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Compared to the BMW X3 I had before the CR-V, it... 1,270,237 Views / 1,827 Replies  
Compared to the BMW X3 I had before the CR-V, it drives well. And mine is peppy enough to surprise young people with loud exhausts and delusions of driving skills. But true, it’s not an...
Posted by ghporter, on Mar 16, 2024 at 05:43 PM, in MacNN Lounge
I think of that as being preemptively rude. It’s... 624,580 Views / 1,820 Replies  
I think of that as being preemptively rude. It’s clear to me that most “drivers” got “socially promoted” out of kindergarten, because they never learned to take turns. :\
Posted by ghporter, on Mar 12, 2024 at 09:07 PM, in MacNN Lounge
Hmmm. Now when are the liability lawsuits going... 78,435 Views / 291 Replies  
Hmmm. Now when are the liability lawsuits going to show up? G-R may have been “the” criminally guilty party, but there’s plenty of responsibility to go around.
Posted by ghporter, on Mar 12, 2024 at 09:04 PM, in MacNN Lounge
Honda has the Prologue, a full EV SUV. It... 1,270,237 Views / 1,827 Replies  
Honda has the Prologue, a full EV SUV. It appears to have a wheelbase similarly to the Pilot, which is a positive thing. They also offer a hybrid version of the CR-V (which would have been the car...
Posted by ghporter, on Mar 12, 2024 at 09:02 PM, in MacNN Lounge
Lest we forget, the (before it was a bad word)... 339 Views / 16 Replies  
Lest we forget, the (before it was a bad word) hacker’s periodical, 2600. Named after the frequency of that whistle, it was and is a journal of investigating tech that most people wouldn’t know...
Posted by ghporter, on Mar 12, 2024 at 08:44 PM, in MacNN Lounge
I’m happy with my purchase. The drive “just... 1,791 Views / 5 Replies  
I’m happy with my purchase. The drive “just works”, and I have confidence that it will keep on doing so.
Posted by ghporter, on Mar 11, 2024 at 07:34 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
LibreOffice is a really finished product. It... 885 Views / 12 Replies  
LibreOffice is a really finished product. It looks and feels much like either MS Office or the Apple equivalents, and it has plenty of actually well-written help. It takes a few minutes to get used...
Posted by ghporter, on Mar 11, 2024 at 07:21 PM, in Mac Notebooks
“Do You Think Ringo Is The Best Drummer In The World?” 354 Views / 8 Replies  
An interviewer once asked John “Do you think Ringo is the best drummer in the world?” and he replied “Ringo isn’t even the best drummer in the Beatles”. It seems that all of the boys could play...
Posted by ghporter, on Mar 10, 2024 at 09:36 AM, in MacNN Lounge
She’s G-R as far as I’m concerned. An... 78,435 Views / 291 Replies  
She’s G-R as far as I’m concerned.

