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It is annoying that Amazon Instant Video doesn't directly have an option to cast to a Chromecast. You can, however, configure[0] Amazon Instant Video to use Flash instead of Silverlight. Once you switch to using Flash, you can use the "Cast Tab" feature of the Google Cast extension to watch your video on a Chromecast, assuming you're using Chrome.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/settings (near the bottom of the page)

I didn't know that the chrome://settings/passwords page existed until I read your comment. I actually just checked it out, and when I clicked the "Show" button on the password box, Chrome made me re-authenticate with my Windows password before it would show the password.

I don't know if this is a new feature, only available on Windows, etc., but it seems like this may be less of a concern now.

I did find it weird that I had to re-authenticate with my Windows password and not the password that Chrome is syncing passwords with, but it's better than nothing.

I bought a YubiKey[0] a while back and was able to get it to do exactly what you're talking about--even on Windows, which I use most often. It wasn't necessarily easy to set up, but it has been working pretty consistently. It would have probably been easier if I had known more than just the basics of GPG.

I have since switched to using my YubiKey and GPG for SSH authentication on pretty much everything, as well as using it to sign my tags in my public git repositories. I don't think I would want to go back to moving keys between devices or setting up unique keys on each device now that I've got my YubiKey set up. Worth the investment, in my opinion.

[0] https://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-hardware/

True, but I don't think anyone really buys an MSDN subscription just for installing a copy of Windows. I haven't looked into the actual licensing terms, but my MSDN subscription (not the cheapest version) only allows me to claim five license keys per Windows version through the UI. If you need six licenses just to make up the cost of the cheapest MSDN subscription, you're probably using your MSDN subscription incorrectly.

Generally if you have an MSDN subscription, you're using it for other products like Visual Studio, and the free copies of Windows are just for helping you get a development environment set up.

I have a VMware ESXi box at home that I use to run a Windows VM with a video card passed through. I've been using it to stream Heroes of the Storm with Steam's In-Home Streaming and I get a consistent 30 FPS (1920x1080) with no noticeable lag.

Admittedly, it's not exactly the same as the setup in this article since it's not streaming over the internet, but I would assume that as long as your latency is low and bandwidth is high, you'll have no problem with this setup.

I can understand that. For me, though, I use middle click to close tabs significantly more often than I move the browser window to another monitor. So I'd rather live with having to click an empty space farther to the right of the tabs when I actually do move the window.

I could learn to use CTRL+F4 to close tabs, but I find that slower than just middle clicking the tabs.

The very first thing I noticed as soon as I opened the browser is that the tabs don't touch the top of the screen when the browser is maximized [1]. This makes closing tabs much more difficult since you can't just move your mouse all the way to the top of the screen and middle click--you have to consciously stop moving the mouse before it leaves the tab.

I can understand why they don't touch the top of the screen: the tab stacking shows up above the tab. My suggestion would be to expand the tab to the top of the window, and then just make the tab stacking show up inside at the top of the tab. If not that, at least make the tab's bounding box touch the edge of the screen and leave the tab stacking on top of it.

I found a few more issues while typing this up: 1. The browser seemed to think my CTRL key was stuck or something. Typing in my password on imgur made it switch tabs and zoom out multiple times when I went to type some of the numbers in my password. 2. Copying the image URL from the address bar after I uploaded it didn't copy the protocol. The protocol was hidden since it's http, but that adds an extra step of typing "http://" when I wanted to paste it here.

The browser looks like it has promise. I like the look-and-feel. I like that the address bar is the progress bar when the page is loading. Being able to add notes and screenshots also seems like it would be incredibly useful.

Overall, I'd give the browser another shot once you've made some more progress.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/xMOacR5.png

Using a VPN would encrypt your traffic, preventing Verizon from injecting a UIDH header. You could then clear your cookies and websites would not be able to re-add them via the UIDH header since it isn't being sent.

This isn't to say that the websites can't identify you via some other means, just that they no longer have the guaranteed UIDH header to identify you.

I think the real point to take out of this is how important it is to have secure backups of your encryption key. Making sure that the encrypted data is backed up is common sense. Backing up the encryption key is just as important.

If I were to lose my encryption key, I would absolutely expect to lose my data. That's how encryption works. That's how encryption should work. If I can get my data back without the encryption key, someone else can too.