brenstar

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[–] brenstar@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago

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

[–] brenstar@midwest.social 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

prioritized passenger traffic over freight

Technically that’s already the law. But freight lines don’t care because the law isn’t enforced

[–] brenstar@midwest.social 5 points 4 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 2 points 4 months ago

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

[–] brenstar@midwest.social 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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@midwest.social 4 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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 21 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] brenstar@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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