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Re: when you CARE enough to send the very best?!....some drugs prices on Medicare dropping...... - Yesterday

Since the first of the year, a few of my meds have been $15 for a 90 day supply, that our cheapo Part D Plan wasn't competitive on..... we had been using Single Care/GoodRx for those, but our pharmacist said, "it's now better with Medicare..." Not sure how, or why the $15 pricing pops up like that, as Medicare's site shows different (more expensive) pricing for the meds thru our WellCar

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Re: why .... - Yesterday

Quotemrbigstuff Buzz, good story (not unusual). And, the gearhead in me wants to know... you know, what happened to said vehicle? Unc and cuz, and and even older bro cuz had too many nice/muscle cars to remember at this point, but that Mach I was definitely one of my faves (and I sure they'd kept that one, especially so). Pretty (99.44%) sure Unc's next ride was the Boss 302, circa 1972, that a

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Re: USBC to USBA hub help - 2 days ago

Anker 7/10 WonderHub..... Pricey now, but I got killer Lightning Deal for $43 awhile back. These days, I'd go w/ the Rosonway 10 port for ~$40.... Or their 13 port w/ double the PSU power for ~$55. I have the Anker on one of the cMP towers here, and the Rosonway 13 port on the other. Both have been excellent. And as Doc says, get the 4 port iMac. Do not, under any circumstances, ever

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Re: Do you have a home defibrillator? - 3 days ago

Does a stun gun-flashlight count? If not, then no. This thing'll either wake you up, or knock you out. Ours is many years old now, has a different clip, and a lanyard. ==

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Re: small Richard?!....DICK Van Dyke crashes car....... - 3 days ago

97 is kinda pushing the envelope a bit….. ==

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Re: Office for $42 + tax - 3 days ago

I don't think it's still technically supported, but it should work a couple more OS's back since it was intro'ed during the Big Sur era, and M$'s gig is to go back ~3 OS's. Personally only tried on M1 iMac & Air that both originally shipped w/ Big Sur. 2¢ guess. ==

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Re: Office for $42 + tax - 5 days ago

If ya wanna go real cheap. Here ya go for 1/3 the price..... Stacksocial variants (like the one you linked) seem to run $25 - $50 all the time, w/ $40 being the most common price. There are links that let you avoid the $1.99 "Handling Fee", that for a downloaded key, I'm wondering what it's needed for, other than an add'l cash grab. I can vouch for the Stacksocial variants, as I bit

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Re: Cougars and Hot Tubs - 5 days ago

QuoteN-OS X-tasy! Quotedavester I was expecting this... Me too. Excepting she's too young to be a cougar for many of us here, nowadays. ==

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Re: Decipher Panic Report.... A1286 MBP Funkiness.... - 5 days ago

Not usually, but have been swapping/copying data to USB/FW800 drives for the short term. I've copied/cloned drives (up to ~450GB data) without issue; it seems to not like semi-heavy use, especially Chrome. It behaved much worse when overfull 500GB HDD was in it than after 1TB SSD was transplanted in its place. OTOH, I do have a powered 4 port USB hub hooked up that has mouse, webcam, printer,

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Re: Photo site DPreview.com to shut down April 10 - 5 days ago

How do you say, "that really sucks!" in Bezospeak? ==

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Re: Fu_man(chu)?!….’FuboTV’ rebrands as…. - 5 days ago

Ryan is trying hard to Keep Up With The Kardashian's.... ==

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Re: why .... - 5 days ago

My uncle had a brand new 1969 Mustang Mach I w/ Super Cobra Jet 428. When my cousin (his youngest son) was back in town from Michigan, and I was up from UCLA, Unc, had finally broken his muscle car in, and it was ready for some more serious driving.... So he gets home from his SF office, and after parking in the garage, he walks into the den (where cuz and I were sitting watching TV), w/ the bigg

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Re: Welcome back... - 5 days ago

I was on the grassy knoll, but I swear I didn't have a gun with me. ==

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Re: Keytronic Mac Pro Plus extended keyboard, a Griffin IMate ADB-USB adapter, fairly current and current Macs and Mac OS X Monterey - 5 days ago

If it costs less than say $1,200.00, try it. If it's more than that, better to put the $$$ towards H&B. Old school, well made kb's are da bomb! ==

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Re: Decipher Panic Report.... A1286 MBP Funkiness.... - 5 days ago

As Doc notes, Chrome has seemed to be the most offensive culprit in the mix. KP's seem to be mostly related to having recently started up Chrome. I did re-up the El Cap install, which didn't have any apparent positive effect on the KP situation, so a grumpy GPU is rapidly heading to the top of "the list". I'll look into disabling the discrete GPU. Here's another KP log from several h

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Re: Decipher Panic Report.... A1286 MBP Funkiness.... - 7 days ago

More post-KP boot stuff....... 3/19/23 6:51:37.000 PM syslogd[45]: Configuration Notice: ASL Module "com.apple.xpc.activity" claims selected messages. Those messages may not appear in standard system log files or in the ASL database. 3/19/23 6:51:37.000 PM kernel[0]: Longterm timer threshold: 1000 ms 3/19/23 6:51:37.000 PM kernel[0]: PMAP: PCID enabled 3/19/23 6:51:37.000 PM ker

