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Re: Sound bar under tv? - 3 days ago

QuoteMichael Here's one that gets positive reviews but who knows regarding a particular tv mount... Just bought this for my new TV mount... Will report back.

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Re: I guess I have to stop complaining about having an old digital camera now? (100 year old camera...) - 3 days ago

Neat... Thanks for sharing.

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Re: Austin TX woman heads to 7/11 finds... - 7 days ago

QuoteSarcany Quotespacescape Just chatted (ichat) with my buddy. Didn't realize they are in TX on vacation... I don't get this. A LOT of people are taking vacations right now. Without having been vaccinated. Deliberately traveling to places with relaxed pandemic laws. With the intention of abandoning pandemic precautions. And then they're gonna come back and spread the disease across their e

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Re: Austin TX woman heads to 7/11 finds... - 7 days ago

Just chatted (ichat) with my buddy. Didn't realize they are in TX on vacation. It is bad... slept in the 28 degree car for 3 nights... Rationing whatever they could find to eat. Was able to get cold soup from a a church and find a loaf of bread and lunch meat from a convenient store. The hospitals full of deceased people (froze to death). All "green energy" failed (From what he is sayin

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Re: Amazon Echo - 3rd Generation just as good as 4th generation? Only for AUX output. - 8 days ago

Quotesteve... QuoteArtP That said, the increased size of the newer Dot does give you some improvement in the sound quality. There's less vibration through the body of the speaker and that means it performs better at higher volumes, better placed to fill the room with sound. It's not hugely different, but it is better. I have 3rd and 4th generation dots and use the newer one for listening to

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Amazon Echo - 3rd Generation just as good as 4th generation? Only for AUX output. - 8 days ago

Just picked up a zenith stereo console and l am planning on hooking up an Amazon Echo to the AUX inputs. The Echo Flex looks like it may work for what I need but thinking of putting it "on top" so it can hear my commands better "if needed". I'm also seeing that the Flex is "not currently available" at Amazon so maybe they have a new model coming out? That being said

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Re: LED TV Mounts with Sound bar Mount and cable management. Suggestions? - 10 days ago

Have some projects going on at my place and already discussed him running an outlet behind the TV (when it is mounted) and will figure out something to hide "low voltage".

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LED TV Mounts with Sound bar Mount and cable management. Suggestions? - 10 days ago

Going to be hanging / mounting our 55” Samsung smart TV and Vizio Soundbar (I believe it’s a Vizio 4251W-B4) to the wall and looking for some suggestions. I’d also like to run my wires through the wall. I believe I have the following mount in my garage that I didn’t use but it will be in my family room so I want the TV as close to the wall as possible and would like to mount the sound bar

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Re: F/U to Best LED Light Strips - 15 days ago

QuoteMrNoBody Wow spacescape! After viewing those products, I feel dirty and cheap but I often have that feeling when buying from bezosville Please post some pixs when it's completed. ps: Be careful if you "cut the end" to shorten them because it's no longer sealed (From what I've read). On the waterproofs you have to scrape back the silicone that covers the contacts @ the

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Re: F/U to Best LED Light Strips - 15 days ago

Yes the rabbit hole is huge... sorry. ha ha. Be careful if you "cut the end" to shorten them because it's no longer sealed (From what I've read). This is what I ordered but haven't installed them. Most likely I'll have the contractor install them seeing it involves soldering and my kitchen... I know 90-95% of the time we will be leaving them "white"... I usually like Wa

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Re: Best LED Light Strips for under kitchen cabinet that work with Alexa / HomeKit and Home Assistant - 26 days ago

Thanks. For the most part these will be "white" in a channel (so it looks finished). Just think it would be nice to be able to "tweak" the whites to make them a little warmer than normal.

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Re: Best LED Light Strips for under kitchen cabinet that work with Alexa / HomeKit and Home Assistant - 27 days ago

Do I want RGB+W ... or RGB+CCT controller in order to get RGB Warm White and Bright White.

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Best LED Light Strips for under kitchen cabinet that work with Alexa / HomeKit and Home Assistant - 27 days ago

Ok, doing a small kitchen remodel (New Appliances, Back Splash and Paint). Our electrician is coming this week to assess the electrical situation (removing drywall and reworking the 3 way strips and all the plugs so our backsplash looks nice). We currently have halogen puck lights under the cabinets that we would like to replace with LED Strips. One switch controls all the under cabinet lights an

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Vegetable Storage Ideas for Kitchen... Any suggestions? - 30 days ago

Doing some upgrades in our kitchen (backsplash, paint and getting our Corian Polished). Wondering what's the best way to store potatoes, onions and other vegetables that don't get refrigerated "off the counter"? Possibly on wheels? Not sure... just looking for ideas. Thanks.

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Re: How do you make an Appointment with a Genius Bar always no appointments Available? - 4 weeks ago

Call support. I went two weekends ago to one that was 30 minutes away because the one near my home couldn't see me until the following week (due to covid I guess). Got there and they wanted to replace it but they didn't have my iPhone XS model "in stock" so I wasted my time and should of just had them do a replacement over the phone and sent mine back.

