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Paul Chambers

I've used Namecheap for over a decade, but my annual VPS is coming due, plus I have a couple other websites on shared hosting plans and I wanted to setup a dedicated server, move Mastodon and my other websites over and decided to go with Hetzner.

I go to #Hetzner to sign up for a new account, and after I am done, try to log in to order my plan and I immediately get this in my email with no information on how to find out why or how to correct.

Not only is the email insulting, but no information on their decision...

I used the email address I have had since Gmail was beta, my home address to the home we own and the phone number I've had since 2004.

Fine. You don't want me a customer, I am glad I found out now, now delete all the information I gave you when I signed up for an account 15 minutes ago and I'll take my $100 a month for all the services I was going to setup with you, that I have been paying Namecheap for over a decade, elsewhere. #mastoadmin #Selfhosting

I've used Namecheap for over a decade, but my annual VPS is coming due, plus I have a couple other websites on shared hosting plans and I wanted to setup a dedicated server, move Mastodon and my other websites over and decided to go with Hetzner.

I go to #Hetzner to sign up for a new account, and after I am done, try to log in to order my plan and I immediately get this in my email with no information on how to find out why or how to correct.

Dear Mr Paul Chambers

After reviewing your updated customer information, we have decided to deactivate your account because of some concerns we have regarding this information. Therefore, we have cancelled all your existing products and orders with us.

Best regards

Your Hetzner Online Team
steve mookie kong

@paul I’ve read stories (Reddit) about Hetzner and their very “strict” vetting of customers. I was lucky and got an account with them without issue and that’s where I ran my last instance for about six months without issue.

My current hosting provider is hostup.se. Great pricing and big VPS’s. I’m running this instance on a 4 vCPU, 16GB RAM and 200GB storage for about $11/mo.

chebra

@paul When I was moving to Hetzner, going through ID verification, the only way to verify was to download a proprietary app from google play, must be made by the app. I have Play blocked on my phone and I'm not gonna unblock it just for this spyware. So I wrote them a support request, asking for other verification methods, explaining my frustration with proprietary apps. 1h later account activated, no ID necessary. So, prove that you are just a human by explaining your situation to support.

Paul Chambers

Steam checkout banner notified users they don’t own the game they buy — GOG takes a jab at Steam, saying it gives users offline installers that cannot be taken away | Tom's Hardware

GoG: "Since checkout banners are trending, we're thinking of putting one up ourselves. Thoughts on this one?" The banner says, "A purchase of a digital product on GOG grants you its Offline Installers, which cannot be taken away from you.”

tomshardware.com/video-games/p

Steam checkout banner notified users they don’t own the game they buy — GOG takes a jab at Steam, saying it gives users offline installers that cannot be taken away | Tom's Hardware

GoG: "Since checkout banners are trending, we're thinking of putting one up ourselves. Thoughts on this one?" The banner says, "A purchase of a digital product on GOG grants you its Offline Installers, which cannot be taken away from you.”

Paul Chambers

I wish I could experience just one hour of the life #SissyCat lives. lol

Fast a sleep through anything, content with a piece of plastic she found and a silly spring.

I wished I could experience a cat nap.

How pathetic am I to be jealous of a cat?😂 🤭 #Caturday .

cat sleeping on pillows with a piece of plastic, a spring and ball in a track.
Paul Chambers

Wife thought she was clearing up some clutter by packing it away in boxes.

#SissyCat thinks she got a new assortment of beds.

A stalemate ensues.

#CatsOfMastodon

cat resting in a box
Paul Chambers

She has more toys at age 3 than I had in all my childhood yet the box that didn't get in to the recycling bin fast enough is what she picks

#SissyCat #CatsOfMastodon

Tabby cat in box on cat tree
Tabby cat in box on cat tree, observing while sitting
Tabby cat in box on cat tree, dozing off
Tabby cat in box on cat tree, curled up asleep
Paul Chambers

#SissyCat sleeping in my wheelchair again. lol

Here lately, she's been riding on the arm rest as I go about my business.

She loves the motorized wheelchair but due to some work being done, right now Penny has to push me from room to room until the floor repairs are finished.

