[The Duke]

My lappy runs on a 120 gb ssd, I have no issues. I ran vista and 7 on a 30gb then 60gb ssdrive. The 30 was tight the 60 was fine.

With the 30gb drive I also sued a 16gb sd card. Booted min of thet ssd for about 2 years.

For uni /office 128is more than fine. It will hold a stake of media if wanted, no worries. Alot of ‘dead time’  at uni. The Most slowest pace part of my life ever was uni, it constantly angered me. You could easily fit 3 years into 2. Probly less if they halfed their extensive holidays.

If you want a grade a typing experiance,  and ultra budget friendly, a referb x220 and a how an ssd in it. The quality is defo not up to par with the older x200, but still the keyboard is top notch. The need lenovos arnt a patch on them. But many normal folk, think they look old fashioned. My macbook air touting some makes fun of my thinkpads.

 

[The Duke]

A surface tablet/laptop, and onenote. OneNote is made of lectures and meeting settings.

Mush easier to to scribble your notes Down and snap pictures of the white boards etc using a pen and one note. Especially if they can’t type fast.

One note is also great for note management. Simple set up a workbook for each subject, and open a new page for each lecture in that subject. Since my x200t died I’ve missed using onenote. It just isn’t the same with out a pen.

The latest surface pro I think is upto 4, but if your friend just wants it for office related work and browsing, I’d say say a few shackles and get the previous gen.

If your friend doesn’t get on great with the surface flip cover keyboard, she could have an external one set up for long session home use. You can link to them via USB or Bluetooth.

I had a thinkpad so there was no trade off, but I’d take the trade off on the ms keyboard for the pen functionality.

[The Duke]

I’m glad more knowledge people have jumped in. I did offer, but said I’m probably least qualified. However I could follow a tutorial.

Lee couldn’t you set a pi up as an ftp server and what a cheap hdd to it. It is your home bandwidth bad. If your on adsl2 your  Up speed would probably be a no go. Ad if we did need the back up it would probably take an age to get it uploaded.

Out of intrest Lee, what is the current size of the forum. I be it’s very small. And would be Smaller if we didn’t upload photos. I know my pictures are usually quite big. Bit of imagine you compress the pics ? only Google and flicker don’t. FB are the worst offenders. Upload a fantastic photo and FB ruin it.

 

It’s why I always leave a link to the origanal full res version, along with the uploaded, kneecapped ones. Not that I blame you Lee. Your doing this out of love, with a few pounds.FB are running a multi billion dollar service.

 

[The Duke]

The podcast (video cast) Hak5 do. E loads of shows on sdr a year or so ago, they was using it to follow air traffic. Over many episodes and went FR basics to quite deep.

I was intrested in it cos my dad was a Ham, so I put them on in the back ground but never really took notice. But did think it a decent project.

So you may want to look the show up, and scroll through the archive. The guy is a real geek, and does some great stuff. I can’t recall his name, Dan I think, but his wife is Shannon morse. This that’s her maiden name thought.

His wife does the robot of revision 3, now called techThing iirc. Or maybe teckzilla. I’m terrible with names. It may be neither.

[The Duke]

I was waiting for this thread to come along. I’m really intrest in what drezha makes of this.

[The Duke]

Search spigen cases on Amazon. They do the best cases imo. There armour series is great for the clumsy, or thoughs with double glass phones. I like their crystal series. They are clear, offer less protection than the armour series, but offer enough protection and the clear ones don’t yellow over time. Cheaper ones do, after a few months they look nicotine stained.

If your phone is gold, this doesn’t matter, but any other colour it does.

There case are be term £10-15 usually. Always my first purchase for my kids phones, as well as tempered glass screen protector. I like them alot, a must buy at around £5.

[The Duke]

Sorry I was Confused (not hard) I was thinking you had the Moto G4 not the Moto G 4g, their naming needs some work.

Yours was the second gen moto g, iirc, they just launched the 5th gen, moto G5, which is a decent phone for £170.

I can’t tell you wether you made a good choice or not, as I know zero about the Sony phones.

No doubt it will stomp all over your old moto G.

[The Duke]

Check out the time stamp on the picture via a third link, then press info it time and location should be there.

West coast, so we get the last of the sun for the uk.

An hour later when I got home it was pitch black.

 

I was more amazed on how well the phone captures it. It was real dark where I was, and not alot of noise in the pic.

[The Duke]

I think eveyone would of said use the sd, if we knew. Also we all thought it was an android phone, so assumed you had a Google account. Give you need one to fully use (safely)  an android phone.

Edit- it is a Google phone, you should already have a Google account. Unless you have been using it all this time without the app store. Which is a very dangerous way to use android. Especially a device of such vintage. Tho tbh using that device on the Internet is askin to using xp in the wild. Its is pre security patch and even zero day fixes was implemented. I wouldn’t use a GB phone for any more than a bed side alarm clock.

[The Duke]

I thought this a good as place than ever for this. Given the pixel uses hdr as default.

