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Canadian.

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I have been on hold with Other Pharmacy for 20 minutes.

edit: they faxed to the wrong number.

edit2: still not faxing it.

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They don’t like to do paper prescriptions anymore, especially for ADHD meds, and so everything is sent back and forth direct between drs and pharmacies.

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If there’s one thing Canada is amazing at, it’s screwing up bureaucracy to make the easy things hard.

That said, I’d think the “digital ID” chuds would scream bloody murder about fully digital scrips.

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I don’t think you realize how unwatchably blurry VHS is. I can’t believe we ever watched those things now.

DVD is still a bit of a nuisance because of aspect ratios and they’re a little blurry because SD, but VHS is just garbage.

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I haven’t looked into it, but doesn blu ray need some kind of connectivity to manage its cryptography?

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It’s funny, even though mechanically they’re the same, different games make it feel different.

Like, if a game presents them as special objectives or something, that seems okay. Extra stars for extra achievemnt? Fine.

But when they say “you finished the level… I rate you a D+” that’s kind of a kick in the nards.

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I’ve run into antiviruses blocking code I’ve written just because I pulled in certain cryptographic libs. Literally pulling in some Microsoft cryptography libraries in c# made it think I was writing a crypto locker.

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You’d think so but every device around my house that I “put batteries in it and forget it” when I need it I find the batteries have exploded and the device is ruined (regardless of the decade on the expiry-date label of the battery). So my plan now is to keep the device separate from the batteries like it’s a freaking handgun and make sure my phone is charged so I can use its light to make my way to the drawer where we keep the batteries.

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Disappointed Moto Mods didn’t catch on. The obvious approach of “skinny phone with minimal features but you can slap whatever you like onto the back (radios, projectors, beefy batteries, gamepad, etc)” - just makes sense for me. I loved my old Moto Z.

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Rechargeable batteries self-discharge and get damaged if left unplugged for too long, and explode if left plugged in. They are not ideal for something you want to pack away in an emergency kit.

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Yes, but there’s a difference between “expires” and “leaks all over the inside of my emergency radio”. And they don’t make it to half their stated lifespans once put into a flashlight and the flashlight goes into storage.

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Really, you want a narrow phone? The difference in width is the biggest thing I dislike about the new longer-aspect-ratio phones. I used to use a Moto z, which was 16x9 aspect ratio instead of the modern 20x9 and that’s the biggest thing I miss - the typing that wide screen was heavenly.

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That’s funny, I have the same phone, but I’m naturally a two-thumb typer. When I gesture-type I still find it okay, though even without the mini mode. I’m a short guy but I guess I’ve got big flexible thumbs.

I used to lie down on the sofa and surf Reddit two-thumb typing in landscape mode on my old Moto Z, which is why I really miss 16:9 screens - on 20:9 screens the keyboard obscures the entire text area in landscape you literally can’t see what you’re typing, so I can’t do that anymore. I was a huge landscape-typing fan, I used to even own a side-slider keyboard phone. I bought the Moto Z initially because of the Livermorium side-slider keyboard Moto Mod… which never materialized.

My dream phone would probably be the size of a Pixel 4a but with a 16:9 aspect ratio and some kind of Moto Mod architecture for snap-on batteries and game controllers and the like. I’m still salty that failed.

EU launches first phase of world's first carbon border tariff (www.reuters.com)

BRUSSELS, Oct 1 (Reuters) - The European Union launched on Sunday the first phase of the world's first system to impose CO2 emissions tariffs on imported steel, cement and other goods as it tries to stop more polluting foreign products from undermining its green transition.

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I predict all the chuds who were upset about carbon prices because they meant that the work would just be shifted to unpriced countries will somehow not be happy with this either.

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destroy what annoys you on sight

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They’ve had a lot more than 2.

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I predict that within 10 years, computers will be twice as powerful, ten thousand times larger, and so expensive that only the 5 richest kings of Europe will own them

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The reason I hate HTML: I’ve seen smart, reasonable people do this with IDs, and I’m not 100% sure they’re wrong.

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They didn’t really have a choice. They were building on open-source software and Linux and Arm are somewhat bad at abstracting the hardware. So this means that the manufacturers must homebrew their own distro for their hardware, instead of just publishing drivers like windows hardware does.

They’ve been working on fixing this, but fundamentally they built their castle on sand. And if they hadn’t, they probably never would’ve gotten anywhere at all and we’d all be on Blackberry or WebOS or WinPhone or whatever.

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Look I love open-source but the whole lack of a separate binary driver layer is dumb and is why Windows can support a machine for over a decade while Android has terrible device-specific support windows and you don’t just get your new OS version from Android Update, you have to get it from your vendor.

Imagine if you owned a Dell and couldn’t run Windows Update, but had to use Dell Update instead?

