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So after a few days on the cruise, it quickly became apparent that the connection on the Moto G5 was crappy – was getting Edge at best, occasionally HDSPA (or whatever it is).
Resorted only to a WiFi at a McDonalds.

Today I gave in and tried the SIM in my iPhone XR. Instantly got 4G (or I guess as the Yanks call it, LTE) so in the iPhone it’ll stay for the rest of the holiday!

Would appear that the Moto G5 does have the NFC so it must be the EU version.

Anyhow, that’s enough internet – back to enjoying the sun!

"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett

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PlaneMan wrote:

Watch out for the WiFi on the cruise ship, could well be satellite broadband. £££££.

It is. We wont be connecting – we can already buy passes for it online and we won’t forking out what they want for it!

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Wheels-Of-Fire wrote:

I think there is a bit of a gotcha if you have a 3 Advanced plan and use Go Roam in the USA. Calls to the UK are indeed included in your normal allowance and you do get unlimited data but it seems calls to USA numbers are £1.40 min. Correct me if im wrong 😁

Yeah, we won’t be calling anyone!

Wedding was last year, so we’re a bit late with the honeymoon mind! We’re on a 7 day cruise around Hawaii then we’ve got 4 days in Vegas on the way back, so the cruise bit, we’ll not have internet (or signal for when we’re at sea). But it’s for bits when we’re out and about and want to check Tripadvisor or something. Fully expect we’ll have WiFi at the hotels! Cant imagine the MGM Grand doesn’t have WiFi… (though, as it’s America, it may be an additional cost…)

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PlaneMan wrote:

Carphone Warehouse used to do ‘grey imports’ to keep costs down. I don’t think they do anymore but with a G5 it’s a possibility. List of USA frequencies and carriers.

Thanks for the link. Another google search suggests Three roam on AT+T and that the 4G should therefore work on the Moto G5 if GSM Arena is to be believed (no reason why not!) It would appear that potentially I’d get online regardless of what version I have, as some of the bands overlap.

The phone is currently in Manchester, whilst I’m in Nottingham, so I can’t check until I get back home tomorrow and find the model number.

In fairness, the first 8 days, we’re unlikely to need it, as we’ll be on a cruise ship for that time!

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Dave Rice wrote:

OK, first gotcha found when setting up a PiHole for it, as far as I can see you cannot change the DNS server in the DHCP settings. Not a problem as I just got the PiHole to take over the DHCP duties and turned it off on the router.

I was looking at doing that to my network when I get home, as then the Pi Hole should be able to use the domain names for it’s graphing. In fairness, that’s just a nice to have though (but it does help idenitify issues – my iPhone was freaking out last weekend over night for whatever reason, I think it was to do with the iOS update it was trying to download and update to).

Is this the Pi Hole on the NAS running the DHCP? I assume that the NAS could run the DHCP server itself (as that allows for the DNS to be set on it as well).

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So it’ll actually run a VM on the NAS itself? That’s pretty cool. At the minute I run a Pi alongside the NAS to run various tasks (such as Pi-Hole on). I also then run a Mac Mini as a server as well! I think the Mac Mini will replace both in fairness – as I just need to serve files around the house, which the Mac can do, and it can auto file documents for me. I haven’t set it up, but I could run Pi Hole on there as well, but as it runs so well on the Pi, I’ve not bothered setting it up.

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I ordered a Three SIM this week for our upcoming trip to the US (Three are the only ones that appear to support roaming in the US), I may look at ordering the service then as I’ll have a Three number to get the cheaper rate.

However, my Virgin deal doesn’t end until March (checked today). With the upcoming house move, I believe they supply the area, so they’ll want to transfer across, which I’d prefer not to do but we’ll see what they say. I can probably wait until then to switch to be honest.

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Thats one of my bug bears about the new Pi (the other being I forgot to order a HDMI adapter, so I couldn’t view it on the screen but that’s entirely on me!) Interesting to note that it wouln’t update – looks like I’ll have to have a go at a later date perhaps (but for now, my Pi 3+ is working nicely, so I’ll leave it as is for now!)

The bpoot from SD and pass to SSD is fine and seems to work well enough for the time being but it’s a bit of a pain to setup considering the last one was simply a case of writing the image to a USB SSD or USB stick.

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Only reason perhaps might be the signal in the apartment for 3? But that’s probably getting less of an issue these days.

