Can I survive France with just an iPad?

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I’m retiring next year and will no longer have access to my work computer (desktop).
I am absolutely useless with IT. All we have at home is a very basic iPad and a couple of iPhones.

If I upgrade the iPad to an iPad Pro, do you reckon that would be enough to get by with, for admin? Anyone done a French tax return on an iPad Pro?

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I have an Ipad pro and do just about all our admin on it. OH has a laptop and a desktop and does virtually nothing.

You do need to have wifi scanner and printer tho.

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Wunderbar. That’s what I wanted to hear. Now we’ve entered the Apple universe I doubt we’ll ever leave.
We have a scanner/copier/printer. Wifi-enabled.

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Truly the Hotel California of operating systems :rofl:

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Whether you can do it with just an iPad, is the least of your problems.

A printer is your most important piece of kit.

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That is probably a reference I don’t need to understand but I happened to spot it and just wondered…

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I believe “You can check out any time you like but you can never leave”.

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Thank you @vero - I feel more educated now! Is that from a film?

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It’s a song by The Eagles:

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It’s a song by the Eagles (I think) from the 70s, called Hotel California
On the radio ALL THE TIME in 1981 for my first year at university, in Germany. That and Breakfast in America by Supertramp.

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Thank you @vero and @_Brian - if one isn’t embarassed to be ignorant in some areas, it’s surprising what I can learn on SF :rofl:

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Whether you can do it all on an iPad I don’t know. Mrs P sometimes has difficulties navigating websites with hers. I’d be more inclined to keep the iPad and buy a MacBook Air with the money I’d otherwise spend on an iPad Pro (it’s only about 100 dearer) but the best solution is the one you’d use and what suits me may not suit you.

Make sure you have a proper backup of anything, even if you keep everything in the iCloud.

Edit: there’s a link between Hotel California and the famous English occultist Aleister Crowley.

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My only awareness of him is via Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman but then I’ve always had a policy of avoiding such works.

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(Not avoiding Terry etc but was referring to Aleister Crowley)

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Remains essential for dealing with French officialdom, even though much of it’s now online. As soon as we moved here we bought a cheap wifi laser printer solely for the above.

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Terrible old creep. All those dreadful ritual-obsessed egomaniacs were, fetishists most of them. Crowley should have stuck to mountaineering.

Edited to add I’m assuming the Crowley ref is the bit about killing the beast and the HC being a locus amoenus like Thelema and so on?

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I nearly made the HC reference right at the beginning, then thought better of it because I knew it would derail the thread.:roll_eyes:

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It’s easy to be a prisoner of your own device :wink:

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Whatever other advice you take from this thread I would make very sure you take that. All my fianancial stuff. and more besides is not saved to my computer at all, but to a small external hard drive the size of a fag packet. Then I immediately back it up to a 2nd one. As if that wasn’t enough I back it up once a month to a 3rd one. If my computer was to go belly up at this moment I can transfer to a replacement in an instant.

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Useful to have it scan as well.

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Definitely! I do all our admin on an iPad Air. Had a pro previously but couldn’t really justify the extra cost when replacing.