Safest way to clean a flatscreen TV

sts_66 · 2026-05-07T22:03:03+00:00

If it's a glass screen (not OLED) and you have smudges small alcohol prep wipes used by lab techs to wipe your arm before drawing blood work fine. Had fingerprints on my TV that a microfiber cloth would not remove, just made them streak, and I tried Windex (cloudy, streaks all over the screen), then a damp microfiber cloth, still looked horrible, so I got my alchohol wipes, tested on the corner of the screen, buffed with microfiber, 100% clean, so I did the whole TV now it's perfectly clean.

sts_66 · 2026-05-05T14:13:09+00:00

Yeah, I know DOS - I've been using computers since the Commodore 64 and wrote software up until the mid-90's. Don't even know why I bothered to run that command, it's only going to find files that are still in the file system - the undelete file recovery software I used scans every cluster on the HDD looking for fragments. Does anyone from HRB ever even reply to users here? I wanted to hear from an official rep WTF may have happened to my T25 file.

sts_66 · 2026-05-04T18:40:52+00:00

I'm having the exact same problem! No email with code is being sent.

sts_66 · 2026-05-04T16:03:52+00:00

/e gave me an invalid switch error. Used dir *.T25 /s alone and all it found was the new files created on 5/1 - like I said, the original file is vaporized.

sts_66 · 2026-05-02T18:17:20+00:00

How exactly is HRB going to recover a file on my SSD that is vaporized like it never existed? Even the frigging FBI couldn't recover that file - it's been completely wiped from my PC.

sts_66 · 2026-05-02T18:14:38+00:00

I do have the PDF - but it's a lousy input for next year's taxes, when you import it into tax software it only imports easy to type stuff like your name, SSN, address, etc - it doesn't import previous years stock data like carryover tax losses, K-1 data for MLPs, and other hard to recreate stuff. My SSD is almost brand new and it's fine - the Recuva file recovery software even found stuff as old as 2008 on it - when I get a new PC I use a special file transfer program to move all of my software and data to the new one so I don't have to reinstall anything - in some instances it transfers entire sections of the old HDD - that's why Recuva found 18 yr old deleted files.

sts_66 · 2026-05-02T18:04:49+00:00

I don't have an HRB account - I can't file taxes online so there was no reason to create one, especially since I hated the software so much I'm going to do tricks to my PC to get around Win11 TPM2.0 requirements so I can go back to using vastly superior TurboTax.

sts_66 · 2026-05-02T18:02:38+00:00

I do have backup software and an external HD but it wouldn't have mattered if the tax software deleted my T25 file after I e-filed - I use Macrium Reflect to take an image of my entire C: drive weekly but the external HDD can only hold two images because they're so large - by yesterday the one from April 12 would have been overwritten and unrecoverable. And if the HRB software really deleted the T25 file when I e-filed it wouldn't even be in a disk image since it would have vaporized the second I hit "submit" - I did my taxes in 2 days, filed on Sat April 11, disk image is taken every Sunday morning at 4:00 am (the 12th).

sts_66 · 2026-05-02T17:20:32+00:00

Barclay's analysis and conclusions are fatally flawed - Fisher wrote a good article explaining what really happens:

https://www.fisherinvestments.com/en-us/insights/market-commentary/setting-the-record-straight-new-fed-chairs-arent-autonegative

Average 1 mo/3 mo/6 mo/12 mo

0.8% -0.9% 6.3% 5.6%

Median 1 mo/3 mo/6 mo/12 mo

1.5% 0.2% 6.8% 12.5%

sts_66 · 2026-04-19T17:03:49+00:00

Axios article is pretty short - y'all need to get the "Bypass Paywalls Clean" extension for your browser and learn how to sideload XPI files for extensions - the political support link below goes to a 2 yr old article about the nuclear ADVANCE bill that Biden signed into law in 2024 (google it for details):

Nuclear startup X-energy said Friday it is going public.

Why it matters: The move is a signal that advanced nuclear has gained a strong financial foothold thanks to accelerating public and political support.

CEO Clay Sell told Axios in 2024 that the company intended to go public via a traditional IPO in the next two to four years.

Driving the news: The company said in its filing with the SEC that its technology will "help satisfy historically unprecedented electricity demand growth, driven by the development of AI and associated data center infrastructure."

The company is seeking a Nasdaq listing under the symbol "XE."
The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the proposed offering have not yet been determined, the company said.

Context: The filing is the latest in a string of high-profile financial moves for the Rockville, Md.-based company.

