Daily Tech News 9 April 2026

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Apple MacBooks slow down after 49 days due to a MacOS time bomb. (Notebook Check)

Not just MacBooks. Anything running MacOS:
This bug means that after exactly 49 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes and 47.296 seconds from the moment a Mac is switched on, network connections are no longer terminated correctly. This initially leads to an increase in CPU utilization, because after some time hundreds or even thousands of connections are managed that should actually have been terminated. As soon as the available ports, usually 16,384 in number, are used up, no more new connections can be established.
49 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes, and 47.296 seconds?

That number might ring a bell for the 29 year olds in the audience, because the same bug caused Windows 95 and 98 to crash outright when they were running for just shy of 50 days: It's a 32-bit unsigned integer counting milliseconds.

Of course Windows 95 and 98 had the saving grace that they would usually crash for some other reason well before that time ran out.

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Amazon is ending support for older Kindles. (The Verge)

Where by "older" when mean 2012 and earlier.

The devices will continue to work, but you won't be able to load new content onto them from the Amazon store.
Iran is demanding payment in Bitcoin or iTunes gift cards for ships that want to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. (CoinDesk)

Do not redeem!
The CIA used long-range quantum magnetometry to find the lost airman during the rescue mission in Iran. (NYPost)

Cool story, bro.
Apple's MacBook Neo is made using defective A18 chips that would otherwise be discarded. Problem: It's selling so well that Apple is running out of defective chips. (MacRumors)

The solution in these cases is to use working chips, so it's not likely that the Neo is going to disappear.
AMD's Ryzen 9950X3D2 has a price tag: $899. (Tom's Hardware)

Expensive, but it is a workstation chip, not a gaming chip. And it's cheaper than the RAM you'll want to attach to it.
Continuous glucose monitoring made me continuously crazy. (The Verge)

No, dear, you were always crazy.
The 2026 Moto G Stylus has a Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 processor, 8GB of memory, a 6.7" 2712x1220 120Hz OLED display, and a stylus. (Liliputing)

$499.

The stylus includes touch sensitivity and tilt detection and lasts for 4 hours of writing or 100 hours on standby. A bit of an advance over my Palm Tungsten T3.
The Oppo Pad Mini has a Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 processor, an 8.8" 2880x1920 144Hz OLED display, and up to 16GB of RAM. (Notebook Check)

And weighs in at a svelte 279 grams. Svelte for a tablet of that size, anyway. It would be on the chonky side for a phone.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Found it!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 G'morning Pixy and Horde.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 09, 2026 04:30 AM (O7YUW)

2 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2026 04:30 AM (Ia/+0)

3 w00t

Posted by: m at April 09, 2026 04:31 AM (fNISR)

4 Thank you, Pixy!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2026 04:32 AM (iMotb)

5 It's bad when one's brain pulls a Biden's Dog, and goes SPROING! at 0300.

All on it's own.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2026 04:34 AM (iMotb)

6 Morning all!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 09, 2026 04:34 AM (BLOW1)

7 from the MacOS timebomb article:

A restart resets this countdown and thus fixes the problem for exactly 49 days until it occurs again.

yay

Posted by: m at April 09, 2026 04:37 AM (fNISR)

8 As said downstairs, its below freezing and not getting to 60 degrees.

Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2026 04:37 AM (Ia/+0)

9 So my Volvo dealership has evaluated the right axle that was replaced under warranty about 55k miles ago, and the replacement is indeed failing.

And under Volvo's repair warranty program, Volvo gets to pay for the repair. At 286,000 miles on the odometer.

And their head technician is a Volvo Motörhead, so we spent about 45 minutes just talking about the Prancing Moose, and various need things that one can do to a P-2 chassis Volvo.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2026 04:38 AM (iMotb)

10 brazil told china to stick the BYDs up their ass

Posted by: Admiral Winchester at April 09, 2026 04:39 AM (jrgJz)

11 Mornin'

49 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes, and 47.296 seconds?

I just bought an Apple MacBook Sky a couple of weeks ago. Is this a 'HAIR ON FIRE WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE' concern or is it a 'this is mildly annoying but I'll live' concern?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 09, 2026 04:40 AM (sAmhv)

12 On the downside....

the turbo that I replaced about 14 months ago does indeed have a failing intake side oil seal.

So that turbo replacement kit arrives tomorrow.

And I get to swap turbos....again.

At least that's a warranty item as well.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2026 04:41 AM (iMotb)

13 NASA's Artemis II Live Mission Coverage (Official Broadcast)

https://youtu.be/m3kR2KK8TEs

Posted by: m at April 09, 2026 04:41 AM (fNISR)

14 11 I just bought an Apple MacBook Sky a couple of weeks ago. Is this a 'HAIR ON FIRE WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE' concern or is it a 'this is mildly annoying but I'll live' concern?
Posted by: Puddleglum

Reboot once every seven weeks and you'll never notice.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 09, 2026 04:42 AM (BLOW1)

15 Left unsaid is whether Apple plans to fix the OS issue.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at April 09, 2026 04:42 AM (/HDaX)

16 A restart resets this countdown and thus fixes the problem for exactly 49 days until it occurs again.

Ok, read the article. It's an annoying concern but I'm not worried about it. I shut it down when I'm finished using for the day anyway. I don't just leave it on indefinitely.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 09, 2026 04:43 AM (sAmhv)

17 >>>49 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes, and 47.296 seconds?

