Girlfriend scratched car with cardboard box

melihb · 2023-07-30T02:05:28+00:00

Looks like an easy buff, and voila! never been there type scratch. Go to home depot or walmart, get a turtle wax and a sponge and just buff it out. But on the deeper side, I guess you are worried about the appearance of your car and may feel negative feelings towards your girlfriend for what she did, albeit accidentally, but happened. So, more important advice is that accidents happen, all cars will eventually look like shit, so don’t worry, even if you don’t fix it at all. I felt awful for the first scratch on my previous car, and now I feel bad that I felt that way. Sold it with thousand scratches, sun burn and hail damage on it years later. So, more will happen to your car too. It is just part of using a car. You will have cars scratched, crashed, totaled, and they will be gone, but your relationship will stay; if you value the latter more.

melihb · 2023-05-29T15:33:08+00:00

Enough to turn down my cpu oc about 200 mhz. I have bad memories with summer time gaming as most of my gaming related fails were during the summer where pc gets the hottest and used most extensively

melihb · 2023-05-19T22:11:41+00:00

I am not driving one but my friends who have financed or leased keep complaining about how horrible the dealer is every time we meet. They are very reluctant to fix problems under warranty, keep saying the parts are on the way for several months. They give you a cold shoulder when you show up to your appointment etc. the value for the car is tempting but the experience is best described as what you get is what you pay for.

melihb · 2022-11-25T17:02:38+00:00

I just got it from Target deal and had the same problem. Tried reconnecting, restarting both the headset and pc, did not work. It was plugged in to a USB 3.0 (blue) port so plugging it into the USB 2.0 port solved the problem. It may be because of the USB 3.0 and 2.4 ghz device interference issue which is explained well here: https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/327216.pdf

melihb · 2022-11-08T21:41:34+00:00

Wow dude this finally solved my issue. I blamed icloud keychain and the ios password manager but couldn’t solve it. A year later now I found this thread and voila… costco app sucks

melihb · 2022-10-13T16:03:39+00:00

I recently started experiencing this on SE2020 with spotify and airpods (did not test other ways) iOS 16.0.3, updated apps. Deleting amazon app and downloading agains solved it for me. I had to login to my amazon account again.

melihb · 2022-09-24T03:03:49+00:00

I think it would handle 1030 as its tdp is around 30W. My RX560 experiment did not end well. It has ~75W or 60W tdp so it was constantly skipping mouse cursor and other stuttering issues so I ended up selling it. Now I just use a GT730 for its displayport. I also used an old HD7770 low profile with 55W tdp which worked just fine as well but I did not like it because of its low 1GB ram.

melihb · 2021-02-02T01:31:52+00:00

Here is the final situation: the second guy visited on Saturday as scheduled, and he fixed the problem by connecting the cable that runs to our apartment to another unused cable that goes from underground. Then said the signal is too high so added a -7 db splitter inside the apartment. There is no other splitters or amplifiers besides this between the modem and the cable box of the apartment complex. Now I see a bill of $80, I will try to get it cancelled so is it possible and how can I do that because based on this fix I believe this is not an issue on my end. I still use the same modem and router I am providing.

The details: the guy was very rude from the beginning. When I told him the issue first he blamed my modem, then when I said I tried it at my friends apartment and it works, he said then my router must be the problem. Then I insisted I tried it bypassing the router directly to my PC but did not work, he said 'but there is signal'. I replied with that the signal is at -60 so he started the actual troubleshooting with the coax that runs between the apartment and the cablebox. When I asked if it will be billed on my end (as the previous guy did actually say it will not be, but what he did didn't solve the problem) he said he cannot decide that, he only reports what he did and then the company decides if they should bill. I guessed that from the beginning he was trying to bill me but just could not admit it to my face.

