I haven't used it in years, but when I was first using Linux I used Gentoo for a long time. Building Gentoo from scratch really helped me learn a lot and probably more quickly than dual-booting a system like I had been. I'll always have a soft spot for Gentoo.
I have firstnamelastname@gmail.com and it surprises me how many other people have my same name. I get so much unintended mail, usually to firstname.lastname at gmail. I have found that in a lot of cases they have forgotten a middle initial. I usually let it go as spam unless it looks important like a credit card. What frustrates me is that these companies will not interface with me at all, sometimes not even leaving a note on the account.
I understand from the security side why they wont, but I wish there was something they could do. I could easily log in and change a password then cancel the account, but I figure there's probably some legal trouble if I did that.
I get credit card stuff and credit report stuff from bozos with similar nanes to me. I used to try to inform them, they won't let me. The worst are Experian, who won't let me interact with them at all, because I can't prove I'm the person or people who've been mistakenly using my email address.
My stock reply to this used to be that you can send emails from anyone - who the email is sent from is not authenticated.
It's a little less true now with some of the newer protections, but only today I received a fairly subtle spam/scam supposedly from the main email address of a major retailer, so I think it's still sensible to never every trust the "From:" part of an email.
Sure, but they could just sent a link back to the same address with a form to fill out the complaint, or even just a phone number saying "call this number to speak to customer service about the issue you're having". From a technical standpoint, it's not hard at all to invert things to use the address as a recipient in a way that confirms that someone is able to access the email sent to it. A company like Experian that claims to have info on literally a billion people would be silly not to recognize that their scale is going to occasionally end up with mistaken contact info, so if they cared at all about the quality of their data, they would have some sort of system established to handle this.
Another parent in my kid's Cub Scout pack told me about this a few years ago. It's been really cool to use on camping trips, and lately I've been using it while walking the dog. There's a lot more different types of birds around me than I had realized.
It think it's been changed, but I believe the Transformers wiki on Fandom started out as a copy of the superior [TFWiki](https://tfwiki.net). TFWiki has been referenced by many official creators and Hasbro designers themselves and has proven to be a great resource. I have no idea what their infrastructure or backup plans are, but I dread the day they go down.
I read almost all of the Lord of the Rings trilogy on a Windows Mobile phone in the 2000s. They were a great tool for the time, and I much preferred them to the Blackberrys that were more popular with many of my coworkers.
I also had a Windows Mobile 6 based pre-smartphone. Very Windows XP'ish especially regarding the permissions. The new smartphones with their framework and managed access were a huge thing. Windows UAC allowed to control administrator privileges but the framework allowed to prevent access to APIs like the camera. A huge win for security and privacy!
I've watched movies and series in 320x240 on my 1.4 inch mp3 player before I got my 2.4 inch pocket pc. Wild times but I loved how the operating system and apps were designed to display more information than modern apps. Everything was so tiny but it was what I wanted.
It was quite something at the time, I remember it too and this was way before the era of smartphones, touch screens and all that. I remember messing with a palm pilot in the late 90s and that too felt like magic.
My first eBook was Dracula on a Compaq iPAQ 3630. At the time, it blew my mind both that I could read a full book on it, and that the book was free!
It occurs to me that, though I've read Dracula a few times, to this day I've never done so in a "normal" manner. Right now we're nearing the end of "Dracula Daily", so the tradition continues.
Geforce Now arbitrarily restricts their games by platform at the request of the publisher. E.g. you can't play Genshin in a browser, only the Android and Windows native apps.
There are Mac users like myself that don't have a trackpad or touchpad. After trying the Magic Mouse when I got my Mini I reverted back to my 20 year old Microsoft optical mouse. I long for the Windows style of app switching where you can go through each window instead of the Mac style where you go through each app.
You should try contexts! It also has a bunch of other features and is highly configurable. I'm not one to normally pay for software, but this is probably up there with some of the best $10 I ever spent.
