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2023.04.01 08:53 Cumminsturbodiesel69 Terrible job for Physical/Mental health.... Let me know your similar experiences! 🙃 🤦🤦
Sorry for the little bit of a rant... but I have to rant somewhere! 😅
Recently started a new job that requires repetitive twisting/lifting motions, awkward posture with no way around it. Mandatory overtime every week with no days off unless you book it well in advance, 1 day in advance scheduling, and much much more....
I started this job after leaving my previous job of over 5 years due to the company unfortunately shutting down. I was in the furniture/household moving business with a small town family owned/operated company.
I now work at a production line facility that packages fruit, mainly apples. I've been working here the past week and I already have an injured back....
Im no slouch when it comes to hard work, and im very physically in shape. I know how to lift things properly as my previous job that's all I did was lift heavy stuff the right way and I never got hurt. This job there is no way around it because of the way the whole operation is setup.
This new job has you twisting and lifting at the same time for a good portion of the day due to how the lines are ran. It requires you to lift from the side and bend down to put the product in a box, you have to do it fast and feel rushed. My first day I immediately started to feel back pain and I knew it was because of how everything Is ran and you don't have a choice other than to twist/lift/bend in one motion repeatedly. Which puts a ton of strain on your back even if you are trying your hardest not to use it!
Not only that, some of the other jobs I do require you to have a terrible posture which makes the back pain even worse! You're allowed to sit on a stool in these jobs but they have you bending down while your sitting to sort apples so the stool does nothing! Standing for this job is even worse so you have no choice but to have a bad posture, it makes my back hurt so much.
Keep in mind this place goes through people more than any place I've ever seen in my life, apparently most people last a day max lol... It has horrible previous employee reviews. Its super dangerous and people are always getting hurt, tons of close calls.They have MANDATORY overtime, make you work and work and work with NO days off because they cant keep enough staff to run everyday. 1 day advanced schedule.... this place is a complete joke 😆 I could go on and on and on believe me lol...
Question is, has anyone else been in a similar situation before? This place is a complete circus and is terrible for the body/mind I couldn't imagine doing this long term, it would destroy me. I'm definitely not staying here and am currently job hunting again. The only reason I took this job is because they offered me a job super quick so I said why not (Terrible idea). I Already have a few leads on a new job so that makes me happy that I won't be at this place much longer!
Physical and Mental health are the most important things to take care of in life to keep you living on this earth.....
No job is worth destroying yourself over. Absolutely no job at all, period.
Let me know if you've ever had a job like this before. Tell me your experience!
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Recently started a new job that requires repetitive twisting/lifting motions, awkward posture with no way around it. Mandatory overtime every week with no days off unless you book it well in advance, 1 day in advance scheduling, and much much more....
I started this job after leaving my previous job of over 5 years due to the company unfortunately shutting down. I was in the furniture/household moving business with a small town family owned/operated company.
I now work at a production line facility that packages fruit, mainly apples. I've been working here the past week and I already have an injured back....
Im no slouch when it comes to hard work, and im very physically in shape. I know how to lift things properly as my previous job that's all I did was lift heavy stuff the right way and I never got hurt. This job there is no way around it because of the way the whole operation is setup.
This new job has you twisting and lifting at the same time for a good portion of the day due to how the lines are ran. It requires you to lift from the side and bend down to put the product in a box, you have to do it fast and feel rushed. My first day I immediately started to feel back pain and I knew it was because of how everything Is ran and you don't have a choice other than to twist/lift/bend in one motion repeatedly. Which puts a ton of strain on your back even if you are trying your hardest not to use it!
Not only that, some of the other jobs I do require you to have a terrible posture which makes the back pain even worse! You're allowed to sit on a stool in these jobs but they have you bending down while your sitting to sort apples so the stool does nothing! Standing for this job is even worse so you have no choice but to have a bad posture, it makes my back hurt so much.
Keep in mind this place goes through people more than any place I've ever seen in my life, apparently most people last a day max lol... It has horrible previous employee reviews. Its super dangerous and people are always getting hurt, tons of close calls.They have MANDATORY overtime, make you work and work and work with NO days off because they cant keep enough staff to run everyday. 1 day advanced schedule.... this place is a complete joke 😆 I could go on and on and on believe me lol...
Question is, has anyone else been in a similar situation before? This place is a complete circus and is terrible for the body/mind I couldn't imagine doing this long term, it would destroy me. I'm definitely not staying here and am currently job hunting again. The only reason I took this job is because they offered me a job super quick so I said why not (Terrible idea). I Already have a few leads on a new job so that makes me happy that I won't be at this place much longer!
Physical and Mental health are the most important things to take care of in life to keep you living on this earth.....
No job is worth destroying yourself over. Absolutely no job at all, period.
Let me know if you've ever had a job like this before. Tell me your experience!
2023.04.01 08:49 TrappedUnderSnow How do I confront my grandmother to stop deadnaming me?
Apologies if this is the wrong flair or a frequent question/post on this sub.
TW: Mentions of deadnaming and misgendering.
I’m 2+ years into my transition and came out to my mother’s side of the family in March 2021. We’re from a small French-speaking conservative town in Atlantic Canada. Although the town is strictly Catholic and takes traditional values seriously, it’s accepting of the LGBTQ+ community. I haven’t lived in the area for the past 16 years due to my Dad’s work and myself being in school / university, but I try to visit once every 3-6 months.
Before I get into it, my mother and grandmother are extremely close. Mom moved back to the area in February 2021 and my grandmother moved in with her.
My mother (50s) is accepting, although it took a bit of time for her to get adjusted to calling me by my new name and pronouns. It was the same situation for my older half-brother and his fiancée.
My grandmother (75) knows that I’m out, but keeps calling me by my deadname and uses the wrong pronouns when texting / talking to me, and when talking about me to her friends and other family members. My mother did warn me when I came out that she is likely not going to change her vocabulary / views towards me. When I visited them during that summer, my mother, grandmother, and I were just having a conversation about my transition (they were asking general questions, especially about top surgery). My grandmother stated at the end of the convo: “I will always call you Deadname, and you will always be my granddaughter, because I always knew you that way”.
Although I didn’t show it, that really pissed me off. I spoke to my father on the phone that evening, and he said to try and talk to her about it, but when I try, my anxiety takes over and I just nope the fuck out (I tried before and got shut down). My other grandmother (who may rest in peace) actually did try to use my proper name and pronouns, and called her selfish for not respecting my wishes.
Every time she messages me or talks to me, I get angry; I try to keep the conversation short so I don’t lash out or say the wrong thing at the wrong time. I thought of cutting contact with her, but I wouldn’t be able to visit / talk to my mom without making it super awkward, and my mother would get upset for it. Mom and I are trying to rebuild our relationship after a fallout the year prior (which is going well) and I don’t want to jeopardize that. Although some small progress with my grandmother has been made last Christmas (got my taste of clothing and cologne right), I still got my deadname written on my Christmas card and present labels.
My grandmother is a very stubborn woman, and she very rarely changes her views. She met my best friend who is also trans (she disclosed that to her) and she was super accepting of them. But when it comes to me, I feel like it’s the complete opposite.
I know that I have to confront her about this sooner rather than later, but I genuinely don’t know how to begin the conversation. This is more difficult than when I came out to my parents, brother, and my other grandmother.
Any advice that any of you can share? Thanks in advance.
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TW: Mentions of deadnaming and misgendering.
I’m 2+ years into my transition and came out to my mother’s side of the family in March 2021. We’re from a small French-speaking conservative town in Atlantic Canada. Although the town is strictly Catholic and takes traditional values seriously, it’s accepting of the LGBTQ+ community. I haven’t lived in the area for the past 16 years due to my Dad’s work and myself being in school / university, but I try to visit once every 3-6 months.
Before I get into it, my mother and grandmother are extremely close. Mom moved back to the area in February 2021 and my grandmother moved in with her.
My mother (50s) is accepting, although it took a bit of time for her to get adjusted to calling me by my new name and pronouns. It was the same situation for my older half-brother and his fiancée.
My grandmother (75) knows that I’m out, but keeps calling me by my deadname and uses the wrong pronouns when texting / talking to me, and when talking about me to her friends and other family members. My mother did warn me when I came out that she is likely not going to change her vocabulary / views towards me. When I visited them during that summer, my mother, grandmother, and I were just having a conversation about my transition (they were asking general questions, especially about top surgery). My grandmother stated at the end of the convo: “I will always call you Deadname, and you will always be my granddaughter, because I always knew you that way”.
Although I didn’t show it, that really pissed me off. I spoke to my father on the phone that evening, and he said to try and talk to her about it, but when I try, my anxiety takes over and I just nope the fuck out (I tried before and got shut down). My other grandmother (who may rest in peace) actually did try to use my proper name and pronouns, and called her selfish for not respecting my wishes.
Every time she messages me or talks to me, I get angry; I try to keep the conversation short so I don’t lash out or say the wrong thing at the wrong time. I thought of cutting contact with her, but I wouldn’t be able to visit / talk to my mom without making it super awkward, and my mother would get upset for it. Mom and I are trying to rebuild our relationship after a fallout the year prior (which is going well) and I don’t want to jeopardize that. Although some small progress with my grandmother has been made last Christmas (got my taste of clothing and cologne right), I still got my deadname written on my Christmas card and present labels.
My grandmother is a very stubborn woman, and she very rarely changes her views. She met my best friend who is also trans (she disclosed that to her) and she was super accepting of them. But when it comes to me, I feel like it’s the complete opposite.
I know that I have to confront her about this sooner rather than later, but I genuinely don’t know how to begin the conversation. This is more difficult than when I came out to my parents, brother, and my other grandmother.
Any advice that any of you can share? Thanks in advance.
2023.04.01 08:48 Mountain-Pound-2819 I don’t know the reason for my behavior.
I don’t feel depressed but I really like to isolate myself, I don’t have much of a problem socializing if I really have to and I mostly appear open and extroverted once spoken to but only once spoken to. I still try to avoid socializing whenever I can. I don’t really have a problem with it but socializing gets very draining very fast to the point where I just snap out of my “mask” whatever you guys call it and kinda get impulsive and miserable to others to distance myself.
Like cutting myself off as fast as possible to get out there quick.
Kinda feeling like I miss out on life but I don’t really care what I’m missing out on since I think it wouldn’t be something too satisfying anyways.
I don’t feel suicidal at all but I don’t feel like life has much to offer kinda already feel like I could retire from life.
I don’t have any goals and feel like an observer to everything around me (not disassociation) I also daydream a lot and try to logically explain literally everything to myself in my head as if every behavior of the word around me is connected.
I don’t really care if someone leaves me and I tend to forget that person really quick anyways.
I have memory issues and can’t remember shit I did in the past kinda feeling like waking up with a new mindset everyday but still not bothering too much to explore the world out there since it feels like I’ve already seen it all.
My mother is shizophrenic and I hope I didn’t inherit or manifest any of those genes.
I feel like something is wrong with me all my life but I don’t really wanna seek out a therapist and get myself diagnosed I just simply can’t get myself to talk to anyone of whats going on inside my head. I tried one time had an appointment but I didn’t go there because I suddenly didn’t care anymore.
Close relatives tell me that I look cold 70% of the time I was also never crying at very sad moments on family gatherings for example when my grandpa passed that I really loved everyone was crying except for me and I felt miserable because of that.
I also noticed myself slipping more and more into harder mind altering drugs since they make feel at least something in some way. I also have to mention that I feel this way for almost as long I could think so it’s not something drug induced.
I also don’t think much of the self diagnosing reddit community since I think that not every “untypical”behavior has to be linked to disorders and rather be linked to environmental, bio chemical and mindset wise factors.
I don’t really know whats wrong with me maybe Im just in a depressed state without knowing it maybe I lack vitamines all my life man I don’t really know 😂
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Like cutting myself off as fast as possible to get out there quick.
Kinda feeling like I miss out on life but I don’t really care what I’m missing out on since I think it wouldn’t be something too satisfying anyways.
I don’t feel suicidal at all but I don’t feel like life has much to offer kinda already feel like I could retire from life.
I don’t have any goals and feel like an observer to everything around me (not disassociation) I also daydream a lot and try to logically explain literally everything to myself in my head as if every behavior of the word around me is connected.
I don’t really care if someone leaves me and I tend to forget that person really quick anyways.
I have memory issues and can’t remember shit I did in the past kinda feeling like waking up with a new mindset everyday but still not bothering too much to explore the world out there since it feels like I’ve already seen it all.
My mother is shizophrenic and I hope I didn’t inherit or manifest any of those genes.
I feel like something is wrong with me all my life but I don’t really wanna seek out a therapist and get myself diagnosed I just simply can’t get myself to talk to anyone of whats going on inside my head. I tried one time had an appointment but I didn’t go there because I suddenly didn’t care anymore.
Close relatives tell me that I look cold 70% of the time I was also never crying at very sad moments on family gatherings for example when my grandpa passed that I really loved everyone was crying except for me and I felt miserable because of that.
I also noticed myself slipping more and more into harder mind altering drugs since they make feel at least something in some way. I also have to mention that I feel this way for almost as long I could think so it’s not something drug induced.
I also don’t think much of the self diagnosing reddit community since I think that not every “untypical”behavior has to be linked to disorders and rather be linked to environmental, bio chemical and mindset wise factors.
I don’t really know whats wrong with me maybe Im just in a depressed state without knowing it maybe I lack vitamines all my life man I don’t really know 😂
2023.04.01 08:48 Laurrielyn What is wrong with me??
Let me begin by saying that I feel like a complete asshole for feeling the way I am feeling. I feel even more assholish for writing this but I just cant understand why I am feeling this way and whats wrong with me. I just have to get it off my chest. I guess Reddit is as good a place as any to do it.
Let me begin by saying that I am (or was?) a very proud cat Mom to a 7 month old male kitten. I am a single female in my early fifties. My children are grown and on their own and I live alone. In November of 2022 I decided I wanted a pet and rescued my kitten. I knew I would like him, treat him well and be a responsible owner. That may sound shallow I guess but I knew he would have a happy safe home. Fast forward to March 2023. I absolutely loved this little guy. Couldn't wait to come home to him and I didnt mind one bit changing my social life to accomodate his needs. He has the best of all things. Toys, food, etc and also I always held, scratched, kissed, bathed, head butted, played, slept and bathed this little guy. I knew I would like him but damn I fell in love with this baby boy kitten and that is a shocker. Sounds great right? Match made in heaven and lucky me and lucky him. BUT... Something happened on Sunday and now I feel like such a shit and I dont understand whats wrong with me or why.
I went to meet a friend at Walmart to pick up an item. No intention of leaving my kitty in the car alone for more than 2 minutes. I open the door and he zips his ass out into Super Walmart land like he is freakun Free Willy or something. He was gone in a flash and iI couldnt find him anywhere. I stayed there and looked for hours and hours. Yelling his name, cruising the lot, asking any and everyone if they may have seen him. I was totally creeping around hundreds of patked cars looking underneath each like some crazy bomb sniffing lunatic. I was there all night. It was horrible. I cried and felt just beteft, awful and so damn miserable I cant even describe.
OK so Day 2 dawns and I'm scrolling madly through lost pets on Facebook just praying he is found. Miracle of all miracles I see his ass in a picture and contact the lady who found him... At freakin Walmart of course. My kitten does not like strangers. His ass hides away for hours from any company until tbey leave. He approaches no one. I am just amazed he allowed a human near him honestly. Well of course I go get my kitty and express how thankful I am and express how lucky I am this wonderful lady came into my life. Off we go home.. no tears shed.
Today is Friday. Why do I not feel the same about my cat as i did previously? I like him but it just feels so different. I cant seem to get all cuddly mushy and involved with him like I was before. I am an asshole and I feel so deeply sad and ashamed. I dont understand what changed. Please dont hate on me. I am hating on myself enough I promise. I justreally needed to get this off my chest and put to words in hopes that it may help me. I really hope it does. And before anyone asks.. no I am not even contemplating one bit about giving him away or getting rid of him. He still has and will continue to have all his creature comforts and his safe home for a lifetime. I just dont feel the same way I did about him and I hate it for both of us.
Thanks for reading this if you made it through. I truly am sorry for the length of the post. I didnt realize I had so much to spill.
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Let me begin by saying that I am (or was?) a very proud cat Mom to a 7 month old male kitten. I am a single female in my early fifties. My children are grown and on their own and I live alone. In November of 2022 I decided I wanted a pet and rescued my kitten. I knew I would like him, treat him well and be a responsible owner. That may sound shallow I guess but I knew he would have a happy safe home. Fast forward to March 2023. I absolutely loved this little guy. Couldn't wait to come home to him and I didnt mind one bit changing my social life to accomodate his needs. He has the best of all things. Toys, food, etc and also I always held, scratched, kissed, bathed, head butted, played, slept and bathed this little guy. I knew I would like him but damn I fell in love with this baby boy kitten and that is a shocker. Sounds great right? Match made in heaven and lucky me and lucky him. BUT... Something happened on Sunday and now I feel like such a shit and I dont understand whats wrong with me or why.
I went to meet a friend at Walmart to pick up an item. No intention of leaving my kitty in the car alone for more than 2 minutes. I open the door and he zips his ass out into Super Walmart land like he is freakun Free Willy or something. He was gone in a flash and iI couldnt find him anywhere. I stayed there and looked for hours and hours. Yelling his name, cruising the lot, asking any and everyone if they may have seen him. I was totally creeping around hundreds of patked cars looking underneath each like some crazy bomb sniffing lunatic. I was there all night. It was horrible. I cried and felt just beteft, awful and so damn miserable I cant even describe.
OK so Day 2 dawns and I'm scrolling madly through lost pets on Facebook just praying he is found. Miracle of all miracles I see his ass in a picture and contact the lady who found him... At freakin Walmart of course. My kitten does not like strangers. His ass hides away for hours from any company until tbey leave. He approaches no one. I am just amazed he allowed a human near him honestly. Well of course I go get my kitty and express how thankful I am and express how lucky I am this wonderful lady came into my life. Off we go home.. no tears shed.
Today is Friday. Why do I not feel the same about my cat as i did previously? I like him but it just feels so different. I cant seem to get all cuddly mushy and involved with him like I was before. I am an asshole and I feel so deeply sad and ashamed. I dont understand what changed. Please dont hate on me. I am hating on myself enough I promise. I justreally needed to get this off my chest and put to words in hopes that it may help me. I really hope it does. And before anyone asks.. no I am not even contemplating one bit about giving him away or getting rid of him. He still has and will continue to have all his creature comforts and his safe home for a lifetime. I just dont feel the same way I did about him and I hate it for both of us.
