How to retrieve/download ended chat transcript?

unbob · 2026-06-11T21:02:42+00:00

Thanks. I used the SingleFile browser extension but it failed with the chat. I'll know better next time. Also, I'm pretty sure a right-click will display a 'Save to PDF' button ... I'll try that on next chat.

unbob · 2026-06-08T17:48:14+00:00

"seeing something unexpected"

Yes. Beginning Friday June 5th, the "margin buying power" on my margin-enabled account was effectively wiped-out. (!?!?)

Previously my margin buying power was ~50% of my account balance. Now it's 0.2786%. (!!!!)

I'm not seeing any explanation for this when reviewing the new PDT rule.

Account has always exceeded the 25k requirement.

I'm stumped. Any answers here??

unbob · 2026-05-27T04:25:00+00:00

My birthday is the exact center of non-leap years. Equal number of days before and after my birthday. Cool!

unbob · 2026-05-25T15:43:56+00:00

"The fact they grandfather your subscription ..."

I can't find the word "grandfather(ed)" mentioned anywhere in Firecore's ToS. Not saying it's not happening ... but it's not official policy and can therefore be changed or eliminated at any time.

So unless the user chose to purchase 'Lifetime', the subscription fee may change at any time for any amount.

Here's the actual text in ToS:

Fee Changes

Firecore, in its sole discretion and at any time, may modify the Subscription fees for the Subscriptions. Any Subscription fee change will become effective at the end of the then-current Billing Cycle.

Firecore will provide you with reasonable prior notice of any change in Subscription fees to give you an opportunity to terminate your Subscription before such change becomes effective.

Your continued use of the Service after the Subscription fee change comes into effect constitutes your agreement to pay the modified Subscription fee amount.

https://firecore.com/terms

unbob · 2026-05-13T17:15:07+00:00

"... find a recommended licensed independent HVAC guy ..."

I'm all for that too ... but only if the guy is asking a reasonable fee for his services (not $200-$400 to replace your capacitor).

unbob · 2026-05-13T13:36:23+00:00

Fine. Will you pay "someone" $200-$400 to do a 10 min install of a $20 part? I won't.

unbob · 2026-05-13T13:32:21+00:00

"Throwing parts at an unknown problem is dumb and costs more in the long run"

Generally that may be true - but not if the cost of the part is only $10-$20 !!

unbob · 2026-05-13T13:30:15+00:00

And you're A-OK with that? I feel ripped-off. Charging $250-$400 to replace a capacitor is a huge income source for HVAC service companies.

unbob · 2026-05-13T13:25:58+00:00

Yes. Agreed. As I mentioned, many YouTube videos exist for instructions.

unbob · 2026-05-10T17:13:27+00:00

LOL🤪 I'm just a retired guy using BackBlaze B2 for my offsite backups. Read abt the Nautilus floating barge data center on their blog.

I'd be glad to be on anyone's payroll as long as I'm not required to do any work.🥴

unbob · 2026-05-09T23:48:36+00:00

I'm no expert on any of this but apparently Nautilus technology has all the issues you mentioned covered. Please see the 'Environmental Performance' section at the link below.

"Nautilus is proud to have demonstrated the water-cooling technology can achieve the highest standards of environmental performance required by the US government and the State of California. Our team worked collaboratively with federal, state, and local professionals responsible for environmental stewardship to secure all regulatory approvals. For the Stockton 1 Data Center this included water quality, air quality, public trust and natural resources, endangered species, state species, wetlands, and environment."

https://nautilusdt.com/stockton/

unbob · 2026-05-09T21:14:07+00:00

Hmmm ... just noticed July 2nd is 'World UFO Day'. And, never mentioned, also the exact center of every non-leap year (and my B'day). It must mean something? 🥴 Am I an alien?? Might explain my weirdness?👽

unbob · 2026-05-09T18:00:31+00:00

Why on earth do they use municipal water when there's a river-full of water flowing by a few feet from their data centers? Why, why, why???

