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Only went to the base site, not the full URL in the email.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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This is not snark, but genuine curiosity: can you try it on Safari?
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No, the last time I went to try Safari on Linux it wanted to run the Windows version using (choke) Wine.
I have an ancient MacBook Pro (2014) and I doubt that is runs the latest Safari. Haven't booted it up in months, only use when I travel and then to run my VM's on it.
Sorry.
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User: Technical term used by developers. See idiot.
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All good; thanks for the reply.
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Firefox has saved my bacon a few times!
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bacon yum
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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I’ve been using FireFox for a few years now. I use Chrome when I want to access Calendar or Sheets from the desktop.
Firefox is running uBlock Origin; also have a Pi Hole DNS service running. And Outlook is configured to show emails as plain text so none of the background code/images loads automatically.
Time is the differentiation of eternity devised by man to measure the passage of human events.
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Mark
Just another cog in the wheel
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Haven't used FF that much. Side "benefit", the VM was minimal. I opened some youtube streams in FF and it consumed all the memory, then all the swap space. It got so fat and lazy, it froze the VM. BRS time for the VM. 
>64
User: Technical term used by developers. See idiot.
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A bolt in my desk chair just snapped in half yesterday. This chair isn't worth re-tapping the hole.
I'm not even heavy. I am a scrawny thing.
I can't tell you how many times I've had that happen. Head bolts on the little 2-stroke I strapped to a mountain bike had to be replaced. Did that before they snapped. Same with the rest of the major bolts on that drivetrain.
I didn't replace the bolts in this chair, and that was my mistake. I replace the casters on the chairs I buy with US manufactured polymer coated rollies that work on my wood floors anyway.
I should have dismantled this thing and gone to Ace and replaced all the bolts as my first order of business.
I'll be doing that on my next chair.
But between the Chinese industrialists schlepping their low grade raw materials off on us, and my own country's schlepping their excess corn and sometimes industrial byproducts off onto us sometimes I feel like we're just used as garbage bins by people with too much money. 
But zooming back in, it has gotten to the point where it really makes little sense to me now that I have to replace critical load bearing parts in new products as soon as I order them.
What is even the point? Just send me the parts disassembled.
May as well order everything from Ikea and save myself half the work.
There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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I routinely replace screws, nuts, and bolts with A2 stainless equivalents purely to reduce corrosion, and to get hex / torx heads instead of soft Phillips.
That started back in the days when I started riding (and fixing) Japanese motorcycles: they were fitted as standard with titanium cored, cream-cheese headed bolts ... or that's what it felt like when you tried to undo them and then had to drill the sods out.
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I had never heard of an impact screwdriver until I bought a Japanese motorbike, they were a must have to get the screws undone. Like many others I replaced all of the horrible philips headed screws with allen bolts and helicoiled ( and copper greased ) all the threads I could.
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Yeah, I remember too well ...
And those ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing Honda oil filter bolts, right at the front of the engine where they catch all the road crap. And made of Titacheese alloy. 
(They were nearly always already damaged when you bought the bike.)
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I know you've been there
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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OriginalGriff wrote: riding (and fixing) Japanese motorcycles
Ah! You've just brought back a lot of fond memories.
My family moved to the country when I was around 12. My Dad started buying cheap non-running dirtbikes, all the same kind...early to mid 70's Yamaha CT/DT 175s. One of the first tools I was introduced to was an impact driver! 
As I punk teenager, I never understood why my Dad wouldn't just spend the money on motorcycles that we didn't have to work on all the time. When I got older and realized that most people had no mechanical abilities it all made since...especially that time I had to do a complete engine swap in a friend's carport. I thanked him many times for that education.
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I think it's also very close to development: debugging code and fixing engines uses the same processes, or at least it does with me.
This is particularly true when you have only a Haynes Book Of Lies as your guide to the bike!
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With missing or smudged pages
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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"Reassembly is the reverse of disassembly."
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honey the codewitch wrote: But between the Chinese industrialists schlepping their low grade raw materials off on us
The raw materials are okay, the technology and the production process suck. One bolt made of Chinesium, takes the same resources and anergy to be made as a real one. It's a waste!
Thats why whenever is possible I buy only US made stuff. From my dishwasher to my bike and car all are US made. Unfortunately, with some goods like your chair you don't have a choice these days. You can buy a really expensive one, but there is no guarantee it will be better. My very expensive chair gave up after a year and the cheap one is still around.
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Torque wrench. Bolt extractors. Canadian Tire when they're 60% off.
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After watching Chinese made stuff result in injury, sickness, and even death my wife and I do everything we can to avoid "made in China".
- Pet food
- Baby food
- Laminate flooring seeping known
- Drywall
These are the ones that come to the top of my head as they made headlines.
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After watching Chinese made stuff result in injury, sickness, and even death my wife and I do everything we can to avoid "made in China".
- Pet food
- Baby food
- Laminate flooring seeping known
- Drywall
These are the ones that come to the top of my head as they made headlines.
Besides, we need to remember Henry Ford's comment that if you don't pay your workers then who'll buy your products. Businesses forget this statement at their long term peril.
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Sometimes it can be hard to source things that aren't made in China.
In fact, my work requires me to use Chinese manufactured items all the time - in this case semiconductors, which can be okay if you get them from one of the more reputable makers.
There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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Unfortunately all too true.
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obermd wrote: Drywall
Can't be terribly cost-efficient to buy your drywall and have it shipped all the way from China...
Unless, I suppose, it's your local stores that is buying it in huge quantities and it ends up on their shelves.
And then I suppose the same argument can be made about the other items you mentioned. In which case you have to let the store's owner know you're buying elsewhere.
Oh, all the local stores are getting their supplies from China?
Then that's self-inflicted and has been in the works for decades. The mom-and-pop shops that have all disappeared, because they can't compete, did send plenty of warnings...
And now this is getting close to political (too late?), so I'll shut up now. 
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Chinese Drywall: What It Is, Why It’s Bad and How to Avoid It[^]
Quote: A significant portion of drywall used in America is manufactured in China, where manufacturing costs are low and raw materials are plentiful
We import practically everything from China, why not Drywall?
I'm sure people have done the math and it's just too damn expensive to make it anywhere else, including the U.S.
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