My password advice: salt your passwords. It's actually really easy to do.
Come up with something in your mind that will identify this specific login. Maybe it's the website domain name if it's a website login or something. Find a method in your mind that makes sense to you that will allow you to follow very simple rules about how to "make" the salt.
Add 3 or 4 (it can work with two long words, but whatever), and a number that's important to you that you won't forget, like the last few digits from your SSN or a particular important day or favorite day of the year... Who knows. Be creative.
Take the salt, all words from the password and the number you selected and put them in a semi random order that makes sense to you, then use the same ordering.
Since that's probably hard to follow, let's say your selected words are: battery, staple, and horse.
Your salt is the last six characters in the website location, so say you're logging into Google.com the salt would be glecom
And let's use 42 as our number example.
So one example could be horse42batteryglecomstaple
I'll add spaces so it is a bit easier to read what is where: horse 42 battery glecom staple
Weird number word salt word.
Now you have unique passwords that you can simply look at where you're logging into and get the salt, and punch in the rest the same every time
I have an alarm set on my watch daily for it in the morning. I don't let myself turn off the alarm until I go over to my desk and move my pills over to the "you need to take these" spot I have. I don't allow myself to put the pills away until they've been taken.
If I wake up and I've missed my "pill" alarm, my first act of the day is to move the pills to the "you need to take these" location. Even before I go to the bathroom after waking up.
It's a little system I've developed for myself. If I haven't just woken up and my reminder alarm is in the past, and the pills are in their storage location, not in the "you need to take these" location, I assume that they've been taken, even if I don't remember doing it (which happens).
I should just get a pill box or doucet or whatever to track things but my little system hasn't failed me yet.
I dunno if my system will work for anyone else, but I hope my description helps someone else figure out a way to take their meds more consistently. If this way doesn't work for you, I hope you find something that does.
Listen, I work IT at a managed service provider, which means I see a dozen + small to medium business environments daily.
The number of users that I know of, out of the hundreds or thousands that I support, who are actively using "AI" continually to do their jobs... Well, I can likely count them on one hand
There's a bunch that use whatever free tool they are allowed to access. Which kind of flies under the radar for me, but I still don't think you're dealing with double-digit percentages of people using "AI" that actually spend any money on it.
And these are business users, who work at businesses with rather deep pockets at times....
People are not buying the product. "AI" in the business world, isn't making any money. So from what I've seen, this is less a matter of if, and more a matter of when and how bad.
As a tech person, I am not threatened by AI. It can't do my job. Also, I'm the one who fixes it when things go wrong. And the only thing I'm looking forward to is being able to pick up cheap RAM, and storage when this all comes crashing down as AI companies cash out and liquidate their inventory. Maybe I can pick up a cheap AI server and repurpose it to be a 3D/gaming virtual desktop, so when my friends come over with their cheap laptops and on board graphics for a LAN party, I can just provision them a virtual gaming computer and we can go ham.....
I'm going to save my sheckles until then...
I have limited experience with the market but I see it this way: anyone with AI holdings should liquidate at their earliest convenience. I don't think they'll be keeping up this charade for a lot longer.
Anyone who has tech holdings, either cash out, or be prepared to have that money held up for a while because it will take a long time for the prices to recover, and unless you want to cash out at a loss, you're going to be holding for a long time. Everyone else, hold onto your butts. Probably everything will probably dip when the fecal matter hits the rotary air movement device. Non tech areas of the market should recover pretty quickly, so meh?
This is obvious to me that the whole thing has failed. That realization hasn't hit execs yet.
43 this year too. 42 was a wild ride and 43 isn't shaping up to be any less crazy.
If I could offer only one piece of advice, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proven by scientists, where as the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.
And no, there was no copying, nor pasting involved, I just remember that "song" very well. If you don't know what I'm talking about, it may be worth looking up, because as I've gotten older, the advice in that "song" has only become more accurate, more true, and hit home a whole lot harder year after year.
Honestly, all I want to hear about him after he dies is just that he's dead, then we all simply and collectively move on and try to forget this dark chapter.
I'm not interested in cooking him posthumously for all the things he's doing that we already know are problems. I'm interested in what we're going to do next.
If your cashier's are not making a living wage, then maybe the minimum wage should be increased?
Where I am, if a minimum wage worker worked 40 hours a week consistently, they would go home with the equivalent of $26k USD. The US Federal minimum wage at 40hrs/week will net you $15k USD.
The job isn't always for the impoverished, and if it were, and you were to eliminate it, you just put people who are already impoverished into homelessness because they no longer have any viable means of employment.
The people leaving the job is a net positive because they should be, in theory, moving on to better paying positions. Freeing up jobs for people who need the work and can't find it elsewhere.
It's better than working in an Amazon warehouse.
Also, I worked at grocery stores a lot when I was a younger person and I was never a cashier, but I knew most of them and I was able to go back there years and years after I left and see the same faces at the tills. A lot of wives with empty nests helping to save up for retirement, or simply to do something during the day while their kids are off at school or whatever...
A lot of people working to help pay their way through college or university.