An industry insider who assumes (apparently just because that’s what they have seen) that ONLY the industry uses Starline brass for dummies? That’s worrisome on...
Posted by ghporter, on Mar 6, 2024 at 10:34 PM, in MacNN Lounge
Yes. I conflated the “series B funding”... 1,270,237 Views / 1,827 Replies  
Yes. I conflated the “series B funding” mentioned some bit before the introduction of the Roadster in the Wikipedia article. I’d been looking for mention of the Lotus connection, and when I found...
Posted by ghporter, on Mar 6, 2024 at 10:25 PM, in MacNN Lounge
On an exit ramp, the sign says “Lane Ends Merge... 624,580 Views / 1,820 Replies  
On an exit ramp, the sign says “Lane Ends Merge Left”…the broken white lane separator line disappears…yet people still keep going until the barrier forces them to move left. Often this happens in...
Posted by ghporter, on Mar 6, 2024 at 10:17 PM, in MacNN Lounge
I remember that one of the big selling points of... 1,270,237 Views / 1,827 Replies  
I remember that one of the big selling points of the original Tesla Model B was that it was designed with input from Lotus (it had about 6% parts overlap with the Elise), and it should ride like a...
Posted by ghporter, on Mar 5, 2024 at 06:41 PM, in MacNN Lounge
I spent quite a while ranting about how either... 78,435 Views / 291 Replies  
I spent quite a while ranting about how either the rental house, the production company or (probably) both had vertically fornicated the whole thing at every opportunity, but even with good...
Posted by ghporter, on Mar 5, 2024 at 06:29 PM, in MacNN Lounge
Oops, the stupid lawyer ad just came back… 1,806 Views / 10 Replies  
Oops, the stupid lawyer ad just came back…
Posted by ghporter, on Mar 5, 2024 at 05:39 PM, in Feedback
I’m with subego on this. The person responsible... 78,435 Views / 291 Replies  
I’m with subego on this. The person responsible for firearms and ammunition on the set is responsible for establishing that the set is safe. This would include inspecting all firearms and all...
Posted by ghporter, on Mar 4, 2024 at 07:19 PM, in MacNN Lounge
Related: I worked with a guy here in San Antonio... 43,213 Views / 242 Replies  
Related: I worked with a guy here in San Antonio who’d been a migrant picker with his family when he was young. We got to share stories about Traverse City, Michigan because his family had picked...
Posted by ghporter, on Mar 3, 2024 at 05:04 PM, in MacNN Lounge
Have had a seriously challenging week but get it... 624,580 Views / 1,820 Replies  
Have had a seriously challenging week but get it done. Plan for a productive Saturday and a laid back, “fun with friends and family” Sunday, and knock Saturday out of the park. Feel like low...
Posted by ghporter, on Mar 3, 2024 at 04:56 PM, in MacNN Lounge
I agree on the moral and ethical stance that if... 78,435 Views / 291 Replies  
I agree on the moral and ethical stance that if one isn’t allowed to properly do their job - especially a safety job - one would be compelled to leave. But in most cases the loss of empowerment...
Posted by ghporter, on Mar 3, 2024 at 04:53 PM, in MacNN Lounge
Done right, they’re light and tasty, and they’re... 43,213 Views / 242 Replies  
Done right, they’re light and tasty, and they’re sprinkled with cinnamon and sometimes a bit of powdered sugar. Eat with a bit of honey drizzled over them. Yum!

It just occurred to me that...
Posted by ghporter, on Mar 2, 2024 at 09:19 PM, in MacNN Lounge
Yeah, it was a thing in Michigan when I was... 446,768 Views / 627 Replies  
Yeah, it was a thing in Michigan when I was growing up. But it’s getting more like “wait a minute” instead of “wait ten minutes”, and that’s my point: it’s getting more variable, and more widely...
Posted by ghporter, on Mar 2, 2024 at 09:12 PM, in MacNN Lounge
Especially when their speakers’s drivers have... 181,959 Views / 408 Replies  
Especially when their speakers’s drivers have dried out cones, and their turntable (“‘Cause vinyl is always better”) is has a cheap-@ss cartridge with a crappy stylus…. But those speaker cables will...
Posted by ghporter, on Mar 2, 2024 at 03:52 PM, in MacNN Lounge
That “whoosh” sound is the obviousness of this... 235 Views / 1 Replies  
That “whoosh” sound is the obviousness of this irony going WAY over the heads of both parents and the program’s developers.
Posted by ghporter, on Mar 2, 2024 at 03:45 PM, in MacNN Lounge
I’ve worked in several settings where we called... 78,435 Views / 291 Replies  
I’ve worked in several settings where we called each other names (often obscene), both military and healthcare. If calling names was a professionalism problem, it would have shown up there. It’s...
Posted by ghporter, on Mar 2, 2024 at 03:38 PM, in MacNN Lounge
Apparently I strayed from the best path long ago.... 1,806 Views / 10 Replies  
Apparently I strayed from the best path long ago. I have been a Chrome user for a whole lot of years, and when I have to use Firefox (it’s the browser Debian includes in their Live images and their...
Posted by ghporter, on Mar 2, 2024 at 03:09 PM, in Feedback
I only run AdBlock Plus. It used to do a great... 1,806 Views / 10 Replies  
I only run AdBlock Plus. It used to do a great job of blocking ads, but the way the site is coded, I could see where ads were intended to go. But somehow those stupid ads slip past AdBlock...
Posted by ghporter, on Feb 29, 2024 at 09:22 PM, in Feedback
The other day, we went to lunch at a nice Mexican... 43,213 Views / 242 Replies  
The other day, we went to lunch at a nice Mexican restaurant quite near our house. As we got ready to leave, the waiter said "Would you like sopaipillas?" We'd paid the bill, so this was a freebie....
Posted by ghporter, on Feb 29, 2024 at 06:49 PM, in MacNN Lounge
Agreed - it's a pain. And AdBlock Plus is worse.... 624,580 Views / 1,820 Replies  
Agreed - it's a pain. And AdBlock Plus is worse. It only tells you it's updated when you have opened a new tab. Then it opens another new one to tell you all about the AdBlock update. Go ahead...
Posted by ghporter, on Feb 29, 2024 at 06:14 PM, in MacNN Lounge
The highs were in the 80s the first part of the... 446,768 Views / 627 Replies  
The highs were in the 80s the first part of the week, we had a high in the low 70s yesterday, and a high of 52 or so today. Tomorrow, the high is expected to be 76F, and next week it's in the low...
Posted by ghporter, on Feb 29, 2024 at 06:11 PM, in MacNN Lounge
I don't recall if this was mentioned earlier, but... 78,435 Views / 291 Replies  
I don't recall if this was mentioned earlier, but having BBs in a dummy round makes it rattle when you shake it. Powder decidedly does NOT rattle. So even a dummy round with a fake primer, so that...
Posted by ghporter, on Feb 29, 2024 at 06:07 PM, in MacNN Lounge
The Samsung SSD was eligible for "overnight"... 1,791 Views / 5 Replies  
The Samsung SSD was eligible for "overnight" delivery, with an expected delivery "between 4 am and 8 am." But they didn't do that. They delivered it that evening. Wow.

