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Re: Apple Watch throws some shade on my exercise - Yesterday

My Apple Watch does not count my “outside walk” as exercise (it used to but not any longer). The 20-minute mile being a brisk walk would equate to a run for me, as I average 22-23 minutes a mile. At that rate I’m huffing and puffing and can’t speak if I try to go faster and feel like my chest is going to explode. For reference, I’m 5’3” and heavier than I should be, and suffer from

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Re: Our February snow - 5 days ago

Quotedeckeda Thanks DP. We're in upper-middle TN, near KY. I thought that barn style looked familiar ....

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Re: What's going on with the power failures in Texas? - 10 days ago

The power consortium that most of (at least) Texas and Oklahoma uses is under strain due to extra demand for electricity AND the record cold freezing up the natural gas pipelines. Much of the electric generation is now done using natural gas, not coal; solar arrays only work when they are exposed to the sun and not covered by snow; wind turbines don’t work well in periods of light winds or in i

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Re: What is the most dangerous thing you have ever done? - 12 days ago

Don’t know if it’s the most dangerous, but certainly not the smartest. Driving too fast down a (thankfully) paved 2-lane county road with bar ditches on each side and suddenly recalling that the right-hand turn right in front of me was a 90 degree, 20 mph turn and not a curve. I hit the brakes and found they didn’t grab. The car slewed around, and at that moment I realized that trying

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Re: “ A zero-emissions US is now pretty cheap “ - 26 days ago

Quotesekker QuoteSarcany Quotemattkime Feels like we're at a tipping point. Feels like the oil industry is going to push some more legislation and press some agencies to slow this down. Yes, and the consequences to those areas where the jobs may disappear in the next 5-10 years are real. Watching the boom-bust cycle in the upper midwest is just terrible, and this is going to happen to OK a

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Re: Do you think the emperor's children will be relevant in future politics? - 4 weeks ago

QuoteSarcany QuoteSteve G. As for Don 2 and Ivanka, please name one thing that either has done to indicate any level of intelligence. Let's be clear: I'm not suggesting that either of them has any greater intelligence than average. But it does take some intelligence to commit real estate fraud at the level she (allegedly) did throughout Europe and (allegedly) selling access to 45 for things lik

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Re: Good news on conviction - 4 weeks ago

Quotevision63 me QuotergG Quotevision63 bad boy bad boy, what'cha gonna do. what'cha gonna do when they come for you? This is my cat centric version that I sing to my kitty: Bad kitty, bad kitty, bad kitty poo.. what’cha gonna do with a bad kitty poo? That is so freaking hilarious. Bad kitty! “Meow! I’m going to bat it around the house. It will wind up where you step when you get

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Re: Can't post a reply to a thread - getting Phorum Database Error - 5 weeks ago

I have also seen times that it looks like I’m logged in (i.e., my name shows up in the list of people logged in) but I get the dreaded database error. Logging out and then logging back in fixes whatever the forum doesn’t like. Diana

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Re: Say what you will about insurance companies... - 5 weeks ago

Quoterz We all see it... we all see it... The one that hits home for me is the one with the woman using her speakerphone in public. My mother-in-law does that and it drives me crazy. And being older, she has the volume pretty much at max. Try grocery shopping for an 82-year old who can’t remember what the products are, only what they look like—for instance, butter in the yellow box, or

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Re: iPad gen 6 weirdness... siri activated by screen touch at top left, shutdown at bottom right - 5 weeks ago

Quotesrf1957 hot corners More specifically; Settings —> Accessibility—>Touch—>Assistive Touch—>Hot Corners

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Re: Newest addition to house: wall-mounted, voice-enabled, quartz space heater - 5 weeks ago

Quotedeckeda Lots of old homes here on the TN/KY border have small little cast iron doors at the foundation level for when the coal delivery came. I never saw such things in even-colder St. Louis growing up. Maybe it's just an artifact here of being that much closer to here to Kentucky coal? Heating the house with coal was a common practice. My grandmother lived in central Kentucky, mo

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Re: "Elon Musk, let's figure this out. You owe me a couple cats." - 5 weeks ago

Quotebfd QuoteRAMd®d Unless your cat is a country cat, kept it in the damn house. It should be a crime of negligence, prosecutable, but it's not. It is dereliction of a caretaker, though. It truly saddens me to see a cat or dog running around untended, and worse, see it not running or moving at all. </rant> Agree 999% Humans have a responsibility to the animals they choose to

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Re: Airpad Pro and Noise Reduction, not a fan - 5 weeks ago

Quotebfd If you bought them at an Apple Store, they they'd have run the ear tip fit test while you were in the store. But you can still do this yourself if you have the other tips with you. Made a whole lotta difference here to have the correctly sized tip … It greatly helped the noise reduction effect; if I remember right, it was done through the Settings app on my phone. I also found th

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Re: Unlocking PDFs - 5 weeks ago

I believe the battery is fine; this, I believe, is the model that the airlines famously declined to have aboard their aircraft because the battery supposedly would spontaneously burst into flames or some such. It will run for several hours disconnected from power, depending how hard I run it. And yes, the Envoy is a bit awkward sticking out as it does but I see very little difference between the

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Re: Unlocking PDFs - 5 weeks ago

I did get the advice Sarcany gave me implemented. I continued to work. And the screen went dark, and it crashed. Rebooted. 2015 15" MBP, obtained about a year ago from our sponsors. The battery was replaced prior to being shipped. To complicate things, I'm running off a USB flash drive (OWC Envoy Pro Mini) that is wicked fast. I had installed Mojave on the Envoy Pro to check is the

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Re: Unlocking PDFs - 5 weeks ago

