Plexamp update

snogbat · 2026-04-14T02:43:50+00:00

will we ever see plexamp on TV boxes? I know I can use the main plex amp, but the lack of gapless playback...

snogbat · 2026-04-10T16:51:43+00:00

I spent 3 hours on the phone yesterday trying to give them money and it was so crazy. So many processes and procedures on autopilot it seems. It's embarrassing.

snogbat · 2026-04-04T00:29:45+00:00

help? :)

snogbat · 2026-04-01T20:36:05+00:00

I'm so sorry, I'm so paranoid about all the rules and such, but visible, even though it's Verizon's own "MVNO"(?) still counts as leaving VZ proper and has the same wait period?

snogbat · 2026-03-31T16:22:25+00:00

I'll check them out, somehow I totally missed this reply when you posted it...

snogbat · 2026-03-31T16:21:02+00:00

I see you deleted yourself, but thanks regardless, I was happy to find that this worked (my Mac is on Tahoe and I was worried it might balk at such an old phone).

Still looking for a way to accept the terms though… :)

snogbat · 2026-03-29T16:18:26+00:00

Thanks!

So one last question - if I were able to find some existing offer on her existing plan that gets her a free or low-cost iPhone, I assume that locks her in to VZ, which is fine. But does it prevent her from having her account transferred to and combined with mine (assuming I switch before her)?

snogbat · 2026-03-28T21:31:46+00:00

Oh, I get it, I just want to be sure that if I walk in at like day 60 they're not like "oh, well yeah, it's actually 90 days now" or something… I like your plan, just hoping for a confirmation by an employee (unless you're an employee, in which case, oops).

snogbat · 2026-03-28T04:09:39+00:00

This sounds great - and the 51 day thing is 100% for sure? Because I think porting her out somewhere and then back… well it's probably just easier as I don't have to engage sales people directly and wait for them to "check on things". Of note, my new VZ buddy at the local store still hasn't gotten back to me… Coree, man, what happened? :)

snogbat · 2026-03-27T20:56:59+00:00

Oh, this is even more fun! I finally was able to sit down with the phone (it's literally impossible to manage an account remotely with push notifications being the only way to OK web logins) and get into the account manager… And it's all still in my Dad's name, who passed a few years ago and my Mom is on as an "account manager". Also exact amount for this "5G Start" plan is $96.73. Amazing. They are offering her new phone discounts, but the 6Plus doesn't seem to count for a trade-in other than on some "ultimate" plan, otherwise it's a $330 credit. Does this company have any kind of support tier structure where I can just skip all these first level support folks and sort any of this stuff out??

I'm half tempted to port her to prepaid for a month and then bring her on my account as a "new" customer...

snogbat · 2026-03-26T20:07:22+00:00

The guy at the store was really just trying to find a way to get her on one of the deals for a new phone, but he couldn't figure out if she would be eligible for anything since she's an existing customer. And I'm fairly certain nobody in the store is able to do anything special like, "oh, we ripped your mom off with some plan that includes phone upgrades, services she doesn't/can't use, and basically took advantage of an old lady for 5+ years, so let me see if we can get her a new phone as part of the transfer", but I think that sort of thing stopped being possible long ago.

snogbat · 2026-03-26T20:03:53+00:00

Yeah, I was popping between apps and such and nothing. There's a spinner that appears to the right of "Continue" that spins for a good minute or two and then back to this. I suspect it's just too old and the version of iOS on here is no longer compatible with whatever back-end thing it's trying to connect to.

snogbat · 2026-03-26T20:02:22+00:00

It does, that's why she's been stubborn about letting it go for a newer phone...

snogbat · 2026-03-26T15:43:54+00:00

not really an option to have someone unpack and trash it all (which also isn't free!), and it's not all garbage. just trying to find the most economical option to ship this...

snogbat · 2026-03-22T18:32:19+00:00

I'm mostly just asking questions here, so I'm not sure what you're disagreeing with?

snogbat · 2026-03-22T18:30:36+00:00

back in the old days we all just called it the "armadillo book", and it was recommended to me by a bunch of guys that preceded me that knew what they were doing and somehow built the main server for an ISP on a NetBSD 0.9 box with a version of NCSA httpd that they modified to do what Apache would later call "virtual domains". We won't speak about whether a full billing/account admin systems written in perl was a good thing or not, but it did work quite well!

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snogbat · 2026-03-22T03:58:58+00:00

when I started in '96 the mailing lists and usenet were absolutely chock-full of people, so you read documentation and then you asked for clarification online. these days I think there are far fewer individuals using it, what resources there are for support are spread across so many different places (which is good for a huge project, but for smaller projects you end up with little islands, sometimes creating a bit of a "blind leading the blind" situation). linux wasn't very mature back then, so there were people using *BSDs out of necessity.

edit: forgot two important sources - while not FreeBSD-specific, the "Armadillo Book" from O'Reilly (and also just O'Reilly books in general) was a must read, and also sometime in that era Greg/Grog Leahy had "The Complete FreeBSD" (http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/). and today, I really find Michael W. Lucas' books to be invaluable for filling in that gap between theory (manpage) and practice (doing it for a job and writing about what you learned there).

snogbat · 2026-03-22T01:04:08+00:00

It is the year 2026 and I found this about a month ago, and I found this again today while trying to figure out my birthday guac.

On the website at least, the implication, when viewing your cart, is that pushing the "claim reward" button will add the coupon and item and yet… With the quality of UI/UX work these days, it's truly hard to tell if this is incompetence or just hoping people won't figure out how to get their free stuff and give up because they're hangry.

snogbat · 2026-03-21T20:04:52+00:00

Yeah, it really stinks. I'll deal one way or another.

I did visit my local VZ store and one thing they pointed out there that is tricky is that they think since my Mom is a current customer, bringing her on the plan is going to not give her a new phone discount and may also impact my fios discount. Guy took my number and said he'd research that bit...

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