Tech Questions
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Ok fellas, got a question not tech that leads to another.
1 As I planning trip overseas later in year, I have set up a Wise debit card, seems good, has anyone heard bad things about them>
2 I can have a digital card etc, but if I want it in google wallet I have to set screen lock, is there anyway I can have a lock (pin ) just for Google wallet. I don't want to lock screen on phone all the time as I find it a complete pain in the arse!! -
@NTA said in Tech Questions:
They gave me logs - most of the traffic is bots so I'll go troubleshoot that over the weekend - from memory update .htaccess or something. Fuck it's been a while
Chuck the logs in to Claude AI, AI is great at scanning logs. Tell it the general thing you are looking for.
4000 chunks, tell it there are more to come and you can get through a bit
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@Dan54 said in Tech Questions:
Ok fellas, got a question not tech that leads to another.
1 As I planning trip overseas later in year, I have set up a Wise debit card, seems good, has anyone heard bad things about them>
2 I can have a digital card etc, but if I want it in google wallet I have to set screen lock, is there anyway I can have a lock (pin ) just for Google wallet. I don't want to lock screen on phone all the time as I find it a complete pain in the arse!!Haven’t used the travel digital card thing. but I can definitely vouch for Wise - I’ve been using them for years, really efficient, great rates etc
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@voodoo Hey mate, just thought as you have used Wise, you maybe able to help me with a quandary. I ma stopping at Qatar on way back from holiday. As Wise don't seem to have Qatar Ryasi as one of their currencies, can I use the card there that you know of?
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@Dan54 said in Tech Questions:
@voodoo Hey mate, just thought as you have used Wise, you maybe able to help me with a quandary. I ma stopping at Qatar on way back from holiday. As Wise don't seem to have Qatar Ryasi as one of their currencies, can I use the card there that you know of?
Sorry man, no clue - haven’t used the card, just account transfers with them
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Hey Apple nerds like @Kirwan and @Duluth :
The boy's M1 Pro Macbook with 10CPU and 16GPU cores (16GB RAM) died and insurer is going to send a gift card for replacement value at purchase with JB Hifi
The only options really look like the M3 Pro as M2 only comes in Max.
If the M3 Pro at the same price is only 8 core CPU and 10 GPU is that equivalent or what?
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Clock speed and cache size difference between designs?
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@NTA said in Tech Questions:
Hey Apple nerds like @Kirwan and @Duluth :
The boy's M1 Pro Macbook with 10CPU and 16GPU cores (16GB RAM) died and insurer is going to send a gift card for replacement value at purchase with JB Hifi
The only options really look like the M3 Pro as M2 only comes in Max.
If the M3 Pro at the same price is only 8 core CPU and 10 GPU is that equivalent or what?
Not super up to speed on that, but you should be able to find comparison speed tests (especially for video editing) between the versions.
A jump from M1 to M3 should be a significant increase, even with less cores. But someone will have done the math.
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Cheers gents.
Looks like a significant jump in speed for pure GHz. What I found interesting was comparing the base M3 with the M1 pro
https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare/apple-m3-vs-apple-m1-pro
Single core = M3 std wins
Multi core = M1 Pro winsI'm assuming the M3 pro goes even harder.
The issue is availability - JB Hifi don't list any M3 Pro with 1TB storage as available within 200km...
That kind of sucks as it means we might have to go to the Apple store. Yeesh...
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@Machpants said in Tech Questions:
@NTA said in Tech Questions:
The fuck am I going to do with a JB Hifi gift card for that much?
Surely they can get you one in?
The boy goes back to Uni on Monday, so in theory they can, in practice it might be too late. Earliest delivery is listed as late August.
This comes back to him fucking around most of his Uni break and not doing anything about lodging the claim.
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Ok people, probably not tech in your opinions, but myself and wife are heading Europe and UK for 6 weeks in Sept, just trying to work out ideas for phones while we away. I know some say roaming, but carrier (Skinny)doesn't do roaming in UK or a lot of Europe. I just think it probably fairly important to be able to be contacted etc in case, and maybe we would want to post a few things on facebook etc. So any and all suggestions would be appreciated, and as I not tech savvy if it simple would be great.
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@Dan54 said in Tech Questions:
Ok people, probably not tech in your opinions, but myself and wife are heading Europe and UK for 6 weeks in Sept, just trying to work out ideas for phones while we away. I know some say roaming, but carrier (Skinny)doesn't do roaming in UK or a lot of Europe. I just think it probably fairly important to be able to be contacted etc in case, and maybe we would want to post a few things on facebook etc. So any and all suggestions would be appreciated, and as I not tech savvy if it simple would be great.
I've never used them but a mate of mine uses travel sims with data from this company, not sure if they have a NZ branch but might do as web company: https://simsdirect.com.au/collections/esim-united-kingdom/products/ultd-eu-uk-es
I have no idea if they're the best/cheapest etc so you might need to do some googling.
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End result: new Macbook M3 Pro with 1TB storage for the boy. Lotsa cores. 18GB integrated memory. Will buy AppleCare+ when it becomes available in case this one shits itself.
I just don't want to deal with 3 different parties with JB Hifi Extended Care.
Thank fuck for student pricing - $350 discount.
And I now have a chonky JB Hifi Voucher for my next purchases
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@Nepia said in Tech Questions:
@Dan54 said in Tech Questions:
Ok people, probably not tech in your opinions, but myself and wife are heading Europe and UK for 6 weeks in Sept, just trying to work out ideas for phones while we away. I know some say roaming, but carrier (Skinny)doesn't do roaming in UK or a lot of Europe. I just think it probably fairly important to be able to be contacted etc in case, and maybe we would want to post a few things on facebook etc. So any and all suggestions would be appreciated, and as I not tech savvy if it simple would be great.
I've never used them but a mate of mine uses travel sims with data from this company, not sure if they have a NZ branch but might do as web company: https://simsdirect.com.au/collections/esim-united-kingdom/products/ultd-eu-uk-es
I have no idea if they're the best/cheapest etc so you might need to do some googling.
esims are easy and should be used more, I use them about 4-5 times a year, Airalo, Holafly, all good. Just google esim and do comparisons for destination.
Tip: depending on how long layover and multi-hop, consider the regional, global esim option, then you dont even need to do other activations at every stop
