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by bonton89 3y ago
I've actually known a few people that had a real problem with the census.
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by bonton89 3y ago
AFAIK before Steam existed most PC games were sold in boxes in stores and they definitely didn't take a mere 3% cut.
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by bonton89 3y ago
I thought this was a good strategy too until some one said that a customer service rep once asked him one of the questions over the phone and, lacking his backed up security questions at hand, he just said "it is a bunch of random char
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by bonton89 3y ago
Many apps and services now demand a phone number, sometimes lying about suspicious activity or security problems to get you to cough it up. Others wait until you've been using the service to spring it on you so they have more leverage
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by bonton89 3y ago
From the sounds of it they had disabled MFA since it was to annoying, but the phone number was still setup to be able to do a password recovery (probably by default I'm guessing) so really the phone number was the only thing required t
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by bonton89 3y ago
Now it just needs a Meta account, totally different thing.
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by bonton89 3y ago
I think it does. The amount of effort people will put in and outrage that will ensue is going to scale up with the price of the service. So there is probably a careful identified max here. But they also use the "only $2 for the first 6
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by bonton89 3y ago
Is it true you can use a fake name (and presumably address I guess) for privacy.com credit cards? I have virtual cards through capital one but they seem much less feature rich.
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by bonton89 3y ago
I sort of have a compromise solution for this. I use my banks autopay whenever possible which is a push instead of a pull. That way I can just shut it off instead of finding some weird website I haven't used in a million years or call
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by bonton89 3y ago
There's apparently some kind of service that automatically updates payment processors when you get a new card. Seems kind of stupid since one of the main reasons to get a new card is that is compromised and you might just end up sendin
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by bonton89 3y ago
If they even bother to follow up. Around here a lot of people don't even bother reporting small thefts since they know nothing will come of it, usually the only reason you bother is to get a police report for the insurance claim. Aren&
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by bonton89 3y ago
Doesn't the firefox resistfingerprinting setting fuzz most of these things? I see a lot of misconceptions about it on here when people use amiunique. It will say you are unique but if you look for a historical match there aren't a
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by bonton89 3y ago
This is an amusing argument because I feel like you're both right. Castles sort of gradually transformed into beautiful manor houses when they weren't useful for defense any longer that certainly were just to project outward wealt
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by bonton89 3y ago
I saw a guy made one of them by chopping off the back then of an old cavalier, turning the front into a trailer and repurposing the engine as a generator. A more purpose built one of these you could solve the "can't use an EV for
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by bonton89 3y ago
After Mattel shipped in a bunch of lead painted toys from China a law was passed requiring inspections for everyone except Mattel who were deemed large enough to inspect themselves, even though their negligence was the cause of the law.
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by bonton89 3y ago
They're just trying to compete with Intel Extreme Graphics from 2002. Must be they're reaching performance parity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_graphics_process...
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by bonton89 3y ago
Especially since you have to dox yourself in order to pay. They might have a pretty good idea exactly which individual you are before you pay but they definitely do after.
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by bonton89 3y ago
Is it possible to create a second Google account to use just for the Chrome Extension? I've heard that Google will sometimes demand you login from a known device anyway regardless of settings as a form of unexpected 2FA although I have
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by bonton89 3y ago
Paypal did this with 20 characters. I can't even remember how I figured it out so I could login. I don't know if it truncated it automatically or it just stopped accepting input after 20 characters and I of course did not notice s
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by bonton89 3y ago
Forget trusting the state, do you trust the endless parade of crappy companies that will demand your national ID verification to but everything from house insurance to fortnight skins to prevent fraud, and then promptly lose it in a data br
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by bonton89 3y ago
I'd just send them a blank named PDF document copy if that was their only justification.
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by bonton89 3y ago
Couldn't you still run 16-bit apps in Windows 10 32-bit or did they drop it entirely by then?
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by bonton89 3y ago
Really? Terrible marketing design from Microsoft has always been something you can set your watch too. Most people would just put a picture of an airplane on there and call it a day but that would be missing an opportunity for pointless ove
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by bonton89 3y ago
I complained about this as well since I use it for automation but SHIFT+F10 does the same thing.
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by bonton89 3y ago
Snap is locked down on ubuntu as I understand it so you can't really use a different source than Canonical's. The end game is probably for Canonical to be gatekeeper to all your software and extract some kind of toll once you&#x27
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by bonton89 3y ago
Starcraft is mostly fine since the place where the changes really matter was multiplayer and those games are ephemeral. Awhile back I was playing through darkest dungeon and they did two rebalances that changed how most characters work. I h
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by bonton89 3y ago
Some programs have fixed minimum window sizes that may fit poorly on a barely large enough monitor and they were designed with bottom task bar in mind. An unlikely case and not a reason to disable left taskbar IMO.
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by bonton89 3y ago
Especially since I believe they created exceptions for their own surface devices that didn't meet the whitelist.
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by bonton89 3y ago
I don't see much to get anyone excited about moving to Windows 11 besides the escaping updates running out gun-to-your-head. To me it has a controversial set of UI changes, smaller set of hardware support and the march to cloudify the
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by bonton89 3y ago
One of the solutions floated to the nursing shortage around here was to build housing owned by the hospital. Sounds great, strike and risk losing your job AND house when there is no housing availability.

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