Scheduled my COVID-19 vaccination apointment!
Cancel culture is the logical conclusion of a society without the humility to recognize that changing one’s mind, which is part of growth, is a virtue. Cancel culture is amplified by defining justice as retribution rather than restoration.
All Praise Lou Ottens: The Inventor of the Cassette Tape Dies at Age 94
Ironically, just yesterday I was talking with my wife about cassette tapes after she turned on my twenty year old bookshelf stereo that resides in the room she was cleaning. Before the great basement flood I has all the cassette tapes of my high school and college years. Now of one found a cassette they would be hard pressed to know what to do with it.
9to5Google says there will be a spring Wear OS Platform update and they cite the Tiles feature added last year. When you swipe left on the watch face you will see some information. First you could only see your Fit “rings” show step and heart point progress, but they added up to five additional tiles. After the step and heart points, I see weekly heart point progress, timer options, the current weather forecast, and my heart rate.
I agree very much with this sentiment that Wear OS Watchmakers Seem Destined to Kill the Platform. My theory is that because Google is not doing much with Wear OS that the watch makers are holding back using the Qualcomm 4100 until the 2021 Christmas shopping season. If they don’t, they won’t have a compelling reason for people to buy watches then. The fact that Google bought Fitbit doesn’t help the matter. My next watch, if it is Wear OS, will have the Qualcomm 4100 and I will wait until one is available.
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.