technology (14 out of 14)

Delighted to report that the UK gov emergency alert test didn't come through on either of the phones currently about my person. I had assumed it would work over whatever lets you call 999 without a network connection, but turns out it requires such new-fangled concepts as "4G" and/or "Android 11+".

🏷 phones technology life

Sun 23rd of April 2023 at 3:21pm (+01:00)

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As the family 'computer person' I just spent 2 hours trying to help someone with a mail merge and JFC it's so hard?! Even with purely google tools. I can't believe things haven't moved on since I last knew how to do this, in the early 00s.

🏷 technology computers life

Wed 18th of November 2020 at 11:52am (+00:00)

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Tuesday the 3rd of November 2020

10:24am

Hosting renewal (Dreamhost)

119.40usd (€102.07 / $119.4 / £91.93)

🏷 DreamHost web technology

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oh good, maps.me now requires Android 5+

(which I don't have)

ye olde maps open app recommendations anyone? (Android 4.2.2)

🏷 technology map phone android life

Wed 7th of October 2020 at 10:12am (+01:00)

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Tuesday the 2nd of June 2020

3:15pm

New watch battery and secondhand fix

300all (€2.41)

🏷 technology household

Monday the 30th of December 2019

10:42pm

Domain renewal (Tsohost)

11.99gbp (€14.03)

🏷 tsohost domain technology web

I'm often late to the party on new day-to-day tech stuff, like how it was mindblowing when I finally got a contactless payment card. Now I have bluetooth headphones and it's soooo freeing.

(If only I could get ubuntu to pair with them, or anything, but you know one thing at a time. They work with my ye olde android phone.)

Person in blue dinosaur hood with wireless headphones and blue hair

🏷 life technology

Thu 3rd of October 2019 at 3:49pm (+01:00)

I was all set to repair my Fairphone 1 (First Edition) in September when I can get a replacement motherboard and battery, but I just resuscitated it to check some things and it turns out latest Signal update is not compatible with Android 4.2.2 any more :(

I miss having duel SIM and a back that opens, but is it worth fixing it if I can't use Signal? The Fairphone 3 is so big and I don't think I really want one, yet at least. Grumble.

I know Signal is notoriously bad at being available on open OSs, anyone know any that will support it that will work on the FP1..?

🏷 technology life fairphone wearefairphone

Sat 31st of August 2019 at 12:10pm (+03:00)

Experienced two technological marvels already this week and it's only Monday. Either that, or technological failings entirely on my part.

The blender I bought from the flea market didn't work. Czesiek disassembled and reassembled it today and now it works. Nothing changed. Guess it just needed shaking up.
After I reinstalled Fairphone OS at the weekend, my 3G stopped working. Fairphone has a number of places to tinker with SIM card and data connection related stuff, and I tinkered with them all. Figuring maybe my contract had expired a few days early, I went to find out from the m:tel shop. The lady confirmed my contract was still active, and fiddled around with my phone for five minutes shrugging and saying 'I don't know' the whole time. Then she handed it back to me, suddenly working. She had no idea why or how.

🏷 life technology

Mon 10th of July 2017 at 11:18pm (+02:00)