A web browser is not a computer. A phone is not a desktop computer. Google (and most other large companies) keep many features restricted to their full websites, not mobile apps and mobile versions of their sites. For those who are used to/grew up with smartphones, tablets, and chromebooks, these tactics help to make it harder to leave their ecosystems as they aren’t used to navigating desktop environments.

(Chromebooks do give desktop versions of websites by default, but they have helped reduce technological literacy in exchange for convenience)

They said to try again on a computer. All your screen shots are from a phone. You might get the same result, but we won’t know until you attempt it.

It’s not a calendar, it’s an appointment scheduler

This is the way. It’s always a risk buying used drives, and everything I’ve seen and heard about them has been good news so I expect OP getting a replacement should be pretty easy.

You got a source for that?

One of the ways VPNs work is by having all your web traffic look like it’s coming from somewhere else, obscuring where you’re really from. They will see a different IP address than what yours actually is. If you were the only person doing this there would be no problem, but VPNs only have so many servers so companies often know what IP addresses those are. What they see is THOUSANDS of actions being taken by a single IP address, so of course it looks like bots! It makes total sense to have some verification to help against DDOS attacks and bad actors.

I built this rig ages ago, so definitely not that. I probably didn’t use enough when I upgraded my CPU last year so redoing it should fix it up

This is my project tomorrow. CPU temps have been much higher than normal, so new thermal paste should hopefully do the trick

Same here. My wife and I primarily watch YouTube (mainly let’s play style stuff, but a lot of non-game stuff as well). Looking at my homepage right now, I’ve got a few gaming videos, some Dropout (amazing comedy), some 3D printing and DIY videos.

Over the years, the algorithm has gotten pretty good with its recommendations for us. Watching some niche videos barely affects our feeds.

Yeah, without a side-by-side comparison with another I’m not seeing anything slightly infuriating.

Looks good to me. The letters are following the same pattern as the numbers - Top to bottom, left to right. ‘C’ is likely a Clear button in case you mess up your code. XYZ was chosen instead of ABC since C already has a use.

My wife and I were considering it as well. It’d mean lower pay and higher housing costs. We decided to stay put for now

You can always run both at the same time and see which works better

I’ve got both going for dual cloud backup. Immich is hosted local so I’ve got a backup at home, and I pay $5/month for 500GB storage with Google

The following was added to my fstab //192.168.86.181/TrixieTV /home/brobot/Storage/Completed/TV cifs credentials=/home/brobot/.smb 0 0 //192.168.86.181/TrixieMovies /home/brobot/Storage/Completed/Movies cifs credentials=/home/brobot/.smb 0 0

The credentials are using a new user ‘moose’ that owns the folders and has full control user=moose password=3141

I’ll look into that, thanks!

We just had a total power outage, and restarting my main machine I remembered I have Linux Mint installed as duel boot. I’ve been waiting for a final push to get me to migrate away from Windows. Would it be easier to do all this from Linux Mint instead of Windows?

No GUI on my end (It’s been fun learning to use a headless server). I have to sudo to be able to do anything in the mount locations. Using ls -s, the permissions and owner aren’t changing after using chown and chmod.

Yup, the mount is authenticated and the Share Permissions on Windows have it set to Full Control for Everyone, plus ‘Password protected sharing’ is turned off under Advanced Network Settings.

IT can have scripts and flowcharts they are required to follow, even if it is redundant to tech savvy people.

You said you recently got a gigabit plan, but that’s related to your home download speed. Check to see what your upload speed actually is. Depending on your ISP’s plans, you might have a speedy download but a slow upload.

I’ve used Grocy before that had good functionality for that. Can create chores that are done regularly and it can be assigned to certain people, or rotates through the family. The main feature is tracking groceries, but it does so much more.