As soon the message arrives, reply STOP.

This sends a signal to the sender and the carrier that you didn’t want it.

Next, look for the messaging app feature to “Block and Report”. This sends a signal to Apple/Google and possibly others that the message was spam.

Now, I do these things and I continue to get political fundraising pleas over text from groups I don’t recognize.

BUT, I also work with bulk emailing and know it takes a very small number of reports, less than 1%, of messages reported as spam before the bulk-mailer/carrier blocks and penalizes the group originating the message.

I think some collective action here by a small group can make a difference.

Indoor cat or indoor/outdoor cat?

Have you tried doing CAD work on a phone or iPad over a Remote Desktop connection?

Seems unpleasant enough to drive someone to buy a proper laptop to travel with.

This seems as much about converging Android and ChromeOS as anything.

The same doctor also found vaccines make you blind.

https://www.thaimbc.com/2024/08/31/japanese-researchers-link-covid-shots-to-permanent-blindness/

While the post author Frank Bergman has another one about vaccines causing organ failure.

https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/german-study-links-covid-shots-to

Children of the Corn also has a lot mechanic where none of the roads out of town seemed to work.

If you don’t have a proper computer, how will you access this remote server to do your CAD work?

I met a blind guy who described seeing people’s colors. These were very private to him and would not describe the colors he saw for different people.

It’s not clear that these services need any of these things.

3 GB / day is unlikely to go unnoticed upstream.

Yes. You can run them both on the same machine and it would probably be cheaper that way.

To minimize costs, besides looking at the cost of hardware, you’ll also want to consider the amount of electricity that the server uses with the memory and hard drives you have installed.

The Monero docs say it uses 100 GB or more bandwidth a month. You may want to look at the quality of service settings on your router to make sure that it’s not interfering with other uses of your network.

They had no choice, their pay had been stripped to the bare minimum.

I imagine BitWarden is sufficiently good. The big leap in security comes from having no password manager to a decent password manager.

LastPass does not seem as serious about security so it doesn’t meet my personal bar for decency.

LastPass doesn’t have your password, so it can’t be stolen during a breach.

But 1Password goes a step further, also requiring a “secret key”, which also can’t be stolen.

https://support.1password.com/secret-key-security/

Even if an attacker manages to steal your encrypted data from 1Password and also guess your master password, they still can’t access your data without a secret key.

For that reason, your 1Password account is more likely to compromised through your own device, not their server. And if your own devices are thoroughly compromised, no password manager can save you— the attacker can potentially grab all you type and see all you see.

I evaluated both BitWarden and 1Password for work and 1Password generally won across the board.

If you host yourself make sure backups are rock solid and regularly monitored and tested. Have a plan for your infrastructure being down or compromised.

1Password’s security model guards against this. Even if they are breached, your passwords cannot be decrypted.

You are more likely to screw up your own backups and hosting security than they are.

He influenced me to not buy a McLaren.

You could likely have a free initial meeting with a lawyer to confirm a law had been broken and get a general idea of their fees and your odds of success.

Sounds like it would be your brother’s word against the public defenders. Sounds tough.

Yes, you could file paperwork for a lawsuit. Affording the legal help and winning the suit are different matters.

Qutebrowser, Dillo, LadyBird, Zen. Good luck.

Thanks! I’ll give this a try.