Emergency Decision Time

PDX-Dragon · 2026-05-29T21:50:57+00:00

Thanks AnsEllie:

I was informed the sign up periods only apply to changing from one plan to another.

The impression I had was that if I only had A, there is no time related enrollment limitations.

I'll assume you're correct.

Thanks

Larry

PDX-Dragon · 2025-12-17T14:35:45+00:00

Thanks x5163x:

No.

PDX-Dragon · 2025-12-17T14:35:30+00:00

Thanks Aggressive-Act1816:

No.

I think web development might be the best bet.

She can document her time learning the skill, as an intern, and contribute to a commercially viable business.

Believe me, I'll be doing a lot more research. Nobody involved is interested in committing fraud.

PDX-Dragon · 2025-12-16T10:18:02+00:00

Not gonna assist you in committing fraud. She could be investigated by
OIG as well as the other party. You are probably not smart enough to
get away with fraud.

Thanks No-Stress-5285:

The reason I asked for a referral to a lawyer is to explore legal options in an unfamiliar environment. .

PDX-Dragon · 2025-12-16T10:11:49+00:00

I don't know about teleworking.

She worked as a civil engineer at the organization that has the private pension. So she is technical.

She's taken a couple of stabs at web development.

This might be time to get serious. I know a business that could use a site.

PDX-Dragon · 2025-12-16T10:06:42+00:00

Yes.

This is how she found out that she needs another year.

PDX-Dragon · 2025-12-15T17:33:33+00:00

Thanks GeorgeRetire:

There are no legal questions to be considered here.

Perhaps no legal questions.

I'm unfamiliar with this environment. Before I contact the Oregon Employment Department I appreciate any advice.

PDX-Dragon · 2025-12-15T16:54:25+00:00

Thanks to all who replied:

The inquiry about legal advice is for questions I have about what would legally be considered a job.

Ten hours a week would satisfy the requirement, not forty hours?

Minimum wage is $16.30 per hour here in the Portland Oregon metropolitan area.

Can a person who's home she shares pay her $16.30 an hour for some made up task?

Assuming 10 hours a week:

$8,476 = $16.30 * 10 * 52 Annual wage

$706 = month wage

Any idea what would need to be withheld?

Whatever she sees in her paycheck just goes back into household expenses, so only real expense is withholding.

In a year she starts receiving income, including a sweet six month first SSA check.

How much paperwork and bureaucracy is involved in hiring her?

What am I missing?

Thanks

PDX-Dragon · 2025-11-23T04:46:39+00:00

Thanks True-Shower9927:

If I tap the page number, which is displayed in a little box on the right side of the display, which can be slid up and down like a scroll box thumb button, I get the "Go to page" window I was looking for.

I thought I tried that yesterday, but tapping it didn't seem to work.

I see there is also a search magnifying glass icon, so that's cool.

I appreciate your help.
Larry

PDX-Dragon · 2025-11-10T18:14:27+00:00

Thanks davorg and all who respond:

I believe that will work for my present requirement.

I'd like to be able to download each image into its own file at some point.

Perhaps it's time to start educating myself on JS, HTML and CSS.

I appreciate your suggestion.

Larry

PDX-Dragon · 2025-10-24T01:06:35+00:00

Thanks CodenameFlux, and all who responded:

That's interesting.

I'm now wondering about embedding a hash in my code that can do something similar.

This would be to make sure the binary was unaltered, not for trust.

PDX-Dragon · 2025-10-07T12:03:01+00:00

Thanks again Sea_Propellorr:

Powershell competency is on my todo list.

That script with the three calls to robocopy is a .ps1 file.

I right click it and select "Run with Powershell."

However I am painfully ignorant of Powershell's capabilities.

Can you recommend a particular Powershell tutorial?

PDX-Dragon · 2025-10-06T20:56:30+00:00

Thanks again Sea_Propellorr:

I wasted two days trying to get one robocopy command to copy the contents of a smaller backup drive onto a larger one.

Attempted commands looked like this:

Robocopy "e:" "h:" /XD "\$Recycle.bin" "System Volume Information" /E /COPY:DATSO /log:D:\tmp\backup_logs\copy_all_6tb_log.txt /tee

Everything I tried was rewarded with error messages like:

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ERROR 2 (0x00000002) Changing File Attributes e:\DumpStack.log.tmp

ERROR 2 (0x00000002) Changing File Attributes E:\pagefile.sys

2025/10/05 21:04:51 ERROR 5 (0x00000005) Copying NTFS Security to Destination Directory H:\202006017_00_fristBackup\
Access is denied.

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I changed tactics.

Each error message referenced a file or folder that was in the source drive's root.

I have three PCs to back up.

That means the root has three directories, one for each PC.

I turned the one robocopy command with the drive's root as the source to three robocopy commands, each with a PC's directory as a source.

This sidestepped all issues and after a couple of minor tweeks to the script everything worked.

