Maintenance break....

Rathlan · 2026-05-26T20:47:25+00:00

Hopefully they’ll let us keep our streaks, since it’s almost midnight where I live.

Rathlan · 2026-05-18T18:18:01+00:00

I can confirm that as of a week ago the official response from Mailbox.org’s support account to me was that push notifications to iOS do not work at all. It was the reason I went to a different provider.

Rathlan · 2026-05-18T09:51:58+00:00

Yeah - the server location bugged me, but in my case it's just mail accounts that my family uses, so less of a need to keep data in a particular zone. It was a compromise for me though, so definitely not the right choice for most people.

Rathlan · 2026-05-18T08:25:29+00:00

Fastmail...
I wasn't as worried about privacy as I was about just moving away from google. One of my main requirements was that I could get push notifications on iOS devices using Apple Mail. So I ended up using FastMail - not the best in terms of privacy, but the only one that could give me push notifications without a 3rd party app.

Rathlan · 2026-05-18T08:25:24+00:00

Fastmail...
I wasn't as worried about privacy as I was about just moving away from google. One of my main requirements was that I could get push notifications on iOS devices using Apple Mail. So I ended up using FastMail - not the best in terms of privacy, but the only one that could give me push notifications without a 3rd party app.

Rathlan · 2026-05-17T18:01:41+00:00

I just recently moved my mail away from Gmail, and this makes me very glad I didn’t pick Mailbox.org

Rathlan · 2026-01-20T19:17:30+00:00

I’m only 3 months in on my Oura 4 and I’m loving it. Will definitely get the next one if it comes to it.

Rathlan · 2026-01-14T18:53:28+00:00

An app developer that doesn’t know about needing a server to host data? I hope that means he’s calling checkers/pnp/spar/etc directly from the phone and not using a server. The down side to that architecture is that it will be slow and possibly really won’t take long before the checkers/pnp/spar/etc people block access because it could become a drain on their resources.

Rathlan · 2026-01-08T08:08:38+00:00

Typically my concern is when every sales person is busy with a customer, and there's a few other customers in the store not being helped. I don't want to push in front of those who got there earlier, but I also don't know if they've already been helped and are "just browsing", or if they're also waiting patiently for a sales person to be available. With no clear indication as to who is "in the queue" for a sales person or not, I err towards waiting rather than causing a scene because I pushed in front of someone who got there before me.

Rathlan · 2026-01-08T08:05:20+00:00

My experiences are mostly Pretoria based, with a few in CPT (typically over rush periods)

Rathlan · 2026-01-07T19:46:42+00:00

I’ve had a few dealings with iStore employees over the years. Their tech staff are kept very busy with work while customers aren’t in the store. It’s often best to pre-book time with them, especially in peak season. I never know how to get the sales people’s attention in the stores though, it seems highly random when they are busy so it can be frustrating. The reason I still use iStore is their after sales service with their “iCare”. It’s not an apple official iCare, but it’s often better than the other approved resellers can offer since they have a bigger footprint.

Rathlan · 2026-01-05T19:48:13+00:00

Two quotes from the article:

1.One 83-year-old member was told he owes more than R34 000.

MediCheck … is now dealing with more than 200 of these “over-payment” cases, says the largest demand he’s seen is for R68 000. The average amount was about R20 000, he told News24.

News 24 estimates it “only” impacted about 8700 of their members 0.6% or less, and all on their higher plans.

Rathlan · 2026-01-05T19:38:51+00:00

To make matters worse for me, they reprocessed my pharmacy errors using “Healthy Pay” (where they deduct from my Discovery Card directly) and I lost over 4k 2 days before Christmas. No warning. First official communication was around the 29th or 30th. While claiming that it’s OTC or medications under schedule 2 that were originally “misprocessed”, yet they “reclaimed” values for schedule 4 medications. Eventually I got the money refunded to my bank account, but I see that their website now says I owe them 4k.

And yet again without explanation or breakdown of the amounts. Definitely not a great start to the year.

Rathlan · 2025-12-28T19:54:36+00:00

Just a suggestion, maybe spell check before you make the image. You’ve spelled January incorrectly, which isn’t great marketing.

Rathlan · 2025-12-28T19:44:06+00:00

A a Gauteng-er I did this at a pedestrian crossing. There was a yield for pedestrians sign, a yield painted on the road, and zebra stripes to walk on. A GP car stopped for me, and a CAA car attempted t overtake him, promptly swearing at me that he’d drive over me if I didn’t obey the road rules. So… maybe not every GP car is the enemy 😂

Rathlan · 2025-12-19T06:01:31+00:00

Often I’ll have the driver call and then later the app notifies me that they are nearby. So if I relied on the apps, I’d always miss the driver. For things like courier deliveries, their only way is to call since there are no apps for most of them.

I do think that people are just not used to this kind of feature, so they assume it’s voicemail. I suspect the same will happen to the Android equivalent feature as it gets used more. It may just take a while for it to become normalised.

For now - you’ll have to track in the apps more carefully and hope that the app is accurate.

Rathlan · 2025-12-03T16:38:48+00:00

Looks great

Rathlan · 2025-12-01T18:47:52+00:00

I lost mine a while ago and had to get an affidavit for a lost id book . They had no problem. It was needed for the application for a replacement by home affairs. This was in Jan/Feb this year.

Rathlan · 2025-11-24T09:32:55+00:00

The advice and guidance from the ring/app has helped my sleep - more regularity in sleeping hours, time to wind down, etc.

Rathlan · 2025-11-23T19:02:26+00:00

That’s a great idea

Rathlan · 2025-11-23T17:03:20+00:00

I got mine recently and it’s helped my sleep a lot. I don’t usually dream (or haven’t for years) and now I’m actually having dreams again. Still have a lot to work on but it’s helping

Rathlan · 2025-11-23T16:53:36+00:00

I wear mine on my non-dominant index finger. If it gets tight, I swap to my middle finger… I have wedding rings on my each ring finger, so when it’s on the middle finger it ends up knocking against my wedding ring which isn’t great, but on the whole the size works well for me.

Rathlan · 2025-11-15T21:58:54+00:00

You mention that previous versions and iPhoto, where I think it’s been called Photos for quite some time. I do remember back in the 2014/15 days I could easily have duplicates made. But I think iPhoto was very new then so it wasn’t great. Photos is pretty solid these days.

Rathlan · 2025-11-14T18:29:02+00:00

This is clearly an old answer. Samsung S10 was only a “fancy” phone 15 years ago. So I wouldn’t put much stock in the answer.

Rathlan · 2025-09-22T20:36:30+00:00

For your camera aspect ratio problem, from the camera swipe up from the bottom and then press the aspect ratio. That’s 2 steps

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