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Another external HD failure, this time a drive purchased in September 2020, so it’s just outside the 24-month consumer law quality/fit-for-purpose regulations. It was used for one of two weekly Time Machine backups for my MacBook Pro and later for the MacBook Air that replaced it. The defective device was a 2 TB G-Technology G-Drive hard disk.
The 2 TB capacity was excessive, really. I prefer to allow 2.5 to 3 times a Mac’s inbuilt storage for Time Machine backups, so a 256 GB Mac would need 640 to 768 GB of backup capacity, best filled by a 1 TB drive.
I’ve ordered a LaCie Rugged 1TB HDD with USB-C connectivity, in the interim Sunday backups are being done on a 480 GB SSD.

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@variablepulserate As far as I can tell, the main difference between a Scotch pie (silly name for something lacking whisky) and an Aussie meat pie is the pastry, a hot water crust for the Scotch and an unsweetened short-crust for the Aussie product.

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@variablepulserate My oldest niece will be visiting for lunch today, which will feature English pork pies, Scottish oatcakes and assorted cheeses and pickles. And, I imagine, much strong tea.

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@variablepulserate Copie and paste from another social media outlet featuring Americans always on about “pie” meaning a small piece of a larger dessert pie rather than the proper classic individual hand-held Aussie meat pie. Thechically, the Cornish pastie is a hand pie.

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Today's lunch will feature a slow-cooked King Island beef and camembert cheese hand pie, served with mushy peas & sauerkraut.
King Island is the sole land mass between southern Victoria and the Antarctic continent several thousand km away and does NOTHING to interrupt the glacial blasts of wind from the Southern Ocean.

When I bought an Apple Pencil 2 and 256 GB iPad Air 5 Cellular 32 days ago, I paid A$1588. Now that same combination is A$1718. Ouch! Definitely bought at the right time!

Yesterday a 64 GB Cellular iPad 9 sold for A$929, now with the announcement of the iPad 10 the price of the same spec iPad 9 is $150 less. That spec in the iPad 10 is A$999.

Apple has announced new iPads: 10th gen iPad and M2 iPad Pro.
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My iPad Air 5 has a backlit combination keyboard/trackpad which makes connection to the iPad via the Smart Connector extension wiring in the internals of the case enclosing the iPad. Strong magnets align and retain the keyboard in place. If I connect the keyboard while the iPad is locked, up pops this message: “Unlock to use USB devices.” This tells me there are two USB interfaces on this iPad: the three-terminal Smart Connector and the USB-C power/sync connector.

Trying heat therapy on the shin ache. Rubberised hot water bottle is in use.