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[l3ulvl]

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Guess it depends on the games.

But the chair I have is real comfortable, sitting in it for anything makes me feel tired.

I definitely could play games all night, but no way in that chair.

But for an all nighter, you have to physically and mentally be active and awake.

Tetris attack + mountain dew was a 2 nighter as a kid

[countryboy]

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Playing video games is the easiest way to pull an all-nighter. I used to also do late night binges playing guitar without problem too.

What else would you do during it besides either of the activities that you mentioned? Work out??

[LambertandHam]

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Playing video games is the easiest way to pull an all-nighter. I used to also do late night binges playing guitar without problem too.

What else would you do during it besides either of the activities that you mentioned? Work out??

I've binged through a mini series or series in a night before. Most of the time BBC stuff like "The Living and the Dead".

[Dead2009]

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I can binge certain shows in a day as well as long as they arent an hour in length.

[kehlis]

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This is just a general PSA for Facebook users. Before you scroll past this because you don't care much about Facebook - hear me out, because until today, I wouldn't have cared much losing Facebook until it actually happened and I realized some of things I may be losing.

(Rather than continually saying "lesson learned" throughout this post, I'm just going to give a big "lesson learned" right now)

I'm not at all a heavy user of FB, I certainly scroll through it and it is a means of communication with family but always figured that could be recreated (And it can).

But I also realized that I'm now at risk for losing some incredibly precious pictures that were taken years ago. Many pictures from the iphone age are probably findable (pain in the *** but they still probably exists somewhere).

I"m talking about pictures taken back in the Blackberry era that won't be recoverable and pictures taken by others that I was just tagged in such as pictures of my engagement day with my wife, wedding, early days with my niece and nephew, etc...


So what I'm suggesting as the actual PSA is that if you, like me, continually ignored the prompt to set up dual authentication (it's just facebook), I encourage you to do it.

This is not a situation of someone trying a phishing attempt using my picture and trying to friend my public friends, I don't even call that a hack.

I got an email overnight when I was sleeping that someone has attempted to access my account from South Dakota (not super common but I've seen it before). What I got after that though was new, they had changed my password and were in my account. I assume they were looking for any sort of payment info I had saved or anything like that which I have none of so they got nothing from me and gave up.

This morning I was able to reset my password using the initial text to my phone with a code to reset.

BUT, and this is what sucks, the hacker enabled two step verification so they are the one's getting the second code when I'm trying to log back in.

I've been able to disable the account, it doesn't even exist now so all is safe for me but it will be a pain in
the *** to get it back if I even can. (I've tried everything their help sections suggest).


So moral of the story, if you have anything in FB you wouldn't want to lost, stop ignoring the two step verification prompt like I did lol.

I never thought I would care about FB until I thought about some of the pictures I would be losing out on if I can't get it back.

[Blzer]

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Two of my friends just got hacked recently, and now with you getting hacked as well I have a feeling this is widespread. You've convinced me, I'm turning it on.

Unrelated to hacking, there are some images I only had on my MySpace account from 15 years ago that I can't get anymore. Not because I can't log in, but because many of my images don't show up anymore for whatever reason. I tried a few months back just to see if I could log in. I know what it feels like to lose information you can't ever get back.

It's like if someone stole my laptop and I confronted them, I'd go: "Could you do me a solid and just leave my hard drive?"

[Majingir]

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Not just Facebook, but iCloud and anything you store stuff on you should have backups of pictures.

1TB external drive can be had for fairly cheap.

Definitely important to have at least 2 copies of all your files.

Hackers obviously go after your online accounts, and in the event of a virus, there goes your harddrive.

[LambertandHam]

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Two of my friends just got hacked recently, and now with you getting hacked as well I have a feeling this is widespread. You've convinced me, I'm turning it on.

Unrelated to hacking, there are some images I only had on my MySpace account from 15 years ago that I can't get anymore. Not because I can't log in, but because many of my images don't show up anymore for whatever reason. I tried a few months back just to see if I could log in. I know what it feels like to lose information you can't ever get back.

It's like if someone stole my laptop and I confronted them, I'd go: "Could you do me a solid and just leave my hard drive?"

tbh so many companies and sites get breached, it's only a matter of time. Good advice is not to double up passwords, 2FA, watch links in texts and email.


You can get a solid 1-2TB external for like 45-55$ on sale most of the time. Well worth it.

[Majingir]

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tbh so many companies and sites get breached, it's only a matter of time. Good advice is not to double up passwords, 2FA, watch links in texts and email.


You can get a solid 1-2TB external for like 45-55$ on sale most of the time. Well worth it.

The annoying thing about passwords though is that you seemingly need to change so often, and can't use one you've used before and all that.

The amount of different ones I now have is crazy. If not for my password manager on my laptop, and my phone being logged in all the time, I probably wouldn't know how to log in.

[LambertandHam]

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The annoying thing about passwords though is that you seemingly need to change so often, and can't use one you've used before and all that.

The amount of different ones I now have is crazy. If not for my password manager on my laptop, and my phone being logged in all the time, I probably wouldn't know how to log in.

I use Firefox's built in random password maker and just write them down in a little notebook I keep somewhere safe. Enough experience with computers to have them off hand and if someone got into the house, they aren't going for a random notebook

[Blzer]

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Not just Facebook, but iCloud and anything you store stuff on you should have backups of pictures.

1TB external drive can be had for fairly cheap.

Definitely important to have at least 2 copies of all your files.

Hackers obviously go after your online accounts, and in the event of a virus, there goes your harddrive.

Microsoft has OneDrive, but it pisses me off to no end. I can't exactly explain why. It just doesn't do things the way I want it to be done, isn't accessible when I need things from it, and decides to save on the computer vs. online at random times. I've completely removed and disabled it, yet my computer still tries to save to it. It's a travesty.

And I have external HDD's, but not always with me at the moment and those can fail as well. I was just making an analogy that it's not necessarily the product I need all the time, but the information. Some things simply aren't replaceable, that's all.

[Majingir]

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Microsoft has OneDrive, but it pisses me off to no end. I can't exactly explain why. It just doesn't do things the way I want it to be done, isn't accessible when I need things from it, and decides to save on the computer vs. online at random times. I've completely removed and disabled it, yet my computer still tries to save to it. It's a travesty.



And I have external HDD's, but not always with me at the moment and those can fail as well. I was just making an analogy that it's not necessarily the product I need all the time, but the information. Some things simply aren't replaceable, that's all.

I know external drives can suddenly fail, but what's the absolute best way of backing things up? To me, external drives are probably up there for best ways, but even those can give issues.

[pietasterp]

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I know external drives can suddenly fail, but what's the absolute best way of backing things up? To me, external drives are probably up there for best ways, but even those can give issues.

I agree with this, but then I'm a bit old-school I guess. Nothing beats hold-it-in-the-palm-of-your-hand hardware, in my opinion.

[Master Live 013]

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As a password manager/generator I would recommend Bitwarden.

[Blzer]

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Today I saw a dead bee on the sidewalk (stepped on, it seems), and there was another bee that was just flying low right next to it, almost like it was upset over his buddy's death or whatever.

It was actually really sad. I felt bad for it. Up until now I literally almost didn't suspect that bees could feel emotions or anything of the sort, but that moment made me question those thoughts over.