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Anyone have experience with dongles or mobile routers for internet when travelling? We're driving to the UK in the summer and travelling around a bit while there, and my partner needs to be able to do video meetings. I know that nothing short of satellite internet is going to reliably get her online if we're out in the Highlands, but any idea what's good for areas with 4G/5G connectivity? When I search half of them are devices you rent and pay some ridiculously high daily rate for access, but I'm after something we can buy and put in our own SIM card with more reasonable data rates. I did find an £800 Netgear 5G device that fits the bill but that seems a bit steep.
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Thanks. I'm honestly not sure if the MiFi style hubs are any more reliable or effective than just using the phone as a hotspot, but she really doesn't want to drop out or have bad connection during a meeting so I'm trying to figure out the best method. Maybe a thing that can take an external antenna is helpful there. Is 4G reasonably widespread and dependable in the UK now? When I last lived there it was often pretty spotty outside of cities (and sometimes even inside them).
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Jun 1, 2023 15:30
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Thanks a lot for the all the mobile Internet posts, they're really helpful!
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Jun 1, 2023 18:21
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Tesseraction posted:The Telegraph is still under the ownership of those wierdo replicant brothers right? Easy to assume the billionaires don't care about saving money on energy bills. It is but one of them died.
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Jun 4, 2023 15:23
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Shyrka posted:All those people on that island wouldn't have been eaten if they'd had a bathroom inspector regularly checking the dinosaurs' genitals. IIRC in the film the bathroom inspector gets eaten along with the bathroom.
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Jun 6, 2023 18:33
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London has Boris' water cannons to cool people off.
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Jun 9, 2023 13:42
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It's the venture firm that makes its money pumping cryptocurrency scams, who've realised the British Government are the last organisation on the planet that still thinks cryptocurrency is the cool new cash of the future and are here to scam them.
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Jun 16, 2023 14:45
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:They missed the real proper macho binmen of yesterday, cheerfully hauling 40-50kg or more bins on their bent backs. 
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Jun 16, 2023 16:07
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Guavanaut posted:Working class and upper class do it the 'traditional' way (with the main difference the number of vestigial forklets off to the side), middle class uses sporks and other weird poo poo they got on kickstarter. Same as U and non-U English.
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Jun 18, 2023 13:23
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I wonder if they at least saw any cool fish before they got imploded.
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Jun 21, 2023 01:29
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fuctifino posted:I'm glad it wasn't just me. I watched that video three times, and I just got even more confused each time I watched it. I think it was, in theory, possible for EU citizens to almost immediately claim JSA if they had a right to reside in the UK for other reasons than jobseeking and would normally have satisfied the other requirements for benefits. Obviously this was a reciprocal arrangement where UK citizens in the EU could also receive (often considerably more generous) benefits there. Presumably since Brexit that no longer applies.
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Jun 23, 2023 02:13
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Google Jeb Bush posted:a friend of mine and her parents decided to go from permanent residency in the US to citizenship two thirds because of Brexit and one third because of Donald Trump I looked into it one time and if you don't have grandparents with helpful nationalities or a big stack of cash to buy your way to a passport, Poland is the EU country with the shortest residence requirement for citizenship - 3 years, 2 if married to a Pole. They even allow dual citizenship! However, you also have to learn Polish so practically speaking it's impossible. And it's not the greatest country in which to be non-white.
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Jun 23, 2023 02:53
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When I worked in a charity shop the secret back room was where the kettle was and the secret upstairs room was where they kept the donated clothes too gross to sell.
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Jun 27, 2023 21:26
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I assume the most senior staff had a cleansing ritual involving a bonfire every now and then, or possibly just hazardous waste pickup wasn't very frequent.
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Jun 27, 2023 21:28
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You can explain memes by giving someone a copy of "The Selfish Gene" along with a printout of the best of Dick Dorkin's tweets.
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Jun 29, 2023 19:16
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Finally a sensible plan to improve council funding. Orkney council to look at proposals to become territory of Norway
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Jul 2, 2023 19:28
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Comrade Fakename posted:Caitlin Moran is BACK! with a book that is this time about men. According to this absolute slating, 13 pages in she says: "I couldn’t think of any book, play, TV show or movie that basically tells the story of how boy-children become men.” She literally cannot think of a single coming-of-age story about a boy. Not, for instance, About A Boy. Or Boyhood. Or around one billion of the world's most popular stories and film/novel/TV/comic book franchises. I'd suggest she read/watch Dune, but I suppose that's technically the story of a boy becoming a man becoming a god becoming a genetic memory of his son becoming a huge psychic worm.
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Jul 5, 2023 20:14
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Nothingtoseehere posted:Both Labour and Tories think that what the country needs is some One Weird Trick that will help fix everything meanwhile everyone is crying out to hear "we'll spend money to fix the big problems" because people recognise the current situation is hosed from funding, not some nebulous lack of reform. They aren't really sure why the Bank of England has an expensive contract with a private company to operate the big money printers it used to own, but they're pretty certain it's not so the government can spend that money on solving the country's problems.
