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Nice chat with our Loyalty Ambassador just now. Vernon is such a nice guy. There were around 140 crystal blocks awarded this cruise. Vernon wanted guests to board the ship and find their blocks waiting for them so he stayed up until 1am the night before turn around to get it done. He has a sample of the new style blocks on board. Old and new style. Rear Side I like the new style. After the 140 distributed this cruise there are around 200 of the old style on board. He leaves early June for vacation and he's not sure when the old style will run out.
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I logged into one of the ship computers. The upload speed is a little better. I noticed a different public IP address. On other ships I've experienced load balancing across the multiple Starlink antennas on a session basis. On Radiance they appear to be allocating different areas of the ship, or different subnets, or different logins to different Starlink antennas yielding a different public IP address. Logging back in on my phone it's another address different from my cabin and the ship computer. So they aggregating the bandwidth across multiple Starlink antennas but are doing it differently from another ship. Maybe they are trying different approaches to see what yields the best user experience.
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Twangster sunrise/sunset camera tip: Most smartphones and a lot of cameras try to average the exposure. This can lead to blown out sunrise and sunset pictures. If you tap and hold it locks focus and brings up an exposure slider. On Android slide left, on iPhone its a vertical slider IIRC so slide down This reduces the overexposure.
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Starlink at the moment: Voom did hiccup briefly just now. After being online this morning I suddenly wasn't and had to log in again to Voom on the same device. Once logged in its been fine. Just a Voom-ism. This wasn't related to Starlink, I don't think. ping 4.2.2.3 --- 4.2.2.3 ping statistics --- 39 packets transmitted, 39 packets received, +4 duplicates, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 33.330/82.414/381.757/63.091 ms curl icanhazip.com 129.222.80.222