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I drive a 2017 Chevrolet Cruze LT, and it's got just over 31,500 miles on it. Outside of some minor cosmetic things that would require a basic wipe down and vacuum in the interior, and washing a thin layer of mud off of it, the vehicle is in perfectly good shape.
Now, that said, there are two vehicles I'm currently looking at, as I'm trying to basically do a 1 to 1 trade.
The first vehicle is priced at $12,995, and is a 2017 VW Passat SE 6A. It's got an all leather interior, heated seats, pushbutton start, sunroof, (new) Cooper all season tires, brand new windshield, new brakes, and as far as I can tell, the vehicle has been kept in near pristine condition outside of those replacements. The vehicle also seems to have a clean record, with no accidents, no theft/illegal activity reported, and only one previous owner. The only catch is that it's currently sitting at around 145,000 miles driven.
The dealer has literally been trying to sell this specific vehicle for almost a year now. The earliest records I can find of it being for sale (other than from the factory, to the original owner) was April of 2022. It's kind of worrying, but for the life of me I can't find anything wrong with it yet other than the miles being as high as they are. This dealer's been pretty... inconsistent, when it comes to our arrangement, though. He approved of a 1 to 1 trade, but told me the we should both run some numbers and do some more research, and talk about it on Monday. Good thing he told me to, because I realized that my car was worth a ton of money in trade-in value, and the MSRP was (obviously) higher than that. Once I brought up that I saw how the price range was looking, he went from not remembering a thing about my vehicle to knowing that he needed to do a whole bunch to the car, and refused to accept me getting it checked out anywhere else, and was trying to deduct the cost of his 'repairs' from the lowest possible estimate on a spectrum that was shown on a site with the lowest estimate for trade-in value that I've seen, though even then, it wasn't fully accurate based on the actual condition of my car. In other words, it got shady.
Anyway, I'm here for cars lol.
So the next car is a 2015 Hyundai Sonata 2.4L SE. It's.... pretty much just that. It's comfy, it's been well taken care of, new brakes, and... that's it. It's just a pretty standard, comfy, reliable looking car. The gas pedal could do with some adjusting imo, but that could just be a preference thing. This dealer wanted to compete with the other one I had mentioned (thank goodness), and offered me a $13k check for my car, or $14,000 in trade-in, which would line up nearly perfectly with the car I was looking at, since it was going for exactly that much, minus the obvious DMV fees and the like, which they'd ask that I cover if I take that deal.
Do either of these deals seem practical? Should I wait and hope prices drop? I know my car is worth more in trade-in value than dealerships I've visited (so far) are willing to give me, these two just happen to be less blatant in trying to lowball me. Also, as far as the Passat goes, I'm very curious about that one, since it's both cheaper and nicer, so any insight on that would certainly be appreciated.
Also, I just wanted to edit this so that people know that I understand the differences between pricing models, things like wholesale, trade-in, cash sale, MSRP, etc. and I know that obviously dealers aren't necessarily going to pay top dollar, but so far, there's been a pretty enormous gap lol. I know they have to make their money back, too, but I wanted to include this in case someone read through the post and got the impression that I was approaching this without having done research into how these things work and why.
Oh, edit number 2: for more context on my vehicle, it's also got bonus packages installed from when it was made in the factory, those being the convenience package and the RS package.

