@variablepulserate Not that weird: the gym in the adjoining building is open 24/7. 5:30 am gives folk time to get their aquatic exercises in before work.
I suspect I've overdone the aquatic exercising this morning, really feeling it in the thighs. I concentrated mostly on walking forward, backward and sideways for over an hour it the nice warm water. I intend to visit ever 2nd weekday, thereby getting 5 visits per fortnight. My membership costs 4 times the price of a walk-in member of the public, so going 5 times per fortnight means I'm getting better value.
@matigo The Nanos seemed like a hobby to me: the 1st one emphasised squareness: it was an angular rectangle with a square screen. The next one was almost the same but with rounded sides aka the old iPod Mini. Then came the "Chubby" 3rd gen with a 2-in rectangular screen across the top above the click-wheel. The 4th gen reverted to a long thin style with the same 2-in screen oriented vertically.
Gen 5 brought the most changes, it had a bigger screen (2.2-in), a VGA camera and a tiny speaker. To fit the bigger screen, the click-wheel was reduced in size.
Next was the more radical 6th gen, similar to the Shuffle, a square body with a big spring clip on the back and a square glass touchscreen. The speaker, microphone and camera were gone.
The 7th gen went to a rectangular form factor again, but with a 2.5-in glass touchscreen in portrait orientation. this picked up Bluetooth so it could connect to certain medical devices as well as for audio output. The 30-pin connector of previous Nano models was replaced by the Lightning port.
At last things are sliding into place. I'm confident enough to walk around 200 metres without any walking aids at all and can manage slippery wet areas OK. Plus the eczema in my hands and psoriasis on one elbow have cleared up sufficiently to allow me to attend the local hydrotherapy pool. I shall be there tomorrow at the opening time of 5:30am.
I have a 6th gen 8GB iPod Nano (the one that could be put on a band and used as a watch) but its sleep/wake button ans the volume up and down buttons are unresponsive, gummed up with who knows what.
So I bought a 16GB 7th gen version from a secondhand online dealer which arrived today. It's very small, only twice the size of a CompactFlash media card. But it nhas Bluetooth 4.0, a Lightning port and headphone jack, volume up and down plus play/pause and sleep/wake buttons that do work. The other controls are via the 2.5-inch glass touchscreen. I've loaded up 6GB of music and 1.5GB of videos onto the thing and it will replace the 6th gen in the car as my main music storage.
The pic shows it beside a CF card for comparison purposes.
@variablepulserate Here's a case in point: Trying to use my M1 Mac mini as a trade-in with Apple brings up the rather unpleasant news that my Mac is ready to be recycled whereas it's valued at $490 by this company.
I found a good use for the iPhone Mirroring app on my MacBook Air. With a particular banking app it's easier to use the phone app rather than a web browser. I had to pay a tradesman three separate transactions: one of 5% to confirm the job quote, another of 50% to cover purchase of materials and then the final balance.
I had the invoice in the Xero website on one side of the display and the iPhone Mirroring on the other side, making it easier to ensure I had the bank transfer details correct before sending the payment.
It's a great method of working with an iPhone, I hope Apple extends it to the iPad soon.
@matigo That’s all in software updates anyway. Plus, iOS 18 was issued without any of the AI features activated.
I’ve tried selling my M1 MacBook Air for the past 5 months but there were no takers. Today I sent it off to a company that buys back Apple kit like phones, iPads and computers, offering far greater prices than any trade-in offerings. I should get the sum credited to my bank account early next week.
A little over 14 years ago I noticed the guttering and downpipes on my three bedroom unit were leaking. Really they needed replacing then. Finally got around to it a couple of weeks ago and the job started yesterday was finished today. There are seven free-standing units on the block, mine is the only one with Body Corporate approved new Surf Mist (sort of off-white) coloured gutters and downpipes. The others have burgundy gutters and mission brown downpipes. A few years ago the owners voted that Surf Mist was to be the only colour to use when replacing gutters.