What Are You Doing Right Now
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So what does AT&T offer? I thought that that was all that they had on their phones, too?
Who ever said anything about what AT&T offered on their phones?
@Texkonc did not. Here is what he said:
@Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Dropping vzw, moving to att since I'm directv customer, only saving about $30 a month, but the benefits of streaming directv, tethering, etc. plus a $50 iPad mini with LTE. Only saving about $700 there....
I thought that when he said "Streaming DirecTV" he was referring to his phone.
Of course that part it. But that ignores the rest of the information.
Okay, clearly I'm mistaken and don't understand what he said. What's the rest of the information that I'm missing? He's got DirecTV, he wants to switch his phone carrier from Verizon, he wants to the benefits of DirecTV Now (that's the bit I responded to so not sure why you are correcting me unless you are STILL holding back information that you could have just explained up front) and so... what have i missed?
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Go back and read what I said, all I said was that it was worth looking at TMobile because I thought that they might have better deals, because they had been advertising them. His thing was about his phone, the service on the phone is DirecTV Now. I think my comment was totally valid and I'm still totally lost as to why you think that it is not.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So what does AT&T offer? I thought that that was all that they had on their phones, too?
Who ever said anything about what AT&T offered on their phones?
@Texkonc did not. Here is what he said:
@Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Dropping vzw, moving to att since I'm directv customer, only saving about $30 a month, but the benefits of streaming directv, tethering, etc. plus a $50 iPad mini with LTE. Only saving about $700 there....
I thought that when he said "Streaming DirecTV" he was referring to his phone.
Of course that part it. But that ignores the rest of the information.
Okay, clearly I'm mistaken and don't understand what he said. What's the rest of the information that I'm missing? He's got DirecTV, he wants to switch his phone carrier from Verizon, he wants to the benefits of DirecTV Now (that's the bit I responded to so not sure why you are correcting me unless you are STILL holding back information that you could have just explained up front) and so... what have i missed?
Apparently the entire thing?
He is not moving to AT&T for DIRECTV NOW.
He is an existing DirectTV customer. By choosing AT&T the services become eligible for bundled pricing and he gains a savings of $30/month.
He additionally gains DirecTV streaming rights of some type. It may or may not be DIRECTV NOW as you are assuming. All the providers now offer streaming of some type that pretty much matches your channel package. It could be DIRECTV NOW it could also not be.
He additionally gains tethering (which is sad if he never actually had it).
He additionally is picking up a iPad Mini heavily discounted that will have the LTE modem built in and be part of his data plan (no need to tether to use).
This is about way more than just some cheezy promo from T-Mobile.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So what does AT&T offer? I thought that that was all that they had on their phones, too?
Who ever said anything about what AT&T offered on their phones?
@Texkonc did not. Here is what he said:
@Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Dropping vzw, moving to att since I'm directv customer, only saving about $30 a month, but the benefits of streaming directv, tethering, etc. plus a $50 iPad mini with LTE. Only saving about $700 there....
I thought that when he said "Streaming DirecTV" he was referring to his phone.
Of course that part it. But that ignores the rest of the information.
Okay, clearly I'm mistaken and don't understand what he said. What's the rest of the information that I'm missing? He's got DirecTV, he wants to switch his phone carrier from Verizon, he wants to the benefits of DirecTV Now (that's the bit I responded to so not sure why you are correcting me unless you are STILL holding back information that you could have just explained up front) and so... what have i missed?
Apparently the entire thing?
He is not moving to AT&T for DIRECTV NOW.
He is an existing DirectTV customer. By choosing AT&T the services become eligible for bundled pricing and he gains a savings of $30/month.
He additionally gains DirecTV streaming rights of some type. It may or may not be DIRECTV NOW as you are assuming. All the providers now offer streaming of some type that pretty much matches your channel package. It could be DIRECTV NOW it could also not be.
He additionally gains tethering (which is sad if he never actually had it).
He additionally is picking up a iPad Mini heavily discounted that will have the LTE modem built in and be part of his data plan (no need to tether to use).
This is about way more than just some cheezy promo from T-Mobile.
