Ooh, that's a good tip, Xan. I destroyed the battery on a Kindle by letting it run down and not using it for several weeks. I don’t know how old your Kindle is, but the early batteries were no match for Apple’s. In addition to Xan’s note and the PCMag both suggesting to sip and stay in the middle %...

This is an example. Yours was the first "unread" post I was brought to. Thus I have no idea what you are reacting to. If he doesn't quote something, he's typically responding to the post immediately prior to his. Maybe. Maybe not. Someone else's post could have (and not infrequently does)...

dualstow wrote: ↑Thu Apr 16, 2020 1:12 pm

This is an example. Yours was the first "unread" post I was brought to. Thus I have no idea what you are reacting to.

VInny

First of all, thanks to whoever recently put this somewhere in this forum. I've been listening to it repeatedly over the last four hours. https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=RDCMUCBRpqrzuuqE8TZcWw75JSdw&v=3GzkxkOEcWc&feature=emb_rel_end The Only Black Swans with William Bernstein If you go to...

ochotona wrote: ↑Thu Apr 16, 2020 11:06 am I'm home all the time and I have guns. Do I need alarm monitoring services any longer?

My guess would be no. But it depends upon your level of security needs. I have neither. I'm really home now all the time but I also had neither when I'm out of the house for 12 hours at a time.

Vinny

dualstow, what you say used to be true, but may not be true as much with more modern devices. On my MacBook Pro 16, which I believe I bought in December, I heard that it had a way to bypass the charging process when the battery was full. Sure enough, I've taken to always keeping it plugged in (I ha...

“A wise friend posted this: “People grew sick of the social distancing measures as they dragged on into the summer of 1918. When the great war finally ended in late November, people took to the streets to celebrate their good fortune. In the coming weeks, the second wave of the pandemic killed more ...

Vin, you’re not supposed to plug it in all the time. Apple’s batteries are amazing, but you can still wear them out by charging them all the time. Lots of engineers here, so tell me if I’ve been misinformed: It’s not that something bad happens when you hit 100% and keep trying to charge. It’s that ...

Libertarian666 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 15, 2020 8:48 pm

I had the shingles shot.
Then I got shingles.
No flu shots for me, thanks. Also no more shingles shots, and no pneumococcal vaccine.
I'll probably go for the covid shot if there's no reliable treatment before it comes out, though.

Sorry to hear that. How serious a case was it?

Vinny

Cortopassi wrote: ↑Wed Apr 15, 2020 8:45 pm

I get a "mini flu" for 2-3 days every time I got a flu shot. And shingles shots. I haven't gotten a flu shot for 4 years because of that.

Isn't the shingles shot supposed to be a one-time event?

Vinny

Maybe. I think there may be 2-3 others. Mine is Alliant Credit Union's Visa Signature card. It's 2.5% cashback on up to $10K/month worth of purchases, and with a $99 annual fee (waived the first year). I had never heard of that card: https://www.nerdwallet.com/card-details/card-name/Alliant-Credit-...

I wish I could just bypass the battery on the ipad like you can with many laptops*. It's getting closer to always reading 10% or 100% charged, and not much in between. I've not noticed that since the one I use at night is always plugged in thus always at 100%. The other one I use for keeping score ...

Sometimes you have some software that you love, but where the developer might have been a small operation, where maybe they moved on to something else a couple of years ago, or maybe they've gone bankrupt. The sofware's still great, though. In fact, maybe it's the *only* software that's even out th...

I've had mixed results with hand-me-down iphones but I have to admit my ipad mini is doing well after 3 years, and I bought it used. The IPAD OS breathed new life into it (and made it glitchy at the same time). Mixed results. I only know that the obsolescence is real enough that I've given up on pa...

And why do people continue talk of a vaccine? Isn't that nearly impossible? Isn't it more like a flu shot, which might be protective, and might not? IIRC, most of the reason a flu shot sometimes works and sometimes doesn't is that they have to guess what strains of flu will be popular in the coming...

4) Most of the leading causes of death are NOT contagious. Not sure I follow your point here. I agree that most of the leading causes of death are not contagious, but so what? [/quote] The same point I was making in response to your presentation of the list. Looking at it from the individual's poin...

I still have to update the OS on my Mac Mini to use latestTurbo Tax. Had to upgrade Quicken and pay the yearly tax for that. I stopped upgrading Quicken years ago. It works fine, the only 'drawback' is that you can't import data from direct-connect with banks and brokers. Since I never used that fe...

MangoMan wrote: ↑Wed Apr 15, 2020 7:50 pm [
Seriously. And dental care.

That may force me to go back to that topic here and reread again all the alternative methods for self dental care!

Vinny

I’m going to need a proper haircut by then. I get either three or four a year. Each time telling the barber to cut it as short as she can without shaving my head. That gives me a good three months before needing another one. My beard, though, generally gets trimmed once a week so that it looks like...

[ Though, in my defense, I charge everything with a card that earns me over 2% cashback. Same here. I assume we are using the same Cash Back card? When I bought that iPad last week for $50 and paid cash for it, it was the first time I'd used cash since March 7th. This goes way back with me. When I ...

Why would you blanket statement that they're intolerant in general? Nothing in there said they were intolerant of black people. Or Jews. Just Trump supporters. I was not making a blanket statement that they are intolerant of all others in all situations. Just saying that the type who are so intoler...

And, she IS the ONE who has successfully retained her cute kitten face into cat-hood.

VInny

Two doctors suffering from acute TDS steal neighbor's MAGA flag in Florida as their child begs them to stop. The actual Ring video is actually pretty sad when you see the little kid run around tugging on his parents shirts. It's how I imagine the scene plays out in drug addicts' houses. I watched i...

I always rely upon the "first unread" feature. It seems several times it's jumping me over posts that I've not prior seen? FYI that feature has never worked properly for me. This is the first I'm hearing that anyone else has also experienced this and that it may be a flawed feature. Anyon...

[ One of the absolute top ten rules for guys with regards to women is Pay no attention to what they say, only to what they do. Shouldn't that be expanded to include anyone and everyone? Aren't all of us (present company included) inconsistent with what we espouse and our actual behaviors? Vinny