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Crazy. MacBook Air had created 78 local snapshots today alone as of 21:28 tonight. Far too many. I used Terminal to delete them one at a time, leaving only the two latest ones. In the 17 minutes since then, no more have been made.

Allegedly, had I left them alone, all of today's accumulated snapshots would have been consolidated into a single one for the day & used file space of about 5 GB returned to the system at the start of the new day.

Allegedly. We shall see.

#APFSIsABloatedAndMysteriousBagOfHurt

$372.15 later, my leaking water pipe is fixed.

It is 38 years old & was paper-thin at the failure point.

He did say he was a plumber, not a bricklayer. I'll fix the rest in a couple of weeks when the mortar (which he ran out of) has set.

Just reading up on @doctorlinguist's TenFourFoxBox single-site browser app for PPC Macs. This aspect sounds nicely secure.

"You may be dealing with sites that you want to be completely separated from your main browser so that there is no chance information can leak from one to the other. Even though TenFourFox runs them both, the foxbox is in “its own private hell,” so to speak, and unless you say otherwise private data in a foxbox is always cleared when you quit."

Confirmed: another Pismo (the last of the G3 PowerBooks) will be joining my small collection of Macs. It's being provided by the dear friend who also gave me the Pismo I currently have. This one will have a 40 GB HD installed, the original options were 6, 10, 12 or 20 GB.

My current Pismo has an internal fault preventing it from booting from an external drive. But I have a FireWire CF card reader & I use that with the OS (Tiger/OS 9) on a 32 GB CF card. It works quite well.
In addition the screen is odd, it starts off as pink but soon reverts to the proper colour gamut.
The "new" Pismo has is "pink-free."

@larand My policy these days is to fit Michelin tyres when necessary. Currently the newish (to me, at least) Mazda2 has a brand I'd not heard of before seeing them, HiFly. Apparently they're a long-wearing, moderately quiet, good all-round budget tyre.
There's plenty of tread remaining, which means I'll have to wait about a year before it's worth fitting the quieter, longer-lasting Michelins.

Excised area healing well. Just replaced the dressing, it had come loose during the night. Tricky keeping it dry, I'm in the habit of showering daily & waterproof dressings are frowned upon by the clinic. So I'll just use them for the duration of the ablutions & replace it with a new sterile one each time after using some antiseptic.

@jussipekonen His stuff has been detrimental to my hearing of late, I suspect.

// @streakmachine

@matigo It’s on a lot of wheels. And its 558 tonnes, not 538 as previously stated.

There’s a very oversized load passing through the area very slowly. It moves at 20 km/h, is 108 metre long and weighs in at 538 tonnes.
I found where it’s currently parked before heading off on the 2nd stage of the journey at 10pm tonight but I can’t get close enough for photo opportunities as I have to park illegally on the side of the freeway.
The freeway will be closed between 10pm today & ttomorrow to facilitate its movement as it’s too wide for traffic to overtake.

@hazardwarning When we see colours like that on a map, it's an indication of where the wildfires are.