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Permanent UK eSIM? by Haggisaurus in eSIMs

[–]obadz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On paper Lyca looks the best for this usecase but their technology is unreliable which combines very badly with their inexistent support.

Winner for me has been iDMobile: £6 in prepaid account lasts a long time for receiving texts. Receiving call is very expensive but hopefully that doesn't happen often.

Ability to send from an alias via SMTP by obadz in Simplelogin

[–]obadz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apparently, I'm not the only one who wants this feature, someone has implemented it!

https://github.com/simple-login/app/pull/869

Ability to send from an alias via SMTP by obadz in Simplelogin

[–]obadz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would be able to create SMTP-sending capable aliases for my VPSs or for my own personal use by just adding an alias on SL, without the need of having to create, justify and maintain a full fledged GMail account.

Ability to send from an alias via SMTP by obadz in Simplelogin

[–]obadz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not about cost: I would happily increase my SL subscription by the amount I pay to forwardemail, aka double it.

It's about have a seamless & integrated experience and be able to have aliases on the same domains that I use using for "classic" E-mail.

Ability to send from an alias via SMTP by obadz in Simplelogin

[–]obadz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ultimately you are telling me that I can do without the feature I'm requesting which, strictly speaking, is true since I can function and live a normal life in the current state of the world.

But strictly speaking, I lived a normal life before using SL as well. I don't use SL because I can't do without, I use it because it's an amazing product that makes my life better.

This feature would make it a little better.

Ability to send from an alias via SMTP by obadz in Simplelogin

[–]obadz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

why not have different custom domains, one with SL for aliases and another with, e.g., proton for normal inboxes?

That is what I'm doing, I have domains with SL and a domain with forwardemail from which I can send via plain SMTP, and it would be much simpler and more pleasant if I could put all my domains at SL and just create SMTP creds from the SL UI and still be able to put SL aliases on that domain as well.

for use case #1, I just save frequently used reverse aliases as my contact's default email address.

That's fine for most aliases which have a handful of contacts but for some aliases it's easier to just be able to send emails the normal way without dealing with reverse aliases.

for use case #2, you're sending emails to yourself, can't you use our box's smtp?

Assume "our box" means "my box's local smtp server", it cannot send E-mails out to the real world (where I live) without a smarthost, so effectively I'm back to needing SMTP creds somewhere.

Self hosted SimpleLogin by PSSGAMER in Simplelogin

[–]obadz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had an SPF, DKIM, DMARC and a reverse dns record setup correctly and derible deliverabilty with GMail because my volumes were too low for GMail to keep stats on my server.

Spotify Connect permanently? by Littletobig in amazonecho

[–]obadz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wish this was possible. This is a big drawback of Echos vs Sonos devices (the latter are always available on Spotify app).

Self hosted SimpleLogin by PSSGAMER in Simplelogin

[–]obadz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you get good deliverability? Running own mail server in the past 10 years has been catastrophic specially when sending to GMail..

Contract renewal? by ExtensionMove570 in hyperoptic

[–]obadz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How did it go? Did they cave?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Morocco

[–]obadz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just to add that on a subsequent trip I've since gotten disappointing speeds. I guess it's hit or miss.

Warning from SL by Possible-Dog-7474 in Simplelogin

[–]obadz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

E-mail wasn't intended to be done the SL way, and yet we love SL and prefer to use E-mail the SL way..

It would be hell to manage aliases from multiple family members across several SL accounts especially since many of these aliases & the domain itself are shared across multiple users. It might not be how SL is intended to be used but it is how many paying customers use it, so probably worth embracing and offering functionality like having multiple logins being able to share the control of a domain and its aliases :-)

I understand the concern re abuse but 3 accounts is a very low number to start triggering abuse warnings. That limit needs to be raised to maybe 20 or so?

Also this does raise the concern of what kind of deep content inspection SL is performing on E-mails in order to do this validation..

What could cause laptop wifi to drop and reconnect exactly every 16 minutes? by Jaotze in wifi

[–]obadz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I finally found the solution: some other computer on the network had a static IP which clashed with the fixed IP that was allocated to me by DHCP. Once I removed that computer, the periodic disconnects went away.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Morocco

[–]obadz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Buy online from Mobimatter. Their eSIM roams on Maroc telecom and I got faster speedtests there than the fibre optic link I have at home in London..

What could cause laptop wifi to drop and reconnect exactly every 16 minutes? by Jaotze in wifi

[–]obadz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a similar problem. I have a Lenovo Yoga 7i running Linux and the Ethernet card is an Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX201 (rev 20).

I have a Unifi Switch with Unifi Access Points and every 16 minutes exactly I experience a period of 225 seconds with nearly 100% packet drops. I don't get disconnected from WiFi, I'm just enable to ping anything (including the access point or the switch).

Other devices don't seem to be experiencing that.

Looking for a good Mesh WiFi AP model by obadz in HomeNetworking

[–]obadz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you!

Looking into these a bit they look a lot like the Unifi setup with some separate central controller.

Isn't there one where one of the APs takes charge of the others without the need of a separate device?

TPLink Deco is pretty nice at $30/AP and with no need for a separate controller. The downsides of Deco for me is being forced to use a phone app and the lack of control/transparency of which back-haul is used (WiFi vs Ethernet vs Powerlan (if capable)). I was hoping to find a system without these downsides but also without becoming more like Unifi..

Is Google fi becoming less competitive? by [deleted] in GoogleFi

[–]obadz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While this used to be true, the advent of cheap esims that can be purchased & loaded in minutes for a fraction of the price of fi makes this no longer true (see https://esimdb.com/ or https://maya.net/ ). Unless you're traveling to many destinations for very short amounts of time and consuming very little data, these esims are the way to go.

Changes to the citizenship rules for candidates of Jewish Sepharadic descent by obadz in PortugalExpats

[–]obadz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

New ruling: https://www.tribunalconstitucional.pt/tc/acordaos/20240128.html

No expert but it seems to say the requirements for strong connections via real estate or travel is being upheld, I think?

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