26th September, 2025: T. S. Eliot.
OK … that’s new … !
I’ve had a
Mac for several years.
And used a succession of them for various things.
One thing that’s been a mild annoyance?
Is simply that the various versions of macOS I’ve used have never had an icon for bluray discs.
There were icons for CDs, and DVDs: but not for blurays.
A bluray would show up on the desktop, certain: but as a blank space with the disc’s information written under it.
Fortunately?
That’s now been changed, under macOS Tahoe.
There’s now an icon: which makes finding where the operating system has put the thing, a lot easier!
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Is Sir Keir Starmer reading this?
The UK’s current Prime Minister?
Sir Keir, if you’re reading this, your planned Digital ID card schemes presents problems.
Especially for those of us on benefits.
From the little I’ve seen of it?
The digital ID is supposed to only work on smart phones.
For those of us who have one, that’s not a problem.
For those of us on Universal Credit, who can’t afford a modern phone?
Where are we supposed to get the money to buy one?
I’ve at least one friend — Dave, who lives around the corner — who’s on an old 3g phone, that he can’t afford to replace: a phone that’s as far from smart as it’s possible to get.
Sir Keir, will you be giving Dave the money to buy a smart phone?
To transfer his number over to a new, modern,
SIM card?
To teach him how to use the thing?
I’m assuming, Sir Keir, that if you can’t buy Dave a smart phone for this scheme, then you can’t fund smart phones for other job seekers in the UK.
From what I’ve seen on the news, we’re the people you insist have these IDs: so we can show we have a right to work in the UK.
The other option, Sir Keir?
For starters?
What on Earth would be the point of that?
When many of us on benefits already have a passport or driver’s license that proves we have a right to work in the UK?
Who pays for this ID?
In my case, I have a drivers license: that was paid for by the Job Centre, as I couldn’t afford it, myself.
Would you be paying for those, Sir Keir?
What if I had no smart phone, no drivers license, no passport, and no way of affording any of them?
If I, nor Dave, nor anyone else we know, couldn’t afford these?
Someone else would need to pay for us to buy them, to show we have a right to a job.
Are you buying them for us, Sir Keir?
Because if we can’t afford the kit we need, Sir Keir, that means we can’t get jobs.
That, Sir Keir, makes the scheme both pointless, stupid, and expensive.
It’s your call, Sir Keir.