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socphoenix

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  • Google, Qualcomm will support 8 years of Android updates with latest chips

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  • Same here. I would feel much happier to consider shopping around again if more options than just Google offered updates but that never seems to materialize

  • Google, Qualcomm will support 8 years of Android updates with latest chips

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  • Their phones cost the same as iPhones with imo usually worse hardware which at least to me defeats the purpose.

  • Google, Qualcomm will support 8 years of Android updates with latest chips

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  • Now will any company actually use this? It’s my biggest issue with android phones is so many of them just never get security updates

  • Just got diagnosed with ADHD thanks to this community

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  • Hey no worries, we all learn sometime. Easiest way in my experience is to login (or create an account) with your insurance company. The website should be on the back of your card or other paperwork. They’ll have a “search for care” option somewhere, mine calls if “find care.”

    When we moved I used that to search for primary care doctors and then called one nearby and asked to get a new patient appointment. It did take a few calls as between the lists sometimes being out of date and there not being a huge surplus of doctors but it took maybe a half hour? I think it was the second or third call that got me set up.

    If they don’t have that option you can use something like Google maps and search for “primary care doctor” but if you are in the US you will want to ask during the phone call to confirm they take your insurance company.

  • Just got diagnosed with ADHD thanks to this community

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  • Start with your primary care doctor! I asked at my annual exam and had a list of things I had noticed I was struggling with and he saved me the hassle of a second appointment. It did help that most of my issues were inattentive based and VERY obvious from what I’ve been told.

    He prescribed a non-stimulant which was also nice but if he hadn’t been my doc for a while he would’ve just given me a referral to who I needed to go to.

  • Do you need a measles booster shot? What to know as a U.S. outbreak spreads

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  • "There is a very specific group that does have to worry about their immunity from vaccination. People born after 1957 but vaccinated before 1968 — that group is unlikely to have robust immunity from infection," she said, because "at that point in time, they were using less effective vaccines." There are also other people who could potentially benefit from getting a booster. “I myself have gotten boosted in the past because I work in health care, I've worked overseas and I've worked in places where there was an active measles outbreak," she said.

    Heads up for late boomer/gen xers in there (and those that work in health care settings likely to see measles patients).

  • Some Cybertruck Owners Say Their Trucks Are Shedding Body Panels; One Thinks He Knows Why

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  • How the hell is that thing legal to sell??

  • Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands.

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  • I use calibre for my kindle, but kavita for web reading on any of my devices.

    The calibre web server kept claiming its downloads to my device were corrupted and would just never open books. Kavita just sends the books page as a web page which gets rid of that particular issue

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  • I love the idea, is there a way to do tap/click to turn the page instead of continuous though? I’ve been looking for something similar to host sheet music for myself but continuous mode is non-workable for my admittedly niche use case.

  • US tariffs on Mexico 'paused for a month,' Mexican president says - ABC News

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  • You know how Kim Jong Un starts making all sorts of nuclear threats and ignoring treaties every time he needs aid or just wants attention, just so he can extract concessions and ignore the new treaty next time he wants attention? That's what Trump is doing now.

    And North Korea doesn’t look great so I guess we’d have to quibble over what you mean by working. If you only mean working to stroke Trump’s ego, then sure. If you mean it as in getting anything meaningful then no I still have to say it’s not working.

  • US tariffs on Mexico 'paused for a month,' Mexican president says - ABC News

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  • Fair point on the troops.

    In regards to why the wouldn't do this before, they wouldn't do it before because it won't do shit to be frank. They have caved to the US via phone call, notably during Biden's administration in order to lighten the number of migrants reaching the border.

    Trump's boots on the border crap looks good, but it won't solve the why people are trying to get in. To do that would require undoing decades of CIA meddling in Latin America, and frankly money to help fix the systemic issues that caused. I'll leave 6 quick links below on that history.

    AP News on Venezuela

    Time Magazine article on Latin American interventions

    Wikipedia article on Latin American Interventions

    Geopolitical Monitor on CIA intervention specifically

    TRT World

    Yale Review

  • US tariffs on Mexico 'paused for a month,' Mexican president says - ABC News

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  • They’re only “folding” because they’re essentially being asked to do nothing or getting agreements they’ve wanted for ages, none of which required a trade war. In the article Mexico supposedly is getting help with weapons trafficked from the US to Mexico, something they’ve wanted for a while and the only thing they agreed to was to put some troops near the border. There’s no substantive mention of any work done towards the “trade deficit” Trump was yelling about.

    So yeah it “worked” but only in areas we could have achieved with a friendly phone call without all the bullshit trump is doing. Anyone with enough of a brain to understand you can do those things without baseless threats could’ve done what Trump did faster and with less blowback.

  • Mississippi doesn't have to provide protective gear to working inmates. New legislation aims to change that.

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  • Susan Balfour, 63, was incarcerated for 33 years at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility until her release in December 2021. Balfour said she was among a group of prisoners asked to clean the facility without protective equipment.

    She was later diagnosed with terminal breast cancer, a condition that prison health care providers failed to identify years ago because they could save money by not performing necessary medical screenings and treatment, according to the lawsuit Balfour filed in the U.S. Southern District of Mississippi.

    Balfour’s attorneys and Gibbs say over 10 other Mississippi inmates have come down with cancer or become seriously ill after they were exposed to chemicals while on work assignments.

    Cleaning supplies are often caustic, this just seems like incredibly unnecessary cruelty. They also waited till the very end of the article to mention the prison doctors did think she needed a test for cancer years prior and the medical groups just refused to send her to get the test.

    Balfour sued three companies contracted to provide health care to prisoners at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility. The companies delayed or failed to schedule follow-up cancer screenings for Balfour even though they had been recommended by prison physicians, the lawsuit says.

  • 'I had anti-government views so they treated me for schizophrenia:' Chinese government increasingly uses 'forced hospitalisation' as a way of detaining dissenting citizens, Chinese lawyer says

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  • Then do so and we’ll post the link to their story here when we see it.

  • it's too cold to go outside!

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  • They look almost identical!

  • Car plants in Europe, North America face closures in 2025, Gartner says in report

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  • Maybe if they made cars people wanted at affordable prices this wouldn’t be an issue?

    The article keeps talking about China gaining ground but if these companies had gotten a jump on affordable EVs years ago instead of fighting emissions targets this wouldn’t have been an issue in the first place.

  • Multi system synced/living OS possible?

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  • This might be overkill but I run an xrdp and just remote into it from any device. Tablet phone laptop etc with an rdp app. If you need it on the go you would also want something like tailscale or WireGuard as a vpn to access the computer while away from home

  • What are common tools on Linux to wipe an HDD pre RMA?

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  • Thanks for the heads up!

  • What are common tools on Linux to wipe an HDD pre RMA?

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  • Assuming the drive writes normally a simple command like

    dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sdX

    Where sdX is the location of the drive should do the trick. Depending on drive time this may take a bit.