The packaging was neat;...
Posted by ghporter, on Feb 29, 2024 at 05:54 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
I went with separate root, /tmp, /var, and /home... 1,739 Views / 3 Replies  
I went with separate root, /tmp, /var, and /home partitions, along with swap space. Since the OS is essentially confined to the root partition I plan to image it and squirrel that away - once I'm...
Posted by ghporter, on Feb 29, 2024 at 05:51 PM, in Alternative Operating Systems
On my iPad I’m getting those “slide down” ads… ... 1,806 Views / 10 Replies  
On my iPad I’m getting those “slide down” ads…

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Posted by ghporter, on Feb 25, 2024 at 02:45 PM, in Feedback
Thanks! You’re right, those specific stats... 1,791 Views / 5 Replies  
Thanks! You’re right, those specific stats aren’t easy to find.

I wound up ordering a 1TB Samsung 870 EVO 2.5” unit from Amazon. The price was right (on sale!) and it was eligible for not just...
Posted by ghporter, on Feb 24, 2024 at 07:43 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
SSDs; What to Avoid, What's Worth Spending a Little More? 1,791 Views / 5 Replies  
Are there any SSD brands to avoid, or brands to shell out a bit more money for? Crucial and WD have 2TB SSDs for $130 or less on Amazon, whereas Samsung's 870 EVO is $148, but Verbatim's 2TB is...
Posted by ghporter, on Feb 24, 2024 at 04:46 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
I want to keep some things separate in case the... 1,739 Views / 3 Replies  
I want to keep some things separate in case the OS goes astray. Reinstalling the OS over itself on an existing partition is fairly painless, and it's pretty straightforward to preserve any other...
Posted by ghporter, on Feb 24, 2024 at 04:12 PM, in Alternative Operating Systems
Chrome likes to block a lot of stuff. I found... 624,580 Views / 1,820 Replies  
Chrome likes to block a lot of stuff. I found this on Superuser dot com:
I haven’t tried it yet, but I think it should work better than just turning off safe browsing.

I’m working on getting...
Posted by ghporter, on Feb 24, 2024 at 12:41 PM, in MacNN Lounge
Partitioning Strategies 1,739 Views / 3 Replies  
I’ve had to replace my new-to-me i7 Debian machine - turns out some refurbishers don’t do enough inspection of the machines they refurbish, and miss stuff like obvious water damage*. So I have a new...
Posted by ghporter, on Feb 24, 2024 at 11:38 AM, in Alternative Operating Systems
I see. It’s not just lowering, it’s going for... 1,270,237 Views / 1,827 Replies  
I see. It’s not just lowering, it’s going for the look.

