leehamm

There are lots of apps to allow you to buy data time on an eSIM, for travel in another country.

I have yet to hear an advantage to the user. US carriers have made them difficult to implement and difficult to change. AT&T told me I had to visit their store, even though I am outside the US. Mint couldn’t handle it at all. Telcel advertises them but they are only available in the big cities. A physical SIM can be yanked and replaced.

SanDisk has a 1TB micro-SD with 120MB/s read speed, for $125. $/GB is lower for their 400GB cards but this is a pretty good price!

multimedia said:

The “Real ID” is a $500 problem for me. My birth certificate shows that I have a first name, two middle names and a last name. When I was about 21, I discovered my second middle name which my parents denied they had given me (apparently a clerk added it from my Father’s middle name). I liked it so much that I began only using it and my last name going forward.

I swapped first and middle names at 17, between high school and university, some 45 years ago. No one has noticed yet. I agree: this is bureaucratic nonsense. 

22july2013 said:

I just wish Sidecar allowed me to "click a mouse button and move a mouse pointer with my finger." That would minimize the need to run macOS apps on iOS. But nobody even asks Apple why they won't allow that.

This mouse/finger click, brought to you by Luna Display. 

Still wondering why I need a state driver's license to apply. A US passport is not accepted. I have a US credit history, from <big US banks>. The credit reporting agencies don't ask for state ID. I do live outside the US but I do a fair amount of spending inside the US. It seems a little strange to rely on the DMV for ID purposes.