@variablepulserate You could try 🤦🏻 (facepalm).
For various reasons, my blood glucose tester today needed five test strips to get a usable reading. I'm on a disability pension and luckily I'm not paying Amazon prices for those strips. On Amazon they are between $47 and $57 per 100. Five strips at those prices would have been between $33 and $39 per fortnight, not a sustainable proposition.
The first three attempts at getting a reading brought up error 02, suggesting a used strip was inserted (hint: they were NOT used strips). The fourth attempt triggered error 08, a contaminated testing port. That is fixed be restarting the tester.
Fortunately I get a substantial NDSS (National Diabetes Support Scheme) subsidy on the test strips and only pay $1.20 per 100.
Just realised I didn't have a pnut.io app on my new (spare) Android phone. So I downloaded Goober from github and shared it via my Dropshare app, available via Setapp subscription. Dropshare is linked to a folder in OneDrive, so I downloaded OneDrive from the Google Play Store and accesses the .apk file on the phone.
First I had to tell the phone it was OK to install stuff from an unrecognised developer and later to install the app anyway, despite it supposedly being unsuited to the OS version I have.
it works fine.
then I thought, "why didn't I just use the phone to save the download. I followed up the Dale app from the pnut.io website and it side-loaded quite successfully, too. Just to be on the safe side, I also saved the beta.pnut.io web app to the desktop as well.
@phoneboy It was when I returned home I found the HDMI cable which I used to use with the MacBook Air at that venue: it's a cheapish USB-C to HDMI cable of 4 metres length and rated for HDMI 4k@30 Hz.
It was time to upgrade my spare mobile phone, my existing Android device had used up its last OS upgrade. I opted for a Motorola Moto G75 as that model comes with five guaranteed major OS upgrades. It was delivered from Amazon and I had to quote either a one-time 6-digit password or the last two digits of my phone number. Included in the package was a clear silicone case and a set of Moto Buds which normally retail at AU$249, accounting for half the cost of the package.
For my after-marker iPhone case, I'd bought an ESR Halolock universal magnetic ring to enable the case to cling onto a MagSafe-compatible charger. there were two such rings in the pack, so I applied the spare one to the back of the G75's case, enabling use with my various (mostly ESR Halolock-branded) MagSafe chargers.
Speaking of chargers, it has a TurboCharge fast charging feature capable of supplying 33W at 3A and 11.0 volts.
So I took my M4 Mac mini to the Apple User Group meeting only to be almost stymied by old technology. I could not connect it to either the venue's big wall-mounted smart TV or to an Apple TV 3rd gen that was visible on the TV itself.
I tried demonstrating my Soundcore Boom 2 Plus high power Bluetooth speaker but it was not visible in Bluetooth settings even though it had worked at home.
The venue's TV is not new and offers a maximum resolution of 1920 x 1080. i had practised at home on two different HD TVs using different HDMI combinations, all of which worked fine. Those were 4k-capable HDMI cable, 2k cable, USB-C to HDMI and a USB-to-HDMI adapter using either of the two available HDMI cables.
Eventually we got the wifi streaming connection to the TV working but these things were no issue in previous months when using the M3 MacBook Air.
The Boom 2 Plus could connect to the iPhone so I was able to demonstrate the room-filling audio capability of the device via the iPhone Mirroring app. So damned frustrating.
Tomorrow I'm spending a few hours in a pathology collection place/ It'd time for the three-monthly blood glucose resistance test. Take a sample of blood then drink a super-saturated glucose solution and take another blood sample after one hour. Then again an hour later. This is a fasting test so no midnight snacks for me tonight. I plan on fasting from 8pm.