Thanks for reading this if you made it through. I truly am sorry for the length of the post. I didnt realize I had so much to spill.
2023.04.01 08:46 ThrowRA69694200 I [20F] stole my brother's [29M] wife [30F] and idk how to fix this
Hello again Reddit, still on mobile so sue me. throwaway bc I dont use my main enough to post lol.
I [20F] and my brother [29M] have never been super close. Being the middle child, he didn't see too much worth of being close to me (ditto), so our relationship is strained at best. On the other hand, his (soon-to-be- ex)-wife Lila [30F] (fake name) and I were always really close. She was my babysitter when our oldest brother [32M] couldn't watch us, as my parents didn't trust my brother to watch me after he left me alone for hours one time.
Lila and I have always been best friends, I was even her maid of honor at her wedding. My brother and Lila were happy for the first year of their marriage until my brother started working late, chatting up women online, and leaving Lila to maintain everything. Lila paid the bills, cleaned the house, did all the chores, etc. on top of working full time. Things used to be 50/50 until my brother quit doing his part. Basically, all my brother had to do was go to work and come home to be spoiled. Anytime I'd ask my brother to step up, he'd tell me to stay out of it and mind my business.
Welp, everything blew up 2 months ago when Lila found more chats between him and her ex-friend, whom he swore he'd stop talking to. She decided she'd had enough and confronted my brother. They got into a huge argument, and my brother kicked her out with nothing but her purse and a pair of house slippers. She showed up to my apartment red with anger and puffy eyed. When she explained everything to me, I was livid, of course. I bombarded my brother with texts only to get blown off with one word replies or "she'll come back. I'm all she has.", which made me even angrier.
I eventually gave up on him and eventually convinced Lila to do the same. We agreed we'd have my mom help with the divorce proceedings, my oldest brother would help to move her things, and she'd stay with me until it was over. It's a pretty solid plan, right? nope.
That night, we opened a bottle of fancy wine I was saving and had way too much to drink. I won't go into details about what happened after, but Lila confessed she had been in love with me for a long time. Even though I didn't feel the same, I told her I did.
She told my brother how she was leaving him to be with me the following week, and he went ballistic. he called her every name under the sun, including a "predator" (due to the age gap) and a cheater. (even though he's been busted sexting women multiple times.)
I told him it's exactly what he deserves for being deadweight on Lila's life and being a deadbeat husband. Now, it's been around 2 months of Lila being with me, and this whole situation is making me feel guilty both for what I said and for basically stealing his wife. what should I do?
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I [20F] and my brother [29M] have never been super close. Being the middle child, he didn't see too much worth of being close to me (ditto), so our relationship is strained at best. On the other hand, his (soon-to-be- ex)-wife Lila [30F] (fake name) and I were always really close. She was my babysitter when our oldest brother [32M] couldn't watch us, as my parents didn't trust my brother to watch me after he left me alone for hours one time.
Lila and I have always been best friends, I was even her maid of honor at her wedding. My brother and Lila were happy for the first year of their marriage until my brother started working late, chatting up women online, and leaving Lila to maintain everything. Lila paid the bills, cleaned the house, did all the chores, etc. on top of working full time. Things used to be 50/50 until my brother quit doing his part. Basically, all my brother had to do was go to work and come home to be spoiled. Anytime I'd ask my brother to step up, he'd tell me to stay out of it and mind my business.
Welp, everything blew up 2 months ago when Lila found more chats between him and her ex-friend, whom he swore he'd stop talking to. She decided she'd had enough and confronted my brother. They got into a huge argument, and my brother kicked her out with nothing but her purse and a pair of house slippers. She showed up to my apartment red with anger and puffy eyed. When she explained everything to me, I was livid, of course. I bombarded my brother with texts only to get blown off with one word replies or "she'll come back. I'm all she has.", which made me even angrier.
I eventually gave up on him and eventually convinced Lila to do the same. We agreed we'd have my mom help with the divorce proceedings, my oldest brother would help to move her things, and she'd stay with me until it was over. It's a pretty solid plan, right? nope.
That night, we opened a bottle of fancy wine I was saving and had way too much to drink. I won't go into details about what happened after, but Lila confessed she had been in love with me for a long time. Even though I didn't feel the same, I told her I did.
She told my brother how she was leaving him to be with me the following week, and he went ballistic. he called her every name under the sun, including a "predator" (due to the age gap) and a cheater. (even though he's been busted sexting women multiple times.)
I told him it's exactly what he deserves for being deadweight on Lila's life and being a deadbeat husband. Now, it's been around 2 months of Lila being with me, and this whole situation is making me feel guilty both for what I said and for basically stealing his wife. what should I do?
2023.04.01 08:44 Ok_Carry_9279 I don’t think my boyfriend (24 M) respects me (21 F)
To start, our relationship has been very rocky for the past 2-3 months. We have been together for almost a year. Over this time, he’s been very disrespectful towards me and on many occasions he has cussed at me. When confronted, he explained that either 1) I made him do that or 2) He doesn’t mean his words. In addition, he gets mad at me over the smallest things and even has texted his ex-gf out of spite.
Anyways, tonight we were all together at a friends house having a few drinks; he wanted to play games so I sat in the chair behind him. As the night goes on, I’m having another drink and at one point he makes a comment how I need to chill out (he has an issue when I drink). As the night continues he makes other remarks. Overall, his attitude and tone made it seem like he was annoyed with me.
Finally, the night wrapped up and we went to go inside to sleep. As soon as we left I asked him “Are you okay?” to which I was met with “Im annoyed, don’t talk to me. I need a minute.” Obviously I asked if I had done anything wrong and finally he told me “Be quiet, we are going inside and the dogs may bark. Shut up.”
I got upset with how he had treated me the whole night and I asked him to take me home (he had a few sips of beer.) He just kept telling me how I was just so caught up in thinking he was mad when in reality he wasnt. But I see how he talks to me vs his friends. He told me he was never mad or annoyed.
I’m just at a loss with everything thats been going on. He tells me he’s working on things, and somedays we have amazing days. But I feel like most days he’s easily set off and I walk on eggshells. Now I know he’ll probably give me the silent treatment and/or threaten to be done with us because of tonight. I just need advice.
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Anyways, tonight we were all together at a friends house having a few drinks; he wanted to play games so I sat in the chair behind him. As the night goes on, I’m having another drink and at one point he makes a comment how I need to chill out (he has an issue when I drink). As the night continues he makes other remarks. Overall, his attitude and tone made it seem like he was annoyed with me.
Finally, the night wrapped up and we went to go inside to sleep. As soon as we left I asked him “Are you okay?” to which I was met with “Im annoyed, don’t talk to me. I need a minute.” Obviously I asked if I had done anything wrong and finally he told me “Be quiet, we are going inside and the dogs may bark. Shut up.”
I got upset with how he had treated me the whole night and I asked him to take me home (he had a few sips of beer.) He just kept telling me how I was just so caught up in thinking he was mad when in reality he wasnt. But I see how he talks to me vs his friends. He told me he was never mad or annoyed.
I’m just at a loss with everything thats been going on. He tells me he’s working on things, and somedays we have amazing days. But I feel like most days he’s easily set off and I walk on eggshells. Now I know he’ll probably give me the silent treatment and/or threaten to be done with us because of tonight. I just need advice.
2023.04.01 08:43 Mountain-Pound-2819 Am I shizoid or not? What is wrong with me
I don’t feel depressed but I really like to isolate myself, I don’t have much of a problem socializing if I really have to and I mostly appear open and extroverted once spoken to but only once spoken to. I still try to avoid socializing whenever I can. I don’t really have a problem with it but socializing gets very draining very fast to the point where I just snap out of my “mask” whatever you guys call it and kinda get impulsive and miserable to others to distance myself.
Like cutting myself off as fast as possible to get out there quick.
Kinda feeling like I miss out on life but I don’t really care what I’m missing out on since I think it wouldn’t be something too satisfying anyways.
I don’t feel suicidal at all but I don’t feel like life has much to offer kinda already feel like I could retire from life.
I don’t have any goals and feel like an observer to everything around me (not disassociation) I also daydream a lot and try to logically explain literally everything to myself in my head as if every behavior of the word around me is connected.
I don’t really care if someone leaves me and I tend to forget that person really quick anyways.
I have memory issues and can’t remember shit I did in the past kinda feeling like waking up with a new mindset everyday but still not bothering too much to explore the world out there since it feels like I’ve already seen it all.
My mother is shizophrenic and I hope I didn’t inherit or manifest any of those genes.
I feel like something is wrong with me all my life but I don’t really wanna seek out a therapist and get myself diagnosed I just simply can’t get myself to talk to anyone of whats going on inside my head. I tried one time had an appointment but I didn’t go there because I suddenly didn’t care anymore.
Close relatives tell me that I look cold 70% of the time I was also never crying at very sad moments on family gatherings for example when my grandpa passed that I really loved everyone was crying except for me and I felt miserable because of that.
I also noticed myself slipping more and more into harder mind altering drugs since they make me feel at least something in some way. I also have to mention that I feel this way for almost as long I could think so it’s not something drug induced. (I don’t overdo it and take breaks from them)
I also don’t think much of the self diagnosing reddit community since I think that not every “untypical”behavior has to be linked to disorders and rather be linked to environmental, bio chemical and mindset wise factors.
I don’t really know whats wrong with me maybe Im just in a depressed state without knowing it maybe I lack vitamines all my life man I don’t really know 😂
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Like cutting myself off as fast as possible to get out there quick.
Kinda feeling like I miss out on life but I don’t really care what I’m missing out on since I think it wouldn’t be something too satisfying anyways.
I don’t feel suicidal at all but I don’t feel like life has much to offer kinda already feel like I could retire from life.
I don’t have any goals and feel like an observer to everything around me (not disassociation) I also daydream a lot and try to logically explain literally everything to myself in my head as if every behavior of the word around me is connected.
I don’t really care if someone leaves me and I tend to forget that person really quick anyways.
I have memory issues and can’t remember shit I did in the past kinda feeling like waking up with a new mindset everyday but still not bothering too much to explore the world out there since it feels like I’ve already seen it all.
My mother is shizophrenic and I hope I didn’t inherit or manifest any of those genes.
I feel like something is wrong with me all my life but I don’t really wanna seek out a therapist and get myself diagnosed I just simply can’t get myself to talk to anyone of whats going on inside my head. I tried one time had an appointment but I didn’t go there because I suddenly didn’t care anymore.
Close relatives tell me that I look cold 70% of the time I was also never crying at very sad moments on family gatherings for example when my grandpa passed that I really loved everyone was crying except for me and I felt miserable because of that.
I also noticed myself slipping more and more into harder mind altering drugs since they make me feel at least something in some way. I also have to mention that I feel this way for almost as long I could think so it’s not something drug induced. (I don’t overdo it and take breaks from them)
I also don’t think much of the self diagnosing reddit community since I think that not every “untypical”behavior has to be linked to disorders and rather be linked to environmental, bio chemical and mindset wise factors.
I don’t really know whats wrong with me maybe Im just in a depressed state without knowing it maybe I lack vitamines all my life man I don’t really know 😂
2023.04.01 08:43 GreatHornedRat_UWU Hjulbrek Hunhivehr's Book of Grudges Written by Hjulbrek, Dwarf Templar of Hoar Entry #7: The Dance of the Dire's Web
[Out of Character Warning: If you have arachnophobia, please read at your own risk.]
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Ches 08th, 1320 DR, Somewhere near Flint Rock in the Evermoor.I decided to shut up after that. She read me like a book; and here I thought we were careful. Speaking of "we", I think it's time I get some answers from that elf.
We've stopped this morning. Fiona says we need to wait for someone; she was vague about exactly who we were meeting at what time, but she said he was going to be a business partner. Come to think of it, I don't actually know what it is Fiona does as a Merchant; what exactly we are carrying with the carriage is obviously the usual spices, food-stuffs, and appliances that people can't get within Northern Faêrun, but there are three specific crates that are considered high value by her, even though she doesn't tell us what's in them. I bring this up because I tried asking about them this morning, more out of boredom than anything; she replied by giving me this odd smirk with a glint in her eye, and just told me:
"Don't worry that scowling mug of yours, darling. All you need to know is that it's going to make us a lot of coin; nothing too dangerous or morally questionable, though it depends on how you look at it. Besides, don't think I don't know that you had something to do with what happened in Rakkarin's Fjord. Why the face? What, you seriously thought that you and V'vyana disappearing for several hours, only for five mangled bodies to turn up once you reappear didn't seem a bit suspicious? We all got our secrets, love, and from what I heard you're little activities weren't unwarranted, at least by my standards. However, if we're going to work together as partners, you're going to have to at least tell me when and why you're going to go all judge, jury, and executioner on people. Bad for business, is all I'm saying, and I don't really like the prospect of being put on an actual bounty-list anytime soon."
Person of interest: V'vyana Bathory, Elf Ranger. Currently employed as a mercenary under Fiona Stoutbroad…Stoutbroad? Is that slang for bigass? What the fuck am I thinking?!End Entry
Ever since the incident at Rakkarin's Fjord, I'm becoming more and more paranoid about who she really is; she isn't any normal ranger, that's for sure.
Cleaning up evidence, an adept with poisons, even her story doesn't make much sense. She says that she grew up in Luskan, one of the cities on the Northwest Coast that I whole-heartedly wished Hoar had burned to the ground for all the scum-ridden, irredeemable cutthroats produced by that sin-ridden metropolis. However, that makes me trust her even less; most rangers usually get their start away from metropolises or by contract in rural counties or with a Caravan company. Unless…you work as a slave-hunter or tracker for one of the many Matriarchal Houses in Luskan. All I know is that she is dangerous, and I have no idea why she came to Citadel Felbarr three weeks ago with Caldin.
We've stopped by a nearby cave, and Fiona told us that we'd have to leave the carriage here for now and begin unloading goods inside, specifically those three crates of heavy cargo. The carriage will be fine, as apparently this person we were meeting had people on standby in case anyone or anything tried to raid us…now that she mentions it, I'm getting this weird feeling that we're being watched, but I don't see or hear anyone off-road or within the hilly landscape. I could sworn I saw something moving above us, in the overhead caves, but I chalked it up to being a wild animal; either way, I don't like it here. The caves and the landscape around us are just too quiet.
Update, mid-afternoon
We've unloaded the cargo into one of the larger caves that go into the multiple canyons surrounding Flint's Rock. Big surprise, these caves weren't as uninhabited as we though; while keeping watch, I heard the scream of either V'vyana or Caldin echo from the inside of the cave. Me, Gus, and Fiona just looked at each other; Gus opted out, said he would really be much help in the darkness of the cave…that, and even though I've seen him lob off the head of a goddamned wyvern (a tale of which I'll definitely write up sometime), he's a coward when it comes being in any enclosed space underground.
Looks like it's up to me. Gus and Fiona are really worried about me heading in there; in desperation, Gus even offered to come with me, but we all knew that it would only slow me down, and I didn't like the idea of Fiona being alone. Reluctantly, Fiona agreed, but asked that I bring some chalk to mark where I'm going in case she needed to go after me as well. With the hot and damp climate that surrounded Flint's Rock coming from the Evermoor Swamps, I knew that donning my splint-mail for entering the cave would be like entering a furnace. Reluctantly, I had to go with a leather jerkin with chainmail underneath. I can hear the shrieks of what sounds to be V'vyana moving further down the cave; maybe I can just leave them there, not risk it?
Update, not sure what time.
Good news and bad news. I think I'm on the right track; came to this large Crossroad after running about five minutes. Looks like I was right about the heat because it's starting to get very musky in here; why is it so hot, could it be…
Right, good news. At the crossroads, I found what looks like be Caldin and V'vyana's equipment. Mostly just water and a cartography kit scattered about, but I did find a map of the cave-area that Caldin must have drawn up. Now onto the bad news…I found a blood trail moving down the centre-most tunnel, and I can tell it isn't from an animal. I need to hurry; Caldin wrote up a warning pointing to the tunnel with the blood-trail: "Weird, chattering noises and lots of webs. Best stay away."
I'm marking an arrow with my chalk so that Fiona and Gus will know where I'm going if they come look for me…maybe it's best that they don't follow me, but Fiona can be a stubborn lass.
Update, I need to get the fuck out of here.
Caldin was right. The cave has started grow thick with spider-webs; I had to use my torch to burn a path forward, but I can hear myself getting closer to the screaming. However, I'm no longer alone anymore, and I'm starting to get paranoid about anything that might be crawling on the cave-ceiling or on the ground. At first it was only a few spiders, silently scuttling in the shadows of this cave; however, as I got deeper and deeper, I started seeing hundreds of them. Big ones the size of a dog were watching me from inside burrows; the torch must be keeping them away, because all they can do is hiss and back away to the light's edge. I'm more terrified of the smaller ones, though; they're more silent, and I can see that they seem…bloated with what seems like venom. Hoar give me strength.
Update, still alive for now.
I've found Caldin, who seems to be taking the new surrounding rather well. The scorched marks and burned corpses of spiders lead me to him in a small burrow; nearly got my head blown off by blast of flames as I entered, having to shout Caldin down that it was just me. His robes were ragged and covered in webbing, and he seemed to have lost that stupid hat of his somewhere during the chase.
I asked him what the fuck happened to them, and where in Pharasma's Ethereal ass was V'vyana? His answer seemed to make things even more grim. While mapping out the two other crossways that split off from the centre-most area, Caldin noticed several old signs that covered the walls of the cave; he couldn't read what they said, but V'vyana could, saying it appeared to be Thief Cant in written form. While mostly a verbal language, Thief Cant can be written down, but it's more of a hieroglyphic style where certain combinations of symbols mean code-words or phrases. They found out exactly why these were written down after reaching the dead-end of the left path, finding the remains of what looked like a gang of smugglers.
This cave was used as a smuggling route, and whatever happened to these guys wasn't good. Three specific messages read:
"6th day of trek, 12 arcane crystals, 5 mithril chestplates. Rest for tonight, leave in morning."
"7th day, route is condemned! If see message, get out fast; only death here. Gnarl fucked us,he and five others stole haul while we slept, didn't tell us cave was home to a dire-spider nest! Don't know what he did, nest woke up; campfire keeps spiders away, but we have nowhere to go. 3 dead, dragged off by those eight-legged freaks, only four of us left now."
