u/canadave_nyc

EDIT: Never mind, I see TVDB appears to be having issues that is likely causing the problem I wrote about here.

I'm running the current standard Kodi Omega. I'm trying to scrape this TV show into my Kodi library: https://www.thetvdb.com/series/ah-my-goddess

In my TV Shows folder, I have this particular one in a subfolder titled "Ah! My Goddess" to match what it says in TVDB. Inside that, I have "Season 1" and "Season 2". Inside those, the files are named appropriately--"S01E01.mkv", etc. So everything looks right, and I've been using Kodi for a long time so I think I know what I'm mostly doing.

But this show will not scrape. There's no error, it just doesn't show up in the list of TV Shows. I tried renaming the folder to "Ah My Goddess" figuring that maybe it's the exclamation point screwing it up--no luck. I tried adding the year--so, "Ah! My Goddess (2005)". No luck.

I'm stumped. I could use a local .nfo file, I know, but I'm trying to figure out why this one particular show out of my hundreds of shows will not scrape :( Any ideas?

I've just started using this stuff in earnest for my chronic sinusitis (which isn't getting better despite using daily sprays of omnaris), and I have a million questions:

1. Does it really get up into the full maxillary sinuses? When I use it, the stream of liquid feels like it's going up one nostril and then out the other nostril without actually going deep into the cavities of my maxillary sinuses.

2. I'm completely paranoid about sterility--last thing I need is a brain amoeba :0 I'm not understanding the cleaning protocol. Why do you have to fill it with distilled water mixed with a few drops of detergent, only to then rinse it out with running tap water? Why not just fill it with tap water, if (presumably "not sterile") tap water is going to be used to rinse the bottle afterward anyway?

3. From what I understand, distilled water loses its sterile properties a week or two after opening the bottle--are we really expected to buy new distilled water bottles every week or two for daily use of the sinus rinse? Is that what you all do?

just got our new cam installed, it's great. When I started the eufy app, the cam was pointing in a good direction, so I saved that as my default preset #1. However, now I want to set a different preset. But when I go to add a new preset, after I've set the camera to point in the desired direction with pan/tilt, the camera starts doing its calibration and winds up in the same original default position. How can I just set a direction and then just simply save that as a preset?

I'm on latest Omega stable release...I have a video source set to a bunch of my own unscraped karaoke videos on my NAS (just a basic list of videos). They are various file types--.avi, .mp4, .mkv. Whenever I play any of them, Kodi shows the time length in the seek bar as 3:51 exactly, even though they are of course of all different time lengths. Is this a known thing with an easy fix (hopefully)? :0

I have a still image that is being used with the Ken Burns effect. What happens is that the zoom happens from start to end, but at the end the effect basically "slows down and stops on the final frame". What I want it to do instead is "continue on"--so, when running the video, the Ken Burns effect would start zooming in, and it would never "finish and stop"--instead it would just switch to the next video clip while still in the act of zooming in.

Is there a way to accomplish this? I'm at a loss.

Surely I must be missing this somehow. The home page (I'm using web platform, not phone all) shows my total amount of money in my portfolio, and shows what amount of money it's up or down today, but...there's no percentage up or down shown? On Questrade I could just click the dollar amount and it would toggle back and forth with percentage up or down that day. Is there no way to at-a-glance see what percentage my entire portfolio is up or down on a given day?

I did some buying and selling the other day in my margin account, and thought I got it all equalled out because when I looked at my "cash available" on the web for that account, it said $0.00. However, I just sold $500 of stock today, and it showed that the cash available only went to about $350. In investigating it, I saw that I had actually used about $150 of margin the other day and it had been sitting there at -$150, but my cash available shown was only $0.00. Shouldn't that cash available show a negative number corresponding to the amount of margin you've used, rather than just $0.00? Or am I missing something here?

If cash available just shows $0.00 even if you're in margin, where are you supposed to see the margin balance?

This may have been answered before (either to a question asked by someone else or maybe even my own forgetful self), so apologies in advance...

For my wife and I, we don't care about the amount of tax hit that will come at the end of our lives. That's more a concern for people who are passing their estate along to their family. For us, it's not a concern.

So I guess we're ultimately trying to plan to have our net worth be as large as possible for as long as possible, without concern for minimizing final taxes in the end. What is the best way to model this train of thought in the platform, particularly in terms of the AI strategies? It's not about picking the strategy that results in the highest net worth, right? Because that takes final taxes into account? Really I suppose we're looking for the highest net worth in the year BEFORE the last year, right?

