Carlos

Nobody here is talking about viruses. Are you in the wrong thread?

I jump started a motorcycle using my Sea Doo.

LOL. I knew someone would miss the humor.

If you use any Google products, you're being spied on. You are the product to be sold to advertisers. You should see what Androids and even Chromebooks are sending home. The most effective product I've found to block this is uBlock Origin, and very soon, that will stop working in Chrome because Google is going to remove the API it uses. Too effective I suppose. VPNs do almost nothing to anonymize you. They just conceal an IP address which is pretty much meaningless. Chrome is fingerprinted via other mechanisms which survive a VPN trip, just like they survive you traveling across the country. Remember that all a VPN does is put you in another place electronically rather than physically. They have nearly no value today, other than pirating things or gaining access to country-restricted content. To me, ad blocking is much more about the amount of junk on pages, battery life, and CPU usage. I've never clicked on an ad in my life, and expect I never will. I don't want to see them, or wait for them to load. I don't want them in the way of real content.

Pretty hard question to answer since we're not you and we're not watching you online, but I see them in various places. We used to have them on my forum until we blocked Russia and China, and added the IQ test to sign up.

Not true at all. There are lots of ways to browse shows. It's just dumb to have to do it by "channels" and time.

Has anyone discussed the need for a washer and dryer? You should give it some thought.

Yup, one of the benefits of downloading and streaming is that you’re not limited to the silly program guide.

Yeah, most of the spammers we see on my forum are humans. But they still don't know the answer to the motorcycle question, ever, so that has been pretty effective. Blocking China and Russia completely has also been a huge help. I'm considering the middle East next, as that's another problem area, however we actually have some members who travel there regularly.

Except that they just don't. I deal with this every day for work; we've stopped 60-80% of issues by just blocking China and Russia on some of the most-attacked servers.

You cannot. That's a common myth/misconception. I mean, you can spew packets in ONE direction in some very limited cases with a fake IP, but you cannot engage in a connection with a site from a spoofed IP. A connection to the site requires traffic in both directions, and a spoofed packet would get the return traffic sent to the real location of the IP. Source: Been a network engineer since the 80s.

You can't wire the power inputs to accessory switches, because they draw a lot of power. If the inverter has an on/off input, as many do, then you can drive that from any switch-only power. That uses very little power. The other option is a high-power relay. Whatever watts it is rated for, divide by 12 and that's the amps you need to supply.

I don't recall what it takes to sign up here. I run a motorcycle forum with pretty good traffic so we used to get plenty of spammer signups. Now we've put in a question that only someone with motorcycle knowledge would answer properly, and just don't approve any registrations without that answer.

Interesting, my tow vehicle won't let you run the inverter with the vehicle turned off. It has to at least be in the accessory position.

How familiar are you with electricity? It sounds like you're unaware that you need a battery or two for the house power system?

I assumed it would cost double what he said. Which is still cheap. Amazon has hinted at $500 for their satellite receiver and sub-$100 service, also cheap for what you're getting. Again, back on the topic of why satellite will die; you don't need full time access in order to get TV/movies online.

Economic viability means that enough customers find it valuable to pay for it. Bragging rights? For a network connection? That's funny. Also steered antennas are now much lower priced and common.

Don't know, I cancelled that years ago also. Apple's music service was adding more than Sirius was losing, for a while, but these aren't numbers I track. Podcasts are becoming big business now, and terrestrial radio is becoming even worse than it has been for a long time. You are right of course that some small number of people don't have some form of broadband. There are also a number of people who simply won't change, or don't know their options and assume they "can't." I personally run into an equal number of both. So many also think that you have to have internet service to play your media, rather than download while on wifi to play later.

Yes, every time a tech becomes dead, there's a tail period where some people still haven't figured out their other options, and keep using it. I actually did that myself with Sirius. It still has no future, which is why they are laying off so many workers and providing early outs for many. If there were a future, they'd want to keep trained employees.

Sprint is a loser has-been, and any company aligned with them is doomed. Dish was a great company at one time, as was Sirius. But their tech is dead and useless.

We cancelled our satellite service in 2006, haven't missed it at all. You don't need an internet connection ALL the time to make this work. We download shows and movies to our devices, and play them later without an internet connection. Out of everyone I hang out with, not one has cable or satellite any more. My neighbor was an installer and recently left with an early "retirement" package because installs have slowed down so much. He said mostly only people over 70 are signing up any more and their market is literally dying.

I know two vets with dogs who help with PTSD. It's a fine line between emotional support and "trained to perform a specific task" in this case. One definitely is, when the dog senses that he's becoming "off" the dog gets his attention and pulls him back. The other is more simple, the dog constantly provides a known entity wherever he goes.

The federal ADA was changed in the early 2010s to say only dogs, and to further clarify "specific tasks." PTSD used to be a little gray, but it's specifically allowed for. Also the ADA is the MINIMUM that businesses must allow. Every state, and even cities, can create laws that allow MORE animals and more access, but not less. A state could declare that your emotional support weasel falls under their version of the ADA.

So? What exactly is the problem with that?

All rentals are new at some point.