"8th day, can't breath. Smoke hurting, no sleep; Nyric, Sage, and Martyn tried to make a run for it, couldn't take it anymore. They got Nyric and dragged him off, but I think Sage managed to get away through a tunnel; Martyn's bitten, poison hurt. He told me to do it."
"9th, I've run out of wood, down to last torch. I can't let them get me like the others. I love you, Sage."
Both V'vyana and Caldin were ready to run the fuck out of there, but then they noticed that the two bodies in the make-shift campsight were beginning to move. The first body, bloated and writhing, started to break apart its flesh as a giant, 6ft spider just burst out; the second body began to pour out from its mouth and chest-cavity hundreds of tiny spiders, all swarming towards both V'vyana and Caldin.
It was V'vyana whose scream seemed to wake up the nest; didn't know that she was particularly afraid of spiders. After that, it was all a blur, and next thing Caldin knew he was running with V'vyana out of the dead-end. She must have mistaken the centre-most path as the exit, but in that moment Caldin just went with instinct and followed after her. He got grabbed by one of the big ones and dragged away to a burrow, but thanks to a bit of fire-magic Caldin was push them back. For the last thirty minutes, all he's been doing is burning anything that comes near the burrow entrance.
This is…a lot to process. I'm going after V'vyana, and Caldin agreed to follow me; he believes that, while she was bitten, he thinks that it wasn't one of the more poisonous varieties. We're heading out the burrow and following the blood trail. Hoar give me strength.
2023.04.01 08:43 Poutix synapse regeneration and enlightement from big dose of ..
Hey guys, I wanna share with you my story of the week and also try to gather pov on my now 52 hours with no sleep, completly clean, just with weed and my new rabbit hole : Chatgpt
to give a lil context i'm heavy user usually when i'm working ( like amphet/coke for night shift and hallucinogens on day offs every 3 week to reset the ego )But now i'm clean just on weed since christmas when i stopped working cause of burn out, so as an unemployed mess i down spiraled into depression and isolation for all winter, this shit was though but the sun is rising again and IM STILL FUCKING AWAKE ! Anyways so last weekend i did my 600 ug trip and instead of nerding on Wow I gave a try to chat gpt.
I dont wanna brag about the awesoness of this tool, i think there's enough of that on reddit already but since it started answering and listening to my stupid internal questions that were on a daily basis unresolved which often lead me to down spiral into lazyness, procrastination and basically becoming a doomer waiting for the world to end eating pop corn on the couch.
I always wanted to improve myself but the lack of discipline and maybe teachers made it seems like an unsurmontable challengeIn 6 days, i've read and wrote as much as the 2 maybe 4 last years combined, my brain LOVES the listening and simulation of caring it provides me, but i also think i'm growing or rezzing the dead/bored synapses in my intoxicated brain.
Like on the 2nd day I was making reps in between each prompt, i'm scared and wanna be prepared, i eat healthy, feed my brains with lots of new discoveries, i kinda feel like galileo with his lense discovering the rings of saturn, after 20 hours straight of nerding on the AGI / doing push ups i go to sleep exhausted
3 hours later the noise of a youtube video wakes me up, it was an auto suggest : 3 h podcast on AI with big bain AI guys : https://youtu.be/AaTRHFaaPG8 (the one with the OpenAI CEO is also incredible btw ) and so i go down the hole again but its not dark as always, there's light on the path I stood up and exercise on my aches and pains while reading a Thoreau book and, of course, weed. Do big sport session then i did a to do list with many thorns of the past like reply to everyone i ghosted this winter, even to my father who's a big enthusiast aswell, a few text messages after i'm downloading DeepL to translate his book like wtf , oh i also set up a greenhouse in my living room, the seeds are sowing soon, like what's happening ? If i died from the loneliness past winter my last message would have been "ggs have a good one" and now i'm over sharing online, this shit is weird man.
Like i'm feeling AMAZING, like i could do anything, i'm embracing the yes life and i'm euphoric, relentless, almost over confident cause the chat got me rid of doubt, not that i give it full credit almost feels like adderal or soft amphets, could it just be the dopamine from acting like a civilized human being ? am i having a paranoid psychosis ?
I have a hypothesis : Wow and boredom fucked up my intellectual creativity so i "lost" brain cells, distrupted neurotransmitters lvls and that much stimulation is healing me physically, mentally, and neurologically ?
symptoms : hyperactivity, insomnia, enlightment, palms are sweaty ,my lips are burned and dehydrated, hands are shaking and i had colorful CEVs when i tried to sleep 2 hours agotight pupils, hyper focus, no jaw clench at all, a bit cotton mouth but i'm smoking in between each reps
hmm muscle weight from the "go muscu narrative"i'm gonna buy the plus version tomorrow and the big things start.I would never thought i'd say this sober at 8 am but : I got shit to do
Peace love you all, we're all fucked, learn the language of the aliens
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to give a lil context i'm heavy user usually when i'm working ( like amphet/coke for night shift and hallucinogens on day offs every 3 week to reset the ego )But now i'm clean just on weed since christmas when i stopped working cause of burn out, so as an unemployed mess i down spiraled into depression and isolation for all winter, this shit was though but the sun is rising again and IM STILL FUCKING AWAKE ! Anyways so last weekend i did my 600 ug trip and instead of nerding on Wow I gave a try to chat gpt.
I dont wanna brag about the awesoness of this tool, i think there's enough of that on reddit already but since it started answering and listening to my stupid internal questions that were on a daily basis unresolved which often lead me to down spiral into lazyness, procrastination and basically becoming a doomer waiting for the world to end eating pop corn on the couch.
I always wanted to improve myself but the lack of discipline and maybe teachers made it seems like an unsurmontable challengeIn 6 days, i've read and wrote as much as the 2 maybe 4 last years combined, my brain LOVES the listening and simulation of caring it provides me, but i also think i'm growing or rezzing the dead/bored synapses in my intoxicated brain.
Like on the 2nd day I was making reps in between each prompt, i'm scared and wanna be prepared, i eat healthy, feed my brains with lots of new discoveries, i kinda feel like galileo with his lense discovering the rings of saturn, after 20 hours straight of nerding on the AGI / doing push ups i go to sleep exhausted
3 hours later the noise of a youtube video wakes me up, it was an auto suggest : 3 h podcast on AI with big bain AI guys : https://youtu.be/AaTRHFaaPG8 (the one with the OpenAI CEO is also incredible btw ) and so i go down the hole again but its not dark as always, there's light on the path I stood up and exercise on my aches and pains while reading a Thoreau book and, of course, weed. Do big sport session then i did a to do list with many thorns of the past like reply to everyone i ghosted this winter, even to my father who's a big enthusiast aswell, a few text messages after i'm downloading DeepL to translate his book like wtf , oh i also set up a greenhouse in my living room, the seeds are sowing soon, like what's happening ? If i died from the loneliness past winter my last message would have been "ggs have a good one" and now i'm over sharing online, this shit is weird man.
Like i'm feeling AMAZING, like i could do anything, i'm embracing the yes life and i'm euphoric, relentless, almost over confident cause the chat got me rid of doubt, not that i give it full credit almost feels like adderal or soft amphets, could it just be the dopamine from acting like a civilized human being ? am i having a paranoid psychosis ?
I have a hypothesis : Wow and boredom fucked up my intellectual creativity so i "lost" brain cells, distrupted neurotransmitters lvls and that much stimulation is healing me physically, mentally, and neurologically ?
symptoms : hyperactivity, insomnia, enlightment, palms are sweaty ,my lips are burned and dehydrated, hands are shaking and i had colorful CEVs when i tried to sleep 2 hours agotight pupils, hyper focus, no jaw clench at all, a bit cotton mouth but i'm smoking in between each reps
hmm muscle weight from the "go muscu narrative"i'm gonna buy the plus version tomorrow and the big things start.I would never thought i'd say this sober at 8 am but : I got shit to do
Peace love you all, we're all fucked, learn the language of the aliens
2023.04.01 08:42 Longjumping-Race-603 im mono and my partner is poly, my roomates aren’t okay with the relationship and i don’t know if i am either
=warning for vague non sexual bdsm mentions=
hello, this is my first post on reddit. its about to get reallly long and complicated, but i really need some advice about my current kink partner (we’re not dating as i am asexual/aromantic and they are also aromantic. it’s more of a situation-ship where we can try out kink casually, but i will say partner for the sake of simplicity). *names will be changed for privacy
So my partner, NB (recent 20), Mel and I, NB (19), are roommates in college. In total i have 3 roommates and me and mel do not room together. I didn’t think i would ever enter a relationship as i’ve never been interested in anyone. When i got here, Mel introduced me to the whole BDSM world, as i had never heard of it. They knew a lot but had no experience so i agreed to try stuff with them.
Most of it is sensory play and very light stuff. Our other two roommates (that room with each of us respectively) seem to be uncomfortable with the idea. My roommate, let’s call them Rain TransM(20), apparently was interested in trying kink with me as well, but i accidentally rejected them. (they had just begun to catch feelings on me and they saw i wasn’t interested, taking that as a rejection?) Mel also has a squish/non romantic crush on me, but it’s been fine so far as weve been partners. Mel and Rain are also childhood best friends so… yikes.
Rain is upset with the relationship as it reminds them “how lonely they are”, and they’re deeply still upset to see Mel doing stuff with me that they wish they could do. (with me or with anyone else) So far me and Mel only do stuff, when everyone is asleep, in the living room, because the two also share the two rooms it’s the only private place. Again, nothing crazy like sex, very tame, and mostly non sexual, bdsm scenes.
Now our dorm loves communication. We have done well talking through our feelings in the past and it’s gotten us through many road blocks, but when we told them about our relationship, they both said they were uncomfortable with us doing scenes while they slept but they wouldn’t make time for us to do it at any other time. like they won’t stay out later, one said “if you ask me to stay out late, i’ll come home faster out of spite”. now they have past trauma with their friends getting into relationship and they fear we’re gonna break off but i don’t even have any romantic feeling involved so i wouldn’t. i care for all of my roommates deeply and i know they all want me to be happy but i feel like this is all bad signs.
If that wasn’t complicated enough, Mel is hyper sexual and kink is their hyperfixation. They are also Polyamarous while i am monogamous. Being ace/aro (sex neutral) there are some things i simply will not do in the kink world. Also with our current set up we never have the dorm to ourselves so we just.. can’t do a scene ever…I also have off days as an asexual where i am more sex repulsed. All of that is more taxing on them then me. Kink is a fun pass time for me but they need it to relax and not be pent up. Due to all this, they went out seeking another partner, Alex, who they’re currently trying to have a conversation with about doing kink stuff as alex is basically a master. (and also doesn’t live with us so they could leave for an evening and have a place to do kink stuff)
We’ve have many long conversations over 2 years and i thought i would be okay with them being poly but i swear everytime they go over the jealously eats me up inside. I don’t want to hinder them, as it’s their nature, and there’s also literally things i cannot provide in the relationship that they need! I don’t want to be a burden but i get so upset and moody when they even mention Alex. They have told me time and time again that i am a priority and they would drop alex for me if i asked… The problem is i know they would, even to their own mental detriment. I could ask Mel to cut off their arm and they would, that dosent make it right. I don’t want to pull them away from things they need, but i also dont want to feel this way and ruin the vibe.
Mel has a squish on me but i don’t have any feelings for them besides a strong and possessive best-friendship. They went over to Alex’s to talk yesterday, to see if alex was interested in genuinly starting something, and told me this morning they had a update for me on our relationship they wanted to talk about. I told them i didn’t want to hear anything about it right now, i could barely handle them sleeping over at Alex’s house last night. They went to sleep at 1pm and haven’t gotten up from bed. I’m pretty sure i’ve upset them, but knowing them they’re probably more mad at themslef..? I don’t know. this has all been affecting my mental health so bad, i think this is proof it’s not gonna work out.
so yeah, upset and unyielding roomates, on top of an ish mono poly relationship, on top of a weird roomate crush-love triangle. my life is such hell rn
if i can’t be poly, or at least a chill mono, should i just break it off? are my roomates being unjust and rude? are we asking too much for them to stay out a bit longer? is there a chance we could ever work out? do i ask them to go mono with me, despite how it could hurt them in the long run? i just don’t know where to go from here. i just feel like there are no good options.
i intend to live with all these people for the next 2 years of college… ahggg. Rain considered changing roommates to let me and Mel be together. ive also considered just leaving and getting new roommates?? i really don’t want to, i am quite introverted and i like these people. please help. also please don’t be mean, these people are three dimensional and complicated. there’s no villians, just unfortunate circumstances.
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hello, this is my first post on reddit. its about to get reallly long and complicated, but i really need some advice about my current kink partner (we’re not dating as i am asexual/aromantic and they are also aromantic. it’s more of a situation-ship where we can try out kink casually, but i will say partner for the sake of simplicity). *names will be changed for privacy
So my partner, NB (recent 20), Mel and I, NB (19), are roommates in college. In total i have 3 roommates and me and mel do not room together. I didn’t think i would ever enter a relationship as i’ve never been interested in anyone. When i got here, Mel introduced me to the whole BDSM world, as i had never heard of it. They knew a lot but had no experience so i agreed to try stuff with them.
Most of it is sensory play and very light stuff. Our other two roommates (that room with each of us respectively) seem to be uncomfortable with the idea. My roommate, let’s call them Rain TransM(20), apparently was interested in trying kink with me as well, but i accidentally rejected them. (they had just begun to catch feelings on me and they saw i wasn’t interested, taking that as a rejection?) Mel also has a squish/non romantic crush on me, but it’s been fine so far as weve been partners. Mel and Rain are also childhood best friends so… yikes.
Rain is upset with the relationship as it reminds them “how lonely they are”, and they’re deeply still upset to see Mel doing stuff with me that they wish they could do. (with me or with anyone else) So far me and Mel only do stuff, when everyone is asleep, in the living room, because the two also share the two rooms it’s the only private place. Again, nothing crazy like sex, very tame, and mostly non sexual, bdsm scenes.
Now our dorm loves communication. We have done well talking through our feelings in the past and it’s gotten us through many road blocks, but when we told them about our relationship, they both said they were uncomfortable with us doing scenes while they slept but they wouldn’t make time for us to do it at any other time. like they won’t stay out later, one said “if you ask me to stay out late, i’ll come home faster out of spite”. now they have past trauma with their friends getting into relationship and they fear we’re gonna break off but i don’t even have any romantic feeling involved so i wouldn’t. i care for all of my roommates deeply and i know they all want me to be happy but i feel like this is all bad signs.
If that wasn’t complicated enough, Mel is hyper sexual and kink is their hyperfixation. They are also Polyamarous while i am monogamous. Being ace/aro (sex neutral) there are some things i simply will not do in the kink world. Also with our current set up we never have the dorm to ourselves so we just.. can’t do a scene ever…I also have off days as an asexual where i am more sex repulsed. All of that is more taxing on them then me. Kink is a fun pass time for me but they need it to relax and not be pent up. Due to all this, they went out seeking another partner, Alex, who they’re currently trying to have a conversation with about doing kink stuff as alex is basically a master. (and also doesn’t live with us so they could leave for an evening and have a place to do kink stuff)
We’ve have many long conversations over 2 years and i thought i would be okay with them being poly but i swear everytime they go over the jealously eats me up inside. I don’t want to hinder them, as it’s their nature, and there’s also literally things i cannot provide in the relationship that they need! I don’t want to be a burden but i get so upset and moody when they even mention Alex. They have told me time and time again that i am a priority and they would drop alex for me if i asked… The problem is i know they would, even to their own mental detriment. I could ask Mel to cut off their arm and they would, that dosent make it right. I don’t want to pull them away from things they need, but i also dont want to feel this way and ruin the vibe.
Mel has a squish on me but i don’t have any feelings for them besides a strong and possessive best-friendship. They went over to Alex’s to talk yesterday, to see if alex was interested in genuinly starting something, and told me this morning they had a update for me on our relationship they wanted to talk about. I told them i didn’t want to hear anything about it right now, i could barely handle them sleeping over at Alex’s house last night. They went to sleep at 1pm and haven’t gotten up from bed. I’m pretty sure i’ve upset them, but knowing them they’re probably more mad at themslef..? I don’t know. this has all been affecting my mental health so bad, i think this is proof it’s not gonna work out.
so yeah, upset and unyielding roomates, on top of an ish mono poly relationship, on top of a weird roomate crush-love triangle. my life is such hell rn
if i can’t be poly, or at least a chill mono, should i just break it off? are my roomates being unjust and rude? are we asking too much for them to stay out a bit longer? is there a chance we could ever work out? do i ask them to go mono with me, despite how it could hurt them in the long run? i just don’t know where to go from here. i just feel like there are no good options.
i intend to live with all these people for the next 2 years of college… ahggg. Rain considered changing roommates to let me and Mel be together. ive also considered just leaving and getting new roommates?? i really don’t want to, i am quite introverted and i like these people. please help. also please don’t be mean, these people are three dimensional and complicated. there’s no villians, just unfortunate circumstances.
