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brenstar @midwest.social
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This is what we had in the 90s, and it was good enough! I had the one with the obnoxious sound effects buttons.
  • I had this from alarm clock from 3rd grade all the way until I graduated high school. The night light had stopped functioning and the clock set button on the back was janky AF by the end of it. Lost it at some point during a move or else I’d still have it. Now they go for a pretty penny.

  • 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.

  • Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna reveal bill to ‘cancel all medical debt’
  • 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.

  • 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).