Curious Canid

I’ve been using Aegis for several years now without any problems. It replaced the Google Authenticator seamlessly.

Epubor Ultimate is the only solution I know of that was updated to handle Amazon’s change from earlier this year. It’s a commercial package, but worth the money. It took them a couple of months to work around the last changes, but they did it. I expect they will continue to do that as needed going forward.

If you want to have communication available at any kind of protest, and you would rather not provide the authorities with your name and address, Meshtastic can be quite useful. In the US, we have reached the point where that can be a serious issue. In other parts of the world it can be a matter of life or death.

meshtastic@mander.xyz is the largest, but there are a few. Just go to Communities, select “All”, and enter “meshtastic”.

It will always be safer to store sensitive information in a system that you control than in a system that someone else controls. KeePass is easy to setup, it’s easy to use, and it provides excellent protection.

This is just an attempt to force people to “Buy American” illegal drugs.

I’ve been running IronFox for a while and it’s been solid.

Best of luck!

Report back on your results, if you think of it. It would be nice to know.

That seems strange to me, but it wouldn’t shock me to find that is normal. Tech tends to advertise based on extreme best-case scenarios.

Despite that, there may well be something wrong with either your charger or your phone. It would be interesting to try a different charger, if you have access to one.

The various charging rates that are stated are always maximums, not averages. The reality depends on a lot of factors. You have to make sure that your AC adapter not only has the capacity your charger needs, but uses the right protocols to communicate with it. The cord needs to be rated to handle the necessary power. Any case will reduce the charging rate, some far more than others. In some cases, the material of the phone back may prevent it from achieving the maximum charge rate.

You can probably improve on the rate you’re getting, but you will probably not achieve the best case scenario either.

Every time I think GoDaddy has hit bottom they find a way to dig deeper.

I suggest that you spend the up-front money to consult with a lawyer. A lot of them will do an initial meeting for relatively little. They will be able to give you some idea of what risk, if any is involved in this. Then you can make a better informed decision about whether to ignore this, fight, or conceded and change the name.

I find out a few years ago that there are whole law firms out there who basically just send threatening letters for low fixed fees. They don’t litigate or even provide real legal advice. It’s one step above selling pages of their letterhead.

You won’t know how serious these people are, or how serious their complaint is, without consulting a lawyer.

Best of luck!

It is probably other things, but Apple has been caught intentionally reducing the performance of older iPhones to sell new ones. After a huge scandal, court cases, and an agreement with the feds, they waited a few years and did exactly the same thing again.

I think the saddest part is that most of the people pushing these awful ideas did not get theirs. And instead of trying to do something constructive to help themselves and others, they are desperately fighting to make sure that no one else “gets theirs” either.

I’ve just been looking for something to replace One Note. The timing of this announcement worked out really well for me. :-)

Thanks!

Take a look at the suggestions in this article: https://www.lifewire.com/stop-alexa-from-listening-5121012

If you disable the microphone, except when you want to use it, that should severely limit what it can do. If you also set the option that tells Amazon not to keep any of your recordings that should keep you fairly safe.

The caveat is that Amazon can decide to cheat at any time. They have repeatedly lied about what information that acquire, how long they retain it, and what they do with it. At the moment, they don’t seem to be cheating on the Echo functions, but that could change at any time with an invisible firmware update. There isn’t anything you can do about this except to be aware of the possibility.

It is definitely worth using the privacy options they offer, even if they aren’t enforced through hardware.