Yes, Ipads and Iphone. I can answer the Ipads, some of them anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
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Yes, Ipads and Iphone. I can answer the Ipads, some of them anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
If you have multiple iDevices logged in using the same Apple ID you can answer calls on any device, that is if you have enabled the 'Calls on other devices' switch on your iPhone's 'Settings' - 'Cellular' option. My wife answers calls on her iPad all the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
You can also make a call from your iPad even though it doesn't have the traditional phone app installed, just go to your Contacts and tap on whoever you want to call, then when that contact's info comes up tap the 'Call' button below their name.
Thank you for this. I get phone calls through my computer, iPad and Apple Watch. Very convenient, but wiith Zoom meetings, sometimes I have been very rudely interrupted by phone calls coming in through the device I'm having a meeting with. So, my practice now is to put my phone on DND during meetings, but this is really good to know in case I want to simply dis-enable that function so that I can get phone call alerts on vibrate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan
Unlike my wife and you, I don't use any other Apple products besides my iPhone and have noticed that my phone doesn't have the same 'Calls on other devices' option in my settings. I'm assuming that's because I'm not logged into multiple devices. If that's correct I find it interesting that the OS is smart enough to only give you options to features you can actually use.Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
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Originally Posted by herbgeek
A dumb phone IS a computer, but it is a dedicated computer, in the way a calculator is. A regular computer loads the hardware on bootup (phone does that when turned on), then the software that allows a human to interact loads next (same with a smart phone).
Unfortunately, there are no dumb phones in 4G or later that I am aware of. The closest I am aware of are the Acatel and new Nokia (that reuses an old model number), that use KAI OS (modified Android), and some startups, such as the Pinephone and the Purism phone. These are all still software phones.
Someone mentioned battery life. My old candybar phone, I charged once a week. Most smart phones require charging once a day, depending on use and habits (leaving things on you are not using). Having good habits of turning things off (bluetooth, wireless, etc) and wanting a more durable phone, what I ended up with has an 8000Mah battery (average battery I saw was 3000Mah). It goes once a week between charges but could actually go longer.
As a semi-geek I define "computer" as a computer that has an operating system that will run whatever software the user chooses to load onto it. IOW a computer is what they used to call a "programmable computer". Non-programmable computers and limited function computers (like a programmable calculator) don't fit the current definition of the word "computer". So a dumb phone is not a computer, it is an electronic device with built-in functions whose settings can be altered but whose processes can't be altered except by reflashing it with a different/updated operating system.Quote:
Originally Posted by ToomuchStuff
Flashing defined (in case anyone doesn't already know what it means) https://www.techwalla.com/articles/w...ey-are-flashed
So I'm assuming you're using a personal computer running either Microsoft, Mac, Linux or Chrome operating system to surf the web for the copious number of links you share with us as well as for sending/receiving emails, interacting with whatever social media platforms that may strike your fancy and perhaps even shopping or interacting with your bank or other financial institution. This makes me wonder about your stated hatred for smart phones, which as you imply are essentially computers with telephone capabilities, as if one hardware platform was inherently more dangerous than another. Of course it's none of my concern but I do find it odd, am I missing something?Quote:
Originally Posted by GeorgeParker
I consider my cell a necessary tool that is always handy, and I occasionally use it to listen to TuneIn, but I vastly prefer my laptop when home. Like IrisLilies, I find the tiny screen irritating. I also like my landline for the occasional call--much better sound quality.
Yes, you're overlooking the fact that some hardware and some software and some computer operating systems are indeed more dangerous than others. I use a reasonably safe operating system running reasonably safe software vetted by the FLOSS community that oversees that operating system. My computer is hardwired to the internet via a modem that has a password of my choosing protecting it's settings. That modem acts as a NAT router. There is a hardware firewall+router between the modem and my computer. My computer OS also has a built-in firewall, which is turned on. And installing or updating software or the OS requires entering the password of my Admin account, which is only used for that purpose, never for general internet access.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan
So on the whole I'd say my internet access is safer than the average wifi user and much safer than using a smartphone. Therefore I'm definitely more cautious than the average bear, even though none of us can be completely safe online or IRL.
Ahh, a Linux user, I approve! I think that makes you the third such user I'm aware of on this site. I still don't agree with the stated aversions to smart phones though, even a semi geek can protect their smart phone just as well as their pc. No worries though if you're just not interested.
By the way, what's your favorite flavor? As a semi-geek myself I keep one laptop for playing around with different distros, usually Ubuntu based, just to see various communities take on the core Linux kernel. Currently dual booting Mint and Elementary but have my eye on the newer MX Linux distro which I may install soon.