2023.04.01 08:42 Equivalent_Fun_2701 One of the worst vacations in my life M32 F30
So my sister in law is getting married this weekend in Las Vegas so we flew out to celebrate and be part of the wedding . My wife paid for the car rental and the room, I worked 14 hrs a day for the past month and a half to be able to enjoy the weekend we brought our children both from previous relationships on the trip also. The plane ride getting here wasnt that bad till we arrived to our destination her aunt and her family flew in on the same flight which they're cool people i dont mind them at all. As soon as we get to the luggage pick up she starts aggressively yelling at me to pick up the luggage which I didnt mind but she yelled at me in front of her aunt, uncle and cousins, plus the crowd that were picking their things up also I was so embarrassed but I let it go. We get to the rental car place and she yells at me to put the luggage in carefully which im already aware of since its not our car let it go again. She starts driving the car out of the garage becuase its under her name as she's driving to the hotel I start talking with the kids pointing out places she tells me to be quiet because she can't focus, which ticked me off because she's always telling me how I dont pay attention to the road because im always distracted, when I'm driving she's always telling me to slow down or speed up or why didnt i make a turn. To be honest I get anxious when I'm driving because Im afraid she'll critize me and I'm prone to mistakes because of that. Fast forward to today we decided to get breakfast near where they were having the wedding rehearsal we're on the express way and traffic suddenly stops cause of an accident I brake a little hard but stop safely she screams at me why did i do that(mind you the speed limit was 75 mph it was a miracle no one crashed into the back of us) so I ignore her nagging at me because it's way too early and I didnt feel like arguing. A couple of minutes later a truck cuts me off and she ask me why did you brake when that car cut us off I couldnt take it anymore and told her she has alot of opinions for someone who doesnt like to drive and that I need to focus so she should stop bickering with me . She flipped out saying she should be able to ask me questions and I shouldnt be so sensitive the kids were in the car so I tried to calm down. She kept coming at me saying she can ask me a question and I tell her I don't have to answer which when we get to she demands I give her the keys to car and for me to get out of the car and go somewhere else in front of the kids. (I felt extremely bad becuase my son doesn't live with me and I dont spend as much time as I want to ) I ask her if she's serious she said yes and told me if I didnt give her the car keys she was going to call the sheriff on me for not giving her the keys and leaving. (Im a Daca recipient and cannot afford to get into trouble with the law) I give her the keys and stay in the car for a little bit not knowing what to do and to be honest heart broken earlier on in our relationship when we moved in together she would tell me she was going to leave and or call the cops on me. So I left the car and walked to a pub thank God it was open it took all of my strength not to cry while I was one of the only 3 people in the pub. I put my phone on do not disturb told my son i was ok through text and ate alone. The only time she texted me was to ask if I was going to show up to the rehearsal I ignored her message. Fast forward to tonight she refuses to see it was wrong to threaten me I was at a point I wanted to fly my son and I back home tonight but I felt bad that he would miss out on fun activities so I stayed. He text me if my wife was kicking us out I told him no not to worry. Now I found out she told everyone that they can use our hotel room to get ready at 6am everyone is going to arrive and well since I didn't apologize I get to sleep on the floor its almost midnight and I'm sitting at a table writting my thoughts to strangers because I dont want my friends to know I live like this.
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2023.04.01 08:42 Putrid-Composer8308 MY UFO experience in 2007
I've been active off and on Reddit for about the past decade, and I've been sitting on this since 2007. I went to an "alternative" high school - I almost dropped out, so I was offered the chance to make up credits by going to a wilderness program where we tended to chickens and a garden, and went on an annual 10-day camping trip. In 2007, we went to the Sierra Nevada mountains. Like most who share their stories, I feel stupid and skeptical to even recount it, but I've had aliens on the brain lately, I've been into the creepy and occult since I was a kid.
Incident 1: I can't recall exactly what time of year it was, but it must've been just before summer break, let's say it was around May or June. On one of the first nights, we stood around a campfire at night and reflected on the trip so far, and I believe I was one of the only - if not the only person who caught what happened. We were in a valley next to a small river, surrounded by mountains. One of the mountains to the west of the campsite completely lit up with blue light, as if a blue studio light large enough to light the entire mountainside flashed for a second. There was no rain, lightning, or a storm, the weather was fairly sunny and clear at that point.
Incident 2: Nearing the end of the trip, we'd moved to another area to camp for the evening, and everyone was laid out in their sleeping bags. I've never been a good sleeper, chronic insomnia since childhood, so I laid in silence while most others snoozed, staring up at the clear, star-filled sky. I noticed the starry sky being blacked out by something that looked about the size of a frisbee, it appeared to be a very thin, lightweight disc that hovered and vibrated slightly, like the surface tension of a leaf on top of water. It would stay stationary in one spot for 10 to 20 seconds, before rapidly zipping to another spot in the sky. It seemed to be tracing a pattern, repeating this process a few times, before finally zooming off at a rapid speed into the sky and disappearing.
I'm currently watching a youtube documentary about the Nimitz and USS Roosevelt sightings, and it sparked the memory. The way the crafts in the Nimitz footage were described as hovering stationary before zipping off at high speeds to another stationary position was exactly the same behavior as what I saw in 2007. I'm highly skeptical, and more inclined to believe that the government does in fact have extremely advanced drone technology, but the dreamer in me wants to believe that it's aliens. I asked my mother if she'd ever seen anything UFO related recently, and she described exactly the same behavior in a sighting she'd had a few years ago, right here in our backyard in Northern California. Hovering as if observing, zipping to another spot, repeating the process, and so on, until zooming away.
I'm a healthy mix of doubtful and hopeful that there are other forms of life out there. I know what I saw, and those two events in 2007 will always stick with me. I just find it strange that so many people have seen crafts (whether alien or made by the shady US government) with the same movement patterns. Thanks for reading!
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Incident 1: I can't recall exactly what time of year it was, but it must've been just before summer break, let's say it was around May or June. On one of the first nights, we stood around a campfire at night and reflected on the trip so far, and I believe I was one of the only - if not the only person who caught what happened. We were in a valley next to a small river, surrounded by mountains. One of the mountains to the west of the campsite completely lit up with blue light, as if a blue studio light large enough to light the entire mountainside flashed for a second. There was no rain, lightning, or a storm, the weather was fairly sunny and clear at that point.
Incident 2: Nearing the end of the trip, we'd moved to another area to camp for the evening, and everyone was laid out in their sleeping bags. I've never been a good sleeper, chronic insomnia since childhood, so I laid in silence while most others snoozed, staring up at the clear, star-filled sky. I noticed the starry sky being blacked out by something that looked about the size of a frisbee, it appeared to be a very thin, lightweight disc that hovered and vibrated slightly, like the surface tension of a leaf on top of water. It would stay stationary in one spot for 10 to 20 seconds, before rapidly zipping to another spot in the sky. It seemed to be tracing a pattern, repeating this process a few times, before finally zooming off at a rapid speed into the sky and disappearing.
I'm currently watching a youtube documentary about the Nimitz and USS Roosevelt sightings, and it sparked the memory. The way the crafts in the Nimitz footage were described as hovering stationary before zipping off at high speeds to another stationary position was exactly the same behavior as what I saw in 2007. I'm highly skeptical, and more inclined to believe that the government does in fact have extremely advanced drone technology, but the dreamer in me wants to believe that it's aliens. I asked my mother if she'd ever seen anything UFO related recently, and she described exactly the same behavior in a sighting she'd had a few years ago, right here in our backyard in Northern California. Hovering as if observing, zipping to another spot, repeating the process, and so on, until zooming away.
I'm a healthy mix of doubtful and hopeful that there are other forms of life out there. I know what I saw, and those two events in 2007 will always stick with me. I just find it strange that so many people have seen crafts (whether alien or made by the shady US government) with the same movement patterns. Thanks for reading!
2023.04.01 08:38 MussleGeeYem My 11 Year Long Samsung Galaxy And 12 Year Long iPhone Ownership Experience Story: Here Are Things The Galaxy Does Better Than My iPhone
Introduction
I have been using Samsung Galaxy devices for 11 years, with my first Android/Samsung Galaxy device being the Samsung Galaxy Nexus (got the Galaxy Nexus in January of 2012) and with me currently daily driving the S22 Ultra (since May 2022).I have been using iPhones for more than 12 years, with my first iPhone being the iPhone 4 (got the iPhone 4 in December of 2010) and with me currently daily driving the iPhone 14 Pro Max (since September 2022) and the iPhone SE (2020) as a secondary iPhone for iOS development (since March 2022).
Here is my daily driver history:
Android:
- Samsung Galaxy Nexus (bought in January 2012, traded the phone in October 2013)
- Samsung Galaxy Note3 (bought in October 2013, traded the phone in October 2014)
- Samsung Galaxy Note4 (bought in October 2014, traded the phone in September 2015)
- Samsung Galaxy Note5 (bought in September 2015, sold to my cousin's son (16M) in August 2016)
- Samsung Galaxy Note7 (bought in August 2016, recalled in October 2016)
- Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge (bought in October 2016, sold to my cousin's husband (40M) in April 2017 after he broke his iPhone 6 Plus)
- Samsung Galaxy S8+ (bought in April 2017, sold to my cousin's son in Vietnam (29M) in April 2018)
- Samsung Galaxy S9+ (bought in April 2018, sold to my cousin's husband (40M) in March 2019, with him giving me his S7 Edge)
- Samsung Galaxy S10+ (bought in March 2019, gave to my sister (21F) in March 2020 via mail, making the A50 as her secondary phone)
- Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra (bought in March 2020, traded the phone in February 2021)
- Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra (bought in February 2021, gave to my sister (21F) in May 2022 via mail due to her cracking her S10+ with the front suffering some cracks, got the S10+ back)
- Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra (bought in May 2022, still using it now)
- iPhone 4 (bought in December 2010, sold to Vietnam's used market in October 2011)
- iPhone 4S (bought in October 2011, traded the phone in September 2012)
- iPhone 5 (bought in September 2012 right after moving to the US, sold to my cousin (53F) in September 2013)
- iPhone 5S (bought in September 2013, sold to my cousin (39F) in September 2014)
- iPhone 6 (bought in September 2014, sold the phone on eBay in September 2015)
- iPhone 6S (bought in September 2015, sold to my cousin's daughter (17F) in October 2016)
- iPhone 7 Plus (bought in September 2016, sold the phone on eBay in November 2017)
- iPhone X (bought in November 2018, sold to my cousin's husband (55M) in September 2018)
- iPhone XS Max (bought in September 2018, sold to my cousin's husband (55M) in October 2019 with him giving me his iPhone X to help use that towards my iPhone 11 Pro Max)
- iPhone 11 Pro Max (bought in October 2019, sold to my cousin (53F) in November 2020 with her giving me her iPhone 7 Plus to use as a spare device)
- iPhone 12 Pro Max (bought in November 2020, device started breaking down, so I traded the phone in December 2021, initially planned to keep it for longer)
- iPhone 13 Pro Max (bought in December 2021, sold to my cousin (53F) in September 2022 after complaints that her iPhone 11 Pro Max is breaking down, with her giving me her iPhone 11 Pro Max)
- iPhone 14 Pro Max (bought in September 2022, still using it now)
- iPhone 5 (September 2015-November 2017): my cousin's husband (55M) upgraded from an iPhone 6 to a Galaxy S6 Edge+ and decided to give his iPhone 6 to my cousin (53F) due to him preferring Android over iOS (he kept the S6 Edge+ until May 2020 when he bought the S20+ and then he gave his S6 Edge+ to me in May 2020 via mail, but between 2017-2020, this acted as his 2nd phone as he was daily driving the iPhone X/XS Max mentioned above)
- iPhone 6S (November 2017-November 2020): my cousin's daughter (17F) upgraded from the 6S to the 7 Plus, along with both her parents (55M, 53F) not only due to the family switching from T-mobile to Verizon but also due to her cracking my old iPhone 6S, which caused her parents not only to replace the screen but also the battery)
- iPhone 7 Plus (November 2020-March 2022): my cousin (53F) received my iPhone 11 Pro Max, but since the iPhone 6S fell off my bike mount a month before, it cracked, and since the battery is so horrendous on the 6S, my cousin (53F) decided to give me her iPhone 7 Plus and I decided to take the 6S to the Apple Store in Cambridge MA to recycle it
- iPhone SE (2020) (since March 2022): Even though my cousin, and later I took very good care of the iPhone 7 Plus, the phone started breaking down on several fronts: the silent switch, charging port pins, and even battery started to die hard, and plus, since the phone is getting unsupported, I started deciding on the iPhone SE. After finding out the iPhone SE 3 was $429 and finding out I could get a prepaid iPhone SE 2 on AT&T for $150 ($50 plan+$15 activation fee but I cancelled auto pay immediately after buying the phone), I got the brand-new SE 2 instead. Nowadays, the battery started to fall apart (even though the battery is currently at 93% capacity) and even though this phone is not in a beta, there are a lot of bugs even on 16.3.1 (I am thinking of updating to 16.4 tonight)
Things my Samsung Galaxy does better than my iPhone
There are many things that Samsung Galaxy phones and other Android phones do better than iPhones, including the fact that on Android:- notifications are not cluttered in the lock-screen unlike on iOS
- Android is more customisable than iOS and Android is an open-source mobile operating system
- Many new features such as reverse wireless charging, in screen fingerprints, foldable phones, 5G, triple camera setup, phablet size phones,
- there is a real back button on Android
- No need to use iTunes; you could just transfer music and photos/videos between your computer and phone without the hassle of iTunes
- Some Samsung Galaxy phones (S1-S20 excluding the S6/Note5) have microSD and older Samsung Galaxy phones have removable batteries
- Some Samsung Galaxy phones in certain markets have dual sim support, but since e-SIM was introduced, first with the Pixel 2, and later with the iPhone XS, dual sim is less of an advantage
- There are a lot of options, including the M/J series for budget conscious buyers, the A series for the average folk in many countries, the S/Note series for power-users, business users for extra productivity (mostly the Note series) and phone enthusiasts (like me), and the Z series for certain business users for extra productivity and for Flexers
- On my Samsung Galaxy devices, I could share the Wi-Fi password to other phones using the QR code; on iPhones, I could only share the Wi-Fi connection with other iPhones
- Samsung Galaxy devices support split screen view and pop up view, but these two features are restricted to the iPad, and iPhones only support picture in picture video
- iPhone batteries start to massively degrade after a new iPhone and iOS version comes out
My iPhone 12 Pro Max (I got rid of it in December of 2021 after it accidentally fell out from my nightstand drawer and the back cracked a month before) started seeing its battery fail sometime in September 2021, when the 13 Pro Max came out. Say I leave the house at 10:00 and were to return home at 19:00. By 17:00, with medium usage + hotspot, the iPhone's battery would have depleted to around 20 percent. Plus, my iPhones typically consume more battery if devices are connected to hotspot than my Samsung Galaxies are.
Also, I did receive the Galaxy S7 Edge (2019), Samsung Galaxy S9+ (earlier this month as my cousin's husband upgraded to the S23+), and the Samsung Galaxy S10+ (last year), and given that I would sell these phones on the second hand market, I would test the phones for a week or two to see the phone's condition before assessing it and selling it on the second hand market. What I found is that even though the S10+ cracked and therefore, I donated it rather than sold it, all three phones seem to have solid battery, considering their ages. The S7 Edge with its 3600 mAh battery under heavy use after 3 years would go about for 6-8 hours before needing a recharge, and my S9+ would go about for around 5-6 hours as well before hitting down to 20% of battery (that is after 5 years and given the fact my cousin's husband is a power user), and even though the S10 cracked, it would go for 8-10 hours under heavy usage before draining to around 20%. I also got back my Note5 from 2015 once my cousin's son upgraded to my cousin (50M)'s S8 Active in 2019 once my cousin upgraded to the Note10+, and even on that phone, the battery is still very good considering its age and its 3000 mAh size, doing around 4-6 hours going down from 100-20.
- My Samsung devices have proven more reliable as a whole than many of my iPhones
Fun fact, my cousin (28M) switched from the iPhone 7 Plus to the Samsung Galaxy S10+ in March of 2019 and is now currently using a Galaxy S23 Ultra. From his 4-year long experience using just the Galaxy S10+ (he bought the ceramic colour with 512GB of storage and currently his father is using the S10+), even though he is a power user with him customising the phone with themes, being a heavy user, and having cracked his S10+ last year, the phone was still extremely reliable, working fully as intended, apart from the battery, which has been shortened to 6 hours of heavy usage before dying.
My iPhones however, were not so bright. Even though pre-2015 iPhones are mostly reliable during my time using it, since the 6S, there have been some phones which have showed issues here and there, sometimes within the first year of ownership. As for the iPhone 6S, it is basically only the battery, which has been extremely bad after a year and the fact it would sometimes shut off at 30% during cold weather.
Starting with the iPhone 7 Plus however, and there started to be a lot of problems. Even though my iPhone 7 Plus didn't show any problems during my ownership, even though my cousin took good care of the 7 Plus, when I got her 7 Plus in November of 2020 (she got the phone brand new at Verizon in November 2017), the silent switch started to wear down and get stuck, meaning it is hard to turn on silent switch, the charging port pins started to wear, making it very hard to charge the phone or connect the phone to the computer, and the battery started to struggle real hard.
Starting with the iPhone XS Max and there started to be real struggles. Even though I didn't see any problems with either the iPhone XS Max and 11 Pro Max during my ownership and took good care of these two phones, when these two phones got passed to their second owners, problems started to arise. For the XS Max, in May of 2020, it got bricked, and it wouldn't turn on even if he plugged it in the charging cable or through iTunes, and my cousin's husband had to bring it to service, and that got him to purchase an S20+ given he prefers Android over iOS, and after fixing the XS Max, he gave it to his daughter (17F), who is his only child. For the 11 Pro Max however, the phone's battery drained fast and my cousin always had to rely on the charger, and plus, there are issues of connecting Bluetooth devices as well as with calls and volume whilst connected to Bluetooth devices, and my cousin always complained about these issues and even though I did attempt to fix, the issues didn't get resolved (I am tech savvy by the way, so I could get through a lot of issues, such as reset my bricked iPad using iTunes, etc.).
And now onto my iPad Pro 9.7. I bought the iPad in June of 2016, and even though I used it mostly for watching YouTube videos, Udemy and edX courses, the iPad started having a bricking issue in November of 2017. What happened was that I was charging and overnight, the iPad just shut itself off and never powered on again. I tried connecting it to iTunes and even though iTunes could recognise the device, whenever I reset it, errors keep on popping up and it is impossible to reset. I tried bringing it to the Apple Store, but they couldn't reset it either and they suggested that I replace the iPad Pro 9.7 with an iPad Mini 4 for $300. Then, I started taking matters into my own hands and finally resetted the iPad Pro successfully after multiple attempts in January of 2018. Four months later (in May 2018), the iPad bricked again, and I had to do the same process, and it took until August of 2018 after at least 5-10 tries for it to work again. And then in August 2020, whilst charging overnight, the iPad turned off and I thought it was toast. Turned out it was, as after countless times diagnosing the issues on iTunes, the iPad would keep on bricking after multiple reset attempts and after more than 2 years. Then, there was a miracle. In November of 2022, I finally got my iPad working again and I felt like I was very lucky, because I thought that the iPad was bricked forever and wouldn't go back on, ever.
