@variablepulserate It’s the general area where my Irish ancestors settled when they emigrated in the 1860s. They couldn’t afford to buy the best quality land so they wound up farming this dry area.
My father always reckoned the place they settle in was so poor it only grew rocks & rabbits. I don’t know about the latter but there’s huge rocky outcrops in most paddocks around there.
I continue to be impressed with the photos taken by the Nokia 7.1.
Here's a shot from the balcony outside my country pub room.
Image compressed to 50% of original size.
The special price has gone, the Nokia 7.1 has gone back up to $499, I bought mine at the right time when the store had a 10% discount, thus I paid $450.
Interesting. Nokia 7.1 has a 19:9 aspect ratio screen. In portrait orientation, Cappuccino deploys the puck but turning it to landscape mode shows the tabs at the top of the screen insted of the puck.
It’s a really nice screen, 432 ppi.
@streakmachine There’s one in one of the local charity shops. I know 'cos I donated it to them, having no further use for it.
New use for an Android phone with USB-C, USB disk management. I needed to erase a 16 GB USB stick but the Mac (via DiskUtility) wouldn’t unmount the drive so the erasure failed.
Attached a USB-C adaptor & shoved it up the Nokia 7.1 which wouldn’t recognise the drive but did offer to initialise it.
Accepted the offer.
This put it into a state whereby DiskUtility could unmount it & I was then able to erase the drive completely, removing the just-added Android files too.
It’s a throw-away age.
Mum’s bedroom TV (23.6 inch LED) Had been playing up: showed a screensaver when turned on, it could take any time between immediately of 40 minutes before the screensaver would make way for an actual video signal, you couldn’t even select the manual buttond on the rear of the unit, only the power button worked & then not always.
There are two TV retailers in the next town down the highway. There are five in this outer-eastern suburb. But for all that, the cheapest was one of the two stores near Mum. So the fix for the TV problem was to replace it.
Nokia 7.1 has a 3060 mAh battery. The one in the iPhone SE is 85% of its original 1624 mAh. The Nokia has a USB-C power connector (and an 18W charger) and can directly charge other devices through it. It’s charging the SE right now. SE started charge at 52%. I’ll monitor things to see what level the Nokia is at when the SE is fully charged.