@hazardwarning It’s interesting that the entry-level 13-in MBP with 128 GB SSD/8 GB RAM is exactly the same price as the 256 GB MBA with 256 GB SSD/8 GB RAM.
Apple has dropped the Australian price of the 2019 retina MacBook air by $150. This means if you’re buying a new lower-spec Apple laptop you could choose a 256 GB MacBook Air with 8 GB RAM for exactly the same price as the entry-level 128 GB MacBook Pro 13-in, also with 8 GB RAM.
Great. NOT. I can feel a gout attack commencing. Time for a heroic dose of indomethacin NSAIDs & a couple of colchicine tablets. The former tackles the inflammation caused by the immune system attacking uric acid crystals in my left ankle & the latter reduces the crystal formation. Colchicine is probably the oldest anti-gout medication, in larger doses it can have brutal side-effects. The way to determine you’ve taken enough of them is when it’s too dangerous to move far away from the toilet.
Normal NSAID dosage is 2 capsules three times daily. GP says I can double or triple that dosage as long as I take them with food.
@matigo I have mobility issues related to a couple of degenerative conditions & old injuries which are not helped by my preferred supermarket chain having two freezer sections diagonally opposite each other. One is the generic freezer section when everything from ice cream to frozen fish is kept.
The other is where they keep the fancier frozen seafood items.
// @variablepulserate
@variablepulserate It wasn’t made easier by the gentleman on the help forum not explaining the Accessibility Keyboard appearance was at the login screen. We’d all assumed it was somehow after loging & before the system was fully booted.
Solved a major problem for an older Mac User Group member yesterday: Whenever he booted up his 2017 27-in iMac VoiceOver would shout loudly that he needed to enter his password. Plus his keyboard wasn’t working properly, some keys were unresponsive. The Accessibility (onscreen) keyboard appeared at login & he had to use the mouse to enter the password all while VoiceOver was screeching at full volume all manner of stuff depending on where the mouse went.
He had set Mouse Keys on in the Accessibility System Preference. This setting uses keys 7, 8, 9, U, O, J, K & L as cursor arrows & keys I & M as mouse buttons. That’s why his keyboard was malfunctioning.
The login issue with VoiceOver, etc was nothing to do with the normal Accessibility settings, rather the very similar ones in the Accessibility Options part of Login Options in the Users & Groups system preference. See attachment. All those options had been checked, I unchecked them.
He also had two hot corners set up: top left was Desktop. But he had no other virtual desktops active. Top right hot corner was Notifications, but in almost the same location but on the menubar is where you open Notifications anyway. I turned off all Hot Corners.
All instances of VoiceOver, Zoom, Mouse Keys, Sticky Keys, Slow Keys & Accessibility Keyboard were then unchecked and deactivated.
Problem solved, took me about 20 minutes to nut it all out but now I have a friend for life!
@joanna The iOS version of Pixelmator has a reduce file size /change format export setting.
// @nitinkhanna
@variablepulserate I paid $25 at ALDI for the Bondic repairer. It comes with a pistol-like over & under tool that has a 4 ml tube of liquid plastic filler below a UV LED thingie. There are comprehensive instructions, a second tube of goop & the whole lot is in a tin box.
Replacement goop is $10 each but various bulk packs reduce that unit price to $6 if you buy 15 of them. Personally, I’d try a different (cheaper) brand of filler.
Having said that, if the coffee maker hadn’t been fixable it would have been over $40 for a new one.
