u/ol-gormsby

I have a subscription to use on the rare occasions I need to access content that's not available in my country. This happens once or twice a year so I remove NordVPN outside those occasions to avoid it sitting in the background, nagging me about my privacy and security. Thanks, but I'm quite OK with all that.

Today I installed it again and along comes "dark web monitor" and "threat protection", without an option to not install them. Lucky me, I can turn them off after diving into settings.

This is a rant, and hopefully someone at NordVPN will pick it up because the "Feedback" on the website mysteriously fails when I click the "Submit" button. "Something went wrong. Please try again later" - makes me angry.

I DO NOT WANT THOSE OPTIONS. I DO NOT WANT THEM INSTALLED. I HAVE UNINSTALLED NORDVPN AND I WILL NOT RENEW MY SUBSCRIPTION WITHOUT AN OPTION TO NOT INSTALL UNWANTED FEATURES.

Not just "install them but allow me to turn them off" - I don't want them on my computer AT ALL!

There are other VPN providers and I'm happy to cancel this one and migrate. Stop turning yourself into Norton/McAfee/Trend Micro and trying to be all things. We want a VPN. That's all. Feel free to promote your other products but don't ever install them without my permission.

I'm heading off now to investigate that other product that I'm not allowed to mention.

Mods, FWIW I tried the support page at the website, and I tried the feedback page as well. There's a slim chance they might glance at posts here from time to time. Perhaps it'll help someone else.

Some years ago I asked a local electrician to put in an underground conduit from my backup generator to my battery charger (we're off-grid, so the solar panels need some help in bad weather). It had previously been running over a 15-amp extension cord.

I asked for a 15-amp run, because it could be carrying up to 3000 watts, which exceeds the 10-amp/2400 watt limit of the usual domestic circuit. One of his employees did the actual work. It's about 10 metres of cable, maybe a bit less.

He put 15-amp sockets (with the larger earth slot) at either end and life went on. I used it more and more as the solar PV and the batteries reached EOL and couldn't support our daily needs without a top-up.

Recently I had a major solar upgrade and the following was pointed out to me:

1. The 15-amp outlet at the battery charger end had live and neutral swapped. Not the end of the world, that socket never got used for anything else, but still......

2. The cable run was only 2.5mm cable, which I'm told will *not* safely carry 3000 watts, it's only a domestic 10-amp cable. It's been carrying up to 3000 watts for some years without any obvious problems, but the new batteries have considerably larger capacity and should they need topping up, it will run for longer periods so any overheating issues that were under a threshold previously, might become a problem.

Should I be upset about this? Now I have to get a new 15-amp cable drawn through the conduit and the ends re-terminated. Until this happens, I can't run the generator at full capacity without worrying about starting a fire.

My banking app recently introduced new terms & conditions that require approval for the app to implement a new security feature.

TL;DR - the app now requires me to agree to let it gather information about the other apps on the phone.

I can understand this, up to a point. But I don't want it reporting on some apps, e.g. secure RDP and SSH terminals.

So what I've found is that secure folder secures its contents from the outside world, but does it also work the other way, i.e. does it secure the phone from what's in secure folder? Obviously the secured apps will need internet access but is the rest of the phone protected from the app's features and functions? If it does, I can install the banking app in secure folder and not worry about it snooping on other sensitive apps. Obviously the traffic in secure RDP and terminals is encrypted but I think it's none of the banks business what else I'm using. Yes, it's for security and will likely alert me if I'm using a suspicious app or malware - but I'm happy to take on that responsibility, and if the banking app is in secure folder then it's protected, too.

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1t1k8k3/the_bahh_back_had_me_rolling/

Perhaps call it "sheep fixation" 😂

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