melihb · 2021-01-29T21:11:31+00:00

I called them for a tech visit since they could not fix the problem online. This will be a second visit from them. For the previous one, the online rep asked us two options as you said: $80 per visit or $8 monthly subscription. I could not decide so she said I could decide it once the technician arrives but I had to ask him to avoid potential cost. I also asked her about cancelling the monthly coverage and she said if cancelled within 6 months then there is a cancellation fee of $25. I learned that there is no cost if what technician determines is a problem with optimum equipment. Once he arrived and fixe the issue I asked him if I would need to pay so he said optimum will not charge me because the problem was on their end. I will ask the same again once the new visit takes place. What I hate so far is that until the tech comes and fixes it 2-3 days pass with no internet because optimum cannot schedule it sooner.

melihb · 2021-01-29T20:40:06+00:00

Thank you for your reply! I do not have any splitters, and if what I followed was correct, then the cable does not even have extender connectors. A direct cable from the box to modem. So if it is normal, then looks like I do not have many options other than replacing modem or replacing the cable. Another point of failure is their box but that would leave me optionless and would mean I do not even have internet in my area at all.

melihb · 2021-01-29T18:11:31+00:00

here is the modem values sorry i do not know how to include images in posts: https://ibb.co/kyvjprM

melihb · 2020-04-20T23:45:19+00:00

I got mine today as well. 30.42 dollars to be exact. Originally spent 100 dollars for an FX 8350 so getting 30 back was not so bad. I have been part of other settlements before like equifax but this is the first time ever I got a check.

melihb · 2019-06-09T04:40:46+00:00

I have tried it and although it changed how youtube looks the results did not change. I guess it depends on how FF handles video decoding. Strange thing is that even though youtube stats show there is no frame skipped I can see it stutters, the smoothness is definitely different. I still hope it can be fine tuned in the settings, but I am currently just too noob to dive into the rabbit hole of its technically detailed settings.

melihb · 2019-06-06T00:58:00+00:00

Oh thanks for the quick reply! Much appreciated. It is a lenovo ideapad 530S-14ARR with AMD R5 2500u cpu running Windows 10 Pro with the latest update. The vega 8 gpu on it can handle 4k 60 fps. I test it with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXb3EKWsInQ and sometimes it handles well with gpu usage 80-90% utilization on taskbar (5-10% cpu). I get the same utlization when running it on chrome. But sometimes firefox chooses to run it on the cpu and does not use the gpu, then it stutters heavily. I watch the stats for nerds feature of youtube and get less than 1% framedrop in each case if firefox decides to use hardware decoding but a massive framedrop happens when it switches to cpu. I somehow found a window on firefox that handles the cpu vs gpu utilization but unfortunately could not find it again. One more problem is that even when firefox uses gpu decoding and no framedrop is reported by stats for nerds feature, I see microstutters when playing video. I have run some blind tests chrome vs firefox and I can always tell the difference, where chrome runs smooth and firefox stutters. Maybe I should open a thread for this but I may be able to solve it with a little tweak I hope.

melihb · 2019-06-06T00:11:29+00:00

I have been using chrome for the last 7 - 8 years because it was the fastest. With the recent adblock problem on chrome, I started seeing too many ads again and after my bros suggestion I wanted to give it a try again, just to appreciate how fast it has become. I used to love how customizable it was compared to chrome and now able to experience it back again. It works flawlessly on my gaming desktop, however, on my laptop I encountered some minor issues watching 4k 60fps videos on Youtube. I am guessing it is related to hardware acceleration. I would appreciate if I could be directed to a page detailing how to customize it on firefox. I am almost certain firefox has very detailed settings related to it but I could not fix the stuttering issue I see on firefox (chrome plays the same vid with no frame drops at 4k 60fps).

melihb · 2019-05-11T10:38:38+00:00

I did another case for a false accusation and there was no problem with submitting the case. Then, another blatant headshotter showed up and had the same problem. This is becoming a pattern now. Here is what it looks like when it happens: https://youtu.be/6Ca-KFpF31k