That number might ring a bell for the 29 year olds in the audience, because the same bug caused Windows 95 and 98 to crash outright when they were running for just shy of 50 days: It's a 32-bit unsigned integer counting milliseconds.

Of course Windows 95 and 98 had the saving grace that they would usually crash for some other reason well before that time ran out.

>This is some Y2K shit here. Remediation: Reboot.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 09, 2026 04:46 AM (Fbc0I)

18 Belated BOING!

Wow! The Seekers!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 09, 2026 04:47 AM (5UTWB)

19 "Is this a 'HAIR ON FIRE WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE' concern or is it a 'this is mildly annoying but I'll live' concern?"

Probable more of a 'Smoldering hair' kinda thing.

I went back to Pixy's link and there is another link in that article to a fuller report that caused the writing of the article that Pixy linked to.

It doesn't say anything about my MacBook Air, but I assume those also have the issue.

So, reboot your MacBook on the first of every month, and it should be fine.

I think.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2026 04:47 AM (iMotb)

20 Amazon is asshoe.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 09, 2026 04:48 AM (O7YUW)

21 Amazon is ending support for older Kindles. (The Verge)

Where by "older" when mean 2012 and earlier.

The devices will continue to work, but you won't be able to load new content onto them from the Amazon store.

I have to imagine a 14 year old Kindle is going to be running like crap anyhow.

If it even works it's gotta be hovering close to 50% battery health at any rate.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 04:50 AM (6ydKt)

22 Guten morgen 🏴‍☠️!

Posted by: clarence at April 09, 2026 04:52 AM (lRNKn)

23 It's bad when one's brain pulls a Biden's Dog, and goes SPROING! at 0300.

All on it's own.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2026 04:34 AM (iMotb)
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SPROING???

A dab of WD-40 should fix that.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 09, 2026 04:52 AM (5UTWB)

24 The OTHER articled, that Pixy's original article links to.

https://tinyurl.com/5c9yja7t

Way down in the article it does say that most consumer Macs are un effected because system updates cause a reboot more often than the time required to cause the problem.

And rebooting sets everything back to zero again.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2026 04:53 AM (iMotb)

25 I am not sure how old my Samsung tablet even is. Is there a way to know date of one?

Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2026 04:53 AM (Ia/+0)

26 "SPROING???"

It's the redneck way of spelling it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2026 04:55 AM (iMotb)

27 How is a defective chip useful? It’s not a towel or sauté pan.

Posted by: Accomack at April 09, 2026 04:55 AM (aAIuN)

28 Can't say know much about The Seekers, guess its late 60s?

Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2026 04:56 AM (Ia/+0)

29 "Of course Windows 95 and 98 had the saving grace that they would usually crash for some other reason well before that time ran out."

True. So true.

These were PCs, not designed to be servers.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 09, 2026 04:57 AM (qFwJc)

30 28 Can't say know much about The Seekers, guess its late 60s?
Posted by: Skip

They were active from 1962 until 2022, which is a pretty solid career.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 09, 2026 05:02 AM (BLOW1)

31 >>>How is a defective chip useful? It’s not a towel or sauté pan.

Posted by: Accomack

>If it was manufactured in China, they downgrade the speed, bandwidth, and capacity and market it at a cheaper price in an inferior product.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 09, 2026 05:02 AM (Fbc0I)

32 IIRC, Windows NT was what you needed for a small server.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 09, 2026 05:03 AM (qFwJc)

33 Instead, I ended up spending over a year testing the devices, reading up on studies, speaking with researchers, and falling down rabbit holes. I bounced from doctor to doctor trying to figure out if there was actually something wrong with me — or the devices I was using.

By the end of the article this chick is measuring out on a gram scale how much cream cheese she puts on her bagel so she can get her scores down.

Turns out she just had a fatty liver and a severe case of perfectionist psychosis.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 05:05 AM (6ydKt)

34 Can't say know much about The Seekers, guess its late 60s?

Posted by: Skip at April 09, 2026 04:56 AM (Ia/+0)
-

Not even this one, Skip?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsIbfYEizLk

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 09, 2026 05:08 AM (5UTWB)

35 30 28 Can't say know much about The Seekers, guess its late 60s?
Posted by: Skip

They were active from 1962 until 2022, which is a pretty solid career.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

Judith Durham died a few years ago.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 09, 2026 05:09 AM (sAmhv)

36 So I guess in the tech thread we can discuss tech topics.

And spinning the wheel....we come up with, E-Bikes.

