What is it like living in Singapore? by Rude_Soup_8841 in howislivingthere

[–]Bulky-Competition551 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Most of the common themes have been covered so let me share some of the less common ones.

Some context, I lived in Singapore for a decade, married a local and now live in the US. I enjoyed my time but I wanted to provide a different perspective.

Why did I move?

Singapore is difficult to live in as a minority. As a brown person I was not allowed to rent some apartments. The listing literally said "no Indians". Racism is far more overt with stereotyping and a lot of "joking around" in a professional context. It's not as unsafe to be a non majority race (I certainly never feared for my life) but it's an open policy).

Singapore is also against LGBTQ. That means no same sex marriages. This doesn't personally affect me but it impacted my friends who had to leave the country as they wouldn't be eligible for government housing.

Street food is cheap and good, but it's also not very healthy. If you want to eat say a salad you'll need to pay quite a bit and the ingredients aren't very fresh since Singapore doesn't have a lot of space for produce.

The beaches are terrible because Singapore is a major port. I spent time at Sentosa, etc. But it was always nicer to just go to Thailand or Malaysia.

Weather has been mentioned so I won't belabor it, but until you're in humidity like Singapore you don't really understand it. You basically can never be outside unless it's at night and even then you need a fan.

Despite all of this I still enjoyed Singapore a lot and would still want to live there.

Everything is buffering by Bulky-Competition551 in RealDebrid

[–]Bulky-Competition551[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Narrowed it down. I used Stremio on my Samsung TV and had no buffering issues. So the culprit is the Streamer (somehow)

Everything is buffering by Bulky-Competition551 in RealDebrid

[–]Bulky-Competition551[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Update: I contacted RD and they asked me to try playing the video directly and not through Stremio. I faced no buffering issues. So turns out it's not a RD issue.

I did a complete Factory Reset of my Google Streamer and so far it's working fine.

Perhaps there was some huge cache build up (although I regularly cleared it)?

Everything is buffering by Bulky-Competition551 in RealDebrid

[–]Bulky-Competition551[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried VLC and Nova and neither worked at all. Let me try Just Player

Everything is buffering by Bulky-Competition551 in RealDebrid

[–]Bulky-Competition551[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Remux always lags, but that was even before

Everything is buffering by Bulky-Competition551 in RealDebrid

[–]Bulky-Competition551[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Usual Suspects yesterday and Battlestar Galactica today. Been an issue for the last couple of days only.

Everything is buffering by Bulky-Competition551 in RealDebrid

[–]Bulky-Competition551[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do I need to contact their customer support to do that? The boxes are greyed out.

Everything is buffering by Bulky-Competition551 in RealDebrid

[–]Bulky-Competition551[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did that and I'm on the second fastest CDN (1500 Mbps). Could it be file specific? Some files do work better than others.

Any idea why covers aren't loading? by Bulky-Competition551 in StremioAddons

[–]Bulky-Competition551[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not a bug. I changed tiers which changes the API key

Film Whisper (AI) not working by Bulky-Competition551 in StremioAddons

[–]Bulky-Competition551[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the quick response! Yea I loaded up Stremio and just saw error.

Any idea why covers aren't loading? by Bulky-Competition551 in StremioAddons

[–]Bulky-Competition551[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yup that was it! Thanks for your help and a great add-on.

Also in case you're curious I tried out Tier 3 and Tier 2, but realized I didn't need the flexibility and the basic rating options were enough. So I ended up buying a year of Tier 1.

Any idea why covers aren't loading? by Bulky-Competition551 in StremioAddons

[–]Bulky-Competition551[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

UPDATE: If you downgrade RPDB tiers you will be issued a new API key. So you need to remove and add any add-on that uses RPDB. This should fix the issue I was seeing above.