This time 12 months ago, I was feeling very off colour, booked in for a visit to my GP ASAP the following day, but the 1st available slot was 11:45 am on Tuesday. I was shunted off to hospital via ambulance almost immediately with no discernible blood pressure.
Over the next three days the staff of 2 hospitals staved off sepsis & restored function to my kidneys. GP said a week later if I’d been 6 hours later in seeing him I may not have survived.
Sobering stuff.
My iPhone SE’s battery performance had begun to drop dramatically, for example it went from fully charge to 53% in six hours doing nothing but being on stand-by, no apps were running.
I arranged for replacement of the battery, that cost AU$75 & was done today. The Genius Bar fellow says Apple considers a battery should be OK up to 500 charges, mine had undergone 698 charge cycles. The Genius man said most of the battery replacements he saw were done between 700 & 800 cycles, so mine was just about into that area.
A terrific Mac app called Coconut Battery can display the battery & storage levels of any iOS jigger that’s connected to a Mac via USB cable.
I have a universal battery charger, made for NiCd/NiMH 3.6v; 7.2v & 9v batteries plus AA & AAA cells with a 500 mAh USB port for charging other things. It’s 12v power supply fried itself so I replaced it with a different unit. Last night the smoke got out of the replacement unit & it smells horrid. I’m scare to use it.
But both have the same 12v input specifications, so the power brick for the replacement device works fine with the original one.
@joanna Sure there’s issues. If you don’t update there’s a risk of it being hijacked. Apple mistakenly unpatched a previously-patched vulnerability to KNOB attacks, (Key Negotiation Of Bluetooth), which can lead to devices being jailbroken by remote control by malicious parties.
Donald Trump announces huge border wall with Canada to prevent Melania pouncing on Justin Trudeau.
@variablepulserate Be very useful for the more hirsute types who appear to have a single eyebrow……
/@matigo
@hazardwarning I love it in milk, only takes a little to slightly curdle & thicken up a bit. Serve over ice.
I got that idea from Twitter years ago, from interaction with a Doctor Who scriptwriter (Tom Baker era).
Especially good served hot.
// @matigo It contains the juice of grapes, raspberries and blackcurrants plus sugar (in a 3% concentration), flavoured with herbs and spices.
@matigo Simple: the IS NO Australian version. You get UK-market or Arabian-market (I have a couple of those bottles, the bottling plant is in Cyprus). The middle east product seems to be much more concentrated, it has a thicker consistency & will settle in the bottle if left too long. Shake it up to recombine.
Bit the bullet, so to speak. I love Vimto concentrate but none of the shops around here sell it. I can get a version made for the Arabian market if I drive for about 45 minutes each way, but that version is not the same as the UK one I like.
Found the desired product on Amazon & the postage from UK is less than the purchase price if I buy the 2 litre bottle. And, even with postage included, the price per litre is line-ball with the Arabian product.