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Re: What’s our favorite smart home thermostat these days? - 7 weeks ago

QuotePeterB Consider me the odd man out; I got a Sensi because it was being offered free-of-charge by my local utility as an energy-saving upgrade. Same here. Works fine, no problems.

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Re: Those not on Amazon Prime - Do you have items you regularly buy to get over $25 when you need a cheap item? - 7 months ago

I keep a list of things I'm going to need at some future time. When I buy something at Amazon and it's under $25, I just go to the list.

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Re: What are MRF people doing for haircuts these days? - 7 months ago

Once or twice a year, pull the ponytail tight and trim off 4+ inches.

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Re: Don’t be shy. Show your age. What’s the very first TV program you can remember? - 7 months ago

Crusader Rabbit (and Ragland T. Tiger) - first series. Romper room and Winky Dink (yeah, I sometimes drew directly on the TV screen too).

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Re: Are you personally living in a world with the Internet of Things? - 10 months ago

My house is...I'm just along for the ride.

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Re: Roll call thread - 10 months ago

On my first cup of coffee... will be here soon.

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Re: Speaking of email... - 11 months ago

Although my email accounts are @verizon.net, they are handled by AOL. I'm using Apple Mail in Sierra (10.12.6) and everything works. In the past couple of years, AOL made its users jump through a couple of hoops. I did what they asked. First they required that AOL email accounts in your mail client be deleted and re-added to gain access to their new "security". Later they re

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Re: Display Goes Blank After Power Up Just After Apple Logo Appears - 11 months ago

Try booting into safe mode.

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Re: Any Verizon broadband folks here? email question - 1 year ago

Forgot to say that when re-adding a verizon.net account on the iPhone, I did it manually (other), rather than tapping the AOL logo.

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Re: Any Verizon broadband folks here? email question - 1 year ago

A while back, AOL sent out an email about removing and re-adding your AOL account in your mail app to gain access to their "new" security. Here's the link from the email

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Re: What song completely pulls you in on the first note? - 1 year ago

Loan Me a Dime - Boz Scaggs & Duane Allman

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Re: USPS is killing me - 1 year ago

QuotergG I get the USPS informed delivery email each day. Saturday a week ago the mail shown in the email was not delivered. It had important stuff, of course. I went to the PO and they said to wait till this Saturday to see if it shows up. Nope, and not today, either. I decide to use the "report missing mail" link from the email. The email says to wait a week to report missing ma

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Re: Anyone get an email from T-Mobile regarding a breach? - 1 year ago

I didn't get an email, they sent me a text. I have one of their post-paid unlimited plans.

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Re: This Old House Wifi... ugh... - 1 year ago

My nephew had the same problem with his walls and used TP-Link wi-fi over powerline modules. I don't remember which ones he has. TL-WPA7510 TL-WPA8630

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Re: What??! More ports!!?? Upcoming Mini to "have more ports" - 1 year ago

The return of SCSI

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Re: Question re thermostat wiring - 1 year ago

Did you download the Sensi iPhone App? It's suppose to to walk you through the setup. I did the wiring first, so I skipped that part. There's also setup info on their website. Here's a couple of links: Wiring Sensi Thermostat Sensi Smart Thermostat (scroll down a bit for a video and "Learn More"). I also downloaded installation and user manual pdfs from their site (sorry

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Re: Periodic posts: Just do it! - 1 year ago

I have a wall clock in the bathroom that displays time, day, date and temperature. Everything I need to know to start the day. Then I check my watch for a heartbeat and I'm good to go.

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Re: MR Forum inside jokes, phrases, and jargon - 1 year ago

Moran

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Re: POLL & SHARING - How many and what menubar apps do you use? - 1 year ago

Meteorologist XtraFinder WindowMizer CCC MenuMeters HWMonitor Sound Applescript Menu Itsycal Day/Time Spotlight Notifications

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Re: Attention NJ PSEG customers: free WiFi thermostat - 1 year ago

I got one in December when they had the same deal. Easy install and no complaints. I had to add a 24 vac transformer since my furnace did not have a "C" wire, which powers the thermostat. BTW, not totally free, you have to pay tax and shipping (just under $13).

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Re: I know I shouldn't expect too much of the USPS, but really? - 1 year ago

Quotewurm Today (a week later), i clicked the link to Report missing mail and am greeted with: Submit Missing Mailpieces - Link Expired Your link has expired. Mail images are only available in your mail dashboard for seven days.. That happened to me too. So, now I wait 5 delivery days from when I received the email and then report it. My current mail carrier is terrible. He's lost 14 p

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Re: Trying to Make Peace with Big Sur: Must I Click-Drag, like a savage? - 1 year ago

It's in System Preferences - Accessibility - Pointer Control - Mouse & Trackpad - Trackpad Options - Enable Dragging: Enable Double-Tap-Drag.

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Re: Ugh. Am I about to enter the black hole of OS Upgrades? - 1 year ago

What version of iTunes are you running? According to Wikipedia, an iPhone SE 2nd gen running iOS 14.4.1 should work with iTunes 12.8.2 on Mac OS 10.11.6. Maybe try an iTunes update first and if that doesn't work, upgrade Mac OS.

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Re: Whats the best way to run a virtual Mac OS machine? - 1 year ago

QuoteRobert M Where can I find step-by-step instructions for using an app like Virtual Box, Parallels or Fusion to create a virtual machine on a Mac to run a flavor of the Mac OS? I used these two articles from MacStrategy. These are for Snow Leopard, but there are other articles for other versions of MacOS. Virtualising Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (Server) Virtualizing a physical Mac/h

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Re: Whats the best way to run a virtual Mac OS machine? - 1 year ago

Running SL in VirtualBox v6 on an Intel NUC 8 with Sierra as the host. While I couldn't set up a shared disk between the two, I can do file sharing over the network (mount the Sierra volume in SL and the SL volume in Sierra) like with other "Macs" on the network.

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Re: How do you sleep? - 1 year ago

Pitch black with ambient music playing in the background.

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Re: What do you think long-term effects of so many people glued to their screens will be? - 1 year ago

Sticky screens.

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Re: What is some of your favorite soothing music or sounds? - 2 years ago

Some stuff I created.

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Re: POLL - WHAT OS X ARE YOU RUNNING, MACRESOURCERS? - 2 years ago

I voted Sierra because that's what my main desktop (NUCintosh) is running, but it is also running Snow Leopard in VirtualBox and I can can boot Linux Mint from an external drive. Server #1 (Mac mini) is running Snow Leopard. Server #2 (hacintosh) is running Sierra. A 2009 MBP is running Snow Leopard. A second Mac mini is running Sierra.

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Re: 24" monitors, redux - 2 years ago

QuotePeterB Interesting -- there's someone in the Amazon comments for the U2415 saying that you can do 1900 x 1200, or HDMI, but NOT both ... so is what they are saying incorrect? From my experience they are incorrect. I see another Amazon comment further down: " The screen looks beautiful at 1920x1200 via HDMI, which works perfectly and without me setting anything differently in Win

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