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That's actually good to know I can put 7 on newer hardware once I'm more flush and can afford an upgrade. Regarding RAM and SSD prices, from my reading sadly it looks like this situation will continue for a very long time. In retrospect the prices I thought were highway robbery not long ago...

So you think it's a driver problem and not something else? At this point it's more of an occasional nuisance than something I can't live with. It's just strange how everything will be working fine and then suddenly it does, roughly after the system is up about 20 something days. So far my...

Yeah, I'm at the latest and last version. And yes, when the problem crops up I just reboot. I was trying to see if maybe someone else encountered this before and had an answer.

This is a problem I've had for probably a few years now but I've never asked about it. I have my two monitors set to turn off after 5 minutes. This works fine until my computer is on 20 something days continuously. After that the displays never go off. After 5 minutes they just randomly flash on...

Merc, you have my sympathies. I've had way too many of those kinds of weeks lately myself. My brother is a car expert. Maybe if I give him the specs of the tires he can locate a source local to you. At least you didn't get hurt. A blowout at highway speeds is serious business.

They recovered over $10 million so far. Torture is also how they pay for their crimes. I hope Cambodia has capital punishment for crimes like this.

So this is what I get for giving up over ten years of my life to care for my mother so she didn't end up in one of those horrible nursing homes? Being homeless? We really need caretaker laws to ensure that time spent caring for family members is taken into account when dividing estates...

Counseling is a waste of money. If I had money to spare I would be getting dental work. I'm already in considerable pain. This isn't a gamble. You're assuming every ICO is a rug pull. It's launching when they raise $15 million, which will happen in a matter of weeks. That's definite. What the...

I'll just hope the ICO bails me out then. I'll get about $2,500 USDT rewards each month when it launches, more if the price goes up. That's enough to live on.

They got hit with a bunch of withdrawals at the same time. Here's what I bought: https://cryptonews.com/price-predictions/blockchainfx-price-prediction/ I know a prediction is only speculation but there's a lot of consensus on the token reaching $1 or more this year. I'll also continue to get...

I'm dubious this is a rug pull. There's a working cryptocurrency exchange behind it. This is similar to the IPO of the Binance coin. Anyone who got into that IPO did very well. The coin sold for about 10 cents in the IPO. Now it's going for about $600. It peaked at a bit over $1,000. Do the...

I'm just going to ask if the members here can start a GoFundMe on behalf of me. Maybe you all have better knowledge of how to promote it so it actually gets donations. I'll give my bank account number for them to send the funds to. This is how desperate I am right now. You know the background...

Here's the problem. I have assets but they're not liquid. My money in my retirement accounts is currently frozen until next January. It's a long story but the short version is I took out a rollover to get the scam site to release my account. Of course they didn't but Chase had a hissy fit that I...

As everyone here may know last year I was scammed out of $260,000. This and the loss of most of my business income due to the tariffs, and someone pirating our device, has caused me to finally run out of liquid funds. Within a few days my electricity, phone, and Internet are going to be turned...

As an aside I was going to invest in a mutual fund which holds the stocks of companies providing electricity generation for AI data centers. The returns over the last two years were something like 50% annually. Now I think I'll pass. Only a matter of time before this bubble pops. And it IS going...

No it doesn't. I think the tech companies thought they could make a profit off AI because they would have legions of customers more than willing to pay them enough to make a profit, even given the exorbitant costs you mentioned. It turns out for most people AI is a solution in search of a...

I haven't in a while but holy shit! It looks like SSD prices jumped by a factor of 3 or 4 compared to what I remember. We were down to about $40 per TB on sale items. Now forget it. $200+ for 1 TB is the new normal. What's the reason? AI again? Bad enough it's making our electric prices spike...

So you have five now? Must be very lively at your place. Props for giving another stray a good home. He does sound like he was someone's pet. Why do people just abandon their pets like that?

I understand you have no need for a yard. There are attached homes on 20'x100' lots with very little yard space. My brother owns one. The idea though is to own where you live so you're not at the mercy of a landlord. I really wish we would build more homes designed for one or two people instead...

Holy crap! I knew this administration was evil but this takes the cake. Maybe he took a cue from his former buddy Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani partially solved the homeless problem in NYC by having the police round up homeless people and sell some of them to NYU for medical experiments. No idea what...

Houses have advantages and disadvantages. I have to maintain it myself. I have to shovel snow. I have to take care of the yard. It can be a lot of work at times. On the plus side it helps keep me more active than I might otherwise be. The advantages to me outweigh the disadvantages. I can have...

Sounds like it was bought out by a private equity firm. These firms are big reason housing is unaffordable in most places. Mark my words-since your complex is on the shore of Lake Michigan they probably eventually want to turn it into luxury condos or something similar. This is why I would...

Hopefully Trump will go the route of all dictators and wannabe dictators. To quote a line from the movie Valkyrie "The portrait will be unhung and the man will be hung."