Serious question: what is the ride like in cars that are “stanced”? I’ve seen lowered cars go over bumps with a variety of impacts - some...
Posted by ghporter, on Feb 23, 2024 at 12:24 PM, in MacNN Lounge
The last “firearms professional” to handle the... 78,435 Views / 291 Replies  
The last “firearms professional” to handle the firearm has the responsibility to verify its safety. Union set or not. Getting the guns from a rental house is irrelevant if nobody ever checked to...
Posted by ghporter, on Feb 22, 2024 at 09:01 PM, in MacNN Lounge
OK, that makes sense with a lot of the lowered... 1,270,237 Views / 1,827 Replies  
OK, that makes sense with a lot of the lowered cars I see around here. Some to a lot of negative camber, and probably the lower they go, the more camber they get.

A stock WRX is kinda low, but it...
Posted by ghporter, on Feb 22, 2024 at 08:56 PM, in MacNN Lounge
I'm sad for you. In its heyday, SNL was cutting... 715 Views / 15 Replies  
I'm sad for you. In its heyday, SNL was cutting edge (the Not Ready for Prime Time Players genuinely earned their title), irreverent, and even when they weren't on their A game, they were worth...
Posted by ghporter, on Feb 22, 2024 at 02:02 PM, in MacNN Lounge
Friday was pretty nice, starting with a low in... 446,768 Views / 627 Replies  
Friday was pretty nice, starting with a low in the low 60s and topping out in the low 70s. But Friday night a front blew in (literally) and the HIGH yesterday was about 55. Today topped out at 56,...
Posted by ghporter, on Feb 18, 2024 at 08:14 PM, in MacNN Lounge
I fully recognize that some people’s hobbies are... 1,270,237 Views / 1,827 Replies  
I fully recognize that some people’s hobbies are not things other people understand. I also recognize that some folks who substantially modify their vehicles do not do so well, nor with an eye on...
Posted by ghporter, on Feb 18, 2024 at 08:08 PM, in MacNN Lounge
Thanks for the advice. I do not think there’s a... 229,024 Views / 779 Replies  
Thanks for the advice. I do not think there’s a blood test for strobe blindness in artificial fog, so it has that going for it too.
Posted by ghporter, on Feb 18, 2024 at 07:48 PM, in MacNN Lounge
I like “Your Move” and “I’ve Seen All Good... 715 Views / 15 Replies  
I like “Your Move” and “I’ve Seen All Good People” as a whole. I don’t necessarily like “Good People” any more or less than “Owner”, partly because I see them as being part of different musical...
Posted by ghporter, on Feb 18, 2024 at 07:46 PM, in MacNN Lounge
But does a Civic that’s seriously lowered really... 1,270,237 Views / 1,827 Replies  
But does a Civic that’s seriously lowered really benefit from negative rear wheel camber (and the last car I saw with this had only the rear wheels visibly angled)? As I said, I see this on vehicles...
Posted by ghporter, on Feb 16, 2024 at 11:20 PM, in MacNN Lounge
The “stab” is I think what I was looking for. In... 715 Views / 15 Replies  
The “stab” is I think what I was looking for. In this case it’s the sharp, increasing pitch sound, repeated several times.

Basically, I don’t know enough technical terms for such things (though I...
Posted by ghporter, on Feb 16, 2024 at 11:10 PM, in MacNN Lounge
I have a question unrelated to subego’s dashcam. ... 1,270,237 Views / 1,827 Replies  
I have a question unrelated to subego’s dashcam. I see this a lot - mostly on riced cars…what’s the deal with making the rear suspension tilt the wheels inward at the top? What does it do?
Posted by ghporter, on Feb 16, 2024 at 07:51 PM, in MacNN Lounge
Music Question 715 Views / 15 Replies  
I’m looking for a musical term, the name of a particular type of musical flourish.

As an example, at the bridge in “Owner of a Lonely Heart” by Yes, there are a couple of these. Sadly, I can’t...
Posted by ghporter, on Feb 16, 2024 at 07:49 PM, in MacNN Lounge
The link in Laminar’s post doesn’t work for me,... 1,897 Views / 34 Replies  
The link in Laminar’s post doesn’t work for me, so I didn’t see the device. Gee that’s a lot of trouble to go to - and get. INTO.
Posted by ghporter, on Feb 14, 2024 at 02:29 PM, in MacNN Lounge
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