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I will not be defeated by technological incompatibility. I have an iPod Nano 7 with Bluetooth 4.0 and a 3.5mm headphone jack. I have a Soundcore Boom 2 Plus portable high-power stereo speaker with Bluetooth 5.3 and 3.5mm audio input jack.
I want to play music from the iPod to the speaker but the two Bluetooth versions aren't communicating properly. I can pair the iPod and the speaker but the volume level remains at zero regardless of how I fiddle both devices' volume controls.

Next I tried running a 3.5mm stereo cable between the iPod and the speaker but the iPod's jack is set up in such a way that I can't get the plug on the cable all the way into the iPod, so anything that does play is in mono.

However, there's another item in my collection that saves the day, a 12South AirFly Pro Bluetooth audio transmitter/receiver that has a 3.5mm stereo plug at one end. I set that into Receive mode and pair it with the iPod. Then plug the AirFly device into the aux in jack on the speaker.

This works perfectly well, now I have a viable wireless audio connection between the speaker and the iPod.

But while the speaker has a battery life of 20 hours continuous use at 50% volume with bass boost off, the AirFly has only 16 hours. But the speaker has a two-way USB-C power connection. It can be used to charge the speaker's battery or to charge other devices like iPods or iPhons or even AirFly Pro thingies.

@variablepulserate Depends on how old and tough the camel is.

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Stuffed Camel
1 whole camel, medium size; 1 whole lamb, large size; 20 whole chickens, large size; 60 eggs; 2 kilos pine nuts; 2 kilos almonds; 1 kilo pistachio nuts; 420 litres water; 5 tbsps black pepper; 12 kilos rice. Salt to taste.

Skin, trim, and clean the camel and lamb then pluck chickens, and boil until tender. (Be sure the pot is large enough.) Cook rice until fluffed. Fry nuts until brown, and mix with rice. Hard-boil the eggs and peel them. Stuff the chickens with eggs and rice. Stuff the lamb with five of the chickens and some rice. Stuff the camel with the lamb and more rice. Broil in large oven until brown. Spread the remaining mixed rice on a large tray and place the camel on top. Place the remaining stuffed chickens around the camel. Decorate rice with boiled eggs and nuts. And don't worry if there are more guests than expected--the recipe serves 80 to 100.

Al Stewart’s classic Year Of The Cat song starts with a left-channel piano intro before full stereo kicks in after a while.

My current bedroom has a single original HomePod. When played through that speaker, it initially has left-channel bias. When the right channel kicks in, the audio becomes fuller and more balanced. Impressive performance for a single speaker. I haven’t tried the effect from another part of the room because it’s too cold to get out of bed.

@variablepulserate You could try 🤦🏻 (facepalm).

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@variablepulserate Understandable, it's a typo. Now corrected.

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For various reasons, my blood glucose tester today needed five test strips to get a usable reading. I'm on a disability pension and luckily I'm not paying Amazon prices for those strips. On Amazon they are between $47 and $57 per 100. Five strips at those prices would have been between $33 and $39 per fortnight, not a sustainable proposition.
The first three attempts at getting a reading brought up error 02, suggesting a used strip was inserted (hint: they were NOT used strips). The fourth attempt triggered error 08, a contaminated testing port. That is fixed be restarting the tester.
Fortunately I get a substantial NDSS (National Diabetes Support Scheme) subsidy on the test strips and only pay $1.20 per 100.

Just realised I didn't have a pnut.io app on my new (spare) Android phone. So I downloaded Goober from github and shared it via my Dropshare app, available via Setapp subscription. Dropshare is linked to a folder in OneDrive, so I downloaded OneDrive from the Google Play Store and accesses the .apk file on the phone.
First I had to tell the phone it was OK to install stuff from an unrecognised developer and later to install the app anyway, despite it supposedly being unsuited to the OS version I have.
it works fine.
then I thought, "why didn't I just use the phone to save the download. I followed up the Dale app from the pnut.io website and it side-loaded quite successfully, too. Just to be on the safe side, I also saved the beta.pnut.io web app to the desktop as well.

All borked.

@phoneboy It was when I returned home I found the HDMI cable which I used to use with the MacBook Air at that venue: it's a cheapish USB-C to HDMI cable of 4 metres length and rated for HDMI 4k@30 Hz.

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