[-] brenstar@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago

Loose could really be tightened up if it could just lose one of those Os

[-] brenstar@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

“Wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up first.” - Find a way to do it yourself, because it isn’t happening otherwise

[-] brenstar@midwest.social 5 points 3 months ago

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@midwest.social 4 points 3 months ago

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@midwest.social 7 points 3 months ago

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@midwest.social 6 points 3 months ago

Arctic it was I switched to and has been good.

[-] brenstar@midwest.social 4 points 4 months ago

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

[-] brenstar@midwest.social 5 points 9 months ago

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@midwest.social 4 points 10 months ago

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@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] brenstar@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

If it ain’t broke don’t switch it!

[-] brenstar@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago

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

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