u/alphaisgamma

This is my second round of treatment. I had my first round 3 years ago. It helped, but my acne was back again last year.

I started second round last month. I am on very low dose.

Still I have weakness (I cannot sit on office chair and have to work from bed), worst acne, mild depression because of how ugly I look, blood in urine (twice in a month), back pain, dryness.

I am feeling very miserable. I don't know what to do. Can you convince me to continue treatment or just quit it.

I am 31/M with adult acne. From my understanding, it's genetic and my father had them till he was 35.

I am not a big company. Just a small business. For my work, I need good virtual assistants, CA and financial analysts.

I have always cried while finding a decent person. If I post an ad, I will get a dozen mediocre people over-promising me stuff. When I finally hire someone, they always turn out opposite. Chasing them to finish work, delivering incorrect work and so on.

I am so tired. I feel like I should be doing everything on my own instead.

P.S. Don't send me message applying for a job. I am tired. I won't reply to you.

I am not a big company. Just a small business. For my work, I need good virtual assistants, CA and financial analysts.

I have always cried while finding a decent person. If I post an ad, I will get a dozen mediocre people over-promising me stuff. When I finally hire someone, they always turn out opposite. Chasing them to finish work, delivering incorrect work and so on.

I am so tired. I feel like I should be doing everything on my own instead.

P.S. Don't send me message applying for a job. I am tired. I won't reply to you.

I am so fed up with airtel right now:

1. When I do 118 recharge, half of the time it just fails

2. Other times, it says "UPCOMING PACKS" even though I am already outside India. It doesn't activate the pack and keep blocking incoming SMS.

I applied for HDFC Ergot health insurance few months ago through an agent. I tried to be too honest and mention every small/big problems. They rejected my application because of pre-existing conditions.

Is it possible to get it somehow by paying a higher premium?

I recently got a new internet which came with the router.

I own "Telekom Speedport Smart 4" and is not rented.

I want to connect to ethernet port and use it wired access point / repeater.

Is it possible to do it somehow?

I hate when brands price things like 499, 799, 4599, 79. Why not just round it? You are not giving us 1 as a discount. You are trying to trick us. Is that what you think of your customers? Idiots that should be tricked?

Fuck you.

I'm not really interested in Brooklyn kick boxing class. I just want to punch a bag and release my anger.

Where can I go? Ideally with urban shorts.

I got separated in Dec with my loving girlfriend and have been trying dating apps on and off since Apr.

I hate most people on dating apps. So terrible. Putting zero effort, dull conversations, mind games and expecting me to do everything.

I get so frustrated quickly, even more these days. Maybe I am getting older or it's related to heartbreak.

I don't want to suck up to anyone. I usually call their behaviour. It always ends up with them making poor excuses for their behaviour or just an argument between us.

I am on dating apps to find love, not to pick a fight. I just want to rage quit life and just live in nature alone. I am tired of people. Why can't I find a normal person to be with?

We loved each other and got separated because I had to move to my home country for an indefinite period. She didn't like the uncertainty and decided not to stay in relationship anymore.

I eventually came back in 6 months but she also left this country to move to another country and started a new life because she was heartbroken.

It's not nicest thing to say but she is not made for job market. She hated all her previous jobs and quitted all of them. She wanted to be self-employed but didn't had much success in it.

So I think she probably hate her current job too. And since her family lives here, she will eventually move back here.

Maybe she will write me once she is back.

She used to use these words sometime "Wishful thinking". I am pretty sure that's what I am doing right now haha

When it comes to love/relationship, I feel she is very devoted but also very decisive. I don't think she is going to write me ever even if she comes back. But a guy can dream haha

I am 31. I work remotely and live in Berlin, and recently got single. Coincidentally, my apartment lease was also ending in 3 months. So I thought to keep looking for a new apartment. If I don't find anything and have to move out, I will put everything in self-storage and move to Hamburg and give it a try as my new home.

Fast forward, I didn't find anything, so I put all my belongings in self-storage and moved to Hamburg 2 days ago.

But now, I have received a contract from a viewing I had earlier. I love the apartment (2-room, modern building, quiet street, balcony, nice area in Charlottenberg close to the Spree) and the unlimited lease offered by the company.

