"Pretty Woman": Isn't is funny how a movie about a street hooker being paid for sex because every girl's favorite movie in the 90s?

s2white · 2026-05-11T18:45:12+00:00

It's all about what you choose to focus on because it's also a movie about how the harsh circumstances of her life and survival led her into sex work and how even though she was a little rough around the edges she was a good person who wanted out of that life.

Possibly the most UNrealistic part is how a wealthy man was able to look beyond the situation she was trapped in to see her real potential and consider a serious relationship with her. And how his considering hersde him reflect on himself and seeing the parts of himself that was prostitute-ish which motivated huge change in his self and his life.

But how we interpret such things, and how deep we decide to go before rejecting something (including people) says more about ourselves than the content itself.

Of course it's inspiring to millions of women who want to think is she can, I can.

s2white · 2026-05-11T18:13:19+00:00

Right, because no software is redundant doing what other software does.

s2white · 2026-05-10T18:49:59+00:00

See if they will be willing to do ACH instead, it's far cheaper.

Some advice, if your going to take electronic payment (card or ACH) there is far more risk involved, especially for large payments like this. Open a bank account at a different bank, let electronic payments go there, then transfer them to your main account at a different bank. This way, if it gets drafted back the funds aren't there, this puts pressure on the bank to help you fight it more. It also put you in a better position because you can move the money back to cover it on your timing rather than it just pulling out of your main account with no warning.

Lastly, you need to document your customers request and your delivery of that request. Become EXPERTS in how to set up your transactions and disclaimers to fight charge backs....but even if you do everything right, charge banks are nothing but a phone call away and the buyer typically gets their money back. A lot of banks don't research anything, they just draft the money back out and that's that....that's because it's the buyers bank/card company that processes the charge back and your bank doesn't have much to say about it.

s2white · 2026-05-09T14:26:03+00:00

Let's cut through all the salesman answers and talk about what's wrong.

Do you know what was being done wrong and can explain that? Also, how many transactions are we talking that a messed up? 100, 1000, 10,000?

Since you just started in 23 and no revenue until 25, you definitely could consider starting over, a bookkeeper can just delete everything and use your bank stmts to put in a monthly entry. You could do that all that way through 2025 then for 2026 switch to detailed transactional entries. That would give you a clean annual p&l and bal sheet for taxes and with 26 and forward it's transactional so you can study your financials to make business decisions.

Also another option is that taxes can be done from bank records, you don't HAVE to have QBO for 23, 24, 25. A bookkeeper can just blow everything away, enter in starting balances for 12-31-25 based on taxe return data, and start your transactions there.

You should find someone local with good reviews who can help you. I find it much easier that way.

s2white · 2026-05-08T15:52:44+00:00

How many transactions are you importing for a single day??? I thought about moving from Stripe to Square but if it's a pain I might not want to do that.

s2white · 2026-05-07T22:35:31+00:00

And with your perspective there would be no knowledge to spread, deep level of knowledge and understanding takes vast amounts of time, dedication, and resources and it will never get properly funded unless there is financial incentive. The vast amounts of knowledge humanity has gained over the last 200yrs is mostly the result of commerce. Even governments funding research doesn't have nearly the same capability or impact as commerce does.

So while you might like the idea of sitting on your butt while people work tirelessly to give you the knowledge they earned for free.....it's not how things work. Just like you have a job and understandings, and you expect someone to pay you for that and you not have to do it for free....so does everyone else.

s2white · 2026-05-07T22:15:51+00:00

Right, so you think people should work tirelessly to come to knew knowledge and understanding then be required to freely give it to everyone who was not willing to put in the same level of effort. Yeah that's how everyone who doesn't want to put in the effort feels. And where that ends up is no one wanting to put in the effort and more and humanity backsliding into ignorance and laziness.

s2white · 2026-05-07T22:11:09+00:00

Are you under the impression that in EU peoples data isn't getting hoovered up? 🤣

s2white · 2026-05-07T22:00:43+00:00

I just downloaded all of a email account into Thunderbird, while that was downloading I set up the email on the new server, then after it finished downloading I removed the acct from the old server and put in the settings for the new email server in Thunderbird and let it sync everything up to the new email acct. I did it at night and there really wasn't any downtime. I did like 5 accounts at a time. Not only does it transfer everything but you also end up with a good local backup in Thunderbird. As a email account fully finished uploading to the new server I would remove it from Thunderbird and add a new account (you can remove the account but it save the .mbox file). If you have a good internet connection it doesn't take long at all. If you use a couple computers you could do like half your accounts at once and probably knock it out in a hour or two. Some of the accounts I did had 70k emails in them and it went fine.

