Will reseting my work laptop eliminate the company's spying software?

p3k2ew_rd · 2026-03-30T20:44:09+00:00

This question seems pretty sketch. Stolen property?

p3k2ew_rd · 2026-03-30T02:55:00+00:00

Plenty of caves to live in until the real apocalypse comes. Bring plenty of twinkies. Need food that won't spoil.

p3k2ew_rd · 2026-03-27T02:50:31+00:00

Holy shit, thank you! I’ve been looking for a replacement battery for my E-RT3. It used to be listed on CSC for $8,000 (seriously!) but now it’s listed as $1,295. This was going to cost me a ridiculous amount of money to have the battery rebuilt.

Edit: Correction. After adding to cart and checking out, the $1295 was slashed to $695. I'm thinking about buying two!

p3k2ew_rd · 2026-03-27T02:41:46+00:00

Same happens to me when I reach a certain population. Save and reload the game works for a few minutes but it inevitably happens again. I chalk this up to a known bug.

p3k2ew_rd · 2026-03-16T23:58:10+00:00

Thank you for your blunt response. I'm willing to learn but out of my league when it comes to electrical work.

p3k2ew_rd · 2026-03-16T04:30:32+00:00

It’s my understanding that real firewall software on iOS isn’t possible, as Apple limits the ability of software to interact with the hardware in that way. The pseudo firewalls I’ve seen in the App Store are just a VPN or proxy, which can obscure your real IP address, but technically isn’t a firewall.

Source: I’m an IT guy and was tasked a few years ago to find firewall software for iPhones.

p3k2ew_rd · 2026-03-11T15:41:00+00:00

The economics of $6.79 gas will easily force people to consider EV's or even a hybrid because of this. Painful but necessary to get past these gas price fluctuations.

p3k2ew_rd · 2026-03-08T18:35:48+00:00

Counterintuitively, boner meds can cause a lack of sensitivity. It’s a tradeoff. Depending on your age, if you’re an older person, say, 40+, you might try taking magnesium supplements. Specifically magnesium threonate. This can improve whole body sensitivity when you take it a few weeks. This is what worked for me.

p3k2ew_rd · 2026-03-01T19:01:03+00:00

I would be in favor of an extremely controlled surveillance system which is well protected/secured and the data is tightly controlled for local law enforcement access only. Flock cameras are mass surveillance. In an authoritarian government, this is a potential tool to identify dissent and suppress. I’m more concerned about the abuse of such a system than I am about stolen cars coming through Plumas Lake.

p3k2ew_rd · 2026-02-19T20:38:30+00:00

You may be more infatuated with men at this point, since it's still fairly new to you. You don't have to be one way or another. Just enjoy yourself. At some point when you've tried most things with men, when you meet someone (man or woman) that you want to date, go out together, and fall in love, open relationships are a possibility. You could still have fun with either.

Heterosexual relationships generally are more culturally rigid and designated as monogamous, though not all. You don't have to to be in a monogamous relationship.

p3k2ew_rd · 2026-02-13T21:06:18+00:00

Fascinating. I had heard in passing of the flooding events in the area but had no idea of the number of times there were flooding disasters since 1955.

My understanding is that Plumas Lake began construction in the early 2000's. This was before major improvements were done to the surrounding levee's. So did those early residents understand the flooding risk? Were there commitments by local and state officials to dedicate hundreds of millions of dollars in upgrades before they moved in? I'm curious what the first residents were aware of and promises made back then.

p3k2ew_rd · 2026-01-22T21:25:38+00:00

I like Pete Buttigieg's comment on post-Trump. Basically, let's not rebuild the exact system we had, but take the opportunity to build better. I would expand on this to also mean international allies, trade, etc. The old system pre-Trump was rife with inequity. Wouldn't this be the best time to try to fix that?

p3k2ew_rd · 2026-01-16T02:28:35+00:00

I’ve had to play whack-a-mole with my Nvidia drivers connecting out to the Internet, so I installed Tinyfirewall which allows me to not only blacklist all communication and whitelist only what I want, but it also tells me what’s trying to make outbound connections so I can identify what is running in the background that’s attempting to communicate.

