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This is my battle station. It's also where I kick peoples' asses online at Street Fighter 5. I have a small view of the ocean to my left. Thank you for starting this thread @misteraven

LinkedIn is just the "professional" fuckboi network.... like facebook, but... "professional".

1. I use iCloud, so I'm not of any use there.... but doesn't MS own DropBox? I wish there were a roll your own cloud backup feature for modern phones. 2. I use LastPass and intend to at some point pay for access through them so I can use my YubiKey to login with it. I think the free version works rather well, I have mine set up with 2FA on my phone's google auth app. 3. never messed w/ that. 4. What you're talking about is going to cost some money if you're monitoring any type of decent throughput. You're talking Packets Per Second analysis that takes CPU cycles to do. The expensive network equipment can do this but.... it's very pricey. A computer running linux can use WireShark, ngrep, or tcpdump. I'm sure there are more, but those are the ones I'm familiar with. 5. I use privateinternetaccess.com for my VPN service. They have good phone apps that are easy to use and you can be connected on multiple devices at once. I think they don't keep logs of traffic either. Further for DNS on my local network (assigned via DHCP) I am using 1.1.1.1 and 9.9.9.9 for my resolvers. These are "private/security" focused resolvers put up by people deciding that privacy was a good thing. The other option is to run OpenVPN from a linux box in a place of your choosing, bare metal off shore or in the cloud.... whatever. Also, great post GnomeToys.

My 21 year old brother sent this to me the other day. The video has 1.2M views in ~1mo of uploading. I'm sure some of you have seen this already.

@GnomeToys- does that mean Makros isn't around? @SukiSukiNow- that looks like an adult bicycle in your profile picture there. 😉

It's funny, we were all young adults years ago when we'd come on here and there are still so many people around that have grown up.

Kinda same for me. I have always been a city slicker but I've also had family that has owned land in Texas my whole life so I feel like it's still in my roots.... kinda.

Hello! @SukiSukiNowI'm here, and I'm in a gang now.... well actually 2 gangs.

Ditto on the not being able to listen to a lot of the music I used to listen to. Now when I try, a lot of times I'm like what the heck was I thinking?

I just rolled through Houston last weekend and had lunch at El Tiempo (it was very good). I'm glad there's a discussion about this, above someone said they weren't sure what the subject meant. I meant what did the "old you" listen to? People have been nailing it pretty good so far. I think a lot of what "the kids" are listening to today is trash and it makes me feel old and out of touch. I'll be 36 next month so i'm not so crusty that I should be feeling like this about newer music. I think people in general, artists included, are getting lazy. Like the movie idiocracy.

Heh, I mainly stick to the DSM forums but there are some others that I visit from time to time. Shameless plug -> http://www.dsmecu.com is my forum that I host and the subject matter is mitsubishi engine computer calibration and other types of car fabrication subjects. http://www.dsmtuners.com is the big dsm forum that has been around for a while.... there is a ton of good info there even if you don't own a dsm. I was talking to a guy that got hired at Real St. Performance out of Florida the other day and his automotive sports background is similar to mine, in that we both came from working with the Mitsubishi 4G63 platform to working on Toyota 2JZ's. We both laughed at the fact that you can look up on google "pcv valve" which is a part on most vehicles.... and you will find links to the dsm forums right at the top. The reason for this is that the DSM community is pretty crazy with the DIY aspects of things and they're kind of inherently cheap skates. That's not meant as a low jab or anything but it's how I got my chops in working on cars and I now run a forum that has licensed engineers in the industry willing to share their information with anyone that asks..... because that's how the DSM guys are. If I can think of any other forums I will share them.

What are your favorite songs to listen to and why? What were they when you were at a different spot in life? This one reminds me of my grandpa, the Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard version is good too.

^^Man that is a good one.... one of my favorites.

I think it goes even deeper than that. Look at what high regard society holds celebrities in. Many of them are not very smart and have no business discussing politics at all.... yet they do and people listen because the people don't possess the ability to logically separate what is a credible source from one that is not. Mercer - that browser concept sounds pretty neat but I'm not sure I understand what incentive there is for end users to use it? Is it because you earn BAT while surfing.

I'll help whichever way I can. I'm good at finangling Linux, AWS, and webhosting so if any of you other tech people can use my skillset to help Misteraven please let him know and we'll get something planned out.