@VeroniqueB99 My prime hypothesis is that the problem is Android's SDK -- I haven't verified this, but it would be totally in character for them to make apps compiled with it automatically incompatible with older Android versions. Capitalists gonna plan obsolescence; it's how the system works.
I keep coming back to the idea that we need well-funded community-driven software development -- and the size of the organization/funding needed keeps growing...
"COVID Shots Tied to a Lower Risk of Death From Any Cause"
According to a nationwide study of 28 million people in France, vaccinated adults had a 74% lower risk of dying from severe COVID-19, and a 25% lower risk of death from any cause compared to unvaccinated.
Source: https://archive.md/me3mp
Study: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2842305
@cancel Wait, did something happen? My news intake is erratic...
(Update: I have now been informed about the LLM-driven demand for RAM, and Crucial in particular closing their consumer division.)
behold the gorgeous "aerial embroidery" of Victoria Rose Richards
it's the landscape as seen from a plane, except as stitchwork
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@VeroniqueB99 Our newest car is a 2012 model. Both of my phones are now incompatible with our credit union's updated app (and I am annoyed because I don't want to have to go shopping and then get all set up on a new phone; I like my phones just fine). I always wear the same pair of flip-flops until the thong pops (they seem to last about 5 years).
What's the alternative to taking lunch to work every day? (The last place I worked for any length of time had a decent cafeteria; I miss their chili dogs...)
(Just adding to the anecdata.)
RE: https://mastodon.social/@jplebreton/115663070737189718
🗣 LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!!!
@gildilinie tmux doesn't let you scroll up beyond what's visible in the window (or maybe it does, but you have to use some arcane keycombo that I'll never remember).
@wdlindsy Weren't all of the non-compliant media banned from the White House months ago?
I mean, yes, we should be hearing this from the media that wasn't there -- but I wouldn't expect it from any of the ones that are still allowed in, because not asking any of the transfinite number of Awkward Questions they really should be asking is kind of a precondition for admittance... 😡
@BigShellEvent I seem to recall that there is evidence to substantiate your theory.
"Search" is another thing we need to recapture (along with the mass media). :-/
I ordered a pair of cheap DVMs a couple of weeks ago. They arrived a few days ago. I haven't been able to find them since.
ADHD is such fun. :blobcatupsidedown:
@majesty [Clippy popup] It looks like you're trying to destroy civilization and also the sanity of your employees! Would you like help with that? 📎
@BigShellEvent Yeah, I'm slowly (one brick-fragment at a time) trying to build up infrastructure for sharing tech (hardware and knowledge, mainly) more easily within communities (RL and online). There's so much commonly-owned wealth out there that we often ignore because it "doesn't make any money"...
@BigShellEvent Mind you, they think if they wreck the public domain, then everything will be owned by them -- but actually, they'd just be destroying the wall around what they call theirs.
(I'm probably overthinking this in an effort to sound encouraging in a deeply philosophical way, but... I kinda feel like they overestimate their strength just because they've been winning for a long time.)
@Rowan [picks one up off the floor] Oh hey, I think that's the one I was missing earlier... [puts it into an arrangement of objects on the table which appears to be something like the result of a jigsaw puzzle colliding with a Scrabble-like game but based on digits, somewhere in n-space]
...There. Your turn. :blobcatthinksmart: