Hello fellow regards and degenerates. Today, I would like to discuss the potentials and pitfalls of ENVX - Enovix Corp. engages in the design and development of silicon-anode lithium-ion batteries. The firm's proprietary 3D cell architecture increases energy density and maintains a high cycle life. It is also developing its 3D cell technology and production process for the electric vehicle and energy storage markets to help enable utilization of renewable energy. Currently at a market cap of 1.92B , the stock has taken a major beating through 2022 due to poor leadership and lackluster results in scaling the manufacturing of their batteries. Since the beginning of 2023, the company has replaced its leadership team including a new CEO Raj Talluri who has semi-conductor manufacturing experience from Micron and Texas Instruments. Their goal is to produce 180,000 batteries in their Fab1 factory located in Fremont, California by the end of 2023, and they have exceed their production goals of 9,000 in Quarter 1 2023, with a total of 12,500 batteries produced so far this year. I believe the new leadership is serious about scaling and will be successful with their goals. They are currently working on building a second factory in Malaysia that is expected to produce millions of batteries for wearables, cell phones, laptops, and eventually EVs and will be online by the end of 2023. The CEO is targeting $1 Billion dollars of revenue by end of 2027.
The company has a solid cash position with about $280 Million on their balance sheet and little debt at $25 Million; however, essentially no revenue and only a few thousand batteries produced thus far. It is not known what customers they have in the pipeline either. Risky play with potential massive pay-off if successful.
Short interest currently at 24% of float with 5 days to cover.
Disclosure: I am long 4,310 shares at an average price of $13.20.
Obligatory not financial advise invest at your own risk blah blah blah.
TLDR: Lithium Ion battery company with 24% short interest expected to ramp up manufacturing exponentially over the next few years. Speculative Play.

Part 1: https://www.reddit.com/ReddXReads/comments/13lfqkw/vulturebeard_the_legbeard_that_ruined_roomies_fo
Hi everyone, bunny here. I’m having Ezekial post this for me because while I lurk on reddit, I’m on too many online communities and burn out quickly on all of them. I’m just here to tell this incredibly long tale. Pull up a chair, grab a snack, get comfy. This is a long ride.
The Cast List
Bunny (author): 33, female, a year or so out of a divorce that turned toxic and abusive and ultimately helped me realize I was gay. Recovering lifelong doormat slowly building a spine. Neuro spicy gym rat with major depressive disorder, general anxiety disorder, and most recently diagnosed with ADHD. Unfortunately very familiar with surviving trauma.
Z (poster): My partner. 31, nonbinary (they/them), also neuro spicy with depression, anxiety, OCD, BPD, autism, and also familiar with lifelong trauma.
One Liner Beard (OLB): 33, male, neuro spicy with ADHD and depression. He also suspects autism but isn’t pursuing a diagnosis. His nickname here comes from the fact that in messenger, he usually has one-word replies like “oof” or “mmm” as an acknowledgement he had seen the message but has nothing further to contribute.
VultureBeard (Vulture): 30, female, neuro spicy and disabled with multiple conditions. She has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, POTs (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome), autism, depression, anxiety, chronic migraines, but also possibly a list of things that may or may not be real – that will all be explained. The star of this unfortunate circus. Her name will be explained in this part.
Kid: 3. Female. OLB and Vulture’s child. Likely neuro spicy like we all are, but she’s also only 3 years old. Slightly speech delayed and not potty trained yet.
Minor mentions:
Shit ass ex-husband (SA): name is self-explanatory. 32, male. Divorce was amicable to keep the peace. I immediately went no contact with him after.
J2: Friend of OLBs.
You ready? Deep breath. Now let’s dive into this mess.
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Chapter Two: VultureBeard, or the Walking Diagnosis
With the backstory of how we wound up with a neckbeard, a legbeard, and their kid out of the way, I’ll start on VultureBeard properly now.
J2 was the one who introduced her to OLB. He ran into her at a local convention, and they talked and spent the day together. He ended up sleeping over at her house, on her couch, since she lived a few minutes away from the convention center, and he introduced her to his D&D group that OLB was a DM for. He said that at first, he wanted to smash just based on looks (before she stopped caring for herself, before the pregnancy), until she opened her mouth.
Oh boy.
I met her on Halloween 2018 or 2019 (trauma made my memory absolute garbage, ain’t it fun?), when OLB wanted to run a one-shot Curse of Strahd campaign for our D&D group. J2’s group was called Party A, we were Party B. Both of our campaigns existed in the same universe that OLB created. It was a fun one shot. I liked her. We integrated her into our D&D campaign as a side character who joined our party.
With her autism, she talks a lot, and can have a conversation with anyone, but she does naturally miss a lot of social cues. She says it’s okay to be direct with her and say things like, “I can’t talk right now, I’m busy.” But in the wild, she just enjoys people. That in itself isn’t a bad thing.
When we met, she was a Mormon with long brown hair, glasses, and modest clothes with long ankle-length jean skirts. I don’t know if that was a lifelong practice or just the people she had associated with. She didn’t curse at all, and still substitutes “fudge” for my favorite and most often-used curse word. Over time, she dropped religion, but she only curses in text, and very rarely at that, like when she’s pushed to her mental limit. She still dresses in a lot of the modest clothes from before, but it’s mostly because she doesn’t go clothes shopping a lot. I have passed down some clothes I have shrunk out of to her.
Her fashion sense is a bit of Walmart-meets-Goodwill. The tired mom “this is clean, so I’ll wear it” kind of aesthetic. She’s big on thrifting, but so am I. Most of my wardrobe is thrifted or passed on from a few gym friends these days, so it’s not like I’m poking fun at secondhand clothes. It’s just that there’s a lack of style or effort on her part, like she just puts clothes on and sometimes remembers to brush her hair out. I think there’s a part of her that doesn’t recognize she’s plus sized after pregnancy because she once bought clothes that are size medium, and they didn’t fit. She fit my old 2X leggings. I traded her leggings once, my bigger size for her smaller size.
She and OLB don’t fold laundry or put it away, so she will have laundry stuffed in their hamper that they keep in our shoe closet next to the laundry room, or boxes on her desk, or on her desk chair. They kind of live out of that clothes pile. If she needs to dress in something nice, it likely is wrinkly because it was in an unfolded pile.
The first run-in with realizing that something was a little “off” with her was when she tried cooking for us. We had other friends over to play D&D and Magic with us, and she wanted to cook some kind of chicken and noodle dish. With her POTs (post orthostatic tachycardia syndrome), she’s usually sodium deficient so she adds way too much salt to whatever she’s eating. Not being used to cooking for others, she served us completely inedible chicken that was too salty.
