@japchap It’s just a hobby machine now. There are certain games that never made it past the 64-bit barrier and aI just love the keyboard on those pre-Unibody Macs. I do have an M1 Mac mini and an 15-in M3 MacBook Air for modern computing.
It's becoming increasingly difficult to use this old 2008 MacBook Pro online as it's a 2008 model and can't run any OS newer than macOS 11 El Capitan.
A friend has a similar Mac running Ventura via the open Core Legacy Patcher and his Mac has Apple's theoretical RAM limit of 4 GB installed. However, it's possible to use 6 GB, I know because this Mac has that much.
I downloaded a recording of a friend’s funeral as an mp4 file. I then burned that to DVD using Toast 20. Next I used Disk Utility to create a disk image from the DVD.
Next I changed the suffix from .dmg to .dvdmedia. The .dmg icon changed immediately to that shown in the attachment. When the icon was double-clicked, it immediately opened in VLC Player and started playing.
Interesting price difference re the blood glucose level test strips that the monitoring device uses, I've see prices online of up to $50 foe 100 strips. However, if I go to a pharmacy and quote my National Diabetic Support Service (NDSS) registration number, I get them at the subsidised price of $1.20.
@matigo On of the offshoots on Mastodon is called appdot.net.
// @japchap @variablepulserate
Collected a blood glucose monitoring device today. The kit consists of the electronic tester, 10 sample test strips (use one per day), a device to prick a finger to get a few drops of blood for the tester, 5 lancet needles for the pricker (single use again) with instructions to get more test strips, lancets and a harps disposal container. Being registered with the National Diabetes Support Scheme means I pay $1.20 for 100 test strips, without this subsidy they can cost 50 cents each.
I'm required to test the glucose concentration once per day 2 hours after a meal. The test instrument can be paired with a mobile phone via Bluetooth using an app that lets me create in effect a diary of exercise, diet and glucose lelel daily. This can then be collated into a PDF report which the phone then emails to the local diabetes coordinator.
As long as the reading on the tester is between 3.6 and 10 mmol/l (millimoles per litre) I'm OK. The medication I'm on means it's very unlikely to drop below that into the danger zone.
@variablepulserate I doubt there was much money in that part of Ireland in the 1820s/1830s. And he did get one before he was 40: He was 39 when first married.
@variablepulserate He was making up for lost time: he was 19 years older than his first wife, she was 21 when they married. He remarried a year after her death aged 31, he was 51 while she was 22. This marriage lasted 13 years before she died aged 35.