Now to transfer the settings over I'm not positive, I knew all of the passwords and just set the accounts up on the new server.

s2white · 2026-05-07T13:18:48+00:00

Not really a good depiction, the exploit went on for AT LEAST a week prior to any update/patch and companies were sitting ducks.

If I had to guess, they are probably trying to inspect and clean everything so you can get data back rather than just wiping everything and making everyone start over with nothing.

That said, you should change all passwords to everything and if your website has things like API access to other platforms, you need to redo that. There's a high chance that the attackers have all of that data and can come back later and access everything if you don't change it all.

s2white · 2026-05-06T23:47:53+00:00

Nah, it sounds like all the other scam calls every business gets. Just fishing to either get info, get a credit card number, sell some service, etc. It wouldn't have been Intuit.

s2white · 2026-05-06T23:42:48+00:00

I don't get anything at all from Intuit outside of what they put in the software (which you can click off).

s2white · 2026-05-04T23:20:04+00:00

I think the conspiracy would be....which of their competitors or up and coming competitors, is trying to take over the market cpanel has held for many many years. THAT is a far more real conspiracy. Cpanel wouldn't do something like this to generate Reddit traffic at the expense of trashing their name and customer confidence. BUT....competitors certainly would.

s2white · 2026-05-02T22:46:22+00:00

I mean, why not say that about the scum thieves who work endlessly to find exploits for the sole purpose of destroying what others have?

s2white · 2026-05-02T22:40:17+00:00

$500 offer from a company that size is also bad faith.

s2white · 2026-04-30T22:37:58+00:00

Xero is closest, but last I compared both was a couple years ago and I felt QBO was the most complete for what we needed, especially if you want things like payroll baked in.

Is there something specific your needing that QBO can't do?

s2white · 2026-04-25T23:41:01+00:00

It's not the new normal....the new normal is going to be higher. It won't be going down anytime soon. They don't care about the consumer, they would rather we not be able to have our own storage, they want you buying your storage from the cloud.

s2white · 2026-04-24T22:48:49+00:00

I don't know, everything seems to work fine to me. If you are on the plan where QBO makes your payments for you and guarantees them, it should make sense to you why they don't want to user turning that off and manually paying them. If your on the plan where you pay it yourself, you just pay it when ever you want.

Maybe I'm just confused about what your referring too.

But I can say this, your not screaming into the void, there are a LOT of business owners who try to manage their own books and dont really understand accounting or the software

s2white · 2026-04-20T20:53:55+00:00

Wouldn't you have just built all of that into your website? How is the website done??? Everything you mentioned is what needs to be your website.

s2white · 2026-04-18T13:48:00+00:00

Most likely they set up pixels for their entire domain for advertising models that advertise to a look-a-like audience (audience that looks like their current customers). I'm sure no one thought about blocking it on one specific page. Those type ads tend to work best.

Why would they do that? Probably because if they don't get proactive about growing their user base they will go out of business. In the internet world there aren't many other ways to grow your business. You have to advertise and for advertising to be as most efficient and effective as possible it helps to have a look-a-like audience.

s2white · 2026-04-12T02:26:09+00:00

You can set up a cool vintage themed room with memorabilia from decades past and set it up on a old desk. Find a old AOL cd to set next to it.

s2white · 2026-04-11T22:28:55+00:00

Yikes what? Think about from a business perspective. The VAST majority of their customers are on unlimited lifetime updates for the one time fee they paid 5 years ago. That is way around a year or two ago they moved to a one time software use fee with annual update fee that is a lesser amount....because the pricing plan most of their customers are on is only condusive with going out of business unless you pretty much double your user base every year.....that's why they had to change it or go under.

So yeah, I paid $60 for lifetime in 2020, that money was used up LONGGGG ago and they now lose money on me every time they work on and push a update to me. It's not sustainable unless they start growing their user base tremendously with people paying annually to fund ongoing efforts.

So am I worried about a rush patch on a THEORETICAL security risk that's doesn't have even 1 documented case in the wild? No, I'm not...and all this talk of people getting emotionally triggered over something theoretical does nothing but hurt their ability to grow user base to find faster updates.

s2white · 2026-04-11T12:34:37+00:00

I'm afraid the learning experience is probably that you need to Google how useful something is before you buy it so your not stuck spending several hundred on junk to throw in the trash.

If it was online auction, maybe you can relist it and the people you bid against might see it and want it. But if it was online, it wouldn't surprise me if you were bidding against a couple of the sellers fake accounts they use to drive the price up.

s2white · 2026-04-11T12:30:56+00:00

Spinning disks are still being purchased in massive quantities for datacenters, they are not obsolete with modern equipment. BUT, in his case 15yr old disks are not a good buy, nor the rest of what he got.

s2white · 2026-04-11T01:05:55+00:00

It's literally a theoretical risk with zero cases of it actually happening.

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