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#11

Politics, Society and News. / Re: Ice storm tree damage and ...

Last post by ssfc72 - April 04, 2025, 08:44:09 PM

Yes, very attractive. :-)

The Lindsay landfill has a web camera that shows the line of vehicles lined up to go over the weigh scales.
I got there this morning, Friday, at about 9:20 am. the landfill opens at 8 am and the web cam showed the line up of vehicles was out past the entrance to the landfill.
I got out of there by 11:30 am. The vehicle line up was all the way out to the highway.

#12

General Discussion / Re: The Really Unpleasant Comp...

Last post by buster - April 04, 2025, 02:36:30 PM

This is getting ridiculous!!!

The view count has reached 80,241.

The only reasonable explanation I can come up with is that the Blarnots from the planet Trinougthe have returned in their huge space cities and are circling the planet, though why we can't detect them is beyond me.

And they continue to be nosy neighbours and read and listen to humans whenever they show up.

#13

Politics, Society and News. / Re: Ice storm tree damage and ...

Last post by buster - April 04, 2025, 02:29:00 PM

Old maple, city tree, split and now rests comfortably across the front yard, and into the backyard over the fence, and the partially broken fence is not happy. None of this would fit into your Subaru Bill.

Lost power only for 25 hours, and we have a natural gas stove in our rec room, so it wasn't too bad except for the lack of caffeine.

It's kind of you to help your friend Bill. Is she pretty?

#14

General Discussion / Windows 10 End off Life, Oct 2...

Last post by ssfc72 - April 04, 2025, 01:21:38 AM

The security support for Windows 10 OS, from Microsoft, is ending this October, on older computers and notebooks.

To save these perfectly good computers from being sent to the landfill and having to spend hard earned money from being spent on new computers, now is a good time for people to install a Linux OS (Distro) onto their older computer.

Maybe Jason might want to add a new Topic to the Forum about installing a Linux Distro on an older computers, to help the public learn how to go about doing an install and the advantages and disadvantages people might experience?

#15

Politics, Society and News. / Ice storm tree damage and hydr...

Last post by ssfc72 - April 03, 2025, 07:33:03 PM

At my area in Lindsay the hydro went out around 8 am Sunday. It was back on at 4 pm Tuesday.
I didn't have any issues with downed tree limbs at my house but the rest of Lindsay had a mess of downed tree limbs and wires with numerous streets being blocked off.
it was hard to get around town in the car with all the blocked streets.

My internet (Cogeco system) and home phone (VOIP) was down from Sunday until 4 pm today, Thursday. :-(

I have been very busy ever since Sunday, working at a friends house in Lindsay were the 25 foot high maple tree on the front lost 3 large limbs split off the tree and crash onto the front yard.
One large branch landed on the hedge, on the property line and a small section of the house eave-trough had some minor damage.
I have been cutting up the downed limbs with a swede saw and also cutting down limbs that still were attached to the main tree. Took a car load (Subaru Outback) of limbs and tree trunks to the landfill today and have the car filled again with limbs, to go to the landfill tomorrow morn. Lots more trips needed to clean up all the limbs.

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General Discussion / Re: The Really Unpleasant Comp...

Last post by buster - April 03, 2025, 05:14:00 PM

Weird things going on!

Just over a week ago I (We?) were waiting for 75,000. Probably overnight Friday into Saturday the story will reach 80,000 views. The acceleration has been startling.

But there is another unexpected development. One other thread has been in second place and was gradually being left behind by the story until just a very short while ago when it was over 6,000 views behind. It has put on a new pair of running shoes and is quickly catching up. It has moved up to within fewer than 3,000 views behind and will relatively quickly become our new leader.

Fame is fleeting.

As far as I can tell not all threads are being it equally. But any interest in a site hardly posting new entries is counter-intuitive.

#17

Linux Applications & Android apps / Re: SimpleFill, Brave browser ...

Last post by Jason - March 31, 2025, 07:11:47 AM

Oh, that's sad that they did that. It's good that you found an alternative. Note that password managers like Bitwarden, which I use, will fill in forms, too. You can even use it only for that if you prefer.

#18

Linux Applications & Android apps / SimpleFill, Brave browser exte...

Last post by ssfc72 - March 29, 2025, 09:38:28 AM

SimpleFill is an Extension App in the Brave browser that I use numerous times daily for filling in my email address, when I log into my email accounts and filling out Forms.
Instead of having to type the all the information in, I just paste it in with a couple of clicks with the mouse button.

A couple of days ago when I went to log into an account I brought up the SimpleFill and there was no longer any of my data available to paste in. :-(
It appears that the SimpleFill extension now wants me upgrade and pay for using it.
I was not impressed that it removed all the Form info information that I had entered into the Extension.
I could not find any info on the SimpleFill description page, that said anything about it now was a pay for Extension.

This issue with SimpleFill occured on 2 of my notebook computers. One runs Mint Linux, the other runs MXLinux.


So I ditched the SimpleFill extension and found another called Lightning Autofill.
At least it tells you that with the free version you are able to use it for 10 entries per day, which will probably be ok, for me.

#19

Linux Applications & Android apps / Re: Income Tax programs for th...

Last post by fox - March 27, 2025, 06:45:56 AM

Good to know. This must be the only Canadian tax package that's native for Linux.

#20

Linux Applications & Android apps / Re: Income Tax programs for th...

Last post by ssfc72 - March 26, 2025, 08:56:31 AM

The MyTaxExpress has a download file for Linux computers so barebones and no need for a virtual machine. :-)
The file is an appimage file which you need to bring up the properties of the file and change it to be executable.  Then click on the file and the install begins.