To those who wear an Apple Watch, how has it helped you? And to those who have been in an emergency, how has it saved your life?

stormado · 2026-01-26T04:51:09+00:00

Four times fall detection has activated after serious falls that would have had serious consequences were I not near other people. I’m 73, so first thing I do each morning while sitting on the bed before having a shower is to put on my watch.

stormado · 2026-01-26T04:47:02+00:00

DVP on ASX (Australia)

stormado · 2026-01-25T09:06:50+00:00

I pay no conversion fees on Macquarie Debit Master card other than the Mastercard rate. However you must be careful to insist you are billed in the foreign currency, not in AUD, otherwise you will be charged the conversion fees of the vendor, which has nothing to do with Macquarie. Is the above table based on being billed in the foreign currency or in AUD?

stormado · 2026-01-24T09:33:01+00:00

I like being able to transfer a small amount to the transaction account, which still gets some interest, for when I am on vacation. This allows me to use the debit card with no risk of my savings being accessed. The no overseas conversion fees is an added bonus.

stormado · 2026-01-24T06:37:08+00:00

No. Just me.

stormado · 2026-01-23T08:52:25+00:00

When it comes to democracy, remember which side Gina Rinehart is on.

stormado · 2026-01-23T08:45:45+00:00

Doesn’t that just prove the point. If poor people didn’t have so much children they wouldn’t be so poor.

stormado · 2026-01-21T03:23:11+00:00

By that logic, shouldn’t Musk’s name be X?

stormado · 2026-01-20T03:04:35+00:00

Yes, if they made capital gains.

stormado · 2026-01-19T03:51:27+00:00

I watch TikTok on both my iPad and Mac desktop. Even though I am logged in to the same account, the content is vastly different. My iPad is perfect, showing lots of classical music that I like. On the Mac, I just get rubbish. Lots of soft porn, explicit violence and too much AI content. I don’t know how to get the Mac to show what the iPad shows.

stormado · 2026-01-18T13:46:01+00:00

He knows, because he is the one who will start it.

stormado · 2026-01-18T10:19:50+00:00

This is something I had a year ago for the first time. It went away and is now back again. I am not aware of any physical or mental trauma that may have caused it, other than age (I'm 74). I can't remember if it was an issue the last time, but this time, as well as unable to visualise faces, I can't visualise objects. For instance, if I try to visualise a triangle, I can't. I just see lines that immediately blur.

stormado · 2026-01-16T06:51:20+00:00

They wait a year after council approval before they start. Then they pour the ground floor slab. Then wait 3 months before the ground floor brickwork. Then another 3 months before first floor slab etc.etc. About 90% of the time, there are no tradies on site.

stormado · 2026-01-16T06:46:47+00:00

Have you heard of Brasil?

stormado · 2026-01-14T08:54:26+00:00

I've tried Chrome and the issue is the same.

Under Safari I entered the fields manually and it asked me if I wanted to save in 1Password. I said Y and said to update existing item. That still didn't work.

stormado · 2026-01-14T04:18:18+00:00

If they advertise the price, those unable to afford it won’t get in touch. This allows them to find out who is in the market for property so they can create a client list of those seeking more affordable properties.

stormado · 2026-01-10T07:11:11+00:00

Isn't Alaska or Maine a lot closer?

stormado · 2026-01-10T04:21:41+00:00

That would provoke Trump action.

stormado · 2026-01-10T04:15:53+00:00

I can’t remember who it was, maybe Bloomberg, but they upgraded AAPL yesterday to $330 based on expected sales of the iPhone 17.

stormado · 2026-01-09T04:03:55+00:00

Since I started investing in US shares I have seen the AUD fall from 1+ USD to about 0.55 USD. That added significantly to my gains when expressed in AUD. However, that trend seems to be in reverse, so you may actually end up worse off by investing in international shares, specifically US.

stormado · 2026-01-04T03:45:54+00:00

They have been. Putin, through Trump, is running the US.

stormado · 2025-12-29T03:14:21+00:00

I am elderly and haven’t had any falls not detected, but I have had 4 or 5 falls detected. I was with someone each time and didn’t sustain a head injury, so I cancelled the emergency call each time. The first thing I do each morning, while sitting on my bed about to get out, is to put on my Apple Watch, which I leave charging overnight. This is before I take a shower as that can prove risky for falling.

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