Carlos

It doesn't matter if they have 50a only, since everyone with a 30a RV should be carrying that adapter and the one for 15a outlets.

Self-driving vehicles are already safer than humans. Humans cause 30,000 deaths a year in this country alone due to mistakes while driving, and computers are already safer. In ten years, self driving cars will be much the norm, and deaths will go down. We'll also regain a huge amount of productivity and reduce stress. Imagine doing something useful on the way to work, and arriving without the stress of the idiots on the road. My next vehicle will be the 2020 Jeep Gladiator diesel, with the full-stop adaptive cruise system. Not self driving, but will take out one of the biggest causes of stress and problems; unpredictable speed/braking from other drivers. I laugh every time I hear people talk about humans driving better than a computer. It sounds exactly like the anti-automobile hysteria a century ago. When you have ten cameras, infrared sensors, RADAR, and LIDAR installed in your head, let me know.

I have a Cobra 75 WX ST and like it a lot. It's a unit where the entire thing is in the microphone, no big box to install somewhere. I use it primarily while off-roading since many people still do, though many are going to GMRS/FRS and VHF. I have a 60w VHF/UHF mounted in there also. The Cobra was a very easy installation, with an antenna mounted into the body panel on the rear bed panel.

A $20 Wyzecam is what I have in the RV. It needs wifi, but doesn't necessarily use your CELLULAR bandwidth which is what you care about. When you view it, the traffic just goes over the wifi from the camera directly to your device, not via the internet. It works without internet service too. Power is from USB, so you can use any 12v to USB adapter to run it from the batteries. I did a power test on it and it uses around 1.65 watts, so only 3.3 aH for a full 24 hours. It's basically nothing.

The roaming "warning" is provided by the phone as a user protection feature. The phone doesn't really know your carrier's policies. It used to be that rural carriers would rape roaming users with charges over $1 per minute. So phones had to be able to warn you. Currently, I believe all Verizon plans have free roaming, though they will cancel you if you roam excessively and constantly. Lack of a good connection is common all over the West. We always download a bunch of TV shows and movies to the devices before leaving. If streaming breaks, we watch the stuff that's local on the computers/tablets.

By that logic, why bother with car insurance? The reality is that there are threats to your data all over, and everyone should be taking steps to protect themselves. VPNs do nothing to protect data on modern services however, since they are all encrypted anyway.

That's why I think it's important to keep opinions out of threads like this and concentrate on the known facts. I spend a lot of time dispelling myths with users and securing networks and devices even though people often just don't care to, or their uncle's brother in law told them what's the perfect solution (it never is).

Those two things have nothing to do with each other. Like most VPN users, you don't really understand what it does. I make, manage, and use VPN servers. This is part of my job. As is capturing and inspecting traffic on networks. TCP/IP routing has been my specialty for a couple decades. I may have been around this for a while. Cleese nailed it, people who haven't had any training or experience fancy themselves experts in medicine, physics, and all manner of subjects now because they did five minutes of google research and think they know.

Many of those actually do have a benefit to the user: Credit cards... Citi sent me a note saying that because of my usage, I could get an option to get more rewards at certain stores. I was able to buy a new phone with 12% cash back. Amex sent me an offer to save a whopping 6% cash back at supermarkets! All of the medical companies are required by law to exchange certain information about you. Some with your permission, and some without. The obvious benefits are coordinated care, checking for drug interactions, and being ready to care for someone in an emergency. When my wife landed in the ER two years ago, they had all of her info before she even got there. Is that not a good thing? She was prescribed a drug by one doctor, and our new one could see the history on it. He said his opinion was different on it, and we should try something different. It worked. Benefit? Banks and CUs are a mixed bag. I got an offer to refi that saved us a bunch of cash because of data sharing. Amazon...no benefit that I can think of. CRA...how else would you manage credit worthiness?

Wrong about what, that data is encrypted in flight? I mean, I only create and manage the networks and servers, what would I know? Seriously though, are you saying that data is flying in the clear between you and your bank, or your mail server, or whatever? I don't read end-user level articles and no, don't have links to provide.

Either that article is ancient, or the author is completely ignorant. Intercepting data on wild networks is a thing of the past--long past. It's not longer a threat at all since everything is encrypted anyway. I use my own VPNs on my own servers to get to my own network and manage servers without exposing them to the internet. That's the most obvious use of VPNs. I never tunnel other traffic on the VPN, because there's simply no reason to. I still can't come up with anything that benefits an end user.