Those almost silent transportation devices that someone thought would make great toys for kids.

Our community has been being plagued with a small pack of juvenile miscreants bombardeering through the neighborhood streets at breakneck speeds lately.

Until three of the little rolling menaces came flying down the street in front of our house. And one of the kids swerved suddenly, causing one of the other kids to veer to the left, lose control and smack right into the front of a parked car at what EMS estimates to be right at 30mph.

Over the car hood, and helmeted head first right into the base of the windshield of the car.

Fortunately, he was wearing a helmet, that almost certainly saved his life.

One of our front security cameras caught the entire sequence of events, in 2k HD.

Which the local Sherrif's Department was thankful to get a copy of.

Perhaps the message will get out about these things in our community.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2026 05:09 AM (iMotb)

37 I leave my iMac on for long periods of time.
This one has an old Intel 4-core laptop chip in it, so the thing just sips power when the screen is off.

I don't know if I've left it on without restarting it for 50 days but it does start acting slow and wonky when it's been on for a month or more. It used to just turn the WiFi off out of the blue when it had been on awhile. That was fixed with an update at some point and hasn't done it since.

Now I just restart it every few weeks to get the kinks out, when I remember.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 05:10 AM (6ydKt)

38 27 How is a defective chip useful? It’s not a towel or sauté pan.

Posted by: Accomack at April 09, 2026 04:55 AM (aAIuN)

In this case the A18 Pro chip used in the iPhone 16 has 6 GPU cores. But if one of those GPU cores is defective after coming off the production line, they just bin it down to 5 GPU cores and put in the Macbook Neo.

They are running out of the binned chips, apparently.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 05:13 AM (6ydKt)

39 So if one is using a Mac Mini for a media server, would this potentially cause issues with hitting the 47 day wall?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2026 05:14 AM (iMotb)

40 So two DUI's in two days.

Kill a man.

Sentence reduced from nine to three years.

Probably get out in one year.

https://tinyurl.com/2xf4sjya

Doesn't end, does it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2026 05:20 AM (iMotb)

41 Happy Thursday one and all. I followed Village Idiot's Apprentice's link yesterday when I got home about Maryland trying to out-stupid California.

The last sentence stuck out to me. Paraphrasing, someone complaining about the fees to renew a registration were getting so high it was as if the state was trying to stop people from driving.

Yeah...I am pretty sure that is the whole point. I have got to get out of here.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 09, 2026 05:23 AM (OPGS/)

42 39 So if one is using a Mac Mini for a media server, would this potentially cause issues with hitting the 47 day wall?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2026 05:14 AM (iMotb)

Nah, the article says the 47 day countdown restarts every time you turn off/reboot the Mac.

So just make sure you do that at least once a month and it should be fine.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 05:24 AM (6ydKt)

43 >>>Paraphrasing, someone complaining about the fees to renew a registration were getting so high it was as if the state was trying to stop people from driving.

>What's considered high? I paid $60.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 09, 2026 05:26 AM (Fbc0I)

44 "Now I just restart it every few weeks to get the kinks out, when I remember."

Set up a cron job to reboot once a month at a time when you probably aren't going to be using it.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at April 09, 2026 05:27 AM (DLVKS)

45 "it was as if the state was trying to stop people from driving.

Yeah...I am pretty sure that is the whole point. "

I suspect that is a not-small part of the reasoning behind it.

Look at the redesigning of some of the major streets in downtown Baltimore, with the insistence of having bike lanes and taking away one of two vehicular travel lanes for 'street calming'.

It's not an accident that the costs are going up, and automobile travel is becoming more difficult, by design.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2026 05:28 AM (iMotb)

46 "What's considered high? I paid $60."

I want to think along the line of $180.00 or so.

The cost more than doubled.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2026 05:30 AM (iMotb)

47 Been wearing a continuous glucose monitor system for ... ohhh... 8 years? Dexcom. Love it, of course I actually need one because I'm a.... you know.... type 1 diabetic.

People that don't have my disease but choose to use a cgm are weirdos imo.

Posted by: Defenestratus at April 09, 2026 05:31 AM (WYStd)

48 Comedian explains peoples' reactions when he says he doesn't drink:

https://tinyurl.com/msd8uh7d

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 05:32 AM (PFs9e)

49 Evening and morning, all! It's Thor's Day again, innit?

I'm up a little earlier than I planned, though Stirling had nothing to do with it. In a vivid dream, apparently I was part of a writing critique group again, and we were meeting out in the yard of a member's house. One lady -- she looked like a dark chestnut-haired version of Jan Smithers -- was obviously flirting with me. Finally we took the opportunity to talk in private in the house. I asked her to have dinner with me. "Okay, but we have to meet across the street at the Tenneco gas station."

I was immediately suspicious. The Tenneco (which no longer exist around here in reality) was on a dark street corner. "Why not at the restaurant?" I said, and she was giving me some kooky/charming double-talk answer as I woke up.

