@literary I did something very similar in 1978, with my father's pickup. No concussion was involved, but when I phoned him to report the incident his concerns were for me rather than the machine. That little truck was driven around for the next 8 months with the driver's side door stove in from where I'd struck a concrete post beside the ditch.
@thrrgilag Clippy lived again for a few years on OS X via the MAS but as a clipboard extender/buffer. It was used it to retain up to 99 clipboard entries. It resides in the menubar & I have it set to display the first 90 characters of up to 50 consecutive clipboard entries.
It's now been discontinued, though.
// @matigo @hazardwarning @indigo
@kdfrawg I have a pair of reading glasses prescribed last year following successful cataract surgery. My right eye has 20:20 vision, the left eye not so good but still vastly improved. I only need glasses for close-up work and thought reading-only lenses would be OK. But I need computer glasses so I recently bought a set of extended focus computer/reading multifocals with a scratch/smudge resistant anti-glare coating.
They're great: I no longer need to get in close to computer screens & can now use computers with screens bigger than 22-inches comfortably.
// @sumudu @indigo
Another nasty reflux attack: taken four antacids in the last 3 hours, normally only need two. I do need to get some generic powder like Eno in stock.
Uncomfortably hot night. I'll be sleeping on the couch in the loungeroom, with the A/C going.
I have started a new thread on Micromat's (TechToolPro dev) forum explaining my Protogo problems. I'll be interested in what answers I get.
Enormously disappointed in the new Sierra version of TechTool Pro app when it comes to creating a TechTool Protogo (Pro-to-go) startup & diagnostic tool on a USB stick.
Previously I had a version of the Protogo drive made with Yosemite. This was reasonably effective, started quickly & ran quickly enough except it wasn't for use with Macs with Sierra installed as the version of TTP on the Protogo drive wasn't Sierra-compatible.
The new Protogo drive made with Sierra & using the new Sierra-compliant version of TTP is slow to the point of uselessness. I installed it on the same 16 GB USB 2.0 drive as the previous version.
The Protogo drive incorporates Safari, System Preferences, Preview, TextEdit, Disk Utility, TechTool Pro, Console, Activity Monitor & Terminal apps with a basic startup version of whichever Mac OS version you happen to be booted into when creating the Protogo drive in the first place.
I found that apps were impossibly slow to open and for some ungodly reason the 16 GB drive included a 4.29 GB sleepimage. This is odd because the correspond ing sleepimage on the Mac that created the Protogo drive is only 1.07 GB.
Tomorrow I'll reboot from the Yosemite external SSD & run TechTool Pro from the Mac's internal drive. Then I'll recreate the Protogo drive using the Sierra-compliant TTP app but with a Yosemite OS.
It's approaching 9:30 pm on an uncomfortably hot night and I just can't be bothered trying to fix the fucker today.
I can't use my left index finger for Touch ID on my iPhone because the skin surface keeps changing due to dermatitis.
At yesterday's Mac User group meeting a person approached me about MacBook Pro purchasing advice. I'd had a similar conversation with her several months ago but life has been chucking lemons at her lately and she just plain didn't have the time. My advice was to go for a refurbished 2015 13" with 256 GB SSD, 8 GB of RAM & a 2.7 GHz Core i5 processor. She'd been considering an entry-level 2016 non-touchbar 13" MBP but she said she preferred to have a the old-style ports, esp Magsafe. She sent me an email a few hours later saying she'd taken my advice & would pick it up a her local Apple Store next week.