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My iMac Pro T2 chip is able to load Sonoma. President our local group has a 27inch iMac - it can’t. He was a bit cross about that. At the time we had a lively debate about the 27inch models and I said I was hoping a bit of future proofing.
Initially had some problems because of the T2 chip constant crashing but put it into my favourite Apple qualified tech who wiped the drive and set it all up again for me under warranty and had no more problems.
But I haven’t gone forward as yet with Sonoma - I’m told it’s heading more to iPad like and I wouldn't be impressed with that.
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Jude
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And HNY to you all, as well! Best
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On 24 Jan 2024, at 10:41, zuiko <ftog@...> wrote: That’s interesting!
I’ve had no problems with Sonoma, but I installed the upgrade intentionally on my 2019 iMac. ?I can’t do so with my 2017 MacBook 12” Retina.
Happy New Year, all!
Chris On 24 Jan 2024, at 03:24, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:
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It can be sneaky and disguise the new OS as simply an upgrade to what you already have. Oh, did you see Apple has paid lots of Roubles to Russia for abusing its dominant position on the App Store? Putin must be rubbing his hands in glee.
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Susan
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On 24 Jan 2024, at 13:17, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:
I think the problems arises when it’s unintentional and wipes out software you use all the time.
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I think the problems arises when it’s unintentional and wipes out software you use all the time.
Jude
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That’s interesting!
I’ve had no problems with Sonoma, but I installed the upgrade intentionally on my 2019 iMac. ?I can’t do so with my 2017 MacBook 12” Retina.
Happy New Year, all!
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On 24 Jan 2024, at 03:24, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:
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Jude?
Banks here are doing various annoying things….. closing branches…. no cash over the counter only machine in the wall, and the latest is no cheques any more
I think a tin in the garden is going to be the go to in the end.
:-) Jude
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On 5 Dec 2023, at 3:25 am, zuiko <ftog@...> wrote: That sounds bad, Jude. We still have cash in the UK, but it’s becoming slowly more difficult to use. There are many towns without bank branches and the Post Office has taken over, but most of those are small and the queues become longer and longer. Chris On 3 Dec 2023, at 20:25, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:
Cash has almost disappeared here. Some of us are fighting back but seemingly to no avail.
Some banks no longer will hand out cash over the counter - but instead point people to the hole in the wall flexitellers and too bad if the machine is out of action (which it was while we were there).
Some banks already won’t do over the counter cheques.
Last Thursday we went to shift money (only $4000 a day limit electronically a pain) - so we consolidated accounts into one lump electronically over the web at home in preparation … we think moving large amounts risky over the internet - took us an hour to get a cheque to walk to another bank. We walked to the other bank only to find the premises with iron gate rolled down in front of where tellers should operate! We got told problems with the electronics.
The woman designated to handle customers out front asked what we wanted and I said to bank money and she asked how much! I said north of $1m and she looked at me rather blank and then gathered herself and asked if we had a cheque and at that point it all came to a halt. They had no people to deal.
We waited five minutes and no action so I stood up and walked .. husband followed and we drove to another branch where we got sorted smartly no questions asked.
An older Chinese woman queuing still had a passbook and she got sent by bank woman to the Post Office!!
They want everyone to flash plastic and then you cop a fee. Some shops/cafes are offering discount for cash (or they throw in half a dozen scones at the bakery).
I don’t do internet banking. I have been resisting. Not that I’m not capable of grasping the concept but I don’t like the way things are going for various reasons - and there are lots of people on (sometimes unreliable) adsl2+ (no fast internet where we live).
A lot of older people have not grasped computers or the internet of things - I’m not one of them - but I can see the difficulties.
Jude
On 3 Dec 2023, at 23:44, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:
?I was just reading about possible plans here in the UK for a digital currency and saw that Australia, among others, was piloting the idea. Has this come your way at all, Jude? Are there any visitble effects, so far? It’s OK for those with computing capabilities but could even mean starvation for some who can’t cope.
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Susan
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That sounds bad, Jude.
We still have cash in the UK, but it’s becoming slowly more difficult to use. There are many towns without bank branches and the Post Office has taken over, but most of those are small and the queues become longer and longer.
Chris
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On 3 Dec 2023, at 20:25, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:
Cash has almost disappeared here. Some of us are fighting back but seemingly to no avail.
