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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

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

Don’t know why but the web interface on this group is not allowing me to answer online for some reason. re Safari --Maybe its the adblock that needs to be updated or something ? More and more Safari is dropping behind - can’t use the Google Earth web version with it, or generate the DNA map in Ancestry etc — thats the times I dive out to other browsers. My husband favours Firefox - and that works most of the time Jude

No, I’m not setting out to explore. I seem to have trouble setting the Safari version on my iMac (14.1.2, running on Mojave 10.14.6) to make use of its ability to free certain web sites from the clutches of AdBlock. I can do this on the version on my MacBook Pro, 15.6.1, so what do you think I might be doing wrong? I can make Chrome perform this function. Any suggestions please? Best Susan

Do you run a home network? We have had one for years and never had any setup difficulties - until now. Harvey decided that his ageing MacBook Air was not agile enough to be the main man, so to speak, so he laid plans to replace it with my old 13in MacBook Pro, which had an SSD fitted. After some time in process, the plans became a struggle, then the struggle was replaced by a lot of research. It seems there is a (groan) known problem with Catalina, which the MBP was running, when it comes to networks. Apple have done those things which they ought not to have done and made it pretty impossible to use Catalina for our purposes and we are not alone in feeling annoyed at them. Next stage, Harvey is replacing Catalina on the MBP with the Air’s Mojave installation. Watch this space! I have Catalina on my 16in MBP but still have Mojave on my nearly ten-year-old 27in iMac. I do hope this works, because I am accumulating scans and downloads that need to go onto what we call “Primary”, which will hopefully be the MBP once it’s been converted from its heresy! Oh I’ve just remembered: I have a thumb drive to put these docs on! Best, Susan

I thought that I’d start a new thread on the subject of iCloud. I’ve been using it for a few years now and it’s been reliable, mostly. The glitches are only where I have a slow connection and large files to sync, but that happens with any cloud-based network: the normally fast and reliable Sync cloud coughs a little when I have a large video file, or a stitched image file, of more than 100Mb to sync. Large PowerPoint files have caused bottlenecks too – files from my work which I might still need and which have large media content. I also use Private Relay and Hide My Email from iCloud: the former is a VPN system, as far as I can make out, structured using CloudFlare’s Internet systems. I tried adding CloudFlare’s privacy systems, but Private Relay told me that it had disconnected and I found out why: CloudFlare is part of Private Relay. So I have merely changed my router’s and my computers’ DNS settings to CloudFlare’s, as recommended here: https://1.1.1.1/dns/ (scroll down to the instructions). I started fiddling around in the DNS because my Internet connection at home slowed down – was slow to start a connection when looking for a website, for instance. Since changing DNS to 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 the connections have been faster. I have a 70 download and 18 upload connection, as tested by Speedtest.net, with reasonable Ping results (9 or 10ms), so it wasn’t my established conneciton. I had iDisk in the early days as well, Susan; but iCloud is much more capable than that. In fact it’s the ecosystem that keeps me “Apple” and paying for it is par for the course. I pay ?6.99 a month for 2Tb, but if I were using something else the free 5Gb would be sufficient to run my devices with storage on Sync, say. I looked at Dropbox’s prices a few days ago and they were comparable. If Private Relay, which is currently in beta, becomes chargeable, I’ll consider binning it and using CloudFlare’s system. Chris

I suppose it must be autumn or even winter in Oz, Jude, and here we are in the usually damp and cloudy United Kingdom being warned to stay at home if we can, because of the heat! I’ve just been out in the garden, doing the annual Big Butterfly Count, and managed to snap a peacock butterfly sunning itself on the path. I’m a bit clumsy with the tiny buttons on my little digital camera, a Panasonic DC-TZ90 that I’ve had for a good while now. I accidentally set it to video but never realise I’ve done it until too late. Maybe I should RTFM a bit better! We are only partly back online after an outage; the Mac side of things is working but we can’t access our network drive. The Windows side is still on the fritz. Oh, our router is a Fr!tzbox by the way! Funnily enough, when I returned to Facebook, it turned out that a number of our fellow villagers in Clyst St Mary had also experienced outages. Coincidence or not, I don’t know. I do hope everyone is thriving. Best Susan

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Does anyone use this? I’ve just enabled it but not yet used, so no idea how easy or complicated it is. Computeractive magazine had an article on it, so I plucked up my courage. Harvey was not keen, saying it was another gateway for crooks. Best Susan

An email appeared which initially I was about to put in the trash -- but I took a second look and I think it might be from John Miller. He is obviously distressed. Did anyone else recieve the same email ? Jude

OK, it is a Windows thing but it originates on my iMac Boot Camp. I changed my Boot Camp’s desktop to a screenshot from EverQuest, then today went to update my Dell laptop to Windows 11. I was very surprised to see that the desktop picture, previously the normal Windows 10 blue spheres, had changed to my Boot Camp’s picture; is this normal? Best Susan

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

I brought my Mac forward to Monterey yesterday and it went ok, and already there is an update. Been doing two iphones and iPad updates as well. Drives me nuts. Jude

Mail bobbed up and wanted some extra security --- read it thought.... yeah ok -- bloody nuisance. Nothing in the email page - blank basically ..... you have to tell every single one to load from the web. I thought I had ticked the right box under security to reverse this and tell it not to do this --- but its still doing it - how does one resolve this ? Amny clues anyone ? Thanks Jude

I'm not happy with 2022 -- the pool filter has blown its stack and there goes $2000 to fix, and I think the fridge is starting to fail and I discovered there is a world wide shortage of fridges!! Apart from that all good down here. I am still awaiting consult with an immunologist as to whether I can have vax or not. My poor opthalmologist suffered rather badly with Pfizer vax. First one a giant headache. Second one put him in bed for a fortnight and still not well, and he's even talking retirement. So I may lose yet another opthalmologist. But we're still here to talk about it, and I have the iPad Pro to play with. I installed Paprika and been converting a stack of printed recipes into its database. Hope you've made a good start to the year ! Regards Jude