Fourteen hours ago a friend called an ambulance for her husband (they’re both in their early 80s) who has been eking out his existence with home-based palliative care since opting for a better quality of life by NOT continuing with kidney dialysis.
His condition worsened greatly & last I heard he was in the Emergency Section of a big suburban public hospital. There will only be two reasons for him to leave that section: either a bed in the hospital’s Palliative Care area has been made available or if he dies while waiting for such a bed.
He and his wife have been making plans on a day-to-day basis for the last 18 months as his kidney function wavers & wobbles between a high of 11% and a more common 7% level.
The fact that he still lives after all his other medical conditions is due more to sheer stubbornness & bloodymindedness than to any medical procedure.
My mother is now in a nursing home, she’s been in for 6 days now, today was the first time she left her room.
Why? Because we learned that Mum’s oldest friend in this region (they met while playing A-grade tennis in 1951) is also a resident in the same facility. My sister pushed Mum in a wheelchair from one end of the 121 bed home to the other where her friend’s room is located.
We were very concerned she wouldn’t want to leave her room very often, this gives her incentive to do so, although it will be a lot easier if we get her an electric wheelchair.
Fixed. Syncing of my web receipts between iOS, Android & macOS devices via NextCloud re-established using https://cloud.10centuries.org. The problem encountered previously was rectified by fully deleting the sync protocol with NextCloud itself & starting a new one.
I had been using NextCloud via 10C to enable me to save receipts from iOS/Android to the Web Receits folders on my MacBook Pro & iMac via NextCloud sync but something went out of whack with the process after I was forced to perform a clean install on the MacBook Pro. Some unknown process had been adding swap files exceeding 35 GB and growing daily. I restored from a week-old backup & manually transferred stuff from the old Home Folder to the new one, in the process NexCloud sync glitched.
So that’s not being used at present, but I’ll find a use for it later. My OneDrive has gained a Recipts folder which I use to add receipts made from my various mobile devices.
@matigo About 7 years ago, my brother kept the pine Xmas tree in his shed for no clear reason. Early the following April it was his 50th birthday, so we had a big shindig at his rural-residential home. All the neighbours had been contacted, letting them know to expect a bit of noise, we were permitted to continue until 3 am the following day, coincidentally the exact same time & day that Daylight Shavings Time was ending, at that hour the time would revert to 2 am.
Things were getting a bit raucous about 2 am when my brother decided to burn the old Xmas tree in the firepit (an old washing machine drum).
That was too much for one neighbour, he called the cops. Admittedly, the conflagration somewhat resembled a fireball as the tree was consumed by the fire very rapidly, it was more desiccated than just dry.
We tried reasoning with the constabulary that with daylight shavings about to end that we could continue to be noisy for at least another hour but they were not coming around to that viewpoint!
The use of the word “shavings” in this context is deliberate: daylight savings saves NOTHING.
// @joeo10
Q. What is a New Year's resolution?
A: Something that goes in one year and out the other.
@streakmachine On this Big Sur MacBook Pro I restart into Safe Boot to clear caches & when I do a normal restart from that mode, I get a popup saying “this Mac restarted because of a problem.” Which is bulltish.
That was a most odd experience on the Men's Shed 2020 iMac using Vuescan. The app was failing to reliably detect individual objects. If I put 4 photos down on the scanner bed, in most cases it would only detect two of them, sometimes only one.
So I finished that first batch of 25 pics one-by-one. Even so, I had to force-quit the app several times as it got hung up on a scanning loop, outputting pics previously scanned while ignoring those detected with the preview scan.
The force-quit keystroke combination of Command-Option-Escape revealed two instances of the Finder . Quitting either one forced both instances to quit before reappearing.
Restart time. Checked the force-quit options, Finder is only there once.
Tried four pics on Vuescan again. Worked perfectly before announcing an update was available.
The developers (Hamrick Software) seem to issue new versions at the rate of one per month on average so I installed the new version. No discernible difference, no problems with individual photo detection.
I timed the process of scanning four photos at 600 dpi. From loading the scanner to removing the pics after being scanned took two minutes, the actual scan was 20 seconds per photo, which is at least double the rate of the scanner’s “proper” software.
On that WordPress issue: with Safari, I can select not to block tracking for that website. I found that it allowed me in on the first attempt.
I’ll try regularly over time & see whether the setting sticks.
Extremely SICK of seeing this every time I try to log in to the Mac User Group’s WordPress website: "Log In Error: Cookies are blocked or not supported by your browser. You must enable cookies to use WordPress.”
Of course, cookies ARE enabled.
Stupid website only allows me in on the SECOND attempt.