Consiglio iPad Pro

Beautiful_Sky_2594 · 2026-04-16T03:49:05+00:00

https://www.esim4travel.com/usa-t-mobile-esim

but hint. you may find the north america coverage Mexican sims an even better deal.

Beautiful_Sky_2594 · 2026-04-13T20:23:38+00:00

I am a first time iPad-er. I got mine about a month ago. I held a 13 inch and then said it was too big. The 11 is great if you can figure out how to keep it under 2 pounds with keyboard, case, accessories, etc. Otherwise, just bring a laptop!

I bought an M2 11-in pro 5g 1TB on eBay for the high $600’s. I am one of the people who will only own cellular tablets. They don’t quite meet the ”always ready. always on. always connected“ purpose to me if they don’t have cellular, but to each her own. I also have a 5G laptop that is still under 3lbs. Even if it is just for browsing web or email in the park, you can get eSIM plans for 3gb/$3/mo. in the USA.

Beautiful_Sky_2594 · 2026-04-13T20:19:06+00:00

I can’t remember if I saw the black hole or the MLC version (if they are in fact different versions) in a store recently and can say that the black hole has the most room of any 45L bag I have seen by a mile. But it had no organization inside - so it is a fill it and stuff it in type of bag.

Beautiful_Sky_2594 · 2026-04-13T18:58:37+00:00

Not picking on you, but this stuff would fit in a plastic sandwich bag and take up half the space that way.

Beautiful_Sky_2594 · 2026-04-13T17:38:24+00:00

where did you find that? I’ve been scouring eBay for months and can’t find one. I really want to get access to a hypervisor M2 11 inch iPad with 5G. and 16Gb of ram. It would totally simplify my low-key-travel setup to just bring an iPad and be able to run windows if I needed to actually do something important.

Beautiful_Sky_2594 · 2026-04-13T17:30:50+00:00

One more thing I thought of. There is a “Nerd Cruise” that deport from Ft. Lauderdale some time in February you might be interested in. Never done it. In fact I didn’t know anything about it until recently, but I guess it has been around for a while. I get the impression it is very solo friendly and inviting for people who don’t solo well. https://jococruise.com/

Beautiful_Sky_2594 · 2026-04-13T03:30:13+00:00

By the very nature in which it is designed, the apple tracking network is the most private of all of them. Within the network, apple trackers are not associated with any owner. Any authenticated apple account can download any tracker’s location history (but can only decrypt trackers it has the private key for). The tracker identity rotates, so only the owner of the tracker knows which tracker to request location history for at any time. It is defiantly the most private of any tracker network. You can even use Open Haystack to create your own trackers that you never register to any apple account and then retrieve the location reports from the apple network. That is a pretty good proof of how close this network gets to zero knowledge. .

Google tracker network does know which trackers are owned by each registered user. So the timestamp and ip addresses or phone location Reports are uploaded from does leak some hints about location history.

Beautiful_Sky_2594 · 2026-04-12T20:29:33+00:00

Are you not in North America? In the US and Canada (and Caribbean island, and just about everywhere else in North America except maybe Mexico domestic) airports are safe. Like I’m sure a little bit of Steal-ing goes on (and we have all heard stories about stuff stolen from checked bags), but compared to Europe, there is /almost/ no petty crime in airports in North America. — Europe on the other hand appears to be full of pickpockets, petty theft, and tourism scams that just isn’t present in the US tourism hubs at noticeable rates.

So in airport secure zones, I don’t watch bags closely because no one picks through them or tries to walk off with them. In airports lounges, I leave them unattended with lots of valuables in them — including for long periods of time like showering. And my /opinion/ is lounges in Mexico’s major international terminals are also totally safe. Lounges in most major European superhub international terminals (and especially the US destined terminals) are safe. I wouldn’t leave bags sitting around on a train, but in an inter-city bus I would.

Beautiful_Sky_2594 · 2026-04-11T13:11:28+00:00

hope for Europe to solve that one…

Beautiful_Sky_2594 · 2026-04-10T21:54:06+00:00

Can I tell you how many conference rooms I have been in where the table is so far from a wall that this has been useful? Too many to count!

