u/SpankMyMunkey

My elderly father has the Fiox TV+ boxes since February of 2025 and for the longest time if I or he pressed the OK button on his remote it would just show the info of the show and keep playing live TV as expected.

Then at one point we got the 90 day DVR promotional shit for free which we never used and I canceled at the end of it, calling in to a rep just to be safe so we didn't get charged. But ever since that free promotion began, when he hit OK on the remote it pauses live TV. The first time I called in to Verzion to have the DVR service canceled, the pause and play feature went away with it, which was great. Then like ten days later it came back. I called in again and they assured me that the DVR service was canceled (which is reflected on his bill) and again after some time the pause and play feature stopped, which was good again. But just now I see that it is once again back. We don't even have a VMS server anymore as I returned it to Verizon.

Does anyone know if this "pause and play" is just a forced feature now? It just keeps coming back even though we have no DVR activated and I've called in twice to cancel it.

Context: My father has earlyish dementia and still lives at home on his own. However he no longer seems to have the initiative/drive/mental capacity to cook anything major. He still knows how to use the toaster oven in his kitchen and is able to warm up food with it.

I am almost always with him for dinners so that's no issue but I'd like him to still be somewhat independent for lunches. Currently his lunches are usually either leftovers like half a burger, or he makes a deli meat sandwich. I was curious if anyone had some good suggestions for lunch meals that I could prepare for him in advanced that he could either eat cold or warm up in his toaster oven. One thing I plan to try making for him is a large amount of chili that he can freeze or keep cold in the fridge, then just warm up. Thanks!

Quick edit: Bear in mind I'm a pretty amateur chef, I've only recently become his primary caregiver.

Edit #2: Thank you for all of the replies, I'm sorry I didn't respond to all of them, wasn't expecting so many.

I believe a lot of others got the free DVR service for 90 days thing, I saw other threads about it on here a few months ago. All of the reminder emails said that it'd be discontinued June 3rd, but my father's Fios TV+ boxes still have it. So far there's been no charge on his bill for it. Just curious if others are seeing this too.

Edit: Upon checking the .pdf of what would be a paper bill, I did see the DVR service on their with the expiration date of June 3rd. So I called in and had it removed just now.

My father (who has earlyish dementia) has a Vanguard Roth IRA that we're transferring to Principal Roth IRA through a local Principal office in my area. Principal has sent the transfer request with the "Medallion Signature Guarantee" to Vanguard two or three weeks ago by now. On the request forms I signed them as my father's power of attorney. On Friday (May 29th) myself and my rep from Principal called Vanguard and they said there was some issue with the request being done by a PoA. On this call I pretended to be my father and told them I was competent in mind and told them to proceed with the transfer. And now they're saying that it's being reviewed by the processor. Tomorrow will be a week from that conversation.

Is this timeframe typical? I've never done anything like this, I feel like it's taking long than it should be. Their communication seems so bad, and I feel like my father's money is just being held hostage now. I just want it to transfer so it can be reinvested.

I was literally using it a couple hours ago to ask about keyboard soldering and now any prompt I put in just instantly redirects me to a login page (https://auth.openai.com/log-in-or-create-account). I've seen other posts about this in the past. Has anyone else been experiencing this too recently? Any solutions that actually work? Clearing the site's cookies unfortunately didn't.

Edit: Glad to see it isn't just me haha

My 73 year old father has earlyish dementia. He's still decent and lives on his own but he's very reliant on me and can no longer do anything technical, financial/business related, or anything that is challenging mentally. Pretty standard for someone in an earlyish dementia state I would imagine.

My mother used to be his primary caregiver but she unfortunately passed away last year, and I have taken up the responsibility. After my mother passed I quickly and quietly removed all of the liquor and hard alcohol from their house because I know that drinking is one of my father's coping mechanisms, however I did allow him to keep drinking beer. Lately though he's been getting a bit worse with his daily routines, forgetting where light switches are, more easily confused, etc. He's not getting drunk or "wasted" or anything, but I'm beginning to think it is time for me to try weaning him off of beer to keep his brain just that much better.

Does anyone have any tips or suggestions on how to go about doing this? I've mentioned to him a number of times that the more he drinks the worse he'll get, and he's even said three times now that he's not going to buy beer anymore. But that lasts for about a week before he buys more, likely just because it's a normal thing for him to do. I haven't tried anything drastic yet though, like I have not yet sat him down and firmly said "you cannot drink beer anymore." or something along those lines.

I'm sorry for how long this post was. Any feedback would be appreciated.

Edit: For anyone who happens to see this, thank you for your feedback. It has given me a lot to consider.

I noticed just now that live videos were showing again in my YouTube sidebar videos. The old filter I had for them must be out of date now, and the one from the wiki didn't work either. So I whipped up a new one for myself. I suspect Google did its usual BS and changed another class name or something. I'm just posting it here for posterity and to help others.

www.youtube.com##:is(yt-lockup-view-model):has(.ytBadgeShapeThumbnailLive)

As always, my custom filters are probably not best practice and may not be super resource efficient.

Edit: This is for the sidebar specifically, I have not seem live videos showing up on the homepage yet. Although if history is to repeat itself, I will soon.

Does anyone have any recommendations on software to monitor CPU voltages while in Windows? My BIOS is saying that the voltage for core 0 is 2.2 volts when idling (higher than expected) but the other three cores are receiving normal voltage. The PC seems to run fine, and the CPU temps look normal, so I'm lead to believe this may be a case of a bad censor, the CPU and motherboard are both quite old. I'm curious if software within Windows will show me the same numbers or more accurate ones, depending on how those numbers are retrieved.

Bonus points if someone knows the answer on whether the sensors for this are part of the motherboard, or CPU itself.

For those who want to know, the parts are as follows (Yes they're old parts):

• MoBo: Asus Z97-A
• CPU: Intel i7-4790K

Does anyone have any recommendations on software to monitor CPU voltages while in Windows? My BIOS is saying that the voltage for core 0 is 2.2 volts when idling (higher than expected) but the other three cores are receiving normal voltage. The PC seems to run fine, and the CPU temps look normal, so I'm lead to believe this may be a case of a bad censor, the CPU and motherboard are both quite old. I'm curious if software within Windows will show me the same numbers or more accurate ones, depending on how those numbers are retrieved.

Bonus points if someone knows the answer on whether the sensors for this are part of the motherboard, or CPU itself.

For those who want to know, the parts are as follows (Yes they're old parts):

• MoBo: Asus Z97-A
• CPU: Intel i7-4790K

I'm trying to diagnose an old PC that no longer boots properly. I've been through hell and back with it trying to figure out what the problem is. Currently it "turns on", the PSU and CPU fans spin consistently but the keyboard doesn't light so USBs aren't getting power, and no display is being sent to the monitor, with no unusual MoBo lights on. I'm trying to just get it to boot with as few factors as possible. Currently I have the MoBo (obviously), the CPU, CPU cooler + fan, one RAM stick, a keyboard, with an HDMI cable. Is that the minimum parts required to theoretically POST?

For those who want to know, the parts are as follows (Yes they're old parts):

• MoBo: Asus Z97-A
• CPU: Intel i7-4790K
• Cooler: Hyper 212 EVO
• RAM: Kingston 1866MHz DDR3

I've been playing NA FPP solos lately, and when I go to the match report, I can click on the little nameplate for those I've killed and been killed by. When I click on the nameplates, some actually take me to profiles while others don't. Is it safe to assume that the ones that don't take me to a profile were a bot?