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Re: Hey C(-)ris, is this you? - Yesterday

If I could only find a Prius like that.

by macphanatic - Tips and Deals

Re: Moving from Drobo to Synology - Yesterday

I believe that they are set up to use 2.5 or 3.5 inch drives. No reason that a 2.5 SSD couldn't be used. If you go to the Synology site, you can download manuals. There are also a ton of Synology related videos on YouTube.

by macphanatic - Tips and Deals

Re: Price Drops on WD RED NAS CMR HDD/Spinners - Yesterday

If only the 12 or 14 TB's were on sale. Would be nice to increase the storage array in my Synology.

by macphanatic - Tips and Deals

Re: Moving from Drobo to Synology - Yesterday

Quotedavemchine My Drobo 5D is not working correctly and after uploading all the information to Drobo they are telling me it is failed. I am planning to move to Synology although I haven’t decided on which model. I have some questions I’m hoping someone can help me with. 1) Will I be able to expand the size of my raid array by simply swapping in a larger capacity drive as I do with my Drob

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LumeCube sale - Yesterday

Use code SUMMER21 for 21% off site wide.

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Re: BBB shred day in Tyler. Check your town - 2 days ago

If you're referring to Best Buy, most of their stores accept electronics for recycling without a fee year round. There are exceptions: no monitors, TV's or microwaves. There may be some other random items that they won't accept.

by macphanatic - Tips and Deals

Re: Teen dies after choking himself out for social media "blackout challenge" - 3 days ago

Feel sorry for the kid and his parents. Maybe we need to ban or tightly regulate social media for certain age demographics.

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Re: skidMARKS?!......23 minutes, 17 seconds into 'The Marksman'..... - 3 days ago

For a guy that is vehemently anti gun, he seems to have no qualms making money starring in movies that glorify violence and the use of guns.

by macphanatic - Tips and Deals

Re: Advice needed - I’m in the happy situation of having a nice used car for sale - 3 days ago

Might be time to unload the Yugo in the barn.

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Re: Slow Boot Up Time On Mac Mini - 3 days ago

Quotejh Yep, upgraded memory from 4 to 8 and she had me purchased the SSD drive and I had apple dealer install the drive. Believe the emails list is unread but will have to check it and see. Once booted it computer seems to work fine. Are her mail accounts still POP? If so, that could be the reason for so many unread emails.

by macphanatic - Tips and Deals

Re: Advice needed - I’m in the happy situation of having a nice used car for sale - 4 days ago

Dealer may call you tomorrow to up the offer. They need decent cars to sell.

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Re: Advice needed - I’m in the happy situation of having a nice used car for sale - 4 days ago

Unless you need a newer vehicle, now is not the time to buy. Dealers are taking their loaner vehicles, detailing them and putting them on the lot. The vehicles that they used to send to auction houses are being kept as long as they can legally be registered for street use. My neighbor that has about a year left on his lease got a call with a lucrative offer if he returns it now. If he had somethi

by macphanatic - Tips and Deals

Re: China Syndrome - 4 days ago

China is having issues with reduced hydro power due to lower than normal rain fall. They've also cut back generating capacity of coal plants due to a spike in air quality issues. Some industries have been told to reduce production hours due to the electrical shortages.

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Re: USB charger for traveling - 7 days ago

Hyper Juice I use this with my work issued Dell. The OEM charger is a terrible design. I use it with a 100 watt rated usb c cable. Charges two iPhones and my iPad as well. Edit: For those that travel internationally, the Hyper Juice comes with 4 foreign plug styles that slid into the charger to adapt it accordingly. Works much better than using an adapter that the charger plugs into. Always

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Re: spreadsheet 101: How to add more subtotal categories? - 7 days ago

If you move the image file, you will see VEHICLE1 and VEHICLE2 in column F. You will need to do the following: 1. Copy row 3 2. Right click on row 4 and insert copied cells 3. Do as needed for the number of vehicles 4. Rename vehicle names in row F. You can use anything you want in these cells as long as they are unique 5. Edit Data Validation for cells in Column D below the Data Label &q

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Re: Medical computers - sanitizing ? - 7 days ago

Lighten up on sanitizing surfaces

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Re: My own little rant... - 7 days ago

QuoteMartyStickle QuoteSarcany Quotespace-time Quotetestcase You do know that a NEW SIM will be needed to get 5G service, right? Interesting, I have Xfinity mobile, the SIM is probably 3 year old, in fact I know it is just a little over 3 year old, and I had an SE 1st generation (LTE) and upgraded to a 12 Pro and moved the same SIM in it, and I get 5G service. Just because it says "5G,&q

by macphanatic - Tips and Deals

Re: Anyone recommend a good iPhone scanning app? - 7 days ago

You can do this in Notes app.