Hopefully you understand my question, I'm probably not asking it well :0

My wife is 64 and figured she'd open a RRIF early in order to take advantage of income splitting with me (she has higher income). She opened the RRIF in February and put in about $40,000 in investments, which were transferred in-kind from her RRSP (which was otherwise pretty much full).

We took a closer look at this afterward (yes, I know, we should've looked at it closer beforeward, not afterward), and realized we didn't need to put so much into the RRIF, because we'll have workplace pensions that will suffice for our income splitting needs.

So the question is: can she "transfer back" a bunch of the RRIF investments to her RRSP before the end of this year, without a tax hit and without violating any RRIF/RRSP rules?

Sort of an odd/controversial question, I guess, but it's something that's on my mind as my wife and I consider buying a Tesla Model Y. Obviously it's no one's business what car we purchase; at the same time though, that's really easy to say, but I have a few friends who I think would take a dim view of me "supporting Musk" etc by buying a Tesla. So, I'm just wondering if anyone has experienced any stigma or changes in a friend/family relationship due to their purchase.

Maybe I'm missing something, but this is my thinking. I just got overdraft protection on my chequing account. I have a massive amount of overdraft room in my PLOC--tens of thousands of dollars at 3.95% interest. The chequing account has the same free forex as the credit card. Does that mean that this chequing account debit card is now essentially a free-forex credit card, in the sense that I no longer have to ensure I have sufficient funds in my chequing account to cover any expenses I put on that card while travelling?

I suppose the downside is I'd have to carry a temporary balance at 3.95% interest, but for short trips where I'm not spending a whole lot of foreign currency, maybe that's not too bad.

Obviously the CC would be better for foreign trips because you can pay it off in full without incurring any interest, and I do have one. I'm just thinking outside the box a little here :)

Title pretty much. I can see the market value of all my investment accounts on the web version, but not the cash available in each at a glance from the dashboard. I have to click on each one to look to see if I have any cash available. Is there some hidden setting/trick to showing cash available at a glance in each account without clicking into each one in turn?

I currently have a 5800x3d and a 3080ti GPU (64GB RAM), running FS2020. In 4K, it produces occasional stutters when flying in places like NYC. If I go to FS2024, and buy a 9070XT (or a 5070ti or even maybe 5080), is that likely enough to be able to fly in 4K without stuttering, even around busy areas like NYC? FPS is not a big deal for me, I'm okay with like 30 FPS, as long as it's rendered smoothly without stuttering.

Just curious. I made a purchase via Paypal and selected USD as the currency. Online, when checking in WS, it shows just the CAD amount--there's nothing to indicate that this was a USD transaction, nor is there anything indicating a conversion, or what rate was used. Is there a way to make that all show up somehow for USD purchases?

Hi, I have a pension that will be starting this year when I'm 55. It is indexed to inflation 60%. In the Tax and Benefits section, for the pre-65 amount in today's dollars, I entered the annual pension amount I will start with. Where it asks for the annual post-65 pension amount in today's dollars, I should just put the same amount as I put for the pre-65 pension amount, right? i.e. I don't adjust the post-65 amount to reflect what my pre-65 pension amount is in today's dollars multiplied by 10 years multiplied by the 60% increase each year?

At the start of this year, my wife (turning 65 years old this year) had a LIRA. A couple months ago, she unlocked it, converted it to a LIF, and transferred 50% in-kind to her RRSP. She also created a RRIF, and did a partial transfer of a small amount of investments to it from her RRSP. I would imagine this affects the projections going forward (the LIF is now half as big, the RRIF now allows income from that to be tax-split with me, etc); how do we put this into the plan properly now, so we can see the effects on our plan, rather than waiting for next year to update the Discovery inputs?

Hi, my wife and I are newly retired (April 2026). I'm handling the financial planning end of things.

My understanding is that the CRA makes you pay quarterly installments if your tax owing is more than $3,000 in the current year and either of the previous two years. I've read a lot about people trying to avoid having to pay these quarterly installments, and I guess I have a couple of questions.

First, what is the point of avoiding CRA installments (presumably to keep money earning interest/gains longer) if avoiding the installments involves having appropriate deductions taken off at source anyway? Isn't it six of one, half-dozen of the other? Same same?

Second--is there a good resource anyone can recommend that explains simply and in detail where/how to calculate tax owing, walks through the process, what to do if you find you're above $3,000 and you want to avoid CRA installments, etc?

Hi there, I'm just looking at my plan again and trying to understand something.

I have the "Registered, Non-Registered, Tax-free" decumulation AI strategy enabled. However, looking at the Projection bar graph, it looks like I first go through all my non-registered, then all my tax-free, then the registered handles the remaining years' income. I'm trying to understand why that is. Thanks!

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