Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[GonePlaid]

My car has Apple CarPlay built in, I have my music on a solid state drive. I doesn’t work that well, it seems to be buggy and there haven’t been any updates in three years from GM. I spoke to people at GM, they are clued out. The software comes from somewhere else.

I think that the issue is that I have too much music. It results in indexing problems. I have tried it both with a wire to my phone and using the car’s wifi. It works but the phone’s screen is too small to see the songs or search. So I don’t use it.

Due to these technical issues, I prefer CD’s. I made hundreds just for the car, well thought out track listings. Get the new car and no CD player. GM doesn’t want me using one. Got to look at USB CD players I suppose.

Good luck on that. I couldn't find any.

 

[GonePlaid]

The memory available is my limitation. The library is fairly large, my solid state itunes music drives are TeraByte. No problem with the computer but CarPlay is flakey with large devices. Sometimes it works, other times the indexing gets confused, it indexes when I insert them, and it doesn’t see all the songs or plays the wrong ones.

So far I'm good with Sirius/XM. If something comes on that sux(IMO), I change channels. Plus I have one thumb drive with a buncha [stuff] from a previous band I was in.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Happy 81st birthday Ringo.

Ringo Starr turns 81 today. A look at the life of the Beatles drummer, in photos

 

[gtmalone]

beans-on-toast said: ↑
How do you connect your phone to the car system? Cable? Wifi?

Cable.

Who is your cable company? Dragging a cable around would seem to limit your driving.

 

[gtmalone]

Construction started in our alley yesterday for AT&T to install fiber. Don't know when it will be available or what the cost will be.

We'll probably get into that technology loop again - Faster internet then the computer will be too slow so new computer. groan...

 

[gtmalone]

Opinion poll: Of all of the children conceived in the U.S. each year, what percentage were conceived while listening to Al Green or Barry White?

A. 10%
B. 25%
C. 60%
D. All of them
E. This is stupid. I'm not taking a poll and you can't make me.

 

[GonePlaid]

Opinion poll: Of all of the children conceived in the U.S. each year, what percentage were conceived while listening to Al Green or Barry White?

A. 10%
B. 25%
C. 60%
D. All of them
E. This is stupid. I'm not taking a poll and you can't make me.

Blue.

 

[GonePlaid]

Had a very busy day yesterday: I treated the fretboards then polished all my basses. All 4 of them. Took maybe an hour, total.

 

[Deleted member 268085]

Looks like your Bolts are going to win it again.

 

[GonePlaid]

Looks like your Bolts are going to win it again.

Fingers crossed. Anything could happen, but hoping to see them 'Skate The Cup' tonight. Then go over to Amalie Saturday to buy new [stuff].

 

[Winslow]

Opinion poll:

Most of the kids born these days are to parents who probably never heard of those guys, so I'll go with "E."

 

[GwenOnBass]

Construction started in our alley yesterday for AT&T to install fiber. Don't know when it will be available or what the cost will be.

We'll probably get into that technology loop again - Faster internet then the computer will be too slow so new computer. groan...

Expecting the very people who created this mess to get us out of this mess is why

 

[GwenOnBass]

Opinion poll: Of all of the children conceived in the U.S. each year, what percentage were conceived while listening to Al Green or Barry White?

A. 10%
B. 25%
C. 60%
D. All of them
E. This is stupid. I'm not taking a poll and you can't make me.

/me wonders

Is the scar from that Barry White hickey still visible

 

[beans-on-toast]

Had a very busy day yesterday: I treated the fretboards then polished all my basses. All 4 of them. Took maybe an hour, total.

If your team wins, you’ll have to repeat that ritual for every game in the future.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Construction started in our alley yesterday for AT&T to install fiber. Don't know when it will be available or what the cost will be.

We'll probably get into that technology loop again - Faster internet then the computer will be too slow so new computer. groan...

They usually offer a promotion to get everyone to switch, they don’t want to maintain the old network any longer than they have to. With the fiber comes a new router to plug the light pipe into. If you have a land line, it goes into the router as well. You mentioned the computer, then there’s the new TV that connects to the router via wi-fi.

 

[Deleted member 268085]

And then there's the new sound bar with wireless surrounds and sub. LOTS of little blue LEDs.

 

[Polish Thunder]

Happy 81st birthday Ringo.

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Ringo Starr turns 81 today. A look at the life of the Beatles drummer, in photos

In light of Ringo Starr's birthday, I thought I would share this article. Every time I read the part about Ringo, it just makes me smile.....

Happy Birthday Ringo!

Quincy Jones: 'The Beatles were the worst musicians in the world'

 

[GwenOnBass]

"The most unbelievable part of comic books isn't 'nuclear waste gave him laser eyes' or whatever, it's the notion that people that powerful would be good."
— @drewmorgancomedy

 

[beans-on-toast]

In light of Ringo Starr's birthday, I thought I would share this article. Every time I read the part about Ringo, it just makes me smile.....

Happy Birthday Ringo!

Quincy Jones: 'The Beatles were the worst musicians in the world'

Quincy was just being Quincy, he wanted to generate press for himself by making outlandish comments.

 

[gtmalone]

And then there's the new sound bar with wireless surrounds and sub. LOTS of little blue LEDs.

No sound bar. Glorious Dolby 5.1 surround! Everything is hard wired.