@larand Reminds me of a project the Men's Shed group instigated a few years ago: fitting tamper-proof one-way screws to vehicle registration plates. All approved by the registration authority. We had to get four different length/gauge of screw in stock.
@streakmachine If yesterday means the previous day, then, logically, yesteryear means the previous years. Therefore, my bits of tech from yesteryear are an iPad, iMac & now a MacBook Pro.
// @matigo
Fucken Sophos is being an arsehole with the new MacBook Pro. Insists it's vulnerable even though the settings are identical with the MacBook Water's settings.
@variablepulserate In severe flooding back in the 1970s, supplies had to be dropped to a flood-isolated sheep station homestead from a light aircraft. Included in the package was a bottle of rum. They had to find a way of cushioning the rum bottle but couldn’t find any packaging.
Until the copilot hollowed out a loaf of bread, removed the cork from the bottle, extracted some of the contents to allow the rest to slosh about and not damage the glass on impact. The top end of the load was resealed with the discarded centre of the loaf.
It was then dropped overboard wit a label proclaiming the presence of rum within. Then the copilot notice he still had the cork in the plane.
After the floods has passed the intrepid airmen got back in contact with the station owner to apologise for the unintended rum leakage. The response was “that’s OK, mate, we had bread & butter pudding that night!”
@matigo I agree. Last August I went from using an older MBP with a 20-inch regular external monitor to a 4k iMac. I resolved then that when came the time to replace the MacBook Air, it’d be something with a Retina screen.
/@konrad
Prior to my current back problems, I’ve only experienced pain in the lumbar region, but this latest difficulty involves the middle, to one side.
41 years ago one of my brothers was messing about (with permission) with the farm’s step-through Honda 90 agricultural motorbike and damaged a shoulder when he came off the thing in the paddock where all the volcanic rocks from other paddocks had been dumped.
Our parents were away on a rare weekend off, so we called the neighbouring farm & got him to the local hospital at a ridiculous pace for those narrow, windy roads.
Two months ago that same brother bought a 1980 Vespa scooter & came off it in his gravel driveway, damaging his other shoulder in the process. He’s had a successful operation to fix it.
I couldn’t help reminding him about his awkward relationship between shoulders & powered two-wheeled conveyances.