On 4 Mar 2022, at 13:12, Judith Hall via <glenidol@...> wrote:

Been more than a tad wet down here in case you hadn’t noticed. We basically had a year’s worth of rain in 2 days — about 800ml in two days in our area. The local village which is 8 miles away copped it rather bad - water entered a lot of business premises and in all the time we have been in this area have never known it to do that before. ?Brisbane River was quite a site - various things busted loose - houseboats, pontoons, jetties, public walkways. People were being rescued in some areas by anything that floated or picked off roofs. The weather bureau had been predicting more of the same for the next week - ?but so far has not happened.?

Pete’s Mac died the other day — after three days of being flooded in we took it across town to favourite tech where it has been declared that its motherboard has gone. The cost of that repair just didn’t make sense so fI made an executive decision and have ordered the latest M1 Powerbook Pro 14inch for him and the tech till transfer data over from the HD so when it comes home on Monday it will be all set up for him ready to go. Fortunately they have ordered up three times their usual stock at this little business which is wonderful as Apple quote other end of March for delivery and supply and delivery and tracking is a bit of a nonsense at the moment down here.?

Our internet has been on and off like a yoyo today - probably down to wet ground conditions. ?No sign of us getting the NBN in this area. Some of the neighbours up the valley who have exceedingly bad reception on adsl have ordered Musk’s StarLink Satellite service and are busily unpacking dishes and using some iPhone app to find their best reception - making themselves dizzy in the process.

They are all trying it out — and they have 30 days to return the gear and get full refund if it doesn’t work.?


Jude?

On 5 Mar 2022, at 6:35 pm, zuiko <ftog@...> wrote:

?I had seen the floods, Jude. ?Some former colleagues from the RAF, both doctors now with the RAAF emigrated with their four children showed their garden on FB with a new river running through it. ?They’re near Brisbane, as far as I can make out.

You’re getting good service from your local supplier. ?I still haven’t been paid for my part time work so I can’t go out and spend on a new iPad Air or MacBook Air. ?My little 2017 MacBook 12” is showing the battery operating at only 80% capacity now. ?This despite my careful charging regime and only 370 cycles. ?It’s designed to retain 80% capacity for 1,000 cycles . . .

I’d be interested to know how much the StarLink costs a household.

Chris

On 4 Mar 2022, at 13:12, Judith Hall via <glenidol@...> wrote:

Been more than a tad wet down here in case you hadn’t noticed. We basically had a year’s worth of rain in 2 days — about 800ml in two days in our area. The local village which is 8 miles away copped it rather bad - water entered a lot of business premises and in all the time we have been in this area have never known it to do that before. ?Brisbane River was quite a site - various things busted loose - houseboats, pontoons, jetties, public walkways. People were being rescued in some areas by anything that floated or picked off roofs. The weather bureau had been predicting more of the same for the next week - ?but so far has not happened.?

Pete’s Mac died the other day — after three days of being flooded in we took it across town to favourite tech where it has been declared that its motherboard has gone. The cost of that repair just didn’t make sense so fI made an executive decision and have ordered the latest M1 Powerbook Pro 14inch for him and the tech till transfer data over from the HD so when it comes home on Monday it will be all set up for him ready to go. Fortunately they have ordered up three times their usual stock at this little business which is wonderful as Apple quote other end of March for delivery and supply and delivery and tracking is a bit of a nonsense at the moment down here.?

Our internet has been on and off like a yoyo today - probably down to wet ground conditions. ?No sign of us getting the NBN in this area. Some of the neighbours up the valley who have exceedingly bad reception on adsl have ordered Musk’s StarLink Satellite service and are busily unpacking dishes and using some iPhone app to find their best reception - making themselves dizzy in the process.

They are all trying it out — and they have 30 days to return the gear and get full refund if it doesn’t work.?


Jude?