I'm reading this as a sign they want to bring back the draft, as one of the comments mentioned. If we send troops on the ground in Iraq we'll need far more than a volunteer military can provide. All of here had better get prepared to be drafted. Age won't save you. They were going to draft up to...

Even before the Internet kids got their fill of that stuff looking at dirty magazines. I remember the time me and my siblings stumbled across my father's stash. My mother of course went ballistic that he even had that stuff in the house, especially with young children around.

Interesting how the minute people become inconvenient Trump throws them under the bus. That said, I'm glad "ICE Barbie" will be gone. She's a nasty bitch in every sense of the word.

I did figure out that they completely control the platform, even though they act like it's a separate entity. I'm thinking a good hacker might be able to change the withdrawal permissions on the platform and let us take out our money, assuming of course there's still money there to be taken...

Here's my full trading history with them. Once I got my account to over $300K (in part thanks to $176K Xinyue loaned me) and started "officially" investing with them on September 11, 2025 Chen got my account to over $2 million in a little over a month, or so it seems.

Wow, the similarities to my experience are amazing. Like you, she claims to be in love with me but of course I didn't fall for it. I thankfully don't fall in love easily, much less with someone I never met in person, but I feigned being love with her so as not to hurt her feelings. I enjoyed...

Hopefully they'll eventually get caught and we'll both get some restitution. I hope you reported them to the FBI and SEC. The more leads they have the better. Now "Jiaxin", or whatever her name really is, is supposedly working with a friend to get back my money. We'll see if anything comes of...

Now oil prices will spike and the markets will tank. Fun times ahead. :(

Except I'm not sending her any more money.

Thank you, Greg. For what it's worth her uncle has what appears to be a legitimate profile on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zhi-wen-chen-23339a7b/ It was created over 12 years ago. Maybe these people aren't scammers. I do however think the fake Cointree site they used to "invest" is...

I would never send naked pictures to anybody. In fact I never took naked pictures of myself and never will. I don't use Meta at all anyway. For what it's worth "Xinyue" is still chatting with me and is attempting to help me. She's trying to borrow the money from her friends to unlock my...

Right now with what's going one cryptocurrency is looking better and better. Buy bitcoin or ethereum if you have any spare cash. Or even gold. I think gold will skyrocket soon past it's already lofty current price. The markets are tanking today, which seems to happen every single time Trump...

Not to mention the hiring pool for ICE was mostly pardoned January 6 protesters.

Besides that given the makeup of these places (i.e. heavily left leaning) that would keep the GOP out of power pretty much permanently. Venezuela would have more electoral votes than any other state except California. Canada would have about the same number.

Same reason it was an uphill battle to get the speed cameras in NYC to operate 24/7/365-drivers bitch about them and call them money grabs. This is despite the fact NYC's speed cameras have a very generous 10 mph cushion over the 25 mph speed limit before you get a fine. Stay under 35 mph and...

Trump tried and failed to make Canada the 51st state, so I guess he's settling for Venezuela instead.

I'm so sorry to hear this, Doug. She seemed like a real sweetheart and a wonderful companion. Take it one day at a time. Having been through this more times than I care to admit, at best you learn to live with the loss but you never really get over it. She gave you one last day of joyful...

Haven't you been a more or less normal weight for a long time? It sounds like they're thinking of the old you.

It's still over 1/3 of what I had. And the only reason I even had that much was because of my gig at Exxon for over 3 years. I pretty much invested most of what I had left after taxes. I can recover but it's going to be very difficult. I'm still trying to get my money back.

I'm glad your wife avoided being scammed. As for me, I was never 100% sure this wasn't a scam, so I held back to avoid losing my life savings. Granted, $260K is a lot to lose but I'm still in fairly good shape financially.

Exactly. I was just reading about a scam operation where they seized billions of dollars in bitcoin and over 100,000 people were scammed in a matter of months. Some lost their life savings and even their homes. I suspect what happened to me might be linked to that. On another note can you...

Yes it is. I'm still trying to recover my money. I have something else in the works now but I can't discuss it publicly. I will let everyone know if it works or not.

These people are obviously criminals. There's no doubt in my mind at this point. I posted the entire exchange here so the evidence against them is in a secure location.

Some updates. "Cointree" customer service claims I owe $100,000 on my loan and won't release my account unless it is paid. According to my calculations and the agreed upon interest rate I should only owe about $85,000. I threatened to report them to the authorities if they don't let me repay the...

The only solace here is a mistake on the withdrawal form for an annuity made me rethink cashing it in (i.e. I asked the scammer to loan me more money instead, and she did), and I decided to do a rollover for only $135K instead of the $210K I had originally planned. The $210K rollover, combined...

I appreciate this but if it comes to ending up homeless being dead is better. I haven't reached that point yet but it's possible. Even before losing this money if I had to sell the house and split the proceeds three ways I wouldn't have had enough left to live on.