I love Mastodon. It's easily my favorite & most-used social media platform right now.

But I'm also a huge damn nerd.

I honestly can't say I'd recommend it to anyone that isn't also a huge damn nerd, because they just won't find stuff they want.

"You want sports? We don't have much of that, but check out the Proxmox server in this guy's basement!"

Kid-Me could somehow navigate that final Zelda II dungeon based on nothing but dumb luck.

Now I can barely get past World 1-1 in SMB.

I don't disagree.

But recent interpretation of the use of executive order is hurtling toward the president having near-monarch authority

So, until the reach of executive orders gets reigned in... here we are.

Yep. The "big frickin' nerd" part carries my statement pretty hard.

Homelab, videogames, Linux stuff... Content for miles.

Breaking: U.S. official response to non-stop blatant state sponsored Russia/China cyberterrorism

Honestly, I'm surprised Crash Bandicoot & The Last of Us barely squeaked in at the bottom of the list.

Japanese people really like Japanese devs.

I'm just thinking something as simple as the app triggering an event that unlatches a compartment that corresponds to that specific time. "It's 12:00. Open the compartment with all the 12:00 meds." You'd probably have to include multi-day support, too (I fill dad's meds a month at a time in this - https://a.co/d/cRw0e93 )

That same event could do things like trigger a visual or audio alarm, too.

My goal would be to make it as hands-off as possible for him. He already finds ways to "cheat" the daily dispensers he has now.

EDIT: Look up Pyxis or Omnicell Dispensers for examples of unlatching compartments. We use these pretty extensively in hospitals.

EDIT 2: Here's a good example (starting around 2:00) showing how the individual compartments unlatch: https://youtu.be/bPJSbexZNC4?t=120

Pharmacist here, struggling to find a way to keep my dad on schedule with his Parkinson's meds.

Adding an option for webhooks at scheduled dispense times would open up some cool opportunities for nerds like us to create automated dispensing units.

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That optimization part is what worries me. I still remember games like Control & Cyberpunk being basically unplayable unless you had a PS4 Pro.

60fps PS5 games were only ever 60fps because they were really just PS4 games running on faster hardware.

Now that we're finally getting games that aren't cross-gen with the 10-year-old PS4, we're back to 30fps-ville.

Anyone can shit their pants. Is that "infrastructure"?