Maybe call the area’s non emergency number and see based on the serial? But that still isn’t perfect and gonna be hard to do unless they give it to you which seems doubtful.

Best practice is “if it’s too good to be true, it probably is”. If they want $25 for a $2.5k bike, it’s probably stolen or you’re going to be mugged/stabbed by a psycho.

I’m just imagining how a missed payment goes.

Kid goes to cry to local “mom” and she turns him away:

Nu uh. I didn’t get paid this month. Sorry, go find someone else to cry to until I get paid 🙅‍♀️

Jeffrey

As far as I last checked, yes, still possible in the US.

Stores like Walmart sell the phones and phone cards for prepaid service and all that can be paid with cash which doesn’t require ID.

If nothing else, you can buy a second hand phone from online places for meeting people or wherever and get a phone card for cash and neither doesn’t trace back to you either.

Of course this is likely because everywhere we go is covered by cameras so you’re never truly anonymous if someone is determined enough.

If you saw the show Better Call Saul, this is what Saul was doing when he sold phones to people from the shop he worked at.

Yeah that tail wag looks annoyed to me. Looks like the cat is trying to remain calm and patient despite how he feels so he’s separating himself from everyone.

The only thing missing is the licking of the lips. I’ve noticed a few cats and dogs do that when they are uncomfortable and I feel like this cat may have done that too. It’s like a gulp and licking of the nose a few times, like 2-3 times. Could be breed dependent, though, but likely happened before this video was taken.

The move from laying on his belly to starting to lay on his side is a good sign he’s not too annoyed/angered and is calming down. Bellies are very vulnerable positions for both cats and dogs so for them to start to show it is a good sign they’re in a good mood/comfortable and not on edge. It’s a very slight change I see near the end of the video.

This could be because you followed him. He wanted space and he feels violated, for lack of a better term, because you’re following him when he wants to be alone.

I’d say just give him space and let him come back when he feels up to socializing again.

Yeah but why risk it?

This is like asking “Is it alright if I leave my garage door open while I’m at work today? It’s detached from the rest of the house and I just store junk in there I don’t care to lose.” Yeah, I mean it’s detached from the house and let’s even say for argument’s sake, you live in a gated community. The risk is very low of someone actually breaking in and getting your valuable stuff inside your home. But by doing this, you’ve kind of invited people to come take a closer look at your house too. Someone decided to see what’s in your garage and didn’t see anything, but hey, looks like a bathroom window on the side of the house is cracked a bit. Could easily slide into the main house and take a peak in there. I would’ve never seen this from the sidewalk/city street until I got into the open garage.

Best case of a bad situation is that something gets into your XP computer and infects it. You don’t do much with it, so trashing it isn’t the worst possible thing to fix this issue. Worst case of a bad situation is you’ve infected that computer and now an infection is checking out the rest of your network and other devices on it including stuff you didn’t think of or stuff you thought couldn’t reach the web. You blocked your smart TV from accessing the web but left it connected to the router so it is still discoverable on the private network. Or you have a cheap Temu camera you got a while back and forget is still active and it’s sitting on your network with really poor security, easily vulnerable to attack.

I guess if you have that much faith in your network and devices, go for it, but probably not a good idea if you want the best possible defense.

If you really need something off the web to that XP machine, better to find a way to get it there like on a separate VLAN.

I notice mine has updates outside of apt, but I’ve wondered if some are just duplicates that haven’t refreshed yet.

Nobody asked and nobody’s reading all that AI generated bullshit

At least post your spam where it’s relevant. You bots can’t even spam a relevant community

I had never seen or heard of anything like this before, but apparently it is possible to do, at least Amazon sells something that matches the description you’re looking for:

If you have access in your region, I’d say go for it and if it doesn’t work, return it if your region has a good Amazon return policy like mine does. Can’t hurt to give it a try if the description matches what you have.

I buy off AliExpress sometimes but I don’t know much about their return policy, hence why I suggested Amazon instead to try it out and return if it doesn’t work.

What plugins do you use? I just switched from Plex and wasn’t aware of plugins.

Not all of them do the same things. Attackers have different motives.

