Been using that for the past 4 or so years with no problem,
It also lets me message my GP to ask for stuff that is not on my repeats and lets me change the pharmacy I want to use.
It messages when the script has been approved.
Works very well in my experience.
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Me too.
We really have slept walked into a time when we are generally happy to own less but pay rent on far more.
I recently looked into some photography software only to discover it can no longer be bought outright, but must be rented monthly with photos then residing in the cloud, no doubt the price will creep upwards over time and it aināt cheap to start with.
Itās a business model that suits industry, guaranteed income stream ( no doubt with an ability to trade that income stream) with endless possibilities for upsales of addons, many will eventually be essential.
We have done the same with TVs and programmes, Music, Cars, home automation, , fucking doorbells even. Much more of this to come no doubt (housing, more domestic appliances, medical stuff such as scanners, shit i canāt even think of etc) . Redifusion would be proud of this future. No wonder data centres are valuable assets.
Where does the money goā¦ straight out of the country in a lot of cases.
Itās crept up on us over the last 5 to 10 years, itās been allowed although not something that is a political debate in any sense.
Just some idle thoughtsā¦
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Very valid and scary food for thought thoughts though. Iām going to start and try to unwind some of that stuff that I do (Ring and photo storage).
Yeah, Iāve had two people evangelising Ring to me in the last four days.
Just, why?
We like the security aspect.
And depending where you live has a lot of value, evidence is the trade off we gave away too easily to fear
Reolink is a good alternative. Self host the storage, no license fees.
Self surveillance. Cut out the middleman.
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Gets very mixed reviews (online, natch). Do you use it ? If so, how reliable is it ?
Reading
at the moment - fitting the thread title.. Released in 2025.
About a wreckless fledgling AI company Tidalwaiv, and how they waive all ethics in the greed/need of being courted for takeover - even mentions Meta along with Microsoft and Musk in the context of tech companyās potentially doing the courting.
Field of Skulls it is!
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I have a driveway camera, and a doorbell which I bought because we had a spate of local schoolkids doing knock-a-door run at all hours which was seriously pissing the wife off.
Iāve found them good, with the caveat I am reasonably adept technically, as they maybe they arenāt as consumer-focused as Ring-type products.
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OK, thanks.
My kids and their friends (age 25 and 21) are all moving away from this in various ways. The vinyl resurgence, my son and many of his mate shooting on film. Small moves but part of a bigger trend.
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Beautiful.
Protesters getting organised
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