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Just finished dealing with a eBay scam myself. Bought a used laptop, it got marked as shipped but the tracking number was fake and not real. Due to it being marked as shipped I had to wait 28 days for eBay purchase protection to do something about it as the seller was ignoring messages & making excuses. eBay protection refunded the purchase in less than an hour after opening the request. Did some searching online and learned there are quite a few scams running on eBay.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/11/how-carders-can-use-ebay...

I too have ended up with a pen tablet. XP-Pen mini 7"

Broke my wrist snowboarding which ended up with my wrist getting pinned back together. After it surgically "fixed" and healed and I started using that hand again, I got super inflamed tendons in my wrist to the point it would wake me up a night and barely able to use a normal mouse at work. I ended up trying 3 different types of ergo mice, none of which helped. In desperation I ended up ordering the pen tablet, it felt good in my hand right away and after struggling with brain/hand/cursor location for 2 weeks it's become my preferred method. I mapped the shortcut keys on the tablet to copy/paste/middle click/ double click which is awesome.

For me the tablet lives right in-front of the keyboard, just like a laptop trackpad. I tried off to the side, but couldn't get used to it.

Haha, thank you!

I have many fond memories playing Marble Blast on a G5 iMac as a teen, I think it came to our Internet-less house bundled with the iMac along with Glider Pro which I think came via CD.

I managed to get Marble Blast ultra running on my Steam deck, but the controls weren't amazing. Marble It Up runs like a top, and scratches that itch I have for the original.

I have a number with VOIP.ms, which I use with Softphone app Zoiper5. I'm going to attempt to transfer my Skype number over. VOIP.ms has a "availability" tool and it indicates its possible to port it.

Canada checking in. We have the same system for authenticating with government services. https://www.interac.ca/en/verification/personal/sign-into-go...

I dislike this as well, as this is conditioning people to not second guess why a third party website is sending you to your bank to login. As well as scam websites I've come across that mirror the authentication process down to every step you would have when using it for legitimate purposes. Scam website>Scam Interact login parter>Scam web banking login> stolen bank credentials.

I was under the impression that the 1Password database is synced and stored locally. If that is the case why would the servers having issues prevent logins to local databases, and not just the syncing of them?

Edit: It would appear the browser extensions can directly access the web interface without needing the stand alone 1Password application installed. As I run the standalone 1Password + browser extension, it can fall back on the locally stored database if the servers go offline.

Like this story that makes the rounds once in awhile. Who knows how true it is but..

"Due to complexities in their manufacturing line, a popular toothpaste company would occasionally, accidentally, ship empty boxes to their customers.

Not only did the boxes cost money to ship, but when customers received the boxes they would often complain. Ultimately the toothpaste company began to lose customers who would seek out inventory for their stores from other, more reliable suppliers.

One day the factory gathered their top managers and creative minds and told them they would need to focus their efforts on solving the empty box problem.

After nearly six months and hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on research and ideation, the factory came up with what they thought was a fairly smart smart solution to their problem. They would add highly sensitive scales to the factory line.

Any time an empty box would reach the scale it would be weighed, the line would stop and a loud buzzer would sound, at which point a factory worker would need to walk over and remove the empty box. Problem solved, right?

Yet the company quickly ran into another issue: just a few months after rolling out the new scale system there were no empty boxes being reported. The scales weren't encountering any empty boxes at all.

Confused by the results, the factory manager traveled down to the factory from his city office to see what was going on. He noticed that by one of the supply lines, just a few feet before one of the new scales, someone had placed an inexpensive desk fan. The manager noticed that as boxes rolled down the line, empty ones would merely be blown off the belt by the desk fan.

When asked about the fan, an employee on the factory line standing nearby explained: "Oh that? We put it there when we got tired of hearing the buzzer ring."

Not sure who's delivering them to in this instance but here in the Yukon Territory, Amazon has contracted a private company to deliver their parcels. I have them on video just throwing a delivery over the chain link fence at our business at 8PM. Previously our Canada Post office handled them, which would have allowed someone to refuse the parcel.

