Centurylink added a fun one for me, a building relocation fee, I shit you not.
They mailed me paperwork stating how they need to charge an extra fee for when roads expand or move, and they have to relocate a building. So instead of just setting aside some of their profit for the few times they’ll need to move a fucking building, now I get to specifically pay for this occurrence.
They’re both open source, but you’re dealing with possibly killing people if there’s a bug with injecting insulin, or reporting blood sugar values wrong, haha so its a feat I’ve steered clear of, myself.
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Understood! Like I said they’re medical apps for diabetes, so its not a great thing to try to make a linux-port because you have to do testing and make sure there’s no issues compared to the android version.
The way the apps work with waydroid is they need direct bluetooth access, or they need a pathway for the signals to get passed through to the container, via a fake bluetooth stack.
As far as I’m aware waydroid right