Still, it was kinda charming.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 09, 2026 05:34 AM (wzUl9)

50 Standard passenger vehicle starts at $125.00 for two years, plus additional fees.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2026 05:34 AM (iMotb)

51 I hate those e-bikes. They zip down the road and in our area they seem to be driven by what are probably mostly illegal aliens off to work. You don't need a license. They are a menace.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 05:35 AM (PFs9e)

52 Now I just restart it every few weeks to get the kinks out, when I remember.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026

***
I began doing the same with my iMac. I'd better do the same with this MacBook Air -- though it soldiers on without issue even without restarting.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 09, 2026 05:37 AM (wzUl9)

53 One of our front security cameras caught the entire sequence of events, in 2k HD.

Hopefully you can post it sometime with a cheerful soundtrack in the background. -:-)

Posted by: NR Pax at April 09, 2026 05:37 AM (OPGS/)

54 G'mornin' everyone!

interesting how the glucose snapcase ties the whole thing into MAHA; nothing, absolutely nothing can happen that doesn't expose the evil stupidity of non-communists.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 09, 2026 05:37 AM (MIIRH)

55 This was my "God incident" yesterday. I was driving to the church and saw at the farm ( the house must date from the middle 1800's) a little baby lamb with its mother. It must have been only a few weeks old. So cute!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 05:38 AM (PFs9e)

56 Set up a cron job to reboot once a month at a time when you probably aren't going to be using it.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at April 09, 2026 05:27 AM (DLVKS)

It's not my main computer.
It's mostly just a file server now and an extra screen.
It also comes in handy if you're doing anything with an Apple product that requires a second Apple product to verify/setup.

So I'm not that worried about it, and just restart when I remember or it starts getting slow.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 05:41 AM (6ydKt)

57 >What's considered high? I paid $60.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

To my way of thinking, anything over $20/year. That being said, I paid about $320 for my wife's car but that was for three years.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 09, 2026 05:41 AM (OPGS/)

58 My 14 year old Kindle no longer accepts webpage certificates so most websites don't load properly. I can still obtain books from other sources and convert to "mobi" using Calibre. And I can play music and some videos that I download or stream from my home server, but otherwise it's kind of useless now.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at April 09, 2026 05:41 AM (s1NDj)

59 Kis on e-bikes . . . There was an item on the local news lately about kids playing a real-life game called "Senior Assassin," at night, with water pistols (that in dim light look pretty real). This was in a nice, middle-class neighborhood in a suburban city. No word on the, uh, ethnicity of the kids in question. One homeowner, worried about a potential hom invasion, went out with his real handgun and fired a round into the ground to scare them off. (Hey, it's better than firing into the air.)

Local officials were quoted as saying the game is dangerous and a tragedy waiting to happen. No kidding.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 09, 2026 05:42 AM (wzUl9)

60 Adams was cracking down on e-bike trouble. The new guy is reversing course.
E-bikes are motorcycles and to be regulated the same way. The problem is the cost of owning a motor vehicle in this country. The commies just exempt their preferred class from the paying.

Posted by: Accomack at April 09, 2026 05:42 AM (7l8iM)

61 "Hopefully you can post it sometime with a cheerful soundtrack in the background. -:-)"

I might be able to send the file to one of the COB's, and let them play with it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2026 05:45 AM (iMotb)

62 "A stranger's blessing" . Woman gets comfort from a stranger praying with her at a difficult time. "Upper Room" devotional:

https://tinyurl.com/5d8kzp3a

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 05:48 AM (Nx5jP)

63 I began doing the same with my iMac. I'd better do the same with this MacBook Air -- though it soldiers on without issue even without restarting.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 09, 2026 05:37 AM (wzUl9)

I will always give Apple credit for building machines and an OS that is reliable and mostly trouble-free.

I'd never leave this Windows PC on for weeks.
I turn it off twice a day when not using it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 05:48 AM (6ydKt)

64 49:Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Your dreams are morphing into David Lynch plots. You didn't watch a Lynch film recently?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 09, 2026 05:48 AM (sAmhv)

65 Posted by: NR Pax at April 09, 2026 05:37 AM (OPGS/)

LOL. Good idea.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 05:49 AM (Nx5jP)

66 58 My 14 year old Kindle no longer accepts webpage certificates so most websites don't load properly. I can still obtain books from other sources and convert to "mobi" using Calibre. And I can play music and some videos that I download or stream from my home server, but otherwise it's kind of useless now.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at April 09, 2026 05:41 AM (s1NDj)

What's the battery life like on it?
I'm imagining the thing won't run for longer than a few hours without needing to be recharged.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 05:51 AM (6ydKt)

67 Good morning, Fen! How did your son's interview go?

Posted by: NR Pax at April 09, 2026 05:51 AM (OPGS/)

68 Good morning. For those inclined, please send a prayer for my nephew Brady. I am sitting on the tarmac at GSO waiting to fly to PVD because a nephew (25) had a headache and went to the Doctor yesterday. It was bad. Emergency brain surgery scheduled overnight. Should be done by now, but I don't know. My sister already lost one son to tragedy, I don't think she can handle another.

