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by jdeibele 7y ago
You can try using a picture from https://www.thispersondoesnotexist.com/ . If a lot of people do that, then maybe Facebook moves to requiring pictures with a code written on them, like Reddit does.
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China is supposed to back North Korea because it acts as a buffer between China and South Korea. Pakistan is between Afghanistan and India. https://www.atlapedia.com/online/maps/political/Afghan_etc.h... I&#
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My 13-year-old did it on his iPhone SE with a little help from me. Hardest part was getting the old battery free of the adhesive gluing it to the case. He wouldn't use the hair dryer long enough to make the adhesive more pliant and
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by jdeibele 7y ago
At one point I was able to use two copies (phone and iPad) of Symantec VIP Access with Paypal. I changed phones and I wasn't able to use the new copy. However, I was able to set up Authy as a secondary authenticator. I don't have
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by jdeibele 7y ago
2 weeks ago I used OSXFUSE to read an old Linux hard disk. It was running ext4 and I was able to install OSXFUSE and EXT4FUSE under Catalina. It let me browse and copy files off. I had a few directories that were password-protected and
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My teenagers love their SEs. Oldest lost hers, tried Mom's old 6 for a while, then asked for another SE. My son's friends make fun of him for the small screen size of the SE compared to their 7s and 8s but he just says he's
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by jdeibele 7y ago
Thank you for writing that and mentioning it. I used it 3x without regenerating credentials the last two times. When Twitter stopped processing, I just waited 15 minutes and ran it again. Now you're my one follow. :-)
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That sounds good but put them in Authy. That lets you have multiple devices whereas Google limits you to one device. It's great that people use can use one app for both factors but it seems less secure than two apps. For example, use A
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by jdeibele 7y ago
I went to replace the memory in a 2018 Mac Mini yesterday. I have small Torx screwdrivers from doing this older Mac Minis and MacBooks. I have bigger security Torx bits (they have a pin in the center so ordinary Torx bits won't work
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"gender bender repaired" Auto-correct strikes again.
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It doesn't seem likely that Instagram or Twitter is going to go away tomorrow. Posting to Twitter and Mastodon means that eventually there would be content and interactions building up over time. There seem to be two problems with re
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"Bonneville, actually two different dams linked by an island, is the lowest and largest of the Columbia dams," Bonneville is the 5th largest (by height) of the Columbia dams and 8th largest (by generating capacity). There are 2 t
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by jdeibele 7y ago
They might announce something after the Christmas season. Apple would want to sell as many 11s and 11 Pros as they can before competing with themselves. Not sure what effect the tariffs will have if they take effect in mid-December. Havi
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I believe that's only true for Safari, which is moving away from the browser extension model that Firefox and Chrome (Brave, Opera, IE are/will be Chromium-based) use. I use Firefox and the LastPass extension without needing to us
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by jdeibele 7y ago
We board our dog with somebody we used through DogVacay before it merged with Rover. To me, there's definitely some value was added by the service by doing some screening. I didn't ever pick somebody who had no reviews. But that
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by jdeibele 7y ago
There was an article just a few days ago about the CEO of a genetic testing company handing over information to the FBI. It doesn't seem a reach at all for the FBI or state or local police to ask for or subpoena stored footage.
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I lived in this city for many years. I was born here. The problem is, there are now so many other people who live here that what was once great shortcuts aren't any longer. It's been a shift to "light traffic = unusual&qu
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by jdeibele 7y ago
I keep paper copies of the backup 2FA codes for Google and LastPass in my wallet and have been pretty happy with that strategy. A couple of years ago, I had my wallet fall out of my pocket while I was on a boat. My phone was back at the doc
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by jdeibele 7y ago
At least in California, the bank opened it for me (as personal representative) so that a bank employee and I could inventory the contents. My aunt was a hoarder. At that point, I was actually relieved that the box was empty and I wouldn&#x
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Not to mention that the one in Washington is the "original", founded 60 years before the one in British Columbia. I will concede that some people in Portland call it "Vantucky" because it's trended more conservative
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by jdeibele 7y ago
Yes. As pointed out in another thread, containers share history. But they don't share cookies or session status so you can have multiple gmail sessions going. Having a container is nice compared to opening a private window because y
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You're right about the limits of containers. When I'm browsing normally, the default is not to be logged into Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc. Things like my "Gmail this" bookmark fail because I set up Gmail in its o
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by jdeibele 7y ago
You're generally right but DVDs (and books and CDs) can go media mail and that's very cheap. Like $3 for 3 pounds. I was selling off some old PC Magazines and Bytes from when I was a teenager and was surprised that magazines are
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by jdeibele 7y ago
At least Google allows you to turn off SMS as a "2FA" source. You can set up Google Authenticator (or Authy) and a Yubikey as 2FA sources, then remove your phone number. Much to my surprise, I was able to do this with PayPal where
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I never heard that one but my mom refused to learn how to use ATMs because she wanted to have tellers. Same with any sort of self-scan groceries. And Oregon is one of two states where you can't pump your own gas. Do you do that consi
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Yeah, but there have been horror stories about one parent who takes the children back to their home country. Typically it's been the dad back to Saudia Arabia but maybe that's just the stories that made the news. The reason (I a
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Wow. USPS continues to bleed money but that's due to the mandate from Congress about pre-funding pensions. That's a requirement that nobody else has - see the articles about the 3rd-largest coal company declaring bankruptcy and s
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P = performance 3 = model 3 D = dual motor (all wheel drive)
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We're a family of 5 with 3 teenagers. When traveling with kids, we've found it nice to stay in apartments so that we can cook, do laundry, etc. In the US, we've also found that extended stay hotels work well. They tend to h
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by jdeibele 8y ago
Back in the day, I thought the local phone companies in the US should use the increasingly empty space in their central offices to locate gaming equipment. This was back in the dialup days as things slowly shifted to ADSL. It would be much

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