Re: ‘ Fry’s Electronics going out of business, shutting down all stores ‘ - Yesterday

QuoteOWC Jamie LOL, Outpost.com / Cyberian Outpost. That brings back memories. Gerbils Commercial Beat me to it; that was the first thing I remembered about them. And their free shipping, which had me buying a lot of stuff from them, if I remember right.

Apple Begins Selling Refurbished 13-Inch MacBook Pro With M1 Chip ($1099) - 3 days ago

$200 off. It's the 8/256 model: article: store:

Re: Microwave apparently just died, worth trying to repair? - 3 days ago

Re: If you were given $1 million, what would you do with it? - 3 days ago

Pay off house, fix everything in the house, set up kids with $100k each, but some more APPL, and take a nice trip.

Re: Do you pay attention to air quality alerts? - 4 days ago

As an asthmatic, yes; very much so. Smog-type alerts don't happen where I currently live (Central AR) but I do still take note when (summertime) there's an alert re/ozone.

Re: Speaking of other-world landings: when the Russians were basically throwing probes at Venus - 6 days ago

Quotehal QuoteZoidberg Quotehal I guess that anti Soviet propaganda was still in high gear because all that I remember about USSR & venus was failure. Stuff buring up or crashing into the planet. Very much worth reading that Astronomy article I read the whole thing - utterly fascinating and it really bothered me that I hardly knew anything about this. I went ahead and posted the guts o

Re: Speaking of other-world landings: when the Russians were basically throwing probes at Venus - 6 days ago

Quotehal I guess that anti Soviet propaganda was still in high gear because all that I remember about USSR & venus was failure. Stuff buring up or crashing into the planet. Very much worth reading that Astronomy article; here's the guts: Venera 1, the first probe in the series of Soviet Venus missions, weighed in at an impressive 1,400 pounds (at just 184 pounds, the first satellite, Sp

Speaking of other-world landings: when the Russians were basically throwing probes at Venus - 6 days ago

This tweet: More from Astronomy magazine:

OWC's A Comprehensive Guide to All Startup Modes for M1 Macs - 6 days ago

A good overview, as a few things have changed from what we're used to:

Re: It’s Been 20 Years Since “All Your Base Are Belong To Us” - 7 days ago

When something would happen with work that would @#$%& whatever we were doing, this was my go-to phrase: I didn't realize "f u b a r" was verboten.

Re: OWC unveils truly universal Thunderbolt 4/USB-C cable - 7 days ago

Was just reading about that; excellent to see.

Re: Explore surface of Mars with 4K Videos - 7 days ago

Stunning -- thanks for posting.

Fairly snowy here in Central AR as well - 7 days ago

Par for the course for some, but historic for this region. Amazing to watch it unfold over the past week. Of course, I am saying that from a house that still has power, water, internet, and a gas fireplace.

Re: Rush Limbaugh dies from lung cancer - 8 days ago

He was a despicable person.

Re: Rush Limbaugh is dead - 8 days ago

An absolutely despicable man on every level.

Re: Rush Limbaugh Dead At 70 - 8 days ago

A despicable man on every level.

Re: Hints to get fast food restaurant grease smell out of clothes and body quickly? - 8 days ago

Back when I worked in a kitchen, I would wash my clothes with Surf power detergent. It was the only thing that would get the smell out, mostly. Once a month or thereabouts I would have the shirts dry-cleaned.

Re: Water pipes partly frozen - 8 days ago

If there's snow (fluffy snow), fill your tub with it and as it melts, bucket it into the toilet tank for flushing water.

Re: Scientists Accidentally Discover Strange Creatures Under a Half Mile of Ice - 9 days ago

Here's an image of the team:

Re: Password manager recommendations? - 11 days ago

QuoteWags I just use the built in Mac app. Never had a prob with it. Same here. It works on all my devices seamlessly, and is pretty easy to use when I need to just see a password. I wouldn't say no to Apple making a better interface to see things in it, but it works.

Re: Is this the coffee maker some of were raving about a little while ago? - 12 days ago

Decently-reviewed on Amazon, and currently $99 there.

Re: RIP Chick Corea - 14 days ago

:-(

Re: Do folks have local owned doughnut shops nearby? - 15 days ago

They opened a Krispy Kreme here in Little Rock (near a Heart Hospital, of all places) and it was immensely popular and always crowded and it lasted maybe two years. A Dunkin' Donuts down the street from it also went out of business (it's now a Starbucks). We have a few locally-owned shops that are local chains (not one-offs) that are pretty good for the occasional donut. Back in New Orlea

Re: Why does Pandora play so much "Chuck Berry" - 15 days ago

Re: Mini M1 for 599 at MicroCenter - 17 days ago

There's a good Mac mini group over at Reddit; here's one coincidentally that popped up today:

Re: Tom Brady - 17 days ago

Re: Priority boxes smaller? - 18 days ago

I ordered several dozen (if not more) of a few of the boxes (small & medium, plus padded envelopes/regular envelopes) so we'll see what's what the next batch I order.

Re: Epson eco tank printers - 20 days ago

Quotejonny ET-4550 I've had this for about 5 years. No problems and the ink it came with lasted forever. The ET-4550 was one of the initial offerings, if I remember right. I *very much* wanted the big one -- the one where the ink came in these blood-bag looking bags that you attached directly in the sidecar. Can't find a direct photo. Here it is; the Epson Workforce Pro WF-R4640 EcoTank

Re: Epson eco tank printers - 20 days ago

Recommended one (this one) to my Mom just the other day. She'll probably be getting it soon.

Re: USPS for me. - 20 days ago

QuoteRobert M Zoid, You aren't using the actual PO box address. You're using the Post Office's address and the USPS branch has been kind enough to deliver the packages to you. That isn't common and it is definitely not the same thing as using a PO box as the shipping address. If you entered the PO box address as the shipping address, UPS and Fedex would not deliver packages to it. Robert