I assume I violated the rules, and if so, why would verifying a phone number let you back in?

Burner phones are $5 at Home Depot

Maybe that’s my next step

You can get one that has a certain amount of texts/calls. Just have one in your closet, and only use it to verify various accounts

So even if the app is on your main phone you can still just use the verification info off the burner right?

Idk, I've never not used a burner

Yes.

Thanks, I’m boomer tier tech functional

Would you guys be interested in me writing up a guide on how to properly use a VPN? Would include specific information on Teredo, WebRTC and some weird specific MS Windows DNS stuff that has to be disabled as well as IPV6 for a VPN to properly function. You can't just turn it on have it work seamlessly. @everyone

Would be windows specific and specific to Win10

Absolutely

Yes. If adaptable to Windows 7, also good.

Ok. I'll look into the win7 bits and make 2 guides

You're the best pup around! @Deleted User

Lol ty

Truly man's best friend

@Deleted User that sounds awesome.

So this isn’t an April fools joke?

@Deleted User can you do something that’s applicable to Mac as well

@Zyzz maybe. Mac is very different from Windows. I'll look into it

@Ben - OH well, some of us are technology retarded.😂 I'm like a boomer when it comes to tech. Haha

https://stratechery.com/2018/the-end-of-windows/

Good Win10 is such a pile of garbage. From a normie user perspective it isn't bad, but from any technical or development or mass deployment perspective its absolutely awful (much worse than Vista)

Going back to the burner phone discussion... Can anyone point me in the direction of such a phone/service provider? What I'm mostly seeing requires a monthly plan--which is unnecessary. Just a basic text/call-only phone with a certain number of texts/minutes that don't expire would be ideal.

@Argument of Perigee the mall or Home Depot. Walmart, too

I'll check out Walmart. Neither my Lowes nor Home Depot carried phones.

Weird. Does Colorado not have many Mexicans?

Haha, a good number there actually. I'm in Iowa staying with my family for a while at the moment though--great R&R in the rural Midwest.

Actually, I would expect a lot of Mexicans in Colorado. It never really got conquista'd, and I know a guy whose best friend got murdered by some Mexicans in Boulder

Is anybody here in IT networking or security?

Yeah

@Nick Anderson - IL

Att go phone. Prepaid sims. Got mine at goodwill, came in a piece of luggage I bought, no paper trail. Lol

I was looking at that and the T-Mobile version as possibilities.

The Burner App I just learned about seems like a valid possibility too.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ultimate.intelligent.privacy.firewall

Does anyone here have any experience with old MFC/AFX? I'm modernizing some software and running into a really weird issue. Everytime I try to build my VS solution I get an error stating VS is missing 'hcw' and this is somehow tied to an .hpj file for my project

lol this takes me way back

Win XP Master race

> Running bitcoin node for the past month
> Data usage is high
> Internet starts running extremely slowly
> Darn ISP is throttling me, I'll call to complain
> "Sir, have you tried rebooting your PC, modem, and router?"
> "Aw heck, it's been running fine for 3 months straight, you're probably throttling me, that's the simplest trick in the book, but just to please you I'll do it anyway"
> Reboot and internet is screaming fast again
> "Well, uh ... that worked. Thanks"
> Feel like idiot as girl tech support just beat me me with the oldest trick in the book "have you tried turning it off and turning it back on again?"