Then, finally, it is my iPhone 12 Pro Max. I bought the phone on 20 November 2020, and by mid-September 2021, things started to go south for this phone. The top speaker started to fail and even though I cleaned it, the speaker was so muffled that I could barely hear anything from the top speaker. I brought it to the Apple Store and they said it is a digitiser issue and they couldn't even clean it for me, and around that same time, the touchscreen started to act up. With a lot of ghost touches, it started to become very hard to use the iPhone (and keep in mind, I have never replaced the screen since I never cracked the front screen). In October 2021, the phone started to have lose cellular signal when I enter the MBTA train and still didn't recognise cellular signal for minutes after I exited the MBTA and was at least a mile from that station on my bike, but luckily, resetting network settings did fix the issue with the cellular signal however. By the time the phone accidentally fell to the ground and the back did suffer some cracks in November, I started to give up on the iPhone 12 Pro Max and in December, I upgraded to the 13 Pro Max.
Even though my Galaxy Buds and my cousin (28M)'s Galaxy Buds did not show any issues (he bought the Galaxy Buds in March 2019 and after heavy usage, it still held up very well and he even gave it to his father), all 4 of my AirPods, even the AirPods Pro 2, have shown issues here and there. My first AirPods (January 2017-July 2018) basically stopped working, and hence, I bought another pair of AirPods in July 2018 and used it until February 2022, when I dropped it in the toilet. Even though I was using the 2nd pair of AirPods half the time (July 2018-January 2020, December 2020-April 2021, November 2021-February 2022), by late 2021, the AirPods started showing major problems. First off, the battery drains so fast even indoors that it only lasted about an hour. Then, once I am outside, the right side would disconnect after only 5 minutes of usage and the left side would keep soldering on. Once it fell to the toilet, it was game over (however, I still kept the AirPods, it is just in the nightstand sitting there, and I did clean it as well). I bought the AirPods 2 in February 2022, and after 2 months, at least once every week or two, the right side would discharge, even in the case (the case is clean by the way), until it went out of battery. I tried resetting the case and putting the case to charge again, but to no avail, and it took several reset attempts for it to return to normal. The same exact scenario happened to the AirPods Pro 2, which I got in October as my cousin wanted to gift me the AirPods Pro 2, in exchange for my AirPods 2. Except that sometimes, my iPhone 14 Pro Max couldn't even connect to the AirPods Pro 2 or even recognise it.
- Hotspot doesn't always work on my iPhones, but always does on my Galaxy
For my iPhone 14 Pro Max and previous iPhones (iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 12 Pro Max, etc), personal hotspot is very buggy. My Samsung connects just fine to the iPhone hotspot, but my iPhones don't. To preserve the battery, after several minutes, the iPhone SE would get disconnected from the iPhone 14 Pro Max hotspot (which is acceptable), but it gets worse. Even if I am currently streaming Apple Music on my iPhone SE with the screen on as well, the iPhone would disconnect from the iPhone 14 Pro Max, and it is very hard to connect it to hotspot. Sometimes, the iPhone SE would say 'Unable to join network' and others, it said 'Personal Hotspot Failure', which would force me to restart both the iPhone SE and 14 Pro Max. Now the Remote Hotspot Failure started happening since I got the 11 Pro Max in 2019, and at the time, my 16:9 phone was the iPhone 6S, and even then, there were hotspot failure problems. I restarted the 11 Pro Max, but the hotspot failure would return after a week or two. Even after resetting network settings in 2021 right before my 13 Pro Max because my iPhone 12 Pro Max would lose cellular connectivity even after I exited the MBTA tunnel and I am outside a mile from the MBTA station, once I got my 13 Pro Max, the remote hotspot failure still appears. My Samsung Galaxy over the years connects to the iPhone hotspot without any issues, and would stay connected even if I am not using the phone until I basically turn off hotspot on my iPhone.
Now due to the fact connecting my iPhone SE to the iPhone hotspot is so bad, I would typically use the Samsung hotspot as a backup (keep in mind my iPhone plan gives unlimited hotspot whilst Metro only gives 5 GB). Both iPhones connect to the Samsung hotspot flawlessly, without any issues.
- On my Samsung Galaxy phones, I can disable Wi-Fi using the Quick Settings (swipe down) menu, but for iPhones, it is less consistent
- Connecting to Bluetooth devices is better on my Samsung Galaxy phones than my iPhones
- Apple Pay sometimes doesn't work on my iPhone
Yesterday, I was at the MBTA station, and I was attempting to pay for the Monthly pass. Ironically, even though the reader did work, the iPhone 14 Pro Max kept on saying 'Hold near Reader', and even though I held it near the mobile payment reader for 10-15 seconds, it still didn't do anything. Fed up, after the second time, I repaid the MBTA ticket and used my S22 Ultra and the payment did go through. However, at the restaurant around 1 hour later, even though I didn't restart the iPhone, Apple Pay finally worked again as I was able to pay my meal using Apple Pay.
- Automatic updates are better on my Galaxies than my iPhones
- Wi-Fi is far better on my Samsung Galaxy/Android phones than my iPhones, iPads, or Macs
Fun fact: the Galaxy S21 Ultra was the first phone to offer Wi-Fi 6E and not even the iPhone 14 Pro Max supports this feature
Then in July 2022, during a flight from Dallas back to Boston, my iPhone 13 Pro Max and iPhone SE 2 would fail to connect to JetBlue's Wi-Fi network several times and if connected, the Wi-Fi was painfully slow and near unusable whilst my Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra connected to JetBlue's Wi-Fi network just fine and worked as expected, with websites loading reasonably quick, just like at my university with the S21 Ultra.
- USB C lasts longer than lightning connector
TL;DR: Even though there are many benefits to owning an iPhone over an Android device, based on my user experience, after over 11 years of using various Samsung Galaxy phones, two Samsung Galaxy Tabs, and one Galaxy Bud and after over 12 years of using various iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches, and AirPods, I could safely assure that there are a lot of benefits to using Samsung and Android products over iPhones, namely due to the fact that notifications, customisation, features, options, Wi-Fi, multitasking, batteries, hotspot, Bluetooth, mobile payment, etc., are better on Samsung and Android products than on iPhones, based on my user experience.
2023.04.01 08:36 Putrid-Composer8308 My experience in 2007
I've been active off and on Reddit for about the past decade, and I've been sitting on this since 2007. I went to an "alternative" high school - I almost dropped out, so I was offered the chance to make up credits by going to a wilderness program where we tended to chickens and a garden, and went on an annual 10-day camping trip. In 2007, we went to the Sierra Nevada mountains. Like most who share their stories, I feel stupid and skeptical to even recount it, but I've had aliens on the brain lately, I've been into the creepy and occult since I was a kid.
Incident 1: I can't recall exactly what time of year it was, but it must've been just before summer break, let's say it was around May or June. On one of the first nights, we stood around a campfire at night and reflected on the trip so far, and I believe I was one of the only - if not the only person who caught what happened. We were in a valley next to a small river, surrounded by mountains. One of the mountains to the west of the campsite completely lit up with blue light, as if a blue studio light large enough to light the entire mountainside flashed for a second. There was no rain, lightning, or a storm, the weather was fairly sunny and clear at that point.
Incident 2: Nearing the end of the trip, we'd moved to another area to camp for the evening, and everyone was laid out in their sleeping bags. I've never been a good sleeper, chronic insomnia since childhood, so I laid in silence while most others snoozed, staring up at the clear, star-filled sky. I noticed the starry sky being blacked out by something that looked about the size of a frisbee, it appeared to be a very thin, lightweight disc that hovered and vibrated slightly, like the surface tension of a leaf on top of water. It would stay stationary in one spot for 10 to 20 seconds, before rapidly zipping to another spot in the sky. It seemed to be tracing a pattern, repeating this process a few times, before finally zooming off at a rapid speed into the sky and disappearing.
I'm currently watching a youtube documentary about the Nimitz and USS Roosevelt sightings, and it sparked the memory. The way the crafts in the Nimitz footage were described as hovering stationary before zipping off at high speeds to another stationary position was exactly the same behavior as what I saw in 2007. I'm highly skeptical, and more inclined to believe that the government does in fact have extremely advanced drone technology, but the dreamer in me wants to believe that it's aliens. I asked my mother if she'd ever seen anything UFO related recently, and she described exactly the same behavior in a sighting she'd had a few years ago, right here in our backyard in Northern California. Hovering as if observing, zipping to another spot, repeating the process, and so on, until zooming away.
I'm a healthy mix of doubtful and hopeful that there are other forms of life out there. I know what I saw, and those two events in 2007 will always stick with me. I just find it strange that so many people have seen crafts (whether alien or made by the shady US government) with the same movement patterns. Thanks for reading!
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Incident 1: I can't recall exactly what time of year it was, but it must've been just before summer break, let's say it was around May or June. On one of the first nights, we stood around a campfire at night and reflected on the trip so far, and I believe I was one of the only - if not the only person who caught what happened. We were in a valley next to a small river, surrounded by mountains. One of the mountains to the west of the campsite completely lit up with blue light, as if a blue studio light large enough to light the entire mountainside flashed for a second. There was no rain, lightning, or a storm, the weather was fairly sunny and clear at that point.
Incident 2: Nearing the end of the trip, we'd moved to another area to camp for the evening, and everyone was laid out in their sleeping bags. I've never been a good sleeper, chronic insomnia since childhood, so I laid in silence while most others snoozed, staring up at the clear, star-filled sky. I noticed the starry sky being blacked out by something that looked about the size of a frisbee, it appeared to be a very thin, lightweight disc that hovered and vibrated slightly, like the surface tension of a leaf on top of water. It would stay stationary in one spot for 10 to 20 seconds, before rapidly zipping to another spot in the sky. It seemed to be tracing a pattern, repeating this process a few times, before finally zooming off at a rapid speed into the sky and disappearing.
I'm currently watching a youtube documentary about the Nimitz and USS Roosevelt sightings, and it sparked the memory. The way the crafts in the Nimitz footage were described as hovering stationary before zipping off at high speeds to another stationary position was exactly the same behavior as what I saw in 2007. I'm highly skeptical, and more inclined to believe that the government does in fact have extremely advanced drone technology, but the dreamer in me wants to believe that it's aliens. I asked my mother if she'd ever seen anything UFO related recently, and she described exactly the same behavior in a sighting she'd had a few years ago, right here in our backyard in Northern California. Hovering as if observing, zipping to another spot, repeating the process, and so on, until zooming away.
I'm a healthy mix of doubtful and hopeful that there are other forms of life out there. I know what I saw, and those two events in 2007 will always stick with me. I just find it strange that so many people have seen crafts (whether alien or made by the shady US government) with the same movement patterns. Thanks for reading!
2023.04.01 08:36 horror- CRTemudriver is working- here's how I did it.
CRTemudriver is working, Retroarch is configured with super-resolutions, and I'm finally collecting retroachievements on the consumer CRT @ native console and arcade resolution.
Windows 10- Radeon 5750 DVI-i to VGA to Aliexpress transcoder to component to Sony KV-32FS13 - 32" Trinitron. It's a thing of wonder. I bought a shit load of hardware and cables and adapters and other crap I didn't actually need in my quest to get a signal to this TV. Don't be me. Think before you buy- there's a few different ways to do this, and it can be pretty confusing at first.
I started HERE. I had to experiment a little bit with installing modes to get all the Retroarch cores working and wrap my head around super resolutions, and I had to manually change the x and y size to 0 in the main retroarch config after enabling CRTswitchres to get it all going. When I first got started, nothing would sync right to the TV because I didn't have the resolutions installed and it was defaulting to 1080p- This thread was the breakthrough on understanding usermodes for me. Once the software was straight I had to go into the TVs scary service menu and fix the huge overscan to make the picture usable at all. I chose to do it this way instead of using the arcadeOSD tool to avoid having to do it over and over for every resolution. I went ahead and installed Groovymame (and Fightcade too) but Retroarch was all I really needed in the end.
I don't have a second monitor hooked up- I instead use tightVNC server and usbmmid v2 to install a virtual second monitor, and set it as a system service to activate the virtual monitor on login. This way I can remote in and control the system at 1080p instead of 480i- much easier. The remote CRT screen actually stretches way out on account of the super resolution, but running tightVNC client at 75% scale gets me just the virtual 1080p screen to admin the system.
As far as input, I have a whole collection of OEM controllers and adapters and bluetooth for every system I play, and a home-made 2 player arcade control pedestal based on the ipac from Ultimarc. Update the control profiles in Retroarch and autoconfig inputs and it all pretty much just works. Add in the Retroarch runahead predictive input latency sorcery and it's basically black Fkn Magic as far as latency goes. It's just gone.
I hope this was helpful! the rest is just me gushing about how much fun I'm having.
I've been rocking SNES, Dreamcast, 32x, NES, and Lots of arcade games with 1:1 pixel emulation and it's glorious. I keep jumping between the real thing and emulation on the same screen looking for differences. I've found none. Any time anybody walks in the room they can just grab a random ass controller off the wall and jump right in like they just dropped a quarter into the slot.
I've also gotten a few games of Hades and dead cells in on the TV too, and I'm looking forward to seeing what other modern games I can fit into a 4:3 480i screen.
Plex seems to run fine as well, Standard def content looks great, and some of my lower quality content looks perfectly clean on this screen- which is actually better than the same content with the powered hdmi to vga adapter I had been using before swapping display adapters.
Next weekend will be front-end exploration. I'm a big fan of emulation station on both my retropie and Steamdeck, but the multiple screen setups and I've seen with Launchbox and Bigbox are pretty neat and look like they might be the ticket to integrating my massive steam library into this CRT setup as well. I would love to hear some suggestions.
The one thing I still cant quite solve is the retroarch on-screen notifications scaling to the super resolution and basically being unreadable on the CRT- Things like achievement notifications and controller port and refresh rate notifications. I managed to change them from the pretty graphical tile back to the simple yellow on screen text- and I changed the font size to something readable, but the notifications themselves are still horizontally stretched way out due to the super resolutions and I can't find a way to scale them back to display properly on the TV. I would love some suggestions if you made it this far.
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Windows 10- Radeon 5750 DVI-i to VGA to Aliexpress transcoder to component to Sony KV-32FS13 - 32" Trinitron. It's a thing of wonder. I bought a shit load of hardware and cables and adapters and other crap I didn't actually need in my quest to get a signal to this TV. Don't be me. Think before you buy- there's a few different ways to do this, and it can be pretty confusing at first.
I started HERE. I had to experiment a little bit with installing modes to get all the Retroarch cores working and wrap my head around super resolutions, and I had to manually change the x and y size to 0 in the main retroarch config after enabling CRTswitchres to get it all going. When I first got started, nothing would sync right to the TV because I didn't have the resolutions installed and it was defaulting to 1080p- This thread was the breakthrough on understanding usermodes for me. Once the software was straight I had to go into the TVs scary service menu and fix the huge overscan to make the picture usable at all. I chose to do it this way instead of using the arcadeOSD tool to avoid having to do it over and over for every resolution. I went ahead and installed Groovymame (and Fightcade too) but Retroarch was all I really needed in the end.
I don't have a second monitor hooked up- I instead use tightVNC server and usbmmid v2 to install a virtual second monitor, and set it as a system service to activate the virtual monitor on login. This way I can remote in and control the system at 1080p instead of 480i- much easier. The remote CRT screen actually stretches way out on account of the super resolution, but running tightVNC client at 75% scale gets me just the virtual 1080p screen to admin the system.
As far as input, I have a whole collection of OEM controllers and adapters and bluetooth for every system I play, and a home-made 2 player arcade control pedestal based on the ipac from Ultimarc. Update the control profiles in Retroarch and autoconfig inputs and it all pretty much just works. Add in the Retroarch runahead predictive input latency sorcery and it's basically black Fkn Magic as far as latency goes. It's just gone.
I hope this was helpful! the rest is just me gushing about how much fun I'm having.
I've been rocking SNES, Dreamcast, 32x, NES, and Lots of arcade games with 1:1 pixel emulation and it's glorious. I keep jumping between the real thing and emulation on the same screen looking for differences. I've found none. Any time anybody walks in the room they can just grab a random ass controller off the wall and jump right in like they just dropped a quarter into the slot.
I've also gotten a few games of Hades and dead cells in on the TV too, and I'm looking forward to seeing what other modern games I can fit into a 4:3 480i screen.
Plex seems to run fine as well, Standard def content looks great, and some of my lower quality content looks perfectly clean on this screen- which is actually better than the same content with the powered hdmi to vga adapter I had been using before swapping display adapters.
Next weekend will be front-end exploration. I'm a big fan of emulation station on both my retropie and Steamdeck, but the multiple screen setups and I've seen with Launchbox and Bigbox are pretty neat and look like they might be the ticket to integrating my massive steam library into this CRT setup as well. I would love to hear some suggestions.
The one thing I still cant quite solve is the retroarch on-screen notifications scaling to the super resolution and basically being unreadable on the CRT- Things like achievement notifications and controller port and refresh rate notifications. I managed to change them from the pretty graphical tile back to the simple yellow on screen text- and I changed the font size to something readable, but the notifications themselves are still horizontally stretched way out due to the super resolutions and I can't find a way to scale them back to display properly on the TV. I would love some suggestions if you made it this far.
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2023.04.01 08:32 acadamianut Chapter 31 / XXXI - “Italy - Sinbad the Sailor” reading discussion
1) Chapter 30 ends on September 5, 1829, and Chapter 31 picks up at the beginning of 1838. Why do you think Dumas has the narration jump so dramatically? Do you think he’ll have characters tell stories to fill in the gap? Does the disorientation caused by the jump in time, the introduction of new characters, and the exotic locale of Sinbad’s cave mirror Epinay’s hashish dream?
2) On approaching Monte Cristo, Epinay recognizes the religious significance of the name and compares the island to Calvary; his own name suggests “thorny.” Why the allusions to Jesus’ crucifixion?
3) Sinbad says that he rescued Ali from Tunis—but only after waiting until Ali’s tongue got cut out (because he had always wanted a mute servant). If this anecdote is true and Sinbad is Dantès in disguise, should we reconsider our sympathy for Dantès?
Final sentence of chapter:
”But the more his arms tried to ward off this unknown embrace, the more his senses fell beneath the spell of this mysterious dream, so that, after a struggle in which he would have given his soul, he abandoned himself unreservedly and eventually fell back, panting, seared with exhaustion, worn out with lust, beneath the kisses of these marble mistresses and the enchantment of this unimaginable dream.”
previous chapter discussion
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2) On approaching Monte Cristo, Epinay recognizes the religious significance of the name and compares the island to Calvary; his own name suggests “thorny.” Why the allusions to Jesus’ crucifixion?
