If the iPad is still able to charge to 100% then it’s in good shape. Generally a measure of a battery nearing end of life is when it won’t charge beyond 80% or so, I think, which is typically several years of everyday use.
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You might find a reseller that will take it off your hands e.g. Envirofone but even those guys will only offer you a fiver for it!
So yes donating it to a school or charity sounds like a good idea!
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I have a fairly old Microsoft computer keyboard, AZERTY style, had it for years, but a few hours ago it changed to QWERTY. How could that happen? It’s a physical object. Very confusing, until I googled it. Seems that the Windows key + space bar can change it from one to the other at will, but why would you want to do that? You’d have to be able to swap the keys to make sense of it. Can you swap the keys to convert the keyboard?
I suppose it’s possible to have stick-on letters for the relevant keys?
My work laptop is in French with an AZERTY keyboard, but I also have an old Bluetooth QWERTY keyboard that I connect to it. When the machine powers up it uses the AZERTY keyboard by default so it’s handy to be able to easily and quickly switch. Also, when I’m in the office and have a meeting, I take my laptop but not the Bluetooth keyboard with me, so again will switch back to AZERTY.
I realise that’s perhaps a fairly niche use case though.
I worked with someone to help create a cat association/charity and a website, here in France. She was an American, used to using QWERTY in the States as a touch typist. She learnt how to touch type on her French AZERTY keyboard by remembering which keys to use and not to use without looking. Amazing!
She could have got herself a QWERTY keyboard but that would cost money and waste the AZERTY keyboard. She was a republican from Nebraska who counted every penny!
Ha - she sounds like a woman after my own heart!
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Very easily. The key tops in various positions on the keyboard, lets say Q/A are just that, plastic key tops. The OS can’t know what’s drawn on them and I don’t think keyboards have anything in them that can say what language they are. It will be keyboard settings in the OS that would have changed from French to UK. If you installed multiple language packs I think there is an icon in the taskbar on the right that can be used to change this.
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I didn’t install any language packs but if I press the windows key + space bar, 2 languages appear from which I can choose - US keyboard or French keyboard. Already installed.
When you press a key on a computer keyboard, a chip in the keyboard generates a “scan code” unique to that keys location and sends this information to the operating system.
Depending on the operating system language, keyboard settings and what application is being used, the computer will react to or display the character selected.
For most folks, a €25 keyboard in the format desired and matching keyboard settings will see them right.
Found the icon in the taskbar but when I click on it a screen keyboard appears on the computer monitor, which I can control, QW or AZ, by pressing the windows key + space bar. Never knew all this, ever!
I don’t remember what I paid but here it is - the clunky Microsoft 2000 AZERTY. Does all sorts of things - sound control, a key to bring up a calculator, other keys that I haven’t explored! Maybe I will now.
I had a look at my Windows installation but it seems that you have to have French and English both installed in order to be able to switch between keyboards using keys/icons. Is that right? I assume (Windows being American) that English is always installed as a default plus the language of the country the computer supplier is in?
You have to have 2 keyboard languages enabled to flip between them.
The operating system language can’t be flipped without re-installing the operating system (AFAIK with Mac OS and Windows 10).
When I tried changing a Boulanger purchased Lenovo desktop running Windows 10 from French to U.K. English, various “buried” user interface dialogues would still pop up in French, requiring me to nuke the installation from orbit and install a fresh English version of W10 with a new product code.
Anyone else noticed in the past couple of days that just typing in survivefrance.com and not selecting an old previously used link that’s more specific…
just survivefrance.com is loading a Godaddy this domain may be available page?
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I guess so. I bought it in the HyperU store in town. You can see the language choice I have here, using the key icons. The AZERTY is in UK English.
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Interesting… Not on my laptop and phone, but I just tried it on my work laptop (which I’ve never used previously to access the site) and I get the same - well, I get the GoDaddy message, but it says the domain is parked free but not that it’s available.
At a guess, @james is changing hosting providers and/or DNS providers and the change is slowly replicating across. My home PC will presumably be using a cached DNS record… I guess I could flush the cache to test it, but that might lead to me being unable to access the site until the replication is complete.
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My usual web browser (Firefox on Mac) correctly resolves the domain name alone to the full version; Chrome however gives me a blank “lander” page if I omit the WWW prefix.
It may be that some adjustments are being done at the web host and the usual auto redirections are not in place - @billybutcher may be able to tell us more in due course?
I’m non the wiser than you about any under the hood changes I’m afraid.
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