u/catboy519

My medion laptop bought about 5 years ago is currently refusing to boot windows due to the secure boot violation.

Problem is there seems to be literally no way to fix that. Bios can't currently be accessed because it has an unknown password. Though it gives me that random string of characters when I did 3 attempts. "setup notice"

Is my best route to bypass the biospassword, or is it to bypass the need for bios?

Ive been googling and asking a few IT people and the chatGPT about this stuff the whole day now and I just don't know what to do.

My laptop is extremely important because I need it everyday and it also has a lot of important photos and files and lists that I can't lose.

I have a burnout and ADHD. I'm terrible with time estimations too.

And people have expectations. Companies want me to pay their invoices within a specific timeframe, friends want me to reply within a reasonable amount of time, and so on.

If a person

• Asks me when I will do x
• Says they hope I will do x asap or soon.

Then I know exactly what they wanna hear:

• A specific thing. A guarantee. A promise. A specific timeframe "I will do x within 5 days" for example.
• and not: "I will do it at some point in the future when I have time and energy for it" because people who know me well know that then it will take me unreasonably long. Or "I will try" is what people who know me also don't take seriously anymore.

And if I say

• "No"
• "Maybe"
• "After 3 months" when a normal person would be able to do it within the same day
• "later in the future at some point"

Then I can already predict that people are going to react negatively

• "why not" / "just do it"
• "you always say later and then you just never end up doing it"
• "I need to know when"
• "Thats too long"
• "I dont have patience for that"

And I don't have energy to deal with such conversations so I feel pressured to say something people wanna hear:

• "Sure ill do it today"
• "I will do it right now" (and even then I manage to forget or get busy or distracted with other things)
• "tomorrow at 3am"
• pm*

But that creates a problem: I set false expectations. Althouh, in the moment itself, I honestly think believe and intend to do the thing ive just said. When I say "I will do x tonight" then I truly mean it, that I will try to get it done before midnight. However I'm extremely terrible at such estimations and more often than not, I overestimate myself and underestimate how much time and energy goes into things.

And people get fed up with the false expectations I set due to feeling pressured to do that. But what else do I do? Reject people when they ask me something completely reasonable? That pisses people off too.

I'm doing a bad thing and it seems that the only alternative is also not optimal.

How do I unlearn that habit of giving people false expectations?

To add, edit: its similar to a person begging and pressuring me to promise something that I don't want to promise, but because they heavily pressure me then I promise it anyway and you guessed it, I end up breaking the promise because it was an unrealistic promise that I didnt manage to fulfill (which I knew beforehand and therefore didnt want to make the promise)

If someone (maybe even reasonably) strongly expects something of me, begs for something, pressures me for something of which I'm not 100% sure I will be able to fulfil it.. what should or could I say?

De chronologische volgorde:

• 18 maart factuurdatum
• 3 april herinnering waarin wordt gevraagd binnen 15 dagen te betalen
• vandaag 17 april 2de herinnering ontvangen waarin wordt gevraagd nu ook incassokosten erbij te betalen.

Maar er is nog niet 1 maand verstreken, en ook niet de 15 dagen na de herinnering als ik de factuur nu betaal.

Is deze vordering van incassokosten dan wel rechtsgeldig of kan ik deze incassokosten negeren?