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Disabling a dGpu and reducing power can yeld some impressive results for battery life. Allows also defining fan speed curves depending on temperature.
So in case some genius comes with another successful custom map (or whatever), the company has new ideas to work on, for free.
Most of the time you buy a one time license to use the software, which is tied to your account and platform.
Why not give this benefit as well to Salesforce employees?
Nextdns have their own app for this as well.
For android 9 or higher there should be an option in network settings.
Tried automating the removal of scheduled tasks (like the Compatibility runner which made the laptop sound like an airplane) and snoozed the updates for a few weeks. In the end, it broke the Scheduler, the task was still launching, and had to reset the OS to a proper state. It's a love and hate relationship with this OS.
Also you can configure a non standard DNS (like adguard, which can block some things at the DNS level).
EDIT: or NextDNS, since it comes with some additional features.
Some banks have web/mobile banking where you can restrict actions/limits/transactions, so it's a good option too.
Others have virtual cards for this purpose, but these are not offered in a lot of countries (revolut, privacy, yandex money, etc).
And those agencies are very happy to assist, since they get a % for their work, and when the money is big. Most of they time it's very productive. Letters and calls are just the first step. A debt of 300$ can get to x000 pretty fast (debt, fees, lawyers). And then they go to court, put financial blocking on your assets, there is a judiciary person in charge of evaluating your assets, bank accounts, they can even freeze your debt from your bank accounts if you are refusing to pay a legal debt.
If you are abroad they will happily wait for you when you will get back, or get in touch via one of their foreign agency and let you know they are near.
If they would really want to get you in trouble they can inform the foreign local authorities about your problems, so depending on the case they can create problems for you.
But never the card. Reading such user horror stories, or Terms & Conditions, makes me turn around and never come back.
Not affiliated, seen the talk from GDC about it.
Probably these can have a different impact if your threat model is a bit different (money, status, living area, position held, etc).
Reminds me the story about an investigative reporter known in these parts, who was swatted: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/03/the-world-has-no-room-fo...
or received a drug package from an investigated person, basically it was a trap: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/10/hacker-who-sent-me-heroi...
The journalist knew about this and informed the police beforehand. Happy end.
To add a little more, I have seen people posting on social media answers to posts like "your favorite car, your place of birth, name of mother, name of pet". Guess who uses those words for similar secret questions?
Some personal identifiable information can be used to fabricate fake IDs, for various purposes.
And if we have a linked graph with all the personal, job, address, interacted people, geo-places, etc, it can get creepy (sounds like Facebook, but much more open).
Not saying we all should get paranoid, but leaked data could be used in different ways.
And a lot of stuff is not related to FB Login.
Facebook launched Facebook Off Activity a while ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22178917
You can go to your profile, and check which third parties, or advertisers uploaded contact data of you, download backup data to see in json files which apps what sent about you ("App activated", "Made some purchase").
And it was sad to see in facebook offline activity how much data was linked to me, from apps which have the sdk. And you don't even need to log in via facebook or like/share. The sdk being present and working is enough.