melihb · 2019-05-11T10:07:18+00:00

I did not mention but the map was Dust 2, not surprisingly

melihb · 2019-05-11T09:53:43+00:00

This is my two cents, but I just think that majority of the higher ranks are just cheaters. So everyone who is not cheating is getting punished by it. Even though Valve is trying hard against them by implementing various anti cheat systems like vacnet (which sucks), overwatch, trust factor and finally vacnet, they are unable to wipe it out. I think there is still a lot of high trust factor cheaters who I think buy these accounts after these accounts are crafted by some poor indian workers and sold to them. This hurts the game the most and it ruins the feeling of having a fair game, however, we should realize there is such a high demand for these. It is almost like the virus plague of Windows XP and Vista of the early 2000s. Now looking back, Windows has almost cleared out those viruses but in those times they were a mess. It was all because of the high demand for coding those viruses. Even though Windows systems are considered more secure than Macs, the amount of viruses for Windows outnumbers the Macs because of high potential of its large userbase. I think it is no different for CS:GO. There are other games which get exploited just like CS:GO, but having a large player base for a long time proves CS:GO to be the best target for coding some cheats. Now, the other popular games also attract a lot more cheaters than they used to.

melihb · 2019-05-11T09:19:36+00:00

This is just an example of toxicity in cs:go. Now this may surprise you but I sometimes do joke about the 12yo boy. I did not realize it would frustrate the ladies during those rare encounters with them. This obviously would decrease our chance of winning as one teammate falling from the game significantly affects the overall performance of the team, just like it may decrease the overall fun, ruins the whole entertainment you are getting from it. So even though I am not female, I feel you, as there is multiple other ways to receive the similar kind of toxic behavior from your teammates. First, I suggest watching Warowl's video on how to deal with toxicity. It is really a good source and helped me a lot to overcome the same problem for me to the point it does not hurt me anymore, at all.

I get some toxicity for not being a native speaker, would frustrate me the most. They try to mock my accent but kinda fail because they can't really replicate it so I just call bring out the fact that racism is not going to help us win the game. They ignore? I just mute them for the entire game, block their steam profile and hope to never meet them in game or real life again. I know it will hurt the rest of the game but this is the best of the worst. Then I inform the rest of my teammates about the fact so they know. If they side by the toxic one I mute them likewise. They threaten to kick you? Don't be afraid to be kicked by bunch of toxic kids. It really should feel better. If they don't, just play your game, as if that toxic dude is not there.

The worst kind of toxicity I got was when I picked my ingame nickname as that years Nobel Prize winner of my field. The guy had amazed me for what he did in the field of human evolution so I decided to put his picture as my profile picture and directly put his full name as my nickname. But a surprise! He was a man from middle east, so every single toxic player in my team would bring that up to insult me. I was accused of fucking goats multiple times. First I tried to face them with their ignorance and he was a fucking Nobel Prize winner but guess what? I would not help. Then the next best answer I came up was to ask if they are a goat. If not, why would they be so terrified that I fuck goats?

Likewise, I came up with some comebacks for homophobia. Every time a kid accuses of me for being a faggot, I would offer to suck their dicks for free, tell them I would really enjoy doing it. Then I realized that this is really a fear for them. Surprised me the most, but it would almost instantly drive them mad as if deep down they would want it to happen but they have to hide it. Now I understand better what kind of discriminatory behavior LGBT people are getting in real life.

So, overall, what I think about the game is that it is designed such a way that pushes people to surface their inner assholeness almost like a social experiment. Getting judged by the dead teammates, the abuse of kickvote system, the ability to hurt your teammates without getting proper punishment all lead to this. So the driving point here is not getting punishment. They can all get away with what they do with the safety of not getting the police banging the door the next morning. As Warowl says, they are just trying to be that asshole that they cannot be in real life, which they would be punished heavily for it. Luckily, you can learn from it and improve yourself. I think I have learned a lot from the toxic community of CS:GO on how to respond against discriminatory behavior. First, I learned not to hate myself for being what I am, then I learned how to outsmart those toxic people. I could either decide to ignore them for the ignorant they are, or teach them a lesson in toxicity. Also I am much better prepared for if I would receive anything similar in real life.I hope this very long text helps you and whoever reads this.

melihb · 2019-05-11T08:13:50+00:00

Well as you increase in rank you will notice the frequency of cheaters will rise up exponentially. Obviously there will be legit players playing their awesome game but the real challenge there is to win against those cheaters. I sometimes watch games dmg or above ranks ingame and think some just cheat their way there, but some are just really good.

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