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Re: Decipher Panic Report.... A1286 MBP Funkiness.... - 7 days ago

Thanks Doc-- That was all the report showed immediately upon rebooting...... Here's where failures (?) seemed to start right before crash..... 3/19/23 6:44:59.653 PM bird[257]: migration failed, we'll retry next time the network changes: <NSError:0x7fe3404c24f0(AOSErrorDomain:5002) - { DialogInfo = { DialogType = Unknown; }; HttpStatusCode = 401; }> 3/19/

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Decipher Panic Report.... A1286 MBP Funkiness.... - 7 days ago

After a couple of days of relatively pleasant behavior, 15" 8GB/1TB SSD, 2010 MBP, A1286, has been cranky today. Here's latest Panic Report, that needs some MRF Expert Interpretation..... Sun Mar 19 18:51:38 2023 *** Panic Report *** panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff7f95d7fbc9): "GPU Panic: [<None>] 2 3 7f 0 0 0 0 3 : NVRM[0/1:0:0]: Read Error 0x00000100: CFG 0xffffffff 0xffff

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Re: SD Cards aren't reliable? - 7 days ago

Well, I bought a couple of (then sinfully expensive) SanDisk Extreme Pro 16GB SD cards about 13 years ago; and while still on their initial usages, both failed. Thankfully I had saved the contents of one of the SD cards, so no memories lost there, but the other SD card has our only pics of Baby Buzz struttin' his stuff for his HS prom. Been trying periodically ever since to get those photos to re

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Re: March Madness - 8 days ago

UCLA had a horrible shoot-around before the second started, so I had to bite my lip, and pray after that scare. So glad The Pride of Westwood hung on. That was a serious defensive battle. ==

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Re: Too many choices! Height Adjustable Laptop Stand Needed..... - 8 days ago

".....so I bought something very low to the ground, basically a tilter....." No joy for low-to-ground at present..... gotta get something that can elevate this time around..... that also has w/ swivel hips..... and again, since we're goin' mobile around the home locale, it's gotta be sturdy. Definitely fishin' in an unfamiliar pond, w/ too many fishies. ==

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Re: March Madness - 8 days ago

Too close for comfort w/ my UCLA Bruins..... _way_too_close_ ==

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Re: Too many choices! Height Adjustable Laptop Stand Needed..... - 8 days ago

Quotemattkime Is the stand going to stay in one place or will it travel? Note that if it travels, you'll want to bring a keyboard. Wired Logitech G mouse, and bluetooth keyboard will travel w/ it to at least three different heights of tables. "You are correct, there are too many options. Lol" Amen. Since ours is gonna be movin' and shakin', we're going heavier than what you an

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Too many choices! Height Adjustable Laptop Stand Needed..... - 8 days ago

Got a MBP that's going mobile around here....., table hopping around the home here, anyway. Tables of various heights, and distances from where user's butt/body is gonna be parked. Surf-shopping is mind-boggling for such an inanimate object. There are tons of choices, and price points, for so many similar devices w/ solid 4+ star ratings. Looking for height adjustable unit w/ rotation. Intuiti

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Re: help! emergency mac repair! - 8 days ago

Do you have Finder/View prefs set to show connected devices? If/once you can see TDM computer on yours, you should (hopefully) be able to clone a working drive onto it, w/ CCC. Not sure what the latest/best MacOS is for CCC is to clone onto TDM machine, but once you get it working that way, you should be able to upgrade as needed from there. Good luck...., until a better idea is posted. ==

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Re: Periodic spontaneous panic/restart on A1286 MBP? - 8 days ago

RAM passes tests, but I do have a NIB, er, NIPC (New In Plastic Clamshell), pair of same spec sticks that never made it into their intended home of a similar vintage Mini, that could be swapped in. OTOH, (knock wood), it's been behaving nicely since its last temper tantrum, so hopefully it was all just adjusting to a fresh environment (fingers crossed).... ==

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Re: Periodic spontaneous panic/restart on A1286 MBP? - 9 days ago

Console Log only goes back to last night, after latest crash. What should I be looking for? Thanks. Still contemplating El Cap refresh via Recovery Partition, but waiting to see how long MBP stays up this time...... ==

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Re: Periodic spontaneous panic/restart on A1286 MBP? - 9 days ago

SSD was cloned from another old MBP that wasn't problematic. Way more problems before upgrades, so too hard to discern if old and current issues have any similar origins. I guess I could run a redo of El Cap from the Recovery Partition to see if that does anything/helps? ==

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Periodic spontaneous panic/restart on A1286 MBP? - 10 days ago

2010 MBP 15", running El Cap, 8GB/1TB SSD, can't seem to stay running more than a couple of days w/o having a panic attack, requiring a restart. 1TB SSD just replaced 500GB HDD, and while I was in there, did some spring cleaning, swapped in a new battery, and re-seated the RAM for good measure. When not panicking, it's running a lot better, faster, smoother than before the makeover. In its p

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Re: If you were applying for a job with Apple, would you..... - 10 days ago

"Please hire me. Pretty please. Pretty please with sugar on top...." For your kid? Niece, nephew? ==

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