5th April, 2025: First Contact Day.
It’s officially official: I am not complaining …
Yet.
As you know, I've — and many others — have had issues with blu-ray copying app, MakeMKV: after Apple issued an iffy update.
The makers have now issued an update.
An update that will hopefully resolve the issues.
Although I am very aware there’s been at least one report on the relevant forum thread: saying they are still having issues.
We will have to see.
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That update tells me a few things,
My more panicky side … ?
Tells me that buying a refurbished Windows laptop as an extra, back-up, machine — ha! — would be helpful.
Something that I could do … except that my less panicky side has told me that a little patience would be cheaper.
What will I do, if this update doesn’t help?
Bar reminding myself patience is a virtue?
I have no idea … !
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One minor thing I know?
Is that — from what I had seen of affordable laptops? — was that eBay did or do plenty of refurbished ones.
At around the £75 mark: about €88, or $96.
That — to me — seems a reasonable price on the money I have.
I also know — courtesy of a news report from the BBC, today — that Nintendo have released their new Switch 2 console for pre-order.
Along side the newly updated version Super Mario Kart.
Which — in the UK, at any rate — they’re offering at £74·99.
To me?
That seems a hell of a lot!
Especially as you can get a refurbished laptop for that money.
You can get the various limited-edition, classic Dr Who boxsets for a lot less.
Even some of the games for my nephew’s PlayStation 5 are less!
I’ll be honest, if that were a movie on blu-ray?
For £75, I’d be expecting all the versions available in 4k, please a shed-load of extras … and a signed photo of Terry Pratchett!*
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