All of this is how i remember it but i have memory loss/distorted memory after attending newport. This WILL be VERY LONG. I was admitted to newport academy in san Rafael, California. Its their location known as maoli. I was admitted on march 2 2022 and it was my first and only experience in a residential but i have 3 other (at that time) stays at mental hospital back in illinois (where i live).
I was admitted in the beginning of january of 2022 to a mental hospital and it was my 3rd time in the hospital so my counselor recommended residential. I didn't agree but then later on changed my mind. I was supposed to go to one in the area but was denied because i "set fires" (i do not and never have). My mom found newport by just googling residentials. I dont know how it came about because she set it all up but i had a interview at the end of january with them. I was accepted (i dont know if thats the right way to put it) except they didn't have an available bed. I was in php for a month and a half waiting to go in which i met a gorl that had just gotten back from a newport in a different state and she said she liked it so i had hope (she has now relapsed on nic and weed. I know because we are in touch). They assigned me to a location and changed it twice. With each time they changed the location i had to do another interview. When a bed was available i was given 24 hours to arrive or my spot would be given up.
I got there and did the paper work. I believe i chose the option that they could intervene which ever they felt suitable which i greatly regret. When i arrived there was 4 other girls. The house holds 6. I later found out that there was only 2 girls in the house for 2 weeks so i do not understand why there was no bed available. The other 2 girls arrived a day or 2 before me.
It wasn't horrible in the beginning but there was already a few things that bothered me. It was one specific lady in the beginning. She'd wake us up by blasting music and i didn't eat meat at the time so i asked her not to serve me meat which she didn't listen to. I have anger issues so the more she didn't listen the more mean about it i got to the point i was swearing her out. The people that were there with us all day were not trained for mental health. One being through a temp company. At somepoint i pushed down the toaster button with nothing in it and forgot about it in which the smoke alarms went off. No fire. Just burnt the crumbs. Tjey took the toaster from us. Remember this. Its important later. Ill use letters instead of whole names. My roommate was j. I talk in my sleep and obviously cant control it. She stopped sleeping in our room and slept on the couch which nome of the other people liked because thats where we hung out because we weren't allowed to be im eachothers room. She went to sleep around nine and wed stay up till 1-2 even tho lights out was 11. J told the staff i threatened her while i was sleeping and the staff yelled at me but the other people heard and defended me. Staff didn't apologize. We switched rooms because j was scared of me. Another time i needed a knife for cream cheese and as a joke i said i needed a really sharp one. J took it as i was going to use it on her. The other people took to throwing j's things out of the window. We weren't ever supervised. We had equine therapy and at somepoint i believe we tried to steal the barn cat. We figured out how to take the batteries out of the windows alarms, the pictures on the wall were canvas so we hid things behind them, we would cook our own food twice(?) A week so we were in the kitchen that was typically locked and stole bags of chocolate chips, sugar for tea, and food labels that we put all over the house, z1 (theres 2 zs) was level one so she was allowed to have an electric razor which we gave n an undercut with, we stole command strips from the therapy room to gang up our canvases, people took the staples out of the canvases, broke plastic and took the screws out of the vents to sh. We also used the screws and pen ink for stick and pokes, we had acupuncture and stole the needles to try to do piercings (not stiff enough. Thankfull gor that in the long run) we were actively refusing school on the daily. We would swear eachother and staff out (mostly staff) z2 had an eatting disorder and z1 would make comments about it. N would constantly get misgendered and dead named because he was trans (i would get deadnamed but i used all pronouns at the time). The teacher talked about how he would smoke weed and hed disrespect our boundaries. Our fitness instructor quite literally taught me how to punch someone correctly (swing with hips hit with knuckles 😋) one of our ccs, annie (i believe they were called ccs aka care coordinators) was always talking about her boyfriend. Our therapist was really good at reading us but was never in because she had a new born but the one time we met in person she told me i probably had a loose vagina 😐. Someone wiped there shit on the wall. N, z1, and a constantly made tea and theyd leave their sticky cups all around the house which meant we had no cups available ever. We had a group setion with a counselor over zoom in which she specifically asked me very personal questions (i believe it was about me getting raped but i dont remember too much). Wed go in eachothers rooms even tho we weren't allowed to and they tell us to get our and wed say no and that would be the end of it. We rearranged our rooms. We drew on the walls. We carved things into the dining room table. I had very specific med instructions which they didnt follow and at points they wouldnt give anyone their meds or try to give meds to someone it didn't beling to. N made a fake body to put in his bed and then came in mine and a's room and it worked for 2 nights. Theres probably more but ill move on.
