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I'm 4 illnesses out of my last 5 flights. Flu twice, despite getting vaxed. The last one was a sinus infection so bad I'm afraid to fly again.
Previous doctor was just like "was your hands more", so he's fired. New doctor has a plan where I take supplements and some asthma steroids before travel and wear a mask through the flight.
Medically, a couple dashes of bitters is irrelevant. But people often don't drink for philosophical, religious, or recovery reasons. For these people, zero means zero.
Non alcoholic bitters are available. They're made with a glycerin base.
Check with your utilities, there's often an opt-out option for the information sales.
I've always moved myself, but I'd just find a locally owned moving company willing to deal in cash. It's good advice for most stuff. avoid online forms, and there are a lot of instances where you can just use false info.
The only reason to change your address with the PO is forwarding. if you're worried about missing mail, you should change it. Then go to the DMA Choice site and opt out with your new information. Update your actual business info with each company.
I use an app called PaperKarma to aromatically opt me out of junk mail that comes through. they do a reasonably good job, but they're a subscription service, so I save up the junk, pay on sub cycle, process the opt outs and then cancel.
I forgot to mention, I also pay for a masking service for masked emails and phone numbers. The free burner options tend to be blocked these days.
What this takes is just diligence and patience.
There's also some misinformation in this thread:
Banks, utilities, even government and health agencies sell your personal data without your knowledge and to any single one of them your home address isn't necessarily "protected or sensitive" information.
Partially false. These industries, especially government and healthcare are regulated and can only sell a certain subset of your data, mostly anonymized, if at all. I work in the government IT sector, and PII is serious, even under the current trump nightmare.
I've managed it. My name and personals no longer show up in any of the search engines, and based on reports haven't been in any known data brokers for over a year.
Applying for credit/housing shouldn't get you listed anywhere. That's in theory legally private.
- Delete your socials. All of them. Recreate any you might need with falsified info. especially LinkedIn. Once you've got a job, disable your profile.
- I pay a service too to opt me out of data brokers. They send a report every quarter. This is double edged, since you have to give that company a lot of personal info, so use a less sketchy one.
- Freeze all your credit reports. Unfreeze for 24 hours when you need credit, then freeze it again.
- if you own a house, contact the county records, tell them to remove you from public listings.
- Any junk mail you get, run through their opt out process.
- Go through your Internet history, start deleting your accounts.
- Google yourself regularly and contact any hosts with a hit to demand they remove you. (or have your data service do it for you). do this on multiple search engines.
It's taken about 6 years, but aside from one Instagram post from a motorcycle dealer who's been ignoring me, I'm virtually invisible.
Kids are already coming out of school computer illiterate. They know how to use specific applications, but don't know things like directory hierarchy. Onboarding young people into working with general office productivity like SharePoint, or giving them a real grown up laptop instead of an ipad is like teaching boomers to open PDFs all over again. All the same old training and helpdesk calls.
the solution is the same as it was 30 years ago: computer class where they deep dive into how the things work, not just how Microsoft and Apple decide the things are used.
Woah TIL that because I'm admin, I'm self hosting an entire enterprise of nearly 50,000 users.
Just read Hitchhiker's Guide. Marvin would count, but there's also depressed doors and other unfortunately sentient objects.
Not everyone can just rUn DeBiAn on networks they don't own, and there's reasons to run the less free distributions.
If you're not rebooting, even Debian, for kernel, libc, and other low level security vulnerabilities, you're running a dogwater enterprise.
If you can't manage vendor recommended reboots and package update cycles on any distribution without causing an outage, you're a dogwater sysadmin.
No one gives a shit about uptime anymore.