I’m meeting my youngest sister in a bit over six hours at our parents’ gravesite to clean up their headstone as today is the second anniversary of Mum’s passing.
As the MacBook Air's power supply was being used to charge the iPad Air, I used an external battery to power up the Mac while performing the bi-weekly clone and Time Machine backups. The normal power supply provides 30W vs 45W for the battery. Once the backups were done, the battery pack was 50% depleted, I needed some way to charge it. All the USB-C ports on the Mac Mini and Apple Studio Display were in use for other duties so I fished out a Thunderbolt 4 dock I rarely use these days. It has three downstream ports and gets its power from a 230 volt power brick rated at 6A. All three Thunderbolt 4 ports are capable of powering external devices at 15W each. It makes no difference whether one or all three are used, each one puts out up to 15W, so that's how I'm charging thr battery pack.
@matigo A favourite YouTube channel mentioned visiting Malaysia to participate in a Kei car race. They reported that the fastest and mist nimble on that track were all Daihatsu Copens. Happy motoring.
You know it's HOT in Australia when….
1: The best carpark is determined by shade, not distance.
2: Hot water comes out of both taps.
3: You learn that a seat belt buckle makes a good branding iron.
4: The temp drops below 32ºC and you feel chilly.
5: You learn it only takes 2 fingers to steer a car.
6: You can sunburn through the windscreen of a car.
7: You develop a fear of door handles.
8: You break into a sweat at 7am.
9: Your biggest bicycle fear is "what if I get knocked out and end up cooking on the road".
10: You realise asphalt is a liquid state.11: Farmers are feeding chickens ice to prevent hard boiled eggs.
12: The trees are whistling for dogs.
13: Shopping Centres are temples where you worship air conditioning.
14: Sticking your head in freezers is considered normal.15: A cup full of ice is considered a great snack.
16: A blackout is life threatening because the air conditioner and fans stop working.
17: You keep everything in the fridge, including clothing.
18: The effort of towelling yourself off after a shower means you need another shower right away.
19: You worry the ceiling fan is spinning so fast it will fly off and kill you.
20: You laugh because you know this list is so accurate.
Ewan McGregor's brother used to be an RAF fighter pilot. His callsign was "Obi Two."
A Turkish proverb: "The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the Axe, for the Axe was clever and convinced the Trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them."
@matigo If I had opted not to have the procedure my vision would have remained blurred. To go from 20:20 vision to mush so suddenly showed a problem that had to be fixed.