It’s the astroturfing that’s objectionable.

Kinda depends on what features in sync made you like it.

Overall, boost, connect, thunder and summit each get close to parity, but only close. But, you could say that in reverse, (that sync only gets close to parity with any of them) it isn’t a slight against any of them.

Eternity is another one that I’ve had good use of, but development on that seems to be stopped as well, so I dunno if that’s a useful option.

Past those, you get less similarity in ux and ui than would make sense to compare. Like, the apps that mimic voyager (or whatever the popular iOS reddit app was called), things are laid out so different that if you used sync as a primary, you aren’t likely to enjoy that ui.

On a phone, I kinda favor connect over sync, despite it looking very unlike it compared to boost or eternity. But on a tablet, nothing else does double columns in portrait worth a damn for me, and aren’t great in landscape either. But boost and eternity come the closest to the visual ease sync has.

that’s sync

I was going to include screen shots of the ones I have on this tablet, but uploads shit the bed and are being weird after that one. So no promises that I can do them all

boost

eternity

connect

and interstellar since it does piefed better than anything else I’ve tried, and still does lemmy just fine.

Decided to install thunder and summit long enough to give a visual

thunder

annnd summit

As you can tell, everyone has a slightly different approach to the UI. But they’re even more variable in what settings are available, little niceties, etc. Theming is all over the place from a bare bones light/dark/oled to the relative broad visual options of boost and sync. None of them are bad at all. They’re reliable, work even on older devices without bogging them down, and are all easy enough to get going with.

Ahhhh, iirc, it’s one he built himself.

It’s actually come up in comics before, more than once if my mind isn’t playing tricks.

I don’t doubt that he would have at least taken lessons from open source type projects if Linux doesn’t directly exist in the comic universe.

I think the app ecosystem of Smart Cats is good enough to make up for the loss in simplicity from Stupid Cats

One problem

Batteries.

I’ve used old devices as many things: security cameras, a form of intercom, digital picture frames, etc. The real problem is that the batteries eventually go bad, and become dangerous.

For the few devices that have realistically replaceable batteries, that’s no big deal, but how many of those are left now?

No thanks to the potential fire, I’ll pass. The few devices I have left that I can swap batteries out are becoming harder to find new batteries for as well, so that’s an issue beyond their anemic hardware (I’m talking really old tablets at this point)

My thing is that if I’m outside relaxing, I want the birds and bugs and wind. If I can’t have those, headphones aren’t an acceptable replacement, so I’ll fuck off back inside.

If I’m outside as in going about town, I don’t want my hearing compromised. It’s a fate safety issue. Even bone conduction gear is a distraction that I’m not okay with. Like, it isn’t even about being hit by a car or whatever, it could be something as simple as a shopping cart that’s loose banging into me. My crippled ass would be in the floor.

My brain is enough stimulation for me. If I’m out in the world, my brain is going to be going a mile a minute scoping everything out. Doesn’t matter how many times I’ve been in a given location.

That’s true, but I would argue that the player owned definition of it came so quickly on the heels of the typo that both could count as valid, with the caveat that the first usage being a typo would have to be considered a mistake, rather than the coining of the slang term itself.

Which is stretching things a bit, but still fun to think about.

It’s pronounced pwned, as all right thinking people know

Air purifier? That’s a less than ideal term since it gets applied to stuff like ionizers that are of dubious efficacy.

But a straight up filter, hell yeah they work. Just check the filter on your furnace/heater sometime. Same with any AC unit.

If you have something that has a filter, it will reduce dust, period. Without a filter, you aren’t going to reduce dust worth a damn, if at all.

But you also need to make sure it’s turning the air over often enough. I haven’t looked the info up in ages, but if you want a decent reduction in particulates, the device has to move air fairly significantly it it isn’t going to about to much.

Like, my house is right around a hundred years old. Four humans, and various animals over the years. Shit is dusty what with the dead skin, particles from things like carpet, pollen, dander, etc. Enough stuff gets produced that even with the regular furnace/ac filter, and a handful of one-room filters spread throughout the house (which tends to be better than one big one imo) we still get dust buildup on everything. But if we don’t run the filters, you can both visibly and nasally tell the difference.

