Excellent! A few friends have posted their hospital birth bills from the 50s. Usually ran around $50.
Add in the baby food, clothing, toys/gifts, all the bills up until his "going on his own" and surely it's a big "wow". 😱
Tell you what, I did the math, is around 250k in today's dollars for the first, 200k for the followings. Based on 3 (three) that I raised and launched. BS degrees (in Canada, not exactly Stanford or MIT priced) are included.
Repo, then straight to a dark web auction site 😱
Edit... $6 a day for a hospital room in ‘47! I looked up the inflation rate and it said $71 today’s money, yet a hospital room today is averaged @ $3400......something off with that math!
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The sites that someone might want to access via TOR, are not blocked from TOR, in my experience.
There is room on most PCs for more than one browser. 🙂
A better option for DNS is to run your own DNS caching nameserver which only queries the root servers when it needs to. Wicked fast, because it is (should be) local and dedicated to only the nodes on your private LAN. Secure because it is (should be) running on FreeBSD/openBSD in a chroot jail and can be blown away and re-deployed if it is ever compromised, which it shouldn't be because it is (should be) sitting behind an enterprise-level FW (in the DMZ) which only allows outbound connections to the root server IP addresses. It does take some knowledge and a bit of work to set up. Not for the average "Netizen".
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.....And People say to me such things as "You're living in the past"
I usually reply: "What was so bad about the past?"
Mind you, I'm not some typically labeled "old fuddy-duddy"/old coot/etc...
But ya gotta admit, these "modern times" aren't as simple and nice as "the old days".
People fondly yearn for past days, but I bet years from now they won't speak too fondly of this era.
I read a horror story along those lines years ago. As result, I keep all financial stuff related to debt and its payoff. I don't see the point of keeping bills and car repair invoices for more than 5-6 years, though.
Electronic copies of that sort of stuff can be locked into encrypted files with a password. I use diskutil on the Mac to create an encrypted and password protected disk image that I then store the information in. I'm sure there are other ways too. It's hard to hack a USB key unless it's plugged in... 🙂 Then again, USB keys do fail.
Tom
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Personally, I have a redundant backup locally (8TB disc that's 94% full), I auto upload photos to Yandex.disk so I won't lose them if my phone is damage/stolen while I'm out. They offer unlimited photo storage at the moment. I sync those locally as well. I avoid paper these days unless I have to print a shipping label, but I don't use my Underwood typewriter anymore, either. That means my credit card bills etc all come electronically now. I pay all bills manually and electronically, too save for rent and auto insurance...
I'll leave paper to our archaic court system - yes, they are still analog.
Soon, I will take a backup disc to my dad's place and set up off-site backups.
I don't encrypt, either. Oh, and I've been running Linux since 2009. Windows is infuriating to use.
I'll leave paper to our archaic court system - yes, they are still analog.
Soon, I will take a backup disc to my dad's place and set up off-site backups.
I don't encrypt, either. Oh, and I've been running Linux since 2009. Windows is infuriating to use.
FastCompany: The end of unlimited Google Photos storage is part of a bigger pivot
"While Google says it will offer tools to help users curb their storage use, the reality is that many users will feel compelled to pay. The company estimates that 7% of users will hit their storage limits within a year. If 100% of those people paid for more space, Google could be generating $1.7 billion a year in new revenue by June 2022."
"While Google says it will offer tools to help users curb their storage use, the reality is that many users will feel compelled to pay. The company estimates that 7% of users will hit their storage limits within a year. If 100% of those people paid for more space, Google could be generating $1.7 billion a year in new revenue by June 2022."
In response to PRR's post #55:
Nothing's free..... forever.
You get strung out for the ride - free incentive, increasing dependency over time, until... wham bam thank you ma'am.... Now that we hooked ya, now ya gotta pay.
Typical of business.
Cable TV used to be free of advertising, commercials... that was "the draw".....
Nothing's free..... forever.
You get strung out for the ride - free incentive, increasing dependency over time, until... wham bam thank you ma'am.... Now that we hooked ya, now ya gotta pay.
Typical of business.
Cable TV used to be free of advertising, commercials... that was "the draw".....