What I did was clone my windows drive as a virtual machine on an external drive, like a flash drive, then, I wiped the drive, installed kubuntu, moved the VM back to the drive, and when I run into something that I'm like "I can't find an alternative to this app on Linux" or "I need a copy of that one thing from my old windows install" I just boot it up, use the app and do what I need, or transfer the file over, and I'm good.

In my case I will admit, I did not wipe the windows drive and ended up dual booting, but not very often, just because I haven't been able to get a vm to run smooth using virtual manager since I switched, running windows or Linux, pretty sure it's because of Nvidia and their proprietary driver. If I don't need GPU, I can use the VM just fine. But for specific games or software, switching to Windows on bare metal is handy.

I'd say the VM thing isn't the best solution to the problem you're facing, but it is a solution that can make the transition a little easier, it helped for me anyways, so I figured I'd share.

You misunderstand, the list of apps they block are "inside" the said list, while sideloading apps "outside" of the said list is possible. So you can only find and install whatever apps they've approved within whatever app store they use to serve apps to their customers, but you can install any apk on the phone by sideloading it, given the app supports the phones CPU architecture of course.

You can sideload apps, whether they are on the blocklist or not. That's what the sentence* you quoted says. Well, that's what I interpret anyways. Maybe I'm wrong.

I work for an ISP, we have 10 second to 3 minutes hold times before you're speaking to a real rep, we have had downtime 5 times since I started working for them 4 years ago for maintenance (upgrading hardware to support larger bandwidth in different areas), we sell 1Gbps symmetrical speeds with unlimited data for $50/mo, we have 50k customers (in a specific area) and 5 customer service reps. Customer service quality is definitely important, but providing a service with minimal issues and great prices, that's why the ISP I work for can get away with such a minimum amount of representatives and continue to get a 4.7 star rating on Google as an ISP.

It's fun working for a company like this because you get to see how 50k customers paying for 1Gbps only use 70-85Gbps at any given time on average lol, people think they need a lot of bandwidth when in reality they just need a better router for their local network's bandwidth. WiFi hasn't been a great tech so far honestly, Wi-Fi 6 made a lot of improvements, maybe with WiFi7/8 that changes though. Big name consumer routers like Netgear have been dropping the ball with quality for years, but they still rake in the cash because at one point they made really great hardware.

I've learned a lot about networking because of this job, and it's given me a really great perspective of how awful Comcast/Xfinity/spectrum and CenturyLink/QuantumFiber really are, how much they try to get in the pockets of the people who make the decisions for infrastructure in our cities, there were so many hate ads against the ISP I work for during an election season all paid for by Comcast and CenturyLink.

Anyways, customer service is great, but quality of service is much more important. Having both is a win all around.

Letterkenny, I think it gets good around the end of season 1 or beginning of 2. You still have to watch the first episodes to get an idea of who everyone is and their relationships though. Might have to do with just how strange the characters are in this random small town in Canada. It's pretty tough at first, but once you get to the end of the first season, something clicks and the show becomes pretty hilarious.

Dude has made half a billion dollars in less than 15 years... The show is just bullshitting about dumb videos that someone on the team found funny over the last few days, like... Bullshitting about stupid videos for 15 years and getting paid a half billion dollars for it sounds pretty chill ngl.

I was watching a show the other day where the wealthy protagonist got his phone thrown to the grown and smashed by someone and he freaked out because it was a $200 phone. I think the episode is like 10 years old or so. Phones used to be cheap to own as well as cool.

Honestly, I think not having MFA required for any account anywhere ever is bad practice. As others have mentioned MFA is something you know, something you own, something that's you, and somewhere you are. Password or pin, phone or digital key, biometric like a fingerprint or face, geolocation or IP address. Having more than one of these things makes getting into your account harder. If you only need a password, then that's all someone needs to figure out to get into your account, same with all the other examples. I feel like it's pretty straight forward, but I tried my best to explain why we do need both...

If you run a server with thousands of users interacting with each other and someone gains access to all their accounts, what's the harm? I don't care if someone gets access to what I have access to through the account on x website, so it doesn't matter right? Well what if real user accounts were used as bots to push propaganda or silence a competitor, damaging the community you're hosting on your server, or posting bad reviews on products, etc. you lose trust in that community or website.

Idk, to me, there is a bigger picture that requiring secure accounts produces, and I think it helps me have more trust in the website I'm joining and want to be part of. It's just about helping ensure genuine interactions, it'd be nice if it was guaranteed, but it at least helps me feel assured.

tldr; MFA is important for securing the things inside of an account, but it's also important for creating confidence and trust in who or what you're interacting with on a website.

Not sure why the down votes... You can be dishonest and truthful but you cannot be dishonest and honest. You can mix truths in with lies and that would still absolutely be considered dishonest, but you cannot mix lies into truths and still be honest.

Seriously, I'm in Utah so this isn't a thing out there, but thank you, I'm going to share this, and maybe, hopefully, we will become Sonic's competition some day <3 this ISP looks like the whole entire package and what I dream the ISP I am currently with becomes one day.

We offer everything Sonic does, Internet up to 10Gbps symmetrical ($200/mo which is competitive in it market), VoIP, TV, WiFi router rentals, but it's different than how Sonic is doing it. I wrote out a bunch of stuff, but afterwards I decided I may have started to reveal too much and it may become too easy to understand who I work for and my position... Long story short, you're a lucky bunch out there, Sonic seems fantastic and thank you for sharing this with me/the community.

My ¢2, devil's advocate, maybe they were trying to protect the women from emotional trauma, they'd still have some but, maybe an attempt to reduce it. Obviously they could have done different things to do that better, but, maybe it was what they thought was their only option. New Mom's baby dies, instead of telling her that her child is dead, they hide it and tell her that it was adopted or transferred somewhere it would be taken care of or whatever.

It's far fetched, probably unlikely, but hey, devil's advocate, it's a possibility.