u/Effective-Culture-88

▲ 4 r/bell

Cancelled through phone, no notice of cancellation, Bell is calling me

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.

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Seeking ***legal natural alternatives*** to ADHD meds - take 2

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.

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u/Effective-Culture-88 — 4 days ago
▲ 2 r/autism

Rant about communication tech

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

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u/Effective-Culture-88 — 8 days ago

Tub to pump tube releases water, but drain is clean - Old GE combo

I've never done this before, tying to fix this ASAP.

It's the nightmarish GE washer/dryer old combo :

GUAP240EM1WW

The one where apparently can't fix the seal tube and have to spend 1K CAD to get another tub attachment (absolutely not).

Drain is free of debris, but water leaked from the tub to pump tube. Does that mean the pump is defective?

Is it even worth fixing at this point??

u/Effective-Culture-88 — 9 days ago

Jerry-rig a cable holder with a bacon grilling rack

Macbook is a placeholder, new machine coming soon.

It's not perfect, but it's much better (look at the before, it's last pic) for 2-3 houre of work. I'll still have to install more stuff anyway.

I'm real proud of the way I put the powerbar (good ol Archer), it's so practical!

The small one came from my bedframe. I just hang it in there.

Yes this desk did have a cable basket thing at one point, but only reachable via the back.

Yes, I am Canadian.

u/Effective-Culture-88 — 11 days ago

Daily tasks disappears after june 9

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!

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u/Effective-Culture-88 — 14 days ago

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.

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u/Effective-Culture-88 — 16 days ago

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?

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u/Effective-Culture-88 — 24 days ago

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?

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u/Effective-Culture-88 — 25 days ago