I hadn't seen Beeline, but it looks sweet. I may pick one up.
I always wonder if I'm just buying future ewaste, though. Looks like it requires their app, which requires their live servers. One acquisition away from end-of-lifed.
Drop the Starlink into bridge mode, use the Gl.inet in front as your edge router, have WireGuard/Tailscale/etc connections back to more permanent infrastructure.
Even without a SIM card itself -- Android and iOS devices will tether over USB, so you can tether your own phone directly in and share the connection to other devices as well when you don't want to mess with Starlink.
Similarly, I grabbed one of the over-the-counter CGM biosensors (Stelo) to gather some data for a couple of weeks and the initial fear of "holy hell, I'm slamming a needle into my arm with something stuck to it" goes away as soon as you slap the injector release.
Just one little clap sound, you feel a little pat on your arm, and the sensor's already made it where it needed to with no pain.
When you remove the sensor it's a little bit of a shock when you see the sensor wire and realize just how small it was and how you never felt it run around inside your arm for a couple weeks.
fyi: the impact is an intentional decision. if your nerve endings are signaling something else(hot, cold, movement, etc), a needle prick can get blurred with the rest or ignored altogether. I suspect the bang/clag CGM applicators produce are much the same.
and, for me, its always been the needle moving around thats been mentally disturbing. digging around vecause they missed for the blood draw, trying to hold a large vaccination dose steady as it needs to be injected over 20seconds. So, I suspect the speed itself reduces discomfort.
Yep. It's great that I have to pay to use this stretch of I-90 and then on top of that if I end up at the wrong rest area on a Sunday I won't be able to access every vendor (because they picked Chick-Fil-A at some locations).
In case you are interested in improving the drag-and-drop usage:
There are a lot of connections which look like they should work, but don't - such as patch panel to patch panel. On the other hand, it is possible to connect a single LC connector to two splices at once. There doesn't seem to be any way to unmake a connection. Overriding existing connections sometimes works, but sometimes doesn't. The tube nodes don't have a clear drag-and-drop point towards a cable. By default the tube nodes have a colored edge matching the incoming tube connection, but this edge color doesn't change when you drag a different tube from the cable onto it. The cursor sometimes wrongly shows a "+" to indicate a possible connection, such as trying to drag from one tube exit to another. It is somehow possible to connect two cable tube exits to a single tube node. It is somehow possible to connect a cable tube exit directly to a splice node.
Those probably don't matter all that much if it is almost always auto-generated, but considering the amount of weird behavior it might perhaps be better to disable the edit functionality for now?
It's still partially a problem with crooked doctors.
This is just a step adjacent to the online pill mills for ED medication, GLP-1s, and ketamine, only the advertising and service delivery has been adapted to the elderly that don't use the Internet.
Instead of ads online it's ads on daytime television bragging for free orthopedic supports and braces at no charge to you if you "call today" while they link you up to someone that signs a prefilled script for fifty bucks a pop to bill out to Medicare.
When Nick GAS shut down, somehow, Dish Network had an automated loop of the channel that they themselves kept running for about 15 months after the channel’s demise. I’m curious what systems at Dish Network were still running a ghost channel by itself like that. Did they just get delivered loops of programming to shove on the air from Nick directly and just leave it up? I would have figured Dish would have been getting a feed from Viacom that would have dropped at the same time as GAS itself.
Knowing cable companies that was probably until all contracts with that channel as part of the subscription ended. They had to keep the channel running otherwise they might need to refund people.
I suppose it makes sense if your channel doesn't have a lot of new or live programming to just send a tape instead of setting up a feed.
I always wondered about these types of channels back then, that had absolutely no original programming, and very few if any commercials. What was the plan with them? Were they just trying to keep brand familiarity? Was it so difficult to get a channel spot that they didn't want to lose it? But if so, why go through all the hassle to get the spot with no income stream?
Weirdly GAS was a popular channel back in the day but was offered only on higher tier cable packages (in my market, it required Digital Cable, which meant hoping your parents were willing to splurge for the extra package, the digital box (or boxes)…). I assume the income stream was more being delivered from offering GAS as a ‘premium’ channel, then eventually it became an automated vehicle that just got lumped into a “bundle” of channels being sold to the cable companies (eg “Buy Nick for your customers and we’ll throw in GAS and Jr”) once they stopped providing actual live content for it circa 2004-2005.
Have you seen the Beeline app/hardware? Pretty much a similar concept of 'follow the arrow' to get to where you need to go. https://beeline.co/
> programmable at any time
I assume a caregiver application could reprogram the location pushpin as a feature.
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