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What Do You Need? [List of Offered Services]

2023 Version is here, at this handy Notion Page.

Yes, There Are Competent IT and Cyberprofessionals Out There, If You're Not Cheap.

The updated (and frankly, better written and edited) version will be on my Medium blog December 7th, 2020 with the title " The Myth of the Tech Talent Shortage and The Cost To Your Business ." My Medium profile is here . This post is getting attention again: Hi. I like to think I've gotten less angry than when this was posted (Though I still think it's true, the times have changed with COVID-19, and I could have worded this more constructively). I'm pivoting to different areas of IT; Check the services and projects tag.   It's still BS that there aren't more part time positions in IT and tech. It's not like the talent isn't plentiful.  From Pexels.com Atlanta, Georgia Baltimore, Maryland Newark, New Jersey Savannah, Georgia What do they have in common? They have been the victim of serious cyberattacks on their infrastructure. Said attacks cost the affected city governments and companies more than 30$million dollars .

Actionable Results: How to Find a Phone

The Time When I circumvented Google's "Find my Device" to find my father's lost Pixel 3. SITUATION : My father lost his phone. I've been meaning for ages to set it up so he can use Google to call it and not me for 15 minutes. The situation lasted longer than 15 minutes, bordering on nearly 3 hours. TASK: Find it. Look around, check cars and pockets. ACTION : First, let's assume that you've attached your Android phone to your Google account. If you simply Google "Find my phone android", you may be taken here . When it asks for a password to make sure you are who you are, and you don't remember...well, things get a bit trickier. Next, we resorted to more calling. The phone did immediately go to voicemail at first, and then it rang. No one answered. "Well, if it can happen to him, it can happen to me," I thought. So I Bing'd to double check where I could do so at, finding this article....which had a link to he