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Re: PSA: Check and see if “you” applied for unemployment! - 12 days ago

Someone is using my address for unemployment - didn't recognize the name at all.

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Re: Oh My God: The feel good story I encountered tonight (longish) - 20 days ago

Nice. I hope I don't get Alzheimer's. They just turned our oldies station (basically playing the same music since 1954) into a sport book talk radio station ("The Bet") this week.

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Re: vehicle test driving service in mission veijo, ca - 21 days ago

Usually you can get a dealer to do a pre-purchase inspection or you can find a local car shop, particularly something that specializes in that brand. The owner would probably need to drive it over. Mobile mechanics are another option. There is lemonsquad.com - never used (or heard of) them, but it seems like something right up your alley.

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Re: Is there any way to order non-counterfeit button batteries online? - 23 days ago

I used to buy a lot from BatteryBob.com

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Re: RIP Bruce Kirby (a face you'll know) - 29 days ago

His son, Bruno Kirby, died in 2006 at age 57. Another actor - known for When Harry Met Sally - and he and dad appeared together in an episode of Columbo.

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Re: So many robberies - 4 weeks ago

The thieves that shop lift and pick pocket at the mall and break into cars there are also out of work - so they have to go where the people are - in the neighborhoods.

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Re: How to install new system on drive with NO system - 5 weeks ago

I have done both. If you have fast internet recovery mode is ok. Or you can build an external boot disk, boot from that (hold option down while booting) and then run the installer.

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Re: H&R Block Tax software on sale at Newegg (with promo codes) - 6 weeks ago

Thanx for the deal. FYI is doesn't work on macOS Sierra (10.12). 10.13.6 or higher. Neither does 1Password. May be time to upgrade - if I can skip APFS (I got some apps not compatible). I have other Macs around.

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Re: HD Radio: Useful or just another 'flash in the pan' technology? - 8 weeks ago

Makes AM sounds much better. FM HD is OK - one of the stations runs its 'studio' recordings, basically w/o commercials. Many others are now simulcasting an AM station.

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Re: Can I block a cell message sender ? - 2 months ago

You can block texts from all unknown senders:

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Re: Follow Up: Babylon 5 on iTunes. - 3 months ago

Good to hear. I watched a couple of episodes on Amazon Prime and picture quality was TERRIBLE - worse than the 3rd sub channel OTA we get (which was bad).

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Re: Tomorrow @ Newegg: 4TB XPG SX8100 PCIe Gen3x4 M.2 SSD - 3 months ago

They work nicely in a TB3 external case for those with a modern Mac.

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Re: Know when your product is not so great? When cable companies are offering alternatives - 3 months ago

It is terrible. It doesn't take a swipe, then it swipes two things over. If I couldn't use my iPhone as a remote, it would be gone. I can use my old AppleTV remote - I will dig that up. I have on my list to buy a cheapy ($15) universal remote at Walmart that will supposedly work well.

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Re: The Romulan War - 3 months ago

I didn't realize there were so many of these things - I only heard of one or two. Just watched Star Trek: Horizon (the movie). Not terrible, but certainly not great. Star Trek Continues was mentioned above. 11 episodes. Star Trek First Frontier ? Star Trek Renegades - another movie. Star Trek New Voyages / Aka Star Trek Phase II - 11 episodes Stark Trek Exeter - 2 episodes St

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Re: Oops, looks like my SSD is failing. Suggestions for a replacement? - 3 months ago

Definitely go with some sort of NVMe if you can - I just put one in my Hackintosh and it is much snappier, even though my machine is 10 years old.

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Re: Good deal on laser printer? - 4 months ago

I love my B&W laser printer. CHEAP to run, reliable, etc - mine takes generic toner cartridges fine. The color lasers are a bit clunkier and you need to watch toner costs. Definitely research. Older ones had some gotchas (transfer belt?) I don't do much color printing, so my ancient B&W does the heavy lifting and my cheapy black-Friday-special color laser printer comes on a couple o

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Re: Smart theromstat reliability survey - 4 months ago

Nest had a couple of notable outages causing no heat (though admittedly it has been a couple of years) - no thanx. Of course my mom's mechanical thermostat stuck on and it got hot enough to melt candles once.

