From: lfiskgr@gmail.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 21 Sep 2025 20:24:21 -0400   
   "Jim Wilkins"  wrote:   
      
   >I should learn to use my i6S for more than tethering for laptop cellular    
   >internet. With almost everything turned off to extend battery life it still    
   >can locate me on a map. This 15-year-old laptop is just so much easier to    
   >see, and type on with a slide-out wireless keyboard.   
      
   I'm doing the same (tethering to cell) but have two phones. Provider   
   gives me 20gb data per phone per month. One is my primary phone and the   
   other a spare. If one has problems or system doesn't act right I can   
   try the other phone.   
      
   I usually check out maps and directions on the desktop computer. Maybe   
   take a screen shot or make a pdf for the phone in case I can't remember   
   all of it.   
      
   Fiber has come through since I had to resort to cell phone data but   
   prices for it suck. Would more than double what I'm currently paying. I   
   watched it go in and have zero confidence in how they installed it   
   and how they market their product offerings😑️   
      
   >A car audio store will install a double DIN Kenwood for ~$1000 or sell me    
   >the components for $500. Naturally they told me to beware of Amazon as if I    
   >didn't already know. The rear-mount spare tire complicates the camera mount,    
   >it blocks one side view for a license plate mount. I could mount a camera in    
   >a spare tire center hole cap to get the wide view I want for backing out of    
   >a mall parking space. They had a workable dash screen for under $100 but not    
   >an economical camera with instructions, so it will keep.   
      
   I forgot to mention that the JVC radio doesn't interface with the   
   steering wheel radio controls either. I never got to use the OEM radio   
   that way so I don't miss it. I suspect the owner before had it installed   
   to use their iPhone hands-free via Bluetooth through the radio system.   
   I've never bothered to set it up with my phone. Not something I'd use.   
      
   >They thought drilling a hole might be a problem for me, I suppose that's    
   >from experience with their usual customers. I tend to forget that most    
   >'normal' people see metal as inherently immutable.   
      
   Whoever installed mine didn't put all the dash screws back in nor did   
   they remember to plug-in the Driver Information Center control button   
   panel back in. So you couldn't use the trip meters, oil change life,   
   tire pressures... I wouldn't trust a car audio store to install   
   anything😆️   
      
   --    
   Leon Fisk   
   Grand Rapids  MI   
      
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