Bigamy is one wife too many.
Some would argue that monogamy has the same definition…
When I submitted the details of my old iPad mini to Apple’s trade-in partners, they estimated it to be worth up to $155. When I removed it from its case I found a dent on the back of it. I sent it off last Tuesday anyway, expecting to be notified of a reduction in the trade-in value.
Didn’t happen that way. They paid the full agreed sum of $155.
Cost of raffle tickets in 2019: -$20.
Value of raffle prize: +$599.
Cost of iPad case in 2019: -$28.
Trade-in value: +$155.
Purchase price for iPad mini 7 (128 GB; wi-fi) -$799.
Purchase price of Apple Pencil USB-C: -$139.
Purchase price of iPad case 2025: -$16.
Cost of two years of AppleCare+ -$109.
All up cost of owning this iPad Mini 7: -$357.
Today’s weather forecast this time yesterday was for a high temperature of 31°C. That was revised six hours later to 34° at around 4pm. The actual highest temperature reached was 36° a little after 3pm.
@matigo Home temperatures were 32ºC on Saturday, 36º on Sunday, 38º on Monday and 37º today vs the seaside escape location's 29º on Sunday with significant overnight rain, 27º on Monday and 28º on Tuesday.
I'm back home again from my sojourn by the seaside - I went away for two days to escape heatwave conditions inland where I live. There's a cool chane coming through at last, now it's 24ºC whereas it was 37º when I returned home four hours ago. Much relief.
We’re having something of a heatwave at present, four consecutive days of temperatures in the mid to high 30°C range.
I ran away to a tourist/fishing village to the south where the conditions are much milder, stayed overnight in a motel and will stay tonight as well.
"The dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed" might be my favourite saying of the week.
@matigo At least with Mac and iOS/iPadOS one can select optimised storage for photos. Doing so on the old iPad Mini used about 5GB vs iClod (sic) Photo Library using 32GB.
The size options for the iPad Mini 5 were either 64 or 256GB, I had no choice as the device was a raffle prize. I either paid $5 or $20 depending how you break it down. Each ticket was $5, I bought four of them but only one came up. The device was originally priced at $599 and had thesame internal specs as the then current iPad Air 3.
I’m in the process of replacing my 64 GB iPad Mini t with the new 128GB iPad Mini I bought online yesterday. The settings say there’s another 11GB of apps to download from the temporary iCloud backup.
I realised there was one older Mac I hadn't tried with the recalcitrant iXpand drive, the 2008 15-in MacBook Pro. After being connected for about 5 minutes, it deigned to mount and I was able to save the 10 Gb of scans to another drive.
I wondered how to do this with both USB ports being used, one for the mouse (the trackpad is often unresponsive) and the Time Machine drive doing a much-needed backup.
Then I remembered I had a FireWire 800 to SATA bare drive adapter available. I used this with a spare SSD to copy the 10 GB of scans.