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Re: Apple, why the tiny star shaped screws? I just want to put an SSD in my 2011 Mac Mini - 4 months ago

I just did a 2012 and you need a T6, T8 and small hex/allen. I have all those, but if you buy a drive from our sponsor (OWC) you can get a kit with those.

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Re: So near and yet so far - 4 months ago

No Micro Center in Oregon, but there is a Fry's.

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Re: Misbehaving mac mini media center - 4 months ago

Sounds like something is off. I assume you have moved the external to a different port, if possible. You can pull the drive and run the manufacture diagnostics, long run. But probably a flaky internal SSD. You could try a reformat and re-install of OS to fix any disk corruption.

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Re: High Sierra and APFS - I'm confused - 4 months ago

Is the other partition bootable? Mine converted, but I only had the one partition. I was afraid to upgrade the wife to High Sierra, since she also uses 10.6 occasionally and that can not read APFS, and certainly can not boot from APFS. Looks like you don't partition an APFS disk, you create more volumes. Maybe APFS doesn't like partitioned drives?

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Re: Of all Star Trek TOS movies, I watch "The Voyage Home" the most - 4 months ago

The wife always forgets ST 10: The Death of a Franchise (Nemesis). I remind her - then she remembers and asks me to not remind her in the future. ST V has some great lines - Bones gets some of the best. I am still looking for the original Shatner cut with more horses and w/o the additional reshot ending (notice the hair cut changes when they get past the great barrier). There isn't a cl

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Re: Selling a used car, advice would be welcome - 4 months ago

Zelle sends money that is generally irreversible, but won't do that much money. The money should be done at a bank. Cashiers checks are not reliable. Craigslist - 60% of asking price is a good starting point in general. Friend of a friend bought a Yukon with 90K miles for $31,000 dollars at a dealer - unbelievable by me, but looking around not out of line. Around here you take the pl

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Re: Using a 4k TV as a computer monitor: brief overview - 4 months ago

Been using a Samsung 40" 4K monitor for a few years - $289 - that was cheap back then. Using 3840x2160 at 60Hz. It would be nice to use Displayport monitor instead of HDMI, but it works fine - esp with the current graphics card. The old one would wig out momentarily occasionally.

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Re: ebay charged sales tax on the shipping cost - 5 months ago

Shipping costs are taxable in many states. What state are you in?

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Re: Question for old school Volvo guys... - 5 months ago

850's come with front airbags, seat (side) airbags, and ABS. The Volvo is a solid car, but it is not Honda reliable (neither is the Subaru). They are pretty good - eventually they need front control arms (esp in areas with bad roads). The ABS computers have bad solder joints - you can pull and get them re-soldered for $100 or replaced at the dealer for $800 if the ABS light comes on. Drain

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Re: Why does Amazon offer me $25 to get my debit card number? - 5 months ago

I don't have a debit card - they still issue ATM cards, you just have to ask. A true debit card transaction costs a flat fee ($0.25 or something), credit card for most regular size businesses is like $0.25 + 2.7% of the total. Mastercard or Visa debit cards usually have the same protection rules due to MC/V - legally they have less protection, but the companies back them fully. Also if you

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Re: (more) concensus on Mac OS versions - 5 months ago

The Apple Mail app in El Capitan was slow and crashy for me. I am on High Sierra pretty much everywhere. It's downside is APFS - which you can try to avoid, live with, or just stick with Sierra.

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Re: Do you trust the oil change indicator in your car? - 5 months ago

Every 5K. If you are going to keep the car 100K miles the manufacturer recommendation is perfectly fine. If you are going 200K plus, definitely want to do fluids more often -esp anything 'lifetime'.

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Re: with Kreme on top?!.....opening date for 'Krispy Kreme' in Times Square set....... - 6 months ago

I am not a big fan - they are OK fresh and hot, but prefer many other brands. When they opened up around here there were lines around the block and backing up onto the freeway for the drive-thru.

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