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Re: BOLT photo keeper for iPhone - 7 days ago

Never heard of it. If you're a Prime Member, Amazon offers photo storage that you can link your phone to. Amazon Photos

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Re: Best way to Clean Headlights - 8 days ago

QuoteMarkintosh Our 2001 Tacoma had severely yellowed and fogged headlamps. I'm guessing someone did a treatment just before we purchased this truck about two years ago and failed to apply any UV inhibitor. One of them got a good crack from the snow blower this winter. So I ordered some aftermarket replacements on Amazon at $85, including corner lamps. The replacement process took about 40

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Re: iOS privacy relay - 8 days ago

Running it on a iPhone X that I use daily. Haven't had any issues yet.

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Re: collapse?!....Denmark soccer star Christian Ericksen collapses on the field during broadcast...... - 8 days ago

Norway is one of the countries that quickly implemented an education program for immigrants on behavior. One of my sources in Germany, is an immigrant but has been in Germany for many years. He told me that he is embarrassed by the behavior of a lot of the immigrants/refugees. He did say that it was predominately the males that have been the issue.

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Re: collapse?!....Denmark soccer star Christian Ericksen collapses on the field during broadcast...... - 8 days ago

Quotemattkime QuotemacphanaticAssaults, especially sexual are way up in countries that aren’t used to these issues. Not hard to understand why the natives aren’t happy. Could you cite a source for this info? I'm curious. I learned about these issues by talking to friends, family, colleagues and clients in several countries. You won’t hear anything about these issues from US based news.

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Re: fedex seems to be lowering standars - more late packages lately. - 9 days ago

FedEx sucks. Got messages that 3 different packages were supposed to be delivered today. None of them even made it to the truck. Two of them at different local hubs around 9pm today.

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iOS privacy relay - 9 days ago

Running the beta on an iPhone. Today, I got a notification that privacy relay was activated. Didn’t think that it was going live so soon.

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Re: collapse?!....Denmark soccer star Christian Ericksen collapses on the field during broadcast...... - 9 days ago

Quotebtfc “ Let's not go overboard here. “ My comment was posted with full knowledge of past fan abuse; not just constrained to soccer of course. The Finnish are generally pretty respectful; the Danes have been mostly so in the past, but intolerance of refugees is up sharply in recent years. Many Europeans have become intolerant of refugees. They aren’t behaving well and following l

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Re: raise your card and place your bids - 9 days ago

QuoteFritz Place your best bet on what the hammer down price will be. I'm in for $5M, though I may have tip over the couches if I win. 1952 Ferrari 340 America this prancing blue beast has an interesting story. It isn't clear as to whether the body work is new metal or old fiberglass, but since it went through Ferrari Classiche, I'd guess new "original" coachwork. Bel

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Re: decent walking sneakers under $50? - 9 days ago

I like Under Armour Charged Asset. They fit well and have the right amount of cushioning for me. Just found the same model on eBay for $35 shipped. As others have said, shoes are very personal. If you have a Kohls nearby, I would suggest starting there. They tend to have many different brands and many are decently discounted as they are discontinued models.

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Re: Best way to Clean Headlights - 9 days ago

QuoteNewtonMP2100 .....once tried to clean some majorly large head lights......got slapped all the way to Australia..... You probably started the polishing process too aggressively. You need to start at a slow and gently speed.

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Re: Best way to Clean Headlights - 9 days ago

The Sylvania kit has gotten good reviews. I would lean towards 3M as I know people that have used it successfully. 3M The Cerakote kit is relatively new, but a lot of detailers seem to like it. Cerakote Edit: Make sure to use blue or green painters tape around the headlights to protect the paint.

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