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Re: I want to dump Comcast (Xfinity) for watching TV - 7 weeks ago

I keep getting "tricked" into keeping basic cable... But, Monday I'm going to try and cancel cable. I have 600 Mpbs download right now and for some reason I thought the internet only plan was much lower.

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Re: EcoBee Smart Thermostat with Voice...A Rough Start - 8 weeks ago

That sucks. I really wanted an EcoBee but went with the "dumb/smart" thermostat (Emerson Sensi) which could run off of batteries seeing we didn't have a common wire to our downstairs thermostat (boiler) but the upstairs does to our air handler unit. Overall we are happy. We can even tell our overlords "amazon" to turn it up and turn it down. But, thinking of trying Apple soon

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Re: Raise a margarita in memory of our friend Gene L - 2 months ago

RIP Gene L.

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Re: PSA: Check your smoke detectors AND Carbon Monoxide Detectors!!! - 2 months ago

QuoteMichael Glad you and your family are ok. Some time ago somebody posted a PSA about replacing detectors every 10 years. That was news to me but I looked into it and so replaced my 30 year old detectors. Then last year we had a lightning strike that killed our very old alarm system. So I bought a new system and put in the First Alert Z-wave detectors along with it last October. I put the d

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Re: PSA: Check your smoke detectors AND Carbon Monoxide Detectors!!! - 2 months ago

Quotedeckeda Wow, scary! Hey space, weren't you asking about a new HVAC a while back? We did a Unico central air handler that is in our attic two summers ago. We have a boiler and it's slightly old but not ready to take that plunge. I did a Goodman furnace and central air around 10+ years ago at my old house. We actually really loved that furnace.

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Re: PSA: Check your smoke detectors AND Carbon Monoxide Detectors!!! - 2 months ago

Quotemacphanatic Really wish that there was a Homekit compatible CO monitor. I'd like to have something in addition to the Smoke/CO detectors. Preferably something that provides level readings not just an alert. I agree. I think First Alert has something new.

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PSA: Check your smoke detectors AND Carbon Monoxide Detectors!!! - 2 months ago

Last Thursday morning around 1:00 AM I woke up on the couch and was feeling “lazy” and just chilling. When the basement Carbon Monoxide / Smoke Detector went off. I have First Alert Z-Wave Smoke & CO Combination Alarm connected to Samsung SmartThings hub so I did check and it said the battery was fine but the CO detector was going off. However, the other two First Alerts and the two Monox

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Anyone buy a "Pizza Blanket" - 2 months ago

My kid wants this "stupid" Pizza blanket that is out of stock. Anyone know who else has the same exact product? I believe this is the same. This one looks the same but gets horrible reviews. Amazon has others with good reviews (all stating thin). If I can get it "cheap" I guess I don't totally care.

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Re: My son is "asking" about the new Xbox Series S... Opinions? - 2 months ago

He has the XBox One S (not the series S). I agree, I'm going to discourage this a little bit. However, if he wants to sell his and get a Series S I'm not against that either. But, his 32" LED isn't going to take advantage of 4K.

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My son is "asking" about the new Xbox Series S... Opinions? - 2 months ago

Ok, he has an Xbox One S and he's asking about possibly selling it and purchasing an Xbox Series X. Besides the fact that they are all out of stock anyone have any opinion on the Series S or Series X ??? IMO the Series X looks like a better upgrade over what he has. However, if he's going to be running it on an older PLASMA or his new 32" LED (1080p) it probably doesn't matter. Just looking

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Re: M1 data point - huge photos library - 2 months ago

Was bummed... When I was at Costco last week they had MacBooks on display that said M1 but all the one's that were up and running were i5's and i7's.

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Still on iOS 13.7 ... iOS 14 still "imbedding images" in e-mails??? - 3 months ago

I'd like to update my iPhone but my coworker(s) updated their iPhone's and now all their images are sent "imbedded" which doesn't work for us. They were forced to use Outlook for iOS so they could email photos as attachments.

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Re: Bad baby Yoda! LOL - 3 months ago

YUMMY.

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Re: 55" Hisense 55R6040G 4K UHD HDR Roku Smart LED TV $200 - 3 months ago

Crap. I was going to get this TCL for our "main TV" then move the 3+ year old Samsung to the basement. Mainly to replace the Panasonic Plasma down there (Space Heater). How does this compare to the TCL 55 Class 5 4K with Roku?

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Hiding the litter box... Cat people I need suggestions??? - 3 months ago

We have a few cats and one of the litter boxes is in our spare room. Which, up until the last month was almost a storage room. But now we are trying to make it into a spare room with some of my wife's fisher price collection on display. So, we are discussing "where" to move the litter box or how to kind of "hide it". Any suggestions? I'm seeing "boxes" and "cabi

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