The most tramuatic experience was my last day there which was march 16th. Only 2 weeks in. I was watching a youtube video on the tv and our fitness lady came in. I asked to finish the video and she responded by grabbing my wrist with one hand and prying the remote with the other. Obviously i was mad so i was yelling and cursing and she didn't like that because she was on some shit that she automatically deserved respect even for her bad actions because she was ex military. No one wanted to do fitness in the first place. I went to my room and closed the door. Kim, a cc, came and tried to reprimand me when i wanted to be alone. Shed leave and come back a few times in the span of a few minutes and id reclose the door. I put the bed infront of the door and she shoved the bed on my foot (which sprained my toe and now its deformed) and the hinge to the door fell out. She then blaimed me for destroying property and then i literally just slid it back in place. At this point they evacuated the other kids because they were saying i was a danger to myself, others, and destroying property but the real reason was because the other kids were arguing and defending me. I put my shoes on and grabbed my stuffed animal and just left. I made it probably half a mile down the street and the cops pulled up. I dont know if the cops were called before or after i left. They pulled the car infront of me and annie was behind me so i had left and right. Left was a fast pace road and right was a field with a with a hill on the other side. At this point i wasnt actively suicidal but i was in the beginning of a panic attack. (This is where it starts to get distorted) I made it halfway up the hill when i had officers pulling my ankles to get me to the ground. They said something about how i should get off the hill because of ticks and i told them i didn't care because i didnt want to live. (Not that i wanted to kms. Just that i didn't want to live) at this point i was crying and was in a full panic attack and this is when they got aggressive. I believe i had about 7 officers on me and dragging me down the hill and obviously i was fighting it cause im freaking out and no one wants to be in that situation. They got me to the bottom and hand cuffed me. They gave me the option to stand up and go to the car but i was basically paralized with fear and couldn't really talk. Cops treat the mentally ill like criminals. They carried me to the car and basically horizontally shoved me im the car but the whole time they were talking about ticks and seemed to care more about that then the fact they were hurting me. I was driven to a hospital and i dont remember in between details but somehow i made it from the field to an isolation room. The 2 cops that took me, like 2 nurses and 2 security guards came at me with a needle. Obviously i don't want to be drugged so im struggling. Im cuffed still so im trying to defend myself by biting. I never land a bite. im more or less just snapping at them. They leave, take the cuffs off and im screaming and banging on the glass because im in a paniced state, locked in a room, and dont know where im at. There is a single matress on the floor amd i take the sheets off and try to strangle myself. They come and stop me and take them. I then try again with the string of my mask and now they are saying im just doing it for attention/trying to get them to open the door. They come drug me again and take the mask. There was a water bottle on the floor do i poured the water on the floor and pushed it under the door (idk why tbh). I got very weak from 2 rounds of medication and gave up. I wasnt concious but could feel the coldness of the room on me. I was very cold. I woke up in a different room after being unconscious for about 16 hours and my mom was there. She took me home. They wanted to admit me to the mental unit there but somehow luck was on my side and they didnt. I was coverted in brusies and cuts for weeks after from the cops and the meds they gave me led to my dissociations to become extreme. Remember the toaster? Yeah they said i tried to burn the house down. They also accused me of threatening people and destroying property.
December of 2022 a contacted me on snapchat. I told her my snap while there and out of no where one day she remembered it. We talked about what happened after i left. The staff had told the kids that my mother lost custody of me and i basically belonged to the government now and that i was to stay in a mental facility till further notice and that i was physcotic. Even though it wasnt true it is against hippa. A told me that she had exchanged personal numbers with staff. She told me that z1 stole the teachers phone so everytime they went in and out of the building they were to be metal detected (the school was a seperate building of the house). She told me that kids continued to sh and z1 and her almost got in a fight because z1 was supply people with things to sh. A also told me that the girl i was replaced with they caught her masterbating multiple times. We had yoga pillows we took from the gym and i domt know what they hid in them but they hid something and after the phone incident they did really deep searches and found the things in them.
Honestly newport was wild and didn't even feel real. There was literally wild peacocks roaming the property. I have ptsd from all of it but mostly the cops. I get flash backs, cant get near a cop and cant get handcuffed without panicing (i used wear them for fun time wink wink. Now i cant). I dissociate horribly now. My memories dont feel like my own unless they were tramatic. I became addicted to sex and began using it as a form of sh like i did previously. I got addicted to weed and nic to cope. Ive since got over both but i wasnt sober at all from may 2022 to january 2023. Fuck you newport.

