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- Comment on Kiwi Browser is shutting down. 12 minutes ago:
Excellent, thanks. Just installing.
- Comment on Kiwi Browser is shutting down. 12 minutes ago:
Is there a chromium release for Android? I thought they only launched a desktop version?
- Comment on Kiwi Browser is shutting down. 9 hours ago:
Damn, I was so happy to get an update yesterday after I thought it had died, only to find out it did.
Kiwi was (is) my backup browser if something absolutely refuses to work in Fennec/Firefox; what are y’all using as a last resort chrome substitute?
- Comment on Medical Device Company Tells Hospitals They're No Longer Allowed to Fix Machine That Costs Six Figures 4 days ago:
I can’t speak for Terumo, in my books this has always been an issue, so maybe their management assessed how many casualties resulted out of poorly maintained machines and decided that enough is enough.
I’ve explained in a bit more details further down in the comments, the liability issue stems from the fact that people can (and do!) die due to wrongly maintained machines, and this falls back on the manufacturer, since they are the ones who trained the technician who then “certified” the machine. But given that they only do one maintenance run every half year or so, they are far from experts. So either you re-train them once a quarter (during training they work on actual machines that have been modified to throw certain errors, and give them hands-on training to fix it); or you do it yourself. Training usually takes 2 days since there’s quite some theory to cover before the practical stuff; and the training usually happens in our HQ, so include 2 travel days.
If hospital staff is missing 4 days per quarter for one device maintenance workshop, imagine how this will look like if there are 10+ machines they need to be comfortable working with that follow similar re-certification routines. Those people would be gone for 40+ days over a 90 day period. If you account for weekends and time off, they’d essentially be at work for maybe 2 weeks, and someone would have to be on call during the time for other machines in need of maintenance, so you’d end up having to hire 10 times the number of technicians just so that someone is always at work if and when needed.
- Comment on Medical Device Company Tells Hospitals They're No Longer Allowed to Fix Machine That Costs Six Figures 5 days ago:
If it was, that reply probably wasn’t coming from me. Unless I’m tripping.
- Comment on Medical Device Company Tells Hospitals They're No Longer Allowed to Fix Machine That Costs Six Figures 5 days ago:
As it’s written in the contracts, I assure you. And yet that’s not as clear as day when it ends up in court, since hospitals hardly accept liability without going through all instances. Add negative press to the mix, and you got a nice shitshow going, which is harmful for patients (going crazy for having to undergo already risky treatments with device that’s now considered faulty to some degree), the hospital staff (who faces potential charges up to involuntary manslaughter), and of course also the company that suffers from negative press (reputation and possibly financially).
If all of that can be avoided if certified technicians on the company payroll can do the maintenance, I’m not sure that’s all bad.
- Comment on Medical Device Company Tells Hospitals They're No Longer Allowed to Fix Machine That Costs Six Figures 5 days ago:
A malfunctioning device during open heart surgery means a high risk including potential death to the patient.
Liability = responsible for someone’s death.
The consequence would be a potential settlement with their family, negative publicity and whatever might negatively affect the financial bottom line, granted. But believe it or not, we actually care about patients surviving.
- Comment on Medical Device Company Tells Hospitals They're No Longer Allowed to Fix Machine That Costs Six Figures 5 days ago:
I work for a company that manufacturers a comparably product to the cited Terumo device, and I can tell you that it’s most likely not greed but pending liability issues.
Those devices aren’t in use 24/7, and only need maintenance every 15 uses, so hospital staff trained to work on them get to use their maintenance knowledge like 3-4 times a year, at most. And since there must be a redundancy in the hospital both with machines (1 replacement on hand per 1 in use) as well as staff, this number even goes down since you alternatemachines (thus stretching their use without maintenance) and people (so they both get to use their experience).
As a result, you end up with machines that are maintained by certified, yet unprofessional technicians. But since the device ends up with an ‘error free’ log, if anything were to happen to a patient due to a malfunction, the manufacturer assumes liability; and would then have to try and prove that it’s actually a human errorby the technician.
The alternatives are either to establish crazy right recertification windows for the technicians (like every 60-90 days), which is also costly and very annoying for them, and puts a serious strain on hospital staff if all manufacturers were to implement similar mechanisms, or, well, maintain the machines themselves. That way the technicians are better equipped due to doing the same steps routinely, and liability lies with the manufacturer either way.
Not everything is evil corpos at work, sometimes there are actual reasons for certain decisions.
- Comment on Microsoft Bing is trying to spoof Google UI when people search Google.com 3 weeks ago:
I’ll need a source for that.
- Comment on what exercises work for you to avoid back pain? 3 weeks ago:
Yoga, specifically Hatha Yoga or Ashtanga Yoga with focus on the secondary series (there are 6 total).
I’d highly recommend to start out with classes and a suitable instructor though, there are a bunch of specific warm-ups to loosen some muscle groups and stretching certain areas that allow you to get into the required postures, trying to raw-dog those can lead to injuries if you force your stiff body into some positions it’s not used to.
