i can’t. unless i’m really, really tired. i prefer blankets… as in plural… with some bulk and weight to them.

i don’t think it’s ‘legally required’ but it is bound to be on documentation you provide to prove eligibility to work. may also be needed for one or more types of background checks an employer may require.

rules for thee, but not for me (or those who give me money)

i have an email account that i’m not receiving valid 2fa emails which are sent to me. to add the sender email address(es) to a white list in order to bypass server-side mail filters (which are blocking these emails from reaching my inbox), i have to pay and subscribe to unlock the feature.

at the one service i care about, to change its email to a different email address, i have to be able to receive those 2fa emails and validate a code to authorize the change.

in the u.s. iirc usps gets your valid government id and home address when you rent a box at a post office, as does contacted private providers (e.g. ups store, etc) if you go that route. they are not ‘private’ or anonymous, just potentially more ‘secure’ in that your mail and parcels won’t be left outside your door or in an accessible and unsecured mailbox.

~ $1-2.5k usd, the cheapest having a whopping 4 gigabytes of storage.

pretty much all that’s left is to shut down the ‘apps’ that are still branded ‘freevee’ and don’t require a sign-in or account to use (unlike the prime video app the former imdb and freevee free content will still be available in). that’s what i’ll miss, a way to watch the few things it had without tying a viewing device to an azn account.

We are living in the state of Fuck it.

pretty much sums it all up right there.

no surprise. people are using phones more, and tablets/chromebooks, too, to a lesser extent. there’s a lot of folks here that only use their phones now.

all sorts of reasons why people are dumping their windows pc… but microsoft has yet to come up with a good reason why they should keep them or upgrade. none. not a single one.

that is true. normal sliced american cheese melts better than cheddar or other real cheese.

the cheap individually-wrapped ‘singles’ melt even easier… like velveeta does.

i don’t deep dive into it enough to be a ‘nerd’, but i’ve been using some form or another since the early days of slack and debian.

even though it had shipped with windows, the installer would not detect my ssd for whatever reason.

bios probably defaulted to using a storage mode (like ‘raid’ or intel’s rst) that requires ‘f6’ drivers loaded during windows setup. solution would have been to either find those drivers or switch bios to ‘normal’ ahci mode.

‘work’ just replaced ‘school’. same restrictions usually apply, just with the “i’m an adult” modifier that lets you deviate with some degree of risk to your paycheck.

and only two bucks a pound at kwik trip right now, too

so, you’re logged in, have a purchase history that includes clothing, and azn is trying to make a sizing recommendation?

and you could change him into something else. links the cat was mine.

try a new and quality hdmi cable, and use the ‘main’ hdmi input on the new tv–the one that supports the latest rev of hdcp. use no adapters or extensions or splitters or switches. disconnect every other input to the tv and output from the bd player.

you may also need to connect the bd player to the internet, at least temporarily, if it has that capability.

$65 for 4tb? they’re almost certainly fake crap. just got done giving someone the bad news on some similarly-priced sd and ssd they bought off ebay.

https://www.grc.com/validrive.htm will verify real capacity in seconds.

real-life clickwrap.

‘kindly recite the full text of the terms of service before i choose whether push the button or punch your face’

captive portal detection, certificate status verification, and iirc server settings updates. yes. none of them are ‘absolutely required’ but they do exist to improve the reliability and secure operation of the program–and none are secret nasty spying telemetry. just turn those particular settings off as desired.