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Today was the start of open enrollment at my company (US) for insurance and it has reminded me just how painful it is to think about what a scam health insurance is in my country.

I had heard that if you want something done right, do it yourself. So, to that end...

Health Insurance Cooperatives.

Is that a thing?

I live in the Pacific Northwest and I would think that if anywhere had such a thing it would be here (I'm biased, of course).

I'd love to hear people's thoughts and experiences on the subject.

Anything to avoid forking over my (or me employer's) money to the medical-industrial complex to make some assholes rich.

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Trying to put isp router in bridge mode, very much in over my head in c/homelab@lemmy.ml

[–] AnOceanAppears@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you tried contacting either your ISP or the router manufacturer?

I had a similar issue and my ISP mentioned that there was another setting I had to change on my bridged router. I never would have found it without calling them up.

Is it possible to record the video feed out of the Apple TV’s new capability of using iOS device camera to see the video feed on Apple Music? in c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world

[–] AnOceanAppears@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apple doesn't provide this feature because it would be used for pirating movies. BUT, you can buy a device that sits in between your TV and your AppleTV to do just that. It's called HDMI Capture.

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[–] AnOceanAppears@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That is a shit manager reaction.

M2 MacBook Air has audio bug, Apple notified. WARNING loud audio at end in c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world

[–] AnOceanAppears@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago

I get that this is a bug, but it kinda sucks that people feel it's all right to act this way. Software is hard and unless you're using a language with zero-overhead iteration you're probably writing your drivers in C and iterating with a for-loop like our ancestors did. Off by one errors are stupidly common and everyone is human.

I mean, fuck mega corporations. This is still cringeworthy.

That being said, it's going to be fun to see quality differences in these operating systems in a few years because, as far as I know, Apple would rather force Swift into the systems-level language space than adopt a memory-safe language today.

Meanwhile Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, etc are all investing heavily in Rust by integrating it into their platforms.

Ultima-like RPG creator Eldiron seeks feedback on v1.0 criteria in c/gamedev@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[–] AnOceanAppears@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

That's pretty cool. I'd be curious to know how the node editor was architected.

Are there contemporary programming languages that do *NOT* have the ability to import functions or values or whatever from other files? Are there situations in which that would be a feature? in c/programming@programming.dev

[–] AnOceanAppears@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

I guess a more modern example you might run into is something like Rust's no_std environment; which strips out the standard library of the language that doesn't work on every device the language is designed to target (namely microcontrollers that don't even have an operating system on them). Or like, maybe you're writing your own operating system.