It was truly Friday the 13th as the British clown they called Boris Johnson is now the Prime Minister,  hold onto your hats it’s going to be a rollercoaster of five years for the UK as a whole.
About your Xbox X question,  The new Xbox X is a lot quieter than the original with its liquid cooling .
And about the ring doorbell,  they are very handy and convenient for those households that don’t have a  intercom to see who is at your property..  this is what I mainly use it for which is a intercom that you can answer no matter where you are in the world as long as you have a Internet connection.
You can set up multiple people to be alerted when somebody is at your property or there is motion at your front door.
So once somebody rings the doorbell I will be alerted on my phone with a notification,  and then I will open the application where I will be confronted with a video with two buttons on either side one  which is to activate the outside microphone so I can listen to it through my device of choice, and the second one is to enable the microphone on my device to speak to the person outside the property.
The only thing you will have to check is if you still receive full Wi-Fi range when you are standing outside your front door.  As the device runs off your internal Wi-Fi at all times.
I hope that helped in some way catch you on Xbox soon buddy.

Hey I don't think you need to apologize for not stepping in. I think it was a great decition to take a step back and let someone else handle it I respect that.

@Aaron, I'd like to address all of your points in order, but in my mind one does take higher precedence over all the others, partly because I can relate to it, and partly because this community matters to me.  As such, let me just take the time to say that I highly admire your having owned up to not feeling able to tackle a situation like the depression topic on your own.  Such matters are absolutely serious and require many level heads with the abilityt o step back and examine such a situation from all angles.

If I was so rich to get a new XBox, a new ring something, and all the other stuff, my smallest problem would be this community... Pff.

Hmm, if I was English, I would be definitely worried about Brexit. It seems that when things become too common, people tend to hazard with them just to eventually reinvent, how important they were. And in this special case even forget, that it wasn't their productivity what made UK the place as we know it today, just recall, what was the biggest income of the British empire.
So I'm lucky that at least our government chooses to stay.

Also, as a citizen of country, which was not directly under, but strongly influenced by Ussr, I can say, that they have absolutely nothing in common.
EU is a voluntary organization originally of six states, Germany, France, Italy and Benelux, which's intent was firstly to share resources, later also other things like intelligence, laws, markets etc. And UK was among first, who wanted to connect to gain all of those.
Ussr was nothing but a Russian plan to take over eastern Europe. They have never really helped with anything, only thing they were able to do was to unite an army from Germany, Poland and Ussr to attack Czechoslovakia in 68 to assure we were under control.

So at least from my perspective, voluntary trade organization and a military colos are two completely different things.

Best regards

Rastislav

Regarding the hacking of ring devices, I believe this happened due to people reusing usernames/passwords more than anything else. They weren't using 2FA either. Never reuse passwords, and if you have the ability to use 2FA that'll provide an extra layer of security in most cases. I say most cases, because I've heard of people stealing phone numbers and intercepting SMS-based verification. This may help as well.

https://blog.ring.com/2019/12/12/rings- … d-to-know/

I mean, you do you, but thinking that brexit won't fuck you over is very short sighted and the entire reason the UK is in the mess it's in to begin with.
The EU might be rather shitty, fully agree there, but you know what's even shittier? Having to have emergency stockpiles of food because you can't buy them from anyone once January roles around and Bojoh drops you guys out with no plan.
The EU is not the most democratic organisation, and honestly as a leftist I fully understand how you can see it as the imbodyment of everything evil about capitalism, but just dropping out without a plan is not how you deal with any of that, and it was pretty clear even back in 2016 when the actual referendum happened that any deal you guys were going to get was going to be awful anyways. Much more effective to stay in and have at least some say in the regulations that affect your biggest trading partners (before you say the US will step in to fill that role might I suggest you get yourself a map and realize how much further away the US is).
I think the UK election is another huge reminder though that calling the other side dumb racists is not how you win elections and only serves to mobalise the opposition. The day of the election my facebook feed was full of my UK friends making pro Labor memes and acting like they'd already won and thank god now we can finally fix the mess those idiot leave voters left us, then were shocked when they woke up with a Con majority. This you are wrong and racist and I won't dirty my hands by interacting with you instead I'll just make sure you can't express your opinions anywhere I can see it and pretend that means they went away attitude is how the world got Trump, how the UK got Brexit and now Bojoh, and it needs to stop. Some day we on the left will need to learn, and I just hope that day comes before it's too late.

Here's how I see it. I'll try and keep this on topic, and not rant about my personal political views. I believe in Brexit, that it's a positive movement for Britain, more control in our laws, our own trade agreements, ending the uncontrollable free movement levels, ETC, you've heard it all before. That's over anyway, the leave side won with the election on Thursday. The issues transcend Brexit now though. The voters dislike being patronised, being ignored, being mocked. That's why we won. There's so much noise out there now, it's difficult to tell what's real and what's not. All you can try and do is to formulate your own opinions from facts. The nightmare scenarios, whereby Britain runs low on all supplies, whereby the NHS is sold off, are stories that have been spun way out of proportion. They will not happen. Brexit will bring change, much positive, some turbulence yes, but I genuinely believe that our country is heading in the right direction. I know I won't convince many people on the internet, and that's fine, but the only argument that's needed is democracy. It's difficult for me to say, seeing as I only got involved in politics in the past 3/4 years, but confidence in democracy was at an all-time low, and the amount of scare-tactics, the amount of abuse and hate, from both sides I must say, was unprecedented. Logic doesn't seem to matter anymore, even facts are twisted. In an era where someone can tweet on social media that the Tories are going to sell off the NHS, with no proof but an outdated document that's not even from the current government,, in an era when that message will spread and mutate into anger and personal attacks just because a person has different views, is problematic to say the least. People, on all sides, have been worried by stories that have turned out to be untrue. People said the pound would crash, the economy would crumble if we choose Brexit, in fact it has thrived and risen. Equally, the extreme right said we needed a clean brake, which would have left us with little room to manoeuvre in terms of foreign relations, we really need a balance.
This is the nature of elections, things are taken to extremes, stories are spun, ETC. I'll admit, a Corbyn government would've worried me, just as a tory government will worry others. We have to accept democracy, and remember that everything is presented for a specific agender. The Tories are presented as heartless bastards (feel free to call me one if you wish it wouldn't be the first time) whilst the Labour party have been called racist lunatic socialists who would spend the country into bankruptcy. Both are probably too extreme. We could really do with some calm in the UK.