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Fuck Qualcomm. My 801 is still running fantastic after more than a year and a half. There’s no reason in the world I should have to buy a new phone to get Nougat just cuz these assholes.
Oh, don’t get me started on the prospect of entering the cell phone store to buy a new phone after four years of avoiding the place.
(I didn’t think Kumail Nanjiani was even acting. It seems like a documentary to me.)
My Android is so out-dated. They took away my visual voicemail (I have to actually call in ), and now I’m not getting all my texts. Have I mentioned that I’m job-hunting?
A couple weeks ago a rope snapped and my Nexus 7 v2 tablet got drowned. It’s dried out now but apparently it took a good wallop because it still doesn’t work. The cracked screen was a tipoff I guess.
Anybody know where to get a cheap 7" tablet with high-res screen, cameras front and back, removable memory (which was the only thing the N7v2 lacked) and the ability to run plain-jane unbranded Android (or linux)?
@JemmieDuffs and I went to a small one man shop and it was an older than us guy behind the counter, he even happily turned down the music when we asked. It isn’t always painful.
Does it need to be a phone as well? I just got one of these BLU Studio 7.0 LTE phablets for RatWoman. She sat on her Galaxy Grand Prime and cracked the screen, and it’d cost more to fix it than the new phone cost. She’s only been using it for a couple of days, so we can’t give you a good review yet, but I think it has all the features you mentioned.
It’s the length of time that kills me. I go in and I know what device I want, and it still takes over a hour because they double-check the plan, blah, blah, blah. When you switch service providers, it takes eternity!!!
(I swear, I’m an impatient eight year old in a --cough-- 50+ body.)
Also (and I can’t believe that I’m even suggesting this), sometimes you can get a free or cheap one if you visit Verizon or AT&T (or wherever) and you revisit your plan. We got two free mini-tablets with data for an additional $5 data per tablet.
That BLU phablet is looking pretty good, but if I can’t run it in pure wifi mode (I don’t own or want a cell phone) rooting a Kindle seems doable… I put cyanogenmod on a Nook once and it worked out OK.
Our landlord’s bank refused to continue their mortgage (and other banks are unlikely to accept it), so they may have to sell the house - which means that we would have to move out within the next few months. The good news is that we wouldn’t have to do all of the usual redecoration work on handing over as we still had a few years on the rental contract, but the bad news is that I don’t think we’ll find anything as suitable in the future. We have a great landlord, great neighbours, a really comfortable place to live and everything nearby. And it wasn’t too expensive either, which is important. This may be challenging.
I’m glad you’re sharing this here and not on the Fuck Me thread because you really don’t need that shit right now and it seems that you understand this. Consider that an excellent start, because it is.
I haven’t heard of it before, but I’m not familiar with German law. Normally a tenant has a lot of rights and we should have at least three months before we have to leave (presuming they aren’t able to continue the mortgage somehow), but it’s quite annoying. I was actually going to build a sauna in the basement this year too (we want this to be the first winter without serious lung problems for our son, and he is getting stronger).
Well, I didn’t think 30, but more like a 15 yr. based upon reasonable housing prices and salaries (not the American way of buying something way out of one’s league). I guess I was thinking that the mortgage life expectancy was tied to the maturation of the full loan.
It seems like a bit of a pyramid scheme, if people are getting mortgages and there are no realistic chances to pay them off.
Although we could probably push for a longer period, this will probably be a lot quicker than I’d expected. If our landlord can’t sell the house quickly, it could be auctioned off by the bank and they’d probably lose a lot of money. It kind of sucks for him - he’s pushing 60 now and I guess the bank doesn’t consider him to be worth the risk of another 10 year mortgage. It’s a shame - they’re a great family and he and his dad built the house for his sister, but she divorced and left and the house has been a lot of trouble for them since then (not the building itself - it’s built very well). In any case, he’s just tired and kind of wishing that they’d made different choices earlier on in life.
So basically, we need to think about moving this month if possible. This is going to be a headache, and everywhere we’ve seen so far has been smaller, farther from work and school and more expensive. We’ll also have to spend the next month vacating different rooms as they get renovated, and making sure everything’s in a good condition for viewings. A month ago our landlord was saying not to worry about our lease running out in a year and a half; we could stay as long as we liked and treat the house as our own.
Not a chance, unfortunately - it’s probably going to go for almost half a million, and we were very lucky to be able to rent it at all (we’re paying €1300/month). They had a string of bad tenants up to the last one (a pastor and his wife), so they offered us the same reduced rent on the basis of their recommendation. It turns out that landlords who don’t care too much about money aren’t that common. Who knew?
), and now I’m not getting all my texts. Have I mentioned that I’m job-hunting?
