I’ve been a fruit lover my whole life, but honestly—over the last decade or so—I’ve kind of let it slide and barely touch the stuff anymore.
But then, whenever I actually do indulge—like just two weeks ago, I polished off a whole pound of cherries because I figured, hey, maybe this will help me live longer—well, what happens? Every single time I go overboard on fruit, I end up running a fever and feeling like garbage for a couple of days. It’s becoming a bit of a pattern...
My question is, could it be that my immune system just doesn't have the energy to fight off bacteria or viruses under normal circumstances, and it only finally decides to gear up and go to "war" once it gets a massive hit of Vitamin C from all that fruit?
Thanks, everyone.
I don't think it's quite like that, though I'm definitely no doctor or anything. If you're slamming that much fruit at once, it might just be a shock to your system—sort of like how someone with diabetes might react if they overdid it on the sugar. In my opinion, you should probably ease back into it... just take it slow and let your body get used to the fruit again. I wouldn't call it an immune system thing so much as a digestive issue—basically, just seeing how much your body can actually process at one time.
So, I picked up some random, off-brand Chinese Bluetooth adapter, and honestly... it’s been a headache. It just refuses to play nice whenever I try to pair it with my hands-free gear, like my wireless headphones. Now I’m looking to just bite the bullet and order something actually decent from eBay.
The problem is, trying to sift through the garbage to find something high-quality is exhausting...
I'm not interested in just blindly following the big-name brands, either—because let's be real, they often charge a massive premium for outdated tech that should have been obsolete years ago.
One listing says it uses a Boeing 747 protocol—wait, no, it says BT500, then another says BT400... then there's stuff that doesn't even mention versions, just "Class 2." One spot says version 2.1, another says 4.0... it's all just a confusing mess of numbers. I just want something reliable with a solid range.
Here’s the handful of things I managed to pull together... http://www.ebay.com/itm/GMYLE-Blueto...wAAOSwT5tWMxtH
There’s this one from Hewlett-Packard... http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-bt500-Blu...wAAOS5ZBWPwyo
Then there's this Delock option... http://www.ebay.com/itm/Delock-Adapt...wAAOSwd2xXQC3e I actually bought a USB hub and a USB-to-serial adapter from them at a local shop once, and I didn't have any issues with those, so they seem alright.
And this one from Hama... http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hama-Bluetoo...YAAOSw3mpXHQBW
If anyone has a better suggestion, feel free to drop a link. I'd love to hear what you guys think is actually worth the money.
So, I signed up for a single month on e-spajalica.com, thinking it was just a one-off thing... turns out they’ve got me on a recurring subscription I didn't ask for. Basically, I entered my card info, got redirected to the JP Morgan Chase 3D secure page—just like you see here http://postimg.org/image/huici916p/—and confirmed everything with apply1.
The problem is, trying to cancel this thing on their site is a total nightmare. It's not intuitive at all. They actually want me to mail a physical faxed cancellation form to some office they have over in the UK or something... ridiculous. And if I don't jump through those hoops, they won't even let me delete my profile. Honestly, at this point, I'm just going to call JP Morgan Chase and have them block the charge entirely.
So, I was using online banking and ended up buying some service on a website. I punched in all my card details and had to authorize everything through the mobile app... What I didn't realize was that I’d accidentally signed up for a recurring subscription. I just noticed it on their site, and even worse, they already pulled the funds for this month without any warning. Now the site is telling me—get this—that if I want to cancel, I have to actually fax a physical piece of paper to their office. That sounds like a total headache, so I’m trying to figure out how to just kill the authorization directly through my online banking at JP Morgan Chase Does anyone know how to stop this???
So, I ran into some error in an app, and since those things tend to hang sometimes—where even killing them via Task Manager does nothing because the whole system just freezes up...—I decided to just restart the PC. But when I booted back up, I got stuck with Diagnostic & repair Tool
It doesn't actually find any errors or anything... it just sits there giving me options to either restart again or dive into advanced options. So, I go into advanced, trying to get into Safe Mode, but it just loops right back to that same
---- Anyway, dropping some more info here after sitting on this for a few hours
I plugged in a Windows 8.1 USB drive I downloaded earlier today and ran
chkdsk /r
That took nearly two hours because I have a massive amount of data on here
And then I also
ran bootrec /fixmbr bootrec /fixboot bootrec /rebuildbcd
And after all that, turns out none of it helped at all
I could technically perform a Hard reset, but I really don't want to... I have this one specific application that’s a nightmare to reinstall because I need a separate license key. It's hard to explain, but it's a farming app that manages the feeder systems. Reinstalling is such a headache because First, once the software is installed, I have to call a technician who takes a code generated by the app, sends it to corporate, and then we have to wait five days or even longer just to get the activation code back. On top of that, you have to manually configure the app so it talks to the feeder hardware... it's a total mess.