As a longtime geek myself, I'll admit to spending quite a bit of time and effort from the early 90's onward to teach myself the basics of computers, networking and IS security. The following diagram represents a moment in time of my home network roughly 20 years ago. It's been severely downscaled since then while still being upgraded significantly, if you know what I mean. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by GeorgeParker
https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net...6e&oe=61749460
At the moment it's straight Ubuntu 20.04.03 LTS with daily security updates, mostly for the simplicity of not having to tinker with the system very often and not having to wait for a flavor to release it's version of the most recent Ubuntu LTS (not as much of a problem as it used to be IMO). I'm not geeky enough to enjoy Debian, Fedora, CentOS, or OpenSUSE although I have looked at all of them over the years. At this point, I basically want to just install the OS, set everything up the way I like it, and not have to mess with it until I'm ready to install the next LTS version. At this point, playing with Python and doing actual productive work (finances, journal, annoying SLF members ;)) is a lot more interesting to me than tinkering with different OSs. KWIM?Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan
I also have an aversion to commercial TV, because the constant commercial interruptions make me crazy. But I doubt anyone here would object to that or argue against it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan
Wow. Compaq! Win XP! Those bring back memories! (not always good ones ;)). Your old home network looked like my QA department network with the number of nodes/hubs/routers. Impressive.
Come on man, you forgot the BSD's, Free, Open, Dragon, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan
I still miss the days of getting to play more with the computers. I was looking at playing with Linux from Scratch and Slackware, when all the employers medical stuff, happened.
I played with FreeBSD back in the late 90's and thought it was pretty cool, however my impression is it's mostly used these days in servers and embedded devices rather than desktops. Sorry for the omission. :|(Quote:
Originally Posted by ToomuchStuff
That's what made the BSD family a little more intriguing, they're more an offshoot of Unix.Quote:
Originally Posted by GeorgeParker
NO thank you. I was expected to be the computer guy in school, after a sibling was and did programing actually for the school (choose credits over cash, regretted that).Quote:
Originally Posted by GeorgeParker
After all the computers I have had access to (from punch cards, through Timex Sinclair 1000, Atari, Apple's, Amiga's, Commodores, Tandy, IBM, etc), when my Windows 3.1 machine died (lightning), I decided to build my next computer. I went NT 4.0 and Redhat 5.2, while my sibling went from Atari to Windows 95. Over the next few years, the sibling was working on getting me to switch to 98 so we could game. (why do you want to learn networking, etc)Quote:
Originally Posted by GeorgeParker
I attended a Linux training class, from a VERY infamous company, that handed out their last model distro, while selling the 2.4 version of Caldera. I remember that whole being threatened by the company that made me a customer thing.
Still check on Hurd on occasion. But very happy that things like the Raspberry PI's have come along.
Well it has been a month since someone placed a rant here, so I will update this thread:
Today I am complaining because I cannot have All the Dogs.
Our bulldog is flaky with other dogs. Our city house isn’t conducive to managing multiple dogs who do not get along except in an emergency situation.
I miss having foster dogs. I miss having other dogs in and out of our house. Our Hermann property is not dog friendly yet because there’s no fence for him, and it’s still dirty and under construction and the only clean place he could live would be down in the basement. So I cannot send him to Herman to be with his dad several days each week. My condo has no furniture and no kitchen so it is not habitable. I can’t move into this condo temporarily to take a dog.
There is a perfect little darling dog in rescue right now who needs surgery and will need a place to recover. I would love to take care of this little girl but… I cannot do it right now.
Yesterday our head of rescue brought over one of her dogs to visit me because I was jonesing for another bulldog experience. I needed to get my hands on a fat bodied/wrinkled face bulldog. This guy, J.J., came to visit:
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Awww... so sorry, IL. I predict - the minute any/all of the abodes are livable - you will once again be over-run with dogs!!!!
Yes! I am looking forward to living in Hermann where our house has three rooms on the first floor with doors that close, so we could easily have a foster dog and shut dogs away from each other. Plus, I could do a condo live-in stint with a dog. Secretly, I would like to dognap J.J. and hole up with him for a week in my tiny condo. He is one of those special dogs—-funny, laid-back, confident.Quote:
Originally Posted by happystuff
How about adopting J.J., then fostering him out for a few months until the dust settles on your renovations?Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
No, I can’t permanently adopt a dog that will not get along with my dog.keeping dogs in various rooms in Hermann would be a foster situation.Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
Our rescue head wouldn’t put J.J. in my house anyway because she knows how flaky our dog Whiskey is.
Oh...bummer. How about creating a bulldog rescue and hiring someone to manage it and then you could go and play with the doggies whenever you want! (Just thinking out of the box.. I know it's not in the cards, but you'd be great at it.).Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
That is kind of what I already do. I’m on the board of local bulldog rescue because it affords me opportunity to play with multiple smoosh faced dogs.Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
It does feel good to give a dog that needs one a home. Fostering is the perfect solution once your abodes are ready. I have to say I don’t miss having 4 dogs. Two is perfect.
