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So I spun up a sequoia VM in parallels. But no. Because the Mac doesn’t now see the FW it can’t offer it to the VM. So now resurrecting an old iMac to do scanning only. It’s frustrating. Thanks for listening! I should tag Apple here, but I fear there’s no point.

My go to scanner for medium format and 35mm is my amazing Nikon LS8000ED. It’s FireWire only. I’ve been using it with a Mac mini M4 using an Apple usbc to thunderbolt adapter, a thunderbolt to FireWire 800 adapter and an FW800 to FW400 cable. Worked like a charm. Along comes Tahoe and nothing works.

1st World Problem Alert: I just learned that Apple have dropped support for FireWire in their latest OS Tahoe. I learned the hard way. Connected my scanner to my new Mac mini running Sequoia and all fine. Updated the Mac to Tahoe and nothing. Now I do film photography.

Along comes Tahoe and nothing works. So I spun up a sequoia VM in parallels. But no. Because the Mac doesn’t now see the FireWire and can’t offer it to the VM. So I’m now resurrecting an old iMac to do scanning only. It’s so frustrating.

I do film photography. My go to scanner for medium format and 35mm is my amazing Nikon LS8000ED. It’s FireWire only. I’ve been using it with a Mac mini M4 using an Apple usbc to thunderbolt adapter, a thunderbolt to FireWire 800 adapter and an FW800 to FW400 cable. Worked like a charm.

YouTube video by The Tony Michaels Podcast This guy is such a tool. 😒

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Keir Starmer, "Before we left the EU we had a returns agreement (for asylum seekers) with every country in the EU"

"These are Farage' Brexit Boats that are coming across the channel"

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And they have now appointed a receiver to the PPE Medpro business. Ensuring that (or trying to ensure) when the government wins, they’ll have no pathway to reclaim the lost millions.

And Farage, the chief architect of Brexit, is now making political mileage from the very thing he engineered. He increased extra-European migration (the Boris Wave) and is now promising to combat this. And stupid people nod-along.

Trump says he believes Ukraine can regain all land lost to Russia since 2022 invasion US president claims Russia is in ‘big economic trouble’ as he calls for Nato countries to stop imports of Russian oil

Halleluyah… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Our joint statement on the US government’s autism announcement Ambitious about Autism is the national charity for autistic children and young people. We stand with autistic children, young people and their families to champion rights, campaign for change and crea...

"There are no proven therapies or drugs that ‘cure’ autism. Most autistic people and families want research to focus on better understanding and support."

Joint statement from the major UK autism charities: www.ambitiousaboutautism.org.uk/about-us/med...

YouTube video by Femi Farage will tackle "Boris wave" of post-Brexit immigration

Nigel Farage is blaming the failures of post-Brexit immigration policy on a "Boris Wave"...

REFORM UK ARE LYING TO YOU!

This is why nothing ever sticks.

It's a cult like, Dunning Krugeresque faith system that attracts highly opinionated people who have "decided already" that they are right and who "believe what they see" rather than acquainting themselves with facts.

And it’s so stressful to listen to their output, being sufficiently intelligent to see through the rubbish, and know many people who, bluntly, either aren’t or just want any quick fix.

Winston Churchill: "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on".

My hope is that Reform suffer some self-inflicted issue, or their policies become so obviously flawed people realise. That last point is just blind optimism though. All these far right politicians just live by this mantra….

It’s so sad that we’re likely to end up with Pound Shop Trump and some horrific policies.

The Johnson government allowed the number of people getting work visas to soar largely to compensate for the fact that EU workers were leaving because of Brexit, which was the policy that Farage arguably did more than anyone else to make happen. But he does not address this point in his article.

Copied from The Guardian and relevant to Farage’s article in the Daily Mail today…

Donald Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ is the ultimate betrayal of his base | Sidney Blumenthal The measure exposes the most elaborate charade in recent US political history. But betrayal is Trump’s operating principle

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YouTube video by Led By Donkeys Brexit & The Predictive Powers of Dan Hannan

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Ask your MP to put reproductive rights into law The right to make decisions about our families and bodies is not protected by law. The 1967 Abortion Act allows people to seek abortion under certain circumstances but abortion otherwise remains a cri...

Reproductive rights are under attack! Take 2 mins to write to your MP TODAY to demand that abortion is decriminalised

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UK wins £500m in science grants from EU Horizon scheme after Brexit lockout Exclusive: British scientists ‘over the moon’ with re-entry to funding scheme after losing out for three years

At last. A Brexit benefit. Or rather a benefit of the slow reversal of the stupid idea. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Stop fly tipping, but how? Increasing the penalty for fly-tipping will have little to no effect on the problem. It's too easy to find a location and tip without being caught. We need the waste to be trackable in some way, and t...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

But days before his election in November, Donald Trump was more than happy to take the credit for buoyant figures.

"This is the Trump stock market because my polls against Biden are so good that investors are projecting that I will win," he posted then.