Freestyle Libre 2 app is impossible to use on Android. Freestyle 3 (also) drains phone battery in a few hours.

I just got an Abbott Freestyle Libre 2 system to measure my blood sugar. It is nice to not have to do pin sticks, but the app makes my phone unusable. 

On my Mac Studio, all worked well on Ventura 13.2. My home directory was on a different disk in an OWC ThunderBay Flex8 enclosure.

1. After the Ventura 13.3 upgrade, I logged in and never get a desktop. I reinstalled Venture--no change. I made a new account on  another non-MacOS disk, and That did not work properly either. I was unable to log into iCloud (refused to accept UID/Pwd) and also said my keychain was wrong. Resetting the keychain did not help.

I subscribe to the New York Times (digitally). When using their RSS feed using News Explorer on my Mac, I get blocked as soon as I log in. After filling in their support form for two days, I tried using the NYT chat:

As I showed in my previous blog, it is neigh onto impossible to contact Xfinity online, or on the phone. Their local offices basically only deal in equipment. Using Twitter is the only way to get support. @XfinitySupport. 

I upgraded to a 1.2 Mbps plan and the new XFi Gateway. But getting it to work required two days. Comcast has neutered the Gateway interface (10.0.0.1) by removing the crucial ability to do port forwarding. You can only use the Xfinity Home App.

Xfinity has started to limit my data usage. I went to their site and got the following message:

But when I logged in, I got this:

I have a dual monitor setup on my Mac Studio--a 4k Dell, and 5k LG. Yesterday I returned from shopping and found a pop-up saying that the LG was not operating at its optimum 5k resolution. I went to the System Settings/Monitor pane and found that there was no 5120 x 2160 setting available, even after selecting Show all resolutions. I tried different options there, and suddenly, my system was unusable if the LG was turned on.

I am a great fan of T-Mobile, and have profited from owning their stock. T-Mobile now offers 5G-based Internet modems for $50 a month (auto-billed, and with no taxes or fees).

I am desperately trying to dump Comcast—the worst company to deal with. They raised my bill $20 a month, and when I tried to get support, they required me to use a cell phone link, and then said no one was available!

So, I went to the T-Mobile Web site and ordered the Internet service. (Do not go to the T-Mobile store; mine did not have any.) I got the modem the next day.

The current practice of printing archival scientific journals (as opposed to newsy journals such as Nature or Science) needs to be rethought.

The joy started when my fully-speced Mac Studio (MS) box arrived. UPS left it on my doorstep without a signature, or even ringing the doorbell. Luckily, I got an e-mail announcing the delivery. I could find no way to open the box. But I must have missed one side because I finally found an arrow that I ripped down to open it. There is nothing in the box except for the computer and a small sheet identifying the ports.