@variablepulserate https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2017/01/iina-is-mac-focused-video-player-with-modern-design/
Downloaded & tryimg out IINA app. It’s a video playing/streaming app on the Mac and look great. Lots of preference sttings, too. I have set the MBP’s Force Trackpad to toggle between ordinary display & full screen mode with a single force-click.
@streakmachine It was kitted out a bit more but my friend retained the other three HDDs he had in it. About all it lacked at the time was wifi
@matigo It’s only a trial, we also have iCloud Keychain and the good old Pastor password manager.
Yesterday I upgraded the Men’s Shed iMac’s Dashlane password manager, but it got cranky and claimed I’d already installed the Mac App Store version & wouldn’t play ball. In the end I uninstalled the app, somehow in that process it lost all the stored passwords.
Supposedly Dashlane can import password info from web browsers but for some reason that option only appeared when offline. But that was useless, all browsers were greyed out.
The only import option was to one using a Dashlane exported data file, which I didn’t have as I’d never exported from the app.
As part of the backups, there’s a clone on an ext SSD, which was cloned at the end of business on the last day the shed was open last week.
Booted from the SSD with internet off so it couldn’t automatically update. Exported the required data file, then restarted from the Mac’s HDD. Opened Dashlane, imported the data file & all’s ridgt with the world.
@streakmachine A friend is selling his 2008 Mac Pro. 14 GB RAM, one 320 GB HDD, a PCI card to allow an SSD, space for three mire HDDs, 2 quad core 2.8 GHz processors, 20-inch monitor that incorporates two USB 2 & two FireWire 400 ports. No wifi card but it does have Bluetooth 2.0.
It can run 10.11.6, currently has 10.8 on it.
I’d love to buy it, he just wants AUD$500 for it. But I have no use for it nor anywhere to put it.
@variablepulserate I acquired a licence to it when I bought a used G4 PowerMac from a friend, he arranged to have it transferred to me. Since then, I’ve paid half price or less for upgrades because I was an existing licence holder.
@variablepulserate If there’s one thing I don’t need it's more cameras. I have three on iOS devices, two on Windows phones, A DLSR, a 4 MP Olympus Ultra Zoom (10 x optical zoom with Carl Zeiss lens), two compact pocketable 10 MP digital cameras; a Flip Video camera won in a raffle, a Mini DV tape camera & a Pentax MZ-50 film camera. There’s supposed to be an iPod Nano 5th gen somewhere with a video camera on it as well.
@variablepulserate Too slow. One of the handy apps I have is TechTool Pro, with that you can make a basic or complex startup drive with several standard Mac apps like Safari, Preview, Disk Utility, Activity Monitor, System Preferences, etc. When created on a thumb drive bootup is painfully slow, a USB 2 HDD is faster & more stable.