[Thorzdad]

I definitely bought several pair of the last runners I loved. I didn’t cycle them, though. Just wore them out sequentially. Alas, Asics no longer makes that model

[subego]

As a kid I had it hammered into me shoes wear longer if they get a longer recovery time. I guess that’s not as universal an experience as I imagined.

[Thorzdad]

Why the fuck won’t Duck Duck Go remember my preference settings? I’ll set my prefs, and they stick for about a week or so, then I see they’ve jumped back to default and I have to re-set them the way I want.

[reader50]

Check your browser cookie settings. You may be set to delete cookies in 7-10 days, and DDG never got whitelisted.

[Laminar]

Windows.

When I shut down, I have no opportunity to positively correct any applications preventing shutdown. It will make the whole screen blue and let me know that I have several applications preventing shutdown, but my only options are to either kill those applications (losing unsaved progress), or cancel the shutdown process, suss out what's holding me up by manually closing applications one by one, then reinitiate shutdown.

OS X brings the offending applications to the forefront during shutdown and lets you kill it or save your work, then proceeds with shutting down.

[subego]

Even though OSX offers the courtesy, it usually takes me so long to unwind the problem(s) the shut down times out.

[Waragainstsleep]

My MBP is possessed. If I want to shut it down (Which I do when I put it in my foam-lined case because otherwise it will wake up of its own accord and then proceed to cook itself), I have to hold the power button down. If I shut down normally it will boot itself back up again. And the proceed to cook itself in its case.

[reader50]

@War,

Preferences -> Energy Saver -> Start up automatically after a power failure (slider)

Is this turned on? It's the only official setting that can trigger automatic startup. Otherwise, reset your SMC.

When the SMC gets out of whack, it can produce the weirdest symptoms. Fans not working properly is an easy one, but it can also cause weird boot problems. My MP stopped booting anything later than Big Sur. Snow Leopard through Big Sur would boot perfectly. Anything later - hang at Apple logo with the thermometer just begun. My SMC was preventing OpenCore Legacy Patcher from virtualizing, which is necessary for Monterey and later. ie - the SMC was blocking a CPU feature.

After a day wasted on OS reinstall attempts, an SMC reset fixed everything. I still had to reinstall to the partitions I'd hosed trying to fix earlier.

[Waragainstsleep]

I've checked all of those things. No dice.

[Thorzdad]

Originally Posted by reader50 

Check your browser cookie settings. You may be set to delete cookies in 7-10 days, and DDG never got whitelisted.

Is there such a setting in iOS?

[reader50]

Oh, nm. For some reason, I thought you were using a browser on a real computer.

Someday, I'll have to buy a smartphone, and be in the same boat.

[Thorzdad]

So, the YouTube app on Roku has fallen to a new level of crappiness.

You know how (on Roku, anyway) if you pause a video for a certain amount of time, the Roku screensaver will start running? In any other app (i.e. Netflix, D+, Prime, etc.) when you later hit a button on the Roku remote, the screensaver stops and you return to the video you were watching at the point you paused it.

Not anymore on the YouTube app. Now, if you pause a video, when you dismiss the screensaver you don’t go back to the video. You find you have been booted back to the YT app’s login screen and have to go back in. To make things even worse, the video you were watching doesn’t show up anywhere on the front page after going back in. Not under “Continue Watching” not under “Rewatch” not anywhere. It’s like you never watched it.

I’ve also started getting videos listed under “Continue Watching” that I’ve never once even peeked at.

[reader50]

On the default YT settings, videos animate when you mouse across the thumbnail. And it counts as a "watch", with the vids added to your YT History. I went into YT Settings and turned off autoplay / auto preview / whatever, so it would stop populating my History with random crap.

Separately, TY tried triple ads awhile back. People disliked it so much, they reverted to 2 ads per break. Only, I've caught them cheating occasionally. Every once in awhile, they play 3 ads. The ad counter in lower left doesn't acknowledge the third ad. This happens rarely, maybe once per day at most.

first ad: 1 of 2
second ad: 2 of 2
sneak #3 ad: 2 of 2

[Thorzdad]

A lot of times, when I’m on YouTube in a web browser, I get ads that never seem to end. They just keep going and going and going, with no obvious means to skip or dismiss them. The only way I’ve found to get back to the video is to reload the page. For whatever reason doing that will now give me the video.

[reader50]

The Skip button is still there in lower right, but it sometimes hides. Appearing only when you mouse over the video. Other times, it stays visible. I haven't spotted a pattern yet.

