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Have you tried doing a full BIOS update? As in, download from the manufacturer. I wonder if that would overwrite the passwords.

assuming I’m worried about a smash and grab

For your specific use case, how about this:

Get a cheap USB thumb drive and a long USB cable. Put your disk unlock password on that thumb drive, and semi-permanently affix the USB drive to your building. You said you’re in a basement. Put it on top of a rafter with a metal fitting that would keep the drive from being taken without removing the screws. Run the long USB cable from the thumb driving in your rafter to the USB port on the machine. Alter your startup script to mount the thumb drive read the password from the thumb drive to unlock your main disk. Don’t forget to immediately unmount the thumbdrive in the OS after the disk is unlocked for extra safety.

If someone is doing a smash and grab, they’ll unplug all the cables (including this USB cable going to the thumb drive) and take your machine leaving the disk encryption password behind on the USB thumb drive.

I don’t have a recommendation for you, but if you exhaust your leads there is a large comparrison table with all kinds (and ages) of remote access solutions that you could search against for your criteria (open source, supported, etc) here:

Comparison of remote desktop software on wikipedia

We can’t see your cat’s tail from this one picture. Is it short? Those feet and short tail may make Stomp a Pixie-Bob breed .

Speed Queen brand still exists and is mostly what you’re describing.

Because its a work required trip, make sure to include mileage reimbursement for your car or any kind of mass transport ticket costs.

Current government reimbursement rate is 70c/mile for your car source

I don’t want to steer you wrong. My CompTIA Server+ cert is probably 20 years old now (My A+ cert is 30 years old this year!). 15 to 20 years ago I used the Sybex books and I always found them a good source for cert study. It looks like you’re reading today’s Sybex book. So they’ve gone downhill. I’ll let others chime in with more recent experience.

If you have any IT questions you need answers for I’d be happy to help for your study.

I’m pretty sure this book is AI slop.

I agree. Some of those are vaguely correct, others you have to squint really hard for it to make sense, some are just made up mishmash. Discard that source and find a better one.

Don’t take this wrong, but are you tying your shoes wrong?

Without touching them, look at your shoes and tell me which direction the bows are going. Are the ends of the bow pointed to your toe and heel like this?

*****
*    *
*    *
--8--
*    * 
******

Or are the ends of the bow pointed to each side of your shoe?

*****
*    *
*    *
--∞--
*    * 
******

If you have the first one (toe and heel pointing), you’re tying the knot wrong. You’ve got a knot that will untie itself.

In incognito or private browsing mode, you are way more likely to be blocked or forced to fill out a captcha, because the site won’t see any tracking cookies you would otherwise have.

I use youtube almost exclusively in incognito and I never get the captcha. The only negative consequence is no suggested videos show up. It looks like this:

However, as soon as you watch even a single video, it gives suggestions based upon that. As soon as you close all your incognito windows, it wipes the slate clean and opening a new window and going back to youtube just gives you the screenshot I linked here. I don’t have a youtube “feed” and I like that. Again, zero captchas.

Is this new? Perhaps geographic testing in certain areas? I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen that on youtube. Just curious, what happens for you if you open a browser in Incognito go to youtube and without logging in to youtube, go to the video you want to watch?

After the November election we bought a fridge early we were mildly interested in that is manufactured in Mexico. It seemed conspiratorial to consider possible tariffs in the purchase equation considering decades of free trade with NAFTA and later USMCA.

Yet here we are and we’re very glad we bought the multi-thousand dollar fridge pre-trump-tarrifs.

CBP website still says personal exemptions of $200 per person exist if you’ve been out of the USA for 48 hours or more, but who knows if that still applies with the trump bull in the international trade china shop.

“You may still bring back $200 worth of items free of duty and tax. As discussed earlier, these items must be for your personal or household use.”

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When he joins the working world, does he think his employer will put up with his BO? Ask him how he plans to stay “manly” when he’s unemployed.

More believable if the punchline was: My device just keeps responding “no devices found called ‘pump’. Do you mean Sony Bravia TV?”

Generally a company doing something bad enough to encourage a large enough boycott to affect the bottom line is making quite a bit of money. They calculate the loss of sales due to the boycott over time and can plot when the value of the bad business is lower than the boycott. Many times they continue with the bad behavior in spite of loss of business from the boycott because the business might be at the edge of viability anyway. So extracting the last bit of value out of the company is a net win before the rotting husk is sold off in pieces for the value of its assets or the brand is sold to the opposing group that actually likes the bad behavior that was being boycotted so it becomes an asset again.

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Thankfully the other two haven’t fallen as hard as Seagate has.

If you want keep thinking that don’t look too hard at Western Digital’s scandals and catastrophic drive failures of the past. In my early working days I made good money swapping out hundreds of failing Western Digital hard drives.

Large enough that management schools are forced to teach about how ever real reform won’t be enough to save you from bad actions.

Sadly, in the world of multinational business, that isn’t how management schools perceive boycotts.

Oh, I agree with that. Part of the cost of a product is how much bother the consumer will have to put forth to get their desired use out of it. That’s part of what a brand is supposed to communicate to a buyer.