No wide outage, just me. Spectrum says that they can’t get a technician out until Sunday, so expect extremely slow and/or terse blogging until then, because assembling a blog post on an iPhone sucks.
Tags: Site Administration
No wide outage, just me. Spectrum says that they can’t get a technician out until Sunday, so expect extremely slow and/or terse blogging until then, because assembling a blog post on an iPhone sucks.
Tags: Site Administration
They found a way to silence Lawrence just prior to the election!
use your iPhone as a hot.spot.and connect.to your computer via blue tooth
In the past when I’ve seen a Spectrum van parked in front of someone’s residence on a Sunday I had assumed that it was some sort of “lights on” emergency? But nope, after reading this post I realize it’s just some hapless Spectrum customer who’s been waiting DAYS for for a fix of their overpriced Spectrum service!
Figures. :-(
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OT question:
Who has an archive / screenshot / clip of the NBC article they pulled down? Daily Mail claims the article was online from Friday morning to Friday afternoon. Somebody saved that before they deleted it, right?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11390497/Paul-Pelosi-answered-door-cops-did-NOT-say-distress-new-police-account-claims.html
NBC News mysteriously PULLS its exclusive report on how Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul, 82, calmly opened door to cops in his underpants – and then walked TOWARDS ‘hammer intruder’ who bludgeoned him
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I have the same “technical difficulties” when the alarm clock reminds me of when I planned to get out of bed. Did you try pouring coffee on the router?
Found the NBC video. It is as the Daily Mail describes.
Download the video while you can! If you can’t, I’ll happily upload it somewhere for y’all.
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1588533925848104960
If I’m that important, I should be making a lot more money (like any) off this blog!
As noted up-thread, one can use their iPhone as a tether to feed internet access into a computer. (But be careful you don’t get charged by your carrier for passing too much data that way. Cell-phone carriers such as Verizon charge differently for hotspot-provided internet data versus internet-data accessed and presented internally within your phone.)
It’s possible, though, to turn your iPhone — independent of a desktop or laptap computer for it to tether to — into a more generally usable computer system by:
a) Connecting your iPhone through one of Apple’s iOS HDMI dongles to an external (I recommend at least 4K resolution) TV. (Mine is a 42″ Sony TV with 4 HDMI [+ other] inputs, costing $400-some-odd a few years back; it provides good service.)
b) I recommend also connecting a bluetooth keyboard (e.g., such as this one) to your iPhone. (The given keyboard — in addition to folding quite compactly — can easily switch between 3 different bluetooth- and 1 usb-wired device(s), so it’s handy well beyond use with just one’s iPhone. I have 2 iPhones along with 2 Mac computers I use mine with.)
Note that Apple itself (disregarding the legions of apps available for the iPhone from others) provides powerful applications such as a decent word processor (Pages) and darn good spreadsheet (Numbers), which are both well done in my opinion, and which are especially handy (especially the spreadsheet) when blown up on a big-screen, high-resolution HDMI monitor while being accessed via an external keyboard. (Put away that crappy on-screen iPhone keyboard — at least when you’re home!)
When accessing one’s iPhone in this way, the phone’s top physical surface — its touch-screen — functionally acts as just the mouse for your desktop (iPhone-based) computer system. One does need to glance at it now and then, in order to find one’s way around.