it's been really good so far!
• I mainly listen to rock bands like Paramore or Simple Plan but I've been branching out a bit more lately. A huge guilty pleasure of mine is Taylor Swift, Speak Now is the best album (fight me).
• People that know me are often surprised by my willingness to try new things, I try to be very open-minded to different hobbies and interests and would love to check them out! I have also been described as an intelligent and generally well-rounded guy.
• As a part-time job I like to give chess lessons to kids, it's really fun watching your students grow up and improve at the game.
• I have an east-asian background, but I have been told by both internationals and fellow Dutchies that I'm VERY Dutch haha. I'm 181 cm and generally quite fit, although I wouldn't mind being a little stronger. Here is a picture of me if you're curious

About you:

• Preferably you live in the Netherlands or the EU. Chatting online is fun of course but I think relationships are better in person.
• Somewhere between 18 and 25 years old.
• Passionate about anything at all. It doesn't matter if I've never heard of it, as long as you're enthusiastic about it. If you'd like to join me on a hike sometime that is a big plus though.
• Cute :)

If you made it this far, please go ahead and message me. I'd love to hear from you! If you got to this point please tell me what your dream vacation is, see ya soon!

Hello there. If you are like me, you might also be a bit allergic to all the guides out there, that start with "please hit like and subscribe", followed by 10 minutes of chatter around what you need help with, for something that could`ve taken 30 seconds to explain.
With that out of the way, welcome to my No-BullS#$t guide to Soulmask, outlining everything I`ve learned in 80 hours playing on a server rented from G-Portal.
I am going to assume that everyone is somewhat accustomed to the bare basics of the game and how it plays so I will stick to only highlighting things that I learned myself.

1 There are 5 Tribes: Claw, Flint, Fang, Outcasts and Plunderers.

-Everyone can be deterred except Plunderers and Elites (The ones with a unique name and a silver border around their health bar).
-The Claw tribe has the best overall fighters for every weapon school
-The Fang tribe specializes in Remedies, healing and Poisons (Alchemy) so they make for great Alchemists overall, but do very well in relation to ranged combat so make for decent companions, if you prefer having a ranged helper along, they are good for this.
-The Flint tribe are supposedly the clever ones who are all about evolving and furthering their tribe's development so naturally, they make for great crafters.
-The outcasts don`t belong to any tribes and their stats as such are completely random. You can find great ones of course but expect a lower chance of finding what you need, compared to if you were chasing the more specialized tribes.

2 Proficiencies of barbarians go from 1-125+ in each respective school and what they have is based on a lot of factors as well as the low chance of them being a uniquely titled barbarian that can give them various perks outside of the proficiencies themselves.

-The level of the deterred barbarian ONLY affects what the overall proficiencies' start at when you deter them. with the higher the level the better the proficiency.
-Source: Personal experience after deterring roughly 800 Barbarians and while I know the pool isn`t very big, but it is high enough for me to be positive that the level of a deterred barb does not affect their max proficiency level, only what it starts at.
-Labourers are great at the collection of materials: Logging, Mining, Harvesting
-Craftsmen: Any crafting, completely random which ones they are given. Also supposed to unlock various tribes medium/advanced clothing and costumes if they are found in a fortress(Only 3 fortresses at the minute.) Potentially bugged right now though as I`ve deterred 50+ Craftsmen of varying levels from Novice to Master Craftsmen in a Flint fortress with 0 unlocks as of yet).
-Porters: Good at working the Kiln and or Furnace but they are also Great at transporting large quantities of items over longer distances as their weight limits are different and they have positive traits that affect how having more weight makes them move faster etc. (Unlocks the first tribe clothing too. Level 20-25 area barracks)
That`s it for now, if there`s anything else you want to know, just ask in the comments and I will add it to the guide too. But these are some of the things I see being asked the most, so instead of commenting in each post and repeating myself, I will update this one with new info.

3 Mysterious Tisane, dropped by bosses will reset the attributes of your main aka the Vagrant Novice character, but the Mysterious body shaping pill will reset the attributes of any of your deterred tribesmen.

4 The Basic Portal that you can craft yourself will not let you teleport to unlocked teleporters, only to other basic teleporters. (Please for the love of god change this.)

