Today I noticed a folder was missing from the desktop of my iMac. Clearly I deleted it by accident. Checking my Time Machine backups showed it was present on march 6th but gone after that date. Fortunately Time Machine makes recovery of such things simple. All fixed.
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Overall, the members of the 40-year old Apple User Group are sensible, logical people who recognise that electing a divisive founder member to a Committee position would be detrimental to the running of the entire group.
This member, about 8 months ago claimed he was being victimised & bullied, threatening the then current Committee collectively & individually with legal action when they (volunteers with their own lives to lead) wouldn’t/couldn’t react quickly enough to his increasingly shrill & perplexing demands for justice.
He was insulting to the President who needs a walking frame to get about, calling him “spineless” for not acceding to or understanding his complaints.
At the time I had taken three months leave of absence to recover from a severe, life-threatening illness. This didn’t stop the bastard from telling me to stay out of the arguement on pain of legal action when all I did was, as per my moderator duties on the online forum, attempt a reconcilliation.
Privately, the Committee’s attitude towards arse-breath could be summed up by Kinky Friedman’s words “Fuck him & feed him Froot Loops,” although actual communications were far more diplomatic.
We held the AGM today to elect a new committee, he nominated for a position as Ordinary Member, one of four on the committee. There were five candidates, myself included.
Had he been elected the President, Secretary & Membership director (who all retained their positions from the previous committee would have resigned, throwing everything into complete chaos.
But, as mentioned at the start, the membership of the group are sensible folk & of the votes cast for the 5 candidates to 4 positions by at least 90 voters present, he scored 13 votes in total. And missed out on a committee position.
Thank fuck for that. He’s a corrosive influence, doesn’t understand that his baby, the group he co-founded 40 years previously, has been taken in a different direction by democratically-elected management committees.
He had the nerve to send the Secretary an email last year saying it was her duty to help him steer the group in the direction & manner he demanded.
We try to make every allowance for his Asperger’s Syndrome condition which accounts for his complete lack of social & people skills, but he’s just too mercurial in his nature. Fuck him.
Optimist: The glass is half full.
Pessimidst: The glasss is half empty.
Engiineer: The glass is too big. Make it all fill a single glass.
@jws
You need to think beyond the in-flight environment. Bluetooth & WiFi have other uses such as connecting peripherals like speakers, headphones or keyboards. AirPlay & AirDrop also use both at some point but a cellular connection isn’t always needed.
Plus you can speed up battery charging by preventing apps & systems from trying to find signal or background operations such as Mail fetching.
Back in September last year when I was hospitalised with kidney failure, I had no way to charge my iPhone for two days until a friend could bring a charger in while visiting. I used Airplane mode to eke out my remaining battery power by shutting down cellular, Bluetooth & WiFi; only activating cellular to get updates from the outside world or to contact social media.
// @lograh
@matigo Check your settings again. It’s possible to use both Bluetooth & WiFi in Airplane mode.
// @lograh
As a Mac User Group member, I share the convening of a combined Apple information session each month at a PC User Group’s HQ. My co-convenor is a member of the PC group as well as the Mac group having recently bought a Mac.
Today I was invited to attend the PC group’s annual Volunteers Day where the efforts of various volunteers are recognised. Hard & soft drinks, tea & coffee & a light buffet meal with lots of friendly chat made for a pleasant outing.
Just read the first page of a homeopathy textbook and now I know everything about it.
Intermttent beep emanating from the garage at Mum’s place. Really irritating. Originally thought it was a fault in the newly-replaced solar array inverter but no faults were showing on the test panel.
An almost omni-directional beep, all I could determine was it was coming from something on the left side.
Mum doesn’t drive anymore, she has a mobility scooter which, according to the instructions, has a low battery beep. Moved that out of the garage.
Beep still in garage. Turned off scooter charger. Still beeping. Turned off electronic tumble dryer. Still bloody beeping.
Eventually found the source.
Inside the rear of Mum’s unused car, on the floor, was a 12-volt jumpstarter that was last used 18 months ago. It was flashing its low battery LED & associated audible indicator.
Connecting that to a battery charger killed off the irritating beep.