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My company is transferring me to the area next month and I need to find a place fairly quickly. We have a mid-range budget but everything seems to go under contract within a week. Are there any specific pockets within a short drive of the tech campuses that aren't completely competitive right now? Ty

We are planning a move to the area later this year and want to be within walking distance to some parks. Are there specific sections of Highland Park that have better sidewalk connectivity or less cut-through traffic?

Hi M in forties from France. Had erectile troubles for years and didn't speak to anyone about it. Lots of nights where myself and my sex partners felt like shit afterwards. I think over time it became a psychological blocker as well and just made things worse.

Anyway, I finally got help and am finally seeing some improvements. I've got a prescription for tadalfil 20mg and a care plan online and at least for now the results are better. I can get hard again and a few days ago I had enjoyable sex again for the first time in a long time. So overall good.

But it's not perfect either. I've tried having sex 4 times now with tadalafil. The psotive experience above was 1 out of 4. The other three I was able to get harder but not fully hard. Once I lost the erection again after a while. 

My question is : does it get better over time? Should I change medication ? Is there anything else I can do?

I have received recommendations from an online doctor to strengthen my pelvic floor, do exercise (like running) a few times a week. But I honestly have not started with any of these. In the end, I just want to have more nights like the last one again. Felt so good to "be back". So open to any experiences or advice on how to make this a regular thing.

Hello

I wanted to share my experience because there is a lot of bad info out there about getting data back off nvme drives. I read many threads on Reddit and articles on the internet when my drive died. People mostly just say that recovery is impossible on solid state drives but don’t explain the context. So I want to write the whole thing out start to finish. Maybe it helps someone who is staring at a broken nvme drive right now and doesnt know what to do.

What changed my mind on all this wasn’t the software itself. It was what happened when I thought everything was gone and I had wasted money on paid tools. More on that below.

**How I broke my NVMe partition**

I have a desktop I built myself. My main C drive is a small ssd just for windows. I have a second drive on the motherboard- a 2tb samsung m.2 nvme. I keep all my unreal engine projects and large 3d assets on it.

About two months ago I decided I wanted to install linux to mess around with it. I needed an empty partition on the samsung drive. I opened windows disk management. I right clicked the drive and hit shrink volume. I typed in 500 gigabytes and clicked ok. The mouse started doing the spinning loading circle. I waited fifteen/twenty minutes and the window said not responding. The whole pc locked up. I couldnt even open task manager. So I held the power button to force it off.

When I booted back up windows came up fine from the C drive. But the D drive was gone from file explorer. I opened disk management again. The samsung nvme was at the bottom but it said RAW. 2tb of unallocated space with a black bar over it instead of the blue one. Then it told me I had to format the disk before I could use it. I know you never click format on a broken drive so I didn’t do it.

**TRIM and why everyone says you’re doomed**

If you search nvme data recovery, you will get a lot of info that says you are completely out of luck. People bring up a feature called TRIM. They say TRIM wipes the memory cells the second something goes wrong so your data is gone for good. I read that and thought gg. I had months of 3d work on there.

But I kept at it and learned that TRIM only activates when you actively delete a file or format the drive on purpose. So if your pc crashes while resizing a partition, the partition table just gets corrupted. The files are still on the memory chips. The operating system just forgot how to find them. That is why everyone says do not format. If you format a RAW nvme drive then TRIM goes off and you really do lose everything.

**Professional labs**

I called a local repair shop and asked if they fix m.2 drives. They said they just send nvme drives out to a clean room lab. They told me chip off recovery on an m.2 runs anywhere from 1000 to 2000 dollars depending on the damage. That is insane. Who has that kind of money to fix a drive? So I started looking for software instead.

**Free tools that didn't work for me**

I tried Recuva first since everyone says its free. I ran it on the broken drive and it just threw an error saying it couldn't read the file system. Seems like it looks for deleted files in the recycle bin and doesnt really handle a RAW partition giving up right away.

Then I tried testdisk. Many people recommend it for partition fixes. It's a command line tool, no real menu, you just arrow around a black screen. I tried to follow a long guide to rebuild the boot sector. I got to a screen full of cylinder and head numbers and kept getting red error text. I got nervous I was about to write a bad partition table and wreck the drive for good. So I backed out before doing anything permanent.

