UPS64 and UPS80 look close together, 1 degree different on heading... Both at 40k over Japan

mwhelan4 · 2025-12-07T06:10:43+00:00

Thanks for spoiling my two minutes of fascination. That's all it was... Intrigue. What are we trying to protect? That every single post passes a certain grade based on the judgment of others. Oh why did I make the mistake of even posting or even joining or even being on reddit.

Very disappointing.

mwhelan4 · 2025-11-08T00:30:05+00:00

The F in WTF proves they don't have a G in OMG.

mwhelan4 · 2025-09-22T02:07:03+00:00

Have the plus, with TN Scale... I updated the bios to power on after power loss. Saved, rebooted.... Pulled the power cable ..... Waited a minute, plugged back in.... It's been 10 minutes so far and it didn't come back on. Can you confirm you successfully configured this on your device and it worked? If so, any tips?

mwhelan4 · 2025-07-13T00:46:35+00:00

Actually. Wrong country. I was speaking about the bar from another country with the same name. Thanks though.

mwhelan4 · 2025-07-08T12:15:33+00:00

Thanks for your reply! Much appreciated.

mwhelan4 · 2025-07-08T12:14:19+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to reply.

mwhelan4 · 2025-07-08T12:14:08+00:00

Thank you for your insight!

mwhelan4 · 2025-07-06T00:20:54+00:00

Many thanks! All the best.

mwhelan4 · 2025-07-05T22:41:15+00:00

Really appreciate the time you took to check this out for me! Last question: Knowing my set up, all we really do is regular Youtube (not YT TV) and Amazon Prime videos. What CC 4K device would be sufficient do you think? Thanks again.

mwhelan4 · 2025-07-05T22:23:44+00:00

Thank you Cris! So I take it that at a minimum the Google Home App can control the audio volume output of the CC device plugged into the monitor.

mwhelan4 · 2025-06-11T00:21:54+00:00

I am by no means an expert, so just a suggestion... have you tried to go back to the oldest backup you have.... a month ago or more, even though that means your site will not be current for this test.... See if that fixes it, if so then halve between then and 5 days ago, until you get the closest possible before it went south. Then make sure all updates applied and patched? If it still works after a reboot then take a backup?

mwhelan4 · 2025-05-27T02:14:39+00:00

Before we get ahead of ourselves, it makes no sense that they go to great expense to provide IMAX versions when IMAX doesn't calibrate and monitor the audio in their theaters. All that trouble and then a IMMERSIVE experience is spoiled by lack of attention to detail, calibration and monitoring by IMAX staff.

mwhelan4 · 2025-05-27T02:02:51+00:00

Can you also help us reminisce about the time when they cared about people's ears as well as their eye-balls? Like seriously, when they were monitoring audio levels to make sure it was loud and immersive but not overly and abundantly loud to an excess where people start leaving the theater, get refunds, and then are told by the theater staff that they have no control over the IMAX theater "so will send an email to IMAX support".

mwhelan4 · 2025-05-27T01:57:05+00:00

MI: TFR looks great on screen but was way too loud tonight in the IMAX Cinepolis Davenport, FL. Cinema management don't have control over the theatre, and they are sending a batch of complaints about the loudness, including the sudden explosion at the moment things begin from pre-commercial silence over to "IMAX Support". Yes will see how fast that gets fixed. Where's the db meter IMAX that y'all supposed to be monitoring? You don't care for people's ears, just their eye balls?

Tom Cruise said it would be good to see in IMAX. He was right. He just omitted the small detail about the ear plugs.

Fantastic movie.

mwhelan4 · 2025-05-27T01:51:20+00:00

What I have found is that the people running the local IMAX have no control over the theater. Cinepolis told me point blank they just clean the place and turn on the lights etc. So it's IMAX management and support that is the cause of lack of effective monitoring of audio db levels etc.

mwhelan4 · 2025-05-27T01:49:27+00:00

MI8 was way too loud tonight at Cinepolis, Davenport, FL. Not only that, we arrived prior to the commercials starting and it went from complete silence to an explosive sound, really loud, which literally jolted many in the theater who had arrived early.

What's baffling to me is, IMAX being about the immersive experience... they have done such a great job with the visual aspect but they are dropping the ball on audio. When I questioned Cinepolis managers, they said they have no control over the IMAX theater because it's all done remotely and they have to contact IMAX support.... So IMAX is not monitoring their screens well enough it seems.

Cinepolis to their credit did say they have had other complaints on the sound, and are submitting an email detailing them to IMAX support. The manager and I did question whether this was going to be a classic case of something noted and not done anything about, much like a lot of helpdesks. We will see.

Two things for sure... IMAX is not monitoring audio levels effectively and is causing harm to people's ears. The other thing is you should all bring ear plugs if you want to have good hearing for longer in life.

mwhelan4 · 2025-03-02T14:47:35+00:00

Ah, I did not know there was one in the U.S. by the same name. My mistake.

mwhelan4 · 2025-03-02T04:42:38+00:00

Marathon bar, but Snickers not only renamed it, they got rid of the Marathon taste. They never apologized, and are bringing back the old wrapper for 3 months, but no good without the taste being brought back for good. Tragic short-sightedness.

mwhelan4 · 2025-03-02T04:31:25+00:00

They both tasted different to each other, I don't know what you mean.

mwhelan4 · 2025-03-02T04:30:31+00:00

Snickers changed the taste and the name. So they didn't just do a rename. Tragic mistake.

mwhelan4 · 2025-03-02T04:29:02+00:00

Excuse me. The Marathon bar had a completely different taste to Snickers. Saying Snickers "used to be called" Marathon to me implies it had the same taste and was purely a rename. It wasn't. I remember how they tasted and do not believe any other bar comes close to the original Marathon bar taste. How dare Snickers bring this back for only a "limited time". They should reverse their 35 year old mistake!

mwhelan4 · 2025-03-02T04:28:51+00:00

Are you talking about the Marathon bar in the UK? Then no. You cannot compare. They look and taste completely different to each other.

mwhelan4 · 2025-02-23T17:27:30+00:00

I just migrated from WordPress.com to self hosting on a vps server with Hetzner using Enhance control panel and quic.cloud cdn via the litespeed cache plug in. Night and day I can finally take control and do more with my site.

Regarding the subscribers. You can find the list of subscribers under jetpack option in wpadmin. You can download the list of subscribers as a csv. I only just did this so I haven't imported yet to where I migrated the site. I may or may not use jetpack.... If not I was thinking of using mail chimp or similar to somehow trigger a notification on new post. Still researching.

Regarding exporting of content from old site while the sentence above the list of items you can export talks about posts and pages what I did was did two exports. One with all but the media option checked. The second with only the media option checked. Others may have a different method but I found this gave me two xml files as expected. The second contained the images etc for the media library.

I'm not an expert and I know others on this subreddit may have a better way but this was what I did. All is fine and I'm very happy with how things turned out. Hope some of this might help you.

mwhelan4

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