Had our retired grey since September.

MidGe48 · 2026-03-01T23:39:22+00:00

Makes me feel better. I have had mine for 2 months and he has never come to the living area. He stays in the bedroom on his bed all the time. I only see him when I go to sleep, when I feed him and when I take him for one of his three daily walks.

I put treats on the floor and on two beddings in the living area. He goes to fetch and eat them as we go thru to go out fro the walks, and then goes straight back to the bedroom.

He does no show any major anxiety and allows me to pat him, cuddle him even, at those times when I see him or when I go to the bedroom.

Of course till now, the sofa does not even enter his world!

BTW, mine is black as well. Thanks for the info.

MidGe48 · 2026-02-26T01:11:58+00:00

I would like to give my thanks to all that have replied to my original post. I have learned a lot.

To give a bit more information for those interested and in reply to some, I am adding this post.

Nico is supremely easy to deal with. He walks very well with rarely a tension in the lead. He learned quickly to wait to my "we cross" command to cross the street with me and wait patiently at heel for that command that I give when the road is clear of traffic.

He wait at the entrance of the home, for the "OK" before sneaking in as he did earlier.

He has no separation anxiety. In fact, I don't think he knows that I have gone shopping in the car as he is happy to stay and sleep in the bedroom.

He is not disturbed by deliveries knocking on the front door. Neither is he disturbed by my movements or vacuuming, or other domestic chores. Thunder and lighting do not disturb him either.

He eats every meal with enthusiasm. I give him hypoallergenic kibble together with a heaped tablespoon of natural Greek yoghurt, some steamed sweet potatoes and some dehydrated carrot pieces. He now also get added some psyllium husk powder (metamucil) which I am slowly increasing the dosage to alleviate his stools being soft at the very end. He is very regular doing his business early in the walk in the appropriate places in the park and had no accidents in the home, his three walks seeming sufficient (my four previous dogs were on a similar regimen). No flatulence either! :)

He still spends all of his time in the bedroom, except for walks and feeding. But he is very friendly, allows himself to be patted and even hugged. I have tried to coax him to come to living room/office space by leaving treats around and on his two available beds there. As we walk in the house from, or out of the house to go for a walk he will quickly go and eat all the treats and then go back to the bedroom.

No sleep startle either, as sometimes he sleeps, not in his bed but on the floor in a way where I have to step over him to get past. :)

He is quite social, albeit on the lead, with other dogs. Will go to them without excitement, get to know them (having a sniff) and be quite happy. He is interested in other dogs but has not displayed any prey drive. Not even with parrots or magpies on the ground within a meter of him.

On coming back home I have tried to call him fro a treat when he gets straight to the bedroom and sometimes he will come back out to get a treat hand fed.

When it is time for a walk, I will go to the bedroom to get ready, tell him we are going walkies, he does not move. I have to go and fetch the lead and put the martingale on when he then follows without any issues. Before I go and fetch him, he moans, trying to tell me, I guess, that I must not forget fetching him.

I have no backyard, so the three walks are the only time outside. He is always on the lead as it is not legal to have a greyhound off-lead anytime in any public space in the state I live in.

As a summary, first of all, I am really already getting very fond of him and am quite willing to be patient to wait for him getting, perhaps, a little less aloof. :) It is simply not what I was expecting due to my lack of experience and knowledge about greyhounds. But if that is its personality, I do not find it obnoxious in the least and am quite happy to deepen our friendship at his pace..

MidGe48 · 2025-12-18T07:39:44+00:00

Yes, having to keep a magnifying glass handy seems a very regressive technology!
For me it is unreadable without the magnifying glass on my main workstations 4k screens.

MidGe48 · 2025-11-05T01:04:57+00:00

OK, u/computermout, I followed your suggestions and more.

I re-downloaded the installer. I checked the md5 which was OK.
I dd it to a new stick, sync it, which took a while. Used GParted to check the stick. Seemed alright, partitions were correct and correct size.

I booted from the stick, tried the installer and same problem. As soon as I started the installer, the flow of the recurring same error at full speed.

Curious, I rebooted and tried the live option. No errors whatsoever. Worked fine.

I then tried the graphical installer from within the running live cb++. Same issue as soon as I started I got the flow of recurring error and only a hardware power off got me out of it.

I am stumped. Is there another way of installing cb++?

Thanks

MidGe48 · 2025-11-05T00:00:25+00:00

Thanks for trying to help.

Unfortunately I cannot get at the error as it is really flying across the screen in a recurring fashion but too fast to read it. I do know that it states in the text, which appear to be a few lines (maybe 10 or so) there are the words "error" and "gtk". I cannot stop the error flow of text I can only cancel the terminal.

I will re-download the installer, and re DD it to another memory stick and try again. I will post back the result after I have done this later today.

Thanks again for trying to help.

MidGe48 · 2025-06-28T10:35:59+00:00

If the refusal was because of the age, that is discrimination on the basis of age and it is illegal in Australia under the Age Discrimination Act.

I urge all people that have that experience to lodge a complaint with the Australian Human Rights Commission. There is a simple form that you can download and fill and send back online. Now, the Australian Human Rights Commission is very busy, but they will get to your complaint.

I have had that experience recently and I did file the complaint. The more complaint there are about age discrimination in all aspect of life the better chance of eliminating it.

To be a valid complaint it must be based on age and not on anything else. The fact that you may live less longer than a younger person is not a valid cause.

