Heatman

My love for car brands have nothing to do with any standards. Anything that's built by Mercedes, Ford and Toyota will have my undying love and affection. 

As much as 4x4 looks great and all round better during winter with all its snowing, I'm still a fan of SUV and it's either FORD SUV or Toyota SUV for me. 

On 4/13/2023 at 4:22 AM, Joshua Farrell said:

Where I live, it is not required to have them tested. But if I move over state lines, 7 miles over, it is required to do emission tests.

This is exactly how it's done in my region. Personally, I do it on my own willingly especially whenever I'm driving on a long journey that's going to take at least 3 to 4 hours up. I will make sure everything is in order before I move out. 

I make use of the BLOCK BUTTON. It saves me a lot of stress having to deal with all of their BS all the time. If it's on forums and the forum software have FORCE IGNORE, I will use it immediately. I love having my peace online. 

Anything that's my account which is online have Two Factor Authentication active on it. My best way for using 2FA is getting a text message code in my chosen phone number. It's more convenient for me using that option. 

I never used private browsing mode at my own will. It never appealed to me for any reason whatsoever. The only time I had to use it was when I was having an issue with accessing particular site. The site owner had to ask me to make use of private mode and see if I can access the site which still didn't help. 

There are just few persons in the world who would send me a link that I would click on without serious questions and findings. This is because it's even those close to you that will pull the trick on you to attack your set up and steal your data. I'm very careful with what I do online. 

I have the same experience with using Brave browser and that's why I removed it as my default browser. I'm now using Google chrome as my default browser and I might switch to Microsoft Edge browser as my default soon. 

Thank you so much for sharing this update. It's definitely going to be very helpful for me and even a lot of people as well. I've seen a lot of scam websites that needs to be clamped down. Now, I know the right channels to use and report them ASAP. 

I don't have any use of password manager. I can manage my own password very much well and I have a pretty strong password that's 17 digits long mixed with numbers and symbols. I'm 100% good. 

Personally, I don't have any need to make use of password manager because I can coin up my own unique password which can't be figured out by any human being or even tech that can hack password. My password is 17 digits long mixed with numbers and symbols. It's something I can never forget in my life 😂. 

All my accounts on social media platforms have Two Factor Authentication set up in them. It's one of the best ways to prevent breach into your account without your approval. I also have it on all my banking apps too. It give me 100% protection. 

I said it when the whole news was raging up that Elon Musk will be the end of Twitter. He started with all the free speech crap till he started milking the system with the blue tick subscription. 

It wasn't the end of it as he started the new daily limit to views which broke all users heart. People started leaving to join Truth Social App of Donald Trump Jr. It didn't take long for Mark Zuckerberg to launch his own Twitter like app called Threads. In less than 24 hours, the app got 10 million downloads. 

I'm very sure that there are still a lot of younger folks who are still making use of Facebook but it doesn't change the fact that a big number of them have moved on to TikTok specifically. The force behind TikTok is unbelievable. You will hardly see anyone who's not using that app now. 

On 6/27/2023 at 5:09 AM, Nomad said:

I use Facebook Marketplace frequently to buy and sell items, and thankfully I have never been scammed. My number one rule as a buyer is never to send payment before receiving the product. Since I only buy and sell locally, I always choose the cash-on-delivery option. When I sell products, if I can receive advance payment, that's fine but even if I do not receive advance payment I use a delivery service that also collects payment after handing over the item.

This is the best strategy when you're only selling locally since who's going to buy/sell is within the same proximity. There's no way of getting scammed. Unfortunately, it can't work out when you're not buying within your locality. 

None one believed that TikTok would ever dominate all the other social media platforms including YouTube but that's the reality today. Mark Zuckerberg launched Threads few days ago which is linked to his Instagram app to rival Twitter. Elon Musk isn't happy about it which his comment was that the app sucks. A lot of people are moving from different social media sites to Threads. 

Do you think Twitter is facing a big threat being considered the GOAT of social media platforms? 

There's no one who's into using social media platforms that's not familiar with TikTok. It's the most popular social media app in the world today. Even with everything United States of America did to clamp it down, none of it worked. How it's set up to use short and even longer videos beat YouTube too. 

Have you joined using TikTok? What do you think about the social media platform? 

Well, it actually depends on the kind of PC parts that I'm looking at buying. If it's something simple, I would most likely order for it online. But if it's complex parts, I'm definitely getting it walking in the store to buy it. 

It's a normal thing with Microsoft, so we are already used to it. Sooner or later, we are getting Windows 13/14/15 and it's going to keep going on like that till the end of time 😂. 

I always updated my own once another version is out. There's no need holding out on it because I will still end up doing it. 

I'm still stuck on using 15" but I've seen 17" and it looks great. Whenever I'm ready to upgrade my current laptop which isn't going to long, I'm getting from 17" upwards. 

For me, it's going to be Matteo Scalera. He's one of the best comic artist in the business. His work on Black Science is absolutely amazing. I love how he exaggerated the faces and make up of his characters in his work which gave them wide range of emotions. 

There's no way you're going to keep up with following on all of them especially if you have another thing to do with your life and not live for Manga alone. I just don't kill myself over them any more and follow as I could in my own pace. 

My favourite fiction book at the moment is going to Fire & Blood by George R.R Martin. I love how the books have been adapted to the TV Show House of the Dragon. In fact, I love all of books written by Martin. 

On 7/1/2023 at 3:14 PM, ZandraJoi said:

Yeah, I'm talking about those. I personally don't like it lol Being a bit of an empath, I tend to "feel" the reactions stronger 🙂

Have any of you been in a Practical Joke situation? How did it turn out?

Mehn, I don't do well with pranks. They leave me so embarrassed. 

I've had an embarrassing moment I wouldn't forget so easily. I'm hyper sensitive especially when my ribs are tickled. 

I was in public in college with my friends and another friend of mine (a girl) came from my back and tickled my ribs, immediately I farted out so loud. I was completely embarrassed. My guys never stopped laughing at me that day. 

On 7/1/2023 at 3:31 PM, ZandraJoi said:

I live rural so most of the back roads are traffic-free. You may see more creatures than humans lol

Yeah, that's right and it's best not to speed much so you don't get to hit and kill or injure some of them. I watched a video where a deer 🦌 jumped on the road and didn't wanna go. It was very funny. It appeared her baby was stuck somewhere. The mother deer had to get the driver's attention to follow her right to where her baby was stuck. That's how the baby deer was saved from certain death.