TITAM - Technical issues that affected me

 That is, the "sharing" options are completely missing. I had 1 calendar of several like this.  I never could figure out how to fix it; I had to create a new one, move events from the broken one to the new one, and delete the broken one. Yes, it's a pain, but there wasn't anything else for it. Note that - depending on your calendar app - you may have to go into your phone Calendar app settings to make the new calendar actually visible!

 Per this post and this score , I believe Autoviny is a scam. I personally got multiple offers of interest from separate phone numbers that all followed an identical script.  This pretty much gave it away.  Similar  tactics involve "hybridvin.com", and basically all kinds of other sites that aren't Carfax. What I usually do is tell people to get their own report(s), and if they buy the car, I will reimburse them for the cost.  That weeds out the liars and scammers.   Update:  I'd not seen this in the news - and I read a lot of news - but I did run across this BBB report afterwards.  Also this , this , this and this . The various scammers have been kind enough to provide a list of scam sites, current as of November 2023: Autoviny.com Canadavin.ca Hybridvin.com Canadavinreport.ca  Canadavinpro.ca  Of course, as new domains only cost a few bucks a year, these sites will be endless.  To pay them back, I've taken to sending them rando...

Change your chat settings to "Click Send":   [God, why is everything a @#%$!@ video these days.  Just #%%$& tell me without 2 minutes of narrative.]

I recently saw a case where two Shaw email addresses in the same household behaved differently. One of them would simply not receive any email from a specific sender.  The other one had no issues receiving emails from the same sender. There were no error messages on either side, the email account was not full, and the lost messages were not in Trash or Spam.  There were no settings on the problem account that would explain this behavior. Even stranger, the emails in question never showed up on the problem account even after forwarding the same email from the successful account.   So, the problem account wasn't just rejecting the original sender - there was something in the message itself that caused it to get lost in transit. Testing showed that the problem Shaw email account was rejecting a specific domain name in the text (i.e. "abcdefg.com").    That is, if the email - ANY email,  from anyone - contained the phrase "abcdefg.com", it would be lo...

Problem:  Chrome starts, then immediately closes.  You can see the window momentarily.  Usually and suddenly manifests on a kids laptop that had no prior issues whatsoever. No error messages.  Can still see some Chrome-related process running in Task Manager, but nothing useful.  Reinstall doesn't help.  Chrome works fine on other devices.  No known issues with connectivity, cache / hard drive space, etc.  Edge works.  Firefox will not work. Solution:  Your child(ren) probably got involuntarily signed up for Microsoft Family Safety , which can block all browsers other than Edge. •  Go to the Family Safety parental / Family Organizer account.  If you don't know what that is, try here . •  Click your kids account. •  Go to "Content Filters". •  Be sure you're on "Web and search". •  Turn OFF the "Filter settings / Filter inappropriate websites and searches" feature.   Several things baffle me about this, ...

Problem Somebody, somewhere has gotten a message similar to: "Microsoft Family Features: You'll need to ask an adult in your family if you can use __________" It's usually a child under 18, but not always.  It's usually for a game or app, but can also be for something innocuous, like Google Chrome.  Often it worked perfectly before, and for forever, but not now. You then get a button that says "Ask by email".   You press it and --- nothing happens.    NOTHING.   At all. No emails, nothing.   The solutions posted by Microsoft for this issue are incorrect, unintelligible, or both.  The "best" ones assume you already understand the system you're having problems with, making them frustrating at best and utter crap at worst. Solution If you already know who the "Family Organizer" is, skip to Step 4. 1.  Go to https://account.microsoft.com/family and log in to your child's account. (As setting up the first account is painful , I ...

These drives work fine on an RS2416RP+ running DSM 6.2, no issues. Don't whine they're "surveillance" drives, blah blah.  They're hard drives, they work like you expect hard drives to work. I don't know about DSM 7.x or newer NAS units, but I see no reason why they wouldn't work on them as well. That's all. [Update]: Over a year now, no issues whatsoever. [Update]:  3 years.  No problems.