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Yes. As I learned as a young kid, you can pop off the individual cubes with a screwdriver and reassemble in a solved state. I consider this method “brute force”.

Related only tangentially. Doctor recommended a vitamin D supplement. Couple years later after terrible acid reflux, I eliminate prescribed medication X which solves 80% of reflux symptoms and pain. After self testing the remaining 20% of symptoms were caused by the vitamin D gummy supplement, tomatoes, and onions.

So yeah vitamin d might help on one hand, but cause it’s own issues in different areas.

No more vitamins for me. Better to eat well and get the occasional bit of Sun.

What are the therapeutics to which you refer?

Not great. But apparently neither are their special unnamed therapeutics.

dammmmm thank you. your comment just triggered a reminder to me to update my personal articles policy for changed computer hardware.

yeah, the only reason that i didn't get burned like the person above my original quote is that i got lucky. i had figured out that i could have two tokens running at the same time (one token for service A in Google Authenticator, second token for service A in 1Password). But I realized when I lost all Google Authenticator tokens one time, that I was this close || to a disaster. I had only recently also set up 1pw.

The most ideal set up would be to have a universally Yubikey or something equivalent. Preferrably with a backup pre-configured second Yukibey possible in a disaster recovery bugout kit. Then have all the initial QR codes, otp secret manual otp key strings like i demonstrated above your post, account recovery keys, backup break-in codes, or whatever other flavor of two-factor recovery a service uses, all this notated in a secured password manager. The real problem i see with two factor is that the offered recovery method is so variable from service to service. it makes knowing which information you need to have on hand when you've gotten locked out is problematic.

the other thing i do is that for core cloud service providers, i print out the password manager details for the accounts. this is apple, cloud backup service, google, microsoft and a couple of hardware device passwords. it's a risk to have this printed, but the print out is in a fireproof safe with a trusted party.

i basically assume my disaster recovery plan is that i have my wallet and the clothes on my back and nothing else. everything else gone including my computers and phones and i have to get back all services and data without having any devices.

the higher the level of security, the higher level of disaster preparedness the end user needs to practice.

I've emailed my elderly parents to make sure they understand that this mandatory 2fa roll out is happening, and I've explained how they could fuck up their accounts by not notating the recovery method. offered to review their details to make sure it passes a sniff test.

pro-tip for next, back up the otp set up keys or capture the qr code during initial sign up.

i've been able to do this because i replicated otp set up in a second source (1password).

in 1password, edit the record then inspect the otp field string. it will look like this:

otpauth://totp/Discord:[email protected]?secret=blahblahblah&issuer=Discord

save the "blahblahblah" and you can manually recreate a token at any time.

Retitled for clarity: Ban Pay-to-View Content...

Thanks. I’ve been a Crashplan customer for eons and the last two restores I’ve done from code42 went sideways. So looking for a reasonable alternate.

question about your support levels. for a solo basic account, do you really not offer a your-business-hours chat support function?

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duuuuuuuuude do you have any idea how labor intensive care for ICU patients is? ICU patients can't move. Requires staff to turn them so they don't get bed sores and to prone them stomach down for lung function.

If the ICU patient can't breathe on a vent and are able to secure ECMO, the ECMO specialist ratio is ideally 1:1. Under a crush of patients maybe 1:2 patients. A 1:3 ratio is risking all the patients under that specialist's care because the patients are all too tenuous. Let me reiterate and restate: 3 ECMO patients are too much for a single ES to support.

The ECMO specialist isn't the only person caring for the patient. There is the ICU nursing staff, the pulmonary therapist, plus the actual pulmonary doctors, the renal doctors, plus plus plus. You are talking decades if not a hundred+ years of study just to take care of a single ICU patient.

Labor and not beds is the bottleneck.

put the life saving another way: you get the vaccine, you are more likely to stay out of the hospital, and the bed you would otherwise be occupying can now be used to treat the car accident victim, the heart attack patient, the cancer patient, etc.