One of my former friends was there for that debacle. What she also noticed was that Kid seemed to be behind some childhood markers. At 2, Kid was still using a bottle and didn’t seem to talk much. She was worried that Kid would keep falling behind. It was a red flag that got tucked away. At the time, I was still thinking of Vulture as a burned-out first-time neuro spicy mom. That’s a lot for a disabled woman to handle. As a disabled person myself, I tried to give her the benefit of the doubt. I gave her too much benefit of the doubt for way too long.
Vulture as a person focuses very much on herself. Because of the body aches and pains that come with both Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and POTs, yes, I understand that her body regularly fights itself. But why is it that every time her body expressed pain, she had to do a loud, “AH, OW” or other pain noises as loud as she could? Or she will complain about whatever is giving her trouble. Some days she will be using her computer quietly, then when I come out of my bedroom, she starts to complain about her daily aches and pains. This happens pretty much every day, for different reasons. Her sneezes are likewise as loud, to where I can hear her across the house, through a closed door and over the show Z and I are watching.
Most awkward is Vulture’s bathroom habits. In Apartment #2, I guess Vulture got used to using the bathroom with the door cracked because they lived in a house without roommates, and she needed to keep an ear on Kid. Even now in a shared space, she keeps the door cracked, sometimes with the light off so I don’t think anyone is in the bathroom because it’s more migraine friendly.
Until I hear the grunting.
THE GRUNTING.
THE POOP GRUNTING.
I have heard it through my closed bedroom door, because her bathroom is right next to my bedroom. Usually, it’s when my bedroom is quieter, like when Z and I are off to sleep. But I hear her grunting as she’s using the bathroom, either because the door is open, or she is just that loud. I’m terrified to know which one it is.
Her hygiene is questionable at best. I know personally that Depression™ makes hygiene and self-care extremely difficult. I myself do the best I can, especially while being constantly sweaty at the gym and a Big Sad (depression) fighter. So, I get mental illness and hygiene. With Vulture and her long hair, she would leave it in a bun for days until it matted. She asked for my help with detangling it and it took me around two hours to safely work the mats and tangles out. When she cut it in a homemade attempt to do the popular wolf cut on Tik Tok, it was much more manageable. When it’s shorter, it has tight curls. She constantly has a natural body odor smell to her. I think with her sensitive skin, she has to wear a specific unscented deodorant, but I don’t think she applies it unless she’s leaving the house. The sink in her and OLB’s bathroom is used as mostly a storage space with things piled on top of it, so I don’t think it’s used for much. The bathtub needs a deep scrubbing, and she gives Kid a bath more than she herself showers.
Having heard the poop grunting, I’m afraid to look at their toilet.
In general, Vulture isn’t active, but to say that she’s sedentary is a vast understatement. The average sedentary person looks like an Olympic athlete next to her. She occupies two spots in the house: Her bed, or the couch in the living room. For most of the day. She will just have her laptop either on the table next to her or in her lap, and that’s where she spends most of the day, gaming.
With me being a gym rat, I am incredibly proud of how I went from a couch potato to a weightlifter. When I think about what would happen if I suddenly dropped to her levels of activity, I know my body would fall apart. I often wonder if her lying in bed or on the couch contributes to more of her body pains because her muscles are deteriorating from disuse. I mean what do I know, I’m not a doctor. That body pain cycles to her being even more inactive because she hurts. It’s a big cycle of negativity.
When the weather changes drastically, she will be hit with migraines or allergy attacks, to where she has to lay down all day as well. She takes OTC pain medicine frequently, as well as allergy meds. One of her desk cabinets is a well-stocked mini pharmacy of OTC medication and some prescription medication she has collected over time that expired over a year ago. When I’m hit with a rare migraine, I know she will have something in stock for it.
Her doctor says she needs to eat more frequently because she’s always shaky. She will hold up her hand to show me how much it’s shaking, and it always looks as though she’s making it shake from the wrist, instead of it being an actual hand movement. She always tells me, “Look at this,” and holds up her shaking hand, like she’s trying to show me how bad she’s doing, but it’s for different reasons every time. She didn’t eat, she’s too tired, she has a migraine, she has sinus pain – everything gives her shaky hands, which I joked about once.
If she has a new symptom, she goes to Doctor Google to look up what’s wrong with her, and then talk in our house chat on discord that she thinks she might have “so and so” wrong with her because the symptoms match. Or she will post screenshots of whatever her symptoms are. As far as I know in the time living with her, she’s never had close medical calls or anything that needed further treatment, except for a heart study where she wore a device to monitor her heart rate. Doctor Google gave her all sorts of things she could have, though.
Within the time I started writing this saga, I had this encounter with her in the house group chat on discord that she, OLB, and I are in, about how she thinks she’s allergic to mosquito bites because the bites swelled up and got inflamed:
