“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.”
I'm a bit relunctant to write this, as I'll come across as an old man yelling at the clouds to get off his lawn, but the whole “update treadmill” the Computer Industry has foisted on us is getting tiresome.
Bunny now wears a CGM (Continuous Glucose Monitor) prescribed by her doctor. It's a small disk that adhears to the back of the upper arm and sends readings of blood sugar via Bluetooth. Bunny has an app on her smartphone that records the information and forwards it to her doctor. The app is fine; no real problems with using it.
Until this morning.
Bunny woke me up to inform me that the app just stopped working, because her smartphone hadn't been updated in the previous 20 minutes.
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What the XXXX‽
It was working fine the previous night. What updates were required? And why drop support for older operating systems? Oh yeah … right … it's hard to support systems older than 20 minutes.
And some PM (Project Manager) somewhere needed to justify their job.
Sigh.
Things are working fine, how that the operating system on her smart phone was updated (only took several hours). But still … gah!
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