Why exactly does this need to run a full OS?

I’d like this. There’s always some obscure movies you can’t get that someone else may have that aren’t yet on torrent sites.

It took me over a decade to find Who Made the Potatoe Salad until it finally popped up on some torrent site a few years ago. Would have been nice to have this for that and to share some of my obscure movies too. I have a wide collection still just sitting on my shelf since it’s all digital now.

In case if the coop ever gets shut down or I lose my membership, it’d be nice to have a reliable database so I can get my movies back.

This is the start of some nasty privacy violating shit. But the average people are going to eat it because of convenience and then wonder why shit keeps getting worse for their privacy.

She’s been outed as not being the nice person she appears to be on TV. There was a big controversy a few years ago that some of her crew had a lot of stories about her behaviors behind the camera that show that she wasn’t such a nice person to the people who helped make her show a reality.

I don’t remember specifics, but it’s not hard to find if you go looking for videos or articles on it. From what I remember, it was the typical diva sort of behaviors like don’t look her in the eye and being rude to others. Nothing too too serious like sexual assault but still not nice stuff and people view her as a phony since.

There were also some things she did to guests like when she “forced” Mariah Carey to reveal she was pregnant by offering her alcohol and Mariah basically had to admit she was pregnant as to why she wouldn’t drink alcohol. Kind of a shitty thing to do to someone.

Agreed, this is classic for that. Even a perfectly scanned document into OCR almost always has errors. I have set it up for a lot of people and I always stress that you need to go in and review what got scanned because there has never been a time I have seen it get everything spelled correctly or in the right format as it was.

Same as AI. Anything you get from an LLM should be reviewed. Too many people just blindly trust whatever gets spit out without ever reviewing.

Guaranteed that amount is a drop in the bucket to what they “saved” by denying all these claims made by their paying customers.

Fuck all insurance companies.

That name is purrfect! Callie is such a cutie

I know the pain, but both of those touchless options always suck. The water never stays on or doesn’t turn on unless you motion in one specific weird spot that’s either too close or too far away. And those dryers never dry your hands well enough. I’m grateful they never had touchless doors in the same way.

Though I have seen newer foot style doors that have a small piece of metal at the bottom you can “grab” and pull open.

I bought a brand new 4GB off Amazon last year that is supposedly made by Sandisk. Seems legit and been using it with one of my 3D printers.

Impossible to find them in any brick and mortar store anymore. It’s so dumb because they come in handy and I hate thinking of wasting larger drives with so many writes.

Now is the perfect time with memory being so expensive.

As much as I’d love to still recommend Linux and get versions of those apps that don’t require Microsoft accounts, this may be solved by doing a fresh Windows install. Get the Windows ISO from Microsoft and install that over what you currently have, wiping the current Windows install clean and formatted. It’ll be without the HP bloat, but will have Microsoft’s bloat. If you want any specific HP bloat you had, you likely can get it from HP’s support website and searching for drivers based on your serial number or using their tool if they have one. Here’s the link to Microsoft’s ISO for Windows 11 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11

All subscriptions inevitably turn to shit

Try the “forgot your password” link on his iCloud account. When you go to iCloud.com, there’s a link there for it. There might be some way that you can reset the iCloud account and get in that way. Most of these methods have you verify you own the account like a link in an email or text to the phone or something. Worth a try to see especially since you physically have the phone.

If he left his iPhone with the messages showing on the screen even when locked, you may be lucky and get to send a text to the phone and get a code to reset the iCloud account that way.

Either that or going through Apple may be your best bet since the pics are likely backed up to his Apple’s iCloud. Apple gives everyone free 5GB so surely there’s something there even if he didn’t pay for it or it lapsed after his passing.

I got this idea from the San Bernardino shooters years ago. Apple refused to help the FBI hack into the phone but said they would help if the FBI let the phone back up to iCloud at night like this because it’d be on their servers and technically theirs to comply with.

So it seems this might be some type of legitimate way of getting stuff out of an iPhone like this by Apple’s own admission. I just checked and Apple does have an article on this exact situation and what they can and cannot do https://support.apple.com/en-us/102431

My condolences to you and your family. Good luck getting those pictures.

There’s a decent chance that the iPhone syncs to iCloud each night. It’s a feature Apple kind of snuck onto people and most people don’t change. Photos are one of those things that gets backed up during this time.

Thing is, you need to get it connected to WiFi that it has connected to before and just leave it on the charger, probably best to do this over 48 hours and then try getting in. The backups usually happen at night time.

If you know the WiFi where he lived but can’t access it, you could trick the iPhone into thinking it’s the same WiFi by creating that same WiFi signal name and password and the iPhone will connect to that new hotspot you create with the same instructions. If it’s valuable enough to you, you could buy a router and set it up on yours at home with that information or go cheap and set it up on your phone’s hotspot. If you don’t know that one, any other WiFi network it once connected to should do. It just only works over WiFi at night.

Once that happens, you can try resetting his password on iCloud.com and see if that lets you in. Or see if Apple can help you getting into the iCloud account with his death certificate. I’m not sure on that last part, might need to check into it before asking just to make sure they don’t lock you out of it or something.

You may not even have to do the WiFi trick, it might already have backed up everything already and you can try getting into this iCloud account now and see if the pictures are there. They’re accessible over any web browser on any operating system.

I’m fine with not buying any Sony games if they’re just going to lock them on PlayStation consoles.

Sony hasn’t always had the best track record of standing behind their hardware with devices such as the PS Vita or PS Move. And even more successful projects like the PSVR1, those games aren’t compatible with PSVR2 hardware. So you bought a bunch of games that can only ever be played and dependent on you having old hardware that’s no longer manufactured or supported.

I don’t have faith that my purchases will be as long lasting with PlayStation like they are with Steam where I still have games I bought nearly 20 years ago and work to this day.

Lmao pay Google for a problem they created. Get fucked sucker

I gave up on ever being able to use Wayland while having this Nvidia GPU. That sounds promising.

All those dumb ads on YouTube for nothing lol. Nice.

It’s not an easy thing to do. Torrents of copyrighted stuff are illegal yet we still have sites galore for them.

VPN companies will move operations to specific locations and countries that accept them and many countries will happily take them in. The only sure fire way to deal with it then will be to block those countries which won’t happen either.

I didn’t know that was a thing but makes sense. Do banks have a similar name to it like credit cards have chargeback?

That makes sense on the fees, I had forgotten the fees they get charged for processing plastic.

So this is why some gyms like mine are now doing discounts for using a checking account. I wondered why that was when I set up my account last year.