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I just learned I've been taking screenshots the stupid way for YEARS

I screenshot everything.

Memes, addresses, confirmation numbers, restaurant hours, stuff I want to send. my camera roll is basically thousands of tiny pieces of information I was apparently **terrified** of losing.

Today I was updating a restaurant menu in menuforma and needed to send a coworker one small section of what I was looking at.

Muscle memory kicked in.

Cmd + shift + 4, crop it, screenshot lands on my desktop, send it, forget about it forever.

Recently I bought it to work. Coworker noticed and said: "Why don't you just copy the screenshot?"

...what?

Apparently if I hold control while doing the screenshot shortcut, it goes straight to the clipboard instead of creating another random file.

So now it's just screenshot → paste → done. No desktop graveyard.

I've been using a Mac for YEARS. I currently have 137 screenshots sitting on my desktop.

Ah........ I feel like someone just told me the microwave has a popcorn button.

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u/SnooSquirrels4739 — 1 day ago

Thought booking the flight would be the hard part. No, it’s the concert ticket

Hi everyone !I’m planning my first concert trip to Seoul and really thought getting the ticket would be the hard part.

Nope, not at all.

Now I’m reading about real-name rules, passport info, ticket transfers, local apps, and different delivery methods. half of this stuff never even crossed my mind when going to shows in the US. Damn this is hard.

Last night I had my flight tab open while checking tickets on veritickets, then somehow ended up reading venue rules for another hour instead of booking anything.

Please universe, send me one veteran concert girlie with all the cheat codes and save me from making some stupid rookie mistake..

I’m trying to get the ticket details sorted first, then book the rest of the trip without overthinking every little thing. This is kinda insane for a first-time traveller here.

For people who’ve gone to concerts in Korea before, what’s the one thing you always double-check before buying? How was your first concert experience in South Korea?

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u/SnooSquirrels4739 — 1 day ago

What chair should i get if I'm at my desk basically all day?

I'm on my computer way too much between work, gaming, youtube, whatever, and my current chair is finally dying. It really affects my posture too.

It's one of those cheap gaming chairs. the seat is flat, one arm has started wobbling, and after a few hours, I’m changing positions every 5 mins because nothing feels right.

I looked at Herman Miller and Steelcase and yeah... not happening at those prices right now.

Been checking the midrange stuff instead and Nouhaus keeps showing up. the price makes way more sense for me, I just have no clue how these chairs feel after a year of 8+ hour days.

Can you guys suggest a chair that will help my posture?

Budget is around $250-350. I care way more about the seat and lumbar holding up than having a million adjustments.

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u/SnooSquirrels4739 — 5 days ago

Tips for healing pressure sores

After using a wheelchair for about a year, I developed a pressure sore on my butt. I was panicked at first, unsure of how to treat it, and it took nine months of treatment to finally heal. Now, I’d like to share some of the care strategies that worked for me.

First, it is crucial to have a doctor or wound care specialist assess the wound and confirm its condition before deciding on a treatment plan. I tried various methods, but what helped me most was cleaning the wound daily with povidone-iodine and then applying dressings like Mepilex or Dimora. These dressings absorb exudate while protecting the wound from reinfection. During each dressing change, I would check the wound for any abnormal changes. Pretty freaking cool!

I made a conscious effort to avoid prolonged pressure on the wound; I slept on my side or stomach and changed positions every hour. When using my wheelchair, I used a pressure-relieving cushion. I also stayed as active as possible, using massage devices or gently tapping the area around the wound to boost blood circulation and accelerate healing.

Also, you can never get rid of diet. Diet is equally important. I consumed plenty of protein-rich foods like chicken and plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables for vitamins, while strictly avoiding smoking and alcohol. Nicotine and alcohol can hinder the wound healing process.

Recovery from a pressure sore took much longer than I expected; at one point, it felt like the wound wasn't improving at all. This experience made me realize the importance of prevention. Now, I pay close attention to pressure relief and my diet.

Do you know of any other ways to speed up the healing of pressure sores?

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u/SnooSquirrels4739 — 7 days ago

Cashback vs the discount cards?

Confused between two philosophies.

Option A: A cashback card that gives flat % back on everything (like the upi ones everyone talks about).

Option B: Cards that give big discounts/offers on specific brands (swiggy card, amazon card, etc).

Which actually saves more over a year? Flat cashback or targeted brand discounts? Genuinely torn.

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u/SnooSquirrels4739 — 8 days ago

Has anyone validated 1-second Indian options data against live ticks?

Trying to check whether 1-second options history is actually usable before letting it anywhere near my backtest.

For 5 nifty sessions i’m recording live ticks locally for atm, ±5 strikes and a few illiquid wings. Next morning i pull Nubra’s 1s history for the same contracts.

Nubra is useful for this because the history has enough fields to compare properly: ohlc, bid/ask, cumulative oi, iv and greeks. Not just LTP candles.

