@variablepulserate I once helped a woman with a “stuck” 30-pin cable in her iPod Nano. She had borrowed the cable from her son & was only accustomed to the newer slimline style. The one she had borrowed was the locking type, with catches at each end that had to be squeezed inward together to release the connector.
@variablepulserate Way back when the iPhone 5 was released I was warned by an early adopter not to get anything with a Lightning cable as it was hard to remove the plug easily. She reckoned it was a design flaw, I explained it was a design feature meaning the connection would be more secure.
March 1 & 2 were when my ALDI-Mobile $99 Super Pack for my spare phone became due for renewal. ALDI-Mobile uses a base Pay As You Go plan of a minimum $15 per year. The Super Pack includes 15 GB of data, unlimited SMS & calls, but any international calls or MMS messages come from the PAYG credits. With sufficient of the latter, you can offset the cost of the Super Pack.
At the end of March 2, 2021, I had $20.05 accumulated in PAYG credits so I used all of them & paid an additional $79.95 for a further 365 days of usage of the data/calls/SMS component, then bought another $15 PAYG because otherwise I’d have around $35 of credits & I only use about $5 of them per year. They require you to purchase a minimum od $15 per year at renewal. if you don’t, after a few months they take away your phone number as that’s associated with the PAYG section.
The Men’s Shed uses my old iPhone SE with a similar plan because of the generous extra data available when the 15 GB runs out: $60 buys &0 GB of data & you can roll over up to 200 GB per annum.
@variablepulserate Seagate Expansion Portable hard drives have a poor reputation but their desktop drives are OK. My personal issue with Toshiba Canvio drives of 2 or 3 TB capacities is the interface between the case & the body of the drive itself, it’s not a standard SATA one, instead using direct contact between terminals on the bottom of the circuit board and the top of the drive itself. The other end is where my problem lies: it’s the horrid fat Micro USB 3 port on the drive body. They are prone to fail in such a way that a Micro USB 3 cable no longer connects but a Micro USB 2 cable (which fits in the larger of the two slots) will make connection, with a vastly-slower transfer rate.
Since upgrading my iMac from a 1 TB Fusion drive to a 1 TB SSD, I now have a spare 1 TB hard drive looking for a job.
Crazy good performance from the 2017 4k iMac now the Fusion drive has been replaced with an SSD. there’s been a reduction in overall capacity, the Fusion drive was a 1 TB HDD attached to a 32 GB SSD. Big deal, I was only using 190 GB anyway.
Apps are much more responsive, opening faster, bootup is 55 seconds rather than 5 minutes. money well spent, I think. I’d initially thought about upgrading to a 5oo GB SSD but the quote from the Apple reseller’s service dep showed a 1TB was only $60 more than a 500 GB. Easy choice.
My iMac is ready for collection after having the Fusion drive replaced with a proper SSD.
@jussipekonen The playlist is 18 hours long, My trip will total around 9 hours.
My iMac is ready for collection. I’ve had the 1TB Fusion drive replaced with a 1TB SSD. Might make it tomorrow but have a lot of driving to do. More likely Friday pickup.
