MY ANDROID HUAWEI-PAD

I live offgrid on a constantly cruising canal boat. Some time ago a friend,  having been informed that my boat was to be fitted with WiFi®,  gifted me a gizmo he described as  'An Android i-Pad'

The device had been 'purchased in error' and arrived at my door sealed in its packaging.  Richard, for 'twas he, being of advanced charitable disposition thought me a suitable target for Yuletide largesse. 

Under the guise of good tidings he delivered it to my land house by car as he departed Perfidious Albion for a Yule time in deepest rural Gaul.

(glis glis) is a code Richard and I share and refers to a wonderful adventure I once had at his instigation and for which I remain eternally grateful. 

It was my introduction to truly off-grid living and I would have gladly embraced it but someone else, to whom I was beholden, could not cope, (as in at all) and the experiment was aborted. 

But I digress. 

The Android Huwei-Pad?  I still use Windows 7 and a Samsung J3 on Android 5.1 but I need to move up to C21 to preserve my stated aim to learn something new every day of my life and stay ahead of the "great unwashed" as we all race towards mere oblivion, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

...Apart from being intrigued by the oil and water analogy of Android and Apple,  I was somewhat 'engaged' at the time so having ripped it from its packaging and admired its glossy modernity,  it got stuffed among my books and then forgotten while I got on with planning and delivering the WiFi®  about which you may read in a previous or subsequent blog ...

Today the Huwei-Pad resurfaced, some eleven months after receipt, and I got to work trying to figure out how to work it.   Very different OS to my W7 and J3s.  It does all sorts of things automatically that I do by hand.  It stores stuff in funny places. If this what i-padders have had to put up with I get it.  At the flat I keep a Dell running Ubuntu which I am learning how to use and on the boat I have my Huwei-pad.  That should keep my instinct for continuing to learn new things in old age honed through to 2024

WIP 24thNov2023 at Watford Gap Services off the M1

this is rather experimental but the idea will be that road tests will be italicized. This gizmo is moving me to the limits of my knowledge as I was reared on Window 1.1 and progressed through W95 (which is still used on my Toshiba NB200)  to W7 (my Satellite C660) and I have various other laptops on W10 and the latest a Dell on Ubuntu.  it takes me weeks sometimes months to get to the heart of any new procedure. I am one of the 10% who has to know 90% of how things work.  Now and again I am a member of that elite band of total nutcases (the 1% who can figure 99%)  and with this new gizmo I intend to get 99% of it EVENTUALLY