Keepass and Joplin.

My bank took away the ability to do 2FA via email and is phone-only now. At least with the typical Gmail/equivalent account you have the option of making that less vulnerable to social engineering and outright bribes.

Yeah. I love this kind of stuff and appreciate everything the author has done but I think much better is possible.

Thank you for this. I actually thought it was only me that found these kinds of "timestamps" much less useful more often than not.

I've had this happen about three times now, but every time the actual problem is pocket lint inside the connector. After I clean it out it is back to working like new. It's not always obvious that it's lint until you start scraping back there since it gets jammed pretty hard when plugging in the cable.

My first computer! Lots of fond memories. Loading programs from a cassette in particular sticks in my head.

Actually Iridium has really great coverage of the poles due to the planes running north/south.

This literally happened to me yesterday for a trip I'm leaving for in 3 days. The best part is that it's the second time I've been canceled on for this same trip. Naturally everywhere that isn't already booked up is 2-3x the price now. Just a huge hassle.

> Naturally everywhere that isn't already booked up is 2-3x the price now. Just a huge hassle.

So the host can cancel, rebook at 3x , pay $1k and still come out on top?

Correct way to do this would've been start is exponential fines. Start with 100, 200 next time, 400 after that ect till an upper limit.

Or just prohibit the host from offering it to new guest when they cancel. If I rent a place for a week and they cancel on me the day before, don't allow another rental through Airnbnb for that week.

Wouldn't have as big of an impact as you'd expect. A lot of airbnb's are dual listed on VRBO.

Airbnb isn’t the only platform, so it’s unclear that even if Airbnb started trying to do this (which they likely wouldn’t, hosts are their source if income) that the host wouldn’t rebook on VRBO, Homeaway, etc.

I think this is actually the majority of the cancels. A host lists their unit on a bunch of different platforms (sometimes the same platform) with different costs and cancels all but the most expensive one last minute.

Or have fines proportional to the damage that cancellation causes. If I planned a vacation around being able to stay at your property and you cancel last minute, you've got to pay for reasonably comparable alternative accommodations. If none exist, refund me the cost of my plane ticket and any non refundable excursions I've already booked. If they can't guarantee their property will be available with high enough probability to risk those costs, why would I want to risk those costs while booking it?

Or fine double market rate for nearby substitutes.

Bonus points if they make it so that the host can't book anything on the days on and around the cancellation date. After all, if the host cancelled, then it has to be because there's a major issue preventing the place from being use by guests, right ;). Maybe a two-week blackout period.

If that were a great strategy, they just wouldn't rent until a few days before.

Hosts don't necessarily know all of the events that will bring in crowds.

So they book early for a guaranteed $x. Then if they see that market rates for nearby units rose to n*$x, it makes sense for them to cancel and rebook at that rate.

This happened to me in Boston. I was going to run the marathon and knew that I needed to book way ahead to ensure I could get a decent room, whether hotel or AirBNB. I booked an apartment in Back Bay. Two weeks later, the host realized it was going to be marathon weekend and tried to triple my price. When I refused his offer, he canceled me.

Fortunately, it was still early enough that I was able to book a hotel near the finish line. Unfortunately, that hotel ended up be the host of all of the press and press conferences when someone bombed the finish area.

This one absolutely kills me. Why do my kids need Microsoft accounts for this? Their official instructions ask for DOB and require checking some box about allowing my kids to sign into "third-party applications". Not to mention all the legal crap I'll have to agree to, settings to scrutinize and opt-out of to ensure privacy, etc. I am this close to just telling them that they're going to have to abandon their favorite game for something else.

I can't think of anything more off-putting when purchasing a game than having to create another account.

I have yet to migrate any of our family's 6+ Mojang accounts to Microsoft and I'm not sure that I will. Migrating to a Microsoft account also coincidentally creates an XBox Live account which is a hassle I don't need. If Minecraft needs to die in order to make way for the next creative, social, non-FPS game then I can accept that.

And I'm not convinced that Microsoft's forced migration from Mojang to MS accounts is legal.

I stopped playing Rocket League for several reasons; discontinuation of a native Linux version, and then forcing you to register an Epic account (which I refused to do).

It probably is legal because of a "we can change the terms and conditions at any time" clause, but just in case I'm not going to migrate my account until they really shut down Mojang accounts.

It seems weird to me that they give people capes as a "reward" for migrating, as if that's the only way they can legally get people to move over.

Have you given Minetest (AFAIK the biggest Minecraft FLOSS clone) a try? Maybe your kids like it and you can stop hassling around with Microsoft's shenanigans.

Most (all?) PCs should have a BIOS option to always restore power after loss.