Tom Allred

Nurse, Diver, Motorcycle Rider, Aerial Videographer

[Tom Allred @TomPAllred]

Here is a Google Sheet I use to keep track of my open AI sessions while I work. I sometimes work with 6+ windows on both my PC and laptop. I have 3 monitors on the PC. I'm using one of them to display this GSheet. Auto-resort on change in datetime. Stupidly simple.

[Tom Allred @TomPAllred]

Some of my most productive, and boring, days are spent using this setup. All except the local AI server, which I don't have. This is a slide I made for the monthly free AI education I do at the public library. I just sit there and act as both a creator and human approval gate.

[Tom Allred @TomPAllred]

Some of my most productive, and boring, days are spent using this setup. All except the local AI server, which I don't have. This is a slide I made for the monthly free AI education I do at the public library. I just sit there and act as both a creator and human approval gate.

[Tom Allred @TomPAllred]

Has Hermes Agent been hiding its information from you?

[Tom Allred @TomPAllred]

@DashlaneStatus My Chrome extension isn't working (blank popup window when clicking) and when I try to log in to the website, I just get the cascading D character. Been a user for years and never have seen this before.

[Tom Allred @TomPAllred]

On Jan 6, 2021, repubs tried to halt Congress from doing its business by attacking from the outside. That was ineffective but they've learned they can accomplish the same goal with a single man on the inside in the right position. Deplorable. Remember in November 2024.

[Tom Allred @TomPAllred]

@NortonSupport @FTC Must be trash day. Found some on my desktop this morning from the company whose #1 product is marketing trash no one wants. Deplorable.

[Tom Allred @TomPAllred]

@NortonSupport Yet another damn ad on my desktop from the most intrusive marketers on the internet! ESAD!

[Tom Allred @TomPAllred]

@NortonSupport @FTC @NCAGO These malicious marketers just won't stop treating my PC desktops as their billboards, despite me turning off their marketing switch and my many complaints. It's odd that I didn't get one of these ads when they got breached earlier this year. STOP!

[Tom Allred @TomPAllred]

@NortonSupport FTC notified. The NC AG Consumer Division is my next stop. I hope sending me that ad was appropriately important to you, especially since there is such a long trail of messages telling you to stop. Does the FTC give complainants part of the fine? I hope so.

[Tom Allred @TomPAllred]

@FTC Can you help me stop @NortonSupport from using the desktops on my computers as their personal marketing billboards? I've been trying for a very long time but they won't stop and they're the only vendor who does this. Please help.

[Tom Allred @TomPAllred]

@NortonSupport I told you pinheads before that you don't own my PC's desktop and you are not to use it for marketing but apparently Norton doesn't hire for brains. I told you I'd file a complaint with the FTC if you kept marketing to me. Here you go.

[Tom Allred @TomPAllred]

@FTCCommisionar Norton Software won't stop marketing to me despite my repeated demands and following their instructions to turn of their "Market to me" option. They are my only software vendor that treats my PC desktop as their personal advertising space. Help me.

[Tom Allred @TomPAllred]

@NortonSupport Once again, Norton proves it is basically a marketing company that also provides software. And here you are, selling to me despite my tweets, despite turning off the marketing switch. Forcing your ads on me. I'm off to the FTC to file the complaint. ESAD

[Tom Allred @TomPAllred]

@NortonSupport You can't stop yourselves from marketing can you? Well, you can't say I didn't warn you. Copies of these ads and my admin screen go to the FTC tomorrow with my complaint for your unauthorized use of my PC as your marketing device.

[Tom Allred @TomPAllred]

@NortonSupport Here's an idea. Stop mercilessly marketing to people on THEIR computers who've told you to stop multiple times. There's no need or usefulness of a direct message unless somehow me saying the same thing in a DM will produce a different Norton response. Stop it!

[Tom Allred @TomPAllred]

@NortonSupport Thank god! It's been a couple of days since you used my computer as your marketing device and I was worried that you might stop. No fear, though, you're back selling FUD to your customers. Does the FTC know you bombard your customers w/o permission? 🤬

[Tom Allred @TomPAllred]

@NortonSupport Tell you what, since you guys can't seem to understand that the problem is your overly aggressive marketing that treats my PC as your own personal marketing terminal, the next time I get one of your ads then I'll tweet the FTC instead of you and see if they can figure it out.

[Tom Allred @TomPAllred]

@NortonSupport Leery of your answersince I tell you every time the marketing switch is, and has been, off. Yet you keep telling me to turn it off. That's one of the reasons I'm so pissed about you continuing to market to me. Tell me how turning off these tasks stops you from marketing to me.

[Tom Allred @TomPAllred]

@NortonSupport The only reason you want to DM is so you can get it out of the public eye. Is not a problem I'm having - it's a problem you're creating by intrusive marketing that assumes you've got the right to treat my computers as your marketing devices. They are not.

[Tom Allred @TomPAllred]

@NortonSupport Did you even read my message? Your reply has exactly zero to do with your over-zealous marketing. Like I said, if you guys would put 10% of the effort into tech support that you do into intrusive marketing then you'd be the best in the business. But no. 😡