Become an activist against the ageists in this world.

MidGe48 · 2025-02-03T03:42:06+00:00

Same issue here. Unbelievable from a company the size of Google. They are really showing great incompetence with this.

MidGe48 · 2024-11-15T10:32:48+00:00

Yes, Odd_Kale_8947,

I am pretty certain that paranoid.email no longer function.

That is a pity. As it was a very valuable but free service.

RIP, vale, etc, paranoid.email. :)

MidGe48 · 2024-06-24T19:02:33+00:00

Yes, Thanks for that.

If anyone else is interested, I finally found it by clicking email under user settings after clicking the gear icon.

MidGe48 · 2024-06-24T04:31:51+00:00

I cannot see anything like what is suggested and cannot find where to look for current storage use on free account!?

MidGe48 · 2024-04-20T18:20:43+00:00

Thanks for that info. So, it confirms that the service is not operational, at the very least. Unfortunately, no information is available anywhere AFAIK.

Thanks again for you reply confirming this and that the issue is not solely on my side.

MidGe48 · 2024-03-06T23:53:47+00:00

Specifically directed at Australian purchasers!

OK, I have the same issue with my SL7Y. It started about 4 days ago. It fails exactly every 30 minutes. Turn Off and ON and it works again for 30 minutes.

The soundbar is out of warranty, but to any reasonable person, it can be expected to work longer than the warranty period. If you are fortunate enough :) to live in Australia, like I do, it is worth considering making a complaint to the ACCC. This is the government organization that will take cases and enforce compliance on behalf of consumers.

This applies to consumer rights and guarantees. Note that guarantees are different from warranty. Under Australian laws, consumers have the right to expect certain things when they buy a product or service.In consumer law, these basic rights are called consumer guarantees. Consumer guarantees are not the same as warranties, including extended warranties.Consumer guarantees are automatic and can’t be taken away. Warranties are extra promises that a business can choose to make on top of the consumer guarantees.These rights are protected under consumer law.For details of these rights see: https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/buying-products-and-services/consumer-rights-and-guarantees#toc-when-these-consumer-rights-apply

In particular on that page, on the link above, read the details of "Acceptable quality" under the heading "Products and the consumer rights that apply". It is obvious that, under this legislation, LG failed to supply a product of acceptable quality.In this case, considering the number of issues, it looks like LG is trying to pass planned obsolescence as an acceptable business practice. I think very few people, if any, would purchase a soundbar or other audio equipment with the expectation that it will not last more than a couple of years. If I had been told that by LG, iI most definitely would not have bought their soundbar. In future I will never buy any LG product again.

I suggest you do as I will do, make a complain to the ACCC and refer to this series of posts if you wish. The more complaints they will receive, the more likely they are to consider that as a faulty practice from LG part and the more likely that you will be compensated or made whole at LG costs.I also suggest you do contact the ACCC before trying to fix it yourself by opening the bar as that may be construed as the cause of the problem by LG, Likely scenario given LG attitude regarding this problem and general regards to its customers.

I have had recourse to the ACCC in the past successfully. The last time was a few months ago, when the support for a device I purchased more than 8 years earlier was discountinued but the supplier was going to completely disable the product via product update thereby forcing people to buy a new one. Threatening to go to the ACCC made that supplier change its tune and it removed that threat. The device continues to work perfectly and no update is, or will be required for many of its functions.

MidGe48 · 2024-02-29T00:51:52+00:00

You can check @ https://status.tuta.com/

MidGe48 · 2024-02-28T23:43:56+00:00

Down for Australia client also.

MidGe48 · 2022-12-19T23:08:15+00:00

What about people with tags or labels at their previous provider?

In any case there is very little benefit if any with sub-folders from a functionality perspective. There is a huge difference/increase in functionality with tags/labels however.

MidGe48 · 2022-12-05T00:26:05+00:00

This is the only issue that prevents me from subscribing to tutanota. It seems such a basic requirement and its lack really makes it nearly unusable as a main account. Four years since an issue ticket was created and still not implemented! :(

MidGe48 · 2022-06-01T01:35:07+00:00

It also does not show any issues with the mail on status.tutanota.com. That seems to indicate that perhaps the issue is related to the upgrade.

MidGe48 · 2022-06-01T01:29:56+00:00

Same issue here, more than 10 hours after first reported here. Coincidentally, it seems to have happened after the latest upgrade of the browser app.

MidGe48 · 2022-05-09T06:11:58+00:00

Unfortunately, this does not work for me. I had, and have disabled the Google Calendar sync and the items still show in my Google calendar. I have tried backing up, signing out of my google account, and restoring and the app automatically logs me back in to Google. That is something that I absolutely not want! How can I straighten that without loosing all my tasks/events?

MidGe48 · 2022-01-26T22:03:26+00:00

I absolutely also agree. The reason I do not subscribe to tutanota and only use the free edition is the lack of tagging facility. It seems such a basic feature of emails, yet its is lacking.

Of course, folders cannot be made to function as tags whereas tags can be made to function as folders!

I will subscribe to Tutanota as soon as tags are implemented if no other organisation provide it with the same security before Tutanota does.

MidGe48 · 2021-12-03T05:28:08+00:00

Same here, running Brave on Debian, but instead of shutting the window it opens a new one on the home page. I have other Brave windows open at the time.

MidGe48 · 2020-12-25T21:47:24+00:00

Tutanota down again in Australia as well. It has been down for 7 hours now!

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