Onomatopoeia @ Onomatopoeia @lemmy.cafe

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No kidding? I don't recall that.

First I read was in Windows NT mag about 1999,they had a working prototype, but without a touch screen.

Of course it wasn't called Android, yet.

Android existed before Google acquired it. So there's an interesting wrinkle there.

But, PalmOS existed before Android and iOS. And Blackberry. Sailfish may have also, I just don't recall.

We're not going back to skeumorphic design are we?

I only fucking hope we are. All this other nonsense is just childish garbage

Would a semi-colon work, to tie the two phrases together?

Sorry, I can't reply, as I have a dumb phone and don't have access to social media. 😆

You're God Damn Right.gif

Ah, thank you.

Just reconcile to using 1 or 2 gen older phones.

*tenets

Haha, well done.

Nah, it's 2 different things.

I could add pictures in the shopping list app, I just don't want them there.

Instead I slowly took pictures of everything I own. And when something new comes in, I take a pic of that. I have a folder for inventory photos.

Those photos are only a just-in-case for insurance.

Lately?

It's all the fucking time, and it's fucking tiresome.

And I'm American.

"allude" haha

I think you meant elude, but the homophone makes it funnier.

Healthcare has some of the worst IT.

Not blaming the IT staff, it's that healthcare leadership does a poor job prioritizing IT.

Having worked with healthcare and finance (banking) IT, the difference is staggering.

Banking doesn't mess around when it comes to Risk Management, healthcare doesn't seem to know what it means.

I vaguely recall a desktop mode phone around 2012. Not sure if it was DeX, may have been.

I don't use voice anyway - everything I do is through an app.

Check out jmp.chat - they route everything, your voice calls and SMS, through XMPP. So voice calls are VOIP. I don't even have conventional voice service with them.

There's also the insurance angle.

Heaven forbid you have a fire or flood from a water line break. Insurance companies aren't your friend and will shaft you if they can - I've seen it happen with friends.

So now I have an inventory (and pictures). I have about 4x the stuff in my place than the average person in a house this size, so the defaults from insurance would make me lose lots of money. Once they see an exported spreadsheet with counts and dates (plus the pictures), they'll cut a check and not argue.

Plus the inventory helps me keep track of what I have so I don't buy it again.

I have 800+ items in my home inventory list. Lots of different tools, household stuff, seasonal, and cooking stuff.

I used to be able to keep track just by having a few containers, but then I started forgetting what container something was in.

Now containers are labelled with a container name and list of what's in it, my inventory app (just a shopping list app) indicates the container name.

Edit: You'd be surprised how much stuff you actually have until you start inventorying it. It's a tedious task.

Wrong community.

Try Unpopular Opinions, or Shit Takes

AutoIt. Just have it play a Windows ding sound every 4min, but also set the volume to zero first.

Have the script launch at login/startup.

AutoIt doesn't require an install, you can simply copy the script engine to a folder with your script. Been a while, but you may be able to compile your script with the engine too, so you have a stand-alone script.

Or make a silent, 1/4 second long wav/mp3, and use that to ensure you don't hear anything.