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A man went to his dentist because he feels something wrong in his mouth. The dentist examines him and says, "That new upper plate I put in for you six months ago is eroding. What have you been eating?"

The man replies, "all I can think of is that about four months ago my wife made some asparagus and put some stuff on it that was delicious…Hollandaise sauce. I loved it so much I now put it on everything -- meat, toast, fish, vegetables.

"Well," says the dentist, "that's probably the problem. Hollandaise sauce is made with lots of lemon juice, which is highly corrosive. It's eaten away your upper plate. I'll make you a new plate, and this time use chrome."

"Why chrome?" asks the patient.

To which the dentist replies, "It's simple. Everyone knows that there's no plate like chrome for the Hollandaise!"

Countdown: in 12 days Mum will commence 2 weeks of respite care at an aged care facility, thereafter she becomes a permanent resident. My youngest sister has medical & financial Power of Attorney & estimates the best way to come up with the difference between available bank balance & care centre costs will be to sell some of her shares.

Other possibilities are to clean out her house to either rent it out or to sell it. She has too many assets to qualify for the aged pension but at least she does get a war-widows’ pension from the Veterans Affairs department.

I’ve been busily scanning the more important of her photos, thus far I’ve scanned 405 pics totalling 1.9 GB.

Thus far I reckon I’ve scanned about a GB of photos onto a couple of computers. I’m very impressed with the performance of the Canon LiDE 400 scanner using Vuescan app for the work.
Just for shits & giggles I tried that combo with the 2008 pre-Unibody MacBook Pro & was amazed it worked so well. Almost like all the computer did was supply power to the scanner & a destination for the files. Shows the power & capability of a modern scanner with a decent scanning app.

@streakmachine I found this for you: https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/articles/group-test-best-raspberry-pi-4-thermal-cases-tested-and-ranked
The tests conclude the Argon One to be the most effective of the devices tried.

// @matigo

streakmachine.10centuries.org.

@joeo10 How about the Rankine Temperature scale? Like the Kelvin scale zero Rankine equals absolute zero but a degree Rankine equates to a Fahrenheit degree while a Kelvin degree equates to a Celsius degree. (-459.67ºF = 0 R)

// @matigo @streakmachine

joeo10.10centuries.org.

@matigo Because they work & are a handy size? My old one provides the Men’s Shed group with a contact phone number & cheaper/more reliable internet than available from a pocket 4G wifi router.

// @streakmachine

matigo.ca.

Person in Zoom meeting asked how to deal with dead pixels on an iMac screen, iMac concerned is 3 years old. She said they were dead pixels & not spots on the screen. One chap suggested massaging it, but I said that was pointless because the display itself is behind glass & won't respond to such manipulation. He agreed & apologised for leading the complainant off on a tangent.
She answered that the first ‘dead pixel’was gone after rubbing it with a moistened microfibre cloth. As it happens, all of the alleged ‘dead pixels’ were stubborn spots on the screen!

New scanner is an interesting beast. It’s limited to 600 dpi for scans using the Canon software, but can go up to 4800 dpi via Image Capture/VueScan. The latter makes for a very slow scan, though.
For scanning photos, 600 is fine.
Open scanning app, set parameters for Document, Photo or Custom scan, insert media & hit the Auto button in the app.
An overview scan is commenced, taking up to approx 30 seconds. Then it does the actual scan in about 3 seconds & I estimate another ½ second to send the scan to the Mac. Not impossible to scan 4 photos in 30 seconds (plus time taken to load the pics).
Power in & data out are handled by a USB-C cable, so no external power is needed.
Multi-page PDFs are easy to set up & it automatically recognises individual photos.
Impressed with the speed compared to the old Epson V300 from 2008.

@whoisashygirl It was only out for about 90 minutes, but I was panicking a bit. I’m the President of a Men’s shed group & also the IT person. Three of the shed’s four email accts ae with Google & Mail kept asking for authentication which couldn’t be completed.
I tried YouTube in incognito mode to get some joy out of the situation.

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Photo scanning job will be easier shortly, Canon LiDE 400 scanner is out for delivery via Amazon today. While it can’t do film/transparencies (which the old Epson V300 can, albeit slowly) it is an extremely fast photo scanner.