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Off Topic / Re: Security Recommendations
« on: May 25, 2025, 08:51:54 am »
Hey Jeyk, sorry you're having to deal with that whole fraudulent transaction mess. I've had it happen once or twice and it's always a pain in the ass.

I recognize that your post is over a month old, so if you've already taken care of your security concerns than the following advise is for anyone else who may one day ask.

So here goes...

Advice No. 1: Eliminating (or greatly reducing the headache of ever having to deal with fraudulent transactions ever again).  Now you said "bank card" which I take to mean "debit" card, if this is not the case then obviously this advise has a little less value, but regardless...Stop using a debit card to pay for things, and instead use a "credit" card for ALL of your purchases.  I could go into all the details why, but honestly this video does a way better job of explaining it.  https://youtu.be/3Ga-M2CpRgY?si=NjbXlIqAcERpdWAh.  The important thing to remember is that you MUST pay off your card every time you get paid, so that no interest charges are ever incurred, in so doing, you spend no more money than you would have if using your normal debit card.  I get paid twice a month, and so I make sure my card is paid off twice a month.

Advice No. 2: Get yourself a firewall, one that isn't provided by your Internet Provider.  I recommend a company called Firewalla, https://firewalla.com, lets you easily manage Internet traffic for every device on your network individually or as a whole.  It also alerts you any time a new device connects or when there is an unusual spike in network traffic to any specific device. They are not enterprise-level devices by any means but by and large a great product for the home, especially for those of us who have too many tech devices. 

Advice No. 3: Get rid of, or disable, any and all tech that listens for verbal commands; none of them (and I really mean none of them) are secure. For mobile devices, change any voice assistant settings (this includes Ai chat bots now) that are constantly in listening mode, instead change them to be button-activated only.

Hope this helps or at least gives you some ideas. 

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Off Topic / Re: Holiday Fun
« on: January 02, 2025, 06:59:33 am »
Happy Holidays Folks, hope everyone is healthy and happy.  Here's to 2025!!

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Off Topic / FA in DC?
« on: June 26, 2024, 08:33:01 am »
Hey 'ol timers! Any ya'll still in DC?  I'll be up that way next week and thought it would be neat to touch base.


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Off Topic / Re: randomness
« on: May 09, 2022, 09:35:59 pm »
That's awesome Jeyk!! Congrats man!!

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General / FA appears in new article about Matrix Resurrections
« on: December 26, 2021, 06:55:16 pm »
It's a site devoted to comics and it's characters and it's just a screengrab but still, it showed up on my Google News feed, that's gotta count for something.

https://www.cbr.com/the-matrix-resurrections-online-female-neo-canon/

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General / Re: "Matrix: Resurrections" Theories
« on: December 26, 2021, 01:37:29 pm »
Overall takeaway?  Was it worth the wait?

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News and Announcements / Re: New Matrix Online? "Matrix Awakens" UE5 Demo
« on: December 12, 2021, 06:33:00 pm »
Yeah, there's no way we are living in base reality.

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Will they still require that you have a Facebook account in order to use their product?  If so, then unfortunately count me out.

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General / Re: The Matrix: Resurrections
« on: September 09, 2021, 03:56:53 pm »
I hang my hat in North Carolina these days but I'm willing to travel if this idea shakes out. 

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General / The Matrix: Resurrections
« on: September 07, 2021, 03:52:33 pm »
I guess someone had to start this thread... Enjoy!

https://thechoiceisyours.whatisthematrix.com/

Of course I checked the source code of the page....

"The Matrix is everywhere; it’s here and now. Make your choice to experience a new reality. It’s time to wake up."

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Off Topic / Re: randomness
« on: February 12, 2021, 08:14:55 am »
What games are ya'll playing these days?  Are they all VR?

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Off Topic / Re: randomness
« on: August 05, 2020, 11:57:33 am »
What is really gonna pickle your mind is.... Who set him up for it?????

Why does this sound familiar?  Oh yeah...

Oracle: "What's really going to bake your noodle later on is, would you still have broken it if I hadn't said anything."

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Off Topic / Re: randomness
« on: May 09, 2020, 08:36:07 pm »
I guess the better question is, should FA start a Legacy program for our kids?  God damn we're old.

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Best part of Tbone's interview was when he mentioned why we always won out over those who tried to jump us.  That we'd all jump online and then
just kept on coming, "...we just did not stop, we would just outlast you..." That pretty much became our mantra.


I guess I'm watching "All Good Things..." today.

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General / Re: MxO Emulator
« on: December 17, 2019, 09:09:23 pm »
I tried this out tonight for the first time, talk about a trip down memory lane.  They added snow for the holidays, it's nice but a bit distracting.  There was one other person online when I jacked in, a player from the old Syntax server.  Man do I miss hyperjumping.

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