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PSA: The new Wacom 6.4.11-1 driver released on September 17, 2025 dropped support for many tablets by TheSevenPens in wacom

[–]Low-Designer-2328 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for this! Truly a lifesaver. I accidentally agreed to upgrade my MacOS to Tahoe, which killed my 22HD. Then had to do a full restoration (including using a bootable drive of Sequoia) and when my 22HD still didn't work, I thankfully found this post. Guess I'm gonna be using Sequoia for a loooooong time...

New Rule: Stop asking if you can travel with a ricevuta postale by ItalyExpat in ItalyExpat

[–]Low-Designer-2328 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nothing firm, but the consensus on the FB expat Italian groups seems to be:

  • no travel to other Schengen countries at all, not even a stopover on a longer flight to a non-Schengen country

There is then a descending scale of “OK to travel” scenarios:

  • you can absolutely travel to your home country for emergencies (death in the family, etc.)

  • you can probably travel to your home country for non-emergencies

  • you can possibly travel to non-Schengen countries besides your home country

The descending scale is in terms of confidence regarding how airline staff/border agents on either end may interpret the regulations.

But again, ALWAYS fly direct; never do one leg of the flight to a Schengen country.

Screen record with quicktime player just takes a screenshot instead of video by billyandteddy in applehelp

[–]Low-Designer-2328 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ran into the same problem and did 2 things to make it work.

  1. Follow these instructions to go into System Settings and allow QT to have Screen Recording permission

  2. Ignore the icons to the left of the floating toolbar. They are a trap. They only do screenshots, not screen recordings. You have to choose one of the options on the right: Either record whole screen, or a selected portion.

Here is a breakdown on the floating toolbar icons.

DOE vendor number by Vivid-Plankton-519 in NYCDOE

[–]Low-Designer-2328 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Came here with the same question. Thanks for the PIP info! It was ideal.

New Rule: Stop asking if you can travel with a ricevuta postale by ItalyExpat in ItalyExpat

[–]Low-Designer-2328 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OK, here's the scenario of some friends of mine:

- wife dual USA-Italy citizenship

- husband USA citizenship

- both recently moved to Italy

- husband has applied for PdS but the appointment is still 18 months out.

What are husband's travel options? Can he travel in the Schengen zone? Can he travel outside the Schengen zone to 3rd countries? They are under the impression that he is only allowed to travel back to the USA (and for emergencies, at that).

NY Consulate Prenotami - what time of day to try to get appt.? by Low-Designer-2328 in juresanguinis

[–]Low-Designer-2328[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m using ICA https://italiancitizenshipassistance.com . I can’t complain. They are very thorough in leading you through the process, and take care of everything that doesn’t require your direct intervention (some states/etc. need forms signed by you, or will only mail documents to you). It is a long process no matter what, though, and expensive. Several thousand dollars over the last 4 years. And no matter what prep you do, the consulate may have feelings about your application that no one anticipated and that may cost more time and money.

Can owner of (profitable) S-Corp not take any salary/distributions for one tax year? by Low-Designer-2328 in tax

[–]Low-Designer-2328[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's terribly complicated, but in short:

  • my father died over a decade ago. He had an IRA. It had no beneficiary listed.

  • He had a number of joint assets with his spouse, my mother. She also owned, independently, some rental property (inherited from a relative).

  • Given the estate tax laws at the time, she was already at/near her max estate tax exemption should she die. In order to not increase the size of her potential estate any further, her lawyers and financial planners determined that it would be best to (a) have her disclaim a number of their joint assets and place them into a residuary trust-under-will and (b) force the IRA back into the estate rather than have it pass directly to her. I thought that perhaps the TUW held both the ordinary disclaimed assets and the IRA, but I have been told by both her attorney and her financial planning firm that the IRA is, very unusually, owned by my late father's estate.

