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Re: What do you think long-term effects of so many people glued to their screens will be? - 4 days ago

In my son's case, one effect is that he's missing out on a lot of stuff. He's 12 and can't ride a bike. He has no interest in learning how, either. He rarely plays outside, even though we encourage him to. He's glued to his iPhone all the time. The pandemic has only made it worse.

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Re: Use Time Machine to Transfer One Drive to Another? - 5 days ago

QuoteAugust West I've used Super Duper and Carbon Copy Cloner in the past for such tasks. this

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Re: Want to use 2010 MBA for web surfer - 5 days ago

El Cap will support Safari v11. I updated to it recently, before I went ahead and updated my machine to Sierra.

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Re: Jewelry safe - 5 days ago

We have two safes. One is about 3' wide x 5' high by 30" deep. We had to take the framing off the closet door it's in for it to fit. Unless thieves had a pallet jack, they ain't stealing it. The other safe is even bigger. Took two guys from the local lock/safe company about a half hour to move it from our garage to my office, which is about 20 feet away. It's friggin' huge. It's a dat

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Re: 1949 DeSoto Deluxe Woodie - 5 days ago

Just waiting for Newt to post...

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Re: New England- ish vacation spots - 6 days ago

QuoteRecipeForDisaster I don’t see myself swimming in the ocean off NH or ME even in a wetsuit at that time of year, but I’d bring it and hope! I don't have any first hand knowledge, but I would think that early-middle September might actually be the time when water temperature is the warmest in those locations. I, personally, probably wouldn't because I'm spoiled by living in FL, and u

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Re: SSD macs don't boot much faster than older HD macs - 6 days ago

I have two almost identical Macbooks, vintage 2006, running Snow Leopard. One has an SSD, the other is a regular hard drive. The one with the SSD boots much faster than the other.

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Re: NFL Black Monday part deux - 7 days ago

QuotepRICE cUBE Dang! What Have you done for me lately? He led them to their first and only Super Bowl but I guess that only buys a few seasons. They've been to the Super Bowl three times, winning once.

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Re: What demographic does Lego target? - 7 days ago

They bought your name/address from some company that probably has a lot of crossover between them.

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Re: Be honest - MRFer bank accounts likely smaller, Apple's higher! - 7 days ago

I haven't bought a new Mac in 15 years (2006 Macbook). I've bought 5 or 6 used ones since then though. But I will likely buy a new mini when the next iteration of the M chip comes out.

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Re: Roadside assistance and COVID FYI - 7 days ago

That would have sucked for us a few years back when we had my wife's truck break down in the middle of nowhere in Virginia, in the snow, on a Sunday. We were able to get AAA to tow it about 70 miles to the town her sister lived in, to Sears of all places, that was open and able to fix it. My wife, my son and I were able to ride with the driver the whole way.

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Re: Use Old iMac as External Monitor? - 10 days ago

If you're handy with a soldering iron, and can figure out (after taking the iMac apart) which parts to connect to in order to hook some sort of video cable to it, then it might work. That's my not-so-subtle way of saying it's a whole lot more effort than just buying a new display. And given that it's over 10 years old, I'm sure even a cheap 27" monitor will probably be a lot brighter tha

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RIP - Tommy Lasorda - 10 days ago

I'm not much of a baseball fan, but the Dodgers were the team I rooted for. RIP Tommy.

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Re: Are formal obituaries not normal practice anymore? - 10 days ago

From what I understand, our local newspaper charges quite a bit for obituaries now (note: by "local", I mean it's the biggest newspaper in a fairly large city). Not sure if they were free or reasonably priced before, but if you want an actual obituary where it talks about your life and survivors, etc. it's going to cost a lot. They don't even publish a general list of people who have

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Re: New music sucks - 10 days ago

QuoteThrift Store Scott Quoterz My son (12) is forced to listen to what I want to in the car, which is mostly 80s alternative, and 90s "grunge" and rock. (First Wave, and Lithium for those familiar with Sirius XM). Tonight, there was a radio id spot on Lithium that kinda joked about how when we were kids we used to make fun of the music our parents listened to, and how our kids will ma

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Re: TV tuner vs. converter box - 11 days ago

Yeah, the description and review of the linked TV mention that it has a tuner. You just need an antenna.