I live in the Yukon Territory, Canada... Not 100% sure this explosion is what woke me this morning but:

I woke up at 7:15 AM MST to what I though was a freight truck loading boxes at the business next door. Rumbling, thudding noises. Very faint. Promptly ignored it and tried to go back to sleep, a few moments later my sister 100 KM outside of my location on a off-grind property texted me asking if I could hear thunder/fireworks like noises outside. Noise probably lasted 10-15 minutes.

I did some napkin math for speed of sound and it gets close.

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9,700 KM distance Tonga - Whitehorse, YT

1,225 Km/hr speed of sound @ 20C

~7.9 Hrs to get here

3:10 PM AEDT Saturday 1st Explosion - 9:10 PM MST Friday + 8 Hrs = 5:10 MST Saturday

5:26 PM AEDT Saturday 2nd Explosion - 11:26 PM MST Friday + 8 Hrs = 7:26 AM MST Saturday

For downloads yes, if you account is banned that’s it. Still not perfect. But the games don’t necessarily have DRM on the the downloaded files. I own quite a few games I can just copy/backup their files to a different computer and they launch fine without steam installed. But I tend to only buy indie games so…

Which is the reason why some of us are upset. Before version 8 of 1Password you could have a local database that you could manually and properly sync to different places if you so chose.

And backups. With 1Password 8, you have no choice but to upload everything to their cloud. And if you don't trust their backups online, and want to follow the 1-2-3 rule you have to spend a lot of time finding the local cache 1Password keeps so you can make a backup by syncing a folder, or use the export feature which doesn't create a perfect mirror of what is stored in 1Password when it comes to tags, links, documents

This is the second time that 1Password Co has done something that I consider a negative... The first one being them "hiding" the standalone version purchase link. Doesn't give me much faith in their future plans which seen to be all about change for changes sake and extracting as much money out of customers as possible.

That being said BitWarden uses Electron and Angular for their desktop apps as well.

Yes, from their Github page "The Bitwarden desktop app is written using Electron and Angular. The application installs on Windows, macOS, and Linux distributions."

Nice, never thought to try that. Makes sense though. Thanks!

It is just a webkit wrapper. At least the last time I looked into it. UBlock Origin isn't possible. You can get some Apple sanctioned Ad-Blockers, but I think most (or all?) of them use a invisible VPN with DNS based ad blocking.

Mozilla has Firefox Focus for iOS, it does Ad Blocking but it's main selling point is No Tracking, No history and No synced bookmarks either

Transmit is good too, although I really liked the Scheduling function YummyFTP had. It was great for setting a large download to 2AM when the DSL network wasn't overloaded. Wish Transmit would add that feature. I suppose it can be done with Automator but it's not as nice as built in.

Hmmm? For digital content, I pay a fee each month of which a certain amount is supposed to go towards the artists. Netflix Canada $14.99/month Disney Plus $11.99/month Amazon Prime $7.99/month Spotify $9.99/month

For cable TV content which I don't have, The channels run ads. Which makes the channel owner money who then is supposed to pay the artists.

If the artists aren't getting anything from that, that's a problem between them and their distributor. A problem that isn't going to magically get fixed by a TV OS running ads, of which the artist very likely never sees a cent of either.

Lets say Netflix was free, and they ran ads in their content. Would I have a problem with that? No, they are providing free content and I would not mind watching ads. Or how about cable TV? People are already paying for Channels and getting blasted with Ads every 15 min or so, why should the TV OS "layer" Ads on top of Ads?

I own a LG TV... it's not allow to access my network because of Ad "Layers" and I run everything through an Apple TV. At least that way, I see no Ads on paid content, and just 1 layer of ads on free content.

