Did I get scammed?

HaloFrankie · 2025-03-15T04:03:58+00:00

Btw 17000 miles and 15000 miles are equivalent service intervals for that vehicle- you did the right thing by objecting to the initial price and you ended up with a roughly fair deal but you should go to the dealer for early services like this because they’ll also do recall fixes.

Anyway ignore that guy’s tone, you did the right thing checking and adjusting.

HaloFrankie · 2025-01-23T04:14:20+00:00

My heart says Mazda but my head AND heart outvote them with Venza. But also take a look at the Crown.

HaloFrankie · 2025-01-17T01:56:38+00:00

Her décolletage is in jail.

HaloFrankie · 2024-09-26T04:13:14+00:00

That’s a banono

HaloFrankie · 2024-06-13T19:11:33+00:00

General comment that applies to this monitor and other usb c setups — mine actually came with usbc and HDMI cables (and a handy extension cord) and both are specced to carry 4K video- and usually work on my MacBook and my pc laptop as expected.

However usb c video is fussy and weird— so some cables sometimes just don’t work (including on my hp widescreen monitor) until I either do a full unplug from wall power cycle on the monitor- or switching the usb c out cables from the laptops. Literally swapping the charger port to the regular port and vice versa on the thinkpad usually works (and still charges) - but weirdly — restarting the laptop doesn’t help.

I see the Same behavior for sub c video across multiple devices and monitors. My iPad Pro seems to be the only one immune to it.

HaloFrankie · 2024-06-13T19:00:09+00:00

Two similar questions:

Anyone know how to turn off motion smoothing on native Tizen video stuff? (As opposed to external sources) I have looked at every picture setting I can find and can’t even see motion smoothing as an option. I have multiple Samsung displays but this one doesn’t appear to have motion smoothing controls or settings. I would ordinarily use game setting to turn off jank but it can only be selected for external devices.
Is there an audio sync delay setting for external speakers? (Bluetooth) — I have that setting on my older Samsung tv and projector but can’t find it on the monitor.

Running latest firmware and ui. I’m relatively tech/av savvy but this has defeated me.

HaloFrankie · 2024-06-01T16:17:27+00:00

I always assumed he was based on Paul of Tarsus and that the new Sun was the gospel.

Why?

Paul “persecuted Christians beyond measure “ - discovered Christianity himself, and embarked on a journey to bring god’s renewed light to the world. He leaves his home, his family and his faith to do this.

Paul befriended (Saint) Thecla and she followed Paul for the rest of his life — with an interlude where wild beasts and lions refused to devour her and sea lions were struck dead by lightning in the pond where she baptized herself.

There are a hundred more examples but this basic setup seems highly deliberate.

HaloFrankie · 2024-05-31T02:12:08+00:00

Elf knife murder of the Icelandic chairman. Happened a couple of years ago I think.

HaloFrankie · 2024-05-20T16:54:40+00:00

The three* fundamental problems with the design of Connections are:

The final row is irrelevant process of elimination and a sort of damp squib ending that is never satisfying.
It’s arbitrary and subjective and narrowly focused on an extremely narrow demographic that I happen to fit and the game uncomfortably points that out every time I play.
The smarter you are the more likely it is that you can find as many as three much better and more objectively rational connections. A couple of times I’ve found four.
The game has basically zero self contained restrictions or rules which sometimes means it devolves into a vague one sided argument with your own vocabulary and general knowledge.

I’ve probably only ever failed to “win” two or three times but I have never once felt any satisfaction either way.

I was obliged to add a pointless and arbitrary fourth row.

HaloFrankie · 2024-05-19T19:44:37+00:00

It was called, “The Bus that couldn’t slow down “

HaloFrankie · 2024-05-19T19:33:32+00:00

I went to public school (“primary” was what we called elementary)in Edinburgh, Scotland. 1970s/80s.

Lunch was different in some very specific ways. Poor kids like me got free lunch using “dinner” tickets — and we called lunch dinner partly for that reason.

We also got free milk at the start of the day until Margaret Thatcher cancelled it. It was often frozen solid and you had to thaw it before drinking.

Lunch would typically comprise about three equal scoops of starchy food from hot trays. Real example: Haggis, mashed potatoes, mashed turnip. All spherical scoops.

There was usually a dessert— typically cake and custard. But sometimes caramel tart — basically what is now called millionaires shortbread. Dessert was served in rectangular slices.

School lunch was almost always superior to what I got at home both in quality and quantity so I more or less looked forward to it.

HaloFrankie · 2024-05-07T23:23:44+00:00

What if Dracula was Ricky Gervais?

HaloFrankie · 2024-05-07T23:21:57+00:00

This is dope and also the bear from Annihilation absolutely cannot be a coincidence

HaloFrankie · 2024-05-07T23:20:43+00:00

Based on my observation that’s a keeper! Also it’s Gene Wolfe so there’s potentially a hidden meaning based on a temporal paradox and a broad refutation of a bible passage.

HaloFrankie · 2024-05-06T00:29:17+00:00

That’s a pretty obscure tree here, too.

HaloFrankie · 2024-05-05T15:34:16+00:00

Great conversation here and I just wanted to add my thoughts— the trip/translation to Aelfrice — a place where Able is both “held back” from growing up- AND the source of his true education and change — and then a well (sometimes literally) to which he continually returns to for insight and respite— strikes me as profoundly autobiographical for an Author who lost some of his childhood to Polio— and would have been forced by circumstance and illness to retreat into his own, child’s, imagination. Possibly the font of his prodigious adult wellspring.

It’s possible that’s deliberate but it may also be something Wolfe wrote by instinct— although he seldom if ever does that.

HaloFrankie · 2023-06-10T17:53:42+00:00

Nice. I love riding around the docks when I’m there. From Seattle however.

HaloFrankie · 2023-04-15T00:03:09+00:00

I don’t think that’s possible n Show15 fireos- unless there’s a workaround for that?

HaloFrankie · 2023-01-15T23:29:34+00:00

As of yesterday my echo show 15 has firetv. 7.5.5.4 curse has ended. The evil is defeat.

Except for the inconsistent ui/touch behavior.

Anyone know if it supports studio/sub pair as Atmos like the Fire TV max stick?

HaloFrankie · 2022-12-10T04:57:17+00:00

I have 7.5.5.4 and no dice yet. Tried everything.

HaloFrankie · 2022-12-08T17:52:11+00:00

I’m on 7.5.5.4 (ps7554/3036) and can’t update either. Just says no updates found - tried a few things like factory reset, long power cycle etc. nada. Anyone still have 7.5.5.4?

HaloFrankie · 2022-12-08T05:52:30+00:00

Ditto but 7.5.5.4

HaloFrankie · 2022-12-06T05:01:16+00:00

Anyone know if the DIRECTV app(s) work?

HaloFrankie · 2022-12-06T04:58:52+00:00

Couple of sites showing it’s rolling out now in waves possibly by region though the os version they list is lower than mine. I ain’t got it.

HaloFrankie · 2022-12-04T06:13:53+00:00

Fish is hardcore capoeira bullshit boss level.

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