It's hit or miss, even at the same McDonald's. When it's miss, I always ask myself why I chose to eat there.

I had a computer in the 90s that had everything in the keyboard. I needed a monitor and a mouse. Just a variation on the same concept, combining components. The fan was pretty loud.

It's called an "all in one", and I'm typing on one now. The computer is inside of what looks like a monitor. Mine is about 5 years old now. I had a different one for about 7 years before that. The trend seems to be slow to develop.

Read this article. See just how much your favorite fast food has increased in price since the end of 2019.

https://www.thestreet.com/personal-finance/fast-food-chains-price-increases#:~:text=PERSONAL%20FINANCE-,How%20much%20have%20fast%2Dfood%20prices%20gone%20up%20since%202020,headline%20inflation%20by%20wild%20margins.

There is still a market for recorded movies, DVD, Blu Ray, 4K Blu Ray. It's small but hanging on. All of the new blockbuster movies are released on discs. Some people want hard copies of their favorite movies and not rely on streaming services. Some have noticed that 4K discs look significantly better on a good 4K TV than the streaming option (less compression on the discs). I know fully that my thousand or so discs will likely end up in the dump when I'm gone, but I still buy a disc now and then.

If you want to convert your discs to files to watch another way, you still need an optical drive. External is fine. I've never had a problem with LG drives.

You only need one optical drive to copy discs. The software prompts you to swap out the source disc for the blank disc when it is time.

Most of the LED lights in my house have lasted longer than I would expect incandescent bulbs to last, however I've had to replace 4 of them that failed rather quickly. 3 were the same kind of the same brand. Perhaps this is a quality control issue.

I managed to sell one item on eBay last year, a Christmas ornament. eBay calculated the shipping charge, I paid it and printed the label. The label came with a tracking number. The problem was that they underestimated the shipping charge. The post office would not allow me to add on postage. They had to charge me the full amount and print their own label. Not only did I have a useless label that I could not use, neither eBay nor the buyer could track the shipment to determine if it was on the way or delivered. I assume that because I eventually got paid and the buyer said nothing that the item got to the buyer.

These are excellent pictures. Farmers over there have a different opinion of these creatures, but I think they're cute. Thank you.

I have to admit that I suspected this thread would end up in the attic sooner or later. It lasted about 8 pages before that happened. There was some reasonable discussion about displaying pictures of one's gun collection. Most people felt it was okay. I felt it was no different from posting pictures of a vintage car collection. Different hobbies for different folks. Then the politics started and then the flame throwing. Pretty d********g.

I'd like to say something here, and I'm not going to take sides. There is a lot of photography discussed on UHH and a lot of photos displayed. There is some chit-chat that some people like and some people h**e. This is a really a social media site, and when people post stuff about politics and religion on social media, it can come back to bite them in the ass if they ever have to look for a job or be considered for a promotion. Many employers now insist on viewing someone's social media posts before hiring. If they don't like what they see, they'll show you the door. I don't know why so many threads deteriorate into the Attic. If you really want to discuss politics or religion in some inflammatory way, there are other places to do that, and if you do, you may suffer unexpected consequences in real life.

I just looked this up, since I don't use an electronic shutter. The problem occurs with LED lighting, very common now. On some cameras, the anti-flicker feature can help as well as shutter speeds that are multiples of 60 Hz. Maybe someone else knows more about this.

Page 8 was when people started talking about other countries, pro and con. That's sort of political. I could see what was coming next. Too bad, though overall I think that this was a polite and intelligently discussed thread.

Expert? Nonsense. I'm getting what I pay for, so they don't know what they're talking about. I'm sure you could get this resolved if you want to, but it sounds like you'd rather just move on.

I have been getting calls from people with Indian accents claiming to be from the local power company. I don't know what they want me to give them because I hang up.

This is not a political thread. It could have gone that way, but it didn't. If you don't want to see political posts, don't look in the Attic. There is no more sickness in someone posting pictures of their gun collection than there is in someone posting pictures of a collection of old cars. If you don't want to see pictures of guns (or cars, or birds or anything else), just skip over them when they're posted.