The Ulefone 18t just lanched with the same flir sensor, but android 12, 12gb ram, 256gb flash. 9000mha battery and endoscope accessory attachment, same durability specs, marginaly cheaper.
There are rumours that the mstcpip stack had large parts of the bsd stack in it. I cut my teeth in windows networking using Windows for workgroups, with a novell tcpip stack and a 64kb daemon Internet Internet connection over isdn. Having that network connection meant I could (1993) get some linux/freebsd setups, but I would have to leave the ftp connection running all night. I then diverted off full time into freebsd when I joined Yahoo.
I have authored 3 tech books and quite honestly I would not do it again, the shift to ebooks has allowed the publishers to cut the royalties paid on electronic deliveries, even though thier costs have been cut. I found that the majority of sales were ebooks, plus you often find your books sold onto platforms like O'Reily where you receive no royalty. It also appears that translations cut the author off from royalties, one ofmy books was translated to Korean and I stop getting any royalties on that set of sales.
what's the point of having a bunch of ram sitting around doing nothing, I would rather have a system that had zero free ram but managed its address space well, so that changing ram usage was painless. why pay good money to have hardware sitting idle?.
The same reason I refill my car's gas tank long before it hits zero; low/no resource problems range from irritating to catastrophic. Unused RAM isn't wasted, it's headroom.
But you OS doesn’t have to find a petrol station it may not even be able to reach — it can just swap to SSD or the best - swap to RAM itself by compressing pages (zram on linux and mac does it as well). Empty RAM is seriously wasted unless it is some embedded system where you are managing memory and need some strange latency requirements.
As described below, that's what's supposed to happen, but the default kernel configuration in mainstream distros will happily hold onto caches while swapping so hard to be unusable, or worse, loosing the OOM killer to wreak havoc on my workspace. This is unacceptable, and this is why I want headroom.
At the end of the day, if my system wildly misbehaves under high memory pressure, and forcing the pressure down resolves the misbehavior (or keeping a certain amount of headroom prevents it from happening outright), "linux ate my ram" is an accurate description of what happened and no amount of tut-tutting telling me that it doesn't work the way I just got done seeing it work changes that.
I'll give zram a try, but the problem here is poor usage of memory (both in priority and badly-behaved bloatware), not quantity of memory available. I'm not a kernel developer, I shouldn't have to dork around with these kinds of knobs to get sane behavior.
In both Canada and the UK there is also private systems available that you can decide to avail yourself off, which like the US system will charge you into bankruptcy but will give you the immediacy you desire, then you get to have a choice, wait or debt.
The private systems in Canada don't offer hip replacements, they offer a narrow range of services.
Also, 80% of Canadians live a 1 hour drive to the US border.
The 'fallback' to the Canadian system - is the US system.
I don't think either systems are ideal, we need somewhat more private service in Canada, and the US needs socialized coverage of some level along with private.
The big giant social issue that nobody wants to talk about, is that the 'pyramid' in the US is so much bigger than in Canada for so many reasons. The US upper middle class are much richer than in Canada. And the poor are really poor. There are 1M undocumented workers in each of Cali and Texas - if you put them on the books, it stretches the disparity even further.
This makes it harder to impose a 'one size fits all' system.
That said - all basic HC services should be minimally covered through the state.
The number of people putting up 'Go Fund Mes' is nutty.
People are also legitimately wary of governments ability to effectively provide for services, which is a legit concern. The government can be just as corrupt and inefficient ans the private sector, and it's not nearly as easily displaced.
Finally - I would like to see the 'Walmart' of Healthcare come along and do damage to the big providers. Walmart works on a cost basis and their pricing is based around reducing cost, then adding a very small markup - which is different than other businesses. If I was President I would probably beg Walmart to literally start providing basic services.
At least here in quebec, the private system is not allowed to provide a lot of services and cannot provide much more than basic consultation, cosmetic surgery or treatments that are more or less arbitrarily allowed by the public insurance system. Tons of people went to the state when the public system basically stopped treating anything they didn't deem to be essential for almost a year back in 2020. I know tons of US hospitals did the same, but some didn't so you at least had a choice.
Here, once the government decided that your disease, surgery or therapy wasn't "essential" you couldn't do anything at all because the private system can't do most them either. Both of my parents are nurses & according to them at one point their hospitals were almost entirely empty, but because of that arbitrary you still couldn't access most non-urgent care which was very frustrating for them.
Chaoulli v Quebec (AG) [2005] 1 S.C.R. 791, 2005 SCC 35, was a decision by the Supreme Court of Canada of which the Court ruled that the Quebec Health Insurance Act and the Hospital Insurance Act prohibiting private medical insurance in the face of long wait times violated the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms.
Incorrect about Canada. Doctors are prohibited from practicing in both the public and private hospitals. There is almost no private surgery - people just go to the US.
That's just stupid. It just makes sense to have a fast lane for paying patients because that shortens the queues to the public surgeries as well.
That works pretty well in Finland. One of my parents needed a cataract surgery this year, all cased and diagnosed by doctors in public healthcare. The actual surgery would've been maybe six months from now. Private clinic -- three weeks. My parents didn't even go shopping for another clinic, waiting three weeks was no problem. It also cost much less than they anticipated, a quick routine operation not worth the wait.
That should possibly be something that is added directly to the licenses, you can take my product free of charge, but if you want changes you have to pay me at this rate. Put contact details and an expiry date on the deal so people can't get jacked up with very old prices on very old versions. That would also encourage people to keep thier 3rd party inclusions up to date. I don't think that would pass muster as an OSS license but maybe a built in support contract should be a feature of the licenses, one that earns people proper money that makes OSS a model that supports maintainers.
