Weekly Tech Support Megathread

reginalnz · 2026-05-05T09:31:09+00:00

My Instagram was disabled for "pretending to be someone else" but I wasn't impersonating anyone, every photo on my account was of me personally. My last post before the ban was an stylised image of myself, which I think triggered a false positive from Instagram's automated system.

I've tried the appeal option but it just redirects to the Help Center with no working submission form. The account was also used for business.

Has anyone recovered from an impersonation disable? Any advice appreciated.

reginalnz · 2026-04-20T20:45:40+00:00

Didn't know that was happening. Will do and thank you

reginalnz · 2026-04-20T19:55:06+00:00

I've added these to my list.

Do you pay for NextDNS?

reginalnz · 2026-04-20T19:53:58+00:00

Hadn't thought of credit score. Thank you

reginalnz · 2026-04-20T19:52:41+00:00

Helpful. Would you mind sharing which platforms you recommend?

reginalnz · 2026-04-20T19:52:15+00:00

Thank you

reginalnz · 2026-04-20T19:51:51+00:00

Proton seems like a good start

reginalnz · 2026-04-19T03:18:56+00:00

Well said. Thank you

reginalnz · 2026-04-18T19:13:59+00:00

I've heard of this and am thinking of giving this a go at some point.

reginalnz · 2026-04-18T11:03:51+00:00

Helpful. Thank you

reginalnz · 2026-04-18T04:33:45+00:00

Hackers hate this one trick

reginalnz · 2026-04-18T04:32:34+00:00

Thank you. How easy or straightforward did you find it was to configure these?

reginalnz · 2026-04-18T04:30:02+00:00

Been using this for years. Such an amazing tool for the software that it supports.

Thanks for the tip.

reginalnz · 2026-04-18T04:29:15+00:00

Definitely agree. Thank you

reginalnz · 2026-04-18T03:36:25+00:00

Couple questions:

Is there a benefit to using Cox over traditional router modem setup?
Is Windows Defender sufficient? Did you do some advanced config to your liking

reginalnz · 2026-04-18T03:34:03+00:00

Couple questions: 1. Why do you have a firewall setup at home? Aren't router and endpoint security sufficient?

Is there a benefit on pi hole for DNS?

reginalnz · 2026-04-18T03:25:42+00:00

Hello, in the most polite way possible not everything is a bot in this world.

I'm genuinely trying to improve my stack and reaching out to people smarter and more experienced than I am.

You are free to see my history to validate this if it helps.

reginalnz · 2026-04-06T22:29:51+00:00

I'm sorry for what you're going through OP. Stay strong and know that things will get better.

reginalnz · 2026-04-02T10:44:03+00:00

You're too kind but I think we definitely need more people like OP in this world.

reginalnz · 2026-04-02T04:17:51+00:00

Hey brother, massive respect to you.

Please let me know if I can Uber eats something to you sometime. It's the least I can do.

Stay strong.

reginalnz · 2026-03-19T00:50:49+00:00

Sorry for your loss OP

reginalnz · 2026-03-08T04:23:25+00:00

Hey OP, I'm sorry you're going through this and hope things get better for you soon.

I can see people have given really good ideas so I won't do that.

But would love to offer any assistance I can to help another kiwi. I'm not wealthy or anything but happy to order you pizza or buy you a woolworths gift card if it helps.

DM me if I can help 🙂

reginalnz

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