5 Cooking is one of the most important proficiencies in the world of Soulmask.

-I would highly recommend you get someone who`s good at it and put points towards output when selecting bonuses as they improve.
-You can have 4 different food buffs active at any one time, including one medical remedy. Staple, Recreational/Beverage, Vegetable/Fruit and finally Meat based meal.

6 Armor & Weapon crafting

-For traits, select Durability for 30-60 respectively and then Quality once you hit Iron as this is the point where levelling starts to slow down and moreover, you will unlock the Sabre tooth Armor at Awareness 40 once you kill the Berserk Sabre-toothed Predator which is a recommendation to everyone and when crafting the gear it will inherit the stats of the Iron armor that goes into it. Hence you want to make sure it`s as good as possible as this will be the best Armor you will have access to for quite a while.

7 Modifications make a huge difference

-All these mods you keep looting in chests from barracks and dungeons are not useless, even if the numbers may seem small they make a massive difference so use them.
-Having multiple Armor sets with different mods on them will be a benefit, even though it is grindy. Having one with Heat, Cold, Poison and Radiation protection will be the difference between surviving or dyeing.
-Repairing a Weapon or Armor WILL remove the MOD that is on them, so keep this in mind. Repair first, then put on the mod of choice.

8 The hunting Gallery is VERY useful.

-It will show a lot of useful info about the local wildlife and enemies you encounter so I recommend having a look if you are struggling with a specific enemy, perhaps you`re just using the wrong weapon to fight it?.

Not about being better live than on albums, but better live than other bands.
Ok, so this started in a Metallica Facebook group, where an individual claimed they had become so good at rotating their setlists with their new No repeat weekend concept. Yes, they're better at rotating setlists, but it's still the same songs as before, so I shot the claim down by looking at the setlists from the concerts I've attended, Metallica vs Dream Theater.
Metallica used to be my favourite band, and DT was a good second, but the past decade or so I've had DT at #1. This is why I've seen Metallica live nine times, and DT five.
In total, Metallica has played 161 songs at those concerts, but they've only played 59 unique songs. That's 36.65% uniqueness, and 47.2% of the songs they had released upon the time of the last concert I went to. (In 2015)
DT has played 97 songs at those five concerts I've been to, but 85 unique songs, which is an astonishing 87.63% uniqueness. (Actually, The Astonishing was one of the concerts, in case you wonder why the total number makes the average number of songs close to 20). They've played 59.03% of the songs released upon the time of the last concert. (Which was DOT, and the total number is the studio albums plus ACOS)
Breaking All Illusions is played three times. Finally Free, On The Backs Of Angels, Our New World, Overture 1928, Pull Me Under, Strange Deja Vu, Surrounded, The Dance Of Eternity, The Gift Of Music and The Spirit Carries On played twice.
This is why Dream Theater is a much more interesting live band 🤘😁

Hi,
I’m looking for a realistic SOL that can be wholesome and cute one scene but emotional the next. I particularly like imperfect, characters with somewhat dysfunctional (love) lives.
I’ve got a few ideas written down but since this is slice of life, the plot itself is secondary. What matters the most, to me at least, is the ability to play interesting and believable characters. Please bear in mind that I only play F in FxM pairings, hence the title.
Fandoms:

• ASOIAF
• Harry Potter
• Percy Jackson
• Hunger Games
• CHERUB
• Artemis Fowl
• Darren Shan
• Eragon
• Outlander

Plot ideas that are too long to fit into a Reddit post:

• Low level crime drama.
• College/HS settings.
• Romcom cliches like best friends/enemies to lovers and unlikely couples.
• Family/Marriage (could be platonic).
• Medieval arranged marriage between rivals.
• 60s political drama.
• Historical star crossed lovers.
• Formula 1/Racing rivals and other sports (soccer, wrestling, mma).
• Low fantasy adventure or SOL (world building).

A bit about me and what I’m looking for:

• 26F, with 15 years of experience.
• GMT/BST Timezone.
• Looking for good, concise writing in third person.
• I prioritise world building and creating believable characters with imperfections above everything else.
• I prefer active and quick writers with a bit of free time.
• I only roleplay on Discord.