u/Effective-Culture-88

Hi!
I know this is a long post. Please do read everything before replying, as my issue is exceedingly specific. Thank you so much!

I had insomnia on and off my whole life. I have neuro developmental conditions (ADHD and autism), chronic pain, PTSD, the whole lot. I have mild sleep apnea as well, but was able to get a really good sleep cycle in the past without direct treatment (I might try if recommended by doctor).

A year ago I got an event happened which med to my CPTSD diagnosis.
I tried self-hypnosis, light medication - anything above 5mg of seroquel and 10mg « yellow house » will make me unable to get out of bed - meditation, changing bed, etc etc to finally conclude that the less I try to mess with it the easier it is to fall asleep.

My insomnia felt fully cured for the past 2 or 3 months, even tho my sleep schedule is not consistent, which does matter a lot for the quality of sleep.
Now before you go « it’s been exactly one year so yeah pal that’s gonna happen », this does not feel like the trigger at all. This feels like a cycle I had to endure which is very cruel :
My insomnia is triggered by the thought of waking up early.
Ok but why do I want to do that?

1 - My sleep, health and energy levels are infinitely better that way. I know for a fact after years of trying everything that I’m one of those genetically odd people who need less sleep than most. The only time I feel awake is after 5-6 hours of continuous, deep sleep, usually 12-5:40am.
I have to wake up without alarm and my body is incredibly precise IF that cycle is triggered, which is what I need.
I still need 2-3 hours after that to « boot up » properly as well. So that’s to start working at 8-9am.

2 - I’m back to college 3 weeks from now, and this is my 4th time. I’m 29, and this time I got bursaries, gov help fpr PTSD and so on. I really feel like on one hand it’ll be so much easier, while on the other, the pressure is on.
I just have the time to get to waking up early as a habit. This of course is what triggers the insomnia back.

3 - Discipline issue. I have to stop screens at 10:30 if I want to trigger my natural sleep cycle back. This proves very hard to start doing. I will use a mechanical timer for wifi, but I do not want to lock the phone in case of emergency.
I do that and my PTSD will flare up, so guaranteed insomnia. I also cannot use any alarm. I tried everything alarm you can possibly imagine, including those « reading » my sleep cycle, to no avail.

If anyone knows what to do with the phone I’ll forever be grateful. Tried everything, removed apps, locked them down, screen limits and Minimalist Phone. No lock box for me either as I said.

In the past, I only ever was able to trigger my natural sleep cycle for a few days in a row, and it was immediately life changing. However I could’t recover that cycle last time as I had a huge emergency and had to spend over 24 hours awake (this been resolved fully, people involved and the triggers removed from my life, and insomnia cured from that point as well).

I write in the hope I’m missing something here. I can use some moderate medication, but it helps a little bit to get to sleep while waking is noticeably harder. Outside of cutting screens off and forcing discipline for 2-3 weeks until this becomes a habit - and my body does wake like clockwork at 5:40 when I sleep well, every time! - what can I do?

It can take still, even tho my nervous system is doing infinitely better than ever in my life, 1-2 hours to fall asleep. So by 10pm I need to be in bed and by 10:30, all screens need to be shut.

I just don’t want this process to be painful.
If anyone has this weird type of insomnia/sleep cycle and any idea how to specifically help that would mean the world to me!

Google Home has never been able to get my Voice ID.
Tried with several phones over a number of years. Deleted all activity history (Assistant or otherwise).
Also Google has never understood what bilingualism is, but just setting up English is impossible. I am perfectly fluent. Many of my French speaking peers think English is my native langage.
All I wanted was my schedule and tasks read back to me intelligibly. Now I think I’ll buy a paper agenda… smh

Long story short, I was completing a transaction two days ago to buy a used laptop.

I worked in banking before and notice something was up. The status was “payment” meaning it was received but nothing shown up in the seller’s account, despite this account accepting Interac deposits automatically.

Eventually after dialoguing with the (most excellent btw!) AI for support, we were both flabbergasted to learn that people who created a Koho account with the same e-mail as the one used for ***Interac automatic deposit***, in another bank, will receive the money in their Koho account instead.

This means Koho’s internal system override Interac’s automatic deposit system.

In other words, people who have the same e-mail for both can receive as much money as available from other Koho users, without Interac ever being able to trace anything.

There are obvious security reasons why only a single e-mail can be associated to Interac for automatic deposits.

If such an e-mail is registered with Interac, it is so transactions can be monitored by their security system. Someone could have 0$ transferred through a ghost Interac automatic deposit system, register on Koho with that same e-mail and receive money incognito!