Ten to midnight, I was getting in the car to go out and pic my girl up, and the sun still hadn’t fully set.

 

I want sure how the forum software would handle res, so below is a link to the original. (no flash), and just point and click, all in auto.

https://goo.gl/photos/XY4ZVAvZrQsfbq2R8

[The Duke]

A Warren toy should be 24momths under EU law, many companies will stores will assist it 12. But given you can’t recall the seller, you have little to loose by just contacting lenovo/moto directly. The phone model  is only just over 12 months old, so they may take it in and send you a referb no questions asked.

Samsung was always good at that. By the serial number, they could see its aprox sale date, and would do fixes without a sales receipt. They actually gave the wife a differnt phone back, by accedent, so we ended up with 3 years or so Warranty her s3.

[The Duke]

My girls G4 started  playing up. as I got it from Amazon, they just sent me a new one.

 

So if you can flash stock back, and get it swapped under warranty. If you can’t access the device to flash stock on, make sure it’s broken properly before you send it back. Though I’m not sure if flashing your phone voids warranties anymore. You’d have to look it up.

[The Duke]

I know it did Dave, but if it still does, I doubt it. Air Droid was great, but I reckon it would of dropped GB support long ago.

However of goole photos os doesn’t work on GB, I’d recommend trying air Droid before ES file manager (free), as air Droid was as simple as installing on phone then on pc and drag and drop, where as there is a little bit more set up work to get ES network up and running.

Ive just thought ES (and other file managers) will link straight to googl and drive/drobox/sky drive etc. So forget linking it to your network, install and ES, and from within ES sign St Wight into your Google drive account. (use the same one as you use for android) then synthetic your photos to your Google account drive.

Then in sure from Google drive from a PC browser, you can stend them pics direct to your Google photo library.

On your new phone install Google photos, and your old pictures will be there. I have actually arnt on the new phone, but Google photos  works so well you’d never know. You can also download the pics to the phone, for the times your round your mother’s/nans/ants with no wifi of 4g coverage.

Anyway, as you probably worked out, there is probably 1000 different ways to skin this cat. But however you do it, make sure you adopt Google photos from here on out. It’s just brilliant. And has unlimited photo storage, as long as the photos are under 16mp, and unlimited 1080p video uploads. (4k if drop £700 on a pixel).

 

Edit- OT when you install Google photo on the new phone, go into the settings (in the app, not main Android settings) and set it to only upload your photos on wifi, save your bandwidth. I also set it to only wifi & only when charging. So my photos back up when I plug in at bedtime.

[The Duke]

@thinktank that means a whole winter for me.

[The Duke]

Does it not save in five min chunks, (mine can do 1/3/5 min chunks, then as the storage runs out it records over the oldest chunk.

If you manually hit capture, or the motion/g detector is triggered it will save that chunk to a dedicated  folder that won’t be recorded over automatically.

If your setting the camera up in the home, powered it off a USB phone charger, or a large power bank 15k mah should get you long stints.

Saying all that, you would be better off paying out a bit more (quite a bit) and buying a proper camera that streams the footage to an online server, then the landlord/trespasser, can’t just take the camera/sd card, well they could, but you’d still have the footage. This would be rather pricey, at about £100 for the camera, and a monthly sub for there integrated  online backup.

Your pest bet would be to buy a raspberry pi set up a camera on it, £30 total, have it capture 1 frame a second or 3 (so photo slide show) and have it upload to your home PC, or even a Google drive. I’m sure there is an If this then that (Ifttt) script to do this very easily.

You can hide a pi in an old tea/coffee/sugar can. And run it off a 15k power bank for full stealthness. Failing that a phone charger is stealthy too.

 

[The Duke]

Is this the old police scanners of old? Would be a little pointless around my way. But back home everyone had them in the 80/90s.

 

[The Duke]

+3 Google photos.

Though of Google photos doesn’t work on gingerbread, (it’s a possibility.), install es file manager, then conect it to your PC via WiFi, and transfer them that way.

This is what I would do if I used my phone to download movies that are on the cinima. But obviously I don’t ?

[The Duke]

Since moving to 10 I really notice updates. A Couple  of the early ones messed up my sound input set up, but it’s not the run of the millet up. It’s made so my boy can record multiple inputs, his mic, games sounds, and Skype input on another channel. All running through a video capture software.

Windows decided to jumble the inputs up, and with one being a vertical input, it went to pot. Bit I didn’t blame ms, as it’s not a typical set up. And once I fixed the first time,the second tome a few weeks later took just minutes.

Though if it happens today, It would take me a good hour, as I can’t remember  how it’s set up.

Bit over all I’m happy with how ten performs. And if you leave your pc’s on, you never see the updates.

[The Duke]

Talking of pushing limits, when i responded earlier we had gone to collect my kids from work. Two seperate pubs! I was tired so didn’t drive.

This little lady drove. The “sister” to my avatar pic. (8 weeks apart).

 

[The Duke]

I wish that was mine JD.

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