Yeah, it makes me happy that he doesn’t care and doesn’t have to. He’s living life on his own terms and seems to be having a great time of it.

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

This deserves to get a lot more attention than it is. Here is a US Representative laying out the bigger picture, in very clear terms, of Trump’s efforts to destroy our democracy and replace it with a repressive authoritarian state.

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.

We desperately need to change the laws that govern corporations. Our legal system requires them to behave like sociopaths.

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.

In some ways it’s kind of nice to have them clarify which parts of the government are completely corrupt and willing to lie shamelessly for Trump.

I recently started using Meshtastic because of similar concerns. There are many advantages to mesh networks where there is no central infrastructure.

I hadn’t thought about that angle, but you are certainly right!

These attacks need to be treated as terrorism, in addition to attempted murder.

On a more positive note, the police who provided security for today’s rally in Madison physically blocked the approaches with police vehicles. That needs to become standard practice.

Even the article this links to begins by saying hundreds of thousands. There were 15,000 in my city alone. The estimates I’ve seen for the overall turnout in the US run from the low millions up to more than 15 million. It was a huge event.

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.

This guy is hoping to head the next presidential ticket, but not for the Democrats.

There’s no point in explaining what you do to someone who isn’t going to understand your answer.

I think it’s probably closer to 99%. Basically, anyone who isn’t a high-level executive in the health insurance industry.

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!

I’ve seen a lot of that on social media too, and I agree with you that it’s proven to be way too effective.

What I’m talking about are recent news articles that cover the discussions happening within the Democratic party. I expected the Corporatists and the Progressives to be at war over it, but there seems to be a lot of finger pointing over every possible issue.

I understand where you’re coming from, but you are giving Trump way too much credit. Aside from all of his “I was only joking” non-apologies after making some horrendous and unforgivable statement, the only kind of humor he has ever attempted is to make fun of the misfortunes of others. Seriously, look at his history.

Just bear in mind that nothing involved in “refurbishing” a drive removes the wear it has already experienced. That may or may not matter to you. The mean time between failures for a particular model is a meaningful statistic, but it doesn’t tell you too much about any individual drive. You may get lucky or unlucky with the lifespan.

If you check and monitor your drives, as various people have recommended here, you are less likely to be surprised by a failure. If you keep them backed up you won’t be out anything more than the replacement cost of the drive when it does happen.