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Jul 6, 2023 12:59
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and another thing: im not going to make anything better. please dont put in the newspaper that i'd make things better
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Jul 6, 2023 19:21
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It's a reference to this beloved classic computer game.
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Jul 7, 2023 08:05
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Since the papers all have big lists of which TV personalities are nonces, maybe the could compare notes and just publish the names of everyone who they don't have dirt on? It would save us all some time rather than just coming out with a new scandal whenever there's a slow news day.
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Jul 8, 2023 12:22
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It's only a bit of confetti, he'll be alright.
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Jul 8, 2023 22:06
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Guavanaut posted:But then you'd just get into "do grass and arse rhyme, and if so how?" chat. wtf in what southern accent do pour and poor sound the same?
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Jul 11, 2023 02:37
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Darth Walrus posted:Humza definitely gettin' fighty: Say what you like about the SNP's own policies, "What's the point of Labour?" is at least a question that resonates with voters.
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Jul 19, 2023 12:04
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The BBC or whatever site isn't necessarily building up that personalised a profile for you. It might not be "this perv always clicks on the A level results stories with teen girls in the main photo", it might just be "our profile shows that this user is a British male aged 18-35" and assumes the rest.
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Jul 20, 2023 14:22
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I thought they were taking their policies directly from Tory leaflets?
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Jul 22, 2023 15:01
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London isn't the worst city in the UK but as a capital city of 10 million and the shining symbol of England, and given all the money and media attention it gets, you'd think it would be a lot better.
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Jul 23, 2023 11:44
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It's probably top 5 among English cities but have you seen some of the competition?
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Jul 23, 2023 11:46
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Gonzo McFee posted:Glasgow is better. Finally a good take on London.
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Jul 23, 2023 14:56
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The central belt has some of the same problems as London in terms of getting funding and turning outlying towns into commuter dorms, but at least everyone who lives there isn't constantly going on about how great it is.
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Jul 23, 2023 15:05
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Z the IVth posted:drat the Fort is £500k I reckon if the thread clubbed together we could buy it and all live there together.
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Jul 26, 2023 13:39
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Bobby Deluxe posted:C'mon, if you're going to start a crazed internet commune based on fringe economic theory, at least buy a seafort. If I understand the latest climate research correctly it is going to be both a seafort and an ice citadel in the near future.
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Jul 26, 2023 16:40
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I wonder what Starmer Labour's theme song would be.
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Jul 26, 2023 18:53
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Sanford posted:Have you heard The Beeching Report by ILikeTrains? All fine suggestions. I'd also submit for consideration You Suffer by Napalm Death. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z1IGjr2cT0 e: Gorn Myson posted:The minority that do enthusiastically support Labour right now do centre on a strong sense of nostalgia for New Labour, so it would probably just be Things Can Only Get Better again. big scary monsters fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Jul 26, 2023 |
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Jul 26, 2023 21:14
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The Perfect Element posted:Increasingly I think of 'best place to live' in terms of which region is gonna be the least hosed by climate change. I don't know if this even slightly possible to calculate yet, but I guess I assume closer to the north or south pole = better? You can move to Svalbard tomorrow if you like, no visa or citizenship needed. I'm not convinced it's the best place to ride out the next decades but at worst you'll help keep the polar bears from starving.
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Jul 29, 2023 01:07
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Some of my colleagues doing the experimental side got to go there to the EISCAT, sadly I was a theoretical modeller so jolly old London for me. Even the one international conference during a PhD-ship which the department would fork out for happened to be in Birmingham in my year. The year before me got Vietnam - I missed out on all the jollies. That's a shame, it's an interesting place to visit although I don't think I'd want to be there long term. I've really no idea what EISCAT are doing but their installations are very cool looking, I've been to all their sites except the Finnish one. Skiing around the huge dish and antenna array they have near Tromsø was fun.
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Jul 29, 2023 12:37
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The problem is that while I am the perfect driver: patient, courteous, observant and competent, everyone else on the road is a deranged moron who won their license off a scratch card.
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Jul 30, 2023 14:32
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It's not really necessary that every last child is served by a school bus. Inevitably there will be some who can't use it for whatever reason. But the outliers The Question IRL talks about are not an argument against improving public transport and discouraging car use - if you take 90% of the school run cars off the road then you've done a lot to solve the problem and the roads become better for the 10% who absolutely have to drive their kids in as well. You do really have to do the improving public transport bit though, and ideally do it before you start wielding the stick against drivers.
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Jul 31, 2023 14:24
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Had to drive to Glasgow today and they've put in an LEZ since I was last in the UK. I'm raging, Sadiq Khan has gone too far this time.
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Jul 31, 2023 23:39
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I saw a woman and two kids riding one of those little two-wheel horse carts along the road yesterday. Looked pretty fun imo.
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