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Woz 1st MRB

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  1. Google Chrome uses computer memory like crazy. it is not allowing other things to work properly. if you have to many applications opening when your computer is turned on, it will have no ram for what you want. Windows 10 can run on 2 GB of ram. Chrome will not. It sucks your ram up and will make it difficult to run programs when you want. Try a new browser and see what you get. If it doesn't solve the problem, then you can go back to chrome.

    12GB is plenty to run Chrome and anything else simultaneously, especially when paired with a i7-5930K

  2. If you were worried about your account being compromised, don't. It was only a caching issue where the servers were serving pages that shouldn't have been cached.

    No sessions were compromised, stolen, or swapped. This means that no one could have purchased anything on your account, and that you couldn't have purchased anything on the accounts that it seemed you had access to.

    The most information that someone could have gotten from it would be email, phone number, and last 4 of credit card., and that is only if you visited that specific page of your own account right around the time of the caching error starting.

    I'll go ahead and mark this as resolved, since Valve fixed their config within an hour or so of it originally happening.

  3. I have a snoozeless alarm that is on the complete opposite end of my room from my bed that blares a buzzer noise that has the same effect as mainlining adrenaline in the morning. Additionally, I have a blindingly bright light on a timer that turns on at the same time as the buzzer and blasts me with light.

    The combined effect is an adrenaline filled fight or flight response as well as a light stimulus that tells my body that it is daylight (Otherwise my blackout curtains would keep me sleepy all day). I find it near impossible to go back to sleep after this routine.

  4. I use AdBlocker and Ghostery in Chrome to mitigate risk while browsing.

    Windows Defender is running, but it has never red flagged anything.

    I run MalwareBytes occasionally to just check up on my systems health for anything that might have silently snuck in (keylogger, etc.)

    If you don't click on anything you shouldn't be clicking on, and never run or open things that you do not trust entirely, then you will be safe from most everything. I haven't had a virus in over a decade primarily from being smart about my computer habits.

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