Ohm my god, I am shocked that you would make light of this situation. I would expect a well grounded RVer to understand watt's at stake here. Geez, I'm going to bail out of this thread before I get too amped up about it and blow a fuse.

Only if you ignore wire gauges, clamp resistance and surface area, battery internal resistance, and a bunch of other factors. They are "the same" in theory, not in practice.

The question would be current. My Jeep has a huge alternator, the wife's BMW has a much smaller one. Diesel trucks have two batteries or more, and large alternators. The Nissan, not so much. Jumper cable size matters a lot also. I can (have) instantly jump a large truck from my Jeep with the #2 wires I carry. But have also spent a while waiting for a charge to happen on cheap-junk light cables.

Which is useless, outside of an emotional desire to not let your ISP know what you're doing. It's not a security risk/benefit to use a VPN, nor does it protect your actual data outside of just seeing the location of your requests. It does absolutely nothing that has a tangible value for nearly everyone in the US. In other countries, there may be state problems, and occasionally content restrictions that can be bypassed with a VPN. And obviously I use when when I pirate TV shows, but again, most people don't do that. The average end user has an incorrect fear/belief that VPNs offer some measure of tangible security, when it doesn't.

I'm guessing you don't boondock far off highways in the West. I'm less than 30 minutes away from areas with absolutely no service on any carrier. For those trips we download at home to play later. Saves on the cell usage too.

Nord is indeed probably the best deal on a service almost nobody needs.

We are often totally away from any cell service at all.

Because that's what you do when people are asking for overall ideas on something they haven't done before. Now that a personal reason has been posted for avoiding laundromats, I hope it can stop being mentioned. Until now, it was reasonable to assume that it was based on something irrational like assuming that doing laundry onboard is easier. She's got a perfectly rational reason to avoid the public washes and that's that.

I'm a political refugee, so I'm already legally required to carry a green card or refugee travel permit, and of course that works. Others can get a travel ID, or get the Real ID, or use any federal ID like military/etc.

It's been an option for a while. Nothing about that article says they will stop issuing the standard version.

I'm happy to show you where I've been online, including my favorite porn sites. I'm just not happy at all when I see ads. And others may have different standards of privacy, which you should acknowledge is just their choice. Personally I don't care all that much about the ad data sharing, but think people should be aware and make their own choices. I just don't want to see the ads or have them sent over my sometimes limited bandwidth.

Oh, part of the whole Real ID thing? Maybe that's why in AZ I can use a UPS address for everything; no Real ID.

I was recently watching "How it's Made" online, and at the end I had several suggestions on shows I might like if I like that one. I don't know how I would have found those otherwise. So yeah, everything has different compromises. I find a lot of stuff from the lists on the Roku and on various services. I don't understand the question of why there's no list; there is. I had originally discovered "How it's Made" by recommendations shown after watching "Mythbusters." Again, not sure how I would have found that if not for the intelligent recommendation engines you get online. Flipping through channels just gives you a lot of random crap. People can do what they want, but I'm telling you how it is and why satellite is dying. Why AT&T is dumping employees like crazy and why they are gearing up their streaming services. They have something huge coming this fall, and it's going to be awesome at an exceptional price. I signed a non-disclosure agreement and really can't say anything about it, but I'm excited. People generally hate change, and they get stuck in how things MUST be done or have always been done. The program guide, channels, and timed shows are all based on ancient limitations of broadcast TV that no longer exist. We've built systems and processes around limitations, not based on what is best. My job is to literally force tech change on people, often willingly, often kicking and screaming. And in every group, there are the last 20% who have to be dragged. That's what I spent all day today doing, on site. The other 80% have already been benefitting from the new systems provided a while ago, the rest just fear/hate change or something. It happens every time. "How do I do X?" You don't need to do X, because there's no longer an artificial limitation that needs to be addressed. "But we've always done X." Great, you can stop now. So 20 years from now we all know that satellite TV won't exist, and the younger people will have never learned the limitations that forced us to consume media in the way we were forced to by those constraints. In between, people will slowly figure out how to do it better, or not, and be the last few users of a dying service. Analog phone lines. LOL!

What does that have to do with privacy, security, and advertising?