I typed those commands in the order you gave, and I got this (*** = me): drhMBP15:~ ***$ sudo chmod -R 775 /Users/***/Documents/Bookends Password: chmod: Unable to change file mode on /Users/***/Documents/Bookends/Attachments/Boucher & Kyriakidis 2006.pdf: Operation not permitted drhMBP15:~ ***$ drhMBP15:~ ***$ sudo chflags -R nouchg /Users/***/Documents/Bookends drhMBP15:~ ***$

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Re: Biden will elevate White House science office to Cabinet-level - 5 weeks ago

Quotevision63 I forgot how that works. I thought you had to know a guy that knows a guy. You become the guy that everyone wants to know. Major papers, seminal breakthroughs, hard work, serendipity—as well as publish in the journals that are highly regarded—bring in the money ... a never ending hamster wheel. A slight bit of sarcasm there, but only a bit. The train becomes too big so you bri

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Re: Biden will elevate White House science office to Cabinet-level - 5 weeks ago

When you accumulate enough notable honors, you tend to be put in charge ‘cause ya know stuffs. People are genuinely shocked when they see such a person working in the lab, doing lab stuff. And they are additionally shocked to hear that such a person may find working in the lab fun. It’s about damn time science policy is guided by scientists, AND that someone is there that is smart enough

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Re: Unlocking PDFs - 5 weeks ago

QuoteSarcany ... Preview is actually toggling the same "Locked" bit. It's just using a different interface for the job. Makes sense. QuoteSarcanyIf you toggle the lock-bit in Preview, and then Get Info on the file, you will see that there's a check-mark over the "Locked" box in the "General" panel of the Info window. In fact, if you leave the "Info

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Re: Why do SOME of YouTube's videos have out of sync audio? - 5 weeks ago

Uber rich. The speed of sound is so much slower than the speed of light, and the sound is ahead of the picture by about 1/5 seconds so now you’ve reached an incomprehensible level of uber-ness in the space-time continuum. space-time

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Re: Unlocking PDFs - 5 weeks ago

Ok. I held off a bit last night because I thought I had described the problem rather thoroughly. Once more: The files are NOT password protected. The files are NOT LOCKED in Finder. Well then, you say, what do you mean? Try this experiment: take a PDF and open it in Preview. At the top of the document you will see the file name. Click on it. Ooh... you can rename the file, give it a tag .

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Re: Why do they forecast Armageddon under Biden? - 6 weeks ago

Quotebtfc Divide and conquer is an age old political tool. “We” are the righteous, “they” are the problem and the enemy. Manipulators are skilled at finding and exploiting existing fault lines that can divide us. Said manipulators are also skilled at finding peoples fear(s) and manipulating them to drive an agenda. The manipulators don’t have to believe any of it, they just have to ph

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Re: Unlocking PDFs - 6 weeks ago

A few comments, and then a question. 1. Comments: These are not password protected files, per se. Take a PDF and open in Preview. When you click on the top where the filename is presented, it allows you to rename the file, tag it, etc., but also has a box to "Lock" it. Here is where it's locked/unlocked. This action does not affect copying or printing, renaming, moving, deleting,

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Unlocking PDFs - 6 weeks ago

A little background: Originally I had some thousands of articles etc. from my graduate studies, projects, and so on that I thought to "digitize" and reduce the amount of paper I have in the house. Brilliant solution! A reference manager that allowed attachments, so things could be searched and easily found! Being the honest and conscientious person I like to think of myself, I thought t

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Re: Same day root canal and crown - 6 weeks ago

My old dentist had such a setup. He also didn’t believe in pain for the patient, and I had several root canals with subsequent caps. Usually he would put a temporary in place, allowing any swelling to recede and putting the permanent crown on about a week later. Unfortunately he retired; I found I didn’t care for the new practice and found a replacement dentist, a more no-nonsense kind. If he

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Re: New Vaccine Horror - 6 weeks ago

QuoteDon C Does hanging after a firmware update mean it didn't work? Only if it doesn’t wake up

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Re: Jake Angeli hasn't eaten since being taken into custody - 6 weeks ago

QuoteBill in NC Nutraloaf & water are organic, aren't they? Technically speaking, water is NOT organic, as it doesn’t contain primarily carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and other elements. Nutraloaf, yes. Caution: you may want to skip the rant, shown below. **climbing on the soap box** Me: Organic? Him: Grown without pesticides. Me: So you want your apples with worms in th

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Re: After sixteen years... Am I done? - 7 weeks ago

Someday it will be gone. There was an old oak just north of my house that I kept telling myself to photograph it in its various seasons and phases. It had long limbs drooping almost to the ground—a beautiful magnificent specimen. I thought it was far enough back from the road as to survive a bit longer, so I neglected the project. It is now gone, pulled down when the new doctors office/outpatie

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Re: Show me your sleep data - 8 weeks ago

QuoteSarcany QuoteC(-)ris Quotejdc QuoteC(-)ris When do you charge your Apple watch if you wear it at night? That is my biggest hangup. I have the series one and it needs to be charged every night to make it through the day. maybe time for a new watch? SE has an 18 hour potential. make sure background refresh is off, and/or cellular data, or even wifi at night. wake screen on wrist raid

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Re: Lin Wood wants a boycott of the GA election and Loeffler & Perdue arrested - 2 months ago

Wow. So the algorithm will give a bit more than 10% fake votes, a bit more than 10% stolen votes, so about 20% of the votes should be thrown out, according to these ... people ... (I’m trying to be polite here). Any algorithm that has a greater than 20% error rate would not have been released for use. At least, most people would be ashamed of being associated with it, and would open themselves

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