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YouTube is the worst for this. I know a lot of people fall asleep watching YouTube so it makes to think that some stuff that was “watched” wasn’t really watched.

I don’t fall asleep watching YouTube. Unless it’s music, I’m not watching the same thing twice.

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Netflix seems pretty good at it but their catalog just doesn’t seem deep enough to prove it out.

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I’ll give them that, they’re crap about a lot but the recommendations are good. My only complaint is that it can’t figure out playlists from context. I have a playlist of 5 hours of instrumental rock and metal and a little electronica. When it ends, ytm adds on music with vocals.

Good music. I mean, I like it. But I’m trying to work here, I put on my instrumental playlist for a reason.

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This is a problem with the US news in general because it uses the words “raid” and “execute search warrant on” as synonyms, when the former conjures up images of guys in body-armor with carbines and the latter a couple of cops and a bunch of specialized investigators. Like, various layers of US government have “raided” many of Trump’s properties, and obviously it was the latter and not the former, it’s not like Trump is gonna get the Breonna Taylor service.

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When Google Podcasts launched it was a bad joke, and I was already using Google Play Music for podcasts when they removed the feature. It was basically the same cycle Google is repeating now, and has done to their messaging and music apps.

So I gave Google Podcasts a day to try it, and switched to Podcast Addict.

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Not at launch. Google Play Music did, iirc, which is why I switched to Podcast Addict when GPM lost podcast support and they launched Google Podcasts. People complaining that Google Podcasts is another incidence of “Google replaced a good app with a bad one” are missing the detail that this is also Google Podcasts’ origin story. Get off the treadmill.

I do feel genuinely bad for any developers who had to work on a dead-end product like that though.

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I know, it sucked last time I got a new phone… but I think it has that feature added now. I haven’t tried it yet, but I’ve turned on the “automatic backups” feature.

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I recognize that artstyle anywhere, that’s definitely Tim Kreider of The Pain. Goddamned brilliant political comic artist who switched to long-form magazine articles and stopped making his beautiful and hilarious comics about a decade ago. I’m still sad that we went through the whole Trump era without his cartoons.

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Nope, his take on the subject was

“JESVS vs JEEZUS”

www.thepaincomics.com/weekly050504a.htm

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I dunno, company that sells digital content for young people buys company that sells other digital content for young people. I can see the synergy there. Epic Games Store and Bandcamp aren’t that far apart.

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Very yes. I like Lemmy but there’s a lot of “corporation bad giv updoot” here.

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They also bought 7digital.com this year, which is a site I sometimes buy MP3s from since they have a better selection of mainstream record-label stuff than Bandcamp (no Amazon MP3s here in Canada).

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Unless there is a serious rewrite, Godot will never be a valid alternative to the two main commercial engines

How so? I’ve seen complaints about the C# API and some similar challenges, but nothing show-stopping. Obviously you won’t be making a AAA game in it, but for indies it looks like a decent option.

The dirty secret of software is that any given user-facing OSS application is about 15 years behind the closed-source competitors, but the fact is that most software was good-enough 15 years ago and the industry has spent the last 15 years on cloudifying and A-B testing and GUI revamping and other stuff that isn’t basic functionality.

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I agree on most of it, but I have genuine conspiracy theories I can’t let go of about the end of the “state media” flag. Applying the state media flag to BBC and CBC and NPR was an excellent way to kill it for his Saudi and Russian friends.

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My favorite enshittification of Amazon is how you can filter products by manufacturer, but only if the manufacturer is a reputable company like JOOGEE or XZzy or GoodTime and not those weird no-name companies like Anker or Samsung.

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I will do anything for love but I won’t go through the proper processes for operating a safe and certified kitchen.

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Tell me again how electric cars are the unsafe ones.

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I know I’m just being a snot.

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Counterstrike predates that as a gameplay mechanic.

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I actually did do operating system development, at least back in school. But comparing Apple to everybody else is insane when Apple controls the full vertical stack of end to end hardware. You may as well compare them to the driver support on Nintendo or Toyota.

And also there’s the problem that the Android OS is based on Linux which handles the “wierd new hardware” problem by recompiling the kernel, which doesn’t work so well with closed-source binary drivers. And that’s before even getting into the ARM architecture.

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Shh corporation bad giv updoot.

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Ban glue in non-waterproof electronics. I remember when I didn’t need to risk destroying a device with a heat-gun to open it up and repair it like 10 years ago, but y’know, everything needed to be thinner.

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The problem is that there are security updates that those old phones need and aren’t getting. The whole “let’s tie the operating system binaries to the hardware” thing was always dumb, somehow Windows can handle binary-blob drivers that aren’t built into the OS.

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You’re on Lemmy. That means you’re probably not a “form over function” shopper, y’know?

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Yes. Hated it. The flying mechanics were joyless, the plot was tedious, the weaker enemy units were harmless filler, and there were too many overly-scripted fights.

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