A carrier that resells 3G/4G mobile phone plans has a 1-year-Super Value pack available for existing customers. It's a prepaid service that costs just $249 and is available as a recharge option online until Friday March 3. You get unlimited local calls/SMS and a very useful 42 GB of data with a 365-day expiry period. That equates to 3.5 GB per calendar months. My spare phone, the Lumia 1520 is using that carrier. I'm very tempted.
My backup paranoia vindicated.
A Mac User Group member has finally updated her iMac from OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.8) to another with El Capitan (10.11.6). She wants to transfer her contacts from her old Time Machine drive to the new iMac. But because of past problems caused by Migration Assistant she will not use that process.
My (paranoid) process for the last 8 years has been to make a weekly archive (.abbu format) of my contacts list & store it in Dropbox. This is in addition to multiple Time Machine & Clone backups. Plus, I use iCloud across all my devices and back up the OS whenever a new version arrives.
Ergo, I always have a way to rebuild the contacts list should it be needed.
But Kathy's sole source of backup is a Snow Leopard Time Machine backup. I have told her of the process recommended by The Mac Observer to restore such info from her old backup.
Not buying that sort of fish fingers again. Cheap but with minced up undetermined fish varieties. Gonna get proper fillet bits next time.
@c Elevate the tank. Or mount it on a hill above the house. Or both. That's what my Dad did down on the farm.
// @kdfrawg @literary @jasonechols
@c No pump involved, not at my end anyway. Water main is pressurised.
// @kdfrawg @literary @jasonechols
@c My instantaneous gas hot water system died two months ago. The new unit needs mains power to start the burner. So I need to find out if a 12 volt inverter can provide enough "juice" for the ignition cycle.
// @kdfrawg @literary @jasonechols
I spotted an old associate & his wife in the shops today, neither were ageing well at all. He was moving the way someone waiting for a hip replacement does. He'd lost a considerable degree of weight, which he had needed to do.
But his wife was far worse. She's had regular brain operations to excise a benign tumour and either she's had a major stroke or the tumour has worsened: she needs a rollator walker & her speech is slurred and one eye is mostly closed. I didn't enquire, being so shocked/sad to see her state.