Some want to get you to install malware onto your computer. That malware could do things like install a keystroke which is a program that monitors your keyboard input and can do things like guess credentials (email + password) and steal and send them elsewhere, also get other valuable pieces of information like a Bitcoin wallet address to serving some other purpose on the computer. Some malware will sit there and quietly try running programs on your computer. These could range from Bitcoin miners that steal your computer’s resources to mine Bitcoin or other cryptocurrency for the attacker or to be used in a botnet that essentially turns your computer into a zombie for the attacker’s bidding. Some malware will play quiet and capture screenshots similar to the keystroke monitor and then report back with its findings.

Some want you to install adware on your computer that endlessly spams you with ads as they get paid for those ads being shown.

Some don’t want to install malware but want to directly steal your information. They send you to a fake dating website and you sign up for the “service” which is you giving them your valuable information. Some attackers do this to steal your credit card information and others do this to steal your personal information. Some do it just to get you to share your email address so they can send you more spam and they get paid for that from other third parties.

Because they are prioritizing data collection over performance.

Windows is no longer about giving customers a good operating system. It’s now a vehicle for Microsoft to collect data from you for them to use and sell to other parties at a profit. It’s why Microsoft hasn’t cared much about pirated versions of Windows much anymore. They’ll do small things to annoy you, but overall, you can still use it and they still get to collect your data.

Microsoft is only starting to be more concerned as Windows loses market share and Linux gains some. The Steam hardware survey has only gone up a few points of percentages but this accounts for thousands of losses and this only shows gamers who use Steam, not all the other use cases.

So Microsoft is finally starting to make some promises to improve performance now that they have some real competition. And they’re only doing that because they want to continue collecting your data.

That is what Windows has become, unfortunately. Your performance while using it is very secondary, if not at all a priority of theirs.

You’d think he/she would have learned. My cat hit his head on the ceiling fan one time and is now always watching out for it whenever he’s close to the ceiling.

But this is an orange cat, so the rules are different.

If you’re going to spam, at least get the right community, dickhole

This happens a lot in the same application’s code, let alone between two different pieces of software.

You wouldn’t believe how often I go in to fix something in an app I’ve built and end up breaking something else despite never directly touching that. Like I have a music player I built and I’ll go in to fix an issue affecting skips at the beginning of the song and when I go to test, I find that issue is fixed but now the whole app’s color scheme has changed or some other unrelated issue has appeared.

Code is very finicky and fragile and relies on specific conditions it expects. The removal of a space somewhere in the code can do a lot of damage you never thought possible. You think it’s just an empty space, who cares? Nope! The code is expecting that space and when it doesn’t see it, it throws a fit and shit breaks.

And when we’re talking about issues on the same system, these applications talk to the same things or each other enough that they have a similar effect. One application expects specific conditions and when it doesn’t find those, it spazzes out. Nvidia’s software was given explicit instructions on where it needs to go and what it needs to do. But if another application does something that interferes with those instructions, your Nvidia GPU will start acting up. The application unrelated to Nvidia wasn’t written by someone who is aware of what Nvidia is doing and so an issue appears. And then these developers work to figure out what happened and provide an update to fix.

You can see why you’ll have more issues the more software you add into your system that’s unrelated to each other.

It’s like hiring a bunch of professionals to work around your home but not explicitly telling them about each other. You hire a landscaper, an exterminator, a maid, a butler, a chef, a chauffeur, a contractor… and all of them come to your house on the same day every week. Each of them has a job to do and on your end, their jobs seem independent enough that they won’t be bumping into each other, but you forget about the little stuff that will cause interference. The maid wants to clean the living room, but your exterminator is chasing down a mouse right now and is gassing the living room. The maid starts working in there to clean up but doesn’t know about the gas and now she gets knocked unconscious and this causes the rest of your house to remain in a disorderly state. This is also not even taking into account any issues that can happen from one person that affect the whole home and everyone else indirectly like if the contractor was fixing the foundation but he uses dynamite and the whole house comes crashing down and now no one else is able to do anything.

Yes I would, now fuck off

Gotta be honest, I’d probably do the same here. There’s no room on the sides to take from the side to not make it noticeable like that. Kind of like a cream cheese container.

I’m sorry for your loss. RIP

People block you for a reason. Cut this stupid shit out

Happens to my sheets all the time. I am just used to it now and prepared to unravel and run again with the stuff that got trapped and is a big ball of damp mess.