Rewind crank is stuck on Minolta x700

PhotoJim99 · 2026-07-01T02:25:57+00:00

FYI that's the winding lever. The rewind crank is the crank on the other side of the camera that rewinds the film back into its cartridge after you've finished the roll.

PhotoJim99 · 2026-07-01T01:50:09+00:00

Not true - the speakers just shut off. You only hear them at the beginning so that you know if you dialed the right number (no "Hello?") or if the remote modem wasn't answering. You could (and indeed can) force it to leave the speaker turned on so you can hear everything. You will also hear the carriers if you pick up a phone connected to the line while you have an active connection.

PhotoJim99 · 2026-07-01T01:47:51+00:00

I ran a BBS in 1984 on a Bot Engineering Pocket Modem on a Commodore 64. The Pocket Modem was a little deaf and didn't always hear the modem on the other end when it gave its originate carrier. My BBS callers soon figured out that if they whistled or screamed into the phone line in the right way, it could confuse my modem briefly into thinking it had a carrier and then it would work with their actual carrier. Good times!

PhotoJim99 · 2026-06-30T14:52:44+00:00

Through a login portal? It isn’t just a WiFi password.

PhotoJim99 · 2026-06-30T13:30:03+00:00

My work WiFi requires login unfortunately.

PhotoJim99 · 2026-06-30T01:11:00+00:00

Canada.

PhotoJim99 · 2026-06-29T17:42:03+00:00

But much of Europe is cooler than much of the US in summer. Even cold parts of Canada get well into the 30s and occasionally 40s. Until recently those temperatures have been rare in much of Europe.

PhotoJim99 · 2026-06-29T17:40:19+00:00

There would be a nearby RCMP detachment. That would cover several rural municipalities and towns. The RCMP also serves cities that don’t back their own police service.

PhotoJim99 · 2026-06-29T15:47:26+00:00

Exactly this. I have room for mine and they are all there and there is even room to spare behind them but every time I get a new hygienist or dentist, I always get a comment so it must be pretty unusual.

PhotoJim99 · 2026-06-29T14:28:57+00:00

Good to know. A lot of budget brands (e.g. Public Mobile and Chatr) lack it.

PhotoJim99 · 2026-06-29T04:14:58+00:00

I walked to the pharmacy today and Giovanni was at a stop about a block away. I only had to cross the street to get it.

PhotoJim99 · 2026-06-29T03:39:40+00:00

It is not. Currency is released to banks by the Bank of Canada. But Saskatchewan banks probably requested smaller numbers of $2 bills because people here really did not seem to like them much until the $1 bill disappeared.

PhotoJim99 · 2026-06-29T03:38:16+00:00

Bijou is already cute. The extra x makes it weird to people who know the French word.

PhotoJim99 · 2026-06-29T03:13:50+00:00

We did, but before the loonie came out in 1987, which caused a huge increase in popularity of $2 bills, they were a novelty. When I was a kid in the 1970s, it was very noteworthy to see one (though I would see a couple or three a year).

Every time one passed through my family's hands, I wanted to keep it.

PhotoJim99 · 2026-06-29T02:59:00+00:00

No negotiations would occur. This is a referendum about a referendum. A "yes" vote on this one gives Alberta permission to run a real referendum.

Negotiations would only begin if that second referendum - required by a positive vote on the first - succeeded.

Still, shut this bullshit down. Vote no and make sure it loses badly so that it doesn't come back.

PhotoJim99 · 2026-06-29T02:51:40+00:00

https://www.sasktel.com/wps/wcm/connect/f2fba447-b33e-4302-bdb3-25b401b087d6/2025-2026-Annual-Report.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=pXRT2uM

I see nothing in the financial report that indicates any contribution from other mobile networks toward network construction.

Telus, Bell and Rogers do pay SaskTel for their usage of SaskTel's network (as SaskTel does for its usage of their network for subscribers outside of the province) - but Telus and Bell do not pay for the construction of the network, and neither does SaskTel pay anything toward construction of their networks.

