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Discover card doing their free dark web scans notified me a few weeks ago that my SSN is in the dark web. I assume my SSN probably got there from the ATT breach (haven't been notified by ATT). Yes, there is a tendency to get desensitized to all the data breaches (and other things going on, but...

The thought of Fentanyl just sounds so scary. I had the same initial thought too about the dealers killing their customers. But sometimes I wonder are the dealers killing their customer or killing potential witnesses? I may be wrong but perhaps Fentanyl is so popular that the dealers aren't...

Because it was 32 months this time?

I received an email recently from Discover card saying they found my SSN on the dark web. Discover does a free scan I believe monthly. I'm assuming my SSN got there also from the ATT breach.

I received a letter from one of my credit card companies saying my card hasn't been used for about 32 months and if not used by June, it will be terminated. Think I'll use the card for 1 transaction before June. That will hold me over for another 32 months. I like to keep my options open...

A leather hold punch tool. Have a perfect condition belt but is too big (I lost some weight) :).

Looking nice! I confess, out of habit I forget you were down the past couple days and clicked on the website bookmark a few times. Guess I'm addicted to here :popcorn:.

Aside from recording the morning news and watching with my finger on the fast forward button to zoom past commercials and the news that I don't want to see, I don't seek out watching news. I figure we are bombarded in so many different ways with "Breaking News!" that ends out not really...

Through settings, I use Timeshift for roll back changes including any personal data changes. I like to go back to a computer's state before needing to roll back. But I do full system images too so don't rely on Timeshift as a backup program.

I was hopping back to MX-Linux the other day but got flustered too. Not with MX in particular but the process of different distros better at different things. For example, I was on MX a few years back but MX doesn't handle hot swapping. So I hopped to Linux Mint which does handle hot...

I've been using MS Copilot pretty often lately for some computer tech questions. Actually, it's been quite helpful for quick, to the point answers. I'm about name him "Roger" for the character in the movie "Airplane":).

I'm 3 points away from my highest rating back in Feb when I was on a hot streak. I do think I'm a better player now than back then as I've added some more chess skills (adapt or die :() along the way. As of today, my record (rapid games) stands at 185 wins, 170 losses and 27 draws.

Been chasing ghosts and think I just found the ghost causing the erratic behavior. Discovered that the HDD where my system resides has 8 bad sectors. Time to use a better drive :blush:.

When in doubt, restore from a backup. That's what I probably should have done sooner instead of barking up different trees. I ended up restoring my system from a Pristine backup I did during my initial Linux Lite install and setup. Fingers crossed now that may do the trick. Maybe something...

Another day, another distro hop. This time, I'm going full circle and going get back to MX-Linux. Still not perfect but more stable then what I've had with both Linux Mint and Linux Lite.