This loophole is a huge security risk and its uses for money whitening are obvious if you’ve worked in banking. People sometimes overestimate the security banks can provide on a digital level, but stuff like this is downright dangerous.

The only way to send money through an e-mail registered with Interac autodeposit is to send it on the ONLY registered account. No banks are allowed to accept an e-mail already in use for autodeposit for any other account in Canada.

I understand K2K overriding the Interac system between Koho users, as long as the associated e-mail for the Koho account on the receiver’s end is NOT registered for Interac autodeposit. If it is, you have to prompt the user to use another e-mail.

I might call People‘s Trust regarding this issue, and will have to pull all my assets if this isn’t taken seriously.

I hope people at Koho understands the seriousness and urgency of this matter and that the FDIC won’t have to sanction you guys. Would be a shame for such a great app.

Best regards,

A genuinely concerned user

The title says it all... why oh why is it so difficult to had travel times in the app?
I struggle to open Google maps, and when I do, and add the travel time to the calendar... it puts it on the day and time of right now!
Would love to know if there's a better way than drag and dropping the time manually to the right moment.

So I've been with Koho for a few years now.
I had some issues but nothing too crazy.... about 10 minutes ago I made an Amazon purchase with my Koho card : two separate orders, automatically splitted.
Total was 300. I took the money from the vault, where I store anything extra I make, and paid. Amazon registers both orders (1 for 280 and the other for 20 bucks), but Koho didn't : the balance stayed at 280.
I had forgot to purchase another item and now I have to guess my balance... very annoying.
Also had 2 orders canceled because of card issues on Amazon, even tho the balance was high enough.
Too bad because the only reason why I have the card still is the fact you can literally hide digital money and use it instantly, set saving goals, etc

I'm going back to the US but wish to use the Bell SIM card still. I was told everything else (internet and TV) was cancelled. That was yesterday and no notice came through e-mail as promised.

My bill was also made into an all-in-one without my consent and I was charged over 30 bucks more than if I had paid each service separately.

Been a mobility customer for awhile ans it's been great. Switched to internet and TV and had a DOS attack on the first day, tech was rude and unprofessionnal, now I can't cancel it. They want me to find someone to sell my plan too...?! They called again and I ingnored it.

What do I need to do now? This gotta stop.

So...
I made a post that confused absolutely everyone and I'm gonna my best to do a better one now.
I'm looking for alternatives to ADHD meds like shaga coffee, or an equivalent to Everyday dose but in Canada. I am only looking for this and nothing else. No advice on medication, no advice on anything that's legally grey, please and thank you.
Only supplements/mushroom coffee/natural recipes. I also have to say that I have a tendency for insomnia, so nothing too stimulant.

This is the context :

1. I was off ADHD meds for 8 months. I was doing a lot better, I was fully functional even with really high stress for awhile. I am on SSRIs.
2. I went *back* to Straterra about 2 weeks thinking it was gonna be even better. It's terrible. I can't just stop it because stopping it makes my pressure drops. I am seeking my doctor.
3. I have been trying ADHD meds since I am 16 years old. SSRIs plus stimulants, SSRIs plus Straterra. I do not wish to try any other ADHD med anymore*. They have been making me feel horrible since I'm 16 years old. It doesn't make sense to continue trying. I am only seeking alternatives to further better and enhance my focus and energy in the morning.*
4. I probably have sleep apnea, so solving that + coming back to only SSRIs will probably solve most of my issues. In the meantime, I still would like suggestions on natural alternatives only.

Yes I have done all the trials, yes I have done a shit ton of shadow work, yes I have tried shrooms, yes I have therapy. I went from fully fonctional, never late, never having laundry or cooking issues, and always having a clean home back to being dysfunctional within 2 weeks of trying ADHD meds again for the last time.
Hence why I will not try it again, ever. My energy level in the morning was still super awful even when I was fully functional tho.
I guess this a lesson on how trying to make a good thing better can wreck it.

So...

I spent the last 3 years or so getting over my fear of phone calls. I am now fearless.

I call and pick up all the time...... exactly like I was told to do so.

Only now... no one picks up the phone anymore?! Had a friend who was baffled I'd call her to say I was too tired to make it to an event. Like it was genuinely super weird. I'm so confused...

I don't really use What's App or Telegram (which I really do not trust). I habe zero idea about what's the actual point of Snapchat.

I found my childhood best friend on What's app randomly, he doesn't respond anywhere else so I keep the app. Now I'm looking for an app like Beeper to take all my chats and put it into one place.