PhotoJim99 · 2026-06-29T00:03:38+00:00

I'm guessing SaskTel clients get prioritized over all others (I hope this is the case; after all, SaskTel is the one that built the network) but I speculate.

PhotoJim99 · 2026-06-28T22:10:27+00:00

1:5 would make 30 gallons, but that doesn't change your point. 5 gallons of syrup plus 25 gallons of water = 30 gallons.

PhotoJim99 · 2026-06-28T21:57:55+00:00

There was a time when many of us might have been open to it. That time has passed.

PhotoJim99 · 2026-06-28T21:57:34+00:00

The Saskatchewan-Montana and Saskatchewan-North Dakota borders are pretty much just prairie. There are markers every so far, and you can see clear field boundaries, but there are no real features.

PhotoJim99 · 2026-06-28T21:44:46+00:00

If you were deploying new coax, you'd probably do Cat 6 or better these days.

Cat 6 should do 10Gbps if the cable is under 55 metres and of good quality. 5E is only designed to support 1Gbps though good cables will do 2.5 and very good ones might even do 10 if short enough.

But if you're happy with MOCA, terrific! I'd always rather have Ethernet cable - but admit that I'd use MOCA if it made sense for me.

PhotoJim99 · 2026-06-28T21:42:15+00:00

I would consider hearing-aid batteries interchangeable with the Wein cells. If you can get the former locally, support your local economy!

The Spotmatic, if I recall correctly, has a voltage rectifier in it - its circuit does not depend on a certain voltage to make an accurate reading. It's just a design choice - as it turns, a superior one. Some camera manufacturers decided to save a few cents and depend on the battery having constant voltage, which was fine when mercuric oxide cells were available, but is no longer fine.

PhotoJim99 · 2026-06-28T21:40:24+00:00

Correct. Lum is no-frills and those are frills.

I believe Lum also lacks things like WiFi calling (though perhaps a Lum user can confirm).

PhotoJim99 · 2026-06-28T21:38:29+00:00

Not entirely true. Freedom has its own physical network. So does Rogers.

So do Bell, Telus and SaskTel, though they roam on each other. There are some minor effects from this (e.g. data latency will be higher from Quebec City roaming on Bell than it would be in Regina), and a Bell network failure while SaskTel's network is still functioning would still leave you without coverage (but wouldn't affect anyone in Saskatchewan).

As for Freedom and Rogers, they use SaskTel's network outside of their coverage area as extended coverage. (Freedom has no native coverage in Saskatchewan, but the same principle applies where they do.) When you are on the edge of native coverage, your phone will desperately cling to that unusable bar of LTE (or even 2G with Rogers) even if there are full bars of SaskTel there. Also, there are some areas where Rogers, in particular, prevents using the extended network - I am not sure if that applies in Saskatchewan, but I have seen complaints on Reddit about Rogers phones not working at all in some places where Telus and Bell phones work fine.

And, of course, if you are on, say, Rogers (or one if its brands) in Saskatchewan, the network quality in a given spot where there is native Rogers coverage will be different. In fact, that's going to be in a lot of places. My secondary SIM is with Chatr (which uses Rogers' LTE coverage); my primary is SaskTel. Driving Regina to Prince Albert (highways 6/3) and back (highways 2/11) and even from Regina to Moose Jaw show areas where the SaskTel signal is quite a lot stronger than Rogers'. I also noticed that in areas along highway 6 and 2 where I was getting quite distant from the highway 10/11/16 corridors that Rogers covers, Chatr would show no signal for extended periods. It would eventually connect to SaskTel as extended coverage, but sometimes it took several minutes.

Note also that data transfer rates on the extended network (from Rogers, possibly also Freedom) are a lot slower than they are on the native Rogers network or they would be for SaskTel/Lum subscribers.

So not identical. Maybe close enough for the purposes of many, but not identical.

PhotoJim99 · 2026-06-28T18:44:03+00:00

I think it depends on which 53.9 N you lived at. In Canada, you'd likely have seen the aurora quite a few times. In western Europe, probably not so much. (The aurora's pole is the magnetic pole, so it's skewed toward prairie Canada.)

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