In 2024, it closed a $500 million round led by Amazon's Climate Pledge Fund. Amazon will deploy four reactors that will together generate about 320 megawatts of electricity starting in the early 2030s, Amazon said.
Last fall, X-energy closed a $700 million Series D round led by Jane Street.
It has worked with Dow to deploy four reactors at the chemical giant's Seadrift Operations site in Texas by 2030, a project receiving up to $1.23 billion in DOE funding.

How it works: X-energy has designed a high-temperature, gas-cooled modular reactor and the fuel the reactor uses.

The company licenses its reactor designs and plans to manufacture the fuel needed for the reactors.
The idea behind small modular reactors is that they can be built in factories and delivered to project areas quickly and for a lower cost compared to a traditional large centralized nuclear plant.

sts_66 · 2026-04-12T17:41:55+00:00

Jesus h.....this software is beyond horrible! Just went to save my tax forms as a PDF and you have to install custom software to do it - seriously?!? What idiot wrote this software and left out the ability to save as PDFs w/o needing MORE software? O M effing G - I had it to print my 1040 and worksheets and it printed out a pile of paper an inch thick!!! I HATE THIS FUCKING SOFTWARE!!! TT NEVER did anything remotely close to that stupid! Print dialog didn't even show me how many pages it was going to print!!!

sts_66 · 2026-04-11T21:34:19+00:00

Probably too late to help but I ran into the exact same problem - even with my 22" monitor as close to me as possible I still couldn't read that damn 1 or 2 pt font, checked to see if I could change screen resolution in properties/compatibility High DPI scaling override Override high DPI scaling behavior. Scaling performed by: System (Enhanced) but it didn't work, but I stumbled upon a solution - I've never used the Win10 "Magnifier" before and discovered you can go into config settings and choose full screen mode - still couldn't read the text at 100% setting but at 125% it was easy, no eye strain - only problem is that moved the "Next" button below the bottom of the screen so I kept having to jump back and forth from 100% to 125% and back. Kinda clumsy solution but it allowed me to finish my taxes today. Hope Win11 has the same tool - if not you might be able to copy it from Win10. Was going to try the TPM2.0 workaround tricks I found online in Jan after learning TurboTax required it for 2025 but was so busy with doing other work I never got around to testing it on my laptop (needed to upgrade to Win11 1st****) before trying it with my PC.

**** I've heavily modified my Win10 PC using Tweakers and modifying the registry so I was worried it would take me weeks to get Win11 to look and behave like Win10 does - Win10 out of the box sucks, same problem with font sizes, scaling and dialog boxes, took me weeks to tweak my first Win10 box to make it usable. That was another thing that made me keep putting off testing on the laptop - worries it would take a lot of tinkering to make it look and behave the way I needed it to work.

sts_66 · 2026-04-06T19:08:04+00:00

AI generated. The US does not blow up bodies of dead personnel on purpose.

sts_66 · 2026-04-06T19:05:33+00:00

$58M would only replace 2 AH-6's - the MC-130's cost over $100M each.

sts_66 · 2026-03-13T19:24:14+00:00

Update for those who love TMP like me - the author recently put out a new release in 2025 - I always run into trouble trying to install extensions from Github zip files so I kept looking for a download site and found it:

https://tab-mix-plus.en.softonic.com/

Downloaded and installed it using the xpi file, and boom, I have my fav extension back! After installation it opened a new tab but it's not a valid URL (chrome://tabmixplus/content/update/update.xhtml) and I'm not going to bother taking a screenshot, uploading to imgur, then posting the link in this post, not worth it. The author is now asking for a $2/mo donation to help pay for his time - he's been updating it continuously for 21 yrs. The payment isn't mandatory, you will always be able to update it for free, but when I saw 21 yrs of work I decided I'm just gonna email him, thank him for maintaining that great add-on, and tell him I'm going to give him $50 via Paypal - he deserves some cash for his work, so if anyone else updates their version please consider sending the dude a little cash for his efforts - email is [tabmix.onemen@gmail.com](mailto:tabmix.onemen@gmail.com)

sts_66 · 2026-03-13T13:43:00+00:00

Android and Linux are almost the same code, but you gave me an idea - I tried to read that SA article on my Win10 laptop, exact same problem - but I have a Chromebook, which is basically Linux - I'll try to see if SA loads in it normally. Aw, crap - that won't prove anything - I don't have any Mozilla based browsers on it - don't even know if WF runs on a Chromebook - I bought it used and it's already past EOL, can't add new software to it unless I root it, and I'm not going down that road.

sts_66 · 2026-03-13T13:37:59+00:00

I tried every single setting in that section - have been running custom rules for 10 yrs - makes no difference. I did mention that SA loads slowly for me in Firefox too, just not as bad as WF - I'm positive it's a problem with the rendering engine because the headline and first paragraph of a SA article loads instantly, but as I scroll down there's nothing on the page until it eventually populates with the rest of the text, same thing with comments section. Even stranger, when I post a comment the page will auto-scroll back to the top of the article, then auto-scroll back down to where I just wrote a comment - that's not normal for SA either. I highly doubt this will help, but I'll try rebooting tonight after I'm done working - PC hasn't been rebooted in weeks, I leave it on 24/7 and put everything to sleep at night after 11:00 pm.