Hello
I'm looking for audio solution for my living room TV - nothing special, just a 55in basic TCL model. I'm wondering whether it's better to get a cheap soundbar (i.e. Creative Stage V2 2.1, currently on sale for €90), or some 2.0/2.1 speakers (Edifier R1280T for €100, Logitech Z533 for €120 etc.)
I don't want to spend a huge amount of money - in my previous apartment, I was actually very happy with my old (but decent) 2.1 PC Speakers (Modecom MSF-15), worth probably €50, but I can't use them anymore.
I care somewhat about music quality (Spotify from TV, or via BT from smarphone if equipped), I'm not really a cinophile - I watch stuff from Netflix&co., but anything better than TV speakers should be fine for that.

The story of a fallen devil
ONIDA was the first TV that came into my household. The long-eared devil with its horns in the ONIDA ad never looked scary in my childhood. One day that TV failed and my family bought a Samsung. The age of ONIDA was over in my house and we never looked back.
https://www.themarcomavenue.com/blog/the-downfall-of-onida-inconsistent-positioning-marketing-failure/

You guys may have heard of the context window improvement in GPT-4 and the new 8k and 32k context windows that would allow users to create longer pieces of text, analyze larger documents and handle longer conversations without losing context.
However, GPT-4 itself says its context window is still 4,096 tokens. In my experience, its max completions are always around 630~820 tokens (given short prompts) and the max prompt length allowed is 3,380 tokens.
Confronted about it, GPT-4 says "there is a restriction on the input length enforced by the platform you are using to interact with the AI, which limits the prompt length to a certain number of tokens. This limitation helps ensure that there is sufficient room for the AI to generate meaningful and informative responses within the context window of 4096 tokens".
So although the model is theoretically capable of handling 8k and 32k contexts, we currently do not have access to these expanded windows through the web app. It's unclear whether the 8k context window is being enforced for remembering context.
Does anyone have any additional information on this topic?
Token counts as per OpenAI tokenizer

Dealer name: Jtime
Factory name: GMF
Model name (& version number): 126000 GMF 1:1 Best Edition 904L Steel Silver Dial on SS Bracelet VR3230 V2
Price paid: $488
Album Links: https://imgur.com/a/mLbuI3b
Index alignment: Does the 7:00 marker look as bad to me as anybody else? Appears to be closer to the 6 then aligned in the middle of the 7:00 marker. 4:00 looks fine
Dial Printing: looks fine
Date Wheel alignment/printing: looks fine
Hand Alignment: looks fine
Bezel: brushed looks fine
Solid End Links (SELs): n/a
Timegrapher numbers: n/a
Anything else you notice: I really could not get past the 7 marker and line up. To my amateur eyes everything looks..fine. Just want someones input on GL/RL

I count myself among the people that are amazed of what those models can do and how they can impact our society.
However, it's very important to understand that they are not magical solutions for every problem and that they cannot reason at all.
ChatGPT as a query engine on a giant corpus of text – r y x, r (ryxcommar.com)
What is more impressing is that, given this mental model of ChatGPT as a giant query engine, how can it perform activities that involve creativity outside of his training data? Like, for example, writing a poem in the style of Shakespeare about the proof that there are infinite prime numbers? Surely there are no examples of that in the training data! My answer would be that for some tasks interpolation works well (you can somehow get something meaningful by interpolating known stylistic elements and known semantical elements into something "new"). But when the task is more symbolic or discrete, instead of interpolative, like true reasoning, and there are no examples to retrieve an answer from, the system has a much harder time.
That is, I am alligned with F. Chollet views on this:
François Chollet en Twitter: "You can retrieve not just what was seen at training time, but arbitrary combinations of it. It's an interpolative database and program store, with a natural language interface. https://t.co/2mv2gnI3oM" / Twitter
François Chollet en Twitter: "This paper has the right idea: use symbolic logic for discrete reasoning and lean on deep learning models for perception and common-sense intuition. https://t.co/9lP8eDZKkO I expect to see a lot more progress along these lines in the coming months / years." / Twitter

1. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗲(𝘀) 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘂𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀? So, let's start off with 16 Personalities. My very first result I can't remember what it was, but I feel like I had a purple avatar (I'm leaning towards INTP, hell maybe even INTJ) and can't remember if I was Turbulent or Assertive, but I was very likely Turbulent. Second time I took it I was INFP-T, and then a few more times still INFP-T. Few months later I got INTP-T. And when I take it nowadays I end up getting INFJ-T and INTP-T more. INTJ-T a few times though, INFJ-A and INTP-A once. Sakinorva I get INFJ and INTJ, Michael Caloz INFP and recently INTP, Keys2Cognition INFP and ISFJ, MistypeInvestigator I usually get INFP, but last time I did it I got INTP, IDRLabs usually INTJ or INFJ, but last time I took the test I got ISTJ or ISFJ with leading Si.
   
2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝘅 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗮 𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀 𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗮 𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘀, 𝗻𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻? 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗮𝘆? 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗼? 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁? I would definitely talk about the interesting ideas, because I'd say I'm pretty open to others thoughts and opinions on things. Even though I'd be pretty anxious to get the thing that needs fixing done on time, my heart would probably be racing but still willing to talk to the person hearing their ideas out.
   
3. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲𝘀? My most important values are my personal space, my family, friends, video games, technology, movies, TV shows, the internet, my car, food, drinks, and my college education.
   
4. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗰𝗮𝗿 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗿 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴. 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗮 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝗶𝗺𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹/𝗿𝘂𝗱𝗲/𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗲𝗹. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻? 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸? 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗮𝘆? I'd most likely be quieter, wouldn't call them out directly for it, but give slight hints of why I'd disagree. I wouldn't flip out on the person because of it even if it would make me angry, but I would text my other friends after the car ride reflecting on why that one person said something like that.
   
5. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗶𝘇𝗲𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁? 𝗪𝗵𝘆? I'm energized by video games like Call of Duty, Fortnite, and Overwatch. I tend to be a bit more competitive when it comes to online games like that, and I value my performance in them. Same with when I used to play Tennis and Bowling. When I ride my Peloton bike, I prefer doing a lot of work in a short amount of time, rather than a long time. On the social aspect, I'm energized by hanging out with my friends sitting at a bonfire, engaging in intellectual/controversial conversations or conversations that about things that we're interested in. When I play Quiplash with my friends, I'm engaged by all the prompts and try to come up with the funniest/most shocking answer to get my friends to die laughing and vote for it.
   
6. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁? 𝗪𝗵𝘆? Very long physical activities, like if I were constantly playing a sport, walking, or biking for hours I'd feel so drained. I also can get drained by certain social situations, like I never want to stay long at things or be going out to different places all the time. I prefer being in one place with them.
   
7. 𝗗𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗿 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱? 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁? (𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗯𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲) I'm definitely more introverted. I'm a very reserved guy, quiet, and shy person. Growing up as an only child was a pretty big part of this, and meeting new people was tough since it takes a lot of time for certain people to grow on me until I'm fairly comfortable with them. In school, looking back I thought I was just selectively mute. I remember just not saying a single word to people up until the 3rd grade. One of my best friends/neighbor (ENFP on 16P, could still be ENFP or ENTP) we'd get on the bus and it was weird that I just don't think I said anything until I got home, which is when I was talkative. I'd very much rather stay at home than going out everyday socializing, potentially engaging in bad behaviors. I never went to parties, American football games (being considerate of the international people here so there's no confusion :) ). My friends tried to get me to go one and wasn't sure, but once they started pressuring me I refused.
   
8. 𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳, 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀? My greatest strengths are just being nice and kind towards others, being a loyal friend, good in emergencies, can be goal-oriented, and sensitive to others feelings. My weaknesses are that I can be passive-aggressive, too quiet, undisciplined (as far as school work ethic goes, I'm disciplined in my behavior), in my head a lot not focusing on what's infront of me too much, bottling up emotions, avoidant, feeling like I can't facing my problems, a bit stubborn at times, can be unmotivated, and wasting time alot with my interests when I should be doing something productive.
   