Some banks no longer will hand out cash over the counter - but instead point people to the hole in the wall flexitellers and too bad if the machine is out of action (which it was while we were there).
Some banks already won’t do over the counter cheques.
Last Thursday we went to shift money (only $4000 a day limit electronically a pain) - so we consolidated accounts into one lump electronically over the web at home in preparation … we think moving large amounts risky over the internet - took us an hour to get a cheque to walk to another bank. We walked to the other bank only to find the premises with iron gate rolled down in front of where tellers should operate! We got told problems with the electronics.
The woman designated to handle customers out front asked what we wanted and I said to bank money and she asked how much! I said north of $1m and she looked at me rather blank and then gathered herself and asked if we had a cheque and at that point it all came to a halt. They had no people to deal.
We waited five minutes and no action so I stood up and walked .. husband followed and we drove to another branch where we got sorted smartly no questions asked.
An older Chinese woman queuing still had a passbook and she got sent by bank woman to the Post Office!!
They want everyone to flash plastic and then you cop a fee. Some shops/cafes are offering discount for cash (or they throw in half a dozen scones at the bakery).
I don’t do internet banking. I have been resisting. Not that I’m not capable of grasping the concept but I don’t like the way things are going for various reasons - and there are lots of people on (sometimes unreliable) adsl2+ (no fast internet where we live).
A lot of older people have not grasped computers or the internet of things - I’m not one of them - but I can see the difficulties.
Jude
On 3 Dec 2023, at 23:44, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:
?I was just reading about possible plans here in the UK for a digital currency and saw that Australia, among others, was piloting the idea. Has this come your way at all, Jude? Are there any visitble effects, so far? It’s OK for those with computing capabilities but could even mean starvation for some who can’t cope.
Best,
Susan
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Cash has almost disappeared here. Some of us are fighting back but seemingly to no avail.
Some banks no longer will hand out cash over the counter - but instead point people to the hole in the wall flexitellers and too bad if the machine is out of action (which it was while we were there).
Some banks already won’t do over the counter cheques.
Last Thursday we went to shift money (only $4000 a day limit electronically a pain) - so we consolidated accounts into one lump electronically over the web at home in preparation … we think moving large amounts risky over the internet - took us an hour to get a cheque to walk to another bank. We walked to the other bank only to find the premises with iron gate rolled down in front of where tellers should operate! We got told problems with the electronics.
The woman designated to handle customers out front asked what we wanted and I said to bank money and she asked how much! I said north of $1m and she looked at me rather blank and then gathered herself and asked if we had a cheque and at that point it all came to a halt. They had no people to deal.
We waited five minutes and no action so I stood up and walked .. husband followed and we drove to another branch where we got sorted smartly no questions asked.
An older Chinese woman queuing still had a passbook and she got sent by bank woman to the Post Office!!
They want everyone to flash plastic and then you cop a fee. Some shops/cafes are offering discount for cash (or they throw in half a dozen scones at the bakery).
I don’t do internet banking. I have been resisting. Not that I’m not capable of grasping the concept but I don’t like the way things are going for various reasons - and there are lots of people on (sometimes unreliable) adsl2+ (no fast internet where we live).
A lot of older people have not grasped computers or the internet of things - I’m not one of them - but I can see the difficulties.
Jude
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On 3 Dec 2023, at 23:44, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:
?I was just reading about possible plans here in the UK for a digital currency and saw that Australia, among others, was piloting the idea. Has this come your way at all, Jude? Are there any visitble effects, so far? It’s OK for those with computing capabilities but could even mean starvation for some who can’t cope.
Best,
Susan
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I was just reading about possible plans here in the UK for a digital currency and saw that Australia, among others, was piloting the idea. Has this come your way at all, Jude? Are there any visitble effects, so far? It’s OK for those with computing capabilities but could even mean starvation for some who can’t cope.
Best,
Susan
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I’m the opposite of Susan — I have 2017 iMac Pro and Tim Cook is as always is a great disappointment to me on the Mac front. I was looking forward to seeing the rumoured 30-32 inch iMac. But as usual the bean counter boss is not obliging.
I have the M1 12.9 iPad Pro….. I have got used to it but it frankly annoys me to the point I walk round to my big Mac and continue from there. Its just not flexible enough as far as I am concerned.
