@streakmachine Being a uni-lingualist, I rarely encounter other-regional DVDs, US content is no good as we are civilised here & use the PAL protocol for TV, unlike the US which uses NTSC, which probably doesn't mean Never Twice Same Color, however much I'd like that meaning to apply. When I encounter such a DVD I use VLC player to view it.
Gracenotes database was ever-so-slighty out of date re the CD I've just imported into iTunes: the artist name was recognised as Siroco, instead of Sirocco. I have updated Gracenotes & am now uploading the album to Apple Music.
The Apple USB SuperDrive is taking longer that I remember to import that CD. In my collection of Mac hardware there's a dual-interface USB 2.0 & FireWire 400 box containing a 16X SuperDrive taken from a dead G5 PowerMac. That would have imported the music much quicker. I recall taking 6 minutes using a 12-in G3 iBook and a FE 400 external CD burner to import a CD several years ago.
Something slipped through the quality control re iTunes. One album of instrumental music should have had 9 tracks on it, the longest being over 16 minutes long. But there were only 7 tracks and that supposedly long one only went for 4 seconds.
I checked all my iPods, etc and could only find the missing stuff on the original CD and a MiniDisc dubbed from that CD. It was even wrong on the iPod Classic. So now I'm re-importing the CD into iTunes.
Had bad reflux & been vomiting off & on all night. Unable to keep food down until now. Looks like the breakfast fry-up is staying down.
@literary That is what FruitJuice app encourages. Run it down to 20% and also used it off the charger for 20% of the runtime.
// @indigo
@streakmachine The actual quote is: "Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."
// @matigo @tomas @hazardwarning
Motels in these parts tend to cost at least $100 per person per night. Uncle Harry's funeral is at 11am on Wednesday, I'll be driving my rather fragile mother there & back, an estimated distance of 400km each way, no way can that be managed in a single day!
The internet has come to our rescue, I have booked a two-bedroom apartment at a motel 4km away from the church & it'll cost a total of $230 for Tuesday & Wednesday nights. Excellent value.
Bus trip to a desalination plant today. I'm taking my Canon IXUS 95IS (aka PowerShot SD 1200 IS) as well as the iPhone SE. The Canon is reslly small, it just covers the iPhone's screen when laid on it.
I used that camera on a 3-week trip six years ago I lost the charger after one week but the battery was still good enough to last another two weeks.