**Trying Stellar**

I started looking at paid tools that had decent reviews and an easy interface for non experts. Stellar Data Recovery came up multiple times so it seemed like a good option. I downloaded the free version of Stellar data recovery professional just to see if it could even read the drive.

The software is easy to get around. It asks what file types you want to look for. I left everything ticked to be safe. I picked the broken samsung nvme and scanned it.

One nice thing about nvme is the speed. A deep scan on an old mechanical drive should take like 20 hours from what I read. The deep scan on my 2tb nvme was done in about two hours.

When it hit 100 percent a folder tree showed up. I clicked through it. My unreal engine folders were there. My asset libraries were listed with the right names. I opened a few texture files and the built in preview loaded the images right on screen. So it seemed that the files were not wiped by TRIM and the software could read them.

**Where it almost went wrong**

I needed the paid version to save the files. I went to the site and paid about 95$ for the professional license.

I started the recovery and a chunk of my project files were coming out broken. Some folders saved fine but a lot of the bigger files would not open after because of corruption errors. I sat there thinking great, I just waisted 95$. I started reading their refund page to figure out how to get my money back.

I opened the live chat to ask about a refund. I figured I would have to argue for it. That is not how it went. The person asked me what was going on first. I explained the broken files. He said if the drive really couldnt be recovered I could still get my money back, but they insisted to try sorting it out first. He told me the partition was too damaged for the normal scan to rebuild everything cleanly. Then he walked me through making a full image of the drive and running the recovery against the image instead of the live drive. He stayed in the chat with me while I set it up according to their step by step instructions. 

And it did work after that. Their positive attitude and helpfulness compelled me to write this post. Because it kind of failed on my first try but they helped me through it and in the end I had a successful data recovery. It left a good impression on me that when I got stuck a real person helped me out instead of just refunding me coldly and disappearing. The files are 100x more valuable to me then the money I paid for the software. And I was talking to a real person right away instead of a bot who just sends helpdesk articles to me.

**Recovering the data**

You have to save recovered files to a different drive, you cant write back to the broken one. I bought a 2tb external usb ssd from a local store.

I went back into stellar, checked my project folders and pointed it at the new usb ssd. Both drives being solid state it went fast. About forty minutes to copy over 800 gigabytes.

**Final results**

I opened the external drive and started going through everything. The results were good but not 100 percent. A couple of the very large unreal engine map files still wouldn't open and gave a corruption error. I had to load slightly older auto saves for those few maps. But every one of my 3d models and texture files recovered successfully. I got my work back and I didn't have to hand a lab thousands of  dollars.

**The two times I’ve used it since**

I am apparently the guy people come to now when this happens, even though I had never dealt with it before this either.

A while after my aunt wiped a memory card full of photos from a trip. She thought she had copied them off and formatted it. I ran Stellar photo recovery on the card and got back most of the pictures. A few of them came out a bit corrupted at but the Stellar photo repair tool fixed those too. But because I knew their support was helpful I asked guidance before doing anything myself just to do it correctly the first time. And they were happy to help me.

Then a friend had a video file from a shoot that just wouldn’t play and kept erroring out. Again I turned to Stellar. They have a tool called Stellar repair for Video. I ran his clip through it and it played after.

So thats three separate problems solved and it came through on all of them. I had a bad first impression with it, but the way they got me through that is what made me trust and use Stellar compared to other data recovery products/brands.

**Tldr for NVMe recovery:**

* If your nvme suddenly shows RAW, do not format it. Formatting triggers TRIM and wipes your files for good. Ignore the windows popup.

* Do not run check disk or windows repair tools on a RAW drive. They can write bad data over your files.

* If the drive doesn't show up in bios or disk management at all, software wont help you. That's a dead controller chip and you need a lab.

* Use the free trial to scan first. It previews what it can find before you pay anything.

* If your first recovery looks rough, don't panic or ask for a refund right away. Imaging the drive and recovering from the image worked for me rather than scanning the live drive.

* If the recovery software you're using has a support team then asking for help directly is what you should do. Hopefully they are quick to answer. Worked out for me. 

* Invest in a cloud based file backup system if you know you have some really important files that you can’t lose.

Losing data is awful. It cost me time, reading and money to sort out. Hopefully this saves someone else time, money and nerves.

We found a beautiful vintage property but it needs a major kitchen expansion and layout update. Does the town planning commission enforce strict historic facade protections or deed restrictions that block structural additions?