A friend just got rid of her big steel Mac Pro Intel tower and bought a Mac Studio (she has enormous curved Samsung screen for doing animation on ) — and all she has kept saying about the Studio is how disappointed she is in it. …..and she flew across Australia to do a couple of weeks doctor work over in remote mining sites to pay for it :-)
Hope we can be of help Milton …… nice to have someone new join in.
Regards
Jude (downunder in Australia).
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On 12 Nov 2023, at 9:03 pm, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:
Wow, Milton, welcome! How did you get here? This group still exists and has plenty of members but they are all a bit quiet for the most part. How did you hear about MacCafe?There has been zero activity on here for months, which is a shame because it used to be quite busy.
I see you are in the USA; I have relatives there but have only ever met one of them when he was visiting the UK with his wife.
On the Mac front, I am typing this on a 16in MacBook Pro running Catalina. I have a ten-year-old 27in iMac and am sad to see Apple are not going to make any more of those. I also have a PC, a tiny Beelink, on which I play EverQuest on a far too regular basis. My iMac runs Electric Sheep and seems to be picking up ever more amazing additions from goodness knows where. Oh and I also have a Mac Mini.
How about you?
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Susan
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Wow, Milton, welcome! How did you get here? This group still exists and has plenty of members but they are all a bit quiet for the most part. How did you hear about MacCafe?There has been zero activity on here for months, which is a shame because it used to be quite busy.
I see you are in the USA; I have relatives there but have only ever met one of them when he was visiting the UK with his wife.
On the Mac front, I am typing this on a 16in MacBook Pro running Catalina. I have a ten-year-old 27in iMac and am sad to see Apple are not going to make any more of those. I also have a PC, a tiny Beelink, on which I play EverQuest on a far too regular basis. My iMac runs Electric Sheep and seems to be picking up ever more amazing additions from goodness knows where. Oh and I also have a Mac Mini.
How about you?
Best,
Susan
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That looks very handy indeed; we have a heavy metal one, not so handy. ?Instead, Harvey insisted on using the garden wheelbarrow to move a non-functional Lexmark printer from my shed at the top of the garden, down the path, down a flight of concrete steps, through the house (terraced) and into his car, for eventual disposal at “the dump”. ?I found that I could print from my shed using the HP printer in the house, which thrilled me to bits, as I wasn’t expecting it to work. ?We had an irritating incident with Amazon UK, regarding the HP printer. Having ordered a new cartridge for it and ascertained from the description that it had the right fittings, it turned out that the little knobs at each end of the cartridge did not after all match the printer. When we tried to return it, it turned out to be from somewhere in Eastern Europe and Amazon were unwilling to recompense us for the postage. They eventually did offer to pay (via a phone call) but would not put the offer in writing, as we requested. As the cartridge had cost about ?60 and the postage would apparently be a similar amount, we decided to cut our losses and recycle the cartridge, getting a replacement from Cartridgesave instead. Very annoying but we are now a lot more vigilant as to the origin of purchases from Amazon. Best, Susan
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Price gone up $10 since I bought mine - nice extending handle - and flattens to put in the car.?
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Price gone up $10 since I bought mine - nice extending handle - and flattens to put in the car.?
I bet! :D
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Susan
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On 17 Jun 2023, at 07:16, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:
Woman with a glue gun can do marvels with busted things like boxes. :-) Have gun - keep it handy for all sorts of things.
Jude
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I have not read that book but it seems to have a bunch of enthusiastic reviews, so might be worth a try after I’ve finished Ready Player One on which the film was based. The paperback is in awfully small print, making me feel that I need new specs!
That’s interesting, about a possible family connection. ?I knew a Michael Goldfinch when I worked for a while at the BBC in Bush House, in the French Continuity office; I think he was a head of department. Best, Susan
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I have a story going on my Mac. Have you read The Boy with No Shoes - I bought it recently - author similarly was getting his childhood out of his head.?
I read on a Kent group he had some photos pertaining to a Goldfinch family in Ramsgate that he wanted to return to a member of the right Goldfinch family - so I am emailing him. I’m a Goldfinch from Ramsgate. There are seemingly two clans not related- mine from Ramsgate/Margate and the other lot who were Oyster farmers from Whitstable.
