As some may know I had 100s of open tabs in different windows way back to January 1st. They were of comments I wanted to reply to and posts I wanted to to make on stories. But just trying to get through a single day I am lucky to stay with in two days behind so never get to the top, much less the old tabs. Also some of you may understand I switched to a new browser I really like, Vivaldi. I have been wanting to get back to doing videos and the only holding me up was my sound quality. To use my Bluetooth Apple earbuds in the computer I had to change my Bluetooth adapters.
One of the features that Vivaldi has is a session remember feature that can remember your open tabs and return them if you close the browser or even shut down the computer. It can even be set to save automatically which I love. I had my settings set to remember the session of that day. I got new adapter last night. This morning I tried to set it up on the video computer, which is not the one I was using for recording because it had a stronger signal than my older one. I was going to put the one on the video computer on the blogging computer because that adapter was even older. But when I switched the one on the video computer to the blogging computer it wouldn’t work. It wouldn’t work and I ended up shutting down and starting them many times. Reloading drivers, trying work arounds, nothing would make it work. But the new adapter will work on the blogging computer that I use for recording, and so I put it on that computer and returned the original one back on the video computer.
Now for the bad. I bet some of you can see it coming already. New browser, different way to remember open tabs … during the struggle to make the old adapter work on the computer it refused to do so, I kept restarting the blogging computer. Now on Chrome that was not a problem because the tab order was stored in the history and would be able to be recovered. Yes Vivaldi has a history but not in the same useable way. As I opened pages to get new drivers and then shut down the browser saved those as the current session. Oh yes.
When I got everything back up and working imagine my shock on going to sessions an clicking restore session I got only the pages I had opened the last time I shut the computer down … everything from before was gone. Nearly five months of saved tabs in 6 different windows gone just like that. And no I can’t get them from Chrome because the compulsive person I am I cleaned that browser as soon as I decided I like Vivaldi better. What I have done now is change the auto save to the last three sessions.
When I told Ron this he seriously said it maybe for the best. He said the older stuff was bothering me, I felt driven to keep it yet couldn’t ever find time to get to it. This may relieve me of some stress and let me concentrate more on the today stuff I want to do. I love the way he looks at these things. I will choose to look at it the same way. The unexplained computer powers of the webverse have decided to remove that burden from my shoulders. But by my dogs that love gravy … couldn’t they have asked first? 😀😂🤣😃😍 Hugs. Scottie
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Would you please tell Ron “thanks” for me? If any of those missing items was me, I’d rather you be relieved of the burden. We can always reconnect on a newer topic.
Cheers.
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Hi MDavis. Thank you. I do appreciate that. And in truth it makes sense it should work that way. Ron has been more and more concern about my obsessive need to keep everything for months. He wants me to accept I missed it and move on. But I get so upset. I just have to realize I can not read every news article and every blog I like every day. But there is good news. I don’t lose comments any more. Not sure why I never did this before, but the bell notification that I use to my way through blogs and comments in order has a button for just comments. So now I use that and do them first, as comments are far more important to me even the blogs I enjoy. Hugs. Scottie
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All is well. So many things tend to work out for the very best.
Here’s a new link. I’ve been reading Oliver Willis for years, and I really like his work. You’ve probably seen his work around. I now subscribe (for free) to his work on Substack, and here is the one he posted today. Bonus on each post is a photo of his doggy Kal-El, who looks like our Chrissy back when she was that age (she crossed the bridge in 2020 at age 21.) Anyway, back to the link: https://www.oliverexplains.com/p/how-boring-lgbtq-people-made-america . Enjoy when you get to it!
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Hi Ali. My sympathies on your loss, but it seems you got to share more than the normal live of expectance of our loved dogs. I an happy for that, and still grieve your loss.
What a name for a four legged furry friend … the same name as the cartoon Superman. Wonderful.
Wow Ali. What a great article. I tried to like it but it wanted me to sign up before it would take my like??? that is new, but maybe because of my change in browser.
Ali I remember growing up with Anita Bryant telling everyone I and people like me were both created by people having sex with us and would force other kids to have sex with us to make us one of them. That just one same sex encounter made you gay and that all gay men were driven to do that to kids to keep the gay going. I remember remember in the late 1980s into the middle 1990s listening to all these horrific things that would happen if gays got rights from people like Rush Limbaugh, and others on the right spout the most absurd things that their followers believed.
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Side note. Homophobia bigotry is so weird, that some of the people who raped my little boy body would constantly berate me for being a faggot and how bad I was … while they were forcing this on me. Go figure that one out because I never have. It has messed with my head all my life. The super straight guys who hated gays were raping a little boy and making me suck their dick while insulting me and making me the bad one because I was a faggot. I was not even ten, how was I in charge?
Anyway, I am going to post this. Thank you as always for sending links. Hugs, loves, Scottie
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