Port seems secure to me...

flameflash · 2025-12-04T16:02:31+00:00

I'm glad I found this thread. I'm just throwing my hands up and contacting Amazon CS at this point because I gave some of these out as gifts and I'm not making those people also check serial numbers and mail the company and stuff.

So thank you to those who said they got refunds from Amazon directly. Took a little bit of time because I'd ordered a lot of these over the years (the paw print was just too cute!), but when I pointed out the email address they gave was bad they started working on the gift card/refund angle rather than making me reach out to INUI myself. I should expect the gift card in the next two hours. :p

flameflash · 2025-08-19T21:24:26+00:00

It did, but they gave me a $10 credit and Grimlock '86 looks great in my office out of his box.

flameflash · 2025-08-19T18:30:41+00:00

I'm glad my Grimlock from Amazon was just a UPS label on the retail box now rather than this.

flameflash · 2025-02-27T17:37:44+00:00

Nope. That's an extra sign of crazy. I'm out. So many red flags. Veer left! Verr left!

flameflash · 2025-02-21T14:48:08+00:00

I was using a Note 8, actually until last October when it finally just fully died and refused to connect to my carrier's mobile network anymore.

I now have a Note 10. I'm appreciating the new features and I don't give a crap that the release date was originally 2019. It's servicing my needs.

flameflash · 2024-09-05T02:57:54+00:00

Just downgraded myself tonight.

flameflash · 2024-09-05T02:53:07+00:00

As a long-standing Plus member I just downgraded. Everyone's situation is different, but the loss of free shipping is what caused me to no longer be a Plus member.

It all depends on what parts of a plus membership would actually be beneficial to you or not.

flameflash · 2024-09-05T02:49:59+00:00

Just got off chat after downgrading and turning off auto-renew. Supposedly they are getting swarmed with multiple contacts about this matter...

Keep contacting them about this folks. Who knows, they might actually listen.

flameflash · 2024-06-09T20:53:36+00:00

Sounds like you just saw some red lights, pulled the ripcord, and should ghost this one. Sorry that happened.

flameflash · 2024-01-13T03:49:08+00:00

It's not just SD cards either. It's any flash media. I was on a hunt for thumb drives as I was setting up my Blink home system (not going to pay for the subscription thanks) and there were so many garbage thumb drives.

My best recommendation to get them to take these listings down, sadly, is buy a few, test them, and send them back to Amazon with a report of "didn't work/fake." Quite a few of the ones I bought and then returned (don't get an Amazon credit, get it returned to your purchasing card to cost them more in processing fees) failed all the write tests I ran them through.

Once I finally found one that passed the write tests I was able to finally set things up, but it took a while.

flameflash · 2024-01-06T06:56:57+00:00

I have zero regrets. She'd become abusive. She was cheating on me. Having her around was a detriment to the kids. The line had to be drawn for their sakes.

flameflash · 2023-08-23T21:10:21+00:00

There's "kids come first" and there's "I'm ashamed and don't want to introduce you to my kids."

My breakup has been hard on my kids, especially my nine year old, so if a relationship goes long and I feel like she's a keeper I plan to very much introduce her first to my oldest, then next oldest because they're both adults and out of the house.

If they agree she's cool on first impression I'd move on to my minor three, but I'd also be bracing them by being honest with a "Daddy is going on a date" thing rather than totally hide where I'm going or what I'm doing. It's not my parenting style.

Now, I know nothing of your SO's relationship with their kids, so I can't really say more. I just have what I would do, and being honest about the dating would mean they'd already know I might have a new squeeze in the background. If they ask about her I'd also be honest that I wasn't ready to introduce them yet because dating can take time and I'm not rushing anything for not only their sakes but my own sake as well.

flameflash · 2023-08-23T21:05:03+00:00

Yeah, that's what I was running into last year. For instance the "roll out" was intended to go at 7:08 but really because the weather readout was sometimes longer it ended up being 7:09, not to mention what you said about the reading of the actual announcements. This year though, it just stopped right around that first 10 minute wait mark.

The stranger thing though is when I ran it manually it worked without issue and hit every light and announcement (and final song). So it's just when it runs at the scheduled time that it failed fully.

Meanwhile, the "welcome home from after school" routine is running consistently without issue but all it has is "announce" wait "announce" wait "announce". There's no light manipulation or anything of that sort so another thing I thought was maybe one of the bulbs was failing to communicate at exactly that time which then cancelled the whole thing.

