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Two ladies of my acquaintance, one who's experienced family violence first hand and one of her four sisters have posted the following on Facebook:
"Anyone…
If you're stuck in quarantine with a toxic or abusive partner, message me about MY MAKE UP RANGE and I will know to continually check in on you.
If you ask me about PLACING AN ORDER AND INCLUDE YOUR ADDRESS, I will know to contact the police.
There has been a 40% increase in domestic violence cases since this quarantine. Please don't be afraid to reach out."

I am so proud of this stance from my cousins.

@phoneboy My first webcam was a Mini DV video camera connected via Firewire to a G3 iMac. Excellent video quality & a stereo microphone were mose helpful.

// @joeo10

phoneboy.info.

@joeo10 I'm glad I kept my Logitech c615 1080p webcam, it's a godsend with videoconferencing on the MacBook Pro & iMac which have a very ordinary 720p FaceTime camera.
Back when there was a decent Logitech Webcam app, I could select a number of different resolutions or even use it as an 8 MP stills camera.

joeo10.10centuries.org.

@matigo Is excellent.

matigo.ca.

After Saturday's virtual Mac User Group meeting via Zoom, I observed the Plantronics headset I'd had since 2012 had lost virtually all of the foam padding on the earpieces, making it incredibly uncomfortable to use.
I looked into getting replacement cushions but that headset is obsolete now. Others of the same brand looked like they might fit but there was no guarantee.

Any I did but were either priced too high or packaged with too many inside. EG: a pair of cushions for $23 or 10 pairs for $18. Plus the delivery time meant I'd have to endure the hard plastic earpieces for two to three weeks.

Bit the bullet, bought a Logitech H390 headset on Sunday, it arrived today.

Collected the new HomePod today, got it home & it needed a 1.69 GB download of the latest OS before I could set it up as part of a paired HomePod stereo set.
Thorough;y impressed with the distortion-free full volume capability, plus the paired set has a much higher volume level than just one HomePod.

Single HomePods do work in stereo but the separation is no greater than the width of the device.

I’d been holding off putting Catalina on the iMac, cos I still wanted to access some old 32-bit apps, mostly games. Then I read an article on Apple News thet indicated for a Mac to participate with file & folder sharing in its iCloud drive, it had to be running 10.15.4. This was the impetus for upgrading. I had been cloning the iMac to an external SSD, that being a 512 GB item extracted from the dead & drowned MacBook Air. The SSD was put into an OWC Envoy case for use as an ext drive.
This drive has become my way to access those 32-bit thingies & a new 500 GB Seagate SSD was purchased this morning for a mere $99. SuperDuper! app is making its first clone right now.

30 minutes ago I bought a second Apple HomePod; a retailer with a local store is selling them at $170 less than RRP.
Sometime tomorrow they’ll send an email with an authority to pick it up from the local store under the Click & Collect process.
I bought the MacBook Pro from a different retailer two years ago using the same process.

I used to work for a big telco, while employed I had a 30% discount on all phone calls from my home phone service. Now, with the COVID19 caper making more people work from home, the National Broadband Network struggles to cope in some places. Mine is OK, according to microfiche plans they didn't want back when I retired, there is 136 metres of plain old telephone wire between the fibre-optic cable hub and my modem/router. So /I'm getting as close as one can expect to the maximum internet connection speeds I'm paying for.

The telco/carrier/ISP I used to work for is now just a content source for the NBN, with the extra pressure, they've been unable to provide tech & device support to the level I'm actually paying for, so they have applied two months of rebates for a total of $40 to my latest bill. In addition to that, I get 10% off the full amount for being an ex-employee.

Which means the bill this month is $86.

Five friggin' hours in a not-totally-comfortable office chair today in the Zoom meeting mentioned previously. My very well-padded but is feeling the hurt/numbness from those two sessions, with a one hour break for lunch.

Normally at the physical meetings I lead two 50-minute sessions between 9am & 10:50am. Today I did those plus 30 minutes before & after fine-tuning the show.

Then after lunch I took on another 50-minute session 'cos the regular presenter was away.

So I have a big dose of butt-hurt.