I have tested the new Nearby Share function between my Pixel 4a and a Lenovo Duet running Chrome OS 89 and it worked as described.
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A year ago today I noted the first reported cases of COVID-19 in Michigan.
Yesterday was the first day I qualified for the COVID-19 vaccine in Michigan. I didn’t spend much time, but every site I checked had no shots available and thus were not taking appointments. There is not yet enough supply to set up operations to administers thousands of shots a day. Thinking of drive-thru or stadium vaccination locations.
We knew all along that Trump would never acknowledge nor accept defeat, in fact he still hasn’t. And I don’t yet think we can claim democracy in the U.S. has been saved.
We are now at the one year mark of when COVID-19 started being real for most Americans. Little did we know then just how awful it would truly be, with hundreds of thousands dead. But even worse, is that there is a significant number of people who don’t seem to care that 500,000+ Americans have died.
Fateful words I wrote last year…
How we will know this is really serious is when sporting events, say MLB Opening Day, get’s cancelled/re-scheduled.
Needless to say, it was really serious and still is, even with some semblance of normalcy returning.
My increased usage of Microsoft Teams is causing me think I could be more productive with a larger monitor, probably at least 32-inches, an upgrade from the 24-inch monitor I currently use. One of the two I am looking at is curved, which is intriguing but I am uncertain about whether I would like looking at a curved monitor every day. Does anyone have pros/cons about curved monitors?
It doesn’t mean much, but the Cubs won their first spring training game today, 1-0 against the Padres.
The Mobvoi TicWatch Pro 3 GPS, and it’s LTE equivalent, are the only Wear OS watch currently on the market that uses Qualcomm’s 4100 watch processor.
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Spring has come. Today is the first day of MLB spring training.
I’ve been wondering about the future of Wear OS in light of Google closing the acquisition of Fitbit and that there are so few watches with the new Qualcomm 4100 processor. I suspect Google has drastically slowed development on Wear OS and that has forced companies to hold back launching watches with the 4100 because it may be the only new thing about them in the next year. If I am right that may mean we won’t see many watches with the latest processor until the fall.
Personally, the Fossil Sport that I currently wear has all the “features” I need but performance is not exactly reliable. I’ve begun to think one of the latest Fitbits might be good. I really wish Apple would do with Apple Watch what they did with the iPod and make it work with Android, which I think would decisively the end Wear OS, but Apple appears committed to the halo Watch gives to iPhone.
Really disappointed with Google. I ordered a Barely Blue Pixel 4a from their store and at the time of the order was told it would ship between February 24-26. Now it says the shipment was delayed and there is no eta. Probably should have stuck with black and Amazon.
In this essay,The Death of a Retailer, Om Malik writes fondly about Fry’s and its inevitable passing. I agree strongly with the following:
In retrospect, as is often the case, Fry’s death was inevitable. In Fry’s heyday, many of us built our own computers (or at least tinkered with them). We bought software and installed it. The struggle of being a lover of computers was what made it so special. Every year, however, computers became less cumbersome.
Come to think about it, “the struggle” is what captured my imagination about computers and why I still tinker.
I am interested in Lunatask because it claims to have end–to-end encryption, which I find most task apps do not have. However, there is no web app and only currently available for MacOS and Windows 10 and therefore not really usable for me at this time.
Niklaus Wirth wrote of the 50 Years of Pascal, the programming language he developed. Pascal was the third programming language I learned and the one we used for nearly all of my computer science classes in the early 80s. I remember well how it became popular due to Borland’s Turbo Pascal.
I am sad to learn that Fry’s Electronics has gone out of business. I first learned about Fry’s by reading Jerry Pournelle’s Chaos Manor and it’s frequent cameo in Jerry’s stories of his computing adventures. A business trip many years later provided me the opportunity to go to a Fry’s and found it truly geek heaven, there was simply no electronics store like it that I had ever seen.