She gets up on the motorized wheelchair and hangs on the head rest while I zoom around in it. Will post a picture next time of that. It's cute.

#CatsOfMastodon

tabby cat bawled up with eyes covered, asleep on wheelchair.
Paul Chambers

It's a 'Crank up #LedZeppelin and argue with the cat' type of day.

She's not happy her dozens of Amazon boxes, some nearly as old as she is, cat toys, stolen articles she has hidden, snacks from the cat bowl she has stashed here and there for when her bowl gets a third empty and she panics starvation is on the horizon, etc are being moved so the vacuum cleaner can make its noise.

She's being stubborn and not moving.

#Caturday

Tabby cat not happy.
Paul Chambers

#Spring is here.

We now change fronts in the war.

The battle moves from fighting raccoons trying to get into the attic to escape winter and have babies to ants.

The neverending, everlasting war.

#SissyCat is on the front line with the ants. She finds the front and we send in the weaponry. #CatsOfMastodon

Cat looking at ant line
Paul Chambers

#SissyCat napping on my shoulder while I stroll the fediverse. She is so used to my Parkinson's twitches, muscle jerks, and reaching for the keyboard and mouse, an earthquake could happen, and she wouldn't budge or wake.

#CatsOfMastodon

Cat on man's shoulder, resting head on back of office chair.
Paul Chambers

If you would have told me in the 1980's or 1990's that part of my #GenX life in my 50's would be setting aside time on Saturday to look at cats and Wednesday to look at bunnies on 1960's Star Trek like communication devices, I would have told you were crazy.

#WhiskersWednesday #Caturday

Paul Chambers

I took this short video of #SissyCat after we did my physical therapy on the floor, with her help, of course.

I had the camera too close to my belly. I am not sure if the scary background sound is my stomach, the motor of my implanted spinal baclofen pump, or I mucked up the settings by accident. I have a feeling it is my pump because of the ticking sound that begins.

Either way, her laid by demeanor makes it perfect. #CatsOfMastodon

Paul Chambers

#FlipBoard's #Android App (beta) now supports #Pixelfed.

I really like using @Flipboard as a Mastodon client, flipping from toot to toot post. Lots of features.

From their app page, "Pixelfed is now on Flipboard (in beta): Connect your Pixelfed account and flip through your feed. Like, comment, and share to Pixelfed via Flipboard. Plus, save photos from Pixelfed into a Flipboard Magazine."

• Pixelfed is now on Flipboard (in beta): Connect your Pixelfed account and flip through your feed. Like, comment, and share to Pixelfed via Flipboard. Plus, save photos from Pixelfed into a Flipboard Magazine.
• Pixelfed is now on Flipboard (in beta): Connect your Pixelfed account and flip through your feed. Like, comment, and share to Pixelfed via Flipboard. Plus, save photos from Pixelfed into a Flipboard Magazine.
Paul Chambers

One of my medical providers was purchased by an investment group & they decided to stop some services not so profitable next month

Instead of giving its patients an opportunity to find a new provider, it "proudly identifies" a company "as a preferred provider" that in the past I decided against & without notice sent ALL my protected healthcare information to this company without my consent

Today, I filed a complaint with the HHS, Office of Civil Rights
#HIPAA #MedMastodon #Privacy @ProPublica

One of my medical providers was purchased by an investment group & they decided to stop some services not so profitable next month

Instead of giving its patients an opportunity to find a new provider, it "proudly identifies" a company "as a preferred provider" that in the past I decided against & without notice sent ALL my protected healthcare information to this company without my consent

Thank you for contacting the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR). OCR enforces federal civil rights laws which prohibit discrimination in the delivery of health and human services based on race, color, national origin, disability, age, sex, religion, and the exercise of conscience, and also enforces the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy, Security and Breach Notification Rules.

Please do not fax, email, or mail a copy of this complaint to us as that may delay the processing of your complaint.

If you have any additional questions or need a reasonable accommodation, please contact OCR’s Customer Response Center at 1-800-368-1019, Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 6:00 pm, ET.
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