9. 𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱. 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝘆? 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲. I'd say there's a few stages of my stress. I'm usually at Stage 1 or 2, which is not outwardly showing it but internally I can feel very stressed/frustrated. Stage 2 is more panic, and I start to show it more. Stage 3 I start completely panicking, getting frustrated/more emotional especially if I'm right at a deadline and I need a certain grade to maintain good numbers. Stage 4 (doesn't happen very often) I'll have a breakdown of frustration and starting hitting things in anger and crying after.
   
10. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 "𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝘁"? I have a soft spot for things I'm nostalgic about. I love going back to watching old ROBLOX videos from when I played consistently, and when I watched videos of before I started playing on Youtube. I love looking back on Google Earth of places I'm familiar with and try to go back in time as far as possible to see how different things were. Like noticing old buildings that aren't there anymore, cars, little details. And I love seeing old yearbook pictures of the schools I went to, it shows a different time, where I was younger or not even born, and what would be to come into the future where I actually attended those places.
    
11. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘀/𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 (𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗮𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲)? My thoughts and ideas that I have are mostly centered around technology. Like for example, I love playing Xbox, and I would love if Microsoft got their hands onto the portable console market, like pack all of the power of a Series S into a device that I can hold in my hands, and play it on the go if I'm at college or somewhere else. I hope they do a portable console eventually, it'll literally change everything.
    
12. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗼? (𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱, 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝗱, 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲) 𝗜𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮 𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸? 𝗜𝗳 𝘀𝗼, 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁? Feedback can make me very anxious, because if it's a bit harsh it'll put me off of something, but I feel like harshness is necessary because it's the truth. And I rather someone tell me the full truth about something so I can have clarity, and refer back to it for future feedback, and also it feels REAL. None of that sugarcoat crap to make me feel better and not learn anything from it.
    
13. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝘃𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗴𝗼𝘁? 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝘆? Treat others the way you'd like to be treated. I pretty much like everything and everyone to be fair, no one higher above the other or different emotional things weighing things down.
    
14. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀? 𝗪𝗵𝘆? 𝗘𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 There's not really anything that I wanted to hear from them exactly. But I just definitely want to maintain the good relationship that I have with them for as long they live.
    

𝟭𝟱. 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱? I perceive the world as something that evolves through time. Technology is rapidly advancing, giving advantages to people, new things are being discovered, for the benefit, or worse for the world. So many things can change over time, like I said with Google Earth I love comparing how things are now compared to back then. It shows me how much civilization has evolved, and I love thinking about how things will look in the near and far future.

1. Dealer name: Hont
2. Factory name: IDK?
3. Model name (& version number): IDK
4. Price paid: $261
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7. Index alignment: I think it looks good but 12 maybe is crooked?
8. Dial Printing: Not knowledgeable enough to answer.
9. Date Wheel alignment/printing: Not knowledgeable enough to answer.
10. Hand Alignment: Not knowledgeable enough to answer.
11. Bezel: Not knowledgeable enough to answer.
12. Solid End Links (SELs): n/a
13. Timegrapher numbers: Not knowledgeable enough to answer.
14. Anything else you notice: to a noobs eye it looks ok to me.

