If this happens, it will break medical devices and cause physical harm. Specifically CGM’s (Continuous Glucose Monitors) not compatible with iOS 26 where this data is ingested into insulin pumps every minute and automatically inject insulin every five minutes for Type 1 diabetics.
By far the largest problem I've had is that if you move from region to region (I just escaped the USA back to the UK), there's a complication between subscriptions and regional stores.
You can't switch your region while you have an active subscription - which includes any AppleCare or other long-term (1 year, say) "subscriptions".
Applications like Glucose monitors and Diabetic Pump controllers are distinct between regional stores - a UK pump won't work with US software and vice versa, at least for Tandem.
So I had to wait for the subscription to time out. Cancelling it just means you don't pay on the anniversary, it's still active, and calling Apple support wasn't useful - they tried to help but ultimately couldn't effect any change.
Fortunately my last subscription timed out this month, and I can now use my UK pump with the UK software, linking to the UK hospital systems.
So, just beware if you move continent - you might want to make sure you time it well regarding any Apple subscriptions, which didn't occur to me before I moved.
I want off this train. I’m voting, protesting and only spending my money at places I know are not actively supporting Trump and. It rolling back DEI, (looking at you Target). Still feeling pretty helpless that it’s only going to get worse for us and for my children’s future.
Hi there thanks for purchasing! Currently we have it set to just one endpoint per account (MVP Launch) but let me add support for more today. How many endpoints are you looking to monitor?
My young child has Type 1 diabetes. I need to know when the server that receives glucose readings from his CGM on his body goes down. It’s a huge help to prevent emergencies and death when I know when his blood glucose is low AND when there’s no new blood glucose readings. I’m going to try this service. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for your comment! Wow - That sounds like a very important use case. Please feel free to reach out to me if you encounter anything while getting set up admin@varonova.ca; I'll double check once you sign up that everything is configured correctly (any unauthenticated endpoint that retuns a 200 response will work, best is /health).
This is what needs to be investigated by DOGE and the DOJ! To be clear, I think DOGE is complete nonsense and causing real harm. But if Trump, Musk (DOGE) really wanted to find fraud, waste and abuse it would investigate private insurance fraud that the insurance companies regularly commit and defense contractors. The executive branch has an opportunity to do actual good if they investigated and punished private insurance companies like the CFPB investigated and punishes financial companies for fraud. I’m
If companies can't rely on immigrants to fill roles, they will have to jack salaries and spend more on job safety? But that will just increase prices...and eventually low end work simply becomes too costly to not automate anymore.
> and eventually low end work simply becomes too costly to not automate anymore.
Evidence from Japan (a looking glass into a declining demographic future) does not validate this thesis. Some work can be automated (kiosks for order taking, for example), but most lower wage work cannot (especially manual labor around child care and healthcare). Wages will rise, that is the unavoidable inflationary component of structural demographics and the participant rate decline. Supply vs demand.
In the US, there are already shortages of doctors, nurses, teachers (~1600 school districts across 24 states in the US are on 4 day weeks to attempt to retain teachers), bus drivers, railroad workers, farm workers, construction workers, day care staff, correctional officers, enlisted military recruits, etc [1]. ~4M Boomers retire per year, ~11k per day. Older folks (55+) are what is holding up participation rate because they cannot afford to retire [2], but they age out at a rate of ~2M/year, and ~37M of them are in the labor force [3].
Japan is actually the anti-thesis of your argument. They move young Japanese kids to Thailand to work call service jobs (they can pay them less there). They went through a huge automation push in the 80s/early 90s because they could n't find enough people to work in their factories, and this only went away in the late 90s when China came online with cheaper labor. Heck, it is ironic that the automation that we associate with China today is exactly what we associated with Japan in until the 00s! Now Japan is kind of messed up: kids are not finding it easy to deal with jobs whose salaries aren't rising (or their company sends them to work in Thailand).
We are already there, heck, China knows they will be there soon. Japan is definitely having issues with kids not wanting to work for peanuts anymore (so offering them an adventure in Bangkok). With the US on its current Trump-inspired anti-intellectualism kick, it is very likely that we will be buying automation equipment from China 10 or so years from now to do deal with coming labor shortages (assuming we don't just try to fix it with immigration again).
Nonsense. Tell this to humans that die when their blood glucose is insanely high (500mg/dl), go into DKA and they are SKINNY!!! You’re suggesting 20 calories can make you obese because it raises blood glucose lol! 3-5 grams (12-20 calories) of a mild-glycemic index carbohydrate can send your blood glucose well above 120mg/dl and you would not gain weight because of an extra 12-20 calories. Additionally, 1,200 calories from fat (133 grams of fat) will not spike your blood glucose until 5-12 hours later and you you can gain weight, but that signal is lost because the rise in blood glucose happens 1-3 meals, or even the next day after eating the high fat meal. Blood glucose is VERY important but not predictive of weight. Diet, (the amount and macro composition of calories) is predictive of weight and exercise is predictive of weight. The are other factors, but those are the main predictors.
> Tell this to humans that die when their blood glucose is insanely high (500mg/dl), go into DKA and they are SKINNY!!!
We're not talking about people with underlying health conditions. Exceptions don't invalidate a general principle.
> You’re suggesting 20 calories can make you obese because it raises blood glucose lol!
Nothing "lol" about it. An extra 20 calories, 20 times a day, every day for months and years, above your caloric needs, is yes quite likely to make you obese. How else do you think most people get obese?
> fat... will not spike your blood glucose until 5-12 hours later
And you can become aware of those patterns. You will know, for example, not to eat anything else during that window. Or learn to eat fat in gradual amounts, rather than large amounts in a single sitting.
> Blood glucose is VERY important but not predictive of weight.
You seem quite confident about that. You're also quite possibly wrong. The underlying logic is pretty sound: we gain weight when our blood sugar goes up and therefore our insulin goes up to remove the sugar from the bloodstream and, eventually, store it as fat.
> The underlying logic is pretty sound: we gain weight when our blood sugar goes up and therefore our insulin goes up to remove the sugar from the bloodstream and, eventually, store it as fat.
I like this post because it assumes that humans don’t use sugar for energy. It is all stored as fat because the human body is a closed system that does not burn calories.
Also I like “I see you said 20, obviously you mean 20 times that”
