Month: May 2023

Mobile Phone madness continues

So one thing that got exposed when we migrated Keyron’s phone. All they needed was the IMEI and phone number. But the new phone doesn’t meet his needs due to Google Assistant Go being a flaming piece of shit.

So he sought out advice and a Google Pixel 4 was mentioned. So i bought an unlocked one. Called and they can’t support it. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. It has an IMEI and eSIM just like his current phone. So again whiskey tango Foxtrot.

Elite schools and reliance on testing

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/29/us/politics/supreme-court-high-school-admissions.html?link_id=5&can_id=9f2e3aedb328de89c9be966aa039022c&source=email-mccarthy-rallies-support-for-debt-deal-amid-hints-of-mutiny&email_referrer=email_1934726&email_subject=elite-high-schools-admissions-plan-may-face-supreme-court-test

My education when it came to high school was between an Elite public school and an elite catholic school both of which required entrance exams. The latter was my choice and all boys.

So I’m a little comb confused why testing is anathema

And it’s found

I think i posted about Keyron and the lost Fire Tablet. Well I’d ordered him a 10″ Fire Tablet and case.

And what does he find today but his 7″ Fire tablet. It was wedged in the sofa cushions. Now we searched everywhere. To have it appear days later is one of those things.

Google and progress

For

Keyron is blind so we go through the contortions with his phone. But the new one is Android 11 which in my well informed technical opinion is a flaming piece of excrement .

For example the Assistant Go doesn’t know how to leave the damned microphone on. Tried putting the full version of Assistant on but it tried to update the Google App but when I tried that it said it couldn’t update on that phone.

This is not acceptable. It’s pissing me off. But then Google is good at that.. didn’t their former say don’t be evil? But they don’t do that no it’s just their right hand knows not what their left hand is doing.

There’s one company i truly hate that’s Apple but Google is getting to that level.

Reading: Time Enough For Love

It’s the story or memoir of the Senior aka Lazarus Long. The thing I most like is rejuvenation.

Because it’s gonna get a whole lot weirder in reality. We’re on the cusp of being able to download ourselves. That’s gonna let us be able to grow a clone and stuff ourselves in. But then it struck me you could upload yourself to any body. I see a bit of a moral issue there with that latter part .

Keyron and I talked about this and he mentioned the boon this would be for the transgender.