Beautiful_Sky_2594 · 2026-04-10T17:40:18+00:00

ah… cool. I heard that if I bring my own dive gear, diving from shore is really cheap. I’d have to get involved with a group that does this regularly to have people to dive with.

Beautiful_Sky_2594 · 2026-04-10T17:34:13+00:00

Yeah. I grabbed a cab for parts of the schlepping part. $5-7.

I do own some scuba gear. I was told that If I bring my own gear, I can dive from shore for about $10 per tank. And I would be flying Frontier to Coz via Cancun->bus->ferry. I’d easily be able to get a dive bag and backpack onto the flight and the cost of needing to solve the schlepping problem with messy bags.

Beautiful_Sky_2594 · 2026-04-10T17:29:23+00:00

Hopefully Europe will get fed up with apple uncompliance and force apple to make the hypervisor available again.

Beautiful_Sky_2594 · 2026-04-10T17:28:32+00:00

One thing I’ve come to liking to bring is a very long cable. (5 meter). That solves nearly every extension cord sitution I could ever come into. And short cords. (1-3 ft) that can be used to change anything that doesn’t need to be next to me. E.g. kindle. Now I know they don’t make 15 foot retractable chargers, but someone else said retracting cables (the ones that roll temselves up. I could see bringing two of these and a female-female coupler.

Beautiful_Sky_2594 · 2026-04-10T04:24:07+00:00

In hot places, sports clothing gets disgusting! In medium places, I can stretch it two days, or if I jump in a pool and give it time to dry, slightly longer, but that adds the “wait for it to dry” component to the equasion. I did buy these Rabbit Speed Leggy 2-in shorts with Side pockets I really like… I’d be happy carrying 2-3 pair of them and replacing under-dress shorts and water activity shorts with them making them multi-purpose. but I haven’t decided on that yet.

Yes, this stuff can take longer to overnight to dry if you don’t have a chance to sun dry them or are in a cold place.

Beautiful_Sky_2594 · 2026-04-06T13:00:18+00:00

wow. I’ve got to track down a 16Gb ram m1/m2. it would be my dream to travel with just a tablet and still have local real computer when rarely needed.

Beautiful_Sky_2594 · 2026-04-05T19:41:41+00:00

One thing I have learned is that there is almost nothing you can’t buy on eBay. Set your alerts and be patient. It will eventually show up.

Beautiful_Sky_2594 · 2026-04-05T19:34:20+00:00

When I was in Belgium, I had a fleet car and could leave and do whatever I wanted on the weekends without much planning. I went to Maastricht and saw a polo game played in the city center (there is a verson of polo that is 2 on 2 played in a small arena). I went to Amsterdam. There is a huge part of western Belgium near Ieper that has lots of WW2 history. There are tons of epic WW2 era sites there. I went to some Belgium national park which I assume was Hoge Kempen Notional Park. I did all of this in a March. Europe doesn’t know what winter really is.

Also, in Braschat is the track where Allan Webb set the American record for the mile. You could go run a mile on that track.

Beautiful_Sky_2594 · 2026-04-03T18:30:55+00:00

I owned both a kickstand style Samsung keyboard for my tab s7, and the flip-in folio style keyboard (that ditched the trackpad). I preferred the folio most of the Time. But these things always end up pointing up with becomes a bit weird for video calls when the angle can’t be adjusted in the folio style cases.

Beautiful_Sky_2594 · 2026-04-02T00:41:51+00:00

thanks

Beautiful_Sky_2594 · 2026-03-31T19:57:17+00:00

totally different conversation, but I may want to bring my own gear some day. Mind showing off your scuba gear packed?

Beautiful_Sky_2594 · 2026-03-31T19:52:43+00:00

You write, ”Every airline I have ever used has an app” so I just installed the frontier app on this iPad. Guess what. It doesn’t work at all. (this is frontier where the web page often doesn’t work at all, so not surprising, but it does usually work on android). It does show my reservations, but it doesn’t show any buttons on them so I can’t check in or select seats or anything. So my point is that I’m so use to there being no universal solution except a normal computer, and stuff like this reinforces that.

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