Two tools I have been using to replace TeamViewer that check some of your boxes, but not all are:

• Tailscale
• RustDesk

Both free and widely used in the community for many of the purposes you’re looking for.

Both operate slightly different from each other. But to give you insight into how I use them:

I use Tailscale as a VPN into my house for stuff like Jellyfin remote viewing on my iPhone or laptop when not at home, SSH/RDP/SMB remote access into my home network and between my devices. I replaced my Docker VPN that was becoming tedious to manage with this and it’s been a lot better and easier to manage.

I use RustDesk for my family and friends who want my help like out of state relatives. It works just like TeamViewer but without the greed or stupid nags or limitations to force you to pay. It just works.

There’s some others like RustDesk others may recommend too. There’s a few others out there I’ve tried, but RustDesk has been great for me.

Haven’t used TeamViewer in over 5 years because of these and other similar services.

I worked with adults (and children) with developmental disabilities and this was a common thing we dealt with. We would take groups of guys out into the community to work and get some socialization. Since I’m a man, I usually worked with guys while women worked with women.

A lot of these people typically don’t get out into the community often so we were there to help them understand what was appropriate and what wasn’t. It was somewhat common for some guys in our groups, and we usually knew who was more prone to it than others, who would do this so we’d have a closer eye on where they were. We also had some who had sexual assault records and we made sure to be very, very close to them in proximity and not letting them out of our sight while ensuring that they had the same opportunities to have a normal life in public as possible.

We worked with both high functioning and low functioning populations, that is to say those who you can tell have some type of disability are lower functioning, as we referred to them back in the day and there may be some more politically correct term used now, with higher functioning population being less recognizable and more like anyone else you’d see in public, usually people with autism.

I say all that to say that if this man had a developmental disability, just from what you said here about how you handled it sounds fine. You didn’t sound rude or violent or anything. Just sounds like you were firm and polite and aware of your own safety which is great.

Most women who were approached by our population handled it very well. I can’t think of a time when someone didn’t and acted inappropriately in return. I think most women could tell seeing our groups and then noticing us as the staff coming along to redirect the guy and prompt him away from what he was doing that was inappropriate.

I remember one guy we had in particular who had a deep fascination for black women (he was Asian but at the same time would talk about how much he hated “Mexicans” and was part of the KKK) and would almost cross the line multiple times with women any chance he got. Not like violently attacking anyone but just overly verbally creepy. But even with him and how aggressive and creepy he’d be, women were very kind and polite but firm and did almost like you, just tried to make their escape. We’d make sure to be near him as much as possible but sometimes he’d get away from our sight and go do things like this. I remember one time he was very much into one woman but she was interested in my coworker who got her number and that set him off into a rage when he saw them talking and her handing him something.

Had some major problems this last update on mine when the kernel update went through.

Turned out that my motherboard needed an update that was causing incompatibilities.

That tail up and with the hook means he’s super content and comfortable with you! A straight tail upwards is good on its own, but that slight hook means even more.

They used to give you something for being late and not fulfilling the promised date like a few dollars as a gift card. Now they just shrug and say tough shit.

Yep, they were one of the first ones to start doing this. You want me to pay and you’re going to show me ads? Fuck no. You either get one or the other.

I actually hope this happens more. People need to quit paying for subscriptions. Every fucking thing has a subscription and every fucking subscription inevitably adds ads to their PAID subscription while increasing costs AND decreasing features.

It’s all absolutely unacceptable. Quit enabling these fuckers. Every company feels like they are entitled to a portion of my monthly income and I’m sick to death of it.

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.