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by wright-goes 9mo ago
I hear you, and also value Excel and a few other products, but I hit my perosnal limit with Windows enshittificatoion early last year and changed my daily driver at home to Linux. I added a couple VMs running windows, linux, and whatever el
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by wright-goes 1y ago
Access to banking is indeed critical, but when? And for 2FA, which accounts, and when? As bank apps become more invasive and they also fail to offer substantive 2FA (e.g. the forcing of text messaging as a 2FA option falls outside my risk t
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by wright-goes 1y ago
Good point. Though if they change the rules after breaking them, will history remember? Looking at uber, any number of social media companies, etc., having some good lobbyists works wonders.
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by wright-goes 1y ago
In the US Army an E-4 is a specialist or a corporal. Most E-4s are specialists. The E-4 is the pay grade, and the specialist or corporal designation is the rank. A corporal is a type of lateral promotion from specialist and as a corporal th
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by wright-goes 1y ago
I understand where you're going with performance and feature updates, but what about security updates? Those are often flaws that were present at time of shipping. If I buy a physical lock that's found to be easily opened with a t
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by wright-goes 1y ago
Great points, and devil is in the details. Insurance in this case was Medicare Advantage. In hindsight, Medicare Supplement Insurance (Medigap) would've been the better way to go for that situation and what I have loved ones using now.
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by wright-goes 1y ago
I'd also add creating a Trust is relatively easy and the elderly can continue living their life as they normally do. The Trust will then own the house, assets, etc., with distribution instructions included. In support of the point abov
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by wright-goes 2y ago
I use librewolf as my daily driver after the Firefox "privacy preserving ad measurement" SNAFU last year [1,2]. The fingerprint resistant and anti-canvas functions were different, but I got used to them and I really appreciate the
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by wright-goes 2y ago
I switched from a Garmin Instinct (several years ago) after having used Garmin GPS devices and watches while in the military to an Apple Watch Ultra now. The quantified scientist channel on youtube had some views that helped me decide ( htt
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by wright-goes 2y ago
I agree it isn't a bad thing per se, but it should drive higher productivity and not be a net decrease in revenue. If fewer people from New Jersey come to Manhattan, that's less revenue for restaurants and less sales tax collected