Checking:

  • Missing second vs second with no trade;
  • Whether candle timestamp is start or end of bucket;
  • Whether ohlc matches the trades I recorded;
  • Bid/ask at that second;
  • When oi changes actually appear;
  • Expiry-day gaps;
  • Live-recorded vs historical delta/iv;

Already seeing that “no candle” is not automatically missing data. Some strikes simply didn’t trade. Also one-second candles obviously cannot recreate the order book path inside that second.

How are you defining a meaningful mismatch here?

Exact candle equality feels unrealistic. But allowing random differences because “market data is messy” defeats the point.

For backtesting entries on bid/ask, what tolerance would make you reject the dataset?

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u/SnooSquirrels4739 — 9 days ago
▲ 2 r/chairs

Finally got the seating dialed in right

Been focusing on fixing up my space for long hours. Standard office seats just weren't cutting it for back comfort. This HBADA ergonomic chair keeps the lower back pressure completely relaxed during long sessions. Posture feels so much better honestly.

u/SnooSquirrels4739 — 10 days ago

Everything seems right, but I still don’t feel that spark.

I’m 36M and I’ve been dating a woman (35F) for around 3 months. On paper, she’s basically everything I’m looking for. She has a stable job, we have similar lifestyles, our personalities match, and spending time together feels easy. The problem is, she seems much more into me than I am into her. I really like her and enjoy being with her, but I don’t have that strong feeling of “I can’t wait to see her again”. I’m not sure if I’m just moving too slowly or if something is missing. I’ve been trying to understand my own feelings, so I used acciowork to organize my thoughts, cuz i always use it in my work. I put in some notes about our conversations, things we do together, and what I like or feel unsure about. It helped me separate the difference between feeling comfortable with someone and actually feeling deeply connected. It didn’t give me an answer, but it did make me realize I might be confusing “no drama” with “no chemistry”.

Now I’m stuck. Should I give this more time and see if feelings grow, or am I just wasting her time? Anyone else been in a situation where everything looks right but something still feels off?

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u/SnooSquirrels4739 — 11 days ago

Need cheap STT for multilingual voice input. Is the real answer VAD + smaller chunks?

Building voice input for an Indian app and STT cost is already looking scary.

Not even doing full voice agent yet.

Just:

  • user speaks
  • Hindi/English mix sometimes
  • some Hinglish
  • bad mobile mic
  • background noise
  • long pauses
  • then convert speech to text and use it in app

Most “cheap STT API” discussions only compare per-minute pricing, but in Indian usage half the audio is random silence, “haan one sec,” traffic noise, fan noise, repeat attempts, etc. So I’m thinking the actual answer is not just finding cheaper STT.

It is making the pipeline less stupid:

  • VAD before sending audio
  • trim silence
  • send smaller chunks
  • don’t transcribe empty audio
  • queue backend jobs
  • use realtime only where UX needs realtime
  • batch where user can wait
  • log failed chunks
  • don’t send raw browser audio blindly
  • test on actual Indian mobile audio, not clean laptop mic

Smallest AI Pulse looks relevant for the realtime side because it is positioned around live STT / streaming ASR, and that matters if the app needs fast transcript while user is still speaking. But for normal flows, I’m wondering if we should still reduce billable audio first before obsessing over provider pricing.

Anyone built cheap STT for multilingual / Hinglish voice input?

What actually reduced cost: cheaper API, VAD, chunking, caching, queueing, or some jugaad I’m missing?

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u/SnooSquirrels4739 — 13 days ago

Hy3 is free again in WorkBuddy, if anyone's been meaning to try it.

Not an ad. No affiliation with Tencent or WorkBuddy.

Just something I stumbled across on X.

Link here: https://x.com/TencentHunyuan/status/2084836757095526689

Tried Hy3 through OpenRouter while it was free before. Worked well for what I needed. Looks like it's free again until the end of the month. I'll probably be using it as my main assistant again for a while.

Apparently both Hy3 and Kimi-K3 are available directly in WorkBuddy Global now, so there's no API setup needed.

Figured I'd share in case anyone else was waiting for it to be free again.

u/SnooSquirrels4739 — 14 days ago

Finally dumped my ex after a year, avoided a huge screaming match

Bro, I dated this girl for almost a year and those last few months were genuinely miserable. We clashed on every big life thing and could never get on the same page.

All I wanted was a fair relationship where we split costs and could actually talk about our future together. But she’d never offer to pay for anything, shut down every chat about long-term plans, and flip out whenever I was busy and couldn’t drop everything to hang out immediately.

I sat down with her three separate times to try fixing things, hoping we’d find some middle ground. Every single time though, she’d shut down, start crying, and just accuse me of not caring about her instead of meeting me halfway.