Vulture: Just figured out something I’m most likely allergic to: mosquito’s saliva reaction is increased inflammation around the bite site and the condition is skeeter syndrome.
Me: You should get that confirmed by a doctor. It’s mosquito season.
(it sounds like she copy/pasted that bit about mosquito’s saliva from Google)
Mind you, my former in-laws thought I was allergic to mosquito bites because the same thing happened to me. My mosquito bites swelled up beyond what they should look like, and mosquitos have a good nose at finding me in particular compared to other people. I tried to empathize with her, even though it just seemed like she wanted to identify with a syndrome she found on the internet.
She said that she had the same symptoms her friend’s dad had for GERD because her acid reflux was acting up. The GERD saga is a fun one as well, which I’ll fully share later.
Funny enough, if I also have something similar to what her current issue is, she doesn’t play Oppression Olympics and say hers is worse. I’ve been dealing with vertigo on and off for the past month and I don’t have the ability to see a doctor for it at the moment. So, when she says that she’s dizzy or the room is spinning, I express empathy or at least a little “oh, same here,” because I have to carefully move my body in ways that don’t make the room spin. It might be her autism, it might be because she doesn’t care, but she never expresses empathy my way. She just moves on.
I’ve told her multiple times she needs to see a doctor to check for each new symptom she has, but somehow there’s an excuse. The latest I’ve heard is, “I will once my phone is turned back on. It hasn’t been paid in a while.” Valid yes, but then please get off Google. Because she’s on government assistance and doesn’t have a car and doesn’t know how to drive, she’s ferried to her appointments by a medical bus that stops at the house. They do need to be able to call her. Just please get off Google in the meantime! I’ve even told her that Doctor Google and WebMD will say everything is cancer or fatal and it’s not good for you, and she just kind of brushed it off.
One of my friends calls her the Professional Victim. Z is convinced she has Factitious Disorder (formerly called Munchausen’s). She loves to hide behind her illnesses as to why she can’t get out of bed or can’t do chores. If you were to listen to her every day, you’d think she was falling apart at the seams because it was always something. Migraine, body pain, allergies, sinus problems or sinus infections, stomach problems, dizziness, shakiness. Repeat. Forever.
She will ask me if her forehead feels hot, and when I can’t tell, she checks with a thermometer. She says, “My natural body temperature is low so 99 degrees is a fever to me.”
This is also where I gave her a lot of benefit of the doubt at the beginning, because EDS and POTs will affect the entire body in different ways. One of my friends, in her casual dark humor, will have conversations with me about how she’s just not going to be able to walk properly that day, because her ankle joint slid out of place, but she still finished her work shift. I talk to my friend regularly about her struggles with her body, but somehow it doesn’t have the same self-pity that Vulture’s does. Every disability presents differently between people. As rare as EDS and POTs is, it’s pretty common in online communities because it’s where people tend to flock to. In my time in varying disabled online communities, I’ve never seen someone who complains or fishes for attention as much as Vulture does.
If she’s having a relatively good day, she will either be gaming, or maybe she will get to one of the chores that OLB tries to get her to do during the day, like doing the dishes or cleaning Kid’s room. When OLB had prescription Adderall (before the shortage made him switch to a different ADHD med), she took one of his pills and was zooming around actually being productive. She has symptoms of ADHD but doesn’t have a formal diagnosis, so OLB thought it might help her. It seemed to.
If she has a bad day, which is most of her days, she stays rooted on the couch or moves between her couch and her bed, moving her laptop with her. She spends all day building in Minecraft, completing her Pokedex, or playing other games.
Sometimes when I come out of my room to cook, she says something along the lines of, “I planned on cleaning today,” followed by vague hand gestures of how she’s feeling. I never asked her about her daily plans, but she needed to tell me. Is it self-awareness or guilt?
If she’s doing a load of dishes, she will loudly proclaim that she’s dizzy and shaky and in pain and have to go sit down after 10 minutes of that. I don’t know if she actually has the body strength to stay upright for longer than ten minutes at a time, and I don’t know if that’s her actual chronic illnesses, or the fact that she doesn’t do anything at all.
I’ve given her the same advice I use myself for low spoon (low energy) days when I need to get things done. I’ve told her it’s okay to take ten-minute breaks and then get started again. Or an hour break, if her body is giving her trouble. I’ve told her it’s okay to clean the house while sitting on the ground or in a chair, if that’s easier on her body. In managing my broken mental health, I’ve taught myself all sorts of life hacks, or as I call them, “brain hacks,” to work around how gross depression makes me feel. And I’ve told her that if it’s a really bad day, the dishes aren’t going anywhere and can wait until tomorrow.
That’s meant to be compassionate, not taken in the “if you give an inch, they’ll take a mile” sort of way, but it must be interpreted as permission to not do The Thing. It just won’t get done if she feels she has permission to skip over it.
