A Lovely 10C Site!

The sun was out this morning so I went off to the main shopping centre about 2 km from home. Almost there I heard several screaming steam whistles and concluded a western suburbs-based steam preservation society was having another outing.
Indeed they were: in 1922, the first of a new class of locomotives, the K-class went into service starting with K100. The last of that class was decommissioned in 1979 and 21 of the units are owned by various preservation grooups.
The whistles belonged to a centenary special train of some 13 carriages hauled by three of the preserved K-class locos. It had stopped in my location, 57 km from its departure point to take on water for a round trip of some 325 km. The leading locomotive, marked as K100 (the first of the K-class) was actually the last constructed K-class, K153 (built in 1940) done up in K100 livery.
As I was preparing for bed some 12 hours later, I heard the whistles off in the distance again. The train had bee delayed by about 90 minutes at the far end.
I’ve attached a pic of the three locos.

I emptied lots of junk and plenty of good stuff from the boot (trunk) of my 2012 Mazda2. This car has a horrible - never been used - spacesaver spare wheel & tyre. I’m going to ge a full-sized wheel & tyre because it can fit in there, just not in the provided well. That will become storage space for essential but little-used items like clothing and tools. Part of that process involves modifying the hold-down bolt because I don’t want the wheel to become a missile should I be in a collision.

@variablepulserate Very much so, the case as well. A good thing it’s not a leather case…

// @matigo

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@matigo At the most it would have cost $149 because of my AppleCare+ coverage.

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About six hours ago my front-load washer was making odd clunking noises while performing a prewash cycle. Deduced it was the iPhone in a trouser pocket so I shut the machine off and waited until it deigned to allow the door to open. I found the phone in about three inches of soapy water and it seemed to still be working. I removed its case (fortunately not leather), rinsed its ports with cold fresh water and shook out as much water as wanted to come out. Next I tapped the bottom if the phone against my hand to clear our more moisture. Then it went under the warm dry airstream of the reverse cycle A/C for an hour. It seemed to be fine, so I made a backup over wifi with the iMazing app on my iMac before returning it to its spot near the A/C.
It has survived the experience perfectly fine. To be expected, it’s designed to survive being dunked in water up to a metre deep for up to 30 minutes.

@variablepulserate In Australia 2G/EDGE is long gone, all three networks abandoned it at the suggestion of the regulatory authority, aka ACCC. It won’t be long before 3G is closed, too.
I had a similar dilemna with my late mother. I had considered a Nokia 3310 3G device (the modern one) but it was too flash for her. I eventually settled on a Telstra-branded ZTE flip phone that’s nigh on indestructible, a friend had given it to me when his wife upgraded to an iPhone.

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Making the first backup of the iPad Air. I had to come up with a name for the device, since its colour is Starlight, I chose to call it Starbright. I’m using iMazing for the backup, because I can do that to an external drive. I was a bit under halfway through downloading all the music I wanted from Apple Music, it was a slow and tedious method: select each album, tap the download button, move on to the next one and repeat the process. Then I remembered iMazing, I told that app to add everything in the Music folder that I hadn’t already loaded with the slow method. I used a Thunderbolt cable, the iPad Air has a USB-C port rated at up to 10 Gbps if used with a suitable cable. the supplied USB-C charge cable supplied with my M1 MacBook Air & with the iPad Air only transfer data at USB 2.0 speeds, up to 480 Mbps.

I had an iPad 8 until yesterday, its final use was as a trade-in on an M1 iPad Air. This meant its Apple Pencil 1 was free for other things so it replaced a slightly less capable Adonit Note + stylus I used on the iPad Mini 5. The iPad is in a case with an elastic loop to hold the Pencil when not on use.

I’m not satisfied with the ease of dislodgement of the Pencil 2 from its charging site on the side of the iPad Air. Tomorrow I expect to be able to collect a pre-paid case/trackpad/keyboard combo that has a cut-out on the side where the Pencil sits. Today I’m expecting delivery of a simple adhesive-backed pouch which I’ll attach to the back of the case.

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@streakmachine At the time of release of the Mini 5, the Mac User Group held its last (pre-COVID) hardware raffle. 1st prize was a 256 GB cellular iPad Air 3 and 2nd prize was a 64 GB wi-fi iPad Mini 5. I was lucky enough to win the 2nd prize. I was a bit put out at not scoring the big one but later realised that apart from connectivity, storage and physical size limits, the two had identical internals. I still use it a lot despite my recent cellular 256 GB iPad Air 5 purchase. It really is quite a capable device.

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To err is human,
to forgive is divine,
to moo is bovine,
to bleat is ovine,
to oink is porcine,
to howl is lupine,
to bark is canine,
to purr is feline.

This list is asinine.