I’d add 4 into that list. I really hated that game. I never played 5 though. Maybe I should give it a go.

Yeah! This ^ Lasik doesn’t sound worth the risks at all.

I just tried one match of it and one of the differences was not different in either picture.

I just started Shin Megami Tensi 4 on the 3ds. It’s my first time playing a game in this series and it seems cool. Maybe after I get through that.

This has been in my backlog for 10 years?!?

I can’t find it now and I do not think it really applies here. But someone stated that being high IQ could lead to academic problems as the high IQ learner would understand or see things that the professor could not causing the professor to mark it as incorrect.

I guess this is the idiocracy version of it.

Using public WiFi can be dangerous. I still use the hotel wifi when traveling though.

But if I’m doing anything important I’ll turn on my vpn for extra protection because you do not know who is snooping on your data.

A lot of data being transmitted is encrypted but the person in the middle could still see which sites you are accessing, just not the content.

There are some attacks that can downgrade your connection so the stuff is not encrypted, but I don’t think that is very likely to happen due to other safety mechanisms.

In addition to this, even someone collects your encrypted internet traffic, they can’t see what the data is. But once quantum computers are accessible, they can easily break the encryption and look at everything.

I don’t believe quantum resistant encryption is currently being used for https connections.

Another thing that could do is make sites take you to an imposter site. So google.com could take you to a clone of that site and try to get you to log in and reveal your password and email address.

Kinda lame, but at the same time I get it.

So, I guess I’m sticking with OneDrive and Microsoft email.

I’m not in the US. I see a lot of BYD cars in the parking garage of my condo. The thing that really surprises me is that we do not have a place to charge in the condo. I really wish I knew where they were charging their cars.

That is such a crazy amount of money on license fees, especially when you consider that there are mostly free alternatives. I am always choosing foss options as I build my small business.

Right now, I am using onedrive, and Microsoft for my business email. Which I think comes out to like $5 a month.

My understanding is that for reliable email, you need to host with microsoft or google otherwise you are more likely to get sorted into junk mail. If that is incorrect, please let me know.

I don’t really think so, the person buying it would need to use laundered money to buy it otherwise it could draw suspicion.

I think we might not be seeing all the advancements as they are made.

Google just showed off AI video with sound. You can use it if you subscribe to thier $250/month plan. That is quite expensive.

But if you have strong enough hardware, you can generate your own without sound.

I think that is a pretty huge advancement in the past year or so.

I think that focus is being put on optimizing these current things and making small improvements to quality.

Just give it a few years and you will not even need your webcam to be on. You could just use an AI avatar that look and sounds just like you running locally on your own computer. You could just type what you want to say or pass through audio. I think the tech to do this kind of stuff is basically there, it just needs to be refined and optimized. Computers in the coming years will offer more and more power to let you run this stuff.

They just don’t know about security I guess. I don’t really care about the down votes, they don’t count for anything.

Or less secure, if you don’t secure your own server as well as they secure their servers.

So, just your just speculating that it’s more secure because it can be self hosted?

I use Bitwarden myself, but you can’t make claims like that without something to back it up.

Why?

My point is that a tax expert will need to actually do it.

I don’t think it’s a bad thing.

As you may know, due to lobbying from tax preparation companies, filing US taxes is extremely over complication and typically requires you to pay someone to do it.

Even though I’ve done my own taxes in the past, I just paid someone else $300 to do it as it’s such a confusing nightmare of paperwork.

Well, the IRS had a program that let you file for free if you met certain conditions. Basically, the average American that is low income could just go through the IRS website to very easily file their taxes.

The current administration got rid of that program. It looks like someone posted the source code that was used to file your taxes.

I guess someone could modify this code so it could be used in a limited way in the future, but it would require constant updates as the tax code changes.

Dude, it’s a dinosaur using a computer. Cut him some slack.

I think you know.