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.
@variablepulserate Quod Libet seems pretty good, too. https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
You could play the tracks in the Finder by clicking in the centre of the icon or by selecting the track in the Finder & tapping the spacebar to invoke Quicklook.
Quicktime X or Quicktime 7 also work.
@variablepulserate Clementine is one I’ve used in the past. https://www.clementine-player.org/