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My Macbook is very old and it gives me some headaches sometimes, but I can't afford another computer right now so I need to fix this. I'm using OS X Mavericks.
It started yesterday when, out of nothing, I simply couldn't do a thing in the computer. When I tried moving files from one folder to another, it gave me "error -50" (same goes for renaming the files). Firefox crashed and the Crash Reporter wouldn't open (instead there was a message saying it could not send reports and the program left a file or something). The game I was playing (Dungeons...
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Um. The plist is a file that generally stores your preferences for programs, and deleting them can sometimes be beneficial depending on what program that plist is for. I'm not telling you to delete it but it's probably not the problem.
Have you tried resetting your pram?
>>17273483
Yes I did it and it still boots into OS X Utilities.
>>17273510
Can you restore from time machine?
How long does it take you to get over a breakup?
Is a month normal or is that too long?
Too short actually. For me it was like 4 months for a 3 years relationship. I think my case was even really a short time compared to others
>>17273467
We only dated for 3 months, and it's been one and I still think about it all the time. I think it's because I still don't know truly why we even broke up.
>>17273440
If building a MG is too short, get a PG.
Hey /adv/ here's a question for you.
About a week ago I was at my cousin's house and they were smoking pot outside for like 5 minutes. I was sitting across the table from one of them. How possible is it that I can fail a drug test from second hand smoke from this? I don't smoke personally, but i know that THC can be absorbed through secondhand smoke.
Kind of a stupid question but I'm sort of freaking out and I need someone to calm me down. Thanks.
Not a detectable level.
>>17273473
whats normally the level?
bump. C'mon /adv/ more people need to set me straight.
>go on tinder date with a girl from my uni who is a known slut
>meet up at a bar
>she says she doesn't fuck on the first date
>I knew she saw me as a beta and decided to act on it
>smacked her beer over and called her a cunt
>left without paying
>she's going to tell all her friends
Now I'll never get laid. What do?
alpha as fuard
>act like an asshole
>be surprised when things don't play out in your favour
>>17273432
"Oh good! thought you were going to rape me tonight and was debating over coming to meet you or not"
Am I a bad person if I don't want to be there for my friends' bad times because I wouldn't want them to be there on my own because I wouldn't want to bore them?
You know the answer to this already.
Aka, don't be a shitcunt.
There are people DYING for their friends. Now, I'm not saying you have to go that far. But just being a shoulder and an ice breaker is enough support and friendship solidificaction.
Just keep that in mind.
>>17273428
What I'm saying is: since I don't like people minding my business and trying to "help" me when I'm down, I wouldn't want them to expect me to do the same thing for them.
>>17273431
Ah, I get you.
>Jetlag is a bitch
Still, the shoulder bit I posted. Your friend will return the favour, and you'll be hard pressed to stop them.
You're not a bad person for being stubborn, everyone does it. But don't completely dismiss your mates and their desire to support you.
My bf used to cut himself and wants to do it again. I have no idea what to tell him or do about it.
Tonight he texted me that he has a blade and that someone made fun of his family member's death, and I had no idea what to say. Sure I said that this person was uncool for making fun of that person's death, but then I got insensitive and asked about that family member's death (it happened before we started dating) and he told me "do I look like I want to talk about this"
and well that was two hours ago, I apologized for asking this, and we stopped...
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>>17273405
>Even so, I just feel like a really incompetent girlfriend and that I completely lack empathy.
You're fine. You can't empathize with crazy. You understood that he may have been upset because someone did something dumb like make fun of a dead family member, which is horrible. That's the same level of empathy that any normal person would employ to understand why someone would feel upset - because he may have been close to the dead family member and hearing a joke about...
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>>17273405
>I got insensitive and asked about that family member's death (it happened before we started dating) and he told me "do I look like I want to talk about this"
You weren't being insensitive, he's just being a bitch about it.
>>17273405
Dump him. Fucking autistic attention whore.
It is admirable that you're trying to stick with him through tough times but it sounds like he may use that to manipulate you into opening your legs, or in this case your mouth.
My seniors have been avoiding me for the past two weeks at work and I couldn't understand why. Several won't even say hello back to me while in passing. And earlier today I found out why.
One of our bosses took me aside and told me that she knew I was buying a house and that's the only reason why she was going to break policy...and if anyone were to find out I was told, she'd deny it and try to move it up... and said that next month I am going to be fired.
I am buying a house.
Closing on July 25th and I've already finalized all...
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Why do you need to get fired because of a house? This sounds unethical as shit
well, you can't afford a house, so don't buy one.
do you have a union? are you being fired or are you being laid off?
>>17273391
No, I guess I phrased that strangely.
I am going to be fired.
A supervisor broke policy to tell me this because she knows I am about to purchase a house.
Hey loves.
So I'm a pro am pornstar and need a nice list of video ideas to shoot while I have a break from Uni!
>>17273359
Give me some ideas pervs ;)
What would you want to see?
>>17273359
SURRREEEE you are.
Give us a bit of evidence and we will help you out.
Fetish videos would be a good idea. Logically should be able to get more views / purchases of your content by crossing over into a new niche. Fetish clothing/shoes, Domination, etc. could all be worked into your regular work right now.
My bf has the typical loudmouthed white mom that never shuts up. She will go on and on and barely lets anyone get a word in. Whenever she finally goes silent I start speaking, then the bitch looks at me and interrupts what I'm saying to drone on again. All I can do is just silently listen and Bertstare her, not that she notices. Bf admits it's a problem with her and occasionally interrupts her back to let me talk. Hell, bf's younger brother even does it too so I feel massively disrespected.
I have social anxiety so I don't speak up when needed, so whenever I do and she interrupts me it just crushes my confidence. There were times I had to keep repeating what I was gonna say and they keep talking over me and I just give up.
What is the socially acceptable way to get her and other people in general to stop? Do I have to actually interrupt her and say, "Excuse me, I was speaking" or is that just plain rude? I don't want to get bf's mom on my bad side, especially since she will be my future MIL.
>>17273357
Just live as far away as possible from her and you won't have a problem.
If you can't avoid her, ignore her. You don't have to listen to a word she says.
>>17273357
Accepting a relationship with your boyfriend means accepting a relationship with his mom.
Everyone has been or is with someone who has an irritating family member. Stop trying to talk to her, grin and smile, whip out your phone and start playing angry birds whenever she drones on, do whatever it is you have to do but you need to accept one thing; nothing you do will change her.
Accept it or find a different boyfriend. I dated a girl whose mom got drunk everyday and told me the same stories a million...
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>>17273373
>>17273376
Alright but what do I do for future encounters when other people interrupt me in a conversation? What's the proper protocol for this without coming off as too rude?
My parents got me a gaming laptop 2 years ago as a gift and I want to sell it for a car. Should I feel bad about this?
>>17273355
>Should I feel bad about this?
If I were your dad I'd be glad you were out driving around in the real world as opposed to sitting inside playing CS all day.
>>17273355
Two years ago? No, sell it my friend
2 years is a perfectly acceptable amount of time to use a gift, even an expensive one, before replacing it.
The power of association is real, and it is VERY POWERFUL.
If you surround yourself with things that encourage you, you WILL become better.
If you surround yourself with trash, you WILL become worse, or at least as bad as the things you surround yourself with.
You will eventually be on the same level as whatever you surround yourself with.
This is a TRUTH!
So, did you want advice, or...?
No, I was just giving advice.
Examples of how to use this practically?
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