Posted by: Lincolntf at April 09, 2026 05:53 AM (rTUTX)

69 Posted by: NR Pax at April 09, 2026 05:51 AM (OPGS/)

How kind of you to ask. He felt it went well.. I don't know how they felt He said it lasted an hour and a half, but he hasn't heard anything yet. I didn't know this, but it seemed to be going through a recruiter and she has to get back to him.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 05:55 AM (Nx5jP)

70 "Hopefully you can post it sometime with a cheerful soundtrack in the background. -:-)"

Yakity Sax.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 09, 2026 05:55 AM (qFwJc)

71 on the way, Lincolntf!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 09, 2026 05:55 AM (MIIRH)

72 Prayers sent.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2026 05:58 AM (iMotb)

73 Posted by: Lincolntf at April 09, 2026 05:53 AM

How very scary! I will pray for Brady right now.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 05:58 AM (Nx5jP)

74 My cat knocked my Kindle off a table and cracked the screen. The cost of getting it replaced was about the cost of a new one. The delay in getting the replacement was 2 months.

Forget it. Bought new one and all the e-books I bought before were available to download from the cloud for free.

I am a happy guy.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 09, 2026 05:58 AM (qFwJc)

75 What's the battery life like on it?

Days. Multiple days.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 09, 2026 05:59 AM (qFwJc)

76 “ Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

John 4:13-14

Posted by: Marcus T at April 09, 2026 06:00 AM (mr1OZ)

77 Posted by: Marcus T at April 09, 2026

Very lovely and important passage. Thanks!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 06:01 AM (Nx5jP)

78 >> Posted by: Lincolntf at April 09, 2026 05:53 AM (rTUTX)

He is with you.

Prayers are coming your way.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 09, 2026 06:01 AM (mr1OZ)

79 >> Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 06:01 AM (Nx5jP)

Amen ma’am.

Drink the water of life my friends.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 09, 2026 06:02 AM (mr1OZ)

80 Marcus T, thank you. Watching "The Chosen " and seeing that particular passage so well done .

Posted by: Ben Had at April 09, 2026 06:04 AM (yAteE)

81 Amen Ben Had. Indeed.

Hoping all is well, and Gods blessings are upon you.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 09, 2026 06:05 AM (mr1OZ)

82 Morning, Horde....How goes it?

Looks like my wireless router has given up the ghost for good this morning.

I guess I shall be getting a new one and see if I can get it to work...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 09, 2026 06:07 AM (ESVrU)

83 The only thing I didn't like about the Kindle Fire(s) I bought for my Mom was that Amazon has locked them down so hard.

It's all Android based but Amazon has their own version on it, their own App Store, their own browser (Silk, which was slow AF), basically their own everything.

The first one she had you couldn't even download an actual YouTube app because it wasn't available unless you jailbreak it and get it off the Google Play Store.

I don't know how they are now (they added a lot more apps by the time I got her a second one) but that's the only thing holding back the Kindles as full-strength tablets. Amazon has basically made them for selling e-books and making it as easy as possible to shop on Amazon itself (there's a searchbar on it that's always on and will send you straight to their store).

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 06:08 AM (6ydKt)

84
Your dreams are morphing into David Lynch plots. You didn't watch a Lynch film recently?
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 09, 2026

***
Nope. A Western last night called The Violent Men, with Glenn Ford, and the original True Grit before that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 09, 2026 06:09 AM (wzUl9)

85 Ugh.

I like to have a Details view for my Music Videos folder, adding the Frame Height, Frame Width, Frame Rate, and Bit Rate (for the audio quality) to the default columns, with everything arranged just so. Windows Explorer wasn't remembering it automatically the way it normally does -- probably because I'm on a borrowed laptop and using an external drive for videos -- so I wanted to force save it.

But in Windows, the way to save a folder view is for the folder type, and there are only five. So to get it to remember my preferred Details for that one specific folder, I had to set it for all Videos type folders.

Tech, man!

Posted by: SciVo at April 09, 2026 06:10 AM (Sy6m/)

86 I guess I shall be getting a new one and see if I can get it to work...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 09, 2026 06:07 AM (ESVrU)

I'd recommend a TP-Link router, which was easy-peasy to setup here, but with all the FCC bans and everything going on with that, I'm hesitant to recommend any not knowing what the future holds.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 06:10 AM (6ydKt)

87 Some Brandon Lake worship music for your morning.

https://tinyurl.com/yy52jzv8

Posted by: Marcus T at April 09, 2026 06:11 AM (mr1OZ)

88 Just checked my banking statement. I paid $399 for a three year registration renewal.

I'm so done with the GPROMD.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 09, 2026 06:11 AM (OPGS/)

89 Get your gender equity card here!

https://youtube.com/shorts/822htg9cqzI?si=ume3QGaRx694TTIN

Posted by: TheCatBitesMyToe at April 09, 2026 06:13 AM (LOZbR)

90 Just now I restarted the MacBook Air. Swift, and no problems. The Memory Clean app says there seems to be a little more RAM available than before.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 09, 2026 06:13 AM (wzUl9)

91 MarcusT, all is well and I strive to be worthy of the many blessings I receive.

Your faith is beautiful.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 09, 2026 06:13 AM (yAteE)

92 As big as a fanboy I am of Apple, they cannot be trusted on the server or enterprise end.

They will let this bug languish because their user base is not enterprise or corporate in the main.