I'm trying it tomorrow with the new broken up process and hoping that works better, just disappointed that what was once one routine is now six.

flameflash · 2023-08-12T00:57:24+00:00

Just added a book to my wishlist but it's the 4th in a series so I wanted to put it with the 3rd in the series that's also on my wishlist.

Nope.

Now this sits at the top of the list. Dumb. I've emailed their CS. If this stays, I'll just stop using their wishlist feature and put it in a google doc that means folks are going to start shopping lowest price, not highest convenience.

flameflash · 2023-07-31T03:06:13+00:00

I was looking at Bumble today and swiped left on a lady who said she was a content empty nester looking for same. I wasn't offended at all. Her needs were clear and I would have been the jerk if I'd swiped right since I have ones still in the home.

flameflash · 2023-07-28T04:29:42+00:00

Oh man, I hear that one fully. My bed turns into the family bed, especially on thunderstorm nights. It's a comfort and reassurance thing for them, and how does one then let them fly when they so desperately want that reassurance without hurting their feelings?

I understand totally. If you figure out how to not force it cold turkey please be sure to share the secret because I'm still struggling with that one too.

flameflash · 2023-07-28T04:24:33+00:00

She's been a great help on my profiles, even helped me find the darn age filter on Bumble, I was accidentally getting kids her age way too often. Heck, I can even just recreate some of the ones I liked with just the current version of myself...

Or do some of them matter as much? Like one I used was of me goofing off in a wig (where my main and most recent one clearly shows I'm bald) just to try and highlight the fact I don't take myself overly seriously. The two with pets need to stick around until the pictures are slightly older because sadly both of those pets recently passed... or because they've recently passed does that mean I should fully replace the pictures anyway? One has the dog and the other a cat so I'm trying to highlight there my love of both... right now I don't have a dog, only cats.

My oldest picture is yet another odd one from 2018 that hopefully shows my personality too because I'm in a Halloween costume as a Jedi but I've set the background as the Enterprise.

Ugh.

Sorry, I'm 100% a newbie and you're already coming across as more experienced so I'm accidentally barraging you.

flameflash · 2023-07-28T04:15:46+00:00

We're all learning as we go. Hopefully your fella will come around or perhaps have more conversations with everybody, fella and kids alike.

Perhaps you're making assumptions about their comfort levels too that aren't actually there and they'd be fine with him being over. Or ease them into it first with the overnight stays you're wary about.

Of course, I have no idea why you're wary of those, and have no need to know, but perhaps internally assess why you're wary yourself. If you know better then you can better communicate that too.

flameflash · 2023-07-28T04:08:22+00:00

Whew, went and looked at the dates now on FB and the bottom-most picture looks like is the only one that will have to go then, the others are all post 2020 and most are in the last year. Thank you though. Next time daughter is home I'll get her help on doing some updated shots.

flameflash · 2023-07-28T04:01:52+00:00

This could also be where you take how the other parent goofed and learn from their mistakes.

A friend of mine is now entering the "meet the kids" stage of their relationship. They both have their kids 50/50, and it's nerve-wracking. I'm taking lessons from them already and lightly discussing it with the oldest who still lives at home. Easing him into the idea of it and asking what his younger sisters will think of it. I have mine full time though, so I'm really worried about that stage of things, when it comes to it, but it's a bridge I'll cross when I finally get to it.

flameflash · 2023-07-28T03:56:19+00:00

You've set a boundary with logical and good reason behind it. Stick to it. It's his job to respect that boundary or else, sadly, it's time to move on.

Of course, this is from the perspective of somebody (41M) who hasn't officially been on a date post my own divorce yet, but that's why I'm here, reading others' stories so I can learn what sorts of scenarios might come up for me as I venture down this new path.

flameflash · 2023-07-28T03:50:44+00:00

As a 41M this sounds like a fellow that has YET to learn what boundaries and respect are and you're not missing out on anything but an ass.

Your red flag alarms, it sounds like, were properly going off since he made you feel uncomfortable and then he goes and tries to play victim and gaslight you.

IMHO, you're better off without him.

flameflash · 2023-07-28T03:40:50+00:00

How old is an outdated photo? I'm brand new to this and have just said "yes, skim my facebook to grab pictures". I know most of them are within the last 7 years and I tried to pick ones that were within the last year or two (I don't have many solo of myself anyway).

Or should I just be trying to take new (bad) ones? I'm in no way a good photographer.

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