As of yesterday, YouTube has escalated the ad wars. Perhaps too many people were clicking away, like me, and letting ads play in the background. Here are the changes:

The ad counter (1 of 2, 2 of 2) is hidden unless you mouse over the ad. With browser in the foreground, of course.
The yellow progress bar for ads, is no longer time-proportional. It completes across the screen in 5 seconds exactly, regardless of the ad length. You have to mouse over the ad to see how much time remains.

The two changes force people to guess when the ad(s) will end, so they have to click back sooner to check. Lovely.

[subego]

Today is angiogram day, so if I disappear it was that.

[subego]

I am survived! No stents, though maybe one in the future.

[Laminar]

Welcome back.

[reader50]

Originally Posted by subego 

I am survived! No stents, though maybe one in the future.

Unless this is all an anesthesia dream, and you're still on the table in the OR.

If anyone posts crazy stuff, that would be a clue that this isn't real. Let us know if any unicorns knock on your door too. Be sure to post the Ring footage.

[subego]

Originally Posted by Laminar 

Welcome back.

TY!

Actually just sedated, so no dream that I’m aware of.

[Thorzdad]

Spent about 25 minutes in a Fugifilm Oasis Friday afternoon.



Man, those things are crazy loud. But, the different noises they make are kinda cool. Even at rest it makes a soft kind of thump-thump-thump sound.

I will say, though, this particular imaging center had shit music to listen to on the headphones. I always ask for something like club or dance music (I find it goes well with the noises the machine makes.) I knew I was in for a long scan when the second song that came up was fucking Footloose. Jesus. And, fucking ads! Ugh, no.


The last mri I had done (a couple of years ago) was at a different imaging center. Far better music there. It kicked-off with Dua Lipa and only got better as it went on. And no ads.

[subego]

I theoretically have one coming up… for a runny nose that won’t go away.

My doctor over-doctors.

[reader50]

Originally Posted by subego 

… for a runny nose that won’t go away.

Perhaps an allergy? Cheap and easy to try an over-the-counter solution. The MRI will still be waiting if it doesn't go away.

[subego]

My guess is it’s not presenting like an allergy. If it is, it has to be new. This has never happened to me before. All my previous runny noses cleared up. I should add my ears are a little clogged too.

His assumption is it’s a sinus infection.

What he really wants me to do is a neti-pot, but I refused.

We tried Zithromax, which seemed to help a little while I was taking it, but I could be mistaken.

I think the plan is to put me on a stronger antibiotic, but he wants the MRI to confirm there’s not something wacky going on inside my skull.

[Thorzdad]

I used to nope about netipots. Then one winter, I had the mother of all headcolds and nothing was helping relieve the concrete blockage in my sinuses. I broke down and tried a netipot. It was a freaking mess, all the crap it flushed free from my head, but the damned thing worked as advertised.

[subego]

Oh, I’m absolutely positive it would be a good thing regardless of whether it fixes the runny nose. It’s like, triggering my drowning reflex just thinking about it. I can’t imagine how freaked out I’d be actually doing it.

I freak out about eye stuff too. My last trip to the ophthalmologist was abortive, and the consensus was I’m going to need sedation. Different ophthalmologist too. This one doesn’t have the patience to deal with me.

[Thorzdad]

You and my wife are compatriots in the “fear of drowning” thing. She refuses to use a netipot for the same reason. I get it. I mean, she freaks out in a pool if the water level gets anywhere near her chin, even if she can touch bottom.

I guess for me, the netipot is just a weird-enough sensation to attract me. Pouring warm water in one nostril and having run out the other one is a very cartoonish thing.

[subego]

I’m also worried the plumbing in my head is a little abnormal.

For example, as far as I can tell, when I sneeze, all the force goes out my mouth.

[Thorzdad]

Isn’t that kinda normal? My sneezes largely exit via the mouth, unless it’s accompanied by a head cold, then any exit is valid.

[subego]

I thought through the nose is normal.

Related, I’ve never been able to blow my nose. It triggers pain in my ears.

[reader50]

Originally Posted by subego 

Related, I’ve never been able to blow my nose. It triggers pain in my ears.

Something is nearly blocked. I've changed my mind - the MRI is sounding good after all. To figure out what's going on.

[ghporter]

Before I retired, I had an MRI to find out if my tinnitus was due to a brain tumor. “It’s not a tumor”.

I’ve never had music provided for MRIs. Lots of weird extra hardware though. For example, my first hip MRI included a gadget that looked like a kiddie safety gate made of PVC pipe. It was supposed to help enhance the signal (in or out I’m not sure). I’m not a fan of needing MRIs, but they’re the very best way to get the most accurate information about what’s going on inside.

subego, as reader says, if you don’t have much force going out through your nose AND your ears hurt with sneezes, you have “something” amiss within your nasal structures. So yeah, an MRI looks less like over-doctoring and more like “I gots ta know”.