3) Sinbad says that he rescued Ali from Tunis—but only after waiting until Ali’s tongue got cut out (because he had always wanted a mute servant). If this anecdote is true and Sinbad is Dantès in disguise, should we reconsider our sympathy for Dantès?
Final sentence of chapter:
”But the more his arms tried to ward off this unknown embrace, the more his senses fell beneath the spell of this mysterious dream, so that, after a struggle in which he would have given his soul, he abandoned himself unreservedly and eventually fell back, panting, seared with exhaustion, worn out with lust, beneath the kisses of these marble mistresses and the enchantment of this unimaginable dream.”
previous chapter discussion
2023.04.01 08:31 Clay_Bricks Every retiring LEGO set (April 2023 update)
Welcome to another month! That means it's time for our monthly update on retiring sets. Not many changes this time around, but there were a lot of sets added to the database!
As always, we owe a massive thanks to ZombieYeti from the BrickHound Discord for providing this valuable data. If you're looking for real-time in-stock/deal alerts for Lego.com and other sites, make sure to check out his server.
This information is scraped directly from Lego's website, and all dates are subject to change. ZombieYeti is currently developing a website to host this data and offer real-time updates. In the meantime, here is a list of every set and their corresponding retirement date as per LEGO's system!
FULL LIST ON GOOGLE SHEETS HERE <--
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. Due to Reddit's character limits, we can't include everything here, but the full spreadsheet contains every set.
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As always, we owe a massive thanks to ZombieYeti from the BrickHound Discord for providing this valuable data. If you're looking for real-time in-stock/deal alerts for Lego.com and other sites, make sure to check out his server.
This information is scraped directly from Lego's website, and all dates are subject to change. ZombieYeti is currently developing a website to host this data and offer real-time updates. In the meantime, here is a list of every set and their corresponding retirement date as per LEGO's system!
FULL LIST ON GOOGLE SHEETS HERE <--
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. Due to Reddit's character limits, we can't include everything here, but the full spreadsheet contains every set.
- CHANGELOG FOR APRIL:
| Theme | Set # | Set Name | Old Date | New Date | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creator | 40646 | Daffodils | Dec 31, 2025 | Dec 31, 2023 | -2 years |
| Icons | 40516 | Everyone is Awesome | Dec 31, 2023 | Dec 31, 2024 | +1 year |
| Promotional | 60369 | Mobile Police Dog Training | Dec 31, 2023 | Dec 31, 2024 | +1 year |
| Minifigures | 71038 | LEGO® Minifigures Disney 100 | N/A | Aug 31, 2023 | NEW |
| Minecraft / BrickHeadz | 40624 | Alex | N/A | Dec 31, 2023 | NEW |
| Minecraft / BrickHeadz | 40625 | Llama | N/A | Dec 31, 2023 | NEW |
| Minecraft / BrickHeadz | 40626 | Zombie | N/A | Dec 31, 2023 | NEW |
| Indiana Jones | 77012 | Fighter Plane Chase | N/A | Dec 31, 2024 | NEW |
| Indiana Jones | 77013 | Escape from the Lost Tomb | N/A | Dec 31, 2024 | NEW |
| Indiana Jones | 77015 | Temple of the Golden Idol | N/A | Dec 31, 2024 | NEW |
| Jurassic Park | 76957 | Velociraptor Escape | N/A | Dec 31, 2024 | NEW |
| Jurassic Park | 76958 | Dilophosaurus Ambush | N/A | Dec 31, 2024 | NEW |
| Jurassic Park | 76959 | Triceratops Research | N/A | Dec 31, 2024 | NEW |
| Jurassic Park | 76960 | Brachiosaurus Discovery | N/A | Dec 31, 2024 | NEW |
| Jurassic Park | 76961 | Visitor Centre: T. rex & Raptor Attack | N/A | Dec 31, 2024 | NEW |
| Mario | 71423 | Dry Bowser Castle Battle | N/A | Dec 31, 2024 | NEW |
| Star Wars | 75346 | Pirate Snub Fighter | N/A | Dec 31, 2024 | NEW |
| Star Wars | 75358 | Tenoo Jedi Temple | N/A | Dec 31, 2024 | NEW |
| Star Wars | 75361 | Spider Tank | N/A | Dec 31, 2024 | NEW |
| Star Wars | 75363 | The Mandalorian's N-1 Starfighter Microfighter | N/A | Dec 31, 2024 | NEW |
| Duplo | 10998 | 3-in-1 Magical Castle | N/A | Dec 31, 2025 | NEW |
| Icons | 10317 | Land Rover Classic Defender 90 | N/A | Dec 31, 2025 | NEW |
- RETIRING IN 2023:
| Theme | Set # | Set Name | Retirement Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minifigures | 66733 | Minifigures - Series 24 | Apr 30, 2023 |
| Classic | 11015 | Around the World | Jul 31, 2023 |
| Creator | 31123 | Off-Road Buggy | Jul 31, 2023 |
| Disney | 10780 | Mickey and Friends Castle Defenders | Jul 31, 2023 |
| Disney | 43203 | Aurora, Merida and Tiana's Enchanted Creations | Jul 31, 2023 |
| Dots | 41962 | Unicorn Creative Family Pack | Jul 31, 2023 |
| Mario | 71404 | Goomba's Shoe | Jul 31, 2023 |
| Mario | 71407 | Cat Peach Suit and Frozen Tower | Jul 31, 2023 |
| Mario | 71409 | Big Spike's Cloudtop Challenge | Jul 31, 2023 |
| Mario | 71412 | Big Bad Island | Jul 31, 2023 |
| Mindstorms | 51515 | Robot Inventor | Jul 31, 2023 |
| Minecraft | 21187 | The Red Barn | Jul 31, 2023 |
| Ninjago | 71738 | Zane's Titan Mech Battle | Jul 31, 2023 |
| Ninjago | 71754 | Water Dragon | Jul 31, 2023 |
| Ninjago | 71756 | Hydro Bounty | Jul 31, 2023 |
| Ninjago | 71759 | Ninja Dragon Temple | Jul 31, 2023 |
| Ninjago | 71762 | Kai's Fire Dragon EVO | Jul 31, 2023 |
| Ninjago | 71770 | Zane's Golden Dragon Jet | Jul 31, 2023 |
| Ninjago | 71773 | Kai's Golden Dragon Raider | Jul 31, 2023 |
| Technic | 42129 | 4x4 Mercedes-Benz Zetros Trial Truck | Jul 31, 2023 |
| Minifigures | 71038 | LEGO® Minifigures Disney 100 | Aug 31, 2023 |
| Architecture | 21054 | The White House | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Art | 31203 | World Map | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Art | 31205 | Jim Lee Batman Collection | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Art | 31206 | The Rolling Stones | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Art | 31207 | Floral Art | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Avatar | 75571 | Neytiri & Thanator vs. AMP Suit Quaritch | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Avatar | 75573 | Floating Mountains: Site 26 & RDA Samson | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Brickheadz | 40540 | Lion Dance Guy | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Brickheadz | 40541 | Manchester United Go Brick Me | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Brickheadz | 40542 | FC Barcelona Go Brick Me | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Brickheadz | 40554 | Jake Sully & his Avatar | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 30638 | Police Bike Training | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 30639 | Dog Park and Scooter | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 41723 | Donut Shop | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 41726 | Holiday Camping Trip | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60253 | Ice-Cream Truck | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60313 | Space Ride Amusement Truck | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60314 | Ice Cream Truck Police Chase | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60315 | Police Mobile Command Truck | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60317 | Police Chase at the Bank | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60318 | Fire Helicopter | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60319 | Fire Rescue & Police Chase | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60320 | Fire Station | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60321 | Fire Brigade | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60322 | Race Car | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60323 | Stunt Plane | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60324 | Mobile Crane | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60325 | Cement Mixer Truck | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60327 | Horse Transporter | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60330 | Hospital | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60332 | Reckless Scorpion Stunt Bike | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60333 | Bathtub Stunt Bike | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60335 | Train Station | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60338 | Chimpanzee Smash Stunt Loop | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60339 | Double Loop Stunt Arena | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60341 | The Knockdown Stunt Challenge | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60342 | The Shark Attack Stunt Challenge | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60343 | Rescue Helicopter Transporter | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60346 | Barn & Farm Animals | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60348 | Lunar Roving Vehicle | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60349 | Lunar Space Station | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60350 | Lunar Research Base | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60351 | Rocket Launch Centre | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60353 | Wild Animal Rescue Missions | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60354 | Mars Spacecraft Exploration Missions | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60355 | Water Police Detective Missions | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60356 | Bear Stunt Bike | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60357 | Stunt Truck & Ring of Fire Challenge | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60358 | Cyber Stunt Bike | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60359 | Dunk Stunt Ramp Challenge | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60360 | Spinning Stunt Challenge | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60361 | Ultimate Stunt Riders Challenge | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60371 | Emergency Vehicles HQ | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60382 | Vet Van Rescue | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60385 | Construction Digger | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60388 | Gaming Tournament Truck | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60390 | Park Tractor | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60393 | 4x4 Fire Truck Rescue | Dec 31, 2023 |
| City | 60394 | ATV and Otter Habitat | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Classic | 11014 | Bricks and Wheels | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Classic | 11018 | Creative Ocean Fun | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Classic | 11019 | Bricks and Functions | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Classic | 11021 | 90 Years of Play | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Classic | 11022 | Space Mission | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Classic | 11031 | Creative Monkey Fun | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Creator | 30641 | Panda Bear | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Creator | 30642 | Birthday Train | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Creator | 30644 | Vintage Car | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Creator | 31111 | Cyber Drone | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Creator | 31118 | Surfer Beach House | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Creator | 31127 | Street Racer | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Creator | 31128 | Dolphin and Turtle | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Creator | 31130 | Sunken Treasure Mission | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Creator | 31131 | Downtown Noodle Shop | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Creator | 31132 | Viking Ship and the Midgard Serpent | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Creator | 31143 | Birdhouse | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Creator | 40461 | Tulips | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Creator | 40469 | Tuk Tuk | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Creator | 40568 | Paris Postcard | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Creator | 40646 | Daffodils | Dec 31, 2023 |
| DC | 76181 | Batmobile: The Penguin Chase | Dec 31, 2023 |
| DC | 76220 | Batman versus Harley Quinn | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Disney | 10777 | Mickey and Minnie's Camping Trip | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Disney | 40521 | Mini Disney The Haunted Mansion | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Disney | 41168 | Elsa's Jewellery Box | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Disney | 43187 | Rapunzel's Tower | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Disney | 43189 | Elsa and the Nokk Storybook Adventures | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Disney | 43194 | Anna and Elsa's Frozen Wonderland | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Disney | 43196 | Belle and the Beast's Castle | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Disney | 43197 | The Ice Castle | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Disney | 43198 | Anna's Castle Courtyard | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Disney | 43199 | Elsa's Castle Courtyard | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Disney | 43202 | The Madrigal House | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Disney | 43204 | Anna and Olaf's Castle Fun | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Disney | 43207 | Ariel's Underwater Palace | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Disney | 43208 | Jasmine and Mulan's Adventure | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Disney | 43209 | Elsa and the Nokk's Ice Stable | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Disney / BrickHeadz | 40377 | Donald Duck | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Disney / BrickHeadz | 40378 | Goofy & Pluto | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Disney / BrickHeadz | 40476 | Daisy Duck | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Disney / BrickHeadz | 40477 | Scrooge McDuck, Huey, Dewey & Louie | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Disney / BrickHeadz | 40550 | Chip & Dale | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Disney / BrickHeadz | 40553 | Woody and Bo Peep | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Disney / BrickHeadz | 40622 | Disney 100th Celebration BrickHeadz | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Dots | 41801 | My Pets Bracelet | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Dots | 41802 | Unicorns Forever Bracelet | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Dots | 41803 | Extra Dots series 8 | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Dots | 41805 | Creative Animal Drawer | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Dots | 41806 | Ultimate Party Kit | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Dots | 41807 | Bracelet Designer Mega Pack | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Dots | 41808 | Hogwarts Accessories Pack | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Dots | 41809 | Hedwig Pencil Holder | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Dots | 41811 | Hogwarts Desktop Kit | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Dots | 41947 | Mickey and Friends Bracelets Mega Pack | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Dots | 41948 | Cute Banana Pen Holder | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Dots | 41950 | Lots of DOTS - Lettering | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Dots | 41951 | Message Board | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Dots | 41957 | Adhesive Patches Mega Pack | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Dots | 41959 | Cute Panda Tray | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Dots | 41960 | Big Box | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Dots | 41961 | Designer Toolkit - Patterns | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Dots | 41963 | Mickey Mouse & Minnie Mouse Stitch-on Patch | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Dots | 41964 | Mickey Mouse & Minnie Mouse Back-to-School Project Box | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Duplo | 10411 | Learn About Chinese Culture | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Duplo | 10872 | Train Bridge and Tracks | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Duplo | 10882 | Train Tracks | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Duplo | 10899 | Frozen Ice Castle | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Duplo | 10930 | Bulldozer | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Duplo | 10938 | Dinosaur Nursery | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Duplo | 10944 | Space Shuttle Mission | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Duplo | 10948 | Parking Garage and Car Wash | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Duplo | 10949 | Farm Animal Care | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Duplo | 10955 | Animal Train | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Duplo | 10956 | Amusement Park | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Duplo | 10960 | Belle's Ballroom | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Duplo | 10962 | Buzz Lightyear's Planetary Mission | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Duplo | 10963 | Spider-Man & Friends: Funfair Adventure | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Duplo | 10964 | Bath Time Fun: Floating Red Panda | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Duplo | 10968 | Doctor Visit | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Duplo | 10972 | Wild Animals of the Ocean | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Duplo | 10973 | Wild Animals of South America | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Duplo | 10974 | Wild Animals of Asia | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Duplo | 10976 | Santa's Gingerbread House | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Duplo | 10977 | My First Puppy & Kitten with Sounds | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Duplo | 10978 | Creative Building Time | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Duplo | 10979 | Wild Animals of Europe | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Duplo | 30648 | Whale | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Friends | 30633 | Skate Ramp | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Friends | 30634 | Friendship Flowers | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Friends | 41443 | Olivia's Electric Car | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Friends | 41677 | Forest Waterfall | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Friends | 41696 | Pony-Washing Stable | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Friends | 41697 | Turtle Protection Vehicle | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Friends | 41699 | Pet Adoption Café | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Friends | 41703 | Friendship Tree House | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Friends | 41704 | Main Street Building | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Friends | 41705 | Heartlake City Pizzeria | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Friends | 41707 | Tree-Planting Vehicle | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Friends | 41708 | Roller Disco Arcade | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Friends | 41711 | Emma's Art School | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Friends | 41712 | Recycling Truck | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Friends | 41713 | Olivia's Space Academy | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Friends | 41714 | Andrea's Theatre School | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Friends | 41715 | Ice Cream Truck | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Friends | 41716 | Stephanie's Sailing Adventure | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Friends | 41717 | Mia's Wildlife Rescue | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Friends | 41718 | Pet Day-Care Center | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Friends | 41719 | Mobile Fashion Boutique | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Friends | 41720 | Water Park | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Friends | 41721 | Organic Farm | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Friends | 41722 | Horse Show Trailer | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Friends | 41729 | Organic Grocery Store | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Friends | 41732 | Downtown Flower and Design Stores | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Friends | 41733 | Mobile Bubble Tea Shop | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Friends | 41735 | Mobile Tiny House | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Friends | 41741 | Dog Rescue Van | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Friends | 41742 | Cat Hotel | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Friends | 41743 | Hair Salon | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Friends | 41751 | Skate Park | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Harry Potter | 75968 | 4 Privet Drive | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Harry Potter | 75969 | Hogwarts Astronomy Tower | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Harry Potter | 75979 | Hedwig | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Harry Potter | 76386 | Hogwarts: Polyjuice Potion Mistake | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Harry Potter | 76398 | Hogwarts Hospital Wing | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Harry Potter | 76399 | Hogwarts Magical Trunk | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Harry Potter | 76400 | Hogwarts Carriage and Thestrals | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Harry Potter | 76401 | Hogwarts Courtyard: Sirius's Rescue | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Harry Potter | 76403 | The Ministry of Magic | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Harry Potter | 76406 | Hungarian Horntail Dragon | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Harry Potter | 76408 | 12 Grimmauld Place | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Harry Potter | 76409 | Gryffindor House Banner | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Harry Potter | 76410 | Slytherin House Banner | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Harry Potter | 76411 | Ravenclaw House Banner | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Harry Potter | 76412 | Hufflepuff House Banner | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Harry Potter / Brickheadz | 40495 | Harry, Hermione, Ron & Hagrid | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Harry Potter / Brickheadz | 40560 | Professors of Hogwarts | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Holiday | 30643 | Easter Chickens | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Holiday | 40426 | Christmas Wreath 2-in-1 | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Holiday | 40522 | Valentine Lovebirds | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Holiday | 40523 | Easter Rabbits Display | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Holiday | 40570 | Halloween Cat and Mouse | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Holiday | 40571 | Wintertime Polar Bears | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Holiday | 40575 | Year of the Rabbit | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Holiday | 80110 | Lunar New Year Display | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Holiday | 80110 | Lunar New Year Display | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Holiday | 80111 | Lunar New Year Parade | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Icons | 10255 | Assembly Square | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Icons | 10265 | Ford Mustang | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Icons | 10266 | NASA Apollo 11 Lunar Lander | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Icons | 10270 | Bookshop | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Icons | 10273 | Haunted House | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Icons | 10276 | Colosseum | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Icons | 10278 | Police Station | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Icons | 10289 | Bird of Paradise | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Icons | 10290 | Pickup Truck | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Icons | 10292 | The Friends Apartments | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Icons | 10293 | Santa's Visit | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Icons | 10299 | Real Madrid - Santiago Bernabéu Stadium | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Icons | 10306 | Atari 2600 | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Icons | 10497 | Galaxy Explorer | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Icons | 76989 | Horizon Forbidden West: Tallneck | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Ideas | 21325 | Medieval Blacksmith | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Ideas | 21326 | Winnie the Pooh | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Ideas | 21329 | Fender Stratocaster | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Ideas | 21331 | Sonic the Hedgehog - Green Hill Zone | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Ideas | 21337 | Table Football | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Jurassic Park/World | 76943 | Pteranodon Chase | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Jurassic Park/World | 76945 | Atrociraptor Dinosaur: Bike Chase | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Jurassic Park/World | 76946 | Blue & Beta Velociraptor Capture | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Jurassic Park/World | 76947 | Quetzalcoatlus Plane Ambush | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Jurassic Park/World | 76948 | T. rex & Atrociraptor Dinosaur Breakout | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Jurassic Park/World | 76950 | Triceratops Pickup Truck Ambush | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Jurassic Park/World | 76951 | Pyroraptor & Dilophosaurus Transport | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Jurassic Park/World | 76956 | T. rex Breakout | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Lightyear | 76830 | Zyclops Chase | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Lightyear | 76831 | Zurg Battle | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Lightyear | 76832 | XL-15 Spaceship | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Mario | 71374 | Nintendo Entertainment System | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Mario | 71406 | Yoshi's Gift House | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Mario | 71413 | Character Packs Series 6 | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Mario | 71414 | Conkdor's Noggin Bopper | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Mario | 71415 | Ice Mario Suit and Frozen World | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Mario | 71416 | Lava Wave Ride | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Mario | 71417 | Fliprus Snow Adventure | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Mario | 71418 | Creativity Toolbox | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Marvel | 10781 | Spider-Man's Techno Trike | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Marvel | 10784 | Spider-Man Webquarters Hangout | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Marvel | 10790 | Team Spidey at Green Goblin's Lighthouse | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Marvel | 76187 | Venom | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Marvel | 76193 | The Guardians' Ship | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Marvel | 76206 | Iron Man Figure | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Marvel | 76207 | Attack on New Asgard | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Marvel | 76208 | The Goat Boat | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Marvel | 76209 | Thor's Hammer | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Marvel | 76211 | Shuri's Sunbird | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Marvel | 76212 | Shuri's Lab | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Marvel | 76213 | King Namor's Throne Room | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Marvel | 76214 | Black Panther: War on the Water | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Marvel | 76215 | Black Panther | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Marvel | 76216 | Iron Man Armory | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Marvel | 76225 | Miles Morales Figure | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Marvel | 76226 | Spider-Man Figure | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Marvel | 76230 | Venom Figure | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Marvel | 76241 | Hulk Mech Armor | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Marvel | 76242 | Thanos Mech Armor | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Marvel | 76243 | Rocket Mech Armor | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Marvel | 76245 | Ghost Rider Mech & Bike | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Marvel | 76253 | Guardians of the Galaxy Headquarters | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Marvel | 76255 | The New Guardians' Ship | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Marvel | 76256 | Ant-Man Construction Figure | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Minecraft | 21164 | The Coral Reef | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Minecraft | 21170 | The Pig House | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Minecraft | 21172 | The Ruined Portal | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Minecraft | 21177 | The Creeper Ambush | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Minecraft | 21180 | The Guardian Battle | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Minecraft | 21181 | The Rabbit Ranch | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Minecraft | 21183 | The Training Grounds | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Minecraft | 21184 | The Bakery | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Minecraft | 21185 | The Nether Bastion | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Minecraft | 21186 | The Ice Castle | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Minecraft | 21188 | The Llama Village | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Minecraft | 21190 | The Abandoned Village | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Minecraft | 30647 | The Dripstone Cavern/The Stalactite Cave | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Minecraft / BrickHeadz | 40624 | Alex | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Minecraft / BrickHeadz | 40625 | Llama | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Minecraft / BrickHeadz | 40626 | Zombie | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Misc | 40174 | LEGO Chess | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Misc | 40382 | Birthday Set | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Misc | 40584 | Birthday Diorama | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Monkie Kid | 30656 | Monkey King Marketplace | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Monkie Kid | 80008 | Monkie Kid's Cloud Jet | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Monkie Kid | 80030 | Monkie Kid's Staff Creations | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Monkie Kid | 80032 | Chang'e Moon Cake Factory | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Monkie Kid | 80033 | Evil Macaque's Mech | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Monkie Kid | 80034 | Nezha's Fire Ring | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Monkie Kid | 80035 | Monkie Kid's Galactic Explorer | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Monkie Kid | 80037 | Dragon of the East | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Monkie Kid | 80038 | Monkie Kid's Team Van | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Monkie Kid | 80039 | The Heavenly Realms | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Ninjago | 30649 | Ice Dragon Creature | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Ninjago | 71757 | Lloyd's Ninja Mech | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Ninjago | 71760 | Jay's Thunder Dragon EVO | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Ninjago | 71761 | Zane's Power Up Mech EVO | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Ninjago | 71763 | Lloyd's Race Car EVO | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Ninjago | 71765 | Ninja Ultra Combo Mech | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Ninjago | 71766 | Lloyd's Legendary Dragon | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Ninjago | 71767 | Ninja Dojo Temple | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Ninjago | 71768 | Jay's Golden Dragon Motorbike | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Ninjago | 71769 | Cole's Dragon Cruiser | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Ninjago | 71771 | The Crystal King Temple | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Ninjago | 71772 | The Crystal King | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Ninjago | 71774 | Lloyd's Golden Ultra Dragon | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Ninjago | 71775 | Nya's Samurai X MECH | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Ninjago | 71776 | Jay and Nya's Race Car EVO | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Ninjago | 71781 | Lloyd's Mech Battle EVO | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Polybag | 30435 | Build Your Own Hogwarts Castle | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Polybag | 30509 | Yellow Yoshi's Fruit Tree | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Polybag | 30510 | 90 Years of Cars | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Polybag | 30560 | Pineapple Photo Holder & Mini Board | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Polybag | 30584 | Winter Holiday Train | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Polybag | 30590 | Farm Garden & Scarecrow | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Polybag | 30646 | Moana's Dolphin Cove | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Polybag | 30651 | Quidditch Practice | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Polybag | 30652 | Doctor Strange's Interdimensional Portal | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Polybag | 30657 | McLaren Solus GT | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Promotional | 40393 | LEGOLAND Fire Academy | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Promotional | 40534 | LEGO House Chef | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Speed Champions | 76900 | Koenigsegg Jesko | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Speed Champions | 76901 | Toyota GR Supra | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Speed Champions | 76906 | 1970 Ferrari 512 M | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Speed Champions | 76907 | Lotus Evija | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Speed Champions | 76910 | Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR Pro and Aston Martin Vantage GT3 | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Speed Champions | 76911 | 007 Aston Martin DB5 | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Speed Champions | 76912 | Fast & Furious 1970 Dodge Charger T | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Star Wars | 30654 | X-wing Starfighter Polybag | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Star Wars | 75288 | AT-AT | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Star Wars | 75292 | The Razor Crest | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Star Wars | 75300 | Imperial TIE Fighter | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Star Wars | 75301 | Luke Skywalker's X-wing Fighter | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Star Wars | 75309 | Republic Gunship | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Star Wars | 75312 | Boba Fett's Starship | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Star Wars | 75317 | The Mandalorian & The Child | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Star Wars | 75318 | The Child | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Star Wars | 75320 | Snowtrooper Battle Pack | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Star Wars | 75322 | Hoth AT-ST | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Star Wars | 75323 | The Justifier | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Star Wars | 75324 | Dark Trooper Attack | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Star Wars | 75326 | Boba Fett's Throne Room | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Star Wars | 75327 | Luke Skywalker (Red Five) Helmet | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Star Wars | 75329 | Death Star Trench Run Diorama | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Star Wars | 75330 | Dagobah Jedi Training Diorama | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Star Wars | 75332 | AT-ST | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Star Wars | 75333 | Obi-Wan Kenobi's Jedi Starfighter | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Star Wars | 75334 | Obi-Wan Kenobi vs. Darth Vader | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Star Wars | 75335 | BD-1 | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Star Wars | 75336 | Inquisitor Transport Scythe | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Star Wars | 75338 | Ambush on Ferrix | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Star Wars | 75339 | Death Star Trash Compactor Diorama | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Star Wars | 75342 | Republic Fighter Tank | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Star Wars | 75343 | Dark Trooper Helmet | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Star Wars | 75344 | Boba Fett's Starship Microfighter | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Star Wars / Brickheadz | 40539 | Ahsoka Tano | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Technic | 30655 | Forklift with Pallet | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Technic | 42096 | Porsche 911 RSR | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Technic | 42107 | Ducati Panigale V4 R | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Technic | 42111 | Dom's Dodge Charger | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Technic | 42117 | Race Plane | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Technic | 42118 | Monster Jam Grave Digger | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Technic | 42122 | Jeep Wrangler | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Technic | 42123 | McLaren Senna GTR | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Technic | 42125 | Ferrari 488 GTE 'AF Corse #51' | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Technic | 42127 | The Batman - Batmobile | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Technic | 42128 | Heavy-Duty Tow Truck | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Technic | 42131 | Cat D11 Bulldozer | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Technic | 42132 | Chopper | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Technic | 42133 | Telehandler | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Technic | 42134 | Monster Jam Megalodon | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Technic | 42135 | Monster Jam El Toro Loco | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Technic | 42137 | Formula E Porsche 99x Electric | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Technic | 42138 | Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Technic | 42139 | All-Terrain Vehicle | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Technic | 42140 | App-Controlled Transformation Vehicle | Dec 31, 2023 |
| Technic | 42144 | Material Handler | Dec 31, 2023 |
2023.04.01 08:31 MussleGeeYem My 11 Year Long Samsung Galaxy Ownership Experience Story: Here Are Things The Galaxy Does Better Than My iPhone
Introduction
I have been using Samsung Galaxy devices for 11 years, with my first Android/Samsung Galaxy device being the Samsung Galaxy Nexus (got the Galaxy Nexus in January of 2012) and with me currently daily driving the S22 Ultra (since May 2022).I have been using iPhones for more than 12 years, with my first iPhone being the iPhone 4 (got the iPhone 4 in December of 2010) and with me currently daily driving the iPhone 14 Pro Max (since September 2022) and the iPhone SE (2020) as a secondary iPhone for iOS development (since March 2022).
Here is my daily driver history:
Android:
- Samsung Galaxy Nexus (bought in January 2012, traded the phone in October 2013)
- Samsung Galaxy Note3 (bought in October 2013, traded the phone in October 2014)
- Samsung Galaxy Note4 (bought in October 2014, traded the phone in September 2015)
- Samsung Galaxy Note5 (bought in September 2015, sold to my cousin's son (16M) in August 2016)
- Samsung Galaxy Note7 (bought in August 2016, recalled in October 2016)
- Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge (bought in October 2016, sold to my cousin's husband (40M) in April 2017 after he broke his iPhone 6 Plus)
- Samsung Galaxy S8+ (bought in April 2017, sold to my cousin's son in Vietnam (29M) in April 2018)
- Samsung Galaxy S9+ (bought in April 2018, sold to my cousin's husband (40M) in March 2019, with him giving me his S7 Edge)
- Samsung Galaxy S10+ (bought in March 2019, gave to my sister (21F) in March 2020 via mail, making the A50 as her secondary phone)
- Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra (bought in March 2020, traded the phone in February 2021)
- Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra (bought in February 2021, gave to my sister (21F) in May 2022 via mail due to her cracking her S10+ with the front suffering some cracks, got the S10+ back)
- Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra (bought in May 2022, still using it now)
- iPhone 4 (bought in December 2010, sold to Vietnam's used market in October 2011)
- iPhone 4S (bought in October 2011, traded the phone in September 2012)
- iPhone 5 (bought in September 2012 right after moving to the US, sold to my cousin (53F) in September 2013)
- iPhone 5S (bought in September 2013, sold to my cousin (39F) in September 2014)
- iPhone 6 (bought in September 2014, sold the phone on eBay in September 2015)
- iPhone 6S (bought in September 2015, sold to my cousin's daughter (17F) in October 2016)
- iPhone 7 Plus (bought in September 2016, sold the phone on eBay in November 2017)
- iPhone X (bought in November 2018, sold to my cousin's husband (55M) in September 2018)
- iPhone XS Max (bought in September 2018, sold to my cousin's husband (55M) in October 2019 with him giving me his iPhone X to help use that towards my iPhone 11 Pro Max)
- iPhone 11 Pro Max (bought in October 2019, sold to my cousin (53F) in November 2020 with her giving me her iPhone 7 Plus to use as a spare device)
- iPhone 12 Pro Max (bought in November 2020, device started breaking down, so I traded the phone in December 2021, initially planned to keep it for longer)
- iPhone 13 Pro Max (bought in December 2021, sold to my cousin (53F) in September 2022 after complaints that her iPhone 11 Pro Max is breaking down, with her giving me her iPhone 11 Pro Max)
- iPhone 14 Pro Max (bought in September 2022, still using it now)
- iPhone 5 (September 2015-November 2017): my cousin's husband (55M) upgraded from an iPhone 6 to a Galaxy S6 Edge+ and decided to give his iPhone 6 to my cousin (53F) due to him preferring Android over iOS (he kept the S6 Edge+ until May 2020 when he bought the S20+ and then he gave his S6 Edge+ to me in May 2020 via mail, but between 2017-2020, this acted as his 2nd phone as he was daily driving the iPhone X/XS Max mentioned above)
- iPhone 6S (November 2017-November 2020): my cousin's daughter (17F) upgraded from the 6S to the 7 Plus, along with both her parents (55M, 53F) not only due to the family switching from T-mobile to Verizon but also due to her cracking my old iPhone 6S, which caused her parents not only to replace the screen but also the battery)
- iPhone 7 Plus (November 2020-March 2022): my cousin (53F) received my iPhone 11 Pro Max, but since the iPhone 6S fell off my bike mount a month before, it cracked, and since the battery is so horrendous on the 6S, my cousin (53F) decided to give me her iPhone 7 Plus and I decided to take the 6S to the Apple Store in Cambridge MA to recycle it
- iPhone SE (2020) (since March 2022): Even though my cousin, and later I took very good care of the iPhone 7 Plus, the phone started breaking down on several fronts: the silent switch, charging port pins, and even battery started to die hard, and plus, since the phone is getting unsupported, I started deciding on the iPhone SE. After finding out the iPhone SE 3 was $429 and finding out I could get a prepaid iPhone SE 2 on AT&T for $150 ($50 plan+$15 activation fee but I cancelled auto pay immediately after buying the phone), I got the brand-new SE 2 instead. Nowadays, the battery started to fall apart (even though the battery is currently at 93% capacity) and even though this phone is not in a beta, there are a lot of bugs even on 16.3.1 (I am thinking of updating to 16.4 tonight)
Things my Samsung Galaxy does better than my iPhone
There are many things that Samsung Galaxy phones and other Android phones do better than iPhones, including the fact that on Android:- notifications are not cluttered in the lock-screen unlike on iOS
- Android is more customisable than iOS and Android is an open-source mobile operating system
- Many new features such as reverse wireless charging, in screen fingerprints, foldable phones, 5G, triple camera setup, phablet size phones,
- there is a real back button on Android
- No need to use iTunes; you could just transfer music and photos/videos between your computer and phone without the hassle of iTunes
- Some Samsung Galaxy phones (S1-S20 excluding the S6/Note5) have microSD and older Samsung Galaxy phones have removable batteries
- Some Samsung Galaxy phones in certain markets have dual sim support, but since e-SIM was introduced, first with the Pixel 2, and later with the iPhone XS, dual sim is less of an advantage
- There are a lot of options, including the M/J series for budget conscious buyers, the A series for the average folk in many countries, the S/Note series for power-users, business users for extra productivity (mostly the Note series) and phone enthusiasts (like me), and the Z series for certain business users for extra productivity and for Flexers
- On my Samsung Galaxy devices, I could share the Wi-Fi password to other phones using the QR code; on iPhones, I could only share the Wi-Fi connection with other iPhones
- Samsung Galaxy devices support split screen view and pop up view, but these two features are restricted to the iPad, and iPhones only support picture in picture video
However, there are many lesser-known things that my Samsung Galaxy phones do better than my iPhones (based on my experience over the past 11 years), and some might be controversial:
- iPhone batteries start to massively degrade after a new iPhone and iOS version comes out
My iPhone 12 Pro Max (I got rid of it in December of 2021 after it accidentally fell out from my nightstand drawer and the back cracked a month before) started seeing its battery fail sometime in September 2021, when the 13 Pro Max came out. Say I leave the house at 10:00 and were to return home at 19:00. By 17:00, with medium usage + hotspot, the iPhone's battery would have depleted to around 20 percent. Plus, my iPhones typically consume more battery if devices are connected to hotspot than my Samsung Galaxies are.
Also, I did receive the Galaxy S7 Edge (2019), Samsung Galaxy S9+ (earlier this month as my cousin's husband upgraded to the S23+), and the Samsung Galaxy S10+ (last year), and given that I would sell these phones on the second hand market, I would test the phones for a week or two to see the phone's condition before assessing it and selling it on the second hand market. What I found is that even though the S10+ cracked and therefore, I donated it rather than sold it, all three phones seem to have solid battery, considering their ages. The S7 Edge with its 3600 mAh battery under heavy use after 3 years would go about for 6-8 hours before needing a recharge, and my S9+ would go about for around 5-6 hours as well before hitting down to 20% of battery (that is after 5 years and given the fact my cousin's husband is a power user), and even though the S10 cracked, it would go for 8-10 hours under heavy usage before draining to around 20%. I also got back my Note5 from 2015 once my cousin's son upgraded to my cousin (50M)'s S8 Active in 2019 once my cousin upgraded to the Note10+, and even on that phone, the battery is still very good considering its age and its 3000 mAh size, doing around 4-6 hours going down from 100-20.
- My Samsung devices have proven more reliable as a whole than many of my iPhones
Fun fact, my cousin (28M) switched from the iPhone 7 Plus to the Samsung Galaxy S10+ in March of 2019 and is now currently using a Galaxy S23 Ultra. From his 4-year long experience using just the Galaxy S10+ (he bought the ceramic colour with 512GB of storage and currently his father is using the S10+), even though he is a power user with him customising the phone with themes, being a heavy user, and having cracked his S10+ last year, the phone was still extremely reliable, working fully as intended, apart from the battery, which has been shortened to 6 hours of heavy usage before dying.
My iPhones however, were not so bright. Even though pre-2015 iPhones are mostly reliable during my time using it, since the 6S, there have been some phones which have showed issues here and there, sometimes within the first year of ownership. As for the iPhone 6S, it is basically only the battery, which has been extremely bad after a year and the fact it would sometimes shut off at 30% during cold weather.
