@sumudu I use a basic Lightning to USB 3·0 thing from Amazon that’s ⅓ the price of Apple’s equivalent. Some USB kit I have gets rejected as it” draws too much power.”
Such items work via a powered USB hub.
Decided I needed a new keyboard shortcut to quickly enter "iPadOS 13.1.” I chose to use “ipos."
@matigo Here’s another reason for SanDisk to still be making CF cards. They were the originators of that format.
Since deleting a RAM management app on my MacBook Pro, it hasn’t had anything like the memory pressure it used to suffer from. Previously it would sit around with a few hundred MB of free RAM & generally have three swap files of 1.07 GB each in Virtual Memory.
Now it generally has at least 1.4 GB of free RAM & just one of those swap files.
About a week ago, for no logical reason, it became very slow & started creating swap files every minute until I shut it down with 27 swap files on board.
Rebooted into an ext SSD with TechTool Pro on it & checked the directory for corruption, passed as OK. So I ran a few other TTP checks, which it also passed.
Booted normally, started creating swap files again but this time stopped at 12 of them, still too. many & still slowing the machine down too much.
Next, I booted into a recent clone on another ext SSD & restored the Mac to the state of that SSD as it was operating correctly. That took about 15 minutes with Super Duper app & it’s been quite well-behaved ever since.
@matigo Why not? My sister has a Canon DSLR that can use either CF or SD cards.
@matigo "I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.”
—Ogden Nash
@matigo The house we bought was built in 1947 from recycled bricks. At some point previous owners had given the kitchen a boring pale lilac on the walls, ceiling & cupboard doors/drawer faces.
My brother coloured those latter items a vivid electric blue as a contrast.
// @sumudu
@variablepulserate I have another Mac app that tells me battery info of both Mac & iOS jiggers: coconutBattery.
@matigo In 1992 my youngest brother & myself bought a house together, equal shares. Our financial resources were somewhat stretched as our aim was to pay off the mortgage ASAP and wed couldn’t afford a fridge. A friend of my brother said we could have his old fridge free provided we didn’t change the colour.
Deal accepted.
The device arrived, it was a 1935 upright refrigerator with a tiny internal freezer section and it was still in perfect working order.
Being so old of course meant defrosting was a manual process, but it did its job for five years before being replaced.
The colour I mentioned earlier? Purple, a very deep purple.
// @sumudu