Be Excellent To Each Other

MacBook Air showing battery degraded and service required. Also some intermittently flaky keys and not wanting to power on sometimes.

Found a chap who specialises in Macs and MacBooks only 5 mins drive from me.

Called him Thursday, took it in that afternoon. Battery replaced, KB cleaned, all seems to be OK now. £99.

Seems ok that, shame it needed to be done though. How old is your MacBook Air?

It's a 2017 model, but I got it in early 2018.

Decent then! Hope it keeps running well now.

My car, which I chose because it's a bit more powerful then others in the range, uses a lot of petrol when I drive it faster than necessary. Which seems to be often. And it likes the expensive stuff.

This seems in every way a consequence of my choices and also a first-world problem.

If only someone had pointed out the economy lies to you beforehand!

Oddly mine seems to be getting more economical with mods. By which I mean I've seen 33mpg on my commute a couple of times.

Yeah, although I probably still would have done it anyway, and then still groaned about it later.

"16 billion passwords exposed in record-breaking data breach, opening access to Facebook, Google, Apple, and any other service imaginable". The source being quoted for this is Cybernews.com, a site I'd never heard of until today.

Mrs. W said this popped up on her notifications this morning and when I ran a search I found that it's being reported on news websites all over the place, as well as lots of YouTube channels, with the notable exceptions, as yet, of the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and The Register, among others. So either the they don't know about it, haven't got around to reporting it, or is there a possibility that it's misinformation and lots of outlets have jumped on the bandwagon without checking its veracity.

Scary to start with, but a few paras down we get, 'With a dataset containing 16 billion passwords, that’s equivalent to two leaked accounts for every person on the planet.

We don’t really know how many duplicate records there are, as the leak comes from multiple datasets. However, some reporting by other media outlets can be quite misleading. Some claim that Facebook, Google, and Apple credentials were leaked. While we can’t completely dismiss such claims, we feel this is somewhat inaccurate.

So maybe it's not as scary as some of the headlines would like us to think.

We all know it's good practice to change our passwords regularly, and to use 2FA and/or passkeys but it's going to be pain in the arse to update all my accounts, 'just to be on the safe side.'