@sumudu If it was me, I'd just tell her I'd ordered two by mistake and say 'do you want one as a birthday present? It's the blue one'. You could still take her out for a meal on her birthday and give her a small surprise present (maybe some fairly inexpensive dress jewellery). But she's you wife, you know what pleases her and what displeases her.
// @matigo @peemee
Today I decided to visit Castle Hill on the outskirts of Huddersfield. It's a natural hill on which earthworks were built in the late-Bronze Age or early Iron Age to create a hillfort. Later, the Victorians built a stone tower on top of it. The things in my little excursion that made an impression were:
The drive there. It was like the Alps at times (slight exaggeration). Small hills but some of them go up in a hurry. And some of the roads through the former mill towns are narrow, tricky and windy. Driving over the brow of a hill and suddenly seeing the tower perched on the 'castle' in front of me was quite impressive. The picture shown here was not the best view of it, the better view was a bit further back and higher up but this one is still a decent photo.
The last bit of road up the hill. Yes, you can drive right on to the plateau. There's a car park there. The final bit of road is horrible. It's steep with a nasty bend, a dangerous drop on one side and most of it is not wide enough for two cars. I drove up quickly and prayed no car would be coming down at the same time. If there had been, one of us would have had to do some very unpleasant reversing. The road was a bit of a shock because it looks like a piece of cake on the satellite view.
The views. There aren't any spectacular snow-capped peaks in this part of the World but it's nice to get up high and see the patchwork of towns, villages and pastures laid out below you. It's nice to take in a big sky as well. It made me take some panoramas, something I rarely do.
@matigo I was using the term roll back loosely. What I really meant was reinstall. I’m talking about how Apple controls both the hardware and software and decides to artificially disallow system changes it doesn’t like. With Linux, if you have the system software and hardware is compatible it’s your choice.
These days…
You can't roll back iOS.
You can't roll back iOS apps.
You can't roll back MacOS?
You can't roll back MacOS App Store Apps.
You can't update iOS or MacOS to its last point update if a newer release exists; they insist on making you take a fully up-to-date leap. (I think MacOS might be a bit more flexible than iOS on that front and security fixes might be allowed and obviously, you can get to the last point update if you do updates in a timely fashion).
(Maybe you can roll back MacOS on Apple silicon, I’m not sure. Apple silicon Macs are more locked-down security-wise. I don't think you can roll back to an earlier MacOS release via Snapshots either).
Oh great, now I’ve updated Firefox on the phone it won’t open anymore. And people wonder why I usually have lots of apps that haven’t been updated. Then there are the operating systems that I’ve chosen to not update as well. To be fair, running an older OS might conceivably cause issues. But if a given app version officially supports a particular OS version why should there be a problem? No, the real problem is that controlling Apple won’t let you uninstall or roll back software. The fatherless children that they are!
