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I finally got around to watching Avengers: Age of Ultron for the very first time last night. I'm just a little bit behind on my Marvel movies. It was enjoyable. I thought the sound was a little quiet FWIW (compared to other movies played at the same volume setting).

I finally ported my old cell phone number to Google Voice. This will save me like $850+ a year.

But is it really a concern to home users? They'd need physical access to the machine to run such an exploit in which case you've already got a bigger problem.

Happy, happy, joy, joy... :cursin:

Yep, that scene definitely stood out as being :cooler: I also watched Inferno. It was okay. Not great, not terrible. The other two were a little more "follow the clues to solve the mystery" than this one. I didn't see the big plot twist coming. That took me by surprise.

Baby Driver was interesting. A somewhat different style of movie the way much of the action was synchronized to the music.

Well at least someone got the reference. :cheese:

Maybe someone fixed the glitch.

Hey now, I didn't say it was a masterpiece of cinema. Hacksaw Ridge was much much closer to being that than Passengers. However, this seems to be the thread where we talk about movies (despite the thread title), so I mentioned.

I finally got around to watching the 3D Blu-ray of Passengers last night. It was okay. Not exactly the action thriller the trailers made it out to be. Someone I know had previously told me it was more of a love story, so I wasn't exactly blindsided, but... I should be spending my Blu-ray...

Who is "we"? You and the dog?

Did they have cooked food? Oh, and Happy New Year.

Several of the models suggested already in the thread do, but if you can't be bothered to do any research why should we spoon feed you?

Merry Christmas to everyone!

The Lenovo T470s isn't bad either. I have one for my work machine. FWIW, Windows 10 is fine after you install Classic Shell and Spybot Anti-Beacon. BTW, there isn't a big performance difference between the last 5 years or so of mobile processors, but battery life has made noticeable strides...

Why are you looking at used anythings? Dell XPS 13 with Coffee Lake is what I'd be looking at. That, or the current model of the HP Elitebook 840 G1 that I have, which is the G4.

Where a lot of people aren't going to see it. YouTube and the like are like a privately owned town square where the owners get to decide who gets to speak in the square. The same giant companies clamoring for net neutrality claiming fairness and equality have no problem being unfair and...

And now the FTC will be in charge instead of the FCC. They can still fall afoul of the Sherman Antitrust Act and other laws and regulations against monopolies. Most of the apocalyptic scenarios people are envisioning are already illegal by statute without the FCC's involvement. Speaking of...

What was broken that we needed in the first place. What existing problem did it fix? As far as why get rid of it? It's ripe for abuse by political operatives, just like we've seen with the SEC, FEC, FTC, EPA, IRS, etc. Just because they haven't gone full tilt crazy yet doesn't mean...

The comment is not inconsistent. It simply pointed out that they didn't achieve the stated goal anyhow. Why is them offering different tiers of service a problem? Why is everything supposed to be a one sizes fits all solution? Why can't Comcast make a deal with Netflix to not "charge" their...

Net Neutrality is a nice idea in concept as the name portrays. IE: Not allowing the slowing of traffic. However, I don't trust the political party or the people pushing for what they call "Net Neutrality". They're a bunch of big gov't statists who want to control people and take away their...

I doubt much is going to change. They were all subtly traffic shaping anyhow regardless of the law. The internet survived without "net neutrality" for many many years, so I don't really understand all the angst now like the world will end.

I watched Star Wars: The Last Jedi tonight in 3D. It came out yesterday in the European country I'm in, but we couldn't find a parking space at the theater, so we went back to the hotel. Tonight we got their earlier. The 3D showing wasn't very full whereas the 2D showing were quite full...

I'm back in Europe after being in Mexico last week. This is too much travel around the holidays. Arriving in the early morning in Europe and rolling into work for a full day with limited sleep on the plane isn't my favorite thing either.

This forum is SR?

They're skipping the 1180 and going straight to 2080? Is that official or just speculation?