I knew we weren’t gonna work out months ago, but I kept putting off the breakup. I knew she’d spiral and start a huge yelling match the second I brought it up. Even tiny hints that things weren’t great sent her off before, and I’d always cave just to stop the fighting. I hate all that draining toxic drama more than anything. I use Accio Work every day to write calm, neutral messages for suppliers, and it stacks tons of generic polite rejection templates. I jotted down our main conflicts and how long we’d been together, and it spat out a totally neutral script. No bashing her, no listing every tiny fight we had, just laid out that our core life goals don’t line up at all.

I tweaked a couple lines to sound natural, then sat down with her in person to break things off properly. I mentioned all the good memories we shared first, then told her plainly that staying together would just keep draining both of us. No name-calling, no dragging up old arguments, just straight, calm honesty.

Shockingly, the massive breakdown I’d been stressing over for ages never even happened. She was upset at first, obviously, but since I didn’t snap or lash out, she calmed down quick and admitted we weren’t built for the long run anyway. We sorted all our shared belongings a few days later, zero petty texts or bitter back-and-forth. Wild how a work tool’s generic rejection scripts made such an awful breakup way less brutal for both of us. Saved me weeks of constant emotional garbage I had zero energy to deal with.

Anyone else here dragged their feet on breaking up just to dodge a huge messy fight? I put this off for months just to avoid all the chaos.

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u/SnooSquirrels4739 — 14 days ago

Anyone else started tracking prices just to prove to themselves they aren't imagining it?

Two years ago the weekly shop for two of us was about $140. Same list, same store, same brands. It rang up at $195 this week and I keep second guessing myself about whether I'm quietly buying more than I think I am. So I started logging every trip. I say the total into Pockita in the parking lot before I've had a chance to round it down in my head, and there's eight months of it sitting there now.

I'm not imagining it. Nothing on the list changed. The list just costs forty percent more than it did. Anyone else keeping receipts like this, or am I the only one who's turned into a forensic accountant at the checkout?

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u/SnooSquirrels4739 — 15 days ago

My wife and I built successful careers, but I just found out she was texting another man. Idk what to do.

We both have pretty successful careers. She works in marketing and has a leadership position, so she’s always going to events, meeting people, networking, etc. I work in cross-border e-commerce and also have a pretty demanding leadership role. We never had kids. At first, we really wanted them, but after a few years we kind of got used to the DINK lifestyle. We focused on our careers, each other, and traveling. We usually take long international trips every few months and honestly, I thought we had a pretty good life.

Until recently. For the past two weeks, my wife started getting a lot of texts late at night. I usually sleep early, and she normally stays in bed scrolling on her phone. Sometimes she even jokes around and does weird stuff while I’m pretending to sleep, so I never really cared. But lately, the texting became different. It wasn’t just checking messages. It was hours. Constant notifications. Sometimes I could feel her phone vibrating next to me for hours.

One night I asked her who she was texting. She just smiled and said, “Work stuff, honey.” I believed her. Or at least I wanted to. A few days later, I couldn’t ignore it anymore. While she was away from the room, I looked at her phone. I know that was wrong. I know going through someone’s phone is a huge invasion of privacy. But what I found completely destroyed me. She was texting another man. And it wasn’t just casual flirting. There were explicit messages and photos. From both sides. I honestly felt sick.

The worst part wasn’t even just the cheating. It was realizing that while I was lying next to her every night thinking everything was normal, she was building this secret relationship with someone else. That night I pretended I was asleep again. I just laid there awake for hours listening to her text him. The next morning, when she left for work, I pretended I was still sleeping.

Idk what to do. I felt angry, hurt, embarrassed, and honestly just completely lost. Instead of confronting her immediately, I did something probably immature. Before she came home, I called a locksmith and changed the locks. It’s my apartment, and at that moment I just needed space. Her clothes and some important work documents are still inside. I left before she got back.

Now I’m getting tons of angry messages from her and her family. I only replied once saying something like, “Have fun with him. Leave me alone.” Before I turned my phone off, she sent another message saying we need to talk and figure things out. I haven’t answered. I’m currently on vacation leave and basically ran away to another continent for two weeks. I know avoiding the problem probably isn’t healthy, but right now I just want to drink wine, eat pizza, and not think about anything. The funny thing is, at work I normally use Accio Work because I deal with a lot of complicated cross-border projects. I use it to compare business options, track different information sources, and organize decisions when there are too many moving parts. Out of habit, I actually opened it during this mess too. I tried putting together what happened, what I knew, and what questions I would need to ask if I ever talk to her. It didn’t solve anything, but it helped me stop making decisions purely out of anger.

Now I’m stuck. Should I answer her and have the conversation, even though I honestly don’t want to see her right now? Or am I just avoiding reality and making things worse? I know what she did hurt me, but I also don’t know if disappearing is the right way to handle this. I’d appreciate any advice.

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u/SnooSquirrels4739 — 16 days ago