I have a new use for my landline-replacement VoIP phone line supplied by the FTTN broadband service: I use it to delete the bullshit saved “xxxxxx reached your number at xx am/pm today and did not leave a message” messages from my voicemail.
@jussipekonen In Australia, if you select the highest specifications for a 13” MBP, the price is around $5200. Doing the same for the 15” needs an outlay of $10,300.
Seems like pretty significant differences to me.
/@matigo
New MacBook Pro was being used to display & scroll through (with occasional editing of) a Numbers spreadsheet stored in its iCloud Drive. It wasn’t using much power for that activity: FruitJuice app showed the battery as 76% charged with 13 hours & 32 minutes remaining.
Woot! In about three weeks I’ll have a battery that’ll run one of my G3 Pismo PowerBooks.
It’s coming from the lady who gave me both of them. I’m told it’s good for at least three hours.
I was at a State gathering today for the State-based level of the Men’s Shed organisation, there were several guest speakers present.
The most fascinating one was a gentleman call Professor Peter Hudson, who explained in layman’s terms the limitations of chemo & radiation therapy against cancer. He said that a great many cancers can now be cured with T-cell treatments, part of a new third wave or level of anti-cancer processes, using the immune syetem.
Perversely, the MacBook Pro has been going bonkers on creating system snapshots. To the extent of having doing 122 in the 9 hours I was away today. I do knows that Snapshots more than 24 hours old are deleted in High Sierra.
There were 127 local snapshots at 5 pm today. I turned off hourly backups in the Time Machine Preference pane then downloaded a current version of Time Machine Editor app, setting it the task of making backups every hour only.
Now there are only eight local snapshots in the system, those excessive ones generated every 30 seconds just up & vanished.
To check how many local snapshots are aboard, open Terminal & type "tmutil listlocalsnapshotdates” (minus punctuation) then hit the Return key. A list of active snapshots will be revealed in Year-Month-Day-24 hour time (in six digits).
Good news, Hospital phoned this morning (Sunday) to say they could do my iron infusion on Friday afternoon.
Handy, cos I have five different events to attend, one over two days, from Monday to Thursday.
It’s a simple procedure, taking around 15 minutes followed by 30 minutes of observation. Then I can drive home.
Data downloads at this public wifi hotspot are coming down at between 1.8 & 1.9 MBps, or ⅓ of my home FTTN connection speed.
Large updates needed for 2008 MacBook Pro I keep at my Mum's place. I forgot to bring the Lumia 1520 with lots of data on its 3G/4G plan.
So I'm parked outside the Post Office, beside a public phone that incorporates a wireless hotspot. Data consumed here is automatically billed to & subtracted from my home broadband data allowance.
Very handy for travelling.
Users of this network who sign up for this "Telstra Air" service automatically emit both a Telstra Air & a Fon network wireless hotspot from their home routers for visitors to use. Such visitors also have to be Telstra Air/Fon subscribers. Hosts only supply the wifi connection, there's no extra data consumed. Data usage is at the visitors' expense.
One of Mum's neighbours is a Telstra Air user, but their network is just
a bit too far away to connect reliably, hence my visit to the public hotspot.