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Wikipedia seems to suggest that it’s Android and iOS only, so no luck with it on a Windows tablet. I’ve seen Bluestacks before for Android apps on Windows but I’ve never tried it myself.

John – the install button is to remotely install it on to an Android device, not on to the Windows machine.

Talking about Windows tablets, new workplace has Surface Pro’s for us all – I’m pretty impressed to be honest. The keyboard isn’t actually bad at all. And as it has a USB port, I can do silly things like this with it at home! (though in fairness, I imagine this would work with an Android tablet and OTG connector)

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Ed P wrote:

It should not, but it does I’m afraid. In the same vein ‘ next day delivery ‘ often does not apply. Many Chibay providers hide away on Amazon Prime, and do not provide next day delivery even for Prime customers but they do fly in their products.

 

Add on items I can see, but I thought Amazon had once again removed the free postage option for under £20 of items for non Prime members?

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They stopped that a few years ago, but have brought it back in again now. I don’t think it applies to Prime customers, but you obviously pay for that priviledge!

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Yeah, worth getting rid of the cable for! I’ll be investigating that way when we move I think. As long as we have Freeview, the other half will be happy.

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I mean some of the services I’ve looked at are pay to edit – once you stop paying, you can keep all the data and access them, but cannot edit or create new.

One of my favourite websites is Alternativeto.net and I’ll check it for software that I am happy with on occasion, just to see what’s out there. Can’t hurt to investigate options!

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Must of missed the downtime (work was obviously keeping me busy today!)

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I’ve used Note Station in the past and been fairly impressed with it – it replaced Evernote for me for a time, but then I moved to Zim. I’m not really looking at moving away from that at the minute, as I like it and it stores everything in plain text.

However, Note Station could come in handy for work, as the new job doesn’t let me install anything (or at least I’ve not tried to), so it looks like I’m going back to Onenote. Note Station could be an alternative to that, but as we’ve got Office 365, they would probably prefer me to use Onenote and tools already installed.

File Organizer appears to be more simple than Hazel – I’ve been playing with DropIt, which appears to be reasonably good. However, that can’t do multiple steps in a single action, which is something that Hazel can quite nicely (auto filing PDF’s makes life easier!)

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Richard wrote:

I still use the original versions of things I wanted and paid for, ignoring the so called appeal of subscription model down-grades for the reasons you put forward. Do the things you want disable any older versions?

In terms of the writing software I used, yes, it got disabled basically when it switched (thanks iOS updates). Generally, it hasn’t for other software – thankfully 1Password still allows me to use without a subscription (and use Dropbox to sync), rather than it’s inbuilt sync storage, though I may have to change this if my new job doesn’t let me install a password manager (as then I’ll have to suibscribe to get the Lastpass style run in the browser plugin version).

I upgraded to the YNAB SAAS model when the v4 software would no longer sync reliable with my wife’s iPad and iPhone, whilst it remained fine on the laptop. I’ have however found a Mac software that promises to work the same and will sync between the devices. We’re running in tandem to see how it performs before I purchase the software.

BL – that’s a pretty good deal. I haven’t had to buy previously, as my old firm had Office 365 and wer got 5 installs per person, so I used that on my personal devices. May consider it now, though will wait and see what the new firm is like, as I can use it as a backup location for Arq (though I recall it has issues with Onedrive, rather than Dropbox or simialr) – probably going to go down the B2 Backblaze route for that shortly though, or expand my Synology storage.

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That did the trick!

Cheers for the article. I’d found something similar last night but required manually browsing the to the INF file etc and didn’t work anyhow 🙁

All sorted now mind.

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Ok, I should be fine once the latest update is complete then, as the download I have states 16225 and systeminfo states 15063, so I’m hoping this will work!

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Not only might you need public liability insurance, you may need professional indemnity insurace. I was considering setting myself up recently and looked in to it and I certainly needed PI insurance (fire is bit of a touchy subject still at the minute!) Instead, I’m hauling across the country to the Midlands again to work at the University but I did do some investigation.

You might want to look at courses on Futurelearn for some various bits and bobs. It has some good courses on there from various Uni’s. I’ve been using it since release and have done short courses in helpful courses like Introduction to Bookkeeping, which would help you and the business, to courses that are interesting but not really relevant (Role of the RAF in the Cold War springs to mind!) Courses can be done free, though I have the annual unlimited package, as I get the certificates then and can use them as CPD for my Institute.

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