@variablepulserate Not that at all. Manuals are less sophisticated to make and are usually lighter. Manuals generally require less maintenance because they have a less complex design than automatics.
@variablepulserate Very common. Manuals are quite rare in passenger vehicles. Even light trucks are tending towards automatics these days.
@matigo Silver or grey is my preference but really it doesn't matter that much. It's a myth that darker colours absorb more sunlight than lighter colours. The radiation frequencies that carry the heat aspect are reflected back by the formulation of the outer paint layers.
Seriously looking at 4-year-old used cars, Kia Cerato or Hyundai i30 automatic transmission hatchbacks are preferred. A car dealer about 15 km away has at least 8 examples of interest.
Two packages arrived today in Amazon boxes, but only one was actually from Amazon. The other was an interstate shipment of N95 head-loop face masks. The sender had used a spare Amazon box.
It item from Amazon was an ESR-brand Rebound Magnetic iPad Keyboard. It looks at first like the Apple magic keyboard, having a similar floating cantilever mount for that attaches to the iPad via magnets. It lacks the same range of adjustment angle as the Apple offering but only costs 29% of the Apple one.
Also, unlike the Apple one, it connects via Bluetooth and charges via an included USB-A to USB-C cable.
most of the numerical keys have three functions, the alternates being accessed via the fn key or the Shift key.
The keyboard is backlit with three brightness setting and six different backlighting colours and the whole thing shuts off if unattended fro more than one minute.
I’ve not been able to find the exact device on the UK or US Amazon websites but here’s the link to the AU website entry: https://www.amazon.com.au/ESR-Compatible-Cantilever-Precision-Multi-Touch/dp/B09N744Y4C/ref=sr126?crid=M45YB9KYY9FG&keywords=esr+rebound&qid=1685431171&refinements=p89%3AESR%2Cpnprimedomestic%3A6845356051&rnid=6963563051&s=computers&sprefix=esr+rebound%2Caps%2C219&sr=1-26
Made up a risotto on Wednesday night. Used chicken breast pieces, cubed pumpkin, beef bone broth as stock, arborio and basmati rice plus cheese to thicken it up. All these ingredients were on the permitted list of food suitable for the pre-colonoscopy "white low residue" diet.
Tonight I made a basic fritter batter, added most of the remaining risotto to it and cooked eight thick and warming tasty risotto fritters. There's still some plain risotto left, I plan to add some more chicken breat meat to it.
Three weeks ago blood tests showed I was severely anaemic, 74 grams of haemoglobin per litre of blood, normal levels are around 120 g/l, so I was given a unit (240 ml) of whole blood and an iron infusion.Prior to yesterday's colonoscopy & gastroscopy checks another blood sample was collected. My haemoglobin is up to a much more healthy 122 g/l now.
If you have a pizza with radius Z and thickness A, its volume is = Pi x Z x Z x A.
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Attempting to rebuild the directory of an APFS Time Machine backup drive that mounted on the laptop's desktop but the Finder didn't show any of the backups made since late 2022. TechTool Pro app shows there are 23 snapshots on this drive and in the last 15 minutes has worked its way through just nine of them.