Half joking/half serious in saying this, but, you could also simply adjust the front feet so that the fridge/freezer very slightly leans backwards, which will cause the door to always close, by gravity (well, it's not 100% foolproof, but...). I see you other post saying you had the components and such, . .I get it. .sometimes it's fun to scratch that itch and solve a real world problem with your skills.:thumbsup:

I feel the pain too when I read that this was being removed, last week. Have had my task bar on the left for years and enjoy it - it feels like less distance to travel with the mouse when flipping between many open apps/windows. I think this is because I have the habit of putting the mouse off to the right side of the screen to get the cursor out of my way. Maybe I will have to change to putting it at the bottom. I use shortcut key combos to as much as I can since this is the fastest vs mousing, but alt-tabbing through your windows when you have many apps open is still slower than mouse clicking on the app in the taskbar.

Ahh, floating the gears. Nice. I used to do that on my old 80s something mazda pickup, for fun sometimes (only after using the clutch to smoothly start moving). Nowadays the only need for that technique is in my dump truck where that is required (again, after using the clutch to get moving) since heavy truck manual transmissions don't have synchronizers - so it's either floating them or double clutching, with the latter too much hassle).

The part about your experience with an out of synch thing happening. . .that would seem to be due to the player IMO. I say this because you say that skipping around doesn't exhibit the delay, which says to me that the files must have the correct information (timing info for audio and video) because how could it not?

Killing trees: I used to not feel so good about the use of live trees for this myself. I later realized that these trees are farmed. i.e. they wouldn't exist if there wasn't a market for them, just like heads of lettuce and other vegetables. So, although yes, it's still killing of a perfectly good plant, it's not like Christmas tree purveyors are buying forests up constantly to feed to their customers. Electric lights on trees: There is a small fuse in the plug of all strings of lights (UL listed anyway which is about all you can find I think now-a-days). Also, the wires are really thin so even if you touched two raw wires of it together right from the plug I'm talking, before the string's fuse blew it'd be a pretty small arc. And lastly, since 2017, in the US the national electric code requires the use of an arc fault circuit interrupter (AFCI) in nearly every home circuit (some exceptions for large appliance circuits). This would exist in the central panel. So, the circuit breaker would detect the arc and trip.

Hmm, it's multiple, all related to building and fixing things. It's a curse, too, because I somehow can't get out of the rut/feeling that I should/must? repair and build EVERYTHING that breaks or that I want/need in life. That is, I basically have not, in my half a century+ of life, ever called a plumber, electrician, auto mechanic*, appliance/lawn & garden/heavy equipment mechanic. . .or for any home improvements. :sigh: :sigh: :sigh: *there were 2 times where I had some more time consuming major repairs needed to a vehicle but had no indoor location in the winter months to work on it and/or it was when I had small children/family + full time job where I just didn't have the time to tackle it myself. So yeah, I guess this would entail the skills in woodworking, construction (excavation/concrete/framing/siding/roofing/wiring/tiling), welding, small and large engine mechanics, some electronics.

. .only if you are the space shuttle or a remote planet, thank you. :)

Toggl[^] This is a fairly low effort and accurate way to do what you seek. You set up clients and projects linked to them, then start the timer and work away. Any time you get interrupted it's easy to stop the timer and start another and easy to choose the projects you are working on too when doing so. It remembers the most common latest tasks (your typed description of what you are doing) and autofills it after typing a couple keystrokes. From experience with it over many years, this really sounds like a good solution to what you are looking for in terms of accuracy/integrity based on your comments to other's replies. I use the free version.

Also: "The joy was not complete." One of my favorites to use (thankfully not that frequent) with child rearing.

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Far as I can recall I first saw an automated order entry system in a fast food restaurant in the 1990's. Yet today I still see a person behind the counter for every fast food place I go to.

