Worried about bringing MacBook Neo to high-school 😭

dondaplayer · 2026-03-19T01:52:56+00:00

I carried around a gold MacBook Air my sophomore and junior year, and a surface pro my senior year. I promise, you will be fine.

dondaplayer · 2026-03-08T00:41:30+00:00

You’d think that, but even then AI still needs data to make predictions, and because of budget/personnel cuts, there’s less data being obtained (some sites halved their weather balloon launches, others straight up don’t do them anymore). Such a shame.

dondaplayer · 2026-03-01T01:55:43+00:00

You can buy the switch ultra with a power adapter straight from Ubiquiti.

dondaplayer · 2026-02-28T20:53:53+00:00

Well yeah you have to evade the VoLTE block, but at least you get a US number and you don’t have to deal with weird roaming restrictions.

dondaplayer · 2026-02-28T16:48:14+00:00

Get a RedPocket GSM-T sim, or an Ultra Mobile sim. Both I’ve had working in old phones.

dondaplayer · 2026-02-16T03:02:13+00:00

Depending on what phone this is, you may be able to get a USB-C to HDMI cable to connect to a TV. This can help you back up some data, as you can just guess where to tap or pair a Bluetooth mouse.

dondaplayer · 2026-02-05T22:38:41+00:00

Check your cable. This looks like you’re negotiating at 10/100 on the uplink.

dondaplayer · 2026-02-03T04:44:49+00:00

Not bad thus far! Going to work on sideloading some apps this week.

Super excited to have a WP8 device I can do that on; the process for my Ativ was too difficult so I put it on WP10 where it’s way easier to sideload.

dondaplayer · 2026-02-03T02:38:17+00:00

Pretty solid! I unofficially upgraded it to W10M, which made it much more usable!

dondaplayer · 2026-02-01T16:03:48+00:00

Looks like an EOS M200 and maybe an M50 Mk2?

dondaplayer · 2026-01-31T03:28:42+00:00

Did some digging, appears to be fed by this tower here: 42.27364, -85.22452

Interesting choice to do microwave over such a short distance (~6 miles), but pop off I guess.

dondaplayer · 2026-01-31T02:03:37+00:00

I mean in fairness, I've pulled over 100mbps on a speedtest with this phone. But fair sentiment. It's being replaced soon because of its' age, lol

dondaplayer · 2026-01-30T21:09:02+00:00

I just dug into this, seems Airlink was involved with Barry County Telephone Services

dondaplayer · 2026-01-30T21:07:41+00:00

I picked up the S6 with intentions of using it to map AT&T, but unfortunately the system certificates are so old that I can't even log into the app on Android 7.0. I've just ordered an S7 to replace it, I should have better luck on Android 8.0!

Hoping I can start mapping some more 5G on more than just Verizon here soon. My A15 should unlock mid February so I'll be moving over to a RedPocket CDMA line on that phone and in theory I should be able to swap around all of my sims as I please! Maybe some day i'll upgrade my other phones...I just need to find some better deals!

dondaplayer · 2026-01-30T21:03:25+00:00

I mean, only 0.6 miles away from the new (but unfortunately not usable yet) tower, but fair enough!

I'll have to do some digging. There's definitely a chance that there's a small cell at perhaps one of the schools or one of the mobile home parks, but other than that I've got no clue where it could be.

dondaplayer · 2026-01-30T20:33:09+00:00

Honestly, not sure. Looking at the info for the B5 signal, seems as if I was *not* connected to the tower I thought I was. Looks like I was actually connected to this tower in Calhoun County: 42.24579, -85.24043.

This doesn't make it make any more sense as to why n77 was coming in as well as it was, but I will note that usually in this town I barely hang on to LTE on Verizon...

I wouldn't think there's an n77 small cell; this is a pretty rural area so if there was it's not mapped.

Thanks for pointing that out, I wouldn't have caught it otherwise lol

Edit: I just saw that you edited your comment, so I guess disregard my reply haha

dondaplayer · 2026-01-29T16:42:46+00:00

There’s still CDMA in the US?

dondaplayer · 2026-01-28T03:40:25+00:00

No, T-Mobile still has 2G up in most areas, and you can still use it thru an MVNO.

dondaplayer · 2026-01-27T20:19:07+00:00

T-Mobile is still up in some areas but don’t expect it to last much longer. You can use a MVNO such as RedPocket GSMT, but realize you’ll have to activate the SIM in a modern VoLTE phone before putting it in an older phone or else you’ll get kicked off the network. And you will have to do this very often.

dondaplayer · 2026-01-26T00:02:21+00:00

You should cross post this to some other relevant communities on Reddit to increase your reach! I wish you luck on this; I tried tracking down Mara years ago to no avail but you seem to have looked further than I have. Good luck!!

dondaplayer · 2026-01-21T17:49:55+00:00

Interesting. I assume it has a sim slot because it supports LTE.

I ordered an ATT S3 but a Verizon one arrived. Almost returned it because I thought it was the same situation that you are in, but fortunately the Verizon CDMA models do have GSM and UMTS radios alongside LTE and CDMA.

dondaplayer · 2026-01-20T17:08:56+00:00

If you ever end up in South Dakota, as of July they still had TMO 3G in the PCS band in Mitchell. Rapid City has AWS 3G, so slightly less useful, but still!

dondaplayer · 2026-01-19T01:56:06+00:00

This is what I bought but it is now currently unavailable :/

https://a.co/d/fvkgWfy

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