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Re: Ask HN: Digital Nomads: What's Your Setup?

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Post by iso1210 »

simias wrote: post #146
trevor-e wrote: post #130

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Yes, currently, but I don't think anyone expects this to be their policy in the future.

What makes you say that? I haven't followed StarLink very closely but it seems to me that in order to be competitive and maximize profits it would be extremely beneficial for them to have regional pricing policies.

They've said they want to allow moving dishes

What the price options looks like in 12-24 months time is anyones guess. Personally I'd love to buy 250 dishes (at full price, $2k each or whatever), but skip the monthly charge (or have some sort of pool agreement)

Re: Ask HN: Digital Nomads: What's Your Setup?

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Post by Hippocrates »

Some suggestions come to mind:

If you're OK with it, turn off video and set zoom/whatever to low quality audio. This whole "cameras on" thing adds nothing to productivity and culture unless it's screen sharing you need to do.

xfinity and FIOS, maybe others, also offer a good amount of public hotspots which you can sign into with your subscriber login. I don't believe there's a cap and speeds are great.

Try to plan meetings vs heads down or offline work around when you are likely to have wifi if you can.

If you're working from a van I might look into some sort of directional antenna so you can get a significantly higher range on wifi to a bridge and then re-broadcast that inside the van. Thats not an area I'm experienced in but just an idea.

Re: Ask HN: Digital Nomads: What's Your Setup?

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Post by jamal-kumar »

res0nat0r wrote: post #67
jamal-kumar wrote: post #44

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Yeah man I just hang out in San José for the most part. Pre-pandemic, fun party scene for sure which is probably one of the big things that kept me here. Now it's just nice to be able to spend like 5 bucks on an uber ride and go climbing nearby mountains and volcanoes when I get time off. Great climate in the city and surrounding area. I suggest here or some of the outlying cities and towns around Alajuela. Monteverd…

I have some coworkers in Costa Rica, it is close timezone wise to where I live in the USA now, and I saw this absolutely insane house at an unbelievable price a while back: https://www.coldwellbankercostarica.com/property/11337/ It looks like a fantastic place to live.

My recommendation is to look at Banco Nacional's foreclosed properties. There's a website, it's all in Spanish but if you're coming out here not knowing the language like some kind of nincompoop you're going to be overcharged for everything anyways

https://www.bnventadebienes.com

Re: Ask HN: Digital Nomads: What's Your Setup?

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Post by samatman »

simias wrote: post #146
trevor-e wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, currently, but I don't think anyone expects this to be their policy in the future.

What makes you say that? I haven't followed StarLink very closely but it seems to me that in order to be competitive and maximize profits it would be extremely beneficial for them to have regional pricing policies.

Assigning a price to a given (large) region is the easy part.

The hard part is cache invalidation! For a stationary Starlink dish, every satellite knows which cell a given dish is in, and they cooperate to route packets to that cell when they can.

For a mobile Starlink dish, they have to be able to invalidate that cache every time it moves, instead of having a cushion of a few hours for the occasional move.

It can be done, but I don't blame them for punting on that problem for awhile.

Re: Ask HN: Digital Nomads: What's Your Setup?

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Post by philip1209 »

I'm no longer a digital nomad. But, when I was . . .

* Macbook Pro 13". Ended up with a Spanish keyboard partway through travels when I had to replace a stolen laptop in Barcelona

* Google Fi. Had great tethering, and you can pay per-gigabyte to maintain data speeds after the typical 15gb limit.

* iPad as a second monitor

* Apple international power adapters

* Geoblue for health insurance

* Occassional WeWork membership. Today I'd take a look at their All Access offering. But, many cities have _some_ kind of coworking option.

* (Couldn't find any insurance to cover stolen laptops, and Airbnb's insurance apparently doesn't cover it either)

Re: Ask HN: Digital Nomads: What's Your Setup?

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Post by deanmoriarty »

culopatin wrote: post #145
deanmoriarty wrote: post #98

I’m also interested in a mail forwarding service that can be used as residential address and won’t give any issue with financial institutions, if you have any to recommend :-)

UPS PO Box and call it a “suite”.

Thanks. That doesn’t work with most financial institutions (or the ones I use). No matter what you type, they normalize the address in a USPS-mandated format, and automatically find out it’s an issue. “suite” is not going to trick anyone.

Re: Ask HN: Digital Nomads: What's Your Setup?

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Post by itomato »

Right now, using resold T-Mobile via Calyx on their hardware.

Lots of good resources out there. https://www.rvmobileinternet.com/ do a lot of review and news on the topic.

5G, multiplexed LTE and Starlink are popular options. Some devices out there allow you to intermix radios via standard mini PCIE modules.

Depending on the duration of your stint, I believe the official stance from Starlink is that your device be readily configured to your current location by calling customer support.

Re: Ask HN: Digital Nomads: What's Your Setup?

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Post by jamal-kumar »

qorrect wrote: post #95
jamal-kumar wrote: post #37

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I found this really old book from 1938 for learning German which is quite the artifact, one from 1944 on how to survive an atomic bomb which is also super old and has some funny advice/a picture on wearing a fedora to protect yourself from the heat flash... some book from 1924 on mathematics which takes a historical analysis approach to teaching called mathematics for the million which is pretty cool. It has a lot of…

That's weird, I was in Puerto Viejo when I found an original hard copy of "Where Wizards stay up late", something I couldn't find for sell in the US right before I left.

I think people take their favorite books and just forget them in places. I found a copy of robert anton wilson's 'prometheus rising' which was a fun read but old copies are pretty hard to find stolen from libraries and stuff

Re: Ask HN: Digital Nomads: What's Your Setup?

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Post by jamal-kumar »

codewritinfool wrote: post #80
jamal-kumar wrote: post #37

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I found this really old book from 1938 for learning German which is quite the artifact, one from 1944 on how to survive an atomic bomb which is also super old and has some funny advice/a picture on wearing a fedora to protect yourself from the heat flash... some book from 1924 on mathematics which takes a historical analysis approach to teaching called mathematics for the million which is pretty cool. It has a lot of…

Mathematics for the Million is a really good book.

Right? I am sure some of the info in it is probably like archaic or apocryphal/historically inacurate in light of recent discoveries like a lot of this old stuff can be but as long as you take it with that grain of salt in mind it's pretty cool

Re: Ask HN: Digital Nomads: What's Your Setup?

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Post by jamal-kumar »

L_226 wrote: post #101
jamal-kumar wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I found this really old book from 1938 for learning German which is quite the artifact, one from 1944 on how to survive an atomic bomb which is also super old and has some funny advice/a picture on wearing a fedora to protect yourself from the heat flash... some book from 1924 on mathematics which takes a historical analysis approach to teaching called mathematics for the million which is pretty cool. It has a lot of…

> one from 1944 on how to survive an atomic bomb which is also super old and has some funny advice/a picture on wearing a fedora to protect yourself from the heat flash 1944?

man scratch that typo. definitely 1946. an older print of this title:

https://www.amazon.com/survive-atomic-bomb-Bantam-book/dp/B0...

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