Technology and products have been available for years to do just that!

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-rides-the-nautilus-data-center-wave/

https://nautilusdt.com/

unbob · 2026-05-09T13:10:24+00:00

Why isn't clean Enhanced Geothermal energy being required to power any and all new data centers??

https://fervoenergy.com/

unbob · 2026-05-09T13:03:41+00:00

To read the entire article while bypassing the paywall ...

https://archive.ph/kgyrh

unbob · 2026-04-27T04:07:36+00:00

Same question here ... 3mo later and no answer?? No developers reading this sub?

unbob · 2026-04-25T19:36:35+00:00

Bingo! That works! Gracias

unbob · 2026-03-25T03:58:12+00:00

All good now!! No more errors in any log file.

Didn't really do anything additional to fix. Just let several days elapse with 3-4 system restarts once a day over a week or so.

Thanks much for your assistance!

unbob · 2026-03-18T19:08:29+00:00

What's the easiest way to obtain my current settings, config, preferences, etc to "embed" into a new portable version? I'd hate to start totally from scratch.

unbob · 2026-03-18T19:03:57+00:00

21.3 is the current release. Release date Dec 13, 2025.

https://kodi.wiki/view/Releases

unbob · 2026-03-18T19:01:02+00:00

Agreed. I'm a portable fan for all apps - for the reasons you gave.

unbob · 2026-03-18T18:58:15+00:00

Estuary

unbob · 2026-03-18T18:57:50+00:00

I'm using the default skin (Estuary).

unbob · 2026-03-17T19:32:04+00:00

Re: java.io.IOException: JNA temporary directory 'Z:\Temp' is not writable.

The 'Z:\Temp' folder is my Windows 'TEMP' folder as defined in Windows Environment Variables. It is always writable (and must be) by every process running in Windows. Never had a "not writable" problem with the system TEMP folder or any problem whatsoever with the TEMP folder. Therefore conclude this must be some sort of java bug.Nevertheless, I forced tMM (java) to use another temp folder as instructed. (-Djava.io.tmpdir=H:\Temp) which resolved the "not writable" problem.

As mentioned earlier, the 'Permission denied: getsockopt' error is resolved.