Hello everyone, before i jump directly into issue, i would love to give a bit of background of our both and kind of relation we have.
Myself: I am from Asia and living in Europe. I define my self very open, direct, caring and disciplined person. I love exploring new things and being between people.
She: She is from Germany and living in Europe. She is also very open, direct, caring person. She loves interior designing and watching trash tv.
So we both came together almost a year back. During our start of relationship, we found out that we have a number things in common w.g love for designing, aesthetic, clothing (not buying any cloth with plastic in it), going out for walks and many more. But over the time, we both found that there are things on which we have totally different opinion. This is also good thing to have.Because i think having same opinion on everything is really boring in a relationship and it create no space for conversations. Going ahead, whenever we meet, we have good time cuddling and spending wonderful moments together.
But then i think either my expectations or her expectations starting kicking up. Being from different culture, sometimes it is difficult to clarify things that she asked or wanted to know and i just said her in a very open way may be (not must) she can learn a bit about my culture. She can learn it over time, there is no must. So that, when she travels with me, she doesnot feel alone or dumb sitting in people. She find it me being Pushy. She clarify it by saying: 'when i never want to live there, why should i be concern about culture. ' This was first point where our relation took a wrong turn (what i think). She love trash tv a lot. i mean all these realty shows on netflix and so. It has happened number of times that she has prioritised these shows over our meeting. Every time i tried to talk to her to find that what is happening or how we can find a solution to this: she just being agressiv in conversation, which really make me sad (don't know why, may be because of my expectations or not being respected). Everytime she wants things to go in wayy she likes. Then she says that for her, her friends and me both have same priority, She has no problem with her friends to skype like 5 hours, but she doesnot want to have 5 min. facetime with me to say good night (jus to mention, she doesnot like texting or calling in day, which i also understand and think so, as we both are busy in out daily life).
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So yesterday i asked her how about meeting this week as we haven't seen each other for 1 week, and i was trrying to loook which day, we both have time. I suggested saturday evening - she said she is going out with friends, which is good in my opinion. In relation person should also enjoy their own life. Then i suggested friday, but on friday she have other meeting with friends. Then i said ok i will shift my physiotherapy from thursday. lets meet on thursday and her answer was no, on thursday there will be live trash tv on tv. I said but you can see it in repeat teelcast and her answer was no, i am into the story. Now i dont know how can solve this problem again this time. Everytime we had such kind of situation, i have kept my hurted feelings on side and tried to solve the issue, because for me she matters and in relation one has to do it. This time i told her she should try finding and solving this issue, and she was like: 'You got angry thats your problem, solve it yourself'. Every time i explain her being immigrant far away from family is not easy. I have only her, with whom i feel being loved.
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TL ;DR: i am feeling being having no place in her life and being not respected. am i right or is it my ego ?
Any suggestions will be helpfull

This is becoming beyond annoying, I have tried with Seren, Umbrella and FEN and it is always the same results.
I'm using Kodi Nexus 20.1 (Kodinerds edition, I have the same results using the PlayStore version) with a Nvidia Shield TV Pro 2019 with SE 9.1.1 (Kodi was way worse in 8.2.3. BTW).
All I get from Kodi is lags, crashes and every kind of imaginable bug, meanwhile Stremio (as a lighter app that it is) behaves way better with my Shield along with RD.
I'm using those add-ons with a RD account and when watching media randomly I will get: "cache 0%" sometimes stucks there or goes up to a random number, but is RARE when it auto resumes.
Shouldn't Kodi auto resume after caching? Like every other app?
I can tell this is more like a Kodi issue than an Internet issue, because I use a widget to see how much bandwidth is it being used, and when it stucks in cache X% I notice my Shield stops using download speed, and hence Kodi stuck forever, until I hit the pause button and resume it manually of course.
What I have tried:
Changing CDN servers of RD.
Restarting the Shield and the router.
Testing two Kodi versions.
Turning off the Plex Media Server of the Shield (which Kodi automatically kills when playbacking anyway lol).
Turning off the internet speed widget (for keeping minimal the resources I guess).
Playing around with cache in the advancedsettings.xml file.
Force closing all the apps but Kodi.
Debloating the Shield.
Cleaning up the cache within Android config, individual add-on or using Open Wizard add-on.
I honestly have no clue what else to do, I mean, even if my internet speed isn't the greatest it SHOULD resume content playback after it caches it (hence the function alone of caching).
This is the most important aspect I'd want to get fixed first, I'm not even mentioning that Kodi slows down the hell out of my Shield while doing this caching process (it kills Plex Media Server and the Internet widget, then they sometimes restart, sometimes don't).
I suppose the Shield should be powerful enough to handle these tasks, I mean Kodi with PKC can playback 4K files with big bitrates without any issues at all.
Does anyone else have these kind of issues with Kodi and the Shield?