Having said that, they still make the best general purpose OS and have for the last 40 years.

Which is serious uptime in that department.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 09, 2026 06:14 AM (oMjnD)

93 67 F. here, high humidity, a bit of wind (12 mph). Going to be 77 today. I'll nip out to Walmart when they open, then be settled on my couch for the movie The Letter on Movies! at 10:40.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 09, 2026 06:16 AM (wzUl9)

94 89 Get your gender equity card here!

Posted by: TheCatBitesMyToe

At least the stupid things I did when I was younger aren't online anywhere.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 09, 2026 06:17 AM (OPGS/)

95 Moto G stylus also comes with crappy default software. I still miss my 12 yr old Samsung.

Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at April 09, 2026 06:19 AM (RWdGz)

96 Wow, talk about computer game pre-history.

Someone posted a month ago on YouTube a 2-hour TL

R video of Battlecruiser 3000.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 09, 2026 06:19 AM (2GVsD)

97 If you are interested to see a list of your uptimes and average uptime, open a terminal and enter: last reboot | awk '/reboot/ {print $5" "$6" "$7}' | while read line; do echo "$(date -jf "%b %d %H:%M" "$line" +%s)"; done

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 09, 2026 06:21 AM (0FcHQ)

98 Morning Tech Horde,

Maybe I’m missing something here but why would you leave an unattended PC running for days on end? Seems like a waste of power. I get the special circumstances of a media server as an exception.

Posted by: Pete Bog at April 09, 2026 06:22 AM (NNaIW)

99 Pete Bog. Good morning.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 09, 2026 06:26 AM (yAteE)

100 @98

>> Seems like a waste of power.

If you are running a service that requires extended uptime, Apache web server, backup server, news server, development server, then you will have to automate reboots, which typically isn’t a big deal but it will come at the cost of downtime.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 09, 2026 06:27 AM (QxzI5)

101 Maybe I’m missing something here but why would you leave an unattended PC running for days on end?

There are people who think that it's better to do that instead of constantly powering a machine off at the end of the day.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 09, 2026 06:28 AM (OPGS/)

102 I'd recommend a TP-Link router, which was easy-peasy to setup here, but with all the FCC bans and everything going on with that, I'm hesitant to recommend any not knowing what the future holds.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 06:10 AM (6ydKt)

Nooooo.
TP-Link routers were the ones that were recently discovered by the fbi to be compromised by Russian Intelligence so that they were sending all your traffic to Ivan.
Surprised Pixy hasn't run a story about it actually.

Posted by: Defenestratus at April 09, 2026 06:28 AM (WYStd)

103 Maybe I’m missing something here but why would you leave an unattended PC running for days on end? Seems like a waste of power. I get the special circumstances of a media server as an exception.
Posted by: Pete Bog at April 09, 2026

***
In the early days of PCs, the argument was that letting them run would make them last longer -- that the surge of electricity as you turned them back on over and over again was damaging over the long run. No idea if that's still true, or for Macs.

My work PCs weren't unattended during the work week, but I let them run and go to sleep overnight and on the weekends. They seemed to last fine. Same for the 2014-era iMac and MacBook Air I have now; they go to sleep when not being used, but I usually don't turn them off.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 09, 2026 06:28 AM (wzUl9)

104 mornin yall

"Maybe I’m missing something here but why would you leave an unattended PC running for days on end? "

Security camera monitoring. Mine run for many months without rebooting.

Posted by: fd at April 09, 2026 06:29 AM (vFG9F)

105 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at April 09, 2026 06:30 AM (2Ez/1)

106 Thank you Ben Had. It’s been a long journey but He’s been with me all along. I know that now.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 09, 2026 06:32 AM (mr1OZ)

107 Nobody is really running Macs as servers any longer since they exited the enterprise space.

So this bug is really no big deal for the average user.

I checked the uptime log, longest uptime was 8 days.

I ran an Origin Onyx 2 at a post house that posted an uptime of 2 years.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 09, 2026 06:34 AM (0+eWy)

108 Nooooo.
TP-Link routers were the ones that were recently discovered by the fbi to be compromised by Russian Intelligence so that they were sending all your traffic to Ivan.
Surprised Pixy hasn't run a story about it actually.