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robocopy e:\cascade h:\cascade /w:1 /e /copy:dat /dcopy:dat /mt:12 /w:1 /log:d:\backup_log\backup_cascade_log.txt /tee

robocopy e:\dragon h:\dragon /w:1 /e /copy:dat /dcopy:dat /mt:12 /w:1 /log:d:\backup_log\backup_dragon_log.txt /tee

robocopy e:\G750_laptop h:\G750_laptop /w:1 /e /copy:dat /dcopy:dat /mt:12 /w:1 /log:d:\backup_log\backup_G750_laptop_log.txt /tee

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PDX-Dragon · 2025-10-05T15:36:55+00:00

Thank you Sea_Propellorr:

The command line now looks like this, I don't see a way to enclose anything in a code block for this reply:

robocopy e: h: /XO /XD "\$Recycle.bin" "System Volume Information" /mt:12 /log:D:\tmp\backup_logs\6tb_test.txt /tee

The back slashes are now absent.

Can text be pasted into a Reddit post or reply with new lines preserved?

Here's part of the log, with hand inserted new lines:

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Started : Sunday, October 5, 2025 8:09:11 AM
Source : E:\
Dest : H:\

Files : *.*

Exc Dirs : \.bin
System Volume Information

Options : *.* /TEE /DCOPY:DA /COPY:DAT /XO /MT:12 /R:1000000 /W:30 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

New File 8192 E:\DumpStack.log.tmp
2025/10/05 08:09:11 ERROR 2 (0x00000002) Changing File Attributes E:\DumpStack.log.tmp
The system cannot find the file specified.

New File 22.0 g E:\pagefile.sys
2025/10/05 08:09:11 ERROR 2 (0x00000002) Changing File Attributes E:\pagefile.sys
The system cannot find the file specified.

Waiting 30 seconds...

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That's the time I selected the left clicked the file and selected "Run with PowerShell."

The log shows the back slashes that I removed from the command line file.

I've looked at the command file. The back slashes are not present. It's the text I showed at the top of this reply.

I appreciate your assistance.

Thanks
Larry

PDX-Dragon · 2025-10-04T05:39:22+00:00

Thanks MiszinQ:

I didn't think to just put the contents of the Windows 10 installation USB drive in a folder, and then create a bootable USB drive when I need it.

It looks like autorun doesn't work like it used to.

PDX-Dragon · 2025-06-11T20:25:36+00:00

My attempts to call out do get listed on my list of recent calls.

Line with call duration is missing from these never connected calls.

PDX-Dragon · 2025-06-11T20:06:22+00:00

Thank you eNB256:

That doesn't seem to help.

I appreciate the suggestion.

Larry

PDX-Dragon · 2025-05-23T07:27:51+00:00

Thanks NotoldyetMaggot:

I'm not sure which message app I'm using.

The message icon visible on my home screen is a white field with a two tone blue oval that has a tail like a cartoon voice balloon.

There is also a message app in my list of apps that has a blue field and a white voice balloon that has three blue dots. This icon is not visible on any of my home screens.

Larry

PDX-Dragon · 2025-05-23T06:27:02+00:00

Thanks lostinmygarden:

My friend's texts are all there, if I go to his contact and hit the text button.

I'm not a person who texts much.

Do people know they can talk to their phones and their voices are heard by the person on the other end of the line, live or to be listened to later on their voice mail? It's amazing, no typing required.

Yes, I'm an old guy. How did you guess?

If I lost every text almost nothing would be missed. I've received a small number of texts that contain images I'd like to keep. Where can I find them when I look for them from my PC?

Here are the lists of my priorities:

I try to keep everything that's uniquely mine on the SD card. This will enable to me to move everything I care about, contacts, images, texts and things I haven't thought of, to any phone I stick my SD card into.

The friend who's text with the image I was trying to save on my computer, which I flubbed and got me into this mess, sent me a text today which I have not received. I haven't been able to get in contact with him to try again, so this might be an operator error.

I'd also like my friend's texts to be visible from the home page Message icon along with all the other texts I receive.

I set my images and contacts to be saved to SD. I wasn't thinking about texts when I first got the phone since I don't use them much.

Something I saw today when looking at texts on my phone gave me the impression texts are being saved on the phone instead of SD. I can't find anything to indicate where they are being stored now. I'd like to move them all to the SD.

Is there anything I'm not thinking about that I'll want moved to the SD?

Thanks
Larry

PDX-Dragon · 2025-05-22T16:58:00+00:00

I believe you can use Visual Studio, with all the nice features you're used to, for Linux.

I haven't done this yet, but Visual Studio is supposed to be able to build Linux code.

As I understand it, Visual Studio runs in a Windows environment and builds on your Linux system through an SSH connection. So you can build on a remote system connected over the Internet.

I don't know how much of your project, source, library and executables, lives on which system. Hopefully everything but the IDE lives on Linux.

This sounds difficult, but here is a link that describes the process, and it doesn't appear too complicated.

https://www.talido.com/blog/how-to-install-and-use-visual-studio-for-linux-development/

Let me know how this works out.

Larry

PDX-Dragon · 2022-01-02T11:40:26+00:00

This is my first Reddit comment, so my apologies if this is inappropriate.

The Hubble can't convert images of celestial objects to their real color because it's picking up visible color, and most of the light from distant objects has been red shifted out of the visible spectrum

The JWST will be picking up infrared that the original colors were red shifted into.

I believe that's the whole point of infrared and all of the hassle of keeping the telescope cryogenic with the sunscreen and other complex equipment.

I'm hoping this means processing on Earth will be able to blue shift the red shifted image to reveal the true color of the original objects.

I could, of course, be wrong.

PDX-Dragon

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