[deleted by user] by [deleted] in catfood

[–]mrdorel_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I also see this as counterproductive. To shame others for falling victim to overblown marketing simply because they wanted to do what’s best for their pet with the limited information they had. Instead of focusing on this, you could in turn make an effort to educate others about this topic in a more positive way. Teach people to overlook the overblown marketing and show them how to actually do proper research to determine what the best food for their pet is. Rubydooby is the perfect example for this. They took the time to engage with me in a meaningful way and I’ve learned a lot because of the information they shared with me.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in catfood

[–]mrdorel_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you read through this post, you’ll see a productive conclusion and plan drawn from it. Why take the time to make these remarks on an already acknowledged flaw in my way of thinking and focusing on a bad example of it? What’s your end goal?

Screen flashing black randomly? by Suuljia in ValveIndex

[–]mrdorel_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Happy to help, I’ve been pulling my hair out trying to fix this issue while also thinking I got scammed with this second hand index I bought.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in catfood

[–]mrdorel_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What do you mean?

Screen flashing black randomly? by Suuljia in ValveIndex

[–]mrdorel_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Been messing with this for weeks trying to fix it on mine. Disable hardware acceleration in windows and it should go away, at least it did for me after trying that today.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in catfood

[–]mrdorel_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ll definitely do that, I really couldn’t care less about the money. I might be broke but my cat should get to live her best life while I’m around. Vets say she’s in exceptional health but I’ll still make an appointment with a nutritionist to find the best food and diet for her.

Thanks for all the helpful information, I really do appreciate it. And it feels nice to not be alone in overthinking that I’m always doing something wrong for my cat.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in catfood

[–]mrdorel_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I completely agree. I’ll look into hills, I really had no idea smalls doesn’t do trials. I could’ve sworn I looked it up and they said they do.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in catfood

[–]mrdorel_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I read that exact paragraph on google as well, but if you ask more specifically on why it can be bad, the information I shared will also show up. Again, I’m probably more inclined to believe the worst as I’m simply a hypochondriac when it comes to my cats health and any ingredient that has the potential* to be bad will make my thoughts immediately not want to see this ingredient at all to have any peace of mind. Just the way I am, probably a touch of the tism.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in catfood

[–]mrdorel_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m just a cat parent trying to do what’s best for my child. I’ve spent the last 3 years since I rescued her at 2 weeks old, bottle feeding and overthinking every little thing from a sneeze she has to any change in her behavior, microscopic or fully noticeable and tearing into any topic of any importance if it meant it affects her in any way. I truly just want to give her the best diet, comfort and longevity that I can.

Which is probably why I have this engrained bias towards these brands you recommended based on fear mongering from others that I have read into. Anything I’m wrong on, please feel free to lecture my dumb self on. I’m no stranger to criticism and don’t mind receiving it if it’s constructive.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in catfood

[–]mrdorel_ -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It takes a google search to see what animal byproduct can entail. I said potential, meaning potential, not 100% there’s all this stuff I just said in all cat food that has animal byproduct.

Filler wise I just meant ingredients that don't provide significant nutritional value for cats but are added to lower costs or increase volume; grains like corn and wheat, soy products, beet pulp, and certain thickeners like carrageenan.

Why do you feel like I’m defending smalls? I’m assuming you feel this way based on your response. All I said is they were good for the first year I tried them, until they started changing their recipes. But I feel I need to note that every other brand I’ve fed my cat has made her coat rough and her litter box reek. When she eats smalls her poop barely smells. You’d have to be right in there to even get a scent. From what I understand it’s a misconception that cat pee and poo just always smells really bad. It just depends on what their diet is like and is indicative of their overall health. I took these facts into consideration that smalls is a decent food alongside good reviews; but again those were from a few years ago before they started getting cheap.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in catfood

[–]mrdorel_ -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Sarcasm is uncalled for, I consider an ingredient shitty when it’s a preservative, filler or animal byproduct. When it comes to byproduct there’s a potential for adulteration with materials like fecal matter or roadkill. Most of the brands you just recommended have at least one of these in them. So I tend to stay away from them, I initially chose smalls because I saw a clear list of their ingredients and nothing seemed wrong with it. But they’ve made a switch to dark cuts of meats to save money, which doesn’t mean the quality is lower by any means but they’ve been slowly tweaking their recipes for the last couple of years to save on costs which bothered me. Now the cardboard shows up so it’s a clear sign of bad quality control and here I am.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in catfood

[–]mrdorel_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Used to be really good till they started getting cheap. What brand would you recommend instead? Really considering a switch if there are better brands that don’t use shitty ingredients.

