@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.
I headed out this morning at around 10 o’clock & needed to dry a load of laundry. My solar array in mid-winter doesn’t really kick in until around 1 pm so I used the delay-start timer on the tumble dryer to start three hours later.
That’s the only timer that the dryer has. It uses moisture sensors to determine when the contents have reached the selected dryness level.
Thomas Davey, Governer of the Van Diemens Land (now Tasmania) colony between 1813 & 1817 was a massive drinker.
His favourite drink was apparently the “Blow My Skull Off” cocktail.
Here’s a list of its ingredients:
Two pints Boiling water
Quantum Sufficient loaf sugar
Lime or lemon juice
Pint of Ale or Porter
Pint of Rum
Half a Pint of Brandy
I paid $749 in 2014 for a 32 GB iPad Mini 2 (cellular & wifi). Now, for $50 more outlay you can get a 128 GB 6th gen iPad (cellular & wifi) with Apple Pencil support.
A week ago I backed up the MacBook Pro to its Time Machine drives. After that was done, the available space went from 95 GB to 121 GB.
Today after doing the same thing, The free space went from 118 GB to 127 GB. The confusion is caused by the APFS local snapshots that are taken hourly, daily & weekly. They are hidden from the Finder & Spotlight searches and are only made if the system has available space.
Not sure why there’s an extra 6 GB of free space this time, since the last backup session, I added an extra 1.8 GB of additional essential apps.
My duties at the Men’s Shed are to take photos of various projects, etc. I get the shakes, an unfortunate condition called Essential Tremors. (I’ve never understood what’s so essential about them, I could get by perfectly well without them!)
This means that compact cameras like the iPhone SE & the Shed’s Fuji digital camera tend to take blurred images.
Today I grabbed some great shots using a camera with a 9.7-inch viewfinder, my 5th gen iPad. I can work OK with the 6-inch Lumia 1520 as a camera & have no trouble (yet) with my Nikon D5100 DSLR.
Three of us stayed back an extra two hours at the Men’s Shed today, reorganising the setup of machinery & dust extraction ducting to moved machines. We’ve decided to buy a hang-from-the-ceiling room air particulate filter because there’s always some airborne dust particles that the ducted system can’t collect.
Another fitting that’s going to be installed on the floor beneath the wood lathe is a half-metre wide vacuum duct. Imagine an extra-wide dust shovel, fixed to the floor & connected to a powerful ducted vacuum system. The idea is to sweep debris directly to the mouth of the thing & get it sucked outside into the two bins at the end of the ducted dust collection system.
@matigo No. They’re no more than four years old. Cheap shit. I will only consider OWC or SanDisk for SSDs now.
My MacBook Pro backup strategy uses three ext drive: one is a SuperDuper! app clone to an SSD of 256 GB capacity. Another is a Time Machine backup to an external HDD that’s 1 TB.
The third is a 2 TB ext HDD partitioned into 500 GB for a Carbon Copy loner clone & 1.5 TB for Time Machine.
Much paranoid?