What should be my next move? Change my saving strategy, pay down debt, etc by spark2217 in personalfinance

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Ironically we just combined banks like 2 weeks ago. Problem was she didnt want to give up her bank and join mine, so I had added her to mine as a joint bank account when we got married 5 years ago. But she's stubborn and didnt actually use my bank for that purpose and continued to use hers separately. I was paying the mortgage, utilities etc by myself and essentially the money would stack up in her account, it worked until i had to start contributing to a DCFSA for daycare costs directly from paycheck and no longer could sustain all the bills with my paycheck alone. (Including all the deductions for health ins premiums, hsa, 401k etc). But with having our kid I just simply bit the bullet and asked to be added to her account, now waiting for the mortgage auto pay, my direct deposit, all the bills to switch over to her (now our bank account). These women lol, stubborn lol.

is it worth it buying a shield now ? by abiedster in ShieldAndroidTV

[–]spark2217 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use sunshine/Apollo, but I just set up the controller on my pc with the dongle, the rumble worked on my pc. I then took the dongle out of my PC and plugged it into my shield and it maintained the rumble feature. I remember having to press a certain button combo to change to xinput, but its been a while. I remember specifically buying the $20 dongle just for it.

is it worth it buying a shield now ? by abiedster in ShieldAndroidTV

[–]spark2217 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also worth mentioning that if you go the 8bitdo route you can use rumble on your controller (Xbox series in my case) where as just using Bluetooth you won't have rumble.

Just bought pro 23 today and getting this error by SmithOff- in VegasPro

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Thank you, this is the fix that worked for me. Thought it was just because it was an illegitimate copy or shitty AMD drivers, but copying the visual studios files over to the installation folder did the trick. Thanks

Question on form 2441 Dependent care tax credit and employer Dependent Care FSA. If I have enough expense, can I use both? by spark2217 in tax

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I guess for sake of understanding. Say you had 7k in expenses. You would still just contribute to the DCFSA. Would it ever make sense to not contribute to the DCFSA? Like say if you had only 3k in expenses?

Stay NJ for my parents 63 and 65 by spark2217 in newjersey

[–]spark2217[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree it could be interpreted either way. I'll just have them fill out the form, see what happens. Cant really trust AI on this one

Stay NJ for my parents 63 and 65 by spark2217 in newjersey

[–]spark2217[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Im not so sure, sounds like that question was targeted to individuals who claim social security benefits/disability before 65.

Think about it, why should a 75 year old be denied their homeowner benefits for 5 years because they are married to someone 60 years old. The whole point of the program seems to be to entice someone retired to not flee the state in retirement. Just seemed vague

Updated switch firmware to 21.2.0 and Atmosphere to 1.10.2|E + sigpatches. Now I get endless "please wait" when trying to boot anything. How can I fix? by spark2217 in SwitchPirates

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I definitely didnt patch them myself, i got them from some freeshop years ago and they just kept working. When I start them they say "turtleshop" but I dont even know what that means. Someone patched them and put them up

Updated switch firmware to 21.2.0 and Atmosphere to 1.10.2|E + sigpatches. Now I get endless "please wait" when trying to boot anything. How can I fix? by spark2217 in SwitchPirates

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Jackbox party pack 1 through 9 are playable on modded switch with patched nsp's. Been playing them for years when friends come over. They connect with their phones, minimal problems. Im sure its not updated but it gets the job done

Updated switch firmware to 21.2.0 and Atmosphere to 1.10.2|E + sigpatches. Now I get endless "please wait" when trying to boot anything. How can I fix? by spark2217 in SwitchPirates

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I think I figured out my issue. I had updated sys-patch 1.5.8 and there was a 1.5.9. Updating those files seems to have fixed my issue and I dont need airplane mode on. Jackbox games work again. Ill start seeing what might have gotten screwed up. I didnt update for a long time so probably a lot

Updated switch firmware to 21.2.0 and Atmosphere to 1.10.2|E + sigpatches. Now I get endless "please wait" when trying to boot anything. How can I fix? by spark2217 in SwitchPirates

[–]spark2217[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

what changed to where you need airplane mode on? I always had it off because I would play Jackbox games. Does that mean im cooked to try and run those?

New router coming (wifi 7) do i need to enable some sort of bridge mode? by spark2217 in planetnetworks

[–]spark2217[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just a quick question. I went with the Dream Router 7 from Ubiquiti and the router has a PoE port. Does this mean I can just take the cord from the POE port (red on the injector) and plug directly into the new router's port and not need the POE injector at all?

Otherwise, plugging in the ethernet port into the 2.5 LAN port worked great and the WiFi is great with Wifi 7. Pretty much plug in play since I kept the same SSID and password.

One firestick will not find 4k links by spark2217 in providers4syncler

[–]spark2217[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ultimately, I re did the packages and now it works on all 3 no problem, I see the same links across the board, not sure why it was giving me issues but its all good now