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.
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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.
Found some more genealogy info on my great-great-great grandfather who was born in 1781 and died in 1889. He had outlived his first two wives and his third one was 60 when he died, she only lasted another 5 years.
He fathered 16 children between 1822 and 1868 and at least 6 of them lived into their 80s. We are descendants of his third-born daughter by his first wife.