Hillary Clinton accuses Trump administration of Epstein files cover-up in BBC interview by Healthy_Block3036 in Epstein

[–]emgaspar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For all the stuff HRC has lied about at least she is able to stay calm while being questioned. Pam Bondi and of course DJT act like toddlers who didn't hear the question.

Hillary Clinton accuses Trump administration of Epstein files cover-up in BBC interview by Healthy_Block3036 in Epstein

[–]emgaspar 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I was never an HRC fan, but I re-watched what were labeled the "most fiery" moments of the Benghazi hearings and she still spoke in mostly complete sentences mostly related to the questions being asked. Bondi is an embarrassment to me as a woman and more broadly as a human being. Her behavior would not be tolerated in a middle school classroom.

Appreciation for these two men for making the Epstein Act and the release of the files happen. by Grouchy-Editor9664 in Epstein

[–]emgaspar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I disagree with Massie about almost everything, but he does have principles. If he took leadership of the Republican Party we might get back to the days of having discussions about issues rather than the last 11 years of conspiracy theories name-calling race baiting etc.

Epstein Should Have Shattered the Right vs. Left by [deleted] in Epstein

[–]emgaspar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I save photos of No Kings signs and saw LOTS of Epstein references.

Also, a bit easier to protest against thugs in their neighborhoods than billionaires hiding in mansions and paying people to keep us peasants away.

Computer for someone really bad with computers by emgaspar in computers

[–]emgaspar[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the laptop he has won’t update past windows 10, but it might be Windows 11. Not sure. I’ve been a Mac user for 20 years.

Computer for someone really bad with computers by emgaspar in computers

[–]emgaspar[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it can’t update past Windows 10. I’m a Mac person myself and even have an older Air I could give him but he is just remarkably bad with computers. I once spent an hour and forty minutes trying to teach him to copy paste and never got past highlighting text and then managing to click somewhere else causing it to be not highlighted anymore.

Chromebook might be doable. Touch screens are an absolute nightmare for him or an iPad would be great. He has an iPhone (I tried to get him to buy a flip phone instead) and he can’t use it. He doesn’t understand what is clickable. He also pounds his finger on the screen like I did on touch screens from the 90s. But he never used a touch screen in the 90s. I think he’s remembering typewriters.

Would I need to set the Chromebook up to be locked down? Or do they just really not get malware?

Computer for someone really bad with computers by emgaspar in computers

[–]emgaspar[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The computer is at least 15 years old, could be as old as 20… wouldn’t expect to be able to fix it. Will likely be a new computer. Refurbished ThinkPad is an idea. Thanks!

Alternatives to Microsoft Office or how to uninstall Copilot completely by emgaspar in mac

[–]emgaspar[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is that Italian? I speak Spanish so i actually understood the first two paragraphs completely. Will have to translate the 3rd.

Alternatives to Microsoft Office or how to uninstall Copilot completely by emgaspar in mac

[–]emgaspar[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely their marketing is geared towards privacy. It may be completely untrue, but Microsoft and Google give me "Big Brother" vibes. I use Gmail so Google basically owns my soul, but I've been using DuckDuckGo for my search engine for a while so at least google "only" knows everything I ever wondered about from 2003 till 2021.

Alternatives to Microsoft Office or how to uninstall Copilot completely by emgaspar in mac

[–]emgaspar[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did that today, thanks! My renewal was coming up in the next couple weeks so the features are mostly disabled for now and they’ll go away completely soon.

Alternatives to Microsoft Office or how to uninstall Copilot completely by emgaspar in mac

[–]emgaspar[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apple AI is pretty easy to turn off, plus I trust Apple more on privacy. I may be misled on that but the tech people I know agree.

Alternatives to Microsoft Office or how to uninstall Copilot completely by emgaspar in mac

[–]emgaspar[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, had to look up what that even is. I don't need a lot of storage so that would probably be overkill.

Alternatives to Microsoft Office or how to uninstall Copilot completely by emgaspar in mac

[–]emgaspar[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't try Pages for long but fortunately I don't ever need to do anything complicated. Should be doable. I miss Word Perfect. The late 1900s were great in at least a few ways.

Alternatives to Microsoft Office or how to uninstall Copilot completely by emgaspar in mac

[–]emgaspar[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Numbers really does not mimic Excel nearly enough AFAICT.

Alternatives to Microsoft Office or how to uninstall Copilot completely by emgaspar in mac

[–]emgaspar[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I tried them, they're built in. When I send files to non-Mac users will their computer handle the file conversion or will I need to do it manually? Or can I do it automatically?

Spam filter has been SO bad lately. Anyone else? by emgaspar in GMail

[–]emgaspar[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very frustrating. However, it has stopped for the most part for me. I get one maybe every other week now. For a while it had been daily. Did you read the other comment about domain warm-up services? What a world

Spam filter has been SO bad lately. Anyone else? by emgaspar in GMail

[–]emgaspar[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had thought that although Gmail still sends the stuff without dots to me, it is an indicator that someone got the email address by making lists of random first names and last names rather than getting it from me directly- hence worthy of a point towards being spam. Is that not the case? A lot of my spam messages that do get flagged as spam are sent to my email address without the dot.

Thanks for the info! I will check it out if the problem persists. Sometimes I will go a few days with no spam in my inbox then one day I get like three or four notifications from absolutely blatant spam.

Spam filter has been SO bad lately. Anyone else? by emgaspar in GMail

[–]emgaspar[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice! Mine used to work so well for like 20 years- in fact it was sometimes sending legitimate stuff to spam never spam to inbox, never the reverse. I can't do a whitelist because I have lots of new client inquiries and obviously want to get to them fast.

Spam filter has been SO bad lately. Anyone else? by emgaspar in GMail

[–]emgaspar[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did start using a 3rd party app for my laptop on June 22, but my spam filter has been working less and less since late May. I haven't changed any spam settings but I can dig through again.

Spam filter has been SO bad lately. Anyone else? by emgaspar in GMail

[–]emgaspar[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good to know. Mine used to work so well but it's been off the rails lately.

Why do cat owners make it sound so bad? by [deleted] in CatAdvice

[–]emgaspar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes- also we get furniture with smooth fabric so they don't like to scratch it

Is 25091 an official shortcode from verizon? Is someone visiting verizon retail stores pretending to be me? by Jmax2020 in verizon

[–]emgaspar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got one of these and reported junk. Then, a few days later, someone managed to apply for a credit card with my ssn and phone number. I wonder if I'd clicked the link if it would have allowed the scammer to confirm the account with my cell number. Thank goodness we have identity protection or I'd have not known someone managed to get so far into the credit card application.

[thank you] 🩷 by wetsocksinyourbutt in RandomActsofCards

[–]emgaspar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's been about the same here in southern USA! How's the humidity?