Step 2: Log in to you NYTimes account and navigate to the page that allows you to cancel you subscription
When accessing the page from California, you should now see a button to cancel online:
Cancel you New York Times subscription online without talking to a customer care advocate
If this button doesn’t appear, use a private window (incognito mode) and log in again (or switch to a different browser that you haven’t used with nytimes.com).
Step 3: Cancel online with just a few clicks
You may be shown special offers and messages to get you to stay, but all it takes to cancel are a few clicks:
That’s it. Why can’t it be that easy for everyone? I would be far more inclined to sign up for subscriptions if I knew that I could easily cancel them online.
The problem: You cannot access the SAMBA (SMB) shares on your QNAP NAS from the Windows File Explorer and after you tried, access to the web interface also stopped working. The NAS is still accessible from other PCs on the same network.
The reason: Windows will first try to connect to your NAS using your Windows login credentials. If this fails too many times and Network Access Protection on your NAS is enabled, your PC’s IP address will be banned:
You can see the failed login attempts in the System Connection Logs (if enabled for SAMBA):
Solutions
There are many threads about this issue on the QNAP forum proposing various solutions, such as:
Creating a user account on the NAS with the same user name and password as on Windows.
Disabling Network Access Protection on the NAS.
Making all folders public.
Disabling all guest shares on the NAS to force Windows to show the network credentials dialog.
I tried a different solution which I found here. I left everything on the NAS unchanged. In the registry of my Windows PC, I enabled insecure guest logons for the SMB client. This allows the PC to connect to SAMBA shares which are not protected by a password (such as the Public folder on a QNAP NAS).
This registry setting can be found under Local Computer Policy -> Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates ->Network -> Lanman Workstation -> Enable insecure guest logons:
Note: The description says that “if you do not configure this policy setting, the SMB client will allow insecure guest logons.” This was not true for me on Windows 11 21H2, the setting had to be explicitly enabled. On other PCs running Windows 10, the described behavior was correct and the entire problem never appeared.
Now (and after the IP ban period has expired, of course) it was possible to access the NAS through the file explorer. Clicking on a protected folder brought up the Enter network credentials dialog:
Why did this work? Apparently, Windows only tried to use the current user credentials once when connecting to the NAS and then used guest access. As this resulted only in a single failed access attempt, the PC’s IP address was not banned.
Buying Acer’s Predator Orion gaming PC is one way to get an RTX 3070 graphics card without paying absurd prices. However, it comes with a standard CPU cooler that is loud and not very effective.
I replaced it with a Xilence XC026| I4026 (Amazon.com / Amazon.de affiliate links), which led to a significant CPU temperature drop under load. While this doesn’t turn the PC into a quiet machine, the cooler can be installed without replacing the backplate.
All you have to do is modify the cooler itself by moving the two brackets that hold the large screws as shown below.
Original configuration
Bracket at the bottom of the cooler
After modification
Bracket after being moved (ignore the incorrect orientation of the bracket the back, I wasn’t paying attention and also might be stupid)
On one side you can remove the fan to fasten the small bracket screws. On the other side there is very little room (this is the only challenge with this procedure):
Still easier than removing the motherboard to replace the backplate
Follow the instructions that came with the cooler for the rest of the (simple) installation process.
CPU temperature at full load
Temperature after 30 minutes of Folding@home, ambient temperature 24°C:
I found the recommendation for this cooler on the German Acer forum.
With yahoo!mail you can configure up to 500 disposable email addresses, which you can easily delete at any time. The name always consists of a base name and a custom part.
If you have deleted a disposable address and also forgotten its name, but now need it again to receive messages, there is a problem: without knowing the custom part of the address, you cannot easily recreate it. Unfortunately, yahoo!mail does not show which addresses you have used and deleted in the past.
However, this does not mean that Yahoo does not keep track of all email addresses that are somehow related to your account. If you have ever received a message on your disposable address, it may very well be possible to recover the name of the address using the method described below.
Go to https://mail.yahoo.com/getmydata
Under ” Contact data extracted from message”, click on Download:
You will be asked to enter an email address to be notified when the download is ready. This will take several hours.
Once you get the notification that your download is ready, click on Download file.
Unzip the downloaded file and open ContactsData.json with Notepad (or any other suitable software, e.g. Notepad++).
Search the file for the known part of your throwaway addresses (the base name). This should give you the names of all your disposable addresses that have ever received a message. Note: See update below.
Finally, recreate a disposable address with the same name.
Update August 2021: This method may not work anymore. During my last test, it only returned a small number of aliases, all of which could also be found in (received) emails.