Jude On 17 Jun 2023, at 5:27 am, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:
? I bought a $39au collapsible aluminium trolley from Officeworks and I use that if I have to cart a Mac. Amused Apple staff no end while they were standing there querying how I was going to manage. Think it’s called a Magnacart.?
Jude ? I’m sure it does get worse as you age and, somehow, memories become sharper too. ?I am wondering if writing a blog, just for myself to see, might help. I haven’t yet decided how to shape this, to fictionalise it or what. Self-therapy! :D Best, Susan
Sometimes I think it gets worse as you get older. Something triggers an I find myself tearful. ?Nothing wrong with my memory either thank goodness otherwise how would my husband find anything or get me to fix his Mac :-)Recently did review with my neurologist - I think it was the first time my husband has seen the scans of my brain and he immediately remarked how beautiful it was and utterly symmetrical and not a spare inch - must admit it looks pretty busy. Lord knows how it all works.?
:-) Jude
My goodness, Jude, you had some pain there. These things all leave their mark, don’t they? Then, you are just left to live with them as best you can. I sometimes wish I were not so good at remembering stuff. Should be glad, though, that I do still have a good memory! Best, Susan I was dragged to Australia on forged papers. My own father refused to sign documents for me to leave the country. My late stepfather who had been POW of Germans 4 years in Thorn Poland Stalag XXA - knew a bit about forgery and spent some hours forging my Dad’s signature. I did get the chance in a few moments to warn my Dad of the dastardly plot to take me to Australia but in that instant he didn’t believe me and said it was impossible because he hadn’t signed.? Headmistress and my teacher at Earlsfield school had my mother and stepfather in to try the dissuade them from moving me - I was top of the school and they had a fast track edu planned for me, but the no avail.? Life was very difficult for me in Australia in the early days. My mother had a cruel streak. When I was early 30’s I made a search with Red Cross and found my father again and my husband and I got on a plane together to go see him in Ramsgate. I hoped it was closure of a kind for him. You come to realise though you can’t put that great gap of time back.? I guess at no time the British gov or Aust government actually check with my father that he actually signed and it was authentic, and as the man had had a breakdown over losing his marriage he was in no condition to action.
Life has some twists for some of us.?
??Jude?
On 14 Jun 2023, at 1:25 am, zuiko <ftog@...> wrote:
?No, I got a chap in Bournemouth to swap it for me – a very good job. ?I have swapped a HD, but it was on an iMac with magnetic closures, not glue.
That picture business is a bit annoying. ?Have you run Onyx to clean the computer up?
Chris
Wow, Chris - you swapped your iMac’s HD? Did you do that yourself? ?We’ve heard that my 27in iMac is repairable after all, so we’re getting it done; you can’t have too many Macs, I feel! :D?
I am relieved to hear that you’re enjoying Ventura; I’m still unsure. ?One trick I haven’t mastered is getting it to accept and keep one of my photos as its wallpaper; it keeps having to be reinstated each time I log on. I have created a new file under the Wallpaper heading, as they tell you, but it doesn’t believe me! Best, Susan
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Of course, it should really have been named the Applecart but that would have upset them no end! :D? Best, Susan
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I bought a $39au collapsible aluminium trolley from Officeworks and I use that if I have to cart a Mac. Amused Apple staff no end while they were standing there querying how I was going to manage. Think it’s called a Magnacart.?
Jude ? I’m sure it does get worse as you age and, somehow, memories become sharper too. ?I am wondering if writing a blog, just for myself to see, might help. I haven’t yet decided how to shape this, to fictionalise it or what. Self-therapy! :D Best, Susan
Sometimes I think it gets worse as you get older. Something triggers an I find myself tearful. ?Nothing wrong with my memory either thank goodness otherwise how would my husband find anything or get me to fix his Mac :-)Recently did review with my neurologist - I think it was the first time my husband has seen the scans of my brain and he immediately remarked how beautiful it was and utterly symmetrical and not a spare inch - must admit it looks pretty busy. Lord knows how it all works.?
