slowwriter

Someone replied to his final tweets and ended with “#ChatGPT response”. It seems like the most sad and dystopian thing to me.

I got 19/20. Turned off True Tone and cranked the screen brightness. Half the time I didn’t know if it was just my eyes playing tricks on me, but it was interesting to notice how the colors seemed completely indiscernible for a few seconds and then suddenly one stood out.

I will have to ask them for specifics, but I believe they are on an older iMac (pre 2017) that cannot run Ventura or newer. If they are running Ventura, they may have simply overlooked the dialog completely, but I'm leaning more towards a version of macOS that didn't have the dialog.

Someone else pointed this out, I didn’t know. Although, yes, if they needed to close any prompts that might have been a problem.

Not the Magic Mouse, though, unless you’re very skilled with your fingers.

If I had known that rebooting would re-enable Bluetooth, that would’ve been a good fix in this particular situation. Although I do see how it can be annoying under normal circumstances.

Interesting. Didn’t know, will have to check that.

For sure. I did say ‘if it had happened to me’, though. And I do happen to have SSH enabled on both of my machines.

Interesting! If that’s the case, great! But I believe the couple in question is on an older iMac not upgradeable to the latest version of macOS, so they would still be out of luck.

They do, but instructing them to enable Bluetooth using only the keyboard didn’t seem feasible to me.

Given very careful instruction this might have worked. But I didn’t know this trick myself to begin with. Now I do!

Yeah, and as it happened this was an iMac with a Magic Mouse, so plugging it in was also not an option.

:)

Well, add that to the list of things that didn't prevent or solve the problem, unfortunately.

Also, I was thinking: If I was in that situation I might SSH into it from a different machine. Yeah, good luck with that to the elderly couple.