u/dawiiid

Hello, I asked a similar question a few days ago, so feel free to remove this post if this is too frequent or repetitive, I just wanted to get some more eyes on the situation as I'm frankly quite lost. I recently started a 12 liter freshwater planted tank and am exploring options for potential future inhabitants. Searching online I've seen opinions that nerite snails need a minimum of 5 gallons, ideally 10, and absolutely shouldn't be kept in such a small tank- but everyone I talk to in person keeps recommending them to me?! Big chain pet store employees I do expect to potentially be underinformed about something like this, but I was at a local aquarium store today and decided to ask around about my snail options and was, again, told I should be getting a nerite. The employee honestly seemed very surprised at my concerns, she said that she was studying this sort of thing in college, that some people even keep them in jars and that a singular nerite would be absolutely fine in a 3 gallon, and that I absolutely should not get any ramshorns or the like as they'll breed past tank capacity. I'm completely turned around now as this is pretty much exactly the opposite of advice I've seen online. Of course I'd be happy to have a nerite, they seem lovely, but I'd absolutely hate to be mistreating an animal based off bad advice. Can anyone else weigh in? What are my actual options for such a small tank? If I can't figure out what to do I'll likely just leave the tank plants-only, as I don't want to be responsible for creating bad living conditions for a snail, and I'm not currently in a position to upsize to a new tank based on new information.

I've been playing this game with essentially zero crashes since last year right up until I picked it back up after a short break this week. I'm now getting regular GPU crashes during gameplay (I think occasionally saying something like "device removed"). The thing I'm most confused about is that this is happening on both devices I play on: laptop with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, and handheld mini pc with AMD Radeon 780M built in GPU. I hadn't had any issues playing on either previously, so my suspicion is this isn't a hardware failure or driver issue (unless both companies messed something up at the same time?). Could this be a Windows issue? That's the only thing these devices have in common as far as I can tell, I haven't installed any mods or tinkered with over- or under- clocking or anything. I have Steam overlay and the like turned off. Any ideas??? I feel like I've seen a lot of other people with this same error?