yankees60 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 8:29 am
I am more concerned that adding some additional layer of security could result in ME getting locked out from getting to my information!
Your fear is not unfounded, Vinny. I had a Google Titan key once upon a time and it locked me out of my own email for a while. I returned it for a full refund.
However, where 2FA is required, I prefer the authenticator apps to an SMS text, and am quite comfortable with it.
And, I mostly add 2FA even when it’s not required, since passwords are regularly bypassed these days.
Still working up the nerve to add the Yubikey to something.
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dualstow wrote: ↑Sat Feb 01, 2025 8:09 am
How about Veracrypt. Anyone for Veracrypt? I love it.
This is the first time I've ever seen the word.
Looking at this ... nothing jumps out at me as to what it does and how to use it. Looks like it's set up for someone who already knows what they want it to do.
Well, that's not the case, but usually it goes like this:
One goes on a forum and says, "What's a good app/program for _____ing?"
That's probably how I ended up downloading Veracrypt many years ago.
But if you don't know what it is, that's one vote for "No, I don't use it."
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Smith1776 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 01, 2025 6:06 pm
The older I get, the faster every year, month, week, and day seems to pass.
ararrrrggGGHGHGH!!!
And you’re young. Wait til you get to the point where— well, I don’t know how it works for others, but for me, there was a point several decades ago until now that all feels like the recent past. Not that I can remember all the details, but early aughts (early 2000’s) until now is feels compressed.
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Smith1776 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 01, 2025 6:06 pm
The older I get, the faster every year, month, week, and day seems to pass.
ararrrrggGGHGHGH!!!
And you’re young. Wait til you get to the point where— well, I don’t know how it works for others, but for me, there was a point several decades ago until now that all feels like the recent past. Not that I can remember all the details, but early aughts (early 2000’s) until now is feels compressed.
It is even scarier when you can clearly remember all the details ... except the event was many decades ago!
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Mountaineer wrote: ↑Sun Feb 02, 2025 4:57 amA very Happy Groundhog Day to all!
When I heard on the radio what day it was ... I thought back to that time when I was in third grade and weary of walking to school in the cold, cold, cold weather and was hoping so much that that ground hog would NOT see his shadow. But he did.
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yankees60 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 02, 2025 4:12 pmCapture.JPG
According to the National Safety Council, in 1950 for every 100 million miles driven you could expect 7.59 deaths. In 2022 that number is 1.33 deaths. source
yankees60 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 02, 2025 4:12 pmCapture.JPG
According to the National Safety Council, in 1950 for every 100 million miles driven you could expect 7.59 deaths. In 2022 that number is 1.33 deaths. source
You are probably too young to remember for certain holiday weekends how we'd be regularly updated for how many people were killed via card accidents during that weekend
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dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03, 2025 12:40 pm
Your B’head initialism of the day: NMI = No Middle Initial.
Yes, there’s an initialism for no initial!
An older gentleman I know joined the Army way back when, and filled out D (IO) in the middle name blank, meaning D (initial only). Of course the Army considered his middle name to be Dio for the entirety of his service.