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The US healthcare system is barbaric...
  • I fell into this situation a couple years ago and I’m going to ride it as long as I can. The whole system of savings cards is so convoluted that it’s no surprise these kind of loopholes happen.

  • 224 Injured After Glitchy Diabetes App Drains Insulin Pump Batteries
  • 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.

  • New streaming services give you the same convenience you had in the 90s
  • 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.

  • Everyone seems to hate the Google Home app and Nest, should they?
  • 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

  • Are Webapps in 2023 on android a way to go?
  • 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.

  • Are Webapps in 2023 on android a way to go?
  • 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).

  • Are Webapps in 2023 on android a way to go?
  • 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.

  • What does cigarette smoking do for people?
  • 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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