Phoned one of my brothers who lives some 3 ½ hours away, asking if he’d be home this weekend, as I was free and hadn’t seen each other since a funeral in January.
He said that was a great idea, as he needed a lift to the capital city on Sunday afternoon, he’s booked a hotel room and will be having a minor back operation the following day.
I was grateful today for all the built-in safety-assist devices and setting s in the newer car today as I had a 45 minute drive to a friend’s place in very heavy rain. I set the adaptive cruise control to maintain a 3-second travel time gap to the next vehicle ahead of me. The rain was too heavy for the rain sensing wipers to cope, I had to use the high setting for that. By default, the car selected daytime running lights but in that mode the taillights aren’t on and it wasn’t dark enough for the auto headlights on to work. So I had to use the manual headlight override setting.
I visited Marysville in Victoria last Saturday, about 2 hours away, to check out Steavenson falls. Various cascades join together with a drop of 84 metres, make the falls one of the highest in the state. At night, until 11 pm, they are floodlit, with the power for the lights generated by a small hydroelectric plant near the base of the falls.
Geekbench 6 results of CPU and GPU tests done on the 11-in iPad Air (M1) and the 11-in iPad Pro (M5) show significant improvements for the new device.
Collected my new 11-in M5 iPad pro from Apple, so isues with setting it up. Allegedly the existing SIM data from the old iPad has been transferred to the new one’s eSIM and is allegely ready to be used, but of course, it doesn’t bloody well work.
Ready for some new toys? Apple announced that the M5 14' MacBook Pro; 11" and 13" iPad Pros and Vision Pro devices with M5 processors are now available for pre-order.