What did I do to get kicked off?

[david w]

I had foru problems in the past. Are you using a VPN? You may have to temporarily turn it off.

 

[shorthair]

I have an antenna atop the silo connected to a radio that relays to a wireless waypoint attached to the side of the barn that relays to a WiFi repeater inside the house that connects to anything wireless in the house and also provides a wired connection for my antique computers. I don't run Windows, only various flavors of Linux and an Android tablet (Kindle Fire). Toni runs Windows 10 I think and an Apple tablet.

Problems occur on a weekly basis, mostly due to a lousy connection, but also because software engineers just LOVE to change things, even when they don't have to. Hence, my latest problem getting Mutt to work with Gmail again. Apparently there is some security mod that Google implemented which will require me to modify my .muttrc file.

To further confuse things, I also run a VPN through Proton in Switzerland and have been known to use GPG encryption with email. Also somewhat familiar with Tripwire and a few other security applications. I often get concerned emails from Netflix because they think someone in Virginia is using my account... in other words, because of the VPN, they think I am sharing my account with somebody else and therefore stealing money from their pockets somehow.

In the mid 1990's I realized that I had better get on board with modern computers, so I bought a used model running Windows '95. If I hadn't done that, I would have been pretty much unemployable. I bought and read lots of books until they were dog-eared and I knew everything in them. I learned how to repair computers, how to reformat drives and that there was more than one choice of operating systems. Over the years I adapted and upgraded as necessary.

When there is a problem in my house, I am Tech Support Incarnate.

I tell you though, the technology is moving so fast that it is pretty much impossible to actually keep up with it. You do the best you can and know that you are on a virtual vehicle traveling at warp 10 with no brakes that is accelerating into transwarp speeds and possibly using wormholes. When I read about things like computers that will use quantum entanglement in their hardware, I get a bit frightened because at 66, I'm finding that much of my knowledge is rapidly becoming as obsolete as flintlock rifles on the battlefield. I have little hope of catching up once I have been eclipsed by younger men & women.

When I address Alexa, I always try to remember to be polite and to thank "her" properly after she provides what I ask for, because I know that one day, if I live long enough, I will be working for her.

Sorry I can read the words but you are so far over my bald head that I can't even see the bottom.

 

[Jaeger]

"I'm sorry Dave, but I'm afraid I can't do that."

 

[kelljp]

Welcome from East TN

 

[oldwood]

Alexa still likes me , even though I have no fancy cell phone to share my life with the govt. and Chinese snoopers. Will try to stay as mundane , as I can. I work for a new Boss these days , and care about not much at all. Oops , my dog just told me time for bed ,and she won't stop until I do as she wants.

 

[Jason holgate]

Welcome back

 

[Dale Allen Raby]

Sorry I can read the words but you are so far over my bald head that I can't even see the bottom.

Best to just consider it "technobabble", which, as any Star Trek aficionado will tell you, is mostly bovine manure anyway. In any case, the latest technical advances in both hardware and software are so far beyond me these days, that, like you, I cannot see the bottom either.

 

[Gum Slough Muzzleloader]

Welcome Back.
From West Sumter County Florida

 

[lt508th]

Welcome from Maryland!