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I don't know a single person who would pay upwards of $300 to get their files back if they got hit with ransomware. Hell, I've got something like 10 years of personal files on my machine and I wouldn't pay that much for them. I would bet a lot more people would be willing to pay if the fee was more like $50. That takes it out of the category of 'a lot of money for computer files' for a lot of people and puts it in the category of 'minor inconvenience'.

I sometimes fix friends & older family members computers as a favor and I've noticed that they usually don't really have any files anyway. I always make a backup before reformatting them and usually it includes their bookmarks and maybe 2-3 random files scattered in their 'Documents' folder, none of which are important. Their machines are more like just gateways to the internet than anything.

Through machines moves over the years I'm sure I have multiple copies of the most important ones anyway (keys, etc). If not oh well, life goes on. Shoulda made backups in the first place if they were that important to me.

Future proof? People still say that? Nothing in computing is future proof as evidenced by the many different connector/socket types in just the last couple years.

In settings you can disable 'crossfade songs'.

Russ Hanneman?

This is what he did on HBO's Silicon Valley. It was quite..weird.

Probably, but I am unsure what part of the regulations they are required to follow. I'm more familiar with human operator/FPV drones, mainly racing quads. Even if they're only flying at 300ft to be safe I still very much doubt you will hear anything. My race quads are pretty loud but in my experiences with larger slower moving ones they can be pretty quiet once a short distance away from you is reached. Mostly attributed to the props being larger, slower spinning, and less aggressive.

At 400ft up, you're not going to hear a thing. Would wager that even if I told you it was there you would not be able to locate it in a timely manner, let alone be annoyed by it.

I think you hit the nail on the head about the outlook and made up stories stuff. Those do sound almost exactly like what I experience. Thank you for the comment, I'll check out the suggestions you made.

I have done something similar. Go to the mall because I need clothes, walk in the door, do a lap around the store, walk out and go home. I know it is ridiculous but in my head it just feels like everyone is watching me, judging me based on what I am looking at. So I just don't even look at anything. I know that isn't true when I'm sitting at home but the second I arrive the anxiety kicks into high gear. It is very frustrating sometimes. I've noticed that I don't seem to get so anxious when grocery shopping or shopping for something I know a little about. Clothing is just so out of my element that I feel like a fool and have a hard time relaxing.

Same thing at SUNY Polytechnic (previously SUNYIT). Its been a few years since I left but when I was there all hardwired devices had a public IP address.

When this tech bubble pops so many people are going to be screwed. 20-30bn for a business that spends more money than it makes, riiight.

I tried using Pinegrow for my hobby stuff. It seems to work great but the price is a little steep for someone who is just playing around with side hobbies.

They hooked me on the $49 price when I started playing around and I was ready to buy until I saw that the price jumps to $99 if I want master page support and some other nice things.

I realize it is well worth it but I just can't justify a $100 editor for my hobby projects. I just purchased this tool for $25 as its pricing aligns with what I'm willing to spend much better.

No, it wasn't.

Orphaned processes are probably very offensive too, right?

I don't know.

Out of curiosity I just tried Find my iPhone on my own device which has been sitting in the same location in my house for about an hour completely untouched.

Apple's interface shows my iPhone about a half mile away in a house I've never visited or been in before. There is a big circle around my device (which doesn't even include the actual location) but the actual dot is somewhere I've never been before. I've refreshed it about 5 times now 2-3 minutes apart and it is absolutely convinced that I am at that location.

I avoided touching my iPhone during this experiment to mimic a real life scenario where the phone is out of reach.

If I were in a scenario where I believed a family member was taken against their will to a location I would absolutely want a search, but this experiment makes it pretty clear why Find my iPhone is not probable cause to me..

Still trying to figure out why multiple 'pinpoint location' requests are showing somewhere about a half mile away from my real location. I would think that that type of request would push something to the phone which would power up GPS for accuracy, but it doesn't appear to be so.