:-) Jude
My goodness, Jude, you had some pain there. These things all leave their mark, don’t they? Then, you are just left to live with them as best you can. I sometimes wish I were not so good at remembering stuff. Should be glad, though, that I do still have a good memory! Best, Susan I was dragged to Australia on forged papers. My own father refused to sign documents for me to leave the country. My late stepfather who had been POW of Germans 4 years in Thorn Poland Stalag XXA - knew a bit about forgery and spent some hours forging my Dad’s signature. I did get the chance in a few moments to warn my Dad of the dastardly plot to take me to Australia but in that instant he didn’t believe me and said it was impossible because he hadn’t signed.? Headmistress and my teacher at Earlsfield school had my mother and stepfather in to try the dissuade them from moving me - I was top of the school and they had a fast track edu planned for me, but the no avail.? Life was very difficult for me in Australia in the early days. My mother had a cruel streak. When I was early 30’s I made a search with Red Cross and found my father again and my husband and I got on a plane together to go see him in Ramsgate. I hoped it was closure of a kind for him. You come to realise though you can’t put that great gap of time back.? I guess at no time the British gov or Aust government actually check with my father that he actually signed and it was authentic, and as the man had had a breakdown over losing his marriage he was in no condition to action.
Life has some twists for some of us.?
??Jude?
On 14 Jun 2023, at 1:25 am, zuiko <ftog@...> wrote:
?No, I got a chap in Bournemouth to swap it for me – a very good job. ?I have swapped a HD, but it was on an iMac with magnetic closures, not glue.
That picture business is a bit annoying. ?Have you run Onyx to clean the computer up?
Chris
Wow, Chris - you swapped your iMac’s HD? Did you do that yourself? ?We’ve heard that my 27in iMac is repairable after all, so we’re getting it done; you can’t have too many Macs, I feel! :D?
I am relieved to hear that you’re enjoying Ventura; I’m still unsure. ?One trick I haven’t mastered is getting it to accept and keep one of my photos as its wallpaper; it keeps having to be reinstated each time I log on. I have created a new file under the Wallpaper heading, as they tell you, but it doesn’t believe me! Best, Susan
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Woman with a glue gun can do marvels with busted things like boxes. :-) Have gun - keep it handy for all sorts of things.
Jude
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I have a story going on my Mac. Have you read The Boy with No Shoes - I bought it recently - author similarly was getting his childhood out of his head.?
I read on a Kent group he had some photos pertaining to a Goldfinch family in Ramsgate that he wanted to return to a member of the right Goldfinch family - so I am emailing him. I’m a Goldfinch from Ramsgate. There are seemingly two clans not related- mine from Ramsgate/Margate and the other lot who were Oyster farmers from Whitstable.
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On 17 Jun 2023, at 5:27 am, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:
? I bought a $39au collapsible aluminium trolley from Officeworks and I use that if I have to cart a Mac. Amused Apple staff no end while they were standing there querying how I was going to manage. Think it’s called a Magnacart.?
Jude On 17 Jun 2023, at 2:56 am, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:
? I’m sure it does get worse as you age and, somehow, memories become sharper too. ?I am wondering if writing a blog, just for myself to see, might help. I haven’t yet decided how to shape this, to fictionalise it or what. Self-therapy! :D Best, Susan On 16 Jun 2023, at 02:09, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:
Sometimes I think it gets worse as you get older. Something triggers an I find myself tearful. ?Nothing wrong with my memory either thank goodness otherwise how would my husband find anything or get me to fix his Mac :-)Recently did review with my neurologist - I think it was the first time my husband has seen the scans of my brain and he immediately remarked how beautiful it was and utterly symmetrical and not a spare inch - must admit it looks pretty busy. Lord knows how it all works.?
:-) Jude
My goodness, Jude, you had some pain there. These things all leave their mark, don’t they? Then, you are just left to live with them as best you can. I sometimes wish I were not so good at remembering stuff. Should be glad, though, that I do still have a good memory! Best, Susan I was dragged to Australia on forged papers. My own father refused to sign documents for me to leave the country. My late stepfather who had been POW of Germans 4 years in Thorn Poland Stalag XXA - knew a bit about forgery and spent some hours forging my Dad’s signature. I did get the chance in a few moments to warn my Dad of the dastardly plot to take me to Australia but in that instant he didn’t believe me and said it was impossible because he hadn’t signed.? Headmistress and my teacher at Earlsfield school had my mother and stepfather in to try the dissuade them from moving me - I was top of the school and they had a fast track edu planned for me, but the no avail.? Life was very difficult for me in Australia in the early days. My mother had a cruel streak. When I was early 30’s I made a search with Red Cross and found my father again and my husband and I got on a plane together to go see him in Ramsgate. I hoped it was closure of a kind for him. You come to realise though you can’t put that great gap of time back.? I guess at no time the British gov or Aust government actually check with my father that he actually signed and it was authentic, and as the man had had a breakdown over losing his marriage he was in no condition to action.