Posted by: Defenestratus at April 09, 2026 06:28 AM (WYStd)

I think that was what the recent FCC bans were about.
Problem is every consumer grade router sold in the U.S. is manufactured in Mexico, Taiwan, or China.

They could all be compromised if you get right down to it.
Even the Mexican versions are just importing the parts from Asia, assembling it, and then installing the firmware, made in Asia.

Supposedly TP-Link sent out firmware updates to fix the problems but unless you're a programmer/IT wiz who knows what's going on under the hood?

I'm not worried about being spied on, but the router could be turned into a bot relay by the hackers if they found a way in, I suppose.

I paid like $150 for this set of WiFi 6E mesh routers last year, so I'm not planning on throwing them away anytime soon.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 06:37 AM (6ydKt)

109 Thanks for those responses. Interesting number of applications requiring long duration uptime I hadn’t thought about. That’s why I read the tech thread.

With regard to the it will last longer argument that’s applying the logic of old filament light bulbs to what I presume would be a buffered power supply when converted from AC to DC. I could be wrong on that assumption.

Posted by: Pete Bog at April 09, 2026 06:38 AM (NNaIW)

110 Sorry for the run on sentence. Commas and quotation marks are a great invention.

Posted by: Pete Bog at April 09, 2026 06:41 AM (NNaIW)

111 This guy ( Doug Ross) has a whole set of illustrated ( I guess by AI?) "You are there" bits of important American history . I have been enjoying it:

https://tinyurl.com/5ba4hud7

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 09, 2026 06:42 AM (7RYym)

112 I am not sure how old my Samsung tablet even is. Is there a way to know date of one?
Posted by: Skip

There's gotta be a model number on the backside... Ok, nevermind.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 09, 2026 06:46 AM (diia5)

113 Good morning morons

After my mom and did Marriage Encounter (you youngsters won't know what that is) that Seekers song got a lot of play in our house.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 09, 2026 06:46 AM (RIvkX)

114 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 09, 2026 06:47 AM (bQ4nt)

115 IIRC in the copies of Upgrading and Repairing Computers I had, they would recommend leaving PCs on to reduce the stress on the physical parts with every power up and power down.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 09, 2026 06:47 AM (2GVsD)

116
Iran is demanding payment in Bitcoin or iTunes gift cards for ships that want to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

Will they take President Donald J. Trump Iran Asskicking commemorative coins?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 09, 2026 06:47 AM (tgvbd)

117 Butt seriously, most tablet/phones can be id'd by swiping down, find Settings, find About, and the model number should be listed in there.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 09, 2026 06:49 AM (diia5)

118 Good morning. For those inclined, please send a prayer for my nephew Brady. I am sitting on the tarmac at GSO waiting to fly to PVD because a nephew (25) had a headache and went to the Doctor yesterday. It was bad. Emergency brain surgery scheduled overnight. Should be done by now, but I don't know. My sister already lost one son to tragedy, I don't think she can handle another.
Posted by: Lincolntf at April 09, 2026 05:53 AM (rTUTX)
====

Prayer for complete and immediate healing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 09, 2026 06:51 AM (RIvkX)

119 Time to shave and shower, I guess.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 09, 2026 06:51 AM (wzUl9)

120 There used to be a thing called "Stiction" that prevented hard drives from spinning up when powered on. A good rap on top of the drive would sometimes get it going.

Posted by: fd at April 09, 2026 06:51 AM (vFG9F)

121
Good morning!
What fresh hell this day?

Posted by: Don Black at April 09, 2026 06:51 AM (ZxPkt)

122 The biggest wear and tear from leaving a PC on all the time is to the case or CPU cooler fans.

A cheap fan will start squealing at you after a year or so.
They sell 'Continuous Operation' fans that are supposed to take care of that problem, though.

The other problem would be electricity bills, which newer x86 CPUs and modern GPUs will certainly suck down some juice if running hard.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 09, 2026 06:53 AM (6ydKt)

123 I used to leave my PC on for months at a time (running windows even) but then I moved to New England and my electricity rates forced me to shutdown every night.

Posted by: Defenestratus at April 09, 2026 07:04 AM (WYStd)

124 Someone posted a month ago on YouTube a 2-hour TLR video of Battlecruiser 3000

Derek Smart is an on-going joke in gaming.

Posted by: Halfhand at April 09, 2026 07:05 AM (Ysav4)

125 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 07:07 AM (u82oZ)

126 >>>Maybe I’m missing something here but why would you leave an unattended PC running for days on end?

>Hysteresis. Not so much now with solid state drives.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 09, 2026 07:09 AM (Fbc0I)

127 Heart tugging Lego video:

https://t.co/90kDp2Xlz1

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 07:10 AM (u82oZ)

128 In my experience, most of my computer crashes have occurred booting up so i'll pay the extra power charge.

Posted by: Dark L at April 09, 2026 07:10 AM (KAi1n)

129 I had a pone with a stylus. I got it because I thought that was cool. And I never used the stylus.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 09, 2026 07:14 AM (CHHv1)

130

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 09, 2026 07:15 AM (DDJSl)

131 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

Hope that was a neighbor's car, and not your precious Miata.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 07:20 AM (u82oZ)

132 Heart tugging Lego video:

https://t.co/90kDp2Xlz1

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 07:10 AM (u82oZ)
-

Yah know, Lego and Hollywood are going to have to compete much harder to make another Lego movie in the future.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 09, 2026 07:21 AM (5UTWB)

133 Salty!

No, not the Miata.