If she does anything, she will want metaphorical ass pats for her good work. OLB jokes that it’s a praise kink, but some days it really seems that way without anyone consenting to participate in her kink. She asks if I noticed she cleaned the kitchen or did some kind of cleaning and if I’m proud of her. I used to play along with the praise because I wanted to give her positive reinforcement, like maybe if I emphasized that it was a good thing, she’d be more encouraged to do it more. I’ve got jokes, apparently. Optimism was so strong early in the friendship.
If she cooks, usually it’s something frozen that she can heat up like pizza. Most of the time, she exists on boxed macaroni and cheese or sandwiches. Or what fast food OLB brings home. Most of her diet is processed, instant, or frozen. Or she eats odds and ends like what cereal and junk food is brought home from the food bank or when OLB goes shopping.
Since SA left the house, I took up cooking for myself and exploring what I like to cook, as SA was the main cook for the house. My gym regimen helped me meal prep and confront a lot of my bad eating habits, so I started prepping healthier foods. I am the stereotypical lifter that eats a lot of chicken, rice, and vegetables. Z also likes to cook, and it became a way for us to bond by cooking together or one of us watching the other cook and just vibe in each other’s company.
VultureBeard gets her name because, one, she is a legbeard. But two, every time I made something early on with her living with us, she always said something along the lines of, “Ooh, that smells so good! It’s making me hungry!”
Me, in my doormat stage, took the cue that she dangled and offered her some of my food. Back then, I always tried to cook enough for the whole house. It became a pattern. If I cooked something, she always popped up, hungry and unable to make actual food for herself or somehow her illnesses were acting up and preventing her from cooking for herself. If I said I was popping over to the store, sometimes she would ask if I could pick up a soda for her and occasionally, she would be able to pay me, always in loose change because her disability payments went right to the bills that she and OLB had. I always took the bait because yeah, doormats will doormat and vultures will vulture.
She does reciprocate in small ways, sharing some occasional treats with me or saying I can have some of her mac n cheese or Oreo cookies or French fries or whatever food she has some days. But for the most point, a lot of her behavior feels like fishing – fishing for attention, for food, for confirmations of her medical issues.
Her general attitude towards housework also contributes to her main other issue that makes me want to scream. She hoards. Empty salsa jars, Nesquik containers, pizza boxes, mac n cheese boxes. She holds onto things that Z and I see as garbage, because she has dozens of DIY projects in mind. She would be the person that followed 5 Minute Crafts for useful projects. To her credit, she did make a nifty sock organizer out of spare cardboard. But she has dozens of empty frozen pizza boxes and macaroni boxes piled up on her desk and ideas in her head, but no actual execution of them. I have pictures on my phone of her desk hoard, and while the desk itself is tall, the pile on the topmost part of the desk reaches the ceiling. That’s at least two feet of buildup.
It drives Z batty. With their OCD, Z can’t stand seeing the general mess in the house, but her desk makes them want to throw things. There was an empty Pizza Hut box that spent a week on the floor under the table in the living room before she finally picked it up and moved it to her desk. She scolded my cat for jumping on it.
Vulture: I want to save it for a project, I just don’t know what I want to use it for yet.
Me: Why not just throw it away? Isn’t it garbage?
She only gave a vague shrug, and the pizza box stayed on her desk for another few days until while cleaning the kitchen, Z got tired of looking at it and finally took it out to the outside garbage bin.
This is a constant pattern for her. She hoards things that she sees as something that could be useful in the future, but in the meantime it all stacks up and takes up space. She and OLB both are pack rats, which I think enables it further. OLB said that she also hoards food when she thinks there’s a food shortage in the house, but that also includes things that shouldn’t be eaten or are close to being spoiled. She freezes produce and even bread dough she made because she would start projects and then not have the energy to finish them or deal with them properly. I think if Z and I weren’t in the house, it would just be a rat’s nest of garbage.
That was why Z and I took on the majority of housework. We have a current setup to deep clean the common areas of the house monthly, and anything she doesn’t pick up that we read as trash will get thrown out. It’s barely making a change in the house, but it’s better for our mental health. It’s unfortunate that the house barely stays clean for two days after we clean it.
OLB usually has an excuse for not contributing towards the housework. His ADHD makes him forgetful, plus he hates dishes and purposefully avoids them until he knows he has to deal with it. He’s mostly just exhausted from work. With Vulture? Ten thousand excuses.
With OLB working an exhausting but consistent tech repair job, that leaves Vulture in charge of Kid during the day. If she exists entirely in her bed and the couch, how is she able to keep up with a toddler?
Oh, that’s going to be a huge tale on its own. Fuckle the buck up. We’ve got a long way to go. And yes, it will make you angry.

