The big players are just awful at marketing; too many SKUs and models - it takes a paragraph to figure out how 2 Dell laptops from the same release year differ.

Just hired a new colleague who prefers Windows. Dell seemed like a reasonable option for a good laptop. Here is Dell's current lineup:

- Dell Laptop (with 14, 15, 16 inch variants)

- Dell Plus (with 14, 15, and 16 inch variants)

- Dell XPS (with 13, 14, and 16 inch variants)

- Dell Premium (with 14 and 16 inch variants)

- Dell Pro Essential (with 14 and 15 inch variants)

- Dell Pro (with 14 and 16 inch variants)

- Dell Pro Plus (with 14 and 16 inch variants)

- Dell Pro Premium (with 14 and 16 inch variants)

- Dell Pro Max (with 14 and 16 inch variants)

- Dell Pro Max Plus (with 14, 16, and 18 inch variants)

- Dell Pro Max Premium (with 14 and 16 inch variants)

It's maddening trying to sift through the differences at this level. Then when you select a model, there can upwards of 8 different pre-built options to review.

I'm supposed to be finishing up a changelog entry for a software release, but this is fascinating. Watching someone execute their craft at this level is mesmerizing.

You did warn us though.

This sounds like a classic account recovery scam where the scammer uses Google's account recovery feature to gain access to the account. Once they have the 2FA code, they're in. This time the scammer used an account takeover as the pretense for needing the code.

As for the email, this blog post ( https://sammitrovic.com/infosec/gmail-account-takeover-super... ) from about a year ago notes that somehow scammers were/are using Salesforce to spoof emails from Google that appear legitimate. Seems like something similar happened here, but there's no way to be sure without the headers which the scammer seemingly cleaned up.

The FTC reported that scam losses totaled 12.5 billion last year. These scams are elaborate and convincing even for folks who make a living in tech. ( https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/03/... )

At any rate, sorry this happened OP. Stay safe, folks.

For anyone with an ad-free Kindle, and running the most recent firmware, and you're looking for the Display Cover option using Amazon's documentation, and you're not finding it...like me.

It looks like earlier this year they moved the option out of Settings > Device Options and it's now located in Settings > Screen & Brightness. Which ironically doesn't seem to be documented anywhere that I can find.

Same here. Created a Gfaqs account on August 30th, 2001 and have kept it active ever since.