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Somewhat related, there is a vaccine for cats in the works meant to prevent feline chronic kidney disease. If successful it could massively increase the lifespan of domestic cats.
That would be amazing. They can already live so long. To think, you might be able to have a cat with you for most of your adult life.
One of my family cats is currently at the end of her life due to kidney disease. It really sucks, glad they’re doing something about it. Now if only they could do the same for dogs.
This makes me very happy, thank you for sharing!
I’m literally having my 19 year old cat put down tomorrow due to kidney disease and I very much wish for him to feel young and healthy again. It sucks.
Sorry for your loss mate
Some scientists actually are working on this. I haven’t read this article in particular, but it was near the top of a search.
tl;dr is that there may soon be a drug available which can extend the lives of large dogs.
“That’ll be $293,763.”
Amazing! I can’t wait until that’s reality.
But that means more cancer doesn’t it? :(
I was actually helping an aging coworker who wears a hearing aid set up some features on his phone and connecting his phone to Bluetooth. I was significantly disappointed with the lack of features geared toward those who are hard of hearing. Specifically in driving mode for Android auto. He’s got a newish phone (S23) so it’s not that. And the settings were far too convoluted to find for my tastes.
It really bothered me quite a bit that I couldn’t make the Bluetooth register that he was using a car and therefore speakers, not headphones. And further that the settings for voice prompts in the maps app requires he go into his personal Google settings to change toggles because the app user facing one is only available once you pick a destination and he couldn’t hear it.
Is it too much to ask for a long press shortcut?
Oh hearing aid apps suuuuuuuuck. I can’t even get mine to forget a source. It was a problem because I accidentally connected to a neighbor’s Bluetooth for a few months last year
I honestly don’t see any reason for a better phones in a while. I bought oneplus 6t 5 years ago and after getting latest android with custom rom it’s like having a new phone no lag at all. the only thing that is bad is the battery lifem I already changed it once and got scammed om ebay , the new one is 1000mAh too small :D not a suprising event
I recently upgraded from a OP6 to the new Pixel, and aside from being a bit shinier in some ways, it felt like an expensive downgrade, since I’ve lost a headphone jack and gained features I didn’t particularly care about.
The days of a phone upgrade bringing new features feel like a lifetime ago.
haha yeah. I have been checking the new phones from time to time and the specs are almost the same I have so there is no point in upgrading
I always use the cheapest cell phones until they fall to pieces. I don’t need a cell phone for more than basic things, being able to call, receive messages and little else. Social networks, administrations and things like that I prefer to do more comfortably from the PC, my old eyes are no longer able to deal with these things on a small screen and I don’t really feel like it either.
I had to use cheap phones for a long time and it was pain in the ass. they always got full and ran like shit after like 1 year of use so when I finally got the chance I bought actially powerful phone. I love it. it took me 4 years to get the memory full and it’s pretty much always lag free. im my last phone I has 16gb memory which got full so often that I had to factory reset them constantly to get them running even half decently. nowadays even cheap phones have fairly good specs though so I don’t think it would be the case anymore and I’m most certainly not going to spend as much on my next phone as I spent on this
It’s correct, but my, despite to be a €100 Phone and after 3 Years, it still works fine as it should. It’s logical that it dond have a big memory, but enough for what I use it. As said, it depends on the use as in other things too, you don’t need an Ferrari, if you use it only to go to the mall or for 2km to your work. At least I always buy or use the just for what I need it. If I need the Phone for an use intense, for sure I would buy one for €1.500, it’s not a problem for me, but this isn’t the case.
that’s excellent mindset. too many people buy stuff they don’t need just because they can
Would that I could, I’d trade years of my life to get some extra years for my dog. It’s insane to think he’s a third of the way through his lifespan already.
That is the real tragedy of having a pet. You usually outlive them. But I would suggest the alternative of them outliving you has the potential to be worse, because who knows where they might end up?
In my opinion I think it’s important to always have a plan for your pet in case you die, as you never know. I personally have a beneficiary for a portion of my 401k that will get $20k of it and my dog(s) upon my death if my husband isn’t alive at the time. It’s a person I trust and has agreed to take on the responsibility, and care for them the way I would. I know not everyone is able to leave funds for the care of their pet, but having the conversation with friends and loved ones ahead of time to see who could and would take them is important.
My mother is in her 80s and has a dog, but she also had a plan for it before she got it. I still don’t love that she got it, but at least she did that.
Dogs can offer fantastic companionship and help keep the elderly active longer. At 80, your mother could still potentially outlive the dog depending on the age/breed and both of their health! I do hope that I live to be 80 and still have a dog. Dogs, like humans, are pretty resilient. They can bounce back from grief and change. Sounds like the dog’s welfare is planned for, so I personally think it’s great! That dog might help give her more years herself!
That’s a fair point, but there are a couple of other reasons- it’s a purebread and she is one of those furbaby people who never let their dog have fun and get worked up over the tiniest thing. I once accidentally stepped on her dog’s paw and it made her do a very quick yelp and my mother literally spent five minutes checking every single leg over and over to make sure nothing is broken.
As someone whose dog has been having health problems for the past year, I agree with this statement.
I’m sorry to hear about your dog, I hope their health gets better!
Thank you.
I’d settle for a long and healthy lifespan and a painless passing for all beings.
I don’t want a better smart phone I just want a resilient smartphone that doesn’t suck after 3 years
Tbf tho I am buying cheap phones so that’s kind of my own fault
No. Tech is cheap. Don’t sell yourself short.
I buy two-year old flagships brand new for half their original price and they last me up to 5 years, possibly more.
By limiting a dog’s lifespan, you force dog-lovers to purchase a new dog after a few years.
Any company innovating a long-lived dog would saturate the market quickly and go out of business for lack of demand.
The only way around this is a support contract or a subscription model.
You could lease a dog for an annual fee. The benefit is obvious to anyone with a bit of business sense: After only a year or so your customers will have bonded with “their” dog and won’t want to part with it anymore.
So you can offer the first year at a heavily discounted rate and then jack up the subscription price as much as you want, the market will bear it.And if they fail to pay their rates, just send in Kristi Noem. She’ll do what needs to be done.
Gimme my cat back :(
What if, just hear me out, here, what if the smartphone makes your dog and cat live longer?
2200 news: First military Corvette fleet in orbit around sol. Means to reach alpha centauri in a few months discovered. Dog and cat lifespan increased tenfold. Human lifespan increased tenfold
(RIP)
arent they working on longevity though?
They sure are!
But humans (there is a dig line too actually) are complicated, furst treatments are out aleeady (works not very well, on only on 2 of the 7 base topics IIRC).
Next 10 years will be interesting.
last i heard of them there was this australian dude from harvard applying a treatment successfully to rats. where can i read more about these current ones that were released?
There are lots of biotech startups working on potentially working treatments (not like the billionaire founded ones sadly, where they mostly aim for some silver bullet treatment.), if you want a simplified recurring email information (it’s not the simplest but it gets information through IMO, I’m not a biologist for example) subscribe to fight agings newsletter; https://www.fightaging.org/newsletter/
Fightaging.org also has a lot of information.
Cheers!
I am pretty sure a phone from 10 years ago could do about same shit as my current one as long as it still had working battery, supported OS and non bloated shittified apps. Pretty much the only thing that needs better specs are more modern games, but I don’t really like to play games on my phone anyway (except old-school RPG’s and emulated games I guess).
The processors are so much more powerful now. You wouldn’t last a day without being extremely frustrated.
As long as people are more willing to pay large amounts of money to get a new smartphone as a status symbol than they pay to extend their pets lives, that’s not going to happen.