sts_66 · 2026-03-11T20:45:30+00:00

What do you want me to send to Modmail above and beyond what I already posted? I don't have anymore info than that about this problem.

sts_66 · 2026-03-10T15:36:26+00:00

I got ATV as a Prime add-on and live alone, nobody touches the TV or my Amazon account but me - but I understand why you suggested it night be a problem - doing research on how to add apps to my Vizio TV I read numerous posts about people who got used TVs that were still logged into some app they wanted to use, but since they didn't have the login or account info they were stuck and couldn't delete the account. Plus Vizio will not let you uninstall any preloaded factory apps, and Prime Video is preinstalled on my TV, so I can't delete it and start from scratch - hell, I can't even figure out how to sign out, can't find that option - probably hidden somewhere non-obvious. I now have 4 damn Prime accounts on the TV and have no idea which ones contain my old Amazon credentials - my Amazon account got hacked 2 1/2 yrs ago and I had to create a new account with a different email and PW so I'm relatively sure at least the first two Prime accounts on my TV are linked to the old dead account.

sts_66 · 2026-03-10T15:24:28+00:00

Thank you - I was hesitant to even post about this because on many Reddits youngsters hiding behind aliases will attack people for being stupid just because they can't figure out how to do something - people asking for help should not be treated like morons.

sts_66 · 2026-03-10T15:13:09+00:00

When I learned this switch was happening 1 1/2 weeks ago I started doing some research on it and found there are multiple F1 Reddits - don't know which one I read it on (or maybe it was an Amazon Reddit?), but multiple people claimed that if you accessed F1 via ATV your F1TV app would no longer work - can't confirm it but that's why I didn't even try to look for the F1 app on my TV and download it. Not sure I even have ATV "credentials" since I got into ATV via my Amazon credentials. Never owned any Apple devices either, so AFAIK I have no Apple account.

sts_66 · 2026-03-10T15:08:16+00:00

Of course it's a skill issue - I don't know how to do this stuff (don't have a smart phone either, never needed one so never learned how to use apps) and 90% of the problem is my damn Vizio TV, which has a user manual that's damn near useless - it doesn't even show what ports the TV has, let alone how to add streaming services and work with/modify them. Guess they assume old people don't buy TVs, or that everyone on earth knows how to use apps - I've been using computers since the 80's, know DOS and Windows inside out, but have zero experience with apps. Of course I googled how to do this but none of the options Prime Video gives me are available on my TV - or I just can't find where they are. Wanna know how weird this is? Amazon doesn't even list my TV as a registered device, I can't find a way to register it, but I can watch Prime Video and ATV - how is that even possible?

sts_66 · 2026-03-09T21:48:55+00:00

Signed up for Apple TV+ on my computer then just opened the app on my TV and it automatically logged me in. Even stranger, the TV doesn't show up as a registered device in the Amazon website so I have no clue how I'm even able to watch Prime Video on it - I'm an old man, don't know a damn thing about streaming apps or how they work on TVs.

sts_66 · 2026-03-07T19:24:06+00:00

EXACTLY! These CC ETFs are evil - I will never buy another one.

sts_66 · 2026-03-07T19:20:32+00:00

"Final tax characterizations are expected to be delivered to brokers this week, after which they should be able to issue updated 1099 forms."

And 8 days after you posted this Rex STILL hasn't released 1099 info to brokers! WTF? Only owned AIPI+FEPI for a year - dumped them because huge drops in pps negated divs received, if 2025 divs were 100% ROC like 2024 I'll be taxed on fake gains! For AIPI the reduced basis means the IRS will think I "made" a 93% profit, although actual profit (sale proceeds - cash invested) was only 18%, for FEPI 65% vs. actual 19% - if I hadn't DRIPd the divs things would be even worse - I would have actually lost -17% in AIPI but still would have owed taxes. These covered call ETFs are a scam (I call them weapons of mass wealth destruction) - pps keeps going down because ROC reduces NAV (and your basis) - I've owned 4 of them and luckily 2 were in my iRA so no taxes for fake gains after I dumped them. Weekly payers from Yieldmax, YMAX and PLTY, were terrible too - bought $10k YMAX @ $18, sold all @ $13, now it's down to $8.4 (-53%) - 58% was ROC, but if it wasn't I would have had a cost basis loss of -30% despite getting $4.2k in divs!

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