A newer house isn’t going to have as much, so you can likely get away with less air turnover, short term, and need to dust less. But you’ll never be totally dust free just because you can’t move enough air to prevent at least a little settling.

That’s why I have a chicken.

Gods, the first time heard Elba get suggested as a possible Bond, I flipped out. Then it eventually reached a point where it was definitely not going to happen, and it made me really not want to see any more Bond movies at all. There’s some actors born to play a role, and if they don’t, it’s kinda horrible. Like, if Pierce Brosnan had never had a chance to be Bond, it would have been a miscarriage of cinematic justice, no matter how the movie actually turned out (I enjoyed his turn personally).

The fact that it’s essentially impossible to have Elba do even a single bond film now ruins the franchise for me

I can’t wait to develop my natural immunity to polio! Or smallpox!

The flu, why, without the vaccine you can develop a natural immunity every year, twice a year if you really want to!

Legit dude, what the fuck do you think “natural” immunity is? It’s catching whatever it is, being sick, and surviving it. You specifically chose colds and the flu as examples, and they’re the worst possible examples because they mutate so fast you never actually achieve immunity to anything; the version you have resistance to might come around again, or it might not, but you damn sure will eventually run across a strain that your body isn’t equipped for.

Like, I get that vaccines are confusing to someone with little education, but this is the internet age, you can look up the terms you’re using and make sure you aren’t fucking up your entire point. Like, the time it took you to type the post up, you could have looked up what vaccines actually do, and why they are/were the single greatest achievement of the human species.

You can go and get a shot of something stable enough and never get sick from it, ever in some cases. In others, you might get sick but it’ll be a few bad days instead of a week or more of misery (as is sometimes how the flu vaccines end up because of the aforementioned mutations, but other viruses are just a bit harder to stop entirely).

So, nah, fuck your natural “immunity”, that’s just a recipe for lost health and time better spent on something like reading up on why vaccines are fucking awesome, even in the rare cases of allergies or bad reactions.

You can try looking into a sleep position trainer. It isn’t what you’re asking about, but it has had good results in reducing or eliminating the paralysis episodes, so it’s a similar outcome.

The problem with what you’re specifically asking about is that nobody has gone into production afaik. There’s patents for things like they, but they’re either junk (and obviously so), or would be way too complicated to set up and use reliably. Sleep paralysis isn’t usually responsive to just shaking by itself.

But you could try something similar to the alarms made for deaf people, if you have a consistent timing with your episodes. Or do something like strap a massager to your hand where you can cut it on and hope that the vibration breaks through. People have made that work, though it isn’t consistent afaik.

That’s an absurdly photogenic cat

Aight, not a biologist, just an interested bystander.

But, yeah, everything alive has their microbiome. There’s an assortment of standard ones that are everywhere on earth, but there’s also some regional, and species specific types.

Iirc, sloths have a variety of algae that’s unique to them, or it may be that it’s a variant of a species. Something like that, but the point is that sloths have a biome adapted to them.

Going back to my disclaimer again, I believe that there’s also a fairly species related mixture of bacteria and fungi. Not accurate numbers, but something like 50% yeast, 25%staph, 25%lactobacilii as an example. If that were our mix, a gorilla might be 50/20/30 instead. The different conditions on the skin and fur/hair mean different types of microbes will do better or worse in a given climate with given environmental conditions. Again, totally armchair on this.

But the mixes aren’t static. All those microbes are competing. As conditions shift, so does the prevalence of one or some of them. That’s how yeast infections usually occur. Something happens to change the strength of other microbes and the yeast goes crazy taking over

What a pussy

I had to look that up, and it’s pretty cool, but what you’re getting back wouldn’t work right as an ingredient, except in some edge cases maybe. Plus, nothing I found indicated that the urea was for sure removed, which would interfere with cooking. I also didn’t see anything about the fats and what kind of shape they’re in.

It’s also not the same thing because that’s a chemical change, not grinding the egg up. Which you can do to bread too, but what your get back isn’t flour at all.

Assuming that you could use the same basic idea with bread, what you’d get is a slurry of gluten, and broken down starches. There’s stuff that could maybe be done with that, but not making bread for sure. For one thing, the yeasts consumed the sugars, converted it to gas and alcohol, most of which evaporates out by the time you slice bread. So the process is dead in the water at the start. You’d have to add back that stuff in a form that could be fermented, and that’s basically just going to be flour.