I have a few options:

1. Give up the experiment and move back to Berlin and sign the lease.

2. Give up the apt contract and stay in Hamburg.

3. Sign the lease and keep paying the rent in Berlin (\\\~1200eur warm) as well as in Hamburg until I have decided if I want to live in Hamburg or not. If I finally decided to stay in Hamburg, I would have to pay rent for an additional 3 months' notice period. While I can afford this, I am not thrilled about this option.

4. The apartment in Berlin has a kitchen already. I can buy missing items like a wardrobe, a bedframe, a mattress, a washing machine and sublet it for a few months until I make up my mind. I can rent for cheap at some loss. It's still way cheaper than option 3.

Number 4 makes most sense to me since I really want to try Hamburg as my new home, but I'm uncertain if I will like it after 1-2 months. So far, I have a very positive impression of Hamburg. People seem nice, the street feels quieter and cleaner, air feels refreshing

Any suggestions on what I should do?

Don't tell me to quit social media. If I want, I will. I don't need anyone to tell me that.

So there was a cartoon couple that was supposed to represent me and my girlfriend. I used to follow ton of pages related to it and send those cartoon to my girlfriend.

We got seperated in Sep last year. Eventually, I unfollowed all those pages.

But even today, facebook keep recommending me those pages. I always click "Not interested" or "X", but they show up again after a few days.

I wish I could disable all these recommendations completely

How to encourage my Indian parents (around 55 year old) to spend more money and work less

Me and my sister are indepedent for 5-10 years now, and don't need financial support from our parents.

I actually also give 70K monthly allowance to my mom which never spends.

Along with my father's job, my parents have small money lending business. I asked to stop doing it for 5+ years since no one needs that extra money. I want them to deposit in bank, FD and just chill.

But our parents are still busy saving and earning money for both of us.

Their lifestle has not changed much in a decade. Still frugal and barely spending 20% of the total income.

How do I encourage them to spend that money to live and enjoy their life.

My mom has arthritis. Yet, instead of hiring a full-time maid, she do all chores herself, get over-exhausted and face a lot of pain. My father also constantly ignore his health because he feel doctors to scammer and are only there to steal his money.

When I ask my mom what she is planning to do with all the money. She say it's for emergencies like my nephew education in case my sister's husband who make 1.5 Cr/year loses his job and lose all his saving magically and never ever find a new job. This is just absurd.

Omen key is annoying for me. I want that row to map to Home, End, Page up, Page down

All other keys are detected by AHK. But omen key is not. Any solution?

My Laptop is HP Omen 16

https://preview.redd.it/xzw53m2o0w8h1.png?width=914&format=png&auto=webp&s=0664db9d76b1fffbcdf162335e467d63f9fb1930

I was talking about stock markets (my portfolio is doing good)

https://preview.redd.it/8swpxqxz4a8h1.png?width=706&format=png&auto=webp&s=a0492b3e6551b3ec7dd0b2ea0c769ec4dc164a43

I am working professionally since 13 years and my lifetime income so far before tax/expense is 650K USD.

I am investing since 2020. I made 60K USD in last 6 years. But I made 260K USD within last 3 months because of the AI rally. It feels so unreal.

260K is 40% of my lifetime job income. I don't think I worked 40% of my life doing research as an investor. It feels like dumb luck. I have seen stocks going 300% up but actually holding them and seeing my own holding going 300% feels so strange.

Today, my stocks went up by 33K USD. It's more than my 2-month salary.

I don't know what my question is. My lifestyle is still the same (except random urge to quit my job).

I don't know what to do. Any personal stories or suggestion?

I found a laptop I like. It says:

> 1x USB-C 3.1 with DisplayPort 1.4 (10Gb/s, PD-Out, power connector PD-In), 1x USB-A 3.1 (10Gb/s), 2x USB-A 3.0 (5Gb/s), 1x HDMI 2.1, 1x 3.5mm jack line-in/out, 1x RJ-45 (10/100/1000Base-T), 1x DC-In barrel jack (power connector)

in the description. I want to hook a docking station with 2 monitors. How do I check if it will work or not?

I have always used Intel CPU and found a good deal but it has AMD CPU.

I am software engineer. Some of the tools I use are WSL 1, WSL 2, Bluestacks, Virtual Box, Docker, Compilers

Am I going to face problems down the road or things are smooth these days regardless?