papafoss

Hell yes brother! I paid 20k for my first born on Blue Cross Blue shield platinum! 10k before she was even born.

My son's birth with Kaiser was $250.

I work with a ton of immigrants and some I have known for for 20 years. The thought of losing them is just painful.

Thank God. I work at a place where everyone logs into the same Chrome browser. To access everything at work on one computer. There's close to 70 logins on there and all I can think about is it wouldn't take much for someone to screw up and get everyone's account exposed. I've gotten to the point where I've memorized all my passwords and just log in instead of using my Chrome login. It keeps me up at night. Just waiting for somebody to download some malware.

For me, one of the other annoyances is that both Windows and Mac OS push their services. Windows it's gotten ridiculous and on Mac. I just don't have the compatibility with all the stuff I want to use. Like I'm not in the ecosystem so it just doesn't work for me as an operating system

I went through that phase too! The tweak times are so much fun and breaking things is a good way to learn.

Now I am in a sane defaults mode. Where I just want everything to work well. Pop on so far has been rock solid. I actually have been trying to not touch the terminal to see how that feels as a user. In been 4 months and so far it hasn't been a problem.

Honestly was my solution for years I never use my webcam 😂

I think the biggest shift in the last 20 years is troubleshooting in Linux and windows.

20 years ago and I had to troubleshoot issues and Linux. It genuinely required a good bit of computer knowledge to get it done. Sometimes hours of work to figure out how to get a webcam to work Or how to fix grub?

Windows back then used to be so easy. And there was usually something that would do a quick fix.

However, now and I run across a windows issue. It's a nightmare. I can put hours of work into trying to fix a driver issue or an issue with updates and get nowhere. Then go to reinstall the operating system and have to spend more hours just to get it installed.

Now in Linux, not only do I rarely have issues but also fixing those issues are pretty straightforward. And if I can't fix it a reinstall takes minutes and I'm back up and running in no time.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/south-korean-telecom-company-attacks-torrent-users-with-malware-over-600000-people-report-missing-files-strange-folders-and-disabled-pcs

Here's another article on it

I don't understand why anyone would want to tie an engagement to their politics. Politics was literally not even a thought when I got engaged. That man has got issues!

This one age poorly. Seychelles for the W

18 years of running linux on my computers because windows is insufferable in some way or form. Windows 11 Pro was actually fairly decent at first I even liked the UI despite its issues. Then updates broke and even digging into the cmd prompt tools couldn't fix it. Which is just insane to me as a company that is hoovering up my data cant figure out updates. I dont even care all that much about the privacy aspect if it just worked. Hell its why I use google services. But every version of windows I have used since XP has had some sort of fatal error that could only be fixed with a clean install. When that happens its my sign to go on a distro hop.

Dark patterns have also just become the norm in Windows and Mac OS. Honestly kind of sad because both OS's at one point in time had there high points where they felt like they were built for the user. Now they are glorified billboards that run apps.

This is actually the first of probably many of these cases from this little incident

Npr Microsoft Hack