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brenstar,

The same reason you don’t carry a camera, a music player, a phone, etc as separate devices in your pocket. Because it’s wildly inconvenient and super frustrating to swap between them. For diabetics in this case, you generally have two separate companies making the pump and the glucose monitor. So at that point you are carrying a phone around, a monitor for your glucose levels, and a controller for your pump. That’s three devices that you need to keep charged and on your person at all times. Not to mention they are generally not slim and sleek and easy to pocket.

The ability to swap between these from a single device and the mental offload that brings can’t be overstated.

That being said, people that use medical services on their phones should not do OS upgrades until they are notified by their makers to be verified and working and should be heavily tested before any updates go out.

brenstar,

Ah yes, just what the healthcare industry needs, LESS regulation. That’ll keep those for profit companies from gouging people for the life saving measures they need to not die.

brenstar,

Yes, corporate lobbying is a huge problem here and is often used as a weapon to stifle competition and increase profits. At times it’s hard to remember what regulations are meant to do: Protect People from Corporations

We don’t need to remove regulations, we need to improve them.

brenstar,

They probably still will, as Omaha and Lincoln are the two major cities in Nebraska that are both left leaning.

brenstar,

Minus ad breaks, I missed this aspect of content consumption. Choosing to watch a random episode of a random show just doesn’t happen and I missed being able to just “see what’s on”. I spent a fair amount of time setting up random “channels” I can tune into that play random episodes from tv shows on my media server and it’s great.

brenstar,

Arctic it was I switched to and has been good.

brenstar,

I had a nest thermostat and I bought a room sensor for it and the scheduling settings for it were horribly rigid (morning, afternoon, evening and night were the only time options available for room targeting and were not adjustable)

I couldn’t have been the only person that didn’t fit into that scheduling and started researching it and came across a support ticket for it that was over 2 years old. It was clear a bare minimum feature for that product was never going to be implemented and I replaced it with an EcoBee thermostat

When would you let go?

Hey all! This may be kind of a dumb post as I know I need to make this decision myself, but I‘d sure love some advice. My oldest dog is 11, going on 12. The poor girl is diabetic, blind, has fatty lipomas, and mobility issues due to diabetes, breed, and age. This morning, we are fairly sure she had a stroke of some sort (the...

brenstar,

This is what I recently did with my grandparents.

Wat

We thought their little old dog was ready to go and didn’t like to see her suffering.

Oh!

brenstar,

We’re in 2024 now my guy

Are Webapps in 2023 on android a way to go?

I mostly use Webapps (f-droid.org/en/packages/com.tobykurien.webapps/) for access to socials and have quick links to services where I don’t want to login every time. Don’t know if there’s an alternative way to do this beside use apps like Insular or other App Isolation like, don’t even know why browser don’t do this by...

brenstar,

You can set up websites to run as standalone apps by adding them to your Home Screen from the browser.

How native an experience you will get with that is dependent on the developer and the work they put in when it comes to caching, implementation of web workers, push notifications, meta data, etc.

brenstar,

which does this by generating an APK on google servers and installing it

I’m sorry but that not at all how PWAs work at all. PWAs are just websites. There is no APK. At its core it is a bookmark to a website without the browser UI.

Chrome definitely offers a lot more APIs than other browsers to allow a website to interface with a phone a lot better. Often outside of the standards the web has set. That can make browsers that follow the standards feel behind (Firefox) and really emphasizes browsers that purposely hinder their browser to incentivize native apps (IOS Safari).

brenstar,

Well that just sent me down a rabbit hole.

My first foray into PWAs was this year but it was a short lived endeavor when I found out I had no hopes of feature parity across devices for core functionality and decided to switch to React Native instead. I didn’t know android did that with PWAs.

Thanks for the explanation.

Alternative ways to run Plex?

Context; So… Just bought a brand new TV and life is good, but I should have done more research before buying it. I primarily want to use PLEX for watching media on the TV. However, due to “smart TV’s” not being smart and being rather slow because most current TV operating systems are either bloated or just riddled with...

brenstar,

The Nvidia shield is the android tv with google play services. It would be your drop in replacement for the Panasonic interface you are currently using.

brenstar,

Blockhead - The Music Scene is just incredible

brenstar,

I’m at least glad the change to “citizens of the state of Ohio” instead of “state of Ohio” got reversed. That wording would definitely have been used to work around the amendment in the future.

brenstar,

When you first start it can relieve stress and be relaxing, but that is a trap. Those effects will fade and what will be left is a habit. A habit that your brain will do some pretty large mental gymnastics to justify.

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    brenstar,

    This one is so ingrained in me that I didn’t even know I did it for the first 20 years of my life and couldn’t stop it if I tried

    brenstar,

    So they stole $140K and the penalty was…$50k in restitution between them and banned from starting a charity for 4 years? Talk about justice.

    brenstar,

    Yeah you might be the only one. Btw your laptop can also charge over USB-C instead of the barrel jack.

    You could buy one high powered usb charger and attach a USBC to lighting adapter to the end of it and you’ll only have to carry one charger when traveling.

    brenstar,

    I mean I definitely travel with more than one, but it’s nice knowing that I don’t have to worry about forgetting to pack a specific charger for that one specific thing and only realizing it when it’s too late.

    Your monitor might not be supplying your laptop with power, but that doesn’t mean it can’t do it. If it can output to a display, then it is a thunderbolt port and can definitely charge it.

    Switch 2 would arrive in the second half of 2024 and development kits are already out (gamerkick.com)

    The successor to Nintendo Switch named Switch 2 will continue to be a hybrid console that can be played on TV and in portable mode, it will be launched without an OLED screen (it will have an LCD) and it will have cartridges/cards for physical games , according to various sources. Anonymous to VGC, where they say that the device...

    brenstar,

    If it ain’t broke don’t switch it!

    brenstar,

    Waterfall grading curves are the dumbest of ideas, especially for an entry level course.

    brenstar,

    Huh, I didn’t know that the code base for r/place was open sourced.

    brenstar,

    That’s a great looking city flag!

    Every city I’ve lived in is always just some ugly seal on a solid background. I wish more cities (or even states for that matter) would take more pride in their flag designs

    brenstar,

    I’ve been using it since it came out. Warm up period is 25 minutes and is the size of a couple quarters stacked together.

    The whole thing is disposable, so no need to transfer over your transmitter between sensor changes. Definitely (not the greatest thing for the environment, but I won’t deny how much I love the low profile that grants it). The injector is much smaller and the application process much smoother.

    It’s a huge improvement over the G6, but is still unsupported for closed loop systems like the Omnipod 5. You can use it with the Omnipod Dash or another supported pump using Loop to achieve a closed loop system if you’re into that.

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