Hey! Movin' on up!

5? ...... I will stop complaining that I can only watch a few Netflix a month with 30. We do not own a T.V. on purpose but sometimes I would love to have an overstuffed couch and the bube tube on demand. We have had 12+ inches of rain this week and I have not worked. A T.V. would have been a nice way to completely degrade into common culture the past few days. I just got a bunch of new book that I blew threw. Never ever in wildest dreams would I have thought I would be hoping for rain to go away in August in Texas

Audrey...I don't know what to say...30 GB's!! I am sooo jealous.

You have a few more days of rain it looks like. I read Ebooks, Hubby does the Amazon movie thing. I also learn a lot from browsing. I hate gossip. I don't open a lot of the blurbs on my homepage. It is usually to much info.

Have been reading stuff about Keiki paste for various plants now they are trying it on Adeniums. Trials going on. https://dephyte.com/PhytoClone...

I can't even get cell service at home. Sucks Even have an ATT tower about 2 miles away. They say that is to close.

Don't get me started on simple words we can't use because they mean something else. I have two friends who use Fag or fagged out. We are a silly world.

I would be also!!! My hubby has gotten the best plan that is no longer available. He is very thrifty! You can only imagine how that works out being married to a total plant addict

crystalview said:You have a few more days of rain it looks like. I read Ebooks, Hubby does the Amazon movie thing. I also learn a lot from browsing. I hate gossip. I don't open a lot of the blurbs on my homepage. It is usually to much info.

Have been reading stuff about Keiki paste for various plants now they are trying it on Adeniums. Trials going on. https://dephyte.com/PhytoClone...

I can't even get cell service at home. Sucks Even have an ATT tower about 2 miles away. They say that is to close.

This is not a bad thing. Read up on the EMF's these towers cause and you will be grateful. I have 2 smack dab in the middle of my mile long dirt road I travel to get home. Evil stuff! Thank goodness for us gardeners it comes with a great network to connect! Think about it? People have had whole entire fortunes and families made and broke over the info that is now shared freely. It is truly a beautiful thing.

I had trouble before the Att tower was built. I have an old hydro eclectic plant about a 2 miles as the crow flies. The reason i was told I don't get ATT is I am below their tree line (angle of beam)

Son told me that the Toshiba Touchscreen is on sale for $399. What would I want with a touchscreen? I guess I'll get exercise lifting my arm to be able to touch the screen.

For a few things it is nice. But on my sisters I type and touch.
ASUS still has a better rating. Toshiba has slipped a little in the ratings but it's not bad

Thanks for your vote on ASUS, Marica.

A few minutes ago I unthinkingly clicked on IE on my task bar. When it came up, the IE pop-up box came up immediately. So I had to restart to get rid of it. I have unpinned it from the task bar so I wouldn't automatically click on it again.

You're right, James, Chrome is very good! Chrome also eliminates some of the junk that's attached to sites. And Chrome makes doing tasks easier and more efficient. While using Acer/IE window I had to go through extra steps to upload pictures and extra work to do some other things as well. Early on I had said that the IE prompt popped up in other windows...I was mistaken..IE only pops up in the Acer/IE window.

After all that's been said...I might not have to buy a new computer after all. I have been using Chrome for the last couple of days and have had no issues so far.

Great news! I do love chrome. I prefer Google everything. Google and Samsung are my favorite tech brands.
Also further clarifies my Acer/Microsoft theory for your issues. Glad that it's currently just IE, and not actual system issues/incompatibilities!

Esperanza said: You can install ad block plus for free. I have really enjoyed having it on my computer. I can now go to sites that I could not before because of all of the blinking obnoxious ads that would play on the sides. It blocks all of that!

Since you installed the ABP add-on, go to "Adblock Plus Filter Preferences" and UNCHECK "Allow some non-intrusive advertising". I also strongly recommend you add these filter subscriptions from here:

https://adblockplus.org/subscr...

On the bottom, there will be "Miscellaneous" subscriptions.

Add Spam404 and Malware Domains by clicking the hyperlink next to "Subscribe:".

Next go to:

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and click "Add Enhanced Tracking List".

These subscriptions will BLOCK many malware websites and trackers. (Please note that malware can still enter your computer).

JamesAcclaims said: Great news! I do love chrome. I prefer Google everything. Google and Samsung are my favorite tech brands.
Also further clarifies my Acer/Microsoft theory for your issues. Glad that it's currently just IE, and not actual system issues/incompatibilities!

Why? Did you know Google records your searches, IP address, and drops tracking cookies? It is best to use StartPage.

https://www.startpage.com/

Yes, but so does everything these days. Yahoo, AOL, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, etc. Being of the millennial generation, all of our information is already compromised from the age of 12 or 13 when we started putting our information out there. Almost every website we go to these days, every app we download, every game we play, every chat service, or forum that we sign up for, is just 1 more company that has your address, location, contact list, images, etc. Google isn't going to hurt anything, since everyone else already has everything. I mean, for cripse sake, I can be talking to a friend about something or purchase something with my debit card and immediately after have an advertisement for that product on my facebook, even without googleing it or searching it or anything. Trust me friend, there's no stopping it, and there's no going back. It's part of the massive network of interconnectivity that we are all part of. I give it another 10 to 15 years until they start pushing ads into our dreams.

JamesAcclaims said:Yes, but so does everything these days. Yahoo, AOL, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, etc. Being of the millennial generation, all of our information is already compromised from the age of 12 or 13 when we started putting our information out there. Almost every website we go to these days, every app we download, every game we play, every chat service, or forum that we sign up for, is just 1 more company that has your address, location, contact list, images, etc. Google isn't going to hurt anything, since everyone else already has everything. I mean, for cripse sake, I can be talking to a friend about something or purchase something with my debit card and immediately after have an advertisement for that product on my facebook, even without googleing it or searching it or anything. Trust me friend, there's no stopping it, and there's no going back. It's part of the massive network of interconnectivity that we are all part of. I give it another 10 to 15 years until they start pushing ads into our dreams.

I understand what you mean. But we can prevent private information from being uploaded to some degree. For example, I don't think that using any of those you mentioned is a good idea... (I know I have very extreme positions. )

bwv998 said:...For example, I don't think that using any of those you mentioned is a good idea...

You are telling a 27 year old who has grown up with technology at every finger-tip to not use social media? I'm not sure I could survive.

Next they will charge us for our web searches.

They better not! Considering they already make money every single time we search. Be getting double paid.
That does sound like them though...

JamesAcclaims said:

You are telling a 27 year old who has grown up with technology at every finger-tip to not use social media? I'm not sure I could survive.

I understand...