Okay but I didn't mention those parts. TMobile gives him tethering. It gives him DirecTV streaming of some sort. iPads from TMobile can get free data plans. Yeah, his overall thing was more, I only mentioned the one part that seemed like he thought it was unique and pointed it out. TMobile plans are normally quite a bit cheaper than AT&T and bundling is normally a marketing ploy to sell things too expensively - just because something is a bundle doesn't make it cheap(er) - sometimes it actually raises the price.
So I did understand it all. Good, so other than the iPad deal that I know nothing about, TMobile might really match this and absolutely is worth checking out and if it is cheaper, likely pays for the iPad over time. So I feel that I've been totally vindicated and you had zero reason for going off on me for making the suggestion that another carrier be "Considered" in case the deal turned out to be better. There was no call for that and no reason to string it out. Yes, the deals are slightly different so need to be compared, but the deal from AT&T isn't clearly going to be better than from another carrier, so not looking at strong competition just because we love AT&T makes no sense.
Granted, I am thrilled with TMobile, but I didn't say it was better. I said that I had heard it had a good deal on that one part and assumed people knew that the other parts were competitive.
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Just got back, boy what pissing match y'all are having. I'm happy, phone was free, but I upgraded, so only pay $10/m for phone. $400 iPad (I was mistaken on the $700) mini for $50, only $10 data plan for iPad I can remove later. The being able to stream my directv channels and DVr without using any data is cool.
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@Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just got back, boy what pissing match y'all are having. I'm happy, phone was free, but I upgraded, so only pay $10/m for phone. $400 iPad (I was mistaken on the $700) mini for $50, only $10 data plan for iPad I can remove later. The being able to stream my directv channels and DVr without using any data is cool.
I didn't have a pissing match, I just mentioned what was competitive with what you were looking at because TMobile newly started working hard to compete with that specific deal. No idea what Jared was going on about.
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Time for the morning espresso.
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Just found my Roland GR-20 in the closet. I think I'm just going to sell it. When my PRS was stolen in college it had the pickup on it and I never bought a new pickup. I'll hopefully get a couple hundred for it at least.
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Migrating my ScreenConnect install from WIndows Server 2012 R2 to CentOS 7.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Migrating my ScreenConnect install from WIndows Server 2012 R2 to CentOS 7.
wow - where have you been all this time?
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Migrating my ScreenConnect install from WIndows Server 2012 R2 to CentOS 7.
wow - where have you been all this time?
On Server 2012 R2 obviously.
Server 2012 before that.
I have the licensing to use if I want.
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Back to work
after an extra long weekend (4 days 
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Migrating my ScreenConnect install from WIndows Server 2012 R2 to CentOS 7.
We found that it took something one quarter the resources on our system.
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I received my case for the Raspberry Pi. The vendor gave me a Pi Zero also in an aluminum case to thank me for my patience in regards to the order. Look at the size of this thing:
This is a pretty small keyboard too. I still have no idea what I'm going to do with it yet. No ethernet port, no USB ports, etc. Hm. Might use it for the Handheld project I'm working on in the near future.
Size comparison between Raspberry Pi 3 and the Pi Zero
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I received my case for the Raspberry Pi. The vendor gave me a Pi Zero also in an aluminum case to thank me for my patience in regards to the order. Look at the size of this thing:
This is a pretty small keyboard too. I still have no idea what I'm going to do with it yet. No ethernet port, no USB ports, etc. Hm.
Size comparison between Raspberry Pi 3 and the Pi Zero
Pretty cool - I have seen a project or two,.. but one you could possible do is a USB Dongle - Turn the rP0 into a Stick PC
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Had to make two grocery walks today. Sometimes I miss having a car.
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@scottalanmiller Look at it this way, you can have an extra piece of pie
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Look at it this way, you can have an extra piece of pie
Except I would then have to go carry that pie a few kilometers to get it back here to eat it first
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Look at it this way, you can have an extra piece of pie
Except I would then have to go carry that pie a few kilometers to get it back here to eat it first
Road pie... you eat it while you walk.
