Are you using a VPN? I get messages like that with Surfshark.

ChatGPT just want Mr. Incredible on you.

I’d like to tell you that the captcha says overlooks and inquiry, but I can’t. I’m sorry ma’am. I know you’re upset. I’d like to help you, but I can’t.

A plant that captures Co2? So trees? Are we going to use wood as a jet fuel?

Nestlé’s ethics already went to dark mode.

Yeah I could try that.

I don’t have apple pay, but I do use Google pay whenever I can.

wpa

I have a credit card too, but I don’t use it as much. It’s from a credit union, not my bank. I don’t remember it ever getting stolen.

Yeah they’re all from the same bank.

We have a private wifi network in our house. It’s password protected.

Our last card was stolen by someone in great Britain. We’re in the USA. I don’t think they’re being stolen by someone locally unless our information is being sold on the dark web.

It happens within months, not days. I don’t use honey and I don’t pirate. I use both chrome and Firefox, but maybe I should stick to Firefox.

Running a virus scan wouldn’t be enough? I’d rather not factory reset everything.

I use duck duck go for incognito stuff. I know google can still see what I search in incognito mode.

So googling normal stuff is fine?

I’ll admit I’m susceptible to having the internet change my opinion on something. I’ll just have to make sure I’m careful where I get my news.

I don’t understand what’s wrong with tracking me for advertising. If I have to see ads they might as well be something I might be interested in. Google can give more relevant search results. Things cost less. What are the downsides to selling my information to advertisers?

I understand how tik tok can be used for cyber warfare so I don’t use that. I don’t know what china can do with millions of people’s personal information. Chrome doesn’t collect nearly as much data as tik tok.

When I was about 12 I had a computer nerd friend who used linux almost exclusively. I used various linux distros at his house. I don’t know what they were.

He gave me a knopix CD so I could use linux too and that was the easiest way.

I thought I’d try linux myself so I burned Ubuntu to a cd and tried to install it on a family computer as a dual boot. I did it wrong and deleted everything. My dad is a computer network specialist so he understood what happened and wasn’t mad. He made a backup of the family computer a while ago and restored it. We still lost some things, but not everything.

My friend got me a desktop computer for free and put SUSE on it. My parents wouldn’t allow me to have internet in my bedroom so I just played games and made stuff on blender with it.

My friend also got me a free laptop at this computer nerd conference we went to. We listened to a bunch of people talk about computer stuff. They also had free stuff we could grab. I got myself a laptop. It didn’t have an operating system so my friend installed Ubuntu on it for me.

Eventually that laptop and my desktop stopped working and I never used linux again. After reading about linux here I started to miss my Ubuntu laptop and I’d like to try it again, but I don’t want ruin my current laptop like I did with the family computer.