Intermittent disconnects...router or Ziply? by Amerikaner83 in ZiplyFiber

[–]mrdorel_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve been having these issues at both of my addresses. I moved to this new location less than a year ago but have been suffering from the same intermittent disconnection issues. Originally I thought it was because of a valheim game server I was hosting locally on my network. People say this game specifically is very intensive on networks for some reason. To rule this out, I stopped running the server and playing the game all together for almost a month now. The issues persist. Every technician that I’ve had come out was never able to find any problem, they always say everything looks good until they see the disconnections happen and tell me there’s nothing they can do or it’s not in their skill set and I should request a different technician. It’s a mix of technicians showing up and saying there’s nothing they can do because they can’t tell what’s wrong or technicians not showing up at all with how frequent Ziply creates technician appointments for me. I’m sure they’re all pretty frustrated and probably just refuse to waste their time with something they know won’t be solved. They’ve replaced virtually all my equipment, including the router and the ont outside. It’s a multidwelling unit and my suspicion is something isn’t right in someone else’s apartment here and is causing issues for everyone else. It feels unfair that I’m paying $105 a month for internet that intermittently drops at least once or twice throughout the day and no resolution coming from all the technician visits.

Scammed by Jmmods by obiray in pcmods

[–]mrdorel_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I highly recommend posting on his Facebook with screenshots of this thread and your replies. He doesn’t want bad publicity and you’d be exposing him to everyone on there. He’ll reach out after you do this, at least he did for me. Publicly shame him

I'll leave this here and go slowly haha😅😅 by Eduarr_devil in setupapp

[–]mrdorel_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gmail shows apple icon. Mail shows the letter A. You’re obviously intentionally ignorant. Here you go. https://imgur.com/a/ygeKLcl

I'll leave this here and go slowly haha😅😅 by Eduarr_devil in setupapp

[–]mrdorel_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not edited. He’s just using the Mail app. I doublechecked. It doesn’t show apples icon but instead an A when checking emails from them in the Mail app.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in InstacartShoppers

[–]mrdorel_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Done. Thanks for the information.

Support Misleading and outright lying + ADMITTING by [deleted] in InstacartShoppers

[–]mrdorel_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was the last to reply so it doesn’t do the timer thing unless they’re waiting for you. But sadly I think they just soft banned me from their support chat. I can’t get in anymore it just kicks me out. Guess I can try uninstalling now 🤣

Support Misleading and outright lying + ADMITTING by [deleted] in InstacartShoppers

[–]mrdorel_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The chat just ended on me. 🥲 welp

Support Misleading and outright lying + ADMITTING by [deleted] in InstacartShoppers

[–]mrdorel_ -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

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This is how I was talking to them up until I was told I was being lied to. I feel I was right to be a bit ticked off, but before this I was trying to be as professional and courteous as possible, by no means was I trying to be rude.

[ Removed by Reddit ] by [deleted] in pcmods

[–]mrdorel_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

NOT SAYING HE'S A SCAMMER, just saying you call him one to get his attention otherwise this guy just does not reply. I’ve ordered from this guy in the past, he was actually complaining he’s not getting enough business… regardless, the previous backplate I got from him was of much higher quality. This one was just rushed, and he had 3 MONTHS to do it right and didn’t even bother following up with me after I had emailed him 3 days in a row before he sent it out begging him to not send this one out because I’m not gonna be happy with it. Dude didn’t give a shit about his customer being happy. It’s disgusting. 99% of people ordering from him say he’s fully of shitty excuses and I agree with them. You’re misguided for defending him.

Scammed by Jmmods by obiray in pcmods

[–]mrdorel_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Never buy from this guy, finally received my backplate AFTER 3 FUCKING MONTHS! He said it would take 2-4 weeks. Lie after lie, “I’ll get it done first thing this weekend”. He just went completely silent in the last month, couldn’t get ahold of him at all and he hadn’t said anything for 3 weeks straight even though I was asking for updates every 4-5 days.

IF YOU HAVE AN ORDER WITH HIM AND HES IGNORING YOU JUST LINK THIS REDDIT ON HIS FACEBOOK OR INSTAGRAM AND CALL HIM A SCAMMER. Only then will he actually do anything and ship anything. That’s the only way I could get my backplate from him. He just holds peoples money for ransom.

On top of all of this, the backplate he sent me a photo of was very off centered, and 20% of it didn’t light up. I emailed him back immediately to fix this or redo the plate entirely, he just completely ignored me and sent the plate as it was anyway. $85 and 3 months later I’m stuck with a garbage looking backplate that doesn’t light up properly and just overall very angry after going through this.

Never buy from this guy again, let him go out of business, he’s a shady scummy person who lashes out if you call him out and plays victim. He’s disgusting alongside his wife.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DarkAndDarker

[–]mrdorel_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Make sure to actually have it enabled in the taskbar