There were a lot of people working at those jobs for years and years because they needed something to help make ends meet until they could graduate, retire, find a job in their field, pay off their mortgage.... Whatever it was.
You having this opinion indicates to me that you haven't worked at a major retailer, or you've never worked as a cashier. I'm not sure which and bluntly I don't really care. My lived experience disagrees with your pessimistic world view.
This is why I try to avoid self checkout. If I'm getting like 2 things and there's already a line, sure, maybe.... But if the lines are short, even if I only have a couple of things, I'll visit a real cashier.
Not because I need help with it, and not because I want to "stick it to the man" or anything. I want to be part of the metric that continues to justify that a cashier is still a position to keep, and pay someone for. I do it so that there will still be cashier's in the future, and someone can put food on their table because I didn't choose to do free labor for the 0.1%.
I know, I know. I'm so selfish, I should tHiNk oF ThE sHaReHoLdErS....
If you can't get a job in your field with a graduate degree, why does anyone think that if you get a master's, suddenly the jobs will appear?
Usually, you need a lot of less skilled workers, and as you go up in skill, the demand for the numbers of workers goes down. So getting something more advanced/specialized may actually shrink your pool of options.
Plus, people with entry jobs with graduate degrees are more likely to shift jobs because someone is offering a higher skill position with more pay, so entry jobs should become available more frequently. In contrast, highly specialised jobs requiring the masters degree and whatnot will have some quadragenarian holding it as a salaried/tenured employee.
They've done everything they can to divide us against eachother, on race, on what brands we wear, what teams we cheer for, what geopolitical land we happen to be on top of, the color of our skin, and the "class" of jobs we hold... To name a few.
The problem is that many people idolize the ultra wealthy, and nobody ever got wealthy by helping their neighbor. Those "celebrities" have long since stopped caring about who they stood on the backs of and exploited to gain their wealth. They don't care about you. They won't help you when you fall. They don't want you to be supportive of your neighbor. They want you to be aggressively individualistic to the point of being "us vs them" where "us" is more of "me" and "them" is anyone who isn't me.
It's never that way. It should never be that way. United we stand.
My password advice: salt your passwords. It's actually really easy to do.
Come up with something in your mind that will identify this specific login. Maybe it's the website domain name if it's a website login or something. Find a method in your mind that makes sense to you that will allow you to follow very simple rules about how to "make" the salt. Add 3 or 4 (it can work with two long words, but whatever), and a number that's important to you that you won't forget, like the last few digits from your SSN or a particular important day or favorite day of the year... Who knows. Be creative.
Take the salt, all words from the password and the number you selected and put them in a semi random order that makes sense to you, then use the same ordering.
Since that's probably hard to follow, let's say your selected words are: battery, staple, and horse.
Your salt is the last six characters in the website location, so say you're logging into Google.com the salt would be glecom
And let's use 42 as our number example.
So one example could be horse42batteryglecomstaple
I'll add spaces so it is a bit easier to read what is where: horse 42 battery glecom staple
Weird number word salt word.
Now you have unique passwords that you can simply look at where you're logging into and get the salt, and punch in the rest the same every time
But what password do you use for your password manager?
I think mine is still on January.... Or 2024.
Or January 2024.
What?
I'm used to ignoring the background noise in my brain. I am unbothered by the clutter because it's just background noise in my living space.
I did, thanks Crow.
I have an alarm set on my watch daily for it in the morning. I don't let myself turn off the alarm until I go over to my desk and move my pills over to the "you need to take these" spot I have. I don't allow myself to put the pills away until they've been taken.
If I wake up and I've missed my "pill" alarm, my first act of the day is to move the pills to the "you need to take these" location. Even before I go to the bathroom after waking up.
It's a little system I've developed for myself. If I haven't just woken up and my reminder alarm is in the past, and the pills are in their storage location, not in the "you need to take these" location, I assume that they've been taken, even if I don't remember doing it (which happens).
I should just get a pill box or doucet or whatever to track things but my little system hasn't failed me yet.
I dunno if my system will work for anyone else, but I hope my description helps someone else figure out a way to take their meds more consistently. If this way doesn't work for you, I hope you find something that does.
Hopefully you went and did it after your posted.
Take care friendo
Listen, I work IT at a managed service provider, which means I see a dozen + small to medium business environments daily.
The number of users that I know of, out of the hundreds or thousands that I support, who are actively using "AI" continually to do their jobs... Well, I can likely count them on one hand
There's a bunch that use whatever free tool they are allowed to access. Which kind of flies under the radar for me, but I still don't think you're dealing with double-digit percentages of people using "AI" that actually spend any money on it.
And these are business users, who work at businesses with rather deep pockets at times....
People are not buying the product. "AI" in the business world, isn't making any money. So from what I've seen, this is less a matter of if, and more a matter of when and how bad.
As a tech person, I am not threatened by AI. It can't do my job. Also, I'm the one who fixes it when things go wrong. And the only thing I'm looking forward to is being able to pick up cheap RAM, and storage when this all comes crashing down as AI companies cash out and liquidate their inventory. Maybe I can pick up a cheap AI server and repurpose it to be a 3D/gaming virtual desktop, so when my friends come over with their cheap laptops and on board graphics for a LAN party, I can just provision them a virtual gaming computer and we can go ham.....
