[–] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I'm guessing your email and some passwords were leaked recently. The scammers are hoping that you:

a) have a chatgpt account already

b) are lazy with your passwords and reuse them across services.

Or

c) will click on of the verification code links and let them in

If they get lucky, they get an openai account in your name that they can fraudulently abuse. It costs them basically nothing to try, and theyll be doing it across millions of accounts.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    No one would opt in, and phone GPS would suck. GPS used to take minutes to gain a lock, before they started using cell towers and WiFi points to speed up locks. Put your phone in flight mode, reboot and try get a lock, it will take forever (you may have to do other things to clear your cached location).

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Could the CMOS battery have died in your laptop, which has caused it to not detect the SSD? I have seen a dell laptop do that, and the AHCI/RAID setting caused it to not boot as well. Perhaps check if your BIOS setting for UEFI boot/legacy boot setting has also changed?

    As for replacement, a new SSD is a cheap debugging step, and worst case you can put it in an enclosure and use it as a portable disk. I would try replace the SSD (after ruling out the legacy boot settings).

    I don't think laptop prices are coming down any time soon, so if all else fails, you may just have to suck it up. Perhaps checkout second hand marketplaces?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)
    1. The voltage has to be pretty close. You cant go significantly higher or lower. But the current is generally a max value. Its possible that if you cranked up the screen brightness it might need the full 1.5A. Also possible that your TV can actually provide more than 900mA.

    2. Dunno, would have to think harder. Will edit and update if I think of something.

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