That's awesome! Every time my neighbor bitches about all the geese coming from the lake onto our common land, despite her coyote decoys and firecrackers and CDs strung up with twine, the first thing I think of is, "If you guys [meaning all my neighbors]would only leave the vegetative buffer alone and not mow it all down to the nub the geese won't have easy access to our lawn! Duh!"Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
But then my second thought is, "Gee I could be the neighborhood hero if I get another border collie mix and let it out a couple of times a day to chase the geese away." Hmmm... maybe someday soon. But no new doggies wintertime in the wintertime.
You might have a business opportunity there. I used to work for a county government who had to contract with a guy who provided dogs specifically trained to chase geese. One of our golf courses was essentially unusable due to geese attacking golfers, and they became a significant hazard at our airport as well. This guy actually trained his dogs not to bark when chasing geese so as not to annoy the neighbors. Personally, I thought the noise created by large numbers of geese were worse than anything a half dozen dogs could manage.Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
Ha! That would be great idea, but my neighborhood is more "socialist" than "capitalist"--it's common land. We all share the mowing, and the guy who likes to do gravel, brings gravel for the path to the dock and the woman that loves a clean beach rakes away all the seaweed. So, I would love to be able to contribute a canine. But I certainly would not expect payment.Quote:
Originally Posted by LDAHL
(If only our neighborhood's politico-ecosystem could be replicated on a larger scale :)
Or maybe your neighbors are evil crypto-capitalists building a case for adverse possession.Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
Hmmm.. not sure my particular neighbors would even know what that is... and that includes me.Quote:
Originally Posted by LDAHL
Pure and simple rant. Why does husband immediately turn on the TV loud when he is sitting and reading a book? Or go to the bathroom with the TV on and try to hold a conversation with me thru the door? Or in fact try to hold a conversation about something else when that darn TV is on?
Brought back a lot of similar memories. I empathize.
I’ve come to the conclusion that men have different hearing capacity than women.Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetana3
DH here at my house is happy when two noise boxes are going at the same time, the radio and the TV. If he can be on the phone OR talk to me in that situation, that seems to be Nirvana for him.
That’s super annoying. My last ex was like that.
Iris, that’s funny!
My rant today is customers getting pissy that their containers are delayed. Can’t do a damned thing about it so yelling at me does no good at all. Got this after letting customer know of another delay. It’s been delayed for two weeks now. Into Oakland.
DH leaves the tv on even when he goes outside to work. Leaves tv on for long periods when nowhere around it.
Haha. Definitely a male thing (inviting males on this forum to defend yourselves). DH has to have the TV on, and because his hearing isn't what it used to be, it's LOUD! And then sometimes on top of that, he asks Alexa to blast I Got You Babe. Before I've had my coffee. Not good.
The only thing that saved my sanity during recent years of retirement is that we in this house always had a habit of never turning on television until after 6 pm and usually 7 pm.I only have to listen to radio, and after 10 am he doesn’t seem to mind if I turn it off. Since Rush died, there isn’t daily radio programs g I want to hear at home anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by frugal-one
Now that DH spends three or four days in Hermann every week, I have blessed silence. And now it’s weird that when he’s home here he no longer has to have the radio blaring all the time.
I was pretty worried about future one-floor living in Hermann, but I have since planned for one downstairs bedroom to be his TV room with a door that closes. Problem solved.
I would love to hear jp chime in on this topic since he has a household with two men. Do they co-exist happily with loud blaring noise boxes?Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
I would like to note that this is yet another reason why “open concept “homes are so F***KED up. The noise factor is extreme.
It's usually pretty quiet in our house. DW has some TV shows she likes to watch but the TV goes on when she watches them and she turns it off when she's done. There's also a TV downstairs she can watch while she works on "stuff". That one tends to get left on more than the upstairs TV, but, then, so does every light on that level, the heater (if she's using it), her computer and printer, and (it seems) anything else down there that has a power switch. *sigh*
If I am alone in the house I often (but not always) will turn on the stereo to listen to music but sometimes even I enjoy "The Sounds Of Silence" by not-Simon-&-Garfunkel. I would play more music in the house while DW is around but I have eclectic tastes that she does not often share. The TV (or radio ftm) is never a soundtrack around here.
DD and DSiL have the TV on in their house almost all the time, though, and DW and I just don't get it. My mom/brother watch a lot of TV and, owing to aural deficiencies, it's LOUD. We finally learned to just quit saying anything while we are over there until the volume goes down. Neither one of them hears real well anyway (cause? effect?) so the competitive noise only annoyed everyone.
So I guess I'll be marked as one guy who does not love to have noise blasting at all times. Anyone else? :)