I wish that were the case for me. My experience with (some) McDondald's is that there is never anyone behind the counter. The kiosks developed for self-serve customer ordering during covid are what you have to use, unless you go up to the counter and stare at the folks packaging food and working the drive through, waiting for them to notice and come take your order at some point, which isn't worth the hassle. So generally the kiosk is fine to use, however I like to get a tote (13) of cookies always, and guess what, after you select that "item", you have to select the flavor of each of the 13 cookies from a list of. . . .yes, 1 element (chocolate chip - that's all they have). So, 13 times you have to do this. Some programmer/requirement developed/stated that this was needed for future needs I'm sure, but. . .wow, it is really annoying, especially since if you tap repeatedly on the cookie flavor (which you do because the refresh rate is so annoyingly slow) it must fill a buffer and the kiosk app locks up and you have to start over at another one! :mad: So, yes, I am definitely "hangry" at that point. So, when we (by 2 sons are along usually) get to that point one of them says "dad, let me do this". :)

Ah ha. . .yes, I see. . .I was reading the mass there, in my native units of pounds. :) US wives would take a weight of 100 as a compliment but not so elsewhere to be sure.

100 final reading isn't too bad honestly, nowadays. Maybe update that to 200 for a better effect. :)

Uhhmmm, I'd have to disagree with people suggesting DaVinci resolve. I use it and like it but it is huge and complex, so sorry, it doesn't fit the 'simple' software for an 80 yo IMO. My suggestion would put some burden on you, but I would suggest ffmpeg.exe No install necessary with this so you could just give him a zipped folder containing it and a batch file you would have to create after researching the command necessary to do this sort of "video" from an mp3 and pictures which I know it can do. In this folder he would unzip onto his system, each time he wants to create a video: -he should place his pictures named 1.jpeg, 2.jpeg, etc. or similarly named...guess if he has jpeg, png, gifs this could be more of a challenge. -he should place his mp3 in this folder and name it audio.mp3 or something fixed you chooose and refer to in your batch file. -He should then execute your batch file which will find how many audio files there are, find the length of the mp3, calc the length of each picture, then craft the command to send to ffmpeg to make the "video". Ok, it could be a challenge to get the length of the mp3 via a batch file so maybe you could make a text file where he places that value, or even better, have him do the calcs of the start times of each image and place in the text file and you grab that info within your batch file. He should easily be able to see the length of the mp3 and do that simple calculation. This puts some up front time on you but how much of your time will it consume supporting whatever software you choose that he'd have to download, install, be trained on, and use appropriately every time? Instead of a batch file a quick console .net app might be quicker to create that does the above, too.

Exact same thing has happened to me. Except the power pole was across the county road from my house. Called the utility company and they came out and put a new fuse up on the transformer that fed my house.. . . .and a prickly thing over the terminal where the line attaches to it to attempt to keep the critters from being a conduit for the electricity there.

Visual studio's, since it's right there always. In the command window (View>Other Windows>Command window) type Tools.DiffFiles

The reason for it is that it's just great. I (my eyes) highly enjoy it. I remember the first time I flipped to it, my head and eyes went "aahhhhhh.. .wonderful". I think another reason is less battery draw on mobile devices, although I saw an article that said dark vs light mode in the end had a pretty low advantage (but was an improvement).

It looks like a good fit with the only caution I can think of is the support aspect and how it could suck you in somewhat against your will. Like, if you make the app, great, but then are you going to be supporting it? If you are, is that going to fit with your "retired life"? This is an aspect where one can easily trick yourself into thinking "it won't be that much of an issue" but then find that oh, I can't go on a vacation or step away from things for a while to focus on something else, or if I do my vacation might be wrecked because of a support issue you feel you need to work on that rears its ugly head.

And having a box or chair or something to put an alternating foot up on helps too. . .kinda stretches the back. All this sounds like a pain in the you know what, but I do recommend working from a standing position. .it really is good for you and your body and you might be amazed at the extra calories burned. I know I was hungrier (key is to not overcompensate) for lunch consistently, when I started working from a standing position.

Really like dark mode because it is easier on the eyes. The first time I tried it they were like, "ahhhhh, thank you." I work generally in a darker room environment which could be part of the preference. I didn't know we were "not supposed to" work in a darker environment. I like it. Hmm, dark room and dark monitors. ...maybe contributing to potential SAD-like symptoms in the winter months?

I see someone mentioned Harvard's courses. That reminded me that a while back Stanford put all their CS courses online freely available. And they cover the types of programming, not just how to program. So, I think these may help you in deciding what you want to do (a common theme in answers you are getting) and then how to learn what you decide. Here is an article that talks about the Stanford courses that looks helpful. https://medium.com/the-mission/how-to-learn-to-code-for-free-at-stanford-and-make-six-figures-in-under-1-year-4bf95baf793b[^] From here you can get to the courses themselves.