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I'm FA because I've turned down every girl that has ever asked me out, never pursued anything with girls who would flirt, disregarded the few that confessed they liked me, and declined every time friends would try to set me up with someone.

The only reason I am technically not kissless is because a girl forced it on me in grade school.

I genuinely don't know why I do this and it happened again recently with a coworker who reached out to me after they quit.

Now another bday is coming up without a partner and I can't help but reflect on the potential of what could have been.

Bought a car for about $50k a while ago. Was going to pay cash but then they offered 0% 72 months through Scotia. I was like uh fuck yeah and now the money I was going to use is sitting in VOO and I'll take every day of the full 6 years to pay the vehicle off slowly with future inflated money.

Why would Scotiabank ever agree to this? They must be losing a ton of money between the 0% and commission on the loan.

It's just like my AB student loans after they switched to 0%. My federal student loans were paid within a year because of interest but the AB one is still being paid off almsot a decade later with minimum payments just because it's 0%.

I don't get it tbh.

Another birthday is coming up and I can't help but look back on all the opportunities I had that I have thrown away. The universe really did try with me starting all the way back in grade school. I'm pretty sure I have avoidant personality disorder though so I never even remotely attempted to pursue any of those opportunities.

It never used to bother me but now I do find myself often replaying past scenes in my head thinking about what could have been.

Almost every single day I get a notification there is a thunderstorm watch/warning and without fail there isn't a drop of rain let alone any thunderstorm.

It feels like they lazily throw them out by default and if so that is a bad idea because it conditions people to ignore them.

I am trying to find good info on zwave motion sensors. Reviews for motion sensors on YouTube tend to be focused primarily on the inclusion and integration to HA process. Seems to be little to nothing on how fast they respond in actual use.

I find Zooz especially frustrating because they update their models with new 800 series features but then keep the same model number. It makes looking into reviews for their products far more difficult.

I keep getting marketing emails from cineplex and I click unsubscribe on every one of them. That unsubscribe button does the same thing every time where it brings up a page stating my email address has already been unsubscribed.

I'm now marking each one as spam in gmail, and hoping others are doing the same, but is there anything I can do in terms of actual regulators to report them for this is blatant spamming?

I have a debian server. There is a samba share for my docker config dataset in my zpool set up as follows in smb.conf:

>[docker] path = /mnt/docker/config
guest ok = no
writeable = yes
valid users = shareuser
browseable = yes
read only = no

I have to do the following every time I create a sub dataset for new containers to be writeable for network users.

>sudo chown -R shareuser /mnt/docker/config
>sudo service smbd restart

I feel like this is the wrong way to do things and there must be a way to have the permissions automatically apply to newly created datasets.

Had the data connectivity issue and got the telematic module replaced. New module has the same issue, worse even. I get data maybe 15% of the time and data outages typically last 3 to 4 days so I have to hotspot from my phone almost all the time.

On Android this is horrible because Google took away the ability to automate turning on hotspot. You can do it with Samsung routines (I'm using OnePlus) but I'm sure Google will eventually take that away too.

Going to upgrade my phone in the fall and will get an iPhone because they let you automate toggling hotspot. Just something to be aware of you android users.

I'm in AB and currently have their modem/router combo in bridge mode. Is the XS-010X-Q that I provide compatible with Telus and can it simply be swapped out or does Telus have to do something on their end?

I'm ready to move on from these NAS operating systems. I find the slow kernel release schedule and the resulting lack of newer hardware support frustrating.

Seems like Ubuntu Server is a decent option for me. For example it supported the Arc B580 ages ago and my 5gbps usb ethernet adapters which have just been sitting around due to lack of support on TrueNAS Scale.

From what I see online people look down on Ubuntu Server? Is it just a matter of smugness or is there something that makes it a poor choice to run my NAS?

I changed phone and now I no longer have the high accuracy sensor available in the sensor list.

That sensor is really useful to me so hopefully someone knows how to get it back. In the companion app I do have it enabled under the 'Background location', and it does work fine, but it doesn't actually show up as something I can use for automations in HA itself.

It's also not in the list of disabled sensors either.

I've been going through a process where if an IoT device can be moved to local only control then it gets moved to local control and blocked from the internet in a VLAN.

My Kasa smart plugs for example now get discovered, set-up, and controlled entirely from Home assistant and are completely detached from the internet and vendor accounts.

I can't do this for everything though. For example my Danby portable AC can only be controlled from Home Assistant via an integration that accesses Midea servers.

My primary concern is what happens when they eventually stop supporting this product. Is there potentially a huge risk in having my AC exposed to the internet say 15 years from now long after any support or security updates have stopped?

Is there some type of a standard for these LEDs? I thought about having it red when switched off/green when on but then I thought it's pointless to have an indicator that a switch is on when you can see that the lights are on.

Then thought a red led indicates a fault state, like no wireless connection, but then again on TVs red lights can mean it's powered on or off. Using green when off would be helpful for finding the switch in the dark.

Ended up just disabling the led altogether until I have a better idea of what they should be used for.

The count down timer when it reaches the "starts in 1 day' phase is very misleading. That currently means it will start anywhere from 24 to 48 hours from now.

To most people if something starts in 1 day then that means it is max about 24 hours away.

There should actually be no starts in 1 day section at all. The count down should reach the starts in 2 days point and then the next phase is a 24 hour countdown.

Corsair cpu block leaked water all over my 5090. Distilled water so it survived thankfully.

Going forward I will use vertical mounting for my GPUs so they won't be in the line of fire of water drips. I will never again use components that use the type of cheap plastic like Corsair cpu blocks use as they make for garbage threads/connections.

I've tried this in VMs and on an actual computer and its the same every time. I install overlayroot through the terminal and set overlayroot="tmpfs" in /etc/overlayroot.conf but it doesn't actually do anything.

If I do the same steps on a 24.04 install it works every time. Has there been some type of change with overlayroot in 26.04?

I had a crown about a year ago. There was a bite pressure issue for a few months but it ended up disappearing. I told my dentist about the especially bad cold sensitivity on one side of the crown and he did some bite adjustment stuff with the drill it but it's likely an exposed root.

Is a root canal a possible treatment for this? I am finding myself chewing 99% on only one side of my mouth and that can't be good long term.

The universe tried with me, it really did. My first kiss was forced upon me by a girl in grade 1 lol.

Had girls start showing real interest in me in high school and some even got their friends to try and set us up but I just ignored them mostly due to low self esteem. I thought I was really fat but looking back at pics that was not true at all.

Girls got braver after HS and quite a few outright confessed how they liked me or would even just ask me out on dates... again I did nothing to follow up.

Worst is in my mid 20s I worked for years with this one amazing girl. We got along really well and I used to day dream of what life would be like with her. One day we were alone and she grabbed my arm, gave me a look that is impossible to really describe but it was unmistakably genuine and sweet, and told me how she really liked me. I started ignoring her after that. She didn't deserve that and I'm a POS for it.

I've no doubt I'll throw away the next chance for reasons I don't yet know.

Please don't be like me. Don't inflict this on yourself willingly.