Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

@ActionRetro Is the socket levitating?

PSA: Despite what you may have heard, switching from Chrome to Firefox does *NOT* mean you must think in Russian.

(anyway, get Firefox dotcom.)

Today is #TransDayofRemembrance ​ 🕯️​.

If it's new to you, please research it and the issues, challenges, and threats we face that make today necessary. Remember the dead, and fight like hell for the living.

If I'm an aromantic person who works on making my website a safe space for aromantic people,

does that make me an aro space engineer?

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TIL Dell makes/made laptop PCs with internal CD/DVD drives that you can't boot from without a complicated BIOS procedure, & you can't boot from at all anyway because it explicitly says legacy boot is unsupported.

Your PC is now Stoned!

@zorinlynx Unfortunately so. The reason they make it so obvious a scam to most folks is so that they deal only with those illiterate & gullible enough to fall for the scam hook, line, & sinker.

Also unfortunately, this extreme of retaliation for not paying, whether unwilling or unable, is standard practice.

I have to tell him that, because he refused to give his CC info to the "subscription cancellation" phone number he called (fake tech support scammers) *after* he let them into his PC, they nuked his files and programs on top of locking out his account with the password hint "call".

Please stress to them that if they let someone they don't know and you haven't vetted connect to their PC, it's already game over.

Folks, if you have any computer-illiterate friends and relatives you're on good terms with, please educate them about fake invoice emails.

The owner of one of my tech support patients tried to reverse a (nonexistent) $400 support subscription charge by calling the 1-800 number on a (fake) Geek Squad invoice.