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Oct 14, 2024, 05:56 AM
 
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
     
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Oct 15, 2024, 10:14 AM
 
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.
     
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Oct 15, 2024, 05:10 PM
 
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.
     
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Oct 15, 2024, 05:40 PM
 
Check your browser cookie settings. You may be set to delete cookies in 7-10 days, and DDG never got whitelisted.
     
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Oct 16, 2024, 10:48 AM
 
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.
     
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Oct 16, 2024, 03:59 PM
 
Even though OSX offers the courtesy, it usually takes me so long to unwind the problem(s) the shut down times out.
     
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Oct 16, 2024, 09:12 PM
 
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.
I have plenty of more important things to do, if only I could bring myself to do them....
     
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Oct 16, 2024, 10:41 PM
 
@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.
     
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Oct 18, 2024, 07:23 AM
 
I've checked all of those things. No dice.
I have plenty of more important things to do, if only I could bring myself to do them....
     
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Oct 19, 2024, 06:31 AM
 
Originally Posted by reader50 View Post
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?
     
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Oct 19, 2024, 11:45 AM
 
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.
     
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Oct 26, 2024, 08:06 AM
 
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.
     
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Oct 26, 2024, 11:42 AM
 
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
     
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Oct 26, 2024, 03:13 PM
 
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.
     
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Oct 29, 2024, 11:27 AM
 
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.
( Last edited by reader50; Oct 29, 2024 at 12:45 PM. )
     
 
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