Rules of Tech Support

Rule T9C - If you can’t restore from it, you don’t have a backup.

Rule T9D - If you haven’t tested your backup recently, you don’t have a backup.

I want something that does all that and blocks trackers as well, which is what I use DDG for.

My wife has a dress with pockets and she didn’t notice that for months because she didn’t think to look for them and they weren’t obvious. Same with a nightie. As someone who wears cargo pants, I was amused at her excitement.

“Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private.”

CCY = Currency KYC = Know Your Customer AML = Anti-Money Laundering

Allowing apps to update automatically often means that advertising and feature removal or nerfing, etc., can happen. Checking manually has saved me a lot of grief.

And you might not have a smartphone or smartwatch with you. I’ve seen people who needed a calculator to do basic math.

The Bolo series by Keith Laumer?

Put “a” before Lot and you have a pun.

Lot’s wife became the salt of the earth.

Good point on the basement but the overall concern seems to be that the cost of real estate (including renting) is getting so it’s not feasible for most people to move along from just renting (if they choose to).

With rent you’re just paying to live there. With a mortgage every payment means you own more of the place (equity). If you have payed off the mortgage or didn’t need one then you have equity that you can use for last-ditch funding.

Maybe he thought you were being sadistic?

I got bullied in the locker room and used a padlock to try to defend myself. I got in trouble for using a “weapon” and had to apologize to my attackers.

Wasn’t there books that he wrote that were about flaws in the Three Laws?

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HollywoodBeautyStandards

It doesn’t happen all the time, though

In Star Trek Online the fleet shows up years later and attack the station. They weren’t destroyed just relocated in time (no pun intended).