I’ve been feeling a bit ”off” for most of the morning. Food fixed that problem. Feeling OK now after a frozen microwave-reheated meal of beef in red wine sauce with veggies served on a bed of garlic mashed potatoes.
Popsci.com.au can die in a fucking fire. To even link from Apple News to the following article in Safari I had to use a VPN connection to the USA. The .com.au website otherwise over-rides the desired .com one. https://www.popsci.com/cell-phone-cancer-public-health-california
Driving home in filthy wet weather, I learned the rear window wiper has an intermittent mode that’s initially hidden. When switched on, the wiper makes three sweeps, pauses for two seconds then goes into intermittent mode, sweeping once every five seconds.
The new (to me, anyway) car has a switchblade-style ignition key. So I thought I’d try running the car with the key partly folded to keep the other keys away from my leg. That works, but not for startup: for that operation the key must be fully extended.
It cost me $3 to fix a failing with my car’s audio system: when in iPod mode, the time is not displayed. Solution: cheap stick-on battery powered LCD clock.
Downloading Australian map updates for the Sygic navigation app (Windows 10 Mobile); comes to 479 MB. Conversely, updates for Pitcairn Island total 169 kB.
Went onto the automobile club website to change my vehicle details for roadside assistance.Te website is a right royal bastard of a thing, overly complex & slow to respond. I updated the vehicle details using the iPad then the whoring session timed out.
Checked again with the Mac & all details had been changed.
I tried the rear seat of the Mazda 2, it’s a decidedly 2nd-class experience when compared to the rear seat in the old Toyota Yaris. Access is awkward as the rear door doesn’t open as wide & legroom is reduced, as is available height. Seats are also uncomfortable.
However, in the 5 years I used the Yaris I only had the back seat occupied for one day. A plus is the inertia reel seatbelt for the centre rear passenger seat is built into the seat-back, rather than deploying from a roof-mounted pod.