"1Password only decrypts what you need at the time you need it. If Molly (one of my dogs) is using 1Password to log in to SquirrelsAreEvil.net, only her SquirrelsAreEvil Login details are decrypted. Her RabbitRecipies Login, along with all her other hundreds of items, remain encrypted." August 2013

https://blog.1password.com/just-in-time-decryption/

That's why the 2012 MBP is under my desk 99% of the time collecting dust. I use it mostly for command line applications through homebrew these days. Haven't quite figured out a good way/something comparable for windows. Would love to get another Mac, but what I would need is quite pricey. Would love to see a Mac Pro 1/2. And its hard to justify 2 expensive machines when I have what was at the time of building was a pretty high end PC with an Intel i7 3.70 GHz CPU, GTX 2080 GPU, 16 GB Ram, and 2 SSD's. Interestingly enough Lightroom Classic is still slower than molasses on it, apparently because there is so much legacy code in it. I've recently switched to Capture One which is super fast, but now I have to relearn a bit as it functions very differently than LR.

I'm in the same boat, just more from a Photography standpoint. Oldest Mac I own is a 2012 MBP and I really do not see any appeal in any of the newer machines. I built myself fairly high end Mini ITX Windows machine for a fraction of what a comparable Mac would cost. Only downside is having a somewhat bigger PC on my desk.

For video editing I was very surprised at how quickly I picked up / understood the Free version of Davinci Resolve after looking for a Final Cut replacement for my gaming PC.

There's a guy that build a high end DYI book scanner using this same idea. He sells them prebuilt every once in awhile as well.

http://diybookscanner.org/archivist/

Not likely, I tried that route about 2 years ago... they started calling and leaving threatening messages every day until I paid up. Not sure what would have happened if I kept ignoring them.

Not the OP, but he means hard water full of minerals (Mostly calcium and magnesium)that accumulate and eventually clog the lines.

I've had that for what I though was 2 years, so I looked it up and it appears they partnered with Apple back in Jan 2019.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/15/18183653/duckduckgo-apple...

Never heard of that technique before! Found some videos from Ben Horne about it, that explain it well to a non medium format shooter. Quite a cool way of adjusting the DOF on a scene.

I've been using DDG for about the last 2 years. The only thing that throws me for a loop once in awhile is that some local businesses only have their open hours entered with Google. Searching for that business in DDG will show their address but not their open hours. Their hours are also not listed on facebook, Yelp, or TripAdvisor. Where as on Google, it's right there in their little knowledge panel on the right.

A business where this is happening: Pho 5 Star Vietnamese Cuisine - Whitehorse Yukon

Other than that, most of the time DDG gets me better results than Google. I work in the trades and look up a lot of tools/tool reviews and google results are a dumpster fire of bad results full of these odd adsites that all look similar, have obvious generated URLs, and clone amazon descriptions and reviews. They are also ranked high on page 1 of Googles search results, and the trust worthy sites are getting pushed down or even to the next page.

Yeah its a good concept and I would love an easy, secure way to sell items however they are quoting $965 USD for my Nikon Z6 which is out-of box new and retails for $1,996.95 USD. That's pretty hard to swallow. For that I'll put in the time to sell it locally, meet and try in person, cash only.

Check out NetLimiter 4 https://www.netlimiter.com/products/nl4

Has the same blocking capabilities, however it is not just install and run like LS is. It needs a little configuring to get it to behave like LS, and (For me) it took a bit till I understood what to turn on and what rules to enable. Once I had the rules setup, it's basically the same. Once an app wants to connect you can let it connect once, until terminated, for forever, to once domain only, or any domain.

I used to use Glasswire, however did not like the yearly subscription and limited interface.

Now I use NetLimiter 4: https://www.netlimiter.com/

Among other features like process blocking, it has a process list not very different than this utility as well has bandwidth graphing over a period in time which is very useful in tracking down bandwidth hogs on a monthly capped DSL line. https://www.netlimiter.com/docs/netlimiter-overview/features...

As well as the other methods in this thread, check out Windows Privacy Dashboard. It's got a simple toggle to turn off almost everything ad/privacy/telemetry related you can think off.

https://wpd.app/