Neighbor's parked car.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2026 07:22 AM (iMotb)

134 Hillary Clinton

Letting Web Hubble father your child shows how ambitious you were. And you still failed.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 07:23 AM (u82oZ)

135 Right eye cataract surgery this morning.

Posted by: Eromero at April 09, 2026 07:23 AM (LHPAg)

136 It's not my main computer.
It's mostly just a file server now and an extra screen.
It also comes in handy if you're doing anything with an Apple product that requires a second Apple product to verify/setup.

So I'm not that worried about it, and just restart when I remember or it starts getting slow.

All the more reason to set up a cron job to reboot the damned thing once a month. Hell, you can comment the crontab file to say WHY you're doing the reboot.

Of course, Apple being Apple, they have their own special way to schedule jobs that you can also use, details of which I do not remember (feeding "macos job scheduler" into a Google search box should give you those details). (I only know anything about Apple products due to my company's issuing of MacBooks to their software weasels versus the relatively-recently acquiring company's reliance upon .NET which results in the parent company's software weasels getting Windows based laptops.)

Posted by: Richard Cranium at April 09, 2026 07:24 AM (DLVKS)

137
Right eye cataract surgery this morning.
Posted by: Eromero at April 09, 2026 07:23 AM (LHPAg)

Hope everything goes smoothly. I had corrective surgery done and it went off fine. Her Majesty had corrective surgery and even after three tries her vision is off.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 09, 2026 07:26 AM (tgvbd)

138 "...comment the crontab file..."

Is that what you kids are calling it nowadays?

Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at April 09, 2026 07:28 AM (2Ez/1)

139 My parents had a couple of Seekers records! I well remember those great songs. Thanks Pixy.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 07:28 AM (c2WlD)

140 Hillary Clinton

Letting Web Hubble father your child shows how ambitious you were. And you still failed.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 07:23 AM (u82oZ)

I knocked the bottom out of that I did.

Posted by: Webb Hubble, Stud Muffin at April 09, 2026 07:28 AM (3LMJN)

141 $20. Same as in Little Rock.

Posted by: Old Lady Rodham at April 09, 2026 07:30 AM (2Ez/1)

142 I'll admit that I find it odd that an O-5/O-6 (AKA LTC/COL) was a WSO on an F-15. I'd expect an O-3/O-4 (AKA CPT/MAJ); if getting a flying near people who can shoot at you and maybe hit you medal (if once such thing exists) provides promotion points then I might find it less odd.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at April 09, 2026 07:31 AM (DLVKS)

143 Right eye cataract surgery this morning.
Posted by: Eromero at April 09, 2026 07:23 AM (LHPAg)
=====

Prayer for a complete and speedy recovery.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 09, 2026 07:33 AM (RIvkX)

144 "Is that what you kids are calling it nowadays?"

That's what the kids were calling it back in the 1970s when Unix was born, Grampa Simpson. Like you (and me), it's still around.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at April 09, 2026 07:34 AM (DLVKS)

145 Isn't an F-15 like 50 year old technology? Do they even train these young whippersnappers on obsolete birds anymore?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 09, 2026 07:35 AM (Fbc0I)

146 Thank you all very much.I am in Philly now waiting for my connection. The surgery is over. I don't know much more than that.

Posted by: Lincolntf at April 09, 2026 07:37 AM (NwfKM)

147 Off my lawn moment . . .

I remember seeing an F-15 mockup at cedar point amusement park, back in the late 70s.

Air Force was apparently doing some sort of publicity tour for their new toy.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 09, 2026 07:38 AM (gpQ8/)

148 "Do they even train these young whippersnappers on obsolete birds anymore?"
____

They probably don't even know how to comment the crontab file.

Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at April 09, 2026 07:38 AM (2Ez/1)

149 J.J. Runway 090.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2026 07:39 AM (u82oZ)

150 @127 Who expected that kind of support from the Danes?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 09, 2026 07:40 AM (zdLoL)

151 Famous people get some weird fans, as Judith Durham experienced. She was the female voice in the Seekers. According to Wiki,

In the late 1990s, Durham was stalked by a former president of a Judith Durham fan club,[38] a woman who sent her over 40 doormats as an admonishment for perceived ingratitude. She also sent Durham numerous abusive faxes, one threatening another doormat delivery worth over $45,000.[39] The woman was subsequently prosecuted,[39] and she was later imprisoned for other serial crimes

Doormats?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 09, 2026 07:41 AM (NGWiW)

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