If all you want are basic exercises to cycle through on a daily basis, 4-8 weeks of guided training is already enough to know what and how to do, you can continue with youtube from then on.
- Comment on German Power Slips Below Zero as Negative-Price Phenomenon Grows 3 weeks ago:
It’s rare in Germany since we have a quite large population and heavy industry compared to the renewables production. We had days with 100% renewable coverage in the past, but negative energy prices are still a rarity.
- Comment on What is the origin of aliens looking like humans? Why and when did it become the norm? 3 weeks ago:
Yep, it’s a great book for sure.
- Comment on lemmy should tots let you post things to your own user profile 3 weeks ago:
I thought it was just onlyfans spambots doing this crap, hoping you’d stalk a profile.
What’s the actual point?
- Comment on Apps doing year wrapped gives you a hint on how are you being tracked. There is probably a legal issue there somewhere like data retention. 3 weeks ago:
Newpipe for me. On desktop I use the plain old website, but with adblock, sponsorblock and all other privacy enabling plugins, and of course on Firefox.
- Comment on Apps doing year wrapped gives you a hint on how are you being tracked. There is probably a legal issue there somewhere like data retention. 3 weeks ago:
Yep, if there’s a third party app available I’ll take those instead, or for the likes of spotify I just download my music for offline playback. Not a fan of streaming in general, I’m a big proponent of file ownership. A bit different for youtube videos that I treat as disposable (consume it once and likely never again), but for music and movies, I need to hold on to the files. Even if I got legitimate access through Netflix or Prime, if it’s good, I’ll download a copy for archiving purposes.
For other apps I’ll try to get a FOSS alternative or if that fails (or is butt ugly) I’ll go with a small dev on google play instead.
- Comment on Apps doing year wrapped gives you a hint on how are you being tracked. There is probably a legal issue there somewhere like data retention. 3 weeks ago:
I’m aware of spotify, youtube, and to a lesser extent strava and duolingo.
I don’t use either one of them, but people have posted screenshots from all those on social media.
- Comment on Post your bandwidth usage 3 weeks ago:
I’m consistently below 30 GB, unless you include local traffic from my fileserver to endpoints (98% movies that I stream locally via. VLC over smb). And even then I usually don’t exceed 1 TB.
- Comment on [Definitely not a weekly thread] Men over 30, how is your week going? 4 weeks ago:
Oof. Get well soon! Maybe there’s a chance you can at least be somewhat up & running for new year…
- Comment on [Definitely not a weekly thread] Men over 30, how is your week going? 4 weeks ago:
That sounds excellent! Make sure you stay hydrated along the way though. One glass of water after every 3 glasses of wine is my personal sweet spot to not get too badly hurt in the morning…
Plus the older I get, the more frequently that pushes me to the loo, so I end up burning 50 calories by walking back and forth all night ;-)
- Comment on [Definitely not a weekly thread] Men over 30, how is your week going? 4 weeks ago:
Hahaha sounds amazing!
- Comment on [Definitely not a weekly thread] Men over 30, how is your week going? 4 weeks ago:
Ah that sounds excellent. Really want to try BG3 as well, just worried my system specs are way too low and I wouldn’t get to enjoy it.
- Comment on [Definitely not a weekly thread] Men over 30, how is your week going? 4 weeks ago:
Christmas was relaxed with just my wife, we’ve been traveling too much this year and decided not to visit family this time around since it’s 6 or 11h flight respectively. We’ll be driving up to the mountains for New Year’s and spend 4 days in a nice resort.
You got any plans?
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to askmenover30@lemm.ee | 14 comments
- Comment on Honda and Nissan announce merger to form world's third largest car company 4 weeks ago:
They don’t sell cars under the company name, only the individual brands.
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch yet another security flaw, suggests users just buy new routers — D-Link told users to replace NAS last week 2 months ago:
The ones with EOL 2015, fair play. But May 2024 isn’t all that long ago.
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch yet another security flaw, suggests users just buy new routers — D-Link told users to replace NAS last week 2 months ago:
Can highly recommend ASUS, most of their models can be flashed with custom firmware that is supported beyond EOL. And their EOL cycle is also pretty long.
- Comment on Bluesky Becoming New Social Media Sensation As Millions Of Americans Snub X Over Musk's Support To Trump 2 months ago:
It’s the same crap as Twitter, I don’t get why people ever used it in the first place.
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 2 months ago:
The OG Doom is fairly linear, unless you play on the lowest difficulty level where all doors are permanently open. Else you need to kill specific enemies that can only be found in certain rooms to get keys.
- Comment on What would tools/services would you recommend for hosting without self hosting? 2 months ago:
Have a look at gullo.me, their entry level vps was just $2 or something.
- Comment on Fitness app Strava gives away location of Biden, Trump and other leaders, French newspaper says. 2 months ago:
The article said that they track the movements of bodyguards. I doubt Trump or Biden use anything remotely related to fitness. Obama might have.