My renewal jumped again and I want to re-quote, but last time I used one of those comparison sites I got buried in calls and texts for weeks. For people in Vegas who've actually switched and saved, how did you go about getting quotes, straight to each company's site, a local agent, something else? And did switching actually stick, or did the new company creep right back up at renewal? NV rates are rough enough without the runaround.

We apparently have some of the worst rates in the country and I believe it. Older car, decent record, and the quotes still hurt every renewal. Whether it's New Orleans, Baton Rouge, or the smaller parishes, it feels like everyone's getting squeezed. For folks who've trimmed the bill, what actually did it, switching companies, dropping coverage, a local agent? I've accepted nothing's truly cheap here, but I'd love to know if anyone found a company that isn't actively gouging them.

Curious if there is something out there that beats both. What are you guys using?

Curious if anyone up here has caught a break lately, because mine went up again at renewal with no claims and nothing different on my end. I know NV is one of the priciest states now, but I'd love to hear if a company held your rate steady or came in lower. Reno-specific experiences would help since most of the advice online is for the bigger cities. Trying to decide if switching again is worth the hassle or if everyone's just stuck paying more.

We land at El Prat pretty early, but our apartment in the Gothic Quarter won’t be ready until 3pm.I was thinking of maybe going straight into the city, getting breakfast and walking around a bit, but we’ll have carry-on bags. Part of me wants to try Sagrada Familia that morning, but that might be a terrible idea with luggage. Would you go to the Gothic Quarter first and figure it out there, or store bags somewhere and use the morning properly?

I’m looking into skin clinics in Seoul and came across Egg Clinic near Sinsa/Apgujeong. I’m mainly interested in skin texture, pores, dullness, and maybe something light for overall skin rejuvenation, nothing too dramatic or overdone.

What caught my attention is that they seem foreigner-friendly and mention English support, which is a big plus because I’d rather understand the consultation properly before agreeing to anything. I’m also trying to avoid places that feel too rushed or package-heavy.

Has anyone here actually been there? How was the consultation, pricing, English communication, and aftercare explanation?

I’d love to hear honest experiences, especially from anyone who went for laser toning, pore/texture treatments, skin boosters, or acne scar-related concerns. Also curious if the results felt natural or if they pushed a lot of add-ons.

been ordering custom die cut stickers for a year and reordering quarterly, so i finally ran both side by side. notes.

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stickermule: the default for a reason, quality is excellent and the proofing is the easiest, but pricing has crept up every reorder and lead times got longer. their deal emails are the only way i keep it affordable now.

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4over4: cheaper per unit and i ordered their free sample pack first to compare vinyl finishes side by side, which was the actually useful part. quality was a notch under stickermule honestly and the site is clunky to navigate, but for the price it held up fine.

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anyone got a third domestic option that beats either on price? open to it.

I’ve been thinking about this lately because I was looking at a few skin clinics in Seoul, including one called Dami, and it made me wonder when it actually makes sense to move from skincare products to a consultation.

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For people who use Korean skincare, how do you usually tell if something like texture, dullness, pores, or old acne marks can still improve with products, or if it’s better to ask a professional?

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I’m not trying to rush into treatments. I’d rather keep my routine simple first and understand what’s realistic. But sometimes it feels like certain concerns don’t really change much, even with a consistent routine.

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Has anyone here had good results from Korean skincare alone for texture or acne marks? Or did you eventually feel like getting a clinic consultation helped you understand your skin better?

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Would love to hear what made the biggest difference for you.

we started running cold campaigns for our saas and hitting a wall with email accuracy. using snov.io right now and apollo before that. snov gets maybe 40% valid emails when i try to find email from linkedin profiles, apollo was somehow worse for the type of prospects we target.

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our sdrs waste so much time either manually verifying or dealing with bounces. we send about 500-1000 emails a week so bad data really hurts our sender rep. my manager is starting to ask questions about why our domain health keeps tanking lol

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looking hard at Prospeo because they apparently verify emails in real time instead of just pattern matching. but i'm skeptical after being burned twice already. their linkedin email scraper supposedly works way better than the generic catch-all guessing other tools do.

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anyone here actually getting good results with any email finder? what's your bounce rate looking like? trying to stay under 2% but currently sitting around 8-10% which is killing our domains.