The 4000-5000 series Nikon Coolscans sell for about the same price they did 20 years ago because they still produce excellent scans and there’s nothing quite as good for that $1000-$15000 price out there.

Do you have one? I'd be interested to see some scans.

I paid about $1K for the Minolta too, which if I recall correctly was slightly more than they sold for new.

You can get a slide feeder for the “modern” (early aughts) Nikon Coolscans, the SF-210:

https://studio-supplies.com/products/nikon-sf-210-239995

The slide feeder is good but it's worth being aware that if you have slides mounted on cardboard (I had a lot of old family photos like this I used it for) it will often grab a couple at once. You can fix that by clipping eg a driver's licence in the right place to narrow the gap it pulls the slides through, but it will still need some manual supervision.

If you get one, have a look at VueScan on the software side - the original software needs (I think) a Windows XP virtual machine to drive it.

Yes this is all true but it works well when you know how to deal with these issues. I suspect aging slides would be an odder for any automated system.

The satellites that are still up are still collecting critical data. That’s not disputed.

The key facts are:

- DMSP satellites are up and measuring data - These data will continue to be measured after Monday - the government is discontinuing processing and public access to the data - This will impact our capacity to predict hurricanes and monitor sea ice.

Which of the above are “not true”?

Yes, this happened to me enough times (not with files stored in the cloud) that I stopped using Preview for annotations altogether.

This permission request predated the change of ownership of Bartender.

Yes, but you had to re-enable it due to the cert change. Bartender doesn't explain this is what happened and simply states "there's a known issue where certain apps, including Bartender, might not receive Accessibility and Screen Recording permissions properly, despite the user granting them in System Settings."

https://www.macbartender.com/Bartender5/PermissionIssues/

I agree the communication about this change of ownership has been far from ideal.

But issues with permissions (e.g. the user needing to disable/re-enable some macOS permission after an update, even if the cert doesn't change) are fairly common.

> I agree the communication about this change of ownership has been far from ideal.

In this case, downright fraudulent.

Feedbin is so great. Easy filtering, can process newsletters, etc etc. Very reasonably price. Highly recommended.