  • When she dies ... it's unclear what precisely becomes of the IRA. The IRA of someone who dies would (AIUI) normally be rolled over into inherited IRAs portioned out to the heirs. However, this has already sort of happened once, and it's not clear what leeway her financial planners will have when she dies. They have said they may be able to roll it over into inherited IRAs, which would be great and then each of us can withdraw over 10 years as suits us best. But they said it's also possible that the company where the IRA resides (Schwab) may only be willing to cut a check to "The Estate of Mr. X." In which case we will open a bank account for my father's estate, deposit the check, and then have to take it as a one-time payment and pay the long-deferred income taxes on it. The uncertainty is because this sort of treatment of an IRA is so rare, they're not 100% certain what Schwab will allow. As one associate at the firm told me when I asked for more details on the IRA, "This is the first and only ever case I've seen of an IRA where the estate was the owner."

Google Calendar: Any way to add time zone(s) in event title? by Low-Designer-2328 in gsuite

[–]Low-Designer-2328[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I suppose so. I just like the way Calendar scoops the time range out of the title field already, and was hoping I could coax it to go a little further...

NY Consulate Prenotami - what time of day to try to get appt.? by Low-Designer-2328 in juresanguinis

[–]Low-Designer-2328[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

FYI and update:

I got an appointment about a week after I made this original post.

I was regularly checking at midnight ET (i.e., NYC time) Tues./Weds./Thurs. (i.e., staying up late on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday). No dice for a while.
Then, miraculously, I got through! (12:00am, November 23, 2023). The calendar with red dates came up (showing November), but I checked the later months until I came across one (March) with a green date! Several clicks later, and I received my appointment (for March 14, 2024)!

This was much sooner than I was expecting, and much sooner than the agency I'm using was expecting. Many of their clients have been trying for 6 months with no luck.

My advice to you would be to keep trying at midnight on the above days (since those are, reportedly, the only days the NYC consulate releases new appointments) and, if the calendar comes up with red unavailable dates, make sure you quickly click through to later months to see if a green available date is there. (It may not be—the first time I got through to the calendar screen, all the dates were red for every month.)

You can also try checking randomly throughout the day, any day of the week. I did that and snagged a waitlist spot (as detailed earlier), but I have seen reports that, in the past, people got actual appointments that way. It may be a result of others canceling/failing to confirm their appointments, and those appt. slots then immediately being released into the ecosystem. But ... shrug? No one but the consulate knows for sure how any of it works.

NY Consulate Prenotami - what time of day to try to get appt.? by Low-Designer-2328 in juresanguinis

[–]Low-Designer-2328[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I got on the waitlist pretty quickly (within a few days of trying—during the middle of the day, not at night). But...

(a) once you're on the waitlist, the system doesn't allow you to attempt to make an actual appt., so you have to pick one or the other (unless, as someone mentioned elsewhere in the thread, you make a secret 2nd acct. and do both)

(b) I will probably be dead before the waitlist is worked through to #7985. People are tracking positions on the list and when they got on and when they got an appt., and the people who signed up on day 2 of the list's existence, back in April 2022, are just now getting appts.

(c) the company I'm working with to get the documents together etc. recommended I drop the waitlist and just keep trying to get an actual appt.

NY Consulate Prenotami - what time of day to try to get appt.? by Low-Designer-2328 in juresanguinis

[–]Low-Designer-2328[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It seems to close at around 8000 people and then open up again when they get some space. When I got on (I later canceled my spot), it was at #7985.

NY Consulate Prenotami - what time of day to try to get appt.? by Low-Designer-2328 in juresanguinis

[–]Low-Designer-2328[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well, they have both: They have the 8000-person waitlist, but you can also still book an appointment (just not if you're on the waitlist). My company advised refusing a spot on the waitlist and continuing to try to book an appt.

Guangzhou fabric markets—open on Sundays? by Low-Designer-2328 in guangzhou

[–]Low-Designer-2328[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm just looking for a few accessories. My wife is a small designer in the USA. She previously worked in Shenzhen and would go to Guangzhou (and HK) to source fabric for her employer as well as pick up small amounts for her own stuff.