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    Upgrade door locks on my 1985 Chevy G30?

    Just to be clear, what you are asking for is recommendations for drop-in replacements for the OEM lock cylinders, but having demonstrably higher security than the commonly available and relatively inexpensive OEM-quality parts?
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    Almost Free No Data Caps Internet T.V. And Movies

    I don't think it was so much that that action fixed anything per se but rather that it power-cycled (reset) my SIM card after the Visible chat rep had reprogrammed it (and altered their back end's configuration) while my phone remained connected to WiFi (as the SIM activation instructions...
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    Almost Free No Data Caps Internet T.V. And Movies

    New Visible SIM received & activated minutes ago. Chat via Visible app was required post-activation to get the connection working; it took maybe 5 minutes including a second SIM remove+reinsert cycle. The only quantifiable difference observed thus far is that, as expected, ping (using Google...
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    Almost Free No Data Caps Internet T.V. And Movies

    ... My reasoning: For the same $ per month, I get: Coverage: probably better. Latency: almost certainly better. Speed: I expect same to slightly better. Network: Visible Unlimited (legacy) uses a Visible-specific "network core", not Verizon's. This (a key part of what differentiated Visible...
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    Almost Free No Data Caps Internet T.V. And Movies

    As of 2/1/23 the Visible 15OFF12 ($15 a month for a year) deal is no longer available. The $25/month Visible pricing (per my 2/2 posting above) is only available for the $30/month "Visible" (low-tier) plan after $5/month "Valued Member Discount" given to those formerly on the Visible Unlimited...
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    Almost Free No Data Caps Internet T.V. And Movies

    I (who've remained on the legacy unlimited Visible plan) just stumbled across a development this AM on reddit's r/visible ("Legacy Plan Upgrade to New Network for Same Rate"), so I checked my Visible account: "See new plans" links to: I have not pulled the trigger on making this transition...
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    "VISIBLE" cell service party pay. Caveats? Pitfalls?

    Straight from the horse's mouth: https://community.visible.com/t5/Your-Account/Party-Pay-Update/ta-p/16819 (click on "See More" to see all the Q&A's)
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    "VISIBLE" cell service party pay. Caveats? Pitfalls?

    Yes. I frequent a (favorite) Mexican restaurant near the corner of AZ92 and E Hereford Road, and my (Visible) speed test results there are amazing (120-140Mbps down typical); the super speeds at this location might have started 4-6? months ago. Within a 1 mile radius of home (3-4 miles away...
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    "VISIBLE" cell service party pay. Caveats? Pitfalls?

    I've been on the now-legacy/-grandfathered Visible $25 plan for 13 months, and in the past few weeks I've noticed (in same old suburban sticks & bricks) my speeds and latency improving. I'm now regularly getting 10-15Mbps down indoors during much of the day (I used to consider myself lucky to...
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    Hello from SE Arizona

    Thanks for the greetings. I live outside of Sierra Vista (10-12 miles "as the crow flies" from the Mexican border). St. Johns (county seat of Apache County) is about 300 miles roughly north (and yet is in "central-eastern AZ"). I remember passing thru there on one of our pre-move tours of...
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    ...continued from "Going Boondocking" in the intro section

    Thanks for sharing this very interesting build with us. It's great to see rational opinionated non-groupthink design vision (and build!). The van is your canvas, and the only one that has to live with your design decisions is you. Apologies if this has already been noted, but I could not find...
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    New York Times article - How NOT to experience van life........

    Truly: as only one example, the number of paragraphs expended on an absurd (purely invented?) suffocation phobia was bizarre (perhaps it was done simply to meet a word-count quota? i.e. filler?). Or the author's generation (ducks)? I agree. IMO the gulf between my perception of vanlife as...
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    Hello from SE Arizona

    Thanks for your reply. Yours is a great approach, and one which I could directly pursue since I have a 2005 Sienna minivan in my household's "stable" (4 drivers, 3 vehicles, but they don't get used much). It's got the most miles of all my vehicles, about 220K, but (squeaks and rattles aside)...
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    Hello from SE Arizona

    Hi Everyone, I've made a few posts here, but hadn't introduced myself: Age 59, married w/2 children still living in our household 1 child semi-disabled, may never leave home (hope springs eternal). 1 child's nest-leaving as been profoundly delayed by COVID (among other things). As a child...
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    Visible Limitations

    My two cents as a Visible customer (actually, all 4 cell phone users in my household (yes, I'm not yet nomadic)) for the past 10 months: Caveat: most of my use occurs within a 5 mile radius of a point about 3 miles from a 40K town (city?) in SE AZ. Definitely not "in town" (rural suburbia?)...
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