Bournemouth — Sep 21st 2021

For Bournemouth’s first post-lockdown meeting, 10 members and one visitor gathered in All Fired Up to exchange stories of lockdown experiences and for the customary questions and answers.

Lockdown purchases included home automation, notably ‘connected’ doorbells, multi-port dongles for USB-C Macs, new iPhones and Apple’s new AirTags. The generally agreed most useful feature of Apple’s technology during lockdown was video conferencing/calling, Skype, Zoom and FaceTime all got a mention. A few phobias about being on-camera have apparently been discarded along the way.

Questions included disappearing sounds on Macs and iPhones, self-dimming screens and scrambled music libraries (in the Mac Music app). Big Sur seems to have gone smoothly for everyone with only some relatively small niggles. No-one had been caught out by a 32-bit app stopping working so the developers have clearly been doing a good job.

Bournemouth will be choosing a new organiser shortly as Tony announced he is stepping down before December’s meeting, volunteers are needed to keep the meetings in existence. Tony has been in the role for 7 years, Mick clarified that the AUG Wessex pension is available after 8 years service: other organisers take note!

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