That's why I'm trying to fix the OS specifically where the error is. I need to know how to repair the bootloader or whatever is glitching out. Is there any way to use commands to just refresh the bootloader without touching everything else???
Any help would be appreciated... I'm honestly getting pretty desperate and Google isn't helping much. All I've found so far is chkdsk and those bootrec commands.
System restore is out of the question too, since I never had a restore point enabled... that option was turned off.
Do you have integrated graphics? Try switching the monitor over to those instead of the dedicated card—if the issues persist, then you'll know for sure what we're dealing with...
I remember standing on a massive pier back when I was just a kid—it felt huge, but honestly, I didn't even feel it hit the bone. We just wiped it down with some rubbing alcohol and called it a day. As for tetanus, I’d already been vaccinated. My doctor mentioned those shots usually last about ten years, so you're supposed to get a booster every decade or so. You probably got a higher dose this time, and since you’ve got another appointment coming up in a few months anyway, it’s likely they’re just trying to kickstart your immune system so it kicks in faster against the tetanus... Everyone knows vaccines don't work instantly—it's the same deal with the flu shot. Your body needs time to actually process the stuff and start cranking out antibodies. How fast it works for *you* specifically? I doubt any doctor could give you a straight answer on that. That kind of data belongs to the pharmaceutical companies who run the massive clinical trials to see how effective it is across large populations.
My grandma’s been struggling with macular degeneration lately... she went in to get a new prescription for glasses, but the doctor basically told her there was no point—the issue is deep in the retina, some kind of permanent damage or whatever—so instead of new lenses, they put her on Maculon Plus to try and slow down the progression. And honestly? It actually worked. What I’m trying to say is—if it's affecting both eyes, we aren't really talking about a simple vision fix... it's more likely an issue with the retinas themselves, if you follow me. Usually, once your primary care doc gives you a referral, it's because they suspect the root cause might be something else entirely... maybe another underlying condition or even a side effect from other meds she's taking.
Looks like nobody here actually has an answer for you 😁 honestly, I'm just as lost as everyone else...
You really ought to go see a doctor—just see what they have to say, then come back and share the experience here because, frankly, I'm curious too about what the diagnosis ends up being.
I don't want to play doctor or anything, but it could be something like a blocked artery—you know, where the blood flow just gets cut off entirely. If that’s the case, you really need to act fast... you don't want to end up in a situation where they're talking about amputation because of gangrene.
So, I picked up a Tomato Bon subscription through my neighbor, but I haven't actually activated it yet. Now there’s this number showing up on my bank statement that’s way too long—like, more than 14 digits... what am I supposed to do about this?
He wasn't actually bringing up codecs—I was just venting about how much I wish there were better 🙂
Look, a buddy of mine has a decent enough ADSL package, but he was just wishing there was some way to trim things down if possible. It’d be way easier to shrink the file size during processing rather than sitting around forever waiting for an upload to finish...
@Bradley Lewis59/">@@Bradley Lewis59 fiber isn't really an option out here yet—we aren't exactly near a major metro area, and my friend doesn't have the cash to upgrade his service. I heard from this girl that some college campuses have internet speeds ten times faster than what we've got with ADSL, so maybe we could just head over there with a laptop and blast the upload through their network 😁
rowdybadger18, I get it—my buddy’s been obsessing over ways to shrink his files just to speed up those upload times... but man, trying to compress stuff without losing all the quality is a total headache. Honestly, I can't help but think things would be a hell of a lot easier if we just had a codec that actually outclassed x264 when it comes to compression ratios.
rowdybadger18, I was wondering... if I process a video through something like Apple and end up with a 450MB file, is there any way to shrink that down using another program without absolutely nuking the video quality?
Alexander Moore67 said:I've been running a 2TB Western Digital Green for three years now—mostly just using it for storage—and honestly, I haven't really felt a difference in speed...
I've got a 1TB Western Digital Green myself, though I'm running macOS on it, so I can't really give you a real-world comparison... but looking at the specs, a Green is basically just a power-saving version of a hard drive, so there's no way it's going to outpace something from BlackRock or any other brand that isn't focused on efficiency 😁 but it's hard to say for sure without actually testing them against each other 😁 which is why I usually just stick to what the spec sheet tells me.
rowdybadger18 said:To put it simply, yeah, it’ll do exactly what you need it to do. It might not be the fastest thing on the planet, but based on the specs, it’s actually decent—it has a 128 MB buffer, spins at 7200 RPM, supports NCQ... you really can't ask for much more than that. Besides, you're just tossing it into an external enclosure, so you wouldn't even be tapping into its full potential anyway.
Thanks, that's the one I'm ordering. 🙂
Can anyone explain what NCQ actually is?
And if you're the type who knows this stuff... most Western Digital drives and the rest of the competition usually push about 64MB of buffer, so is having 128MB actually a real advantage, or is it just some marketing gimmick to get people to spend more?