u/Huzaifa_Haroon

I have an HDR-capable desktop that I often stream to either my phone (OnePlus 12) or my laptop (MacBook Pro) and it's so amazing to see just how seamlessly HDR works. It sometimes even looks better on my phone/laptop because they have glossy screens compared to my matte monitor. I get all the bright highlights and precise contrast control that you'd expect from native HDR content, but the fact that it carries that metadata perfectly over a stream is just so impressive.

To everyone who contributed in making this work so well, you deserve to get your ass ate 💞

playing the antagonist in two highly anticipated blockbusters this year

Something really weird happened today and I don't know if I dealt with it properly. I want you guys to share opinions.

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Around 10PM at night, a random InDrive driver came to my house asking for money for an old ride. I traveled with this guy back in January and paid him 800rs via bank transfer, but apparently he never received the amount. I verified he was the same dude who I booked, like his profile picture and everything matched in the app. At this point, I thought maybe he was being genuine.

So I checked my account statement and it showed the money was deducted and never refunded. I asked him to show me his account statement, but he instead showed me a text message (attached) that said the money was received. He said it wasn't his personal car and the account I had transfered the money into was the owner's - so no account statement. Anyways, I told him shit happens, but if a transaction is stuck, you'll never get the "received" message with the TX ID and everything. He kept claiming that the money never deposited despite the message.

Before this, I already told him he shouldn't have come to my house, that he should've talked to support to get my number, or contacted his bank, etc. He had excuses (reasons?) for everything and a whole sob story that I honestly didn't really even pay attention to. He said he had to come to my place because he couldn't get my number from support. I argued a bit at first but didn't want to cause a scene. I was also confused why he came all the way burning petrol for just 800rs, like the economics don't line up.

Anyhow, I gave him the money in cash just cuz it'd take a long time to confirm everything from the bank. In the meantime, I took a picture of the message he showed me and a picture of him in the car with the cash in hand, which he told me not to btw. I complained on InDrive that the guy came to my house, and also talked to my bank to check the transaction. They said the money went through successfully, and that they can't file a dispute on such an old transaction either.

So now I'm thinking I just lost 800rs to this dude who knew where I lived. Like he tracked me down four fucking months later via the requests history in the app and showed up at my doorstep. The money is not the issue, but it's insane if he did all that for just 800rs. I've never experienced anything like this before so obviously I've been having shower thoughts for the past few hours over what I should've said instead 😭

Seen way too many posts about buying overpriced monitors so thought I'd share this. You can get an excellent OLED monitor (with a 3rd-gen QD-OLED panel) for around 160K in Pakistan right now, with 1 year of local warranty. It's available virtually everywhere, just ask your preferred vendor to arrange it since it's official distribution from back end.

Leaving some links from reputable stores below (do your own research):

https://eezepc.com/product/aoc-q27g40zdf-monitor-27-inch/

https://www.pakbyte.pk/products/aoc-q27g40zdf-240hz-2k-wqhd-qd-oled-0-03ms-27-gaming-monitor

https://zahcomputers.pk/product/aoc-q27g40zdf-27-qhd-qd-oled-gaming-monitor-240hz-ultra-smooth-0-03ms-response-hdr10-adaptive-sync-pro-gaming-features/