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Hello, I must be going! (10,000 posts) - 6 months ago

Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. - Shakespeare, The Tempest It's been a good run. Time to move on. To be clear, I'm not going on sabbatical. I'm just hanging up this screen-name and trying on another. Last time, som

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Re: personal: Library branch closed by Covid - 6 months ago

Omicron is everywhere. All of the local Starbucks are closed. The Taco Bell down the block is closed. There aren't enough people reporting into the local grocery store to keep the shelves stocked, even if there were enough trucks coming in to keep the shelves stocked. I drive past a walk-in clinic on my daily commute and errands. They close at 12pm on Sunday. There was a line that wra

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Re: Need to upgrade to Catalina at least...any reason not to go to Monterey? - 6 months ago

QuotedavesterAs long as I'm at it I figure I might as well go all the way to Monterey. Is there a reason not to? It's still new and buggy and has some advertised features that are not fully implemented. A good rule of thumb is to wait until at least the 4th point-update before upgrading unless there's a good business-reason or you've got a disposable system to experiment on (and good backup

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Re: Actual Mac question...MS Office 2008, PowerPC code and High Sierra upgrade - 6 months ago

My guess is that she never updated the suite beyond the initial install. You need to update it to v12.3.6. Then it will run under High Sierra. Unfortunately, Microsoft no longer distributes this update. If you have this version of Office on another Mac, you should be able to copy the apps over and they will most likely pick up the license. Otherwise, you're in a bind since the license serve

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Re: Happy Birthday MR Forum member PeterB - 6 months ago

FTFY. Happy birthday, PeterB!

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Re: Speaking of bitcoin-a really superb piece on Web 3.0 - 6 months ago

TLDR. But at this point, doesn't everyone know that there's no such thing as "Web 3.0" ...? It's crypto-marketing hype. All buzz-words. No useful product.

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Re: remote file retrieval - 6 months ago

Pretty sure that Emby only provides for offline access in a mobile-app, so that's probably a dead-end. Is the Teamviewer File Transfer browser failing? Got Dropbox? I use that as a failsafe in those situations. ...Would not in a million years open my firewall for anything other than SSL VPN traffic at this point.

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Re: Something Frunky in your Tesla model S ! - 6 months ago

QuoteRacer X Everyone is hyper critical of the good guys. Everyone jumps on Apple, especially when it is a non-event/issue. Tesla is not "the good guys." By various accounts and many MANY legal filings that have made the news, they abuse their workers with required unpaid overtime and penalize them for taking sick-leave or family-leave, remove safety device and markings, ignore ot

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Re: A theological scientific joke for the new year - 6 months ago

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move...

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Re: Something Frunky in your Tesla model S ! - 6 months ago

QuoteKen Sp. It’s amazing, there is more coverage about Tesla Model S having a trunk latch issue than there was about Chevy Bolts complete recall because of batteries catching fire. The proliferation of these articles is still, driven by short sellers trying to short the stock. Or maybe it's proportional to market cap. Chevy (GM) Market Cap: $85.123B Tesla Market Cap: $1.061T

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Re: Just Finished "Project Hail Mary" - 6 months ago

Hail Mary was good. He's getting better at characterization and plot. Did not think Artemis was good at all. By the end, I was thinking that my time could have been better spent reading other books.

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Re: Very frank and far reaching Elon Musk interview. 1:39:47 long - 6 months ago

I'm baffled as to why anyone would listen to him for more than a couple of minutes straight. He's not at all eloquent and he seldom says anything truthful, never pithy. He's not entertaining. All I can think of when I see him is that this guy must have some mad skills he doesn't demonstrate in public because nobody like that should be trusted with that much money and power.

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Re: Newsweek tries fact-checking on COVID testing Trump vs Biden - 6 months ago

Quotepdq So. In summary: Trump said that there was a STAGGERING drop in COVID testing under Biden. The reverse is true, by a considerable margin. And Trump said that COVID testing peaked in January 2021, when it has actually peaked far beyond that number repeatedly since. Taking this all together, Newsweek rates Trump’s claims as….”True”. Really. I thought you must have mis-re

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Re: So, will omicron peak in mid-January. Some experts think so. - 6 months ago

QuoteJoeH I would put the peak maybe being a bit farther into the year, late January or early February. My reasoning is that is when the millions of students will have finished going back to their colleges and universities, spread COVID and other seasonal flus and colds to their fellow students and surrounding college town populations. They will continue the spread from all of the family get to

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Re: Safari Extensions... Grrrrrrrrr! - 6 months ago

Hmmm. Something's really weird about your system. Have you tested Safari under another user account?