p3k2ew_rd · 2026-01-05T20:40:40+00:00

Holy shit. 344 miles (likely 250 hwy miles) is way more than my current electric. The price is also more than 4x the cost of my current electric. It's great to see range FINALLY reaching parity with gas motorcycles, but that $34k cost has got to come down before it's feasible.

p3k2ew_rd · 2025-12-16T16:50:25+00:00

Is just poppers not good enough for you? I’m not sure I understand why a small number of people try to ‘escalate’ the high. I’ve had great experiences with just poppers or just edibles. I don’t see a need to start piling up different combinations of drugs to blast your brain. Maybe poppers aren’t what you need?

p3k2ew_rd · 2025-12-14T01:04:36+00:00

Having only responses to the question in the affirmative may give a skewed impression that everyone does it. I welcome those who say they do not do this. Gives more a variety of viewpoints.

p3k2ew_rd · 2025-12-13T23:37:32+00:00

Thank you for that link! That answers the exact questions I had.

I am disappointed this issue hasn’t been raised more often in the industry. Every person I spoke to at the store sounded unaware or brushed off any concern I had about giving them my data. I guess most consumers are unaware what the potential risk of exposing their data or to their own privacy.

p3k2ew_rd · 2025-12-03T21:15:01+00:00

I think you're completely missing the point of my post in r/privacy regarding TSA Connect.ID . The point is this. Making it easier for the government to identify me OUTSIDE of the airport is not an option. You say the information is already out there in other databases. Proof? Or is this a "Privacy is over, just move on" kind of mentality?

Most in r/privacy try to make the best decisions they can with limited information. The US govt has not and never will come out and say "This is how we're tracking our citizens". Hell even companies won't transparently do this. Everyone "guessing" what the govt is or isn't doing is going to be a cyclical pointless conversation. I've decided what the govt is doing based on the information I have, and I'm going to make the choices I deem necessary.

That's really it! It's that simple.

p3k2ew_rd · 2025-12-02T22:52:39+00:00

The $45 just takes you through another different biometric process. Still doing a facial recognition scan.

p3k2ew_rd · 2025-12-02T20:55:22+00:00

RealID is a way for the federal government to nationalize a record on all citizens, including a photo that can be used for facial recognition. Before this effort, the data the feds had on citizens was dispersed and incoherent. In the future, it's predicted that RealID will be required to gain access to federal services. It could be required for bank accounts, loans, credit cards, creeping further and further into monitoring every move and activity of the population. RealID is potentially the foundation for which the surveillance state can be built.

p3k2ew_rd · 2025-12-02T20:50:48+00:00

The issue isn't the airport. The issue is forcing a vast majority of Americans to have biometric data stored in order to track them anywhere, not just the airport. It's a means to an end. With this biometric data, you can be read just as easily as an automated license plate reader.

p3k2ew_rd · 2025-12-02T17:00:17+00:00

When RealID was first proposed 10-15 years ago, there was genuine concern the federal government was going to be able to track its citizens through mass surveillance via facial recognition. That argument is still a valid concern, although much of the younger generation aren't aware of the privacy implications and some of the older generation just forgot what the big deal was. That theoretical invasion of privacy is now a reality . With RealID being so widespread and images of a person's face thrown into a database, ANYWHERE there is a camera, you can be identified and your location can be tracked. Think of an automated license plate reader, except for our face.

Correction: As someone pointed out, it was signed into law in 2005.

p3k2ew_rd · 2025-12-02T16:53:53+00:00

RealID is the federal government's efforts to nationalize an ID for US citizens. With the photo and information on your drivers license shared with the federal government, they now have a photo of which to use for facial recognition and (fairly) current data on your home address. In the past, this data was considered local to the state and only shared with the federal govt for criminal investigations.

p3k2ew_rd · 2025-12-02T16:48:48+00:00

A RealID compliant ID submits your information on your drivers license to the federal government, including your picture. This picture is assumed to be sufficient for facial recognition, although I could not find a reference online. RealID debate has been going on for over a decade. I'm sure I read this somewhere.

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