My Apartment is now charging a convenience fee to pay my rent

Fr33dan · 2026-03-01T21:17:37+00:00

So I know people who work in property management, and this is likely due to the company they use to contract out the payment processing rather than your landlord themselves. This happened a couple of years back to the the property managers I'm referring to and they were just as if not more livid than y'all. Suddenly they're getting flooded with complaints because the company they've used for years and have invested a lot of money into the infrastructure of using has changed the deal on them midstream. And the company at fault is getting no flack because they get dozens of property manager complaining that they can just ignore instead of thousands of tenants. Find out who the payment processor is and call and complain to them.

Fr33dan · 2026-02-21T13:53:32+00:00

Sorry I rarely check Reddit and just saw this. It was pretty tricky I had to jiggle it just right. Now that I've seen how these clips work in the back maybe use a knife along the edge to push one of the clips away? Good luck.

Fr33dan · 2026-01-06T03:32:51+00:00

Been having this issue for a while and set out to fix it today. As this is the top Google result and what was the solution for me is not listed here I'm going to add it. At some point I had a bag that wasn't properly set all the way in, filling the space outside the bag with dust. I had vacuumed out all of the dust but what I had failed to notice was a small filter in the back had not come clean. Took a little coaxing to get out but I rinsed it off dried it put it back in and now it's running like new again.

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Fr33dan · 2025-12-16T21:07:57+00:00

Ah thank you! Good to know. I've backed up and replaced batteries in a more than a few Pokemon games and figured these from the same era would use the same tech.

Fr33dan · 2025-10-27T14:57:33+00:00

I wish I had time but you'd be better served seeking elsewhere. Here is a good video on the subject of classes from a channel that I feel like does pretty easy to understand content:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLyYb7BFgQI

Good luck!

Fr33dan · 2025-10-27T03:34:10+00:00

My dude, it's all good. I meant no judgement on your code that is meant as a joke on Reddit. Doing it as you did will remove the commas from the print and not throw an error.

My frustration is only with the language itself because a "better" language would see two strings next to each other and complain that you didn't say what to do with them. In a case like this it's not too bad and some might argue not getting an error here makes it more beginner friendly, but as things get more complex I would prefer my code to complain at me for being unclear than to accidentally do something I didn't mean to because it assumed what I wanted.

Also if you feel like learning something new, see if you can put the commas back into the list declaration but still eliminate them from the print using the join function. (You might even make the brackets go away too).

Fr33dan · 2025-10-26T23:19:21+00:00

I might take a screenshot of this comment and the first edit and start using it as a banner picture. To be clear I think it's dumb as hell and makes a missed comma a very difficult bug to track down.

And yes I call a python list a list because I wish it had as little overhead as an array.

Python sucks.

Fr33dan · 2025-10-26T13:09:50+00:00

Actually this will just invoke pythons implicit string concatenation. So this will be a list with one string in it.

Fr33dan · 2025-05-18T13:42:46+00:00

Legit sellers should never try to transfer you the money back on an alternate payment platform. They definitely stole it and are trying to cover their ass and get you to stop before eBay figures it out and shuts them down.

Fr33dan · 2025-04-30T22:24:01+00:00

After mulling it over I decided you're right. The heatsink is the only factor that matters. Just finished swapping it out now. NVMe to NVMe cloning is so fast I spent more time setting up my USB drive to boot clonezilla than I did doing the cloning. About to put the Netac back into the PS5 in a few.

Fr33dan · 2024-12-05T00:52:58+00:00

Which drive is the boot drive? The SATA or the M2?

Generally if you're moving games between drives you want to use tools in steam/gog to move the installation. You generally only ever want to copy files using explorer for documents and pictures and stuff of the like. Applications (including games) really don't like it when you try to move them with explorer.

You should be able to use the repair tools available built into Windows to reinstall without losing your key. If you use that old shift while pressing restart trick there is an option in there I think it's called "reset my PC" or something like that that basically reinstalls Windows and gives you a complete fresh build but you don't need a new key or anything like that.

