Random thoughts.... [Tech Edition]

[IceBone]

You have a limit on your home connection? No wonder you think 1.5 GB is enough.

 

[DanRoM]

I don't know a single person that pays less than $60 per month an that's not even and unlimited plan.

does that include a phone to pay off?

 

[NooDle]

You have a limit on your home connection? No wonder you think 1.5 GB is enough.

It is for me .
Who ever needs more than 1 tb a month? Do you watch 2 simultaneous 4k streams for an entire month non stop?

 

[93Flareside]

does that include a phone to pay off?

Not to my knowledge, you're closer to 70-80 if you're doing that.

It's been a while since I looked at plans so this might be old news.

 

[NecroJoe]

does that include a phone to pay off?

I pay $74/mo for 6gb. I brought my own phone.

 

[rickhamilton620]

Random thoughts.... [Tech Edition]

I'm on AT&T's value focused prepaid brand, Cricket. I pay 70 dollars (including taxes and fees) for the following:

12 GB of "high speed" data - after this, I still have data access but it's slow as balls - 128k iirc

Unlimited calling and SMS/MMS to Canada and Mexico.

Mobile hotspot.

The usual call management features (caller ID, 3 way calling, call waiting, call forwarding, etc)

I did bring my own phone.

 

[IceBone]

?23 for 10GB and everything else unlimited for me.

 

[Matt2000]

Blimey the US is expensive for phones. I pay ?22 for 16GB of 4G with unlimited calls and messages. Still pay for MMS though which is annoying when you have a friend who insists he doesn't want to use any social media apps and you want to send a photo...

Anyway does anyone here have experience with FLV files and repairing them? I have a file that seems corrupted or hasn't been written correctly, it's 3 minutes @ 31MB so there is data but it appears blank and with no sound in VLC. I've tried some tools but nothing worked, I understand they can be fixed with a hex editor but that's over my head. If anyone has the experience and is able to look over it please PM me, it'll save me a huge amount of time if I can find out how to fix it and future videos.

 

[Galantti]

You also just assume that everybody always has a) reception and b) data. Neither is really a given outside of scandiderpia

Sadly i don't live in Scanderpia, so i pay 29,90eur for 250min/sms, unlimited data (15GB outside scanberpia/balkans)

 

[DanRoM]

?11.something per month for 200 free minutes or SMS (x minutes + y SMS is free, as long as x + y <= 200) and 1 GB of data per month.
And this is one of the more expensive options. There are providers offering similar for about 60% of that.

I use about 300 MB of data per month, the majority of that is pictures on these very forums...

 

[ZeDestructor]

Work mandates 10 digit pin on phones. I'd go mad had they not allowed us to use fingerprints.

I was pretty much the same till fingerprint locks came along. They are secure and convenient enough to use them daily. By the time I pull my phone out of the pocket it will be unlocked and ready to go.

In the USA (the place where there s the highest likelihood of you being randomly ordered to unlock your phone), precedent has been set that fingerprint unlock can be compelled, but PINs and passwords cannot.

How does one use 32 gigs of local storage when literally everything is in the cloud? I have some comics and books on this ipad but all of my movies, shows and music is streamed.... so I rarely use more than a couple of gigs out of the 64 available...

Unless you have a ton of games installed I don't see the point?

On my phone, for the 64GB of internal storage: 13.59GiB "System" (meaning OS, Android 7.1.1 in this case), 6.57GiB apps (cause fuckit, I have 64GB of storage space, so may as well install everything I could possibly ever want to use!), 2.32GiB cached data and 14.6GiB "Other" (my actual files, ~12GiB of which is a complete copy of my Syncthing folder cause the thing only does full syncs and nothing less), and then there s 56.21GiB of music on my 64GB microSD (which has nothing except my music on it).

I rarely use it up by the end of the month.... All of my downloads and cloud uploads occur on my wifi obviously.... Which has a 1 tb/month limit

Last time I checked, I 500GB for a "light" month. More intense months I'll break the 1Tb mark fairly easily. Both numbers alone as well. My 2 housemates added another 150-300GB each on top of that

It is for me .
Who ever needs more than 1 tb a month? Do you watch 2 simultaneous 4k streams for an entire month non stop?

When you push up to 1080 or better media, it spirals out pretty damn fast, then you add cloud backups of a decent chunk of said downloads.

 

[NooDle]

Heh. I'm on 1080p for all media (tv doesn't support 4k so why bother). Trouble (or perhaps explanation) is that I work 40 hour weeks, I like to exercise, I have 2 kids with hobbies that eat up time etc... So I rarely have more than 2 hrs a day in which to watch tv.... So I don't download/stream a ton of shows/movies since I don't have the time to watch the stuff I have now, let alone discover new stuff....

 

[miki]

Anyway does anyone here have experience with FLV files and repairing them? I have a file that seems corrupted or hasn't been written correctly, it's 3 minutes @ 31MB so there is data but it appears blank and with no sound in VLC. I've tried some tools but nothing worked, I understand they can be fixed with a hex editor but that's over my head. If anyone has the experience and is able to look over it please PM me, it'll save me a huge amount of time if I can find out how to fix it and future videos.

Try to open it with Avidemux and save it in mp4 or mkv.

 

[rickhamilton620]

 

[93Flareside]

Is it only for people with big teeth?

I don't want another freaking camera in my house. I've already got my phone, tablet, and laptop. I don't need another.

 

[Matt2000]

Try to open it with Avidemux and save it in mp4 or mkv.

Doesn't like it unfortunately. I got the impression that it's encrypted video so it's probably just garbage. I'm part way through the long method of getting the video so it doesn't matter I suppose.

 

[Adunaphel]

It is for me .
Who ever needs more than 1 tb a month? Do you watch 2 simultaneous 4k streams for an entire month non stop?

I generally burn through 2-3 terabytes of data on my home connection per month. Not doing many weird things with it. As for mobile data, 1.5 gigabytes would last me 3-4 days...

 

[NooDle]

What the hell are you downloading?

 

[93Flareside]

All the shark porn

 

[Adunaphel]

What the hell are you downloading?

A couple TV series, nothing major, plus watching Netflix and Youtube for a couple hours per day on multiple devices, plus using my home connection as a VPN while at work all contributes.