New England B.S. Thread

I'm working on it and will post it up soon. Start buying those toys!!!

I still love mine. All these years later everything still works like day one including the clock!

 

I did something cool yesterday! I drove my truck down to the beach to rescue my boat from my grandma's boat house. The water is typically up to the boat ramp, if not covering the bottom of it slightly. They built a new dam over the last 2 years, so they dropped the water level a TON to remove the old dam.

 

I have an Anker cable, and I use a Samsung wireless charger base next to my bed. In the car, I just plug it in, but at night it is nice to just plop it on a charger.

I had one of those 2-part rubber and aluminum cases that bolted on as well. It made the phone SUPER heavy and bulky, but I never broke it!

Glad to hear it!

 

This right here. Never sprayed my truck until this year. While installing my suspension this summer, I spent alot of time scraping flaking paint, scouring with steel wool, coating with rust reformer, and top coating many times with semi gloss black. Those rear shock buckets were really bad. When I woolwaxed a couple weeks back, this spot got alot of attention to hopefully prevent that from reoccurring.

 

Why didn't you leave the boat in a structure that's designed to store boats, like a boat house for instance?

 

My rims are new , so I’m guessing in the spare ...

 

Well you see, I only get the opportunity to access the beach by vehicle once a year, and that particular boat house, or safe boat storage facility, is for sale.

 

Or they broke the sensor

 

Not too worried about it now till it happens again

 

I just upgraded to the iPhone 12 (yeah, yeah...I like iPhones, sue me). The 5G is way fast in my house, and my office is a dead zone. After sitting in my desk for 12-15 minutes, my speed drops to 0.02 mbps. I get 60-70 mbps at my house. I've been reading people having issues with the new phone, but I'm up to date on my iOS, so I guess I'll see if Sprint or Apple have any answers. I've read some complaints that when the phone loses 5G and goes into LTE it somehow completely drops signal.

My iPhone 7 worked fine, but at over three years old, it was time.

 

UGH, mine did the same thing after a couple of years..at 60% even it would croak. Reason I went with the moto e6 now, takes a minute to replace the battery. I use mine a lot for podcasts and such at work.

Haven't bothered to get one in a long time, they're too much of a pain in the ass and I've broken one phone in my life dropping it..my old Crackberry. Even that took me falling out of my loft to do.

My current situation, though it was old age of sensor.

Nothing wrong with iPhones. I can't get one on my plan but it would be more than I would need anyways.

 

I have a 7 and a SE/5. Both work fine. The SE has been used daily as a work phone + sat nav for personal use (unlimited data yee haw work plan). Been tossed around like a rag doll dropped countless times. Still works great. I have no need for upgrading to new phones like I said though. NFC for payment is the only thing I like buuut I use a wallet case and just tap the card anyway if it’s missing it

it’s all in what you value. If you value it, go for it. I just couldn’t care less. Do you not have home internet? Just curious. I know some people don’t and just use their phones.

I like the android environment loads more. I will admit. But the iPhones are free for me supplied by work so I’ll use them. Have to use the one for work so might as well use it for personal too so I only need one cord at home/work/trok.

but I do have two gripes.

1. no bezel on the screen. The only way to protect the corners is with a wrap around case which is bulky. Inherent design flaw, sides and corners are the weakest parts of the screen.

2. they gave the EU the middle finger for standardizing charging ports to eliminate e waste. Now they’re spinning it that if they move away to a standard usb C then they’ll actually create more e waste because everyone has the proprietary apple cables. So for that, Apple,

 

When I say office, I mean my work office, not my home. I have full coverage at my house, but I don't have unlimited hot spotting to use it as anything more than a phone. My wi-fi is fine for the house stuff, but I was surprised that my 5G is that much faster than my home Wi-Fi atm. I need to play around with my repeater some more.

It's frustrating at work, because if I'm out in the lobby, my phone is fine, if I'm out back in the lab, my phone is fine, if I'm sitting at my desk in my office, I have nothing. If nothing else it keeps the distractions away.

 

yup welcome to UHF. Major differences just 5 feet apart. I don’t know a lot about HAM yet but I DO know that much.

I get good enough signal at my desk at work without the industrial case I linked a few pages back. With that on, it comes and goes.

 

Yeah, with the same carrier, same service, same location, I have to believe it's something with the phone. I've seen a few people complain, so hopefully a patch will update it. I really like the phone otherwise. My case kills wireless charging, but I always use the cable in my truck anyways as I like the better music access with the USB connection rather than BT. The music side of things is the main reason I stay with Apple.

 

That's the big reason I don't really care what phone I have, since I don't do digital streaming. My one concession is a USB that has some of my rare stuff and common road trip type of discs

 

Morning all . It’s my Thursday...

 

Lol 5g won't exist up here for another 5+ years

 

Well, that just means that you don't have to end your week on a Friday the 13th