What airport and what was the connection time? Was it on the same airline or at least codeshare partners? Generally they don't let you book something that creates an impossible to make connection. Some are pretty optimistic like 40 minutes at ATL, but they're not impossible if the flight...

This is new information to you? It's stacked in their favor as much as possible. Departure starts as soon as they pull the jetbridge away from the plane and arrival is the second the wheels touch down on the runway.

That's a lot of data to be using on a phone IMHO. And, all the providers do the same thing with throttling on "Unlimited" plans. T-Mobile keeps adjusting it up also. It's set to some percentile, like 98% or something like that. So as their customers use more data the limit before throttling...

I use T-Mobile. The plan I'm on has tax and fees included. So $100 a month for 3 lines of unlimited, and it's $100, not $100 + fees & taxes. Actually it ends up being $80 because of the kickback credits on 2 of the lines ($10 each) because they stay under 2GB a month. I can't get a kickback...

You're using them outside?

Buy the same sort of LED strips that aren't in the plastic tube. Like these: https://www.amazon.com/INVOLT-WS2812B-Individually-Addressable-Waterproof/dp/B01N2454TC/ Then you use their adhesive to stick them to square aluminum tubing or similar. If you want to go really crazy you could...

Care to elaborate? Because what you said is factually incorrect.

My initial impression is that this phone (Moto G5S+) is very nice. It feels nice in your hand. The UI is nice and responsive. The display is crisp and has good uniformity. This may be a "cheap" & "low-end" phone, but no one would know it by manhandling it or using it.

It's not so much that I ignored them. I should have worded it better. It's more that I did a fair bit of research before I started the thread and the thread was more of a sanity check to make sure there wasn't some really slick phone in the price range I was looking at that I had overlooked or...

I have a Galaxy S8 as my work phone. I think it's too narrow. I only use it for the occasional e-mail, text, Google hangout message, and phone calls. I don't have any complaints about the performance. But, I certainly wouldn't pay $750 for one. Really, I'm a lightweight smartphone user. I...

You guys sure like your LG phones. :p I heard the V30's OLED display isn't great and it's an $800 phone. The G6 is $500, probably double what I want to spend, and I'm not sure I'm ready to commit to another LG even with an extra year on the warranty. My G4 died a few days shy of the 2 year...

You can connect 5V at both ends & the middle to reduce the voltage drop. Then the 5V doesn't have to go more than 5m on the LED strip instead of the full 20m.

The LG G4 worked long enough late this afternoon for me to copy off any data off it that wasn't on the microSDXC card. Not a lot and nothing of any real value, but I got it. It locked up shortly after and went back into the bootloop cycle. And I need a new phone by the time I fly out of the...

So my LG G4 has decided to bootloop itself this afternoon, so I need a new phone and I don't want to pay a bunch. I was looking at the Moto G5 plus and G5S plus since I want a decent phone, but don't want to spend a lot since apparently phones are disposable items now. :( Any suggestions?

FWIW, Costco is selling the Sony SRS-XB3 for $74.99 now (online and in store). Also, I ordered a Sony SRS-XB40 on Thanksgiving with the $100 off sale price once I determined the cheesy LED lighting could be turned off from the unit with a long button press. The one I heard in Best Buy sounded...

Ain't that the truth.

I don't think that's a safe assumption. You did notice he hasn't been posting recently right? :scratch:

This is what I found in the box from Target when I received the two Blu-rays that I ordered online on Thanksgiving. I am quite proud of figuring out how to open the cases in under a minute once I found my neodymium magnets (without any aid from the Internet).

Why is that a problem? Your UPS is too compact?

Yeah, that's probably one of them.

They tend to be B.A. degrees.

That should go without saying, unfortunately it can't these days. Colleges and Universities will gladly sell you a worthless degree because they're largely in it for the money.

I highly doubt that's the melting he needs to be concerned about.

That depends on the type. A water based one I would expect not. An oil based one, maybe.