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Re: New music sucks - 11 days ago

My son (12) is forced to listen to what I want to in the car, which is mostly 80s alternative, and 90s "grunge" and rock. (First Wave, and Lithium for those familiar with Sirius XM). Tonight, there was a radio id spot on Lithium that kinda joked about how when we were kids we used to make fun of the music our parents listened to, and how our kids will make fun of the music we like. My

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Re: Too Much Time.... - 11 days ago

QuoteYoyodyne ArtWorks Anything without Dennis DeYoung is a win in my book... Amen. He always came across to me as whiny. I know he started the band, but they wouldn't have been anywhere near as popular without Tommy Shaw. I think it's funny that he sued the rest of the band and lost.

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Re: Organizing sheet music, IOS - 12 days ago

OnSong

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Re: caricature?!....this 'controversial' cartoon for kids canceled.... - 12 days ago

My kid watched it and liked it. But I used to point out to my wife when he did crap like the stuff mentioned above. A couple of years after he stopped watching it, we were going through our DVR and realized we had the Caillou Christmas special still on it. We asked our son if he wanted us to keep it, and he said he didn't even remember the show.

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Re: Hand-washing instructions - In NOLA - 14 days ago

I spent a week in NOLA about a year before Katrina. The food they're so popular for just isn't my style. I tried several local dishes and just didn't care for it.

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Re: NFL Week 17 Talk (Spoilers) - 15 days ago

It was tough deciding on who to cheer for in the DAL/NYG game. Literally my two least favorite teams. But I actually hate the Cowboys more, so I was happy with the outcome.

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Re: Friday Funnies - 16 days ago

Quotesrf1957 Are the fail blogs supposed to do something . Because I don't get them . Maybe you need an educatoin.

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Re: Switching to new iPhone. Setup prep tips? - 18 days ago

Quotejdc You could completely remove iTunes from the whole process by turning on iCloud backup, and paying 99¢/mo for the 50 GB plan. No more plugging into your mac, just let the phone and iCloud do its thing. Silly simple, its the first thing I do with all of our phones. Until the day all of your data disappears with no explanation, and you're left with no backup. It has happened. Not to

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Re: How long to deliver parcel(s) after clearing U.S. Customs? - 18 days ago

I'm guessing it depends on "where" it's sitting in Customs. My wife ordered something from Australia, and it must have gotten all the way close to here because it was delivered last week the day after it cleared Customs.

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Re: That was fast, $600 deposited - 18 days ago

Not getting one again...

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Re: Any suggestions for a good anti-diverticulitis diet? - 18 days ago

I'll tell my story. Sorry if it's long and graphic. Never had any kind of issue until 4.5 years ago. Had stomach pains for a couple of days before ending up in the ER. They finally diagnosed diverticulitis. Gave me IV antibiotics, and I spent 4 days in the hospital. They said it could flare up on occasion, and if it got really bad, they'd operate. I was home less than 12 hours when I ha

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Re: HD Radio: Useful or just another 'flash in the pan' technology? - 20 days ago

Quotefreeradical It's a solution looking for a problem. Yup.

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Re: Easy way to create a Mac OS X Mojave virtual machine? - 20 days ago

Quoteliya1201 I’ve set up a Snow Leopard virtual machine in VirtualBox 6.1 for one essential 32-bit app in 2017 MBP 13-inch with 8 GB Ram and 500 GB SSD. It worked fine but not totally felt like working in its native environment. Link below provides a screenshot. I don't have that problem in Parallels. Once I installed the tools, it's the same 4K resolution as the native OS (Sierra in t

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Re: Easy way to create a Mac OS X Mojave virtual machine? - 20 days ago

QuoteJoeH Parallels, VMware, and possibly other virtualization software keep 10.6 and earlier desktop versions of OS X from installing and running. This is probably an abundance of caution on their parts to avoid any potential legal issues with Apple for "enabling license violations". OS X 10.7 and later should just install without issue. There are also hacks floating around to ins

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