Life has some twists for some of us.?
??Jude?
On 14 Jun 2023, at 1:25 am, zuiko <ftog@...> wrote:
?No, I got a chap in Bournemouth to swap it for me – a very good job. ?I have swapped a HD, but it was on an iMac with magnetic closures, not glue.
That picture business is a bit annoying. ?Have you run Onyx to clean the computer up?
Chris
Wow, Chris - you swapped your iMac’s HD? Did you do that yourself? ?We’ve heard that my 27in iMac is repairable after all, so we’re getting it done; you can’t have too many Macs, I feel! :D?
I am relieved to hear that you’re enjoying Ventura; I’m still unsure. ?One trick I haven’t mastered is getting it to accept and keep one of my photos as its wallpaper; it keeps having to be reinstated each time I log on. I have created a new file under the Wallpaper heading, as they tell you, but it doesn’t believe me! Best, Susan
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I bought a $39au collapsible aluminium trolley from Officeworks and I use that if I have to cart a Mac. Amused Apple staff no end while they were standing there querying how I was going to manage. Think it’s called a Magnacart.?
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On 17 Jun 2023, at 2:56 am, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:
? I’m sure it does get worse as you age and, somehow, memories become sharper too. ?I am wondering if writing a blog, just for myself to see, might help. I haven’t yet decided how to shape this, to fictionalise it or what. Self-therapy! :D Best, Susan On 16 Jun 2023, at 02:09, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:
Sometimes I think it gets worse as you get older. Something triggers an I find myself tearful. ?Nothing wrong with my memory either thank goodness otherwise how would my husband find anything or get me to fix his Mac :-)Recently did review with my neurologist - I think it was the first time my husband has seen the scans of my brain and he immediately remarked how beautiful it was and utterly symmetrical and not a spare inch - must admit it looks pretty busy. Lord knows how it all works.?
:-) Jude
My goodness, Jude, you had some pain there. These things all leave their mark, don’t they? Then, you are just left to live with them as best you can. I sometimes wish I were not so good at remembering stuff. Should be glad, though, that I do still have a good memory! Best, Susan I was dragged to Australia on forged papers. My own father refused to sign documents for me to leave the country. My late stepfather who had been POW of Germans 4 years in Thorn Poland Stalag XXA - knew a bit about forgery and spent some hours forging my Dad’s signature. I did get the chance in a few moments to warn my Dad of the dastardly plot to take me to Australia but in that instant he didn’t believe me and said it was impossible because he hadn’t signed.? Headmistress and my teacher at Earlsfield school had my mother and stepfather in to try the dissuade them from moving me - I was top of the school and they had a fast track edu planned for me, but the no avail.? Life was very difficult for me in Australia in the early days. My mother had a cruel streak. When I was early 30’s I made a search with Red Cross and found my father again and my husband and I got on a plane together to go see him in Ramsgate. I hoped it was closure of a kind for him. You come to realise though you can’t put that great gap of time back.? I guess at no time the British gov or Aust government actually check with my father that he actually signed and it was authentic, and as the man had had a breakdown over losing his marriage he was in no condition to action.
Life has some twists for some of us.?
??Jude?
On 14 Jun 2023, at 1:25 am, zuiko <ftog@...> wrote:
?No, I got a chap in Bournemouth to swap it for me – a very good job. ?I have swapped a HD, but it was on an iMac with magnetic closures, not glue.
That picture business is a bit annoying. ?Have you run Onyx to clean the computer up?
Chris
Wow, Chris - you swapped your iMac’s HD? Did you do that yourself? ?We’ve heard that my 27in iMac is repairable after all, so we’re getting it done; you can’t have too many Macs, I feel! :D?
I am relieved to hear that you’re enjoying Ventura; I’m still unsure. ?One trick I haven’t mastered is getting it to accept and keep one of my photos as its wallpaper; it keeps having to be reinstated each time I log on. I have created a new file under the Wallpaper heading, as they tell you, but it doesn’t believe me! Best, Susan
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