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  1. TallerThanPedroia

    2024 Track and Field

    Fucking awful.
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    Tim Wakefield has passed away from brain cancer at 57 (10/1 update)

    Take it easy, Tim. Thanks for everything.
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    Tech Bargain Thread: Post Your Deals Here!

    Is this legit? Lifetime MS Office license for $30? https://boingboing.net/2023/05/19/every-worker-needs-microsoft-office-and-now-its-only-29-99.html
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    Windows 11, Why and Why Not

    Right with you, except for the vertical taskbar. I also set the look to classic or whatever it's called.
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    SOSH Running Dogs

    Running my 10th Boston Marathon for Dana-Farber if anyone's inclined: https://danafarber.jimmyfund.org/site/TR?px=1069769&pg=personal&fr_id=1930
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    Recommend me a 55-65 inch TV

    It was the CPU. DM incoming
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    Recommend me a 55-65 inch TV

    No, LG had a list of people they gave me. Everyone on the list either said no, didn't reply, or was an hour away and I had to take my TV to them. The credit card company ultimately said I could get it fixed anywhere, and they gave me someone in Belmont and another in Dorchester. I called the...
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    Recommend me a 55-65 inch TV

    Update! I called my credit card company's benefit services and they said oh, sorry, we didn't mean to imply that you needed to use an LG-certified repair person. I had been about to load this thing in my car and drive it an hour to Bellingham. Instead they gave me the number of a guy in...
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    Recommend me a 55-65 inch TV

    The TV and related stuff are plugged into this Belkin surge protector: https://www.belkin.com/12-outlet-surge-protector-with-phonecoax-protection-8-ft.-cord/P-BE112230-08.html If someone has a rec for a better one, please please. My desktop computer is plugged into this one...
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    Recommend me a 55-65 inch TV

    Did you ever get anything from Chase?
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    Recommend me a 55-65 inch TV

    Apart from how that's not really practical for me (he works like 1pm-5pm four days a week, and is far away, and I'd probably break the TV trying to get it there, etc.), he's not actually on LG's list. He was just recommended by the one other guy to take my phone call. I wrote to a guy in...
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    Charlie Baker will be the next NCAA president

    Thankful to him for championing remote work though: View: https://twitter.com/SHNSMurphy/status/1603434776379236352?t=uUZLeiLPlmAKT8nZ9Oq6hw&s=19 State House News Service reporter: "I’m told @CharlieBakerMA will not be moving to Indy, where the NCAA is HQ’d, for this job #mapoli"
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    Charlie Baker will be the next NCAA president

    Yes but have you considered that he's quite tall?
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    Recommend me a 55-65 inch TV

    Repair Guy #2 wants me to bring the TV into his shop and pay him $100 just to troubleshoot it.
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    Recommend me a 55-65 inch TV

    I mean, I had not heard that before. But this guy was taking the non-crazy side so I dunno, I rolled with it. Maybe some marketing guy said that to him once.
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    Recommend me a 55-65 inch TV

    He said basically: He hasn't repaired a TV in four years. It's usually cheaper just to replace them. If you breathe on the OLED panel wrong it will die. LG changed their policy so if he ordered the wrong CPU for me, he'd be stuck with it, they won't exchange it, and he's too small to float that...
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    Recommend me a 55-65 inch TV

    First repair guy I talked to had a lot of opinions about LG and OLEDs. Upshot is I'm screwed though. He won't even try to replace the CPU because LG changed their policy, and if he orders the wrong one they won't exchange it for him. On to the next guy (it's a short list).
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    Recommend me a 55-65 inch TV

    You know how you can buy refurbished electronics? How do you sell stuff to get refurbished? Suddenly curious as well! My Samsung Plasma was still working well after 11 years when I replaced it with this LG hunk of junk.
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    Recommend me a 55-65 inch TV

    Okay and now it's just dead completely.
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    4G Android phone megathread

    It's here and it's enormous. On a related topic: can anyone recommend a USB-C charger that is all one piece? In other words, where it's just just an adapter that has a USB-C slot for a cable, which seems to be most of them. I want this: Not this: But it's hard to find anything that...