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Re: COVID booster question - 6 months ago

A warm spot on my arm the size of my fist was the only side-effect I had from my Moderna shot.

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Re: Safari Extensions... Grrrrrrrrr! - 6 months ago

Vinegar should not be hijacking clicks. Have you run a Malwarebytes scan recently?

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Re: Safari Extensions... Grrrrrrrrr! - 6 months ago

That's not the way that it works in my experience. Safari extensions work through apps in the Applications folder. You download the app that contains the extension, and you immediately have the extension in Safari. It just works. System extensions may require rebooting the Mac into Recovery to disable SIP.

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Re: Melania’ s vision - 6 months ago

Roger Stone is selling a Trump autograph NFT to pay his legal bills Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen is making NFTs out of his prison badge NFTs are a crime against humanity. They waste more electricity than some small countries consume in a year and result in no tangible benefit. So, of course, everyone's doing it. Especially certain classes of people who are used to exploiting ignor

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Rapid tests produce more false negatives for Omicron - 6 months ago

The still-image from the video at the top of the page is perfect. Rapid COVID-19 home tests are more likely to give a false negative with the heavily-mutated Omicron variant compared to earlier strains, the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday. The news comes as the country is facing a massive surge in cases that experts say is being under-captured as a result of a testing crun

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Re: DeSantis stooge:"Florida surgeon general claims federal government limiting monoclonal antibody treatment" - 6 months ago

QuoteTed King Ladapo is essentially just echoing his boss now that his boss is taking a lot of heat for inadequate response to Omicron. Now? That was that clown's job from day #1. Florida is a fiefdom.

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Re: how did you spend your Christmas Eve? - 6 months ago

An ordinary metal detector won't find anything more than about 10 inches down unless it's very a very big lump of dense metal... like a metal-coffin. Was he looking for quick cash from recycling?

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Re: How hacked is this? ! - 6 months ago

Walmart does not have Amazon's billing info. Something else happened. Malware or one of those deal/coupon browser add-ons might send you to a third-party site when you go to check out at Wally's and maybe you didn't notice because they disguised it to look like Wally's. It's plausible that the 3rd party was linked to Amazon's payment system and you didn't notice that either because you used

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Re: F/U: Battery issues have me puzzled - 6 months ago

Although it's a little redundant with a battery-swap, try doing a SMC reset. Watch to see that the power-light changes to green and then orange after the SMC reset. This indicates normal operation and charging. If it still fails to charge the Mac, try yet another power adapter. Because you will almost certainly want to try all of the basic stuff even if redundant when facing the next most

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Re: under-desk exercisers - 6 months ago

I had a under-desk pedal-machine. The intention was not just to use it while at the desk, but also while sitting at the couch, etc. I found it annoying and didn't use it much. It didn't have enough resistance and the angles were all wrong to feel comfortable with it. Eventually gave it away.

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Re: MR Forum Fit Club: Jump dope - 6 months ago

After slipping for roughly a month, I had four workouts last week, 2x3 miles of walking and two half-hour sessions on an elliptical. I like snow, but I'm glad of the unusual warm spell that's letting me get out.

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Re: My M1 Stress test result - 6 months ago

QuoteAcer New M1 16" 16/1TB in the house... Pro or Max?

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Re: $22,600 to Replace Tesla's Battery, Blows Up Car Instead - 6 months ago

QuoteOWC Larry...if this is just some slime ball dealer selling lemons... certainly not reflective of Tesla. Authorized Tesla repair place. They also told the guy that they needed permission from Tesla-corporate to replace the battery pack. He may not have had options in Finland. In the United States, 3rd party battery-replacement can be cheaper. From the Daily Mail coverage of the story:

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Re: LIFT OFF! Webb Launch - 6 months ago

QuotePaul F. The Webb observes in the deep Infrared to the "just barely visible" spectrum... the pictures aren't going to be anything like we're used to seeing from the Hubble... but, we're going to learn a LOT from them! As with the processed images from radiotelescopes and pretty much every other picture of anything in space further out than the moon, the general public will never s

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Re: BREAKING: Shots fired at Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles; possible hostage situation - 6 months ago

Attention, whoever you are. This channel is reserved for emergency calls only.

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