Tbh, saying that the process I saw is unboiling an egg is journalists licence at best, click bait bullshit at worst, like the whole dire wolf thing that’s been making rounds lately. Yeah, if you want to pretend that “unboiling” means something other than what the obvious assumption is going to be, that’s great. But the process doesn’t actually return the eggs did the state they were before. Pretty close, since egg proteins are relatively simple, but it isn’t like what you’re getting is the same thing as if you whipped up eggs in a bowl, which is what “unboiling” would mean to most people (and that’s the main complaint I saw on videos and articles).

The people that cooked it up (heh) even said that it’s more about being able to clean gear and get a partial return of the proteins for reuse, with the key word being partial.

Ehhhhh, no, not unless you really want to fuck around with the meaning of “bread”.

The end result of baking bread isn’t just flour with air in it.

The proteins change, the starches change, and you can’t just undo that by grinding the bread. I would say that anything that would undo those changes would essentially be making something else entirely, but it definitely isn’t going to be ingredients that v AC c be fermented and turned into anything resembling bread anyway.

Now, you can make loafs out of ground up bread. You can essentially grind up damn near anything edible and mix it with binders, then make it loaf shaped and bake it though. If you want to get frisky, bread pudding is just using bread to make a loaf of something. Meat loaf ain’t bread, but it’s the same basic idea as bread pudding (again, if you want to fuck with word meanings).

But there are more things than bread pudding you can turn bread into. They’re all similar, because there’s only so many binders that are edible in the first place. But they’ll have different textures than bread pudding, and pretty much any flavors you want to try.

But bread, even if you deal with things that aren’t wheat, you’re causing chemical changes at such a level that there’s no way to turn it back into something that will perform the same as flour

Well, I’m a little weirded out by the way you prioritized information. It seems like more of a personal beef because you felt the need to describe her and the way she moves before anything else.

Normally, when someone starts out with things like that instead of actual problems, their beef is one of prejudgement rather than any actual wrongdoing. Sometimes it even means that the person complaining is looking for things to find wrong.

I can’t say for sure that’s the case, but it’s definitely a weird way pf presenting what is supposedly professional.

With that said, you aren’t describing anything that would be a violation of ethics, and what little sandbagging that she’s doing may be an accommodation rather than her not doing things she’s supposed to. Not sure of your location, but employers in some places legally have to grant reasonable accommodations to people with limitations, which is not something that you would be told about because it isn’t something that’s usually shared to someone not part of that aspect of the facility’s operations.

If you feel that this isn’t the case, then follow the standard chain of command for your facility and then let it go if you intend to keep working there. Doesn’t really matter what facility you’re in, what the job is, that’s what you do.

Hell, after just a week, you don’t even know that this is the norm. There could be dozens of reasons she’s slow, or hanging back that are purely temporary.

Aside from that, what it looks like is that your facility doesn’t have enough staff to begin with. Someone with their RN shouldn’t be handling normal feeding on a regular basis, that’s what NAs are for. RNs have more specialized skills, and there’s less of them, it’s a waste to be sitting there with one patient long enough to feed them. It’s awesome that you’re willing to, and I certainly wish to hell more nurses were willing to handle business when necessary, but it shouldn’t be something you’re doing often enough to merit being bothered when another RN doesn’t.

What’s in the actual job description when you were hired? A lot of places very strictly limit scope, and she may be following those limits. Or, she may be working to standard and not doing extra because she wasn’t hired to in the first place. It could be that you’re getting shafted by administration, or that you’re doing things you aren’t expected to (which is always nice, but it doesn’t mean anyone else has to).

If she’s performing her duties to the job description she was hired for, then there’s not even an issue at all on her end.

I dunno, I’m not there, I can’t tell what all is in the background, but in my time wiping asses for money, an RN even bringing trays to patients would have been very unusual because their job was to get meds ready, set up for things NAs can’t do, and act as supervisors to the NAs on shift. Tbh, even in hospitals where NA presence tends to be lower, an RN wouldn’t be feeding patients unless there was a very specific reason to. They’ve got too many other tasks they’re responsible for.