Unwise to crush the Vitamin D tablets I take: tey’re actually liquid-filled capsules. That could be quite nasty.
Got a nice dose of proper (unfiltered by window glass) sun on Sunday* when the Residential Corporation chairman came over for a chat.

  • might be why it’s called Sunday…

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A courier driver has my HomePod Mini on his truck… homepod

Off. Like a prawn & garlic milkshake…

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HomePod Mini status update: screen shot 2020-12-06 at 06.58.39

No, don’t do it!!! That will disturb the dust…

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Mac user group finally celebrating 40th anniversary of its first official AGM via Zoom. We were going to have a big party in April but lockdown killed off that plan. We had the cutting of a virtual cake & there was a 16-minute history slideshow form on continuous playback in a Breakout Room.

If you look at the specifications of the iPhone 8 (& newer) on the Apple website, it’s shown there, you do have to scroll waaaaay down to the FaceTime section.

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Weird. You’d reckon Apple would do its best to promote an iPhone’s capability with its own video chat software.

Why didn’t Apple announce this with the iOS14.2 update? Turns out the iPhone 8 & any newer model now does FaceTime calls at 1080p resolution.

This addition was not included in the notes issued with the iOS 14.2 update.

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/12/02/apple-adds-facetime-hd-1080p-iphone-8-later/

Jean-Luc Picard took a damaged Singer to be assessed for repair.

The fellow at the service desk asked what outcome was desired.

Picard answered “Make it sew."

Mum at the age of 90 will be going into permanent aged care in January. The costs of doing so mean her 15-year-old house will have to be sold. We need to get rid of her 24 year-old car as well. It’s worth nothing. The decluttering will be a nightmare: she’s a retired schoolteacher & there’s hundreds of video & audio tapes plus DVDs & books to go somewhere, too.