Why is this so God damned complicated?! The rules keep on changing when I'm done learning them!

Always been like this... was on forums and never on MSN, only got pn FB because of peer pressure.

Now there's like 42 different apps for everything and all the UIs are horrendous.

That's all I wanted to say lol

Title says it all, I have a bunch of repeated daily tasks for my routine that just vanished after june 9 for apparently no reason.
They're all repeating daily, not "until X times/date". Any idea how to fix this?
It's pretty time consuming to redo the whole routine. Thanks in advance!

So I had a very weird experience at Bestbuy today.
Went in to buy a gaming laptop. I have a good budget, nothing extraordinary, but I know what I want and it's an easy sale for anyone working there.
I come in and ask if they have what I want in the store's warehouse.
It was a Lenovo Legion 7i priced on sale at 2300 CAD. The guy tried selling me an extended warranty, and since I'm prone to breaking stuff on laptops, I agreed to look into it.
He said the warranty for 4 years would cost about 350-400 CAD, but maybe more for an Oled product... then quoted me... 870 CAD.
That seems like a real premium, and is over twice what he sait it would be, which is weird.
He also said he could give me 120 CAD off if I took it. I said no, but agreed to 2 years instead (can't remember the price). I also have a 250 CAD gift certificate so I though, why not?
He shaved off the 120 CAD and with the certificate it came down to just under 3K.

Then, as I was about to complete the sale, a colleague randomly took hold of it and started running the process *extremely* fast. He wanted me to sign something before telling me the total after selling me on 3 years extended warranty (the duration of my college program), then said to run the payment and only apply my certificate only *after* it was done which is... unsettling? Might be just how it works...

They also told me that the warranty covered all accidental damages, that even if I threw the laptop on the floor they would replace it, and that they would offer in-store credit of the same value or exchange it immediately. I thought it was the Geek Squad Protection Plan.

Went on the website today, found out the 4 years protection plan was 540 instead of 870. Also found out that there isn't any Geek Squad Protection plan anymore (at least in Canada), and the warranty for Quebec is also much more limited.

The Protection+ plan is better but apparently requires a membership which I do *not* want. I was also offered to pay in instalments twice despite making it very clear that I have the money in full. In the end after so many back and forth motion, I needed to call the bank to up my debit limit and I was gonna run late, so I walked off the deal. They also told me the price was gonna go up "tomorrow", which I sincerely doubt very much.
I had a really good service before, but I never felt this level of disrespect.

There's no way those guys are able to sell premium products to anyone who actually have the means, no offense. I don't know if I should escalate to management, but there is a limit in feeling ripped-off... not saying they were ripping me off per say, but it was plain bad.

They missed a 3K sale yesterday and no deal is going through if I can't talk to someone who's decent at their job. Unbelievable.

So today I went to Canadian Computers with a friend and asked some info on GPUs.
I'm a new student and the program is focusing on Unreal engine mostly, with some Blender mixed in as well as Touch designer for interactive AR experiences, plus the Adobe suite.
The school's computers are 3 years old i9 with 4070 cards and they run everything perfectly. I was told to get something that can last the three years at least but also that wouldn't be so overkill that your project would lag on the teacher's PC (massive fail LOL).

Soo... I was told I needed a 5070ti, or nothing. The seller pushed it pretty hard on me, the Gigabyte model to be precise, saying I would otherwise run out of VRAM, that it could be overclocked (...is that still a thing?), that it was the best in the long run, etc

Thing is I have a good budget... for a student. I can't afford a 1500$ CAD GPU plus the months it takes to get all the parts together and build the PC.

Seller said that because of LTTS 4.5, it was a lot better than AMD... is that true?
I mean from my understanding my school's computers can't even get LTTS 4.5, and the AMD cards seems like a much better deal.
I could get an older tower from the school (2060 with 9th gen CPU and 32 gb) for 600 bucks, and upgrade the card and the CPU, or I have seen a good Technoid pre-build on sale with a 5060ti, Ryzen 5 5500, 32gb 1TB for 1500 CAD - and I have a 250 Bestbuy gift card.

I normally wouldn't go for a prebuilt but my budget is limited.

What do y'all think?

I'm not even looking at restricted items at all. 2-3 hours of browsing for a laptop deal and both my machine and my network got flagged... had to go to another network even after re-starting mine. Not logged into account.
Now I have to purchase a phone with a gift certificate, an iPhone 12.
I haven't done anything remotely suspicious! What's going on?