At some point in the future, robotics will reach a point where most medical procedures will be performed in the home, by cheap shitty gadgets, manufactured in China and purchased online.
At some point in the future, robotics will reach a point where most medical procedures will be performed in the home, by cheap shitty gadgets, manufactured in China and purchased online.
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Hah - love this
Disturbing. Especially if you have a Windows phone.
The more I think about this, the more I worry it might not be inaccurate. Thankfully, I should be long dead before we get there.
I do however worry that I'll live long enough to see Medicare sold off.
If you've got a Windows phone, Suze, I think you're already halfway up shit creek.
Seriously, from what I understand, Microsoft killed their phone-specific version of Windows in favour of trying to make Windows 10 work across all types of devices. I've briefly used a couple of the tablets, and found them incredibly underwhelming; and I hear the phones are even worse.
Having said that, I don't particularly like Apple's locked-down approach, or the fact that Google is attempting to do the same with Android. Firefox phone came out of the gate limping, and fell directly into the rubbish bin of history, and both Sailfish and Ubuntu phones look increasingly likely to go the same way.
Ugh, I hate the state of mobile operating systems at the moment.
No I have a Galaxy S6 actually. I'm an Android Evangelist. :)
Mind you, I've had two HTCs before this, and I would go back and buy another one, but I've just read that HTC's new top-of-the-line model will NOT have a headphone jack. Fuck you headphoen jackless phones, I don't want you, I just (well about eight months ago) spent $400 on top of the line noise cancelling headphones which are NOT cordless. So I will not be buying that!
I mean Grrr. I have a great pair of bluetooth headphones for my phone, but they only last eight hours and are NOT over-ear noise cancelling. Now how is that useful when you are flying out of Australia, really?
(we are planning a trip to the UK at Xmas 2018. Assuming the Trumpocalypse doesn't arrive by then)
About Medicare. It will not die as long as there are people such as you and me who - above all else - believe in public health and the right of every person - regardless of means - deserves health care.
As long as there's no Trumpocalypse.
I also would hate to see the headphone jack die. I've heard people say that it's impossible to use the wanky Apple ear-buds and charge the new iPhone at the same time.
I hated to see the SD card and the replaceable battery die, but both of those things have almost been phased out now too.
I hate that virtually nobody pushes out security updates to devices that are more than two years old.
I hate that CyanogenMod—the group that made the best user-installable Android-based operating-system—fell apart because of infighting.
Christ, I can probably almost say at this point that I hate mobile phones.
In any case, Suze, let's hope that believers in socialised medicine, like us, don't also die out … in the Trumpocalypse.
I've always been too scared to install a different OS on my phone in case I brick it.
I would however love to install a Sense UI onto my Samsung phone. I really miss that aspect of my HTC One.
Flashing a phone is pretty intimidating the first time you do it. If possible, I recommend getting your hands on an old phone or tablet so you can have a practice run.
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