Wow. My brother's bank account at Truist got hacked this week. Some fireman in NJ was using fire department equipment to hack into bank accounts. My brother is a nobody in po dunk nowhere NC. He literally has never used a computer (he's a farmer, country bumpkin type) and only ever uses his cell phone to call people, doesn't text, never …
Wow. My brother's bank account at Truist got hacked this week. Some fireman in NJ was using fire department equipment to hack into bank accounts. My brother is a nobody in po dunk nowhere NC. He literally has never used a computer (he's a farmer, country bumpkin type) and only ever uses his cell phone to call people, doesn't text, never been on the internet, etc. Fortunately, the guy didn't get any money. My brother has been asking them for years to disable internet access to all of his accounts. They finally did it this week. He told them the same thing about how protecting "online banking" from hackers is going to cost them a lot more money than just going back to paper.
I hate the cloud, want nothing to do with it. BTW, I work in high tech, leading edge stuff.
Sorry to hear about your brother. My mom is the same way, not on the internet, but I handle all of her accounting stuff. We are in between a rock and a hard place though, as mail delivery has gone to h*ll in a handbasket the past few years too. I ended up setting up online access for some things just because she was not getting statements, tax documents, etc in the mail, or getting it weeks or even months late.
But that is comforting to know you hate the cloud. I am only as tech savvy as I need to be and I try to avoid any cloud based SW when I can. I have the perpetual license Office suite, not 365. Have several programs I use for work that are getting glitchy due to age but are now subscription based only, hard pass. Most of the time when I say I hate the cloud I just get the OK Boomer remark. And I am Gen X! Old before my time I guess. Get off my lawn, lol.
Another GenXer her myself, will also not use the cloud, hate upgrading anything Microsoft, just like Apple, they go only so far then stop updating the older systems so you have to get the updated model for anything to function.
Also Gen X. I do use subscription-based software and I don’t really like it. There is open source that can replace it. It’s looking more attractive every day. A lot of the open source programs can open files from the subscription-based software and save in those formats.
A lot of the issues with these companies is they don’t update their programs, so they are running very old, easy-to-hack programs. Or they just don’t update them even when they’ve been warned there’s a security issue.
Yes, I tried Open Office but glitchy as heck and kept getting error messages. Bit the bullet and bought perpetual license version of Office 2019, as my previous version of MS Office was no longer supported and had lots of glitches. I am self employed and have to use whatever my clients use, and occasionally get one that uses Google docs which I hate just because I don't trust Google and have to be signed in to use it.
They do get better. I hate Google Docs, too. They spy on you like everyone else. Matter of fact, they’ve just admitted they are going to add an AI feature that will read your text messages on Android.
iPhone text messages are being read already. Text about something very random that you never have had an interest in and then open Facebook. There it will be in an ad or in reels.
Lovely. I have been getting notice of a privacy update on my phone but have yet to open and read it. Dumb phones looking better all the time. Except for typing text messages.
Google Docs is a quick way to create something and share it, but as a longtime Microsoft Word user, I hate the lack of formatting options that Google Docs offers.
I agree with your assessment of the cloud for the most part. However, we live in a rule area and we have had mail stolen from our mailbox several times. So anything online has MFA sometimes Cisco dual whatever I can get to tighten it up.
Wow. My brother's bank account at Truist got hacked this week. Some fireman in NJ was using fire department equipment to hack into bank accounts. My brother is a nobody in po dunk nowhere NC. He literally has never used a computer (he's a farmer, country bumpkin type) and only ever uses his cell phone to call people, doesn't text, never been on the internet, etc. Fortunately, the guy didn't get any money. My brother has been asking them for years to disable internet access to all of his accounts. They finally did it this week. He told them the same thing about how protecting "online banking" from hackers is going to cost them a lot more money than just going back to paper.
I hate the cloud, want nothing to do with it. BTW, I work in high tech, leading edge stuff.
Sorry to hear about your brother. My mom is the same way, not on the internet, but I handle all of her accounting stuff. We are in between a rock and a hard place though, as mail delivery has gone to h*ll in a handbasket the past few years too. I ended up setting up online access for some things just because she was not getting statements, tax documents, etc in the mail, or getting it weeks or even months late.
But that is comforting to know you hate the cloud. I am only as tech savvy as I need to be and I try to avoid any cloud based SW when I can. I have the perpetual license Office suite, not 365. Have several programs I use for work that are getting glitchy due to age but are now subscription based only, hard pass. Most of the time when I say I hate the cloud I just get the OK Boomer remark. And I am Gen X! Old before my time I guess. Get off my lawn, lol.
Another GenXer her myself, will also not use the cloud, hate upgrading anything Microsoft, just like Apple, they go only so far then stop updating the older systems so you have to get the updated model for anything to function.
Also Gen X. I do use subscription-based software and I don’t really like it. There is open source that can replace it. It’s looking more attractive every day. A lot of the open source programs can open files from the subscription-based software and save in those formats.
A lot of the issues with these companies is they don’t update their programs, so they are running very old, easy-to-hack programs. Or they just don’t update them even when they’ve been warned there’s a security issue.
Yes, I tried Open Office but glitchy as heck and kept getting error messages. Bit the bullet and bought perpetual license version of Office 2019, as my previous version of MS Office was no longer supported and had lots of glitches. I am self employed and have to use whatever my clients use, and occasionally get one that uses Google docs which I hate just because I don't trust Google and have to be signed in to use it.
They do get better. I hate Google Docs, too. They spy on you like everyone else. Matter of fact, they’ve just admitted they are going to add an AI feature that will read your text messages on Android.
iPhone text messages are being read already. Text about something very random that you never have had an interest in and then open Facebook. There it will be in an ad or in reels.
It’s worse than that. Siri is listening to your conversations. Just TALK about something and it shows up in ads the next day!
Yep, that too!
Lovely. I have been getting notice of a privacy update on my phone but have yet to open and read it. Dumb phones looking better all the time. Except for typing text messages.
Oh, yeah, I get it. This is why I frequently leave my phone at home when I just going to local places.
Google Docs is a quick way to create something and share it, but as a longtime Microsoft Word user, I hate the lack of formatting options that Google Docs offers.
Gen X here too.
Not sure what a gen X is, but I'll join you.
I agree with your assessment of the cloud for the most part. However, we live in a rule area and we have had mail stolen from our mailbox several times. So anything online has MFA sometimes Cisco dual whatever I can get to tighten it up.