Alastair McBain :unverified:
Alastair McBain :unverified:Unsplash, please show me photos of "vinyl"
Unsplash: OK, here's a bunch of photos with albums, records, and ... a collage of cassettes.
Uhhh, cassettes?
Unsplash: No? OK, how about a solitary VHS tape?
...
Unsplash: DVD Player?
Wat.
Alastair McBain :unverified:Google's releasing new Pixel devices.
Having owned one once (Pixel 4XL) that had serious battery issues (that Google knew about, and sold anyway)...
and given the large amount of complaints about their hardware...
Does Google just have dogshit QA or is it that they sell way more than anyone else so a small percentage of problems seems like a larger one?
Seems to me it's the former, but heck if I know.
Alastair McBain :unverified:Wonder what the broader appeal is. At one point these were supposedly well sought after.
Found it in my front room storage, untouched (aside from opening the box back when I got it).
Never got around to it, and life went in another direction anyway.
Hoping maybe someone local will buy it, but if you're interested drop me a line?
Seems it originally cost me ~$233, but I'm flexible. Shipping might be a PITA internationally though.
https://spylabs.bigcartel.com/product/joatsff
Alastair McBain :unverified:Caravan Palace albums: Yup, yup, yup (EP), yup, nope, yup. 😄
Alastair McBain :unverified:Went to an Express Care (not the same as an Urgent Care; confused yet?) recently, and though I didn't really get an answer, nothing was alarming.
However, after everything the physician's assistant said he checked Copilot just to see what it would say.
It regurgitated stuff we already talked about, and I'm "happy" he didn't use it for our primary assessment stuff, but... eesh.
Not great.
I've also got asked once if someone could use AI for transcription. I did agree, but... still weird.
Alastair McBain :unverified:It makes me sad the perfect domain name for my locally-oriented public project cost me over twice my hosting costs. 🙁
Alastair McBain :unverified:Our system is filled with decent medical professionals hampered by absolutely awful businesses around and in-between them.
Today's micro rant brought to you by getting billed twice by different entities (one of which who doesn't even seem to have been involved) for the same exam.
Waiting to hear back from the first, who already got paid.
Not happy. (And this is WITH insurance.)