u/VexedRacoon

It's coming up to that renewal time and I'm thinking should I go somewhere else (I've had NORD for 5 years at this point. I just find it's doing a lot, lots of anti malware (which I have no evidence it's better than what's already on my device), trying to push lots of features, also trying to upsell me in the middle of contract for other services.

I might try something like Proton for a while and see if there's any difference.

I also read about 'streaming' with these VPN but when I tried to use netflix, netflix would give errors because of the VPN IP, same for BBC Iplayer it gets blocked when trying to access it with a VPN. So those are the only down points I have honestly. Any thoughts that NORD Is trying to be a bit bloated as a VPN app?

EDIT: LOL people aren't reading my post properly, not the cost of renewal is too much, I mean the application is bloated and a lot of feature that I don't want on it. Finding code for discount is easy and affordable for me.

Had a call from the 'Met Police Shepherds Bush' cyber crime unit, British normal sounding person. Long call about 15 minute. The jist of it was that they arrested a guy who had 100 odd names and financial details, this wasn't the lead investigator, just a guy calling numbers doing some checks.... He did ask if this is [my name] when I answered. Then he was talking about ledgers (which is a crypto usb stick thing), and asking if I had binance or coinbase (jokes on him-binance doesn't operate in the UK anymore). I said I got rid of it all because it sucked and lost me money. Then he said the guy they arrested was Yusef Mohammed, and then asked if I associate with any islamic people??? I said I work with some?! Then said that criminals can kidnap and ransome people for their cryptocurrency. Asked if I noticed anything suspicious on my computer or on my phone, or strange emails etc. I said I get indian scammers calling me saying they're from O2 all the time, and that I just talk to them and waste their time.

I said I know all about security and 2 factor and vpns and things. He did say criminals can order E-sims and then use my number without me knowing (haven't heard of that before).

I was surprised they didn't try to escalate and ask me to send them money.

Then ended the call and said they can give me a crime reference number "MET 4800 xxx xxx" and his name, then I asked for badge number and he said MET 482 and hung up.

Until the end it did sound a very genuine call. Maybe there's meant to be a part 2 where they escalate and then ask me to transfer all my money to them.

So after watching the episode with the beta gate, it and the DHD has a different symbol for Earth, however the original gate has the symbol for earth looking like a pyramid (assuming because of Ra), plus all the DHD in the galaxy must have this symbol for earth.

So, did Goa'uld place the current star gate system, after stealing ancient technology, or did the ancients decide to change the earth symbol. I'm a bit confused about this part.

I want to see the 70mm Disclosure Day and since this is the only option in the UK I want to know what to expect from the seats. I don't mind paying extra for "royal box" but I can't find actual pictures of what it looks like from the seat and how the seats are better than others. Anyone been here and had experience which seats work best for them?

We bought this for the corner of the house to watch a yard space and car. We could only place it where the camera will see some of the road where cars drive.

I used the Activity Zone feature and drew a box only around the yard and car so it should only trigger when something is in this zone right? But no, every single car that drives past it gets tripped. The only thing I can think of is that it's due to reflections on my car from the cars passing (metallic paint).

Any thoughts? I turned the battery to optimal and the sensitivity down to the lowest setting. Very frustrated about this. I did select 'all motion' because the other eufy doorbell cam we have doesn't reliably detect humans.