I'm going to save my sheckles until then...
I have limited experience with the market but I see it this way: anyone with AI holdings should liquidate at their earliest convenience. I don't think they'll be keeping up this charade for a lot longer. Anyone who has tech holdings, either cash out, or be prepared to have that money held up for a while because it will take a long time for the prices to recover, and unless you want to cash out at a loss, you're going to be holding for a long time. Everyone else, hold onto your butts. Probably everything will probably dip when the fecal matter hits the rotary air movement device. Non tech areas of the market should recover pretty quickly, so meh?
This is obvious to me that the whole thing has failed. That realization hasn't hit execs yet.
Aches and pains! Enjoy!
Are we supposed to get a second time through our 20s? If so, I got ripped off man.
43 this year too. 42 was a wild ride and 43 isn't shaping up to be any less crazy.
If I could offer only one piece of advice, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proven by scientists, where as the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.
And no, there was no copying, nor pasting involved, I just remember that "song" very well. If you don't know what I'm talking about, it may be worth looking up, because as I've gotten older, the advice in that "song" has only become more accurate, more true, and hit home a whole lot harder year after year.
Honestly, all I want to hear about him after he dies is just that he's dead, then we all simply and collectively move on and try to forget this dark chapter.
I'm not interested in cooking him posthumously for all the things he's doing that we already know are problems. I'm interested in what we're going to do next.
Make politics boring again.
I'm going to disagree with you there.
If your cashier's are not making a living wage, then maybe the minimum wage should be increased?
Where I am, if a minimum wage worker worked 40 hours a week consistently, they would go home with the equivalent of $26k USD. The US Federal minimum wage at 40hrs/week will net you $15k USD.
The job isn't always for the impoverished, and if it were, and you were to eliminate it, you just put people who are already impoverished into homelessness because they no longer have any viable means of employment.
The people leaving the job is a net positive because they should be, in theory, moving on to better paying positions. Freeing up jobs for people who need the work and can't find it elsewhere.
It's better than working in an Amazon warehouse.
Also, I worked at grocery stores a lot when I was a younger person and I was never a cashier, but I knew most of them and I was able to go back there years and years after I left and see the same faces at the tills. A lot of wives with empty nests helping to save up for retirement, or simply to do something during the day while their kids are off at school or whatever...
A lot of people working to help pay their way through college or university.
There were a lot of people working at those jobs for years and years because they needed something to help make ends meet until they could graduate, retire, find a job in their field, pay off their mortgage.... Whatever it was.
You having this opinion indicates to me that you haven't worked at a major retailer, or you've never worked as a cashier. I'm not sure which and bluntly I don't really care. My lived experience disagrees with your pessimistic world view.
This is why I try to avoid self checkout. If I'm getting like 2 things and there's already a line, sure, maybe.... But if the lines are short, even if I only have a couple of things, I'll visit a real cashier.
Not because I need help with it, and not because I want to "stick it to the man" or anything. I want to be part of the metric that continues to justify that a cashier is still a position to keep, and pay someone for. I do it so that there will still be cashier's in the future, and someone can put food on their table because I didn't choose to do free labor for the 0.1%.
I know, I know. I'm so selfish, I should tHiNk oF ThE sHaReHoLdErS....
Fair enough. Have a nice day.
If you can't get a job in your field with a graduate degree, why does anyone think that if you get a master's, suddenly the jobs will appear?
Usually, you need a lot of less skilled workers, and as you go up in skill, the demand for the numbers of workers goes down. So getting something more advanced/specialized may actually shrink your pool of options.
Plus, people with entry jobs with graduate degrees are more likely to shift jobs because someone is offering a higher skill position with more pay, so entry jobs should become available more frequently. In contrast, highly specialised jobs requiring the masters degree and whatnot will have some quadragenarian holding it as a salaried/tenured employee.
The first charger I got didn't, and I'm pretty sure it was also a fake. The second one I got can actually recondition my battery....
There's a whole underlying system with the impres series of batteries and Chargers to keep everything in top condition for as long as possible.
"United we stand" < has always been true.
They've done everything they can to divide us against eachother, on race, on what brands we wear, what teams we cheer for, what geopolitical land we happen to be on top of, the color of our skin, and the "class" of jobs we hold... To name a few.
The problem is that many people idolize the ultra wealthy, and nobody ever got wealthy by helping their neighbor. Those "celebrities" have long since stopped caring about who they stood on the backs of and exploited to gain their wealth. They don't care about you. They won't help you when you fall. They don't want you to be supportive of your neighbor. They want you to be aggressively individualistic to the point of being "us vs them" where "us" is more of "me" and "them" is anyone who isn't me.
It's never that way. It should never be that way. United we stand.
I've just been continually dissociated since COVID started.
Well, even their chargers have firmware, and you need a crazy rj11 to serial cable to update the damned things.