@matigo I bought the original Apple Magic trackpad to use with my 21.5 4k iMac because of the positive experience I'd had with MacBook trackpads. I could never get used to it. Eventually I bought an app that included three different adhesive numpad stickers and software to remap the touch surface to operate as a numpad with or without a smaller trackpad surface, depending on my preference.
@hazardwarning Back in 2012 I bought a Logitech K760 solar-powered keyboard, it's still going strong. I paid A$89 for it which had one of my UK contacts who'd (recommended the device) somewhat annoyed as he'd paid £99 for his. The exchange rate in those days was almost A$2 to £1.
Rather impressed with my new mouse, it's a Logitech MX Master 3S multi-button mouse that has 5 programmable buttons and a sideways scroll wheel that can also be set to different functions. It's of ergonomic design, fits the hand well and different apps can have different functions allocated to them.
The attachment shows the functions I have set for general use, Safari-specific and Zoom-specific usage cases.
I have found a USB hub that can allow the Apple SuperDrive (DL DVD burner) to connect successfully with a Mac. It uses a 1-metre long Thunderbolt 3 cable to connect to the Mac. This is not, however, a cheap item.
I refer to my Apple Studio Display. Any one of the three 10Gbps downstream USB-C ports will do the job.
A Little Poem Regarding Computer Spell Checkers…
Eye halve eh spelling chequer;
It came with my pea sea.
It plane lee marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Aye strike a quay and type a word
And weight fore it two say
Weather eye am write oar wrong.
It shows me strait aweigh.
As soon as eh mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long,
And eye can put the era rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Aye halve run this poem threw it,
I am shore yaw pleas two no.
It's letter perfect awl the weigh –
My chequer tolled me sew.
Seeing my GP tomorrow afternoon. I had a fall at home yesterday morning and suffered a headache and sore back for most of yesterday. Those conditions have passed but I have soreness across the lower part of my stomach, it hurts when I cough or make twisting movements. Likely a strain of some kind. We shall see. My GP is an old-fashioned one: prefers poking and prodding to automatically getting imaging services involved. Getting up from a sitting position has its moments,too.
TIL the rear entrance to a bar and gaming establishment is on Stumblers Lane. How appropriate.
Bigamy is one wife too many.
Some would argue that monogamy has the same definition…
When I submitted the details of my old iPad mini to Apple’s trade-in partners, they estimated it to be worth up to $155. When I removed it from its case I found a dent on the back of it. I sent it off last Tuesday anyway, expecting to be notified of a reduction in the trade-in value.
Didn’t happen that way. They paid the full agreed sum of $155.
Cost of raffle tickets in 2019: -$20.
Value of raffle prize: +$599.
Cost of iPad case in 2019: -$28.
Trade-in value: +$155.
Purchase price for iPad mini 7 (128 GB; wi-fi) -$799.
Purchase price of Apple Pencil USB-C: -$139.
Purchase price of iPad case 2025: -$16.
Cost of two years of AppleCare+ -$109.
All up cost of owning this iPad Mini 7: -$357.