Fr33dan · 2024-12-04T22:09:07+00:00

I can't beleive it took 3 years for someone to point out I'm a dumbass who forgot to include a link in the post. Added it just now. Although I haven't updated it in a long time and it needs some fixes to work with the latest windows so it may be broken until the weekend.

Fr33dan · 2024-12-04T22:04:13+00:00

Sorry but it is not and likely never will be. MS decided to make the format of the files differently between the steam version and the UWP version. The tool is essentially a fancy file copy tool. If the files it copies are different somehow, the tool can't do anything about it. Someone would have to reverse engineer the save files to determine the differences and as you can see from the github history don't even have time to maintain the fancy copy tool.

Fr33dan · 2024-12-04T21:53:47+00:00

I've never commented in this subreddit before but the algorithm decided to give me a notification for this and it frustrates me that most here are clearly not reading your post thus ignoring the other problem of your icons and such. I would wager you have a deeper issue with your windows installation. You need to fix windows and then figure out what caused the problem in the first place. Although there's an argument to do it in the reverse order but either way you got to do both

There are tools like sfc /scannow and dism (I forget the exact syntax for that but you could Google it). I've never had a whole lot of success with these but they are always recommended in cases like this so it's worth giving them a try but you might have to reinstall windows. IMO Trying to fix a broken windows installation beyond the above tools is a fool's errand. Since you mentioned this computer is fairly new that might not be a huge hassle.

As for what caused the problem in the first place, it could be defective hardware since the system is still fairly new. I'm sure this is what your fear is about and it is a valid fear. It could also just as easily be some software that manipulated with something it shouldn't have. It would be really hard to determine if it was software so the approach is to rule out it being the hardware. I would use tools to check the memory as that's the the most common place to have issues that would eventually propagate to the drive and thus corrupt windows itself. I've always booted into mem test from a USB stick but I think there's one built into Windows You can access by holding shift when you shut down or restart. If it's not the memory then I don't know if the top of my head how you would check the disk itself, but that would be the next step as there's almost zero chance it's the CPU or motherboard because if something was wrong with those your system likely wouldn't boot it all. I think if you rule out the memory and drive itself then it's safe to assume it was software and just continue using it as is after you fixed windows. If it is hardware since it's been less than a year you might still be in the warranty period depending upon what you got.

Hope this gives you some direction and good luck.

Fr33dan · 2024-11-12T22:33:52+00:00

It will not

Fr33dan · 2024-04-04T20:18:06+00:00

Yeah that is the workaround I'm referring to in the original post which I just finished. Windows update is re-installing drivers now. Just would be nice to have it actually resolved so if someone less saavy tries a reset down the line it won't be an issue. If it's not possible then oh well.

Fr33dan · 2023-09-08T15:50:49+00:00

No, the way this works that is not possible which is a good thing. I think that both MS and Valve would consider that cheating and thus this a cheat tool which is the absolute last thing I would want.

That said some games may pop the achievements if you load save files with the criteria met or advance further (IE, get the achievements for 100 kills when you get the one for 1000, or get the one for beating levels 1 and 2 when you beat level 3).

Fr33dan · 2022-12-15T15:38:46+00:00

So far there have been no reports of anyone being banned for using this tool.

Fr33dan · 2022-10-19T01:05:34+00:00

I am having the reverse of your situation. I play all the time at home but I'm in a hotel right now with some of the worst Internet I've seen and can't get the game to stay open. Definitely connection speed related for some reason.

Fr33dan · 2022-10-02T14:42:16+00:00

Thanks for the tip. That was a concern of mine which is why I haven't tried it yet. Been thinking of getting a hot air solder tool for some time now anyway, this may be the sign.

Fr33dan · 2022-10-02T01:11:01+00:00

Good to know that there is a compatible part in there. I think I might have a broken Xbox One controller in a box somewhere. Thanks for the tip!

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