well he is a “party dude”

The people doing the calls are overwhelmingly impoverished,

not always, but even in the cases where it is like that, these scumbags know what they’re doing, they know they’re trying to steal from people through fraud. Several of my family members with dementia were scammed repeatedly by the same scammers

you know what else? scammers share information about their victims with other scammers, usually through facebook groups, whatapp and/or telegram

and when they’re first setting up RD on the victim’s PC, they set up several of them, including ConnectWise.

most of the people doing scam calls there are from wealthy and/or well connected family

most of the time the cops in india will make a big show of arresting them, but the scammers are released shortly after

The big railroads are laser focused on short term profits these days

every company is laser focused on short term profits, none of the executives care about long term sustainability because they get obscenely large severence packages when they get fired or if the company goes bankrupt from their stupidity

not caring about the big picture or what might happen in the future is why everything sucks

this isn’t new. never use bluetooth, hard-wired accessories only

What do you not like about the EU

centralizing control is bad. It gives less freedom and autonomy to the common man.

A citizen of a country in the EU votes for their parliment or congress or whatever to decide things, but then the EU parliment can just override whatever your elected officals decide. Doesn’t that piss you off? Imagine an entire continent being an HOA neighborhood. Where the HOA gets to dictate everything you do with your own house that they don’t own, don’t pay bills for and don’t maintain for you… and that’s a metaphor for the EU

I wouldn’t just get rid of the EU if I had my way, I’d de-centralize as much authority as possible down to every town being a self governing local community.

But with a constituion of rights that are always off the table for any debate.

Full bodily autonomy, free speech, gun ownership, right to privacy, right to remain silent, right to a fair trial with legal representation…competent legal represenation that won’t pressure you into admitting anything…basically a set of rights that allow you to do what you want with your own things and your own land

If you have a problem with gun ownership. You won’t once you’ve had to deal with someone invading your home. What? you think calling the police is going to stop a home invader from hurting you?

“hey I just called the police!”

“oh shit! you got me! Guess I’ll just sit here and wait to be arrested”

Never ask an EU supporter about why their own country doesn’t get to decide things for its self

only for windows server? So windows home and pro users won’t have to worry about this?

Good…I mean it’s bad that windows server users are getting scammed, but the average user doesn’t have windows server

didn’t you hear? she’s leaving

it’s just a damn shame that Kathleen was only fired AFTER she made all the normies hate starwars

A library is a tax-funded service and you’re expected to return anything you check out from them.

Imagine if it was “Europeon Union” firing at “Europe” with the gun being labled as “centralized control” and asking “why do so many of them want to leave?”

Anything controlled by a centralized bank is evil.

Good to know, but how can you safely request them without giving away that you’re using them?

What method does the request go through? What happens when those proxies get blocked by the censorship firewalls too?

Mullvad is much friendlier to privacy, but their proxies get blocked by A LOT of stuff, they also have a very small number of proxies. Mullvad collects literally nothing about you, but that’s a double edged sword. not having any way to verify exactly who paid money into which account number means they can’t help you if someone steals your account. I also have it on good authority that mullvad isn’t very reliable at getting past more aggressive censorship firewalls. the one in china for example won’t allow you to use mullvad unless the sim you’re connecting from is a US one.

Proton doesn’t record anything you’re doing with their VPN and they’ve had to prove that many times and their “sentinel” program and the 2FA and double password you can enable make it very hard if not impossible for someone to mootch off your account. I very rarely get blocked by anything when I use proton VPN, if I ever do get blocked I just have to change the proxy I’m on. I don’t even have to change the location most of the time because proton VPN has a huge number of proxies at each location.

Proton also gives you the ability to save recovery phrases and recovery files if you lose your password(s) or your 2FA

ente auth and ageis auth are great for storing your 2FAs and they allow you to back them up to a file if your account with ente fails in some way or if you forget the password to get into your ageis

as for those recovery files and phrases I talked about. save them in text files on a small capacity flash drive that you don’t use for anything else

scratch telegram off that list, put Session messenger there instead.

Telegram isn’t private, one guy has the master key to the whole thing