Starting with the iPhone 7 Plus however, and there started to be a lot of problems. Even though my iPhone 7 Plus didn't show any problems during my ownership, even though my cousin took good care of the 7 Plus, when I got her 7 Plus in November of 2020 (she got the phone brand new at Verizon in November 2017), the silent switch started to wear down and get stuck, meaning it is hard to turn on silent switch, the charging port pins started to wear, making it very hard to charge the phone or connect the phone to the computer, and the battery started to struggle real hard.
Starting with the iPhone XS Max and there started to be real struggles. Even though I didn't see any problems with either the iPhone XS Max and 11 Pro Max during my ownership and took good care of these two phones, when these two phones got passed to their second owners, problems started to arise. For the XS Max, in May of 2020, it got bricked, and it wouldn't turn on even if he plugged it in the charging cable or through iTunes, and my cousin's husband had to bring it to service, and that got him to purchase an S20+ given he prefers Android over iOS, and after fixing the XS Max, he gave it to his daughter (17F), who is his only child. For the 11 Pro Max however, the phone's battery drained fast and my cousin always had to rely on the charger, and plus, there are issues of connecting Bluetooth devices as well as with calls and volume whilst connected to Bluetooth devices, and my cousin always complained about these issues and even though I did attempt to fix, the issues didn't get resolved (I am tech savvy by the way, so I could get through a lot of issues, such as reset my bricked iPad using iTunes, etc.).
And now onto my iPad Pro 9.7. I bought the iPad in June of 2016, and even though I used it mostly for watching YouTube videos, Udemy and edX courses, the iPad started having a bricking issue in November of 2017. What happened was that I was charging and overnight, the iPad just shut itself off and never powered on again. I tried connecting it to iTunes and even though iTunes could recognise the device, whenever I reset it, errors keep on popping up and it is impossible to reset. I tried bringing it to the Apple Store, but they couldn't reset it either and they suggested that I replace the iPad Pro 9.7 with an iPad Mini 4 for $300. Then, I started taking matters into my own hands and finally resetted the iPad Pro successfully after multiple attempts in January of 2018. Four months later (in May 2018), the iPad bricked again, and I had to do the same process, and it took until August of 2018 after at least 5-10 tries for it to work again. And then in August 2020, whilst charging overnight, the iPad turned off and I thought it was toast. Turned out it was, as after countless times diagnosing the issues on iTunes, the iPad would keep on bricking after multiple reset attempts and after more than 2 years. Then, there was a miracle. In November of 2022, I finally got my iPad working again and I felt like I was very lucky, because I thought that the iPad was bricked forever and wouldn't go back on, ever.
Then, finally, it is my iPhone 12 Pro Max. I bought the phone on 20 November 2020, and by mid-September 2021, things started to go south for this phone. The top speaker started to fail and even though I cleaned it, the speaker was so muffled that I could barely hear anything from the top speaker. I brought it to the Apple Store and they said it is a digitiser issue and they couldn't even clean it for me, and around that same time, the touchscreen started to act up. With a lot of ghost touches, it started to become very hard to use the iPhone (and keep in mind, I have never replaced the screen since I never cracked the front screen). In October 2021, the phone started to have lose cellular signal when I enter the MBTA train and still didn't recognise cellular signal for minutes after I exited the MBTA and was at least a mile from that station on my bike, but luckily, resetting network settings did fix the issue with the cellular signal however. By the time the phone accidentally fell to the ground and the back did suffer some cracks in November, I started to give up on the iPhone 12 Pro Max and in December, I upgraded to the 13 Pro Max.
Even though my Galaxy Buds and my cousin (28M)'s Galaxy Buds did not show any issues (he bought the Galaxy Buds in March 2019 and after heavy usage, it still held up very well and he even gave it to his father), all 4 of my AirPods, even the AirPods Pro 2, have shown issues here and there. My first AirPods (January 2017-July 2018) basically stopped working, and hence, I bought another pair of AirPods in July 2018 and used it until February 2022, when I dropped it in the toilet. Even though I was using the 2nd pair of AirPods half the time (July 2018-January 2020, December 2020-April 2021, November 2021-February 2022), by late 2021, the AirPods started showing major problems. First off, the battery drains so fast even indoors that it only lasted about an hour. Then, once I am outside, the right side would disconnect after only 5 minutes of usage and the left side would keep soldering on. Once it fell to the toilet, it was game over (however, I still kept the AirPods, it is just in the nightstand sitting there, and I did clean it as well). I bought the AirPods 2 in February 2022, and after 2 months, at least once every week or two, the right side would discharge, even in the case (the case is clean by the way), until it went out of battery. I tried resetting the case and putting the case to charge again, but to no avail, and it took several reset attempts for it to return to normal. The same exact scenario happened to the AirPods Pro 2, which I got in October as my cousin wanted to gift me the AirPods Pro 2, in exchange for my AirPods 2. Except that sometimes, my iPhone 14 Pro Max couldn't even connect to the AirPods Pro 2 or even recognise it.
- Hotspot doesn't always work on my iPhones, but always does on my Galaxy
For my iPhone 14 Pro Max and previous iPhones (iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 12 Pro Max, etc), personal hotspot is very buggy. My Samsung connects just fine to the iPhone hotspot, but my iPhones don't. To preserve the battery, after several minutes, the iPhone SE would get disconnected from the iPhone 14 Pro Max hotspot (which is acceptable), but it gets worse. Even if I am currently streaming Apple Music on my iPhone SE with the screen on as well, the iPhone would disconnect from the iPhone 14 Pro Max, and it is very hard to connect it to hotspot. Sometimes, the iPhone SE would say 'Unable to join network' and others, it said 'Personal Hotspot Failure', which would force me to restart both the iPhone SE and 14 Pro Max. Now the Remote Hotspot Failure started happening since I got the 11 Pro Max in 2019, and at the time, my 16:9 phone was the iPhone 6S, and even then, there were hotspot failure problems. I restarted the 11 Pro Max, but the hotspot failure would return after a week or two. Even after resetting network settings in 2021 right before my 13 Pro Max because my iPhone 12 Pro Max would lose cellular connectivity even after I exited the MBTA tunnel and I am outside a mile from the MBTA station, once I got my 13 Pro Max, the remote hotspot failure still appears. My Samsung Galaxy over the years connects to the iPhone hotspot without any issues, and would stay connected even if I am not using the phone until I basically turn off hotspot on my iPhone.
Now due to the fact connecting my iPhone SE to the iPhone hotspot is so bad, I would typically use the Samsung hotspot as a backup (keep in mind my iPhone plan gives unlimited hotspot whilst Metro only gives 5 GB). Both iPhones connect to the Samsung hotspot flawlessly, without any issues.
- On my Samsung Galaxy phones, I can disable Wi-Fi using the Quick Settings (swipe down) menu, but for iPhones, it is less consistent
- Connecting to Bluetooth devices is better on my Samsung Galaxy phones than my iPhones
- Apple Pay sometimes doesn't work on my iPhone
Yesterday, I was at the MBTA station, and I was attempting to pay for the Monthly pass. Ironically, even though the reader did work, the iPhone 14 Pro Max kept on saying 'Hold near Reader', and even though I held it near the mobile payment reader for 10-15 seconds, it still didn't do anything. Fed up, after the second time, I repaid the MBTA ticket and used my S22 Ultra and the payment did go through. However, at the restaurant around 1 hour later, even though I didn't restart the iPhone, Apple Pay finally worked again as I was able to pay my meal using Apple Pay.
- Automatic updates are better on my Galaxies than my iPhones
- Wi-Fi is far better on my Samsung Galaxy/Android phones than my iPhones, iPads, or Macs
Fun fact: the Galaxy S21 Ultra was the first phone to offer Wi-Fi 6E and not even the iPhone 14 Pro Max supports this feature
Then in July 2022, during a flight from Dallas back to Boston, my iPhone 13 Pro Max and iPhone SE 2 would fail to connect to JetBlue's Wi-Fi network several times and if connected, the Wi-Fi was painfully slow and near unusable whilst my Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra connected to JetBlue's Wi-Fi network just fine and worked as expected, with websites loading reasonably quick, just like at my university with the S21 Ultra.
- USB C lasts longer than lightning connector
TL;DR: Even though there are many benefits to owning an iPhone over an Android device, based on my user experience, after over 11 years of using various Samsung Galaxy phones, two Samsung Galaxy Tabs, and one Galaxy Bud and after over 12 years of using various iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches, and AirPods, I could safely assure that there are a lot of benefits to using Samsung and Android products over iPhones, namely due to the fact that notifications, customisation, features, options, Wi-Fi, multitasking, batteries, hotspot, Bluetooth, mobile payment, etc., are better on Samsung and Android products than on iPhones, based on my user experience.
2023.04.01 08:29 SoulFireBorn 31F This is going to be the best year yet. Any night owls?
Hello. I used to work for the WWE. Branching out and trying to achieve new goals. Grateful for my time. Aspiring to be an actress. Already appeared in a few project such as The Mandalorian. I’m a business owner. Recently started a CBD company focusing on recovery, wellness, and balance. I’m currently working in Japan in a promotion called NJPW. I don’t live there full time but I stay in Japan for about 2 weeks out of the month.
I love Nike. Comfortable shoes and work out clothing is a must and Nike is my go too. Shopping at LV, Gucci, Audi, Mercedes, Lamborghinis, ect, needless to say I love spending my hard earn money at the most high end places. Very proud of my success considering I’m of African American descent and grew up around racism saying I won’t amount to anything because I’m black (Hopefully that did not come off as racist on my end). Still occasionally get death threats and racial slur from people, crazy world.
My natural hair color is black but I tend to dye it a dirty brown(blonde). My natural hair is pretty short, and doesn’t really grow much so it’ll never get to a long length. Which is why I’m often wearing weaves. In all colors. Purple, green, blue, red, orange, and yellow are all colors I had before. People think it’s my real hair though lol.
From working out, traveling, working, business owner, it leaves me with little free time. People on here are going to ask the unnecessary “why are you in Reddit” and my answer to that is because it’s a good break from a long day. Also I’m married. Anyone else having problems with the chat feature? Some of the chat is coming in as a weird format. Very strange.
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I love Nike. Comfortable shoes and work out clothing is a must and Nike is my go too. Shopping at LV, Gucci, Audi, Mercedes, Lamborghinis, ect, needless to say I love spending my hard earn money at the most high end places. Very proud of my success considering I’m of African American descent and grew up around racism saying I won’t amount to anything because I’m black (Hopefully that did not come off as racist on my end). Still occasionally get death threats and racial slur from people, crazy world.
My natural hair color is black but I tend to dye it a dirty brown(blonde). My natural hair is pretty short, and doesn’t really grow much so it’ll never get to a long length. Which is why I’m often wearing weaves. In all colors. Purple, green, blue, red, orange, and yellow are all colors I had before. People think it’s my real hair though lol.
From working out, traveling, working, business owner, it leaves me with little free time. People on here are going to ask the unnecessary “why are you in Reddit” and my answer to that is because it’s a good break from a long day. Also I’m married. Anyone else having problems with the chat feature? Some of the chat is coming in as a weird format. Very strange.
2023.04.01 08:27 Negative_Emotion_697 Truly alone and need advice
My family and any friends I had over the years have all left and none said a thing about why. It started when I was two I was told my real mom refused to take care of me and a relative from my dads side would sometimes have to come over just to make sure I was fed. My dad remarried a woman who abused me my entire childhood and he would just sit and watch or make sure I didn’t attempt to defend myself from her. School has never been good for me as I was constantly bullied only to go home and get it worse. At this point I’m 25 and I am going to assume I am just that shitty of a person but everyone dropped me. Even the friends I swear on my life I treated correctly. I was always the friend who was to nice and giving. I’ve been hospitalized once when homeless and no one showed up despite my father being called. Another time I had a seizer while on to many shrooms and when I finally got up and stumbled to the bathroom I called who I thought was my best friend and asked if they could come check up on me because I had never had a seizure and didn’t know if I was actually ok or just in shock or something and another so called friend told them not to show and that I was “probably fine”. Haven’t to traumatic moments and no one to confide in hit me hard. I’ve never had the so called rizz so I’ve been single for seven years and sexless for 3 going on four. I do work out so it’s not like I’m lazy, I was on and off meds my entire child hood as well as every therapy offered and still I end up alone with absolutely no one. Does anyone have any advice because I’m so lost at this point idk why I should go on past 30 if this is the same reality I stand in when I get there. Also I have zero social media apps, Reddit I usually delete but am so alone i download it just to feel what’s it’s like for another human to talk to me
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2023.04.01 08:26 Builder_Distinct WIBTA for inviting my dad to my elopement even though my sister would disown me if she found out?
Tw: mentions physical abuse
Info: I (F 35) have not lived with my family since I was 18. I currently live 2 states away. My sister(F 30) has an immune disorder and has pretty much always lived with my parents (M&F 63). My Dad and sister don’t speak at all and haven’t since Christmas 2019 when they got into a verbal and physical altercation. After that incident my sister and I decided to stand together and ask my mom to choose between us or him and so she made my dad move out. They have been separated since then but do not plan to divorce. During these 3 years mine and my mom’s relationship with my dad has slowly improved ever so slightly as he’s worked to atone for his mistakes. My mom is also immune compromised, quite severely. The pandemic was very difficult for her and my sister to deal with on their own. Although my father still 100% financially supports both of them and their household he has not been allowed to move back in and my sister has made it very clear that she will never allow him back in her life. I completely respect and support this. As does my mom and the rest of our extended family. About my fathers abuse. Despite my own difficult relationship with my father after years of emotional mental and some physical abuse when I was teenageyoung adult - I have finally witnessed him making a huge effort to change these past few years. Being separated from his family was apparently eye opening and motivated him to see doctors and therapists so that he could make enormous life changes. He has apologized to my mom and I and he has made respectful efforts to show us that he is working hard to change. We all wish this would have happened sooner of course. My mother feels enormous guilt for not doing more to put herself and her daughters first. I do not resent her, as I am working with my own therapist to process and resolve all of my feelings about my parents and my childhood. I do not expect mine or my mother’s relationship with him will ever be fully healed but we are both working with him to navigate something healthy for our individual futures as well as our future as a family. My sister however is not. I believe my sister when she says he is “dead to her” and I do not see that changing now or ever. I have not and will not push the issue with her. It is her right and her decision to have and hold onto that personal boundary. Now to the main issue. Next year my partner(M 46) of 8 years and I will be eloping. Just the two of us and a photographer. The following year we will host a small/medium sized reception on our 10 year anniversary to celebrate our love with our family and friends. I already promised my sister that our father would absolutely not be invited or welcome at the reception. However, here’s when I might be the asshole, I think I would like to invite my dad to my elopement. So he can “give me away” as a sign of appreciation and gratitude for his hard work to be better. He was a loving, supportive and present father through most of my childhood. I have many more good memories than bad. He had his own demons from his childhood which he failed to deal with before having children and I know now how much he regrets not seeking help sooner. I do not fully forgive him, yet, but I recognize his immense efforts. I think I want to honor these efforts with this invite. My partner does not want to sway my decision. He said he supports whatever I want to do, but he did say he thinks having my dad at the elopement and then everyone else at the reception is a good and fair solution. My best friend and my aunt/godmother think I should choose to support my sister and said that if I had my dad at my elopement it would be a “dick move”. I mentioned this all casually and gently to my mom. She was moved and very supportive but she cautioned me that if my sister ever found out she would probably cut me off permanently. Which is exactly why I decided to post here seeking input from strangers on Reddit. Am I the asshole?
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Info: I (F 35) have not lived with my family since I was 18. I currently live 2 states away. My sister(F 30) has an immune disorder and has pretty much always lived with my parents (M&F 63). My Dad and sister don’t speak at all and haven’t since Christmas 2019 when they got into a verbal and physical altercation. After that incident my sister and I decided to stand together and ask my mom to choose between us or him and so she made my dad move out. They have been separated since then but do not plan to divorce. During these 3 years mine and my mom’s relationship with my dad has slowly improved ever so slightly as he’s worked to atone for his mistakes. My mom is also immune compromised, quite severely. The pandemic was very difficult for her and my sister to deal with on their own. Although my father still 100% financially supports both of them and their household he has not been allowed to move back in and my sister has made it very clear that she will never allow him back in her life. I completely respect and support this. As does my mom and the rest of our extended family. About my fathers abuse. Despite my own difficult relationship with my father after years of emotional mental and some physical abuse when I was teenageyoung adult - I have finally witnessed him making a huge effort to change these past few years. Being separated from his family was apparently eye opening and motivated him to see doctors and therapists so that he could make enormous life changes. He has apologized to my mom and I and he has made respectful efforts to show us that he is working hard to change. We all wish this would have happened sooner of course. My mother feels enormous guilt for not doing more to put herself and her daughters first. I do not resent her, as I am working with my own therapist to process and resolve all of my feelings about my parents and my childhood. I do not expect mine or my mother’s relationship with him will ever be fully healed but we are both working with him to navigate something healthy for our individual futures as well as our future as a family. My sister however is not. I believe my sister when she says he is “dead to her” and I do not see that changing now or ever. I have not and will not push the issue with her. It is her right and her decision to have and hold onto that personal boundary. Now to the main issue. Next year my partner(M 46) of 8 years and I will be eloping. Just the two of us and a photographer. The following year we will host a small/medium sized reception on our 10 year anniversary to celebrate our love with our family and friends. I already promised my sister that our father would absolutely not be invited or welcome at the reception. However, here’s when I might be the asshole, I think I would like to invite my dad to my elopement. So he can “give me away” as a sign of appreciation and gratitude for his hard work to be better. He was a loving, supportive and present father through most of my childhood. I have many more good memories than bad. He had his own demons from his childhood which he failed to deal with before having children and I know now how much he regrets not seeking help sooner. I do not fully forgive him, yet, but I recognize his immense efforts. I think I want to honor these efforts with this invite. My partner does not want to sway my decision. He said he supports whatever I want to do, but he did say he thinks having my dad at the elopement and then everyone else at the reception is a good and fair solution. My best friend and my aunt/godmother think I should choose to support my sister and said that if I had my dad at my elopement it would be a “dick move”. I mentioned this all casually and gently to my mom. She was moved and very supportive but she cautioned me that if my sister ever found out she would probably cut me off permanently. Which is exactly why I decided to post here seeking input from strangers on Reddit. Am I the asshole?