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[-] importedreality@programming.dev 118 points 6 months ago

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.

https://www.boredpanda.com/medicine-cats-live-longer/

[-] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 52 points 6 months ago

That killed my childhood cat. Would be awesome for future kids to not experience what I did.

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[-] Drusas@kbin.run 29 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] ickplant@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

This makes me very happy, thank you for sharing!

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[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 87 points 6 months ago

Science is just the method by which technological advancements are achieved, it doesn't decide the priorities. That privilege falls to capital, and by extension, capitalists.

[-] theonyltruemupf@feddit.de 15 points 6 months ago

First and foremost, priorities are set by reality.

Extending a dog's lifespan by 60 years would be a very high demand product and could be sold for much more than what smartphones cost. If it was feasible, it would have already been done.

[-] Shareni@programming.dev 41 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Flying would be a very high demand service and could be sold for much more than what a train ticket costs. If it was feasible, it would have already been done.

  • someone 150 years ago
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[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 62 points 6 months ago

Who stop at 60? Immortal dogs!

This is your father's dog. An elegant puppy for a more civilised age. Take care of it, you and your descendents, for it will outlive you all.

Oh wait, now I realised that's basically r2d2

[-] edgesmash@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

Oh wait, now I realised that's basically r2d2

Is that a bad thing?

[-] wahming@monyet.cc 10 points 6 months ago

Just wait till it pukes up a lightsaber at you

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[-] Drusas@kbin.run 46 points 6 months ago

Some scientists actually are working on this. I haven't read this article in particular, but it was near the top of a search.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-new-drug-that-could-extend-dogs-lives-inches-closer-to-approval-180983331/

tl;dr is that there may soon be a drug available which can extend the lives of large dogs.

[-] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

"That'll be $293,763."

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[-] atrielienz@lemmy.world 35 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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?

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 20 points 6 months ago

Some of that is the Bluetooth standard being the single most half-assed thing ever made by man.

[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 15 points 6 months ago

As someone who does audio production as a hobby, and recently made an album using mostly Android, I can tell you that audio routing in Android is an absolute nightmare. Basically, Android (at least my Android devices) doesn't give you access to any settings at all, it just assumes that you use the default settings of whatever you happen to plug into it.

I had a problem where I'd plug in my DAC, and it would detect it and start using it, but it failed to work in the app I wanted it to work in. It took me something like two days to figure out I had to plug things in in a different order in order for them to work properly. Just infuriating, and something that would be simple to fix if they'd just give you some super simple audio routing options, but NOOO, they just have to assume that no one knows what they're doing and try to do everything for you.

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[-] olutukko@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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

[-] EnderMB@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

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.

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[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 29 points 6 months ago

Though aging is a lot more complex than shrinking cpu transistors.

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[-] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 25 points 6 months ago

I feel like we've already been going backwards on smartphones: Bring back replaceable batteries, keyboards, headphone ports, and IR blasters!

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[-] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 6 months ago

Honestly, I do want a better smartphone. Not better as in more pixels or processing power, but more features.

My P8P has a temperature sensor on it. Every phone I own moving forward is gonna need that now cuz I use it for all kinds of shit basically daily, great tool for a SMART device.

I miss IR blasters, they weren't as useful but they had their place

I miss the short time period where volume and lock buttons were on the backs of phones.

More weird sensors and functionality that might prove useful in niche situations, please.

[-] multifariace@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

They keep saying they upgraded the cameras but they are still limited to the visible spectrum.

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[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 23 points 6 months ago

Speak for yourself, I want a better phone as in with removable battery, sd card, headphone jack.

The difference is, science is not making phones better for the consumer, but for the maker.

[-] deaf_fish@lemm.ee 19 points 6 months ago

The science on most of this stuff is done already. Most of your requests could be implemented tomorrow. No problem.

This is not a science problem. This is a capitalism problem.

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[-] SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago

I'd settle for a long and healthy lifespan and a painless passing for all beings.

[-] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

As someone whose dog has been having health problems for the past year, I agree with this statement.

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[-] dojan@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

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.

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[-] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 15 points 6 months ago

i dunno, 60 years would put me past being able to get a dog as i wouldn't want to die and leave them.

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[-] cosmic_cowboy@reddthat.com 15 points 6 months ago

Instead of making phones thin enough to shave with, just give me a battery that could last a few days.

[-] jenny_ball@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

and headphone jack and sd card and more buttons. flat screen

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[-] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This has to do with all the services running in the background. Modern phones are actually extremely efficient, providing you're not connected to push notification services and don't have apps running in the background all the time.

Problem is that Google and Apple loooove user data and so it's very hard to do this, impossible in the case of iOS. I have a fully google-less tablet and that things lasts many days on 1 charge.

Also scrolling on TikTok is basically the most intensive thing you can do on your phone unless you play 3d games. Lots of data being transferred, lots of effects, you KNOW it's sucking as much data as it can out of your phone too.

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[-] bremen15@feddit.de 13 points 6 months ago

Sorry, we are busy with real problems like climate change mitigation.

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[-] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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.

[-] EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

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

[-] afox@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

No. Tech is cheap. Don't sell yourself short.

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[-] PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 6 months ago

I just want a phone with 24 hour screen-on time. Is that so much to ask for in the day and age of self driving cars?

[-] TwentySeven@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

Why? I have no reason for my phone screen to be on while it's in my pocket

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[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 10 points 6 months ago

just keep in mind that no one wanted a better cell phone before the iphone.

[-] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 39 points 6 months ago

Maybe not directly, but there was a demand for "portable computers", a better input system for phones, better portable cameras, a way to readily access the internet anywhere, among several other things. The smartphone became popular so quickly because it concretized all of those latent demands into a single device.

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

To add to this, pre iPhone phones sucked ass. People were absolutely asking for a better phone directly too

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[-] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 20 points 6 months ago

Why do people believe this shit? Like the Internet was around. You can go see me arguing with people calling my Nokia NGage a taco and me defending having to hold it weird if I get to play Tomb Raider on my phone, on forums, right now. Oh and the kids all hold their phones that way now and yes it looks stupid but they just remastered Tomb Raider for mobile so who cares.

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