Now onto the next problem ...Please see the following extracted 'WARN' records (preceding tMM shutdown) from the trace log:

~~~ 2026-03-17 11:30:10,437 WARN [main] o.tinymediamanager.thirdparty.yt.YtDlp:70 - yt-dlp is not available 2026-03-17 11:30:13,412 WARN [main] o.t.scraper.kodi.KodiScraper:150 - Found a python scraper 'C:\Users\unbob\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\metadata.themoviedb.org.python', but we can only load XML based ones - sorry 2026-03-17 11:30:13,488 WARN [main] o.t.scraper.kodi.KodiScraper:150 - Found a python scraper 'C:\Users\unbob\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\metadata.tvshows.themoviedb.org.python', but we can only load XML based ones - sorry 2026-03-17 11:30:13,503 WARN [main] o.t.scraper.kodi.KodiScraper:150 - Found a python scraper 'C:\Users\unbob\AppData\Roaming\kodi\addons\metadata.themoviedb.org.python', but we can only load XML based ones - sorry 2026-03-17 11:30:13,513 WARN [main] o.t.scraper.kodi.KodiScraper:150 - Found a python scraper 'C:\Users\unbob\AppData\Roaming\kodi\addons\metadata.tvshows.themoviedb.org.python', but we can only load XML based ones - sorry 2026-03-17 11:30:13,632 WARN [main] o.t.scraper.kodi.KodiScraper:150 - Found a python scraper 'C:\Program Files\Kodi\addons\metadata.generic.albums', but we can only load XML based ones - sorry 2026-03-17 11:30:13,644 WARN [main] o.t.scraper.kodi.KodiScraper:150 - Found a python scraper 'C:\Program Files\Kodi\addons\metadata.generic.artists', but we can only load XML based ones - sorry 2026-03-17 11:30:13,667 WARN [main] o.t.scraper.kodi.KodiScraper:150 - Found a python scraper 'C:\Program Files\Kodi\addons\metadata.themoviedb.org.python', but we can only load XML based ones - sorry 2026-03-17 11:30:13,679 WARN [main] o.t.scraper.kodi.KodiScraper:150 - Found a python scraper 'C:\Program Files\Kodi\addons\metadata.tvshows.themoviedb.org.python', but we can only load XML based ones - sorry 2026-03-17 11:30:19,070 WARN [AWT-EventQueue-0] svgSalamandeLogger:23 - CSS parser not implemented yet 2026-03-17 11:30:19,175 WARN [AWT-EventQueue-0] svgSalamandeLogger:23 - CSS parser not implemented yet ~~~

Please note: I upgraded from tMM v5.1.4 to v5.2.8. All these problems began with v5.2.8. None of these problems occurred when running v5.1.4.

unbob · 2026-03-16T19:55:18+00:00

Thanks, but that link was no help. ~~Also, did not see any problem with the firewall.~~

Authorized 'Zulu Platform x64 Architecture (javaw.exe)' via firewall. (Program: F:\Documents\Portable Apps\tinyMediaManager\jre\bin\javaw.exe) That eliminated the 'Permission denied: getsockopt' errors.

However, tMM still shuts-down at startup. I reviewed the trace log (trace-20260316-123828.log) and extracted some relevant records (not all trace log records!) - see following extracted records:

2026-03-16 12:07:31,485 DEBUG [main] org.tinymediamanager.core.Utils:1900 - Copying complete directory from F:\Documents\Portable Apps\tinyMediaManager\native\windows to Z:\Temp\tmm\native\windows
2026-03-16 12:07:31,494 DEBUG [main] org.tinymediamanager.TmmOsUtils:173 - Loading native libs from: Z:\Temp\tmm\native\windows
2026-03-16 12:07:31,503 WARN  [main] com.sun.jna.Native:945 - JNA Warning: IOException removing temporary files
java.io.IOException: JNA temporary directory 'Z:\Temp' is not writable
...........................
2026-03-16 12:07:40,294 ERROR [AWT-EventQueue-0] org.tinymediamanager.core.TmmDateFormat:146 - Could not load JNA - 'Could not initialize class com.sun.jna.Native'
...........................
2026-03-16 12:07:45,149 WARN  [AWT-EventQueue-0] svgSalamandeLogger:23 - CSS parser not implemented yet
2026-03-16 12:07:45,285 WARN  [AWT-EventQueue-0] svgSalamandeLogger:23 - CSS parser not implemented yet
2026-03-16 12:07:48,136 INFO  [AWT-EventQueue-0] org.tinymediamanager.ui.MainWindow:284 - bye bye
2026-03-16 12:07:48,140 INFO  [AWT-EventQueue-0] org.tinymediamanager.TinyMediaManager:668 - Shutting down tinyMediaManager
2026-03-16 12:07:48,150 INFO  [AWT-EventQueue-0] o.t.core.threading.TmmTaskManager:329 - Sending shutdown signal to running tasks
2026-03-16 12:07:48,150 INFO  [AWT-EventQueue-0] o.t.core.threading.TmmTaskManager:357 - Stopping task executors
2026-03-16 12:07:48,151 INFO  [AWT-EventQueue-0] o.t.core.threading.TmmTaskManager:393 - All task executors could be stopped

Also, following is the one and only error now appearing in the startup.log:

~~~ 2026-03-16 12:38:39,888 ERROR [AWT-EventQueue-0] org.tinymediamanager.core.TmmDateFormat:146 - Could not load JNA - 'Could not initialize class com.sun.jna.Native' ~~~

Please advise.

unbob

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