@streakmachine They hide in the swamps & tundra………
// @matigo @jussipekonen
@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Gracenotes database was ever-so-slighty out of date re the CD I've just imported into iTunes: the artist name was recognised as Siroco, instead of Sirocco.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.