Hey Hookit,
I'm venturing into the towing business and starting my own company. I could really use your valuable insights and guidance to ensure a successful launch and sustained growth.
We have already incorporated, have a medium duty rollback, a tow yard with secure storage. Website, Google Business, Yelp is all set up.
My primary goal is to make the most out of my tow truck, both in terms of profitability and efficiency. With that in mind, I have a few questions and would greatly appreciate your input:

1. How can I effectively attract customers and secure regular business for my towing company? What marketing strategies have worked well for you in the industry?
   
2. What are the best sources of revenue for a towing company? Are there any specific niches or services that tend to be more lucrative? (Besides Motor Club and Auction Companies)
   
3. To scale efficiently, what are some key considerations or strategies that I should keep in mind? How can I optimize my operations and expand my business while maintaining service quality?
   

I'm eager to learn from your experiences and expertise. Whether you're a seasoned towing professional or have insights from related industries, your input will be immensely valuable in helping me navigate this competitive field.
Thank you in advance for your support, and I'm looking forward to hearing your advice and recommendations!

Currently looking at my faction's garage, and we have 0 liters of faction fuel. As a result, we can't really refuel much. I'm blanking on this and really can't find much info online. How do I increase that number beyond 0 liters? Toss a brand new fuel truck in storage?

The restrictions on “any single item” are as follows: “ *LIMIT 1 coupon per customer per day. Valid in-store and online. Coupon must be presented at time of sale. Save 25% on any single item purchased. Coupon cannot be used with any of the following: Inside Track Club memberships, Extended Service Plans, Open Box Items, Gift Cards, prior purchases, Atlas, Bauer, Central Machinery, CoverPro, Hercules, Predator, compressors, generators, power stations, jacks, miter saws, safes, storage cabinets, carts, chests, or welders. Coupon cannot be combined with other discounts or promotions. Offer valid on in-stock items only. Other restrictions may apply.“
I feel that using the wording “any single item” would be fine, if they weren’t excluding entire categories of tools and equipment in the fine print.
“25% off almost any single item” is fair, but the list of restricted brands and categories is so long that it’s like saying “I can meet you any time, any day of the week, as long as it’s after 3 and before 7, and not Wednesday or Tuesday, also I have an appointment Sunday, and also dinner- so only really have a short 2 hour window Sunday, but any time any day this week aside from those restrictions.”
Don’t get me wrong, I love the 25% off coupons, and just took the opportunity to save $50 on a $200 Doyle swivel Vice, and joined inside track club. I’m just kind of rolling my eyes and chuckling at the marketing jargon clinging on as HF improves their higher end, higher quality tool offerings they’re not able to cut such a deep discount on.

My s10+ is at the end of its life. I need to upgrade. I'm having trouble determining which phone would be better for me after reading some reviews online...if anyone has suggestions I'd be grateful!
I take lots of pictures, so I need a good camera and lots of storage space. I spend a lot of time reading web comics and scrolling websites. I also use maps/android auto a lot. Battery life is more important to me than quick performance, but I don't want my phone to lag necessarily, either...

My laptop died on me so I'm building a desktop to replace it. I don't need to buy any peripherals, so I can spend a bit more, however, the monitor I have right now is 1080p. I might buy a 1440p one later but for now I probably don't need anything too powerful.
Most of the games I play aren't intensive, but I'd like to be able to run games like Black ops 3, Rust, Read Dead Online, Spiderman etc at decent settings with a good framerate. I'll also use it for a Quest 2 (Pavlov, blade and sorcery etc) and for emulation.
I was going for a white/pink aesthetic and I don't mind spending a little bit more for looks, but most white parts I can find are way more expensive for no good reason.
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 3.5 GHz 6-Core Processor (£126.97 @ Amazon UK)
CPU Cooler: ID-COOLING SE-214-XT 68.2 CFM CPU Cooler (£19.98 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Asus PRIME B550M-K Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard (£79.98 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Kingston FURY Renegade 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory (£47.97 @ Amazon UK) [I'd like this in white with rgb but I can't the same specs for a reasonable price]
Storage: Crucial P3 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive (£37.97 @ Amazon UK)[I've also got a 128GB M.2 that I salvaged from my laptop which I'm planning on using as the boot drive]
Video Card: XFX Speedster QICK 319 Core Radeon RX 6750 XT 12 GB Video Card (£342.00 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Phanteks Eclipse G360A ATX Mid Tower Case (£89.00 @ Computer Orbit) [I think this comes with 4 fans]
Power Supply: Corsair TX550M Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply (£65.00)
Custom: Reaper Cable Sleeved PSU Extension Set - Power Supply Extensions - 1x 24 Pin/ 2x 8 Pin/ 2x 6 Pin/ 1x 4+4 Pin - With Combs - 30cm (White & Pink) (£34.99 @ Amazon UK) OR Sirlyr Arc PSU Cable Extension Kit, Cable Extensions PC Braided ATX Cable Extension Cable Kit 16AWG with Comb Set, 24pin/8pin (4+4)/8pin (6+2) Sleeved Cable (Pink White Blue) (£30.60 @ Amazon UK)[For aesthetics]
Total: £843.87
Thanks :))

Hello everyone!
We're having serious problems with Premiere right now. We (2-3 editors) are working on a 70 minute motion picture for film school. In this project is all the footage from set + all the linked audio, as well as some additional footage. That means we have around ~3TB of data tied up in the project, throughout a lot of sequences (were already using proxies, raw data is around 10TB).
In the last week a problem has arisen that befell one computer after another. Whenever we try to open the project, it all goes relatively well, project loads, footage loads, fonts, effects etc until we try to actuallly DO anything (move the playhead, open a sequence, play/pause etc.) at which point the program will 100% freeze up until we force quit it via taskmanager.
That means, that we effectively cant work anymore. This problem has independently started occurring on 3 machines (all Windows 10). The project works fine if you re-import without linking any media, so it shouldn't be corrupt.
I have tried everything i could think and find of online and really am getting a little desperate here.
We tried: Importing into new project, clearing cache, turning on/off CUDA-acceleration, re-installing graphic drivers, turning on/off peak data creation, updating C++ libraries, resetting preferences, reinstalling premiere. I doubt it's some windows problem as it has been happening on 3 completely different machines.
The only thing that still seems like a weak spot to me, is the external hard drives the footage is stored on. It's 3 5400RPM HDD's that we got from our university with 10TB of storage each. Could it be, that they somehow fail on us? It would be a little weird, considering we have worked months with the same HDD's without running into any problems.
Any help will be appreciated, thank you!

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Evaluate Hosting Uptime and Reliability

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Consider Hosting Security Features

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Review Hosting Support Options

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Compare Pricing Plans

Web hosting prices can vary significantly depending on the hosting type and provider. When comparing pricing plans, consider the features, uptime guarantees, and customer support offered. Understand the renewal rates and any additional costs associated with your hosting plan.
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Look for Scalability Options

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Conclusion

Choosing the right web hosting provider is crucial to ensuring that your website is reliable, fast, and secure. When selecting a host, consider your website's needs, uptime guarantees, speed and performance, security features, support options, pricing plans, and scalability options. With these factors in mind, you can select a hosting provider that is best suited for your needs and provides a solid foundation for your online presence.

Moving into a new home shortly and I am not the most network savvy. I currently use Wyze cameras to keep an eye out on points of entrances in my apartment, 1 door and few windows with sensors on them.
Looking to migrate to a system that has these features - cellular back up (lots of power outages in the area) - accessible remotely - good cameras / flood light cameras -door / window sensors -monitor sensors - wired door bells / can be wireless as well - an option for professional monitoring without contract

Wyze was ok but there are many times I was away from the apartment and there was a notice issue connecting with the cameras, lag , etc.
Looked into Abode, and they are leading the pack but I just wish they had some wired options in terms of door bells and flood lights as my new home backs up into the woods and is very dark. Having a wired in flood light seems like the best and easiest solution to have the front and back of the home covered which are extremely dark. Also - concerned on the quality of abode cameras - they seem a lot like the wyze cameras, at least design wise and from what I saw online.
Another option I am considering is Ring professional subscription. They have the wired doorbells, flood lights, sensors etc. Price wise they are t much more expensive compared to Abode. Concern here is how everyone mentions privacy concerns / “big brother” but I am not too well versed on.
The cameras would be mainly external cameras , and MAYBE , 1 or 2 inside if necessary facing the entrance points and sensors on the windows.
Would a combination of abode and ring products be ok? Get the security system from Abode(love automation aspect - need to get into this later- and the panic buttons etc) + the combination of ring flood lights and door bell
Open to any other options/advice. Since I am a total newb(ex. Previously using wyze for home security lol) I am ok with getting Ring or abode and using the managers service while I learn the ropes over the year and slowly learn the different automation capabilities, the home NAS storage options, learning to segment IoT devices on the network etc. Just want something a step above wyze, and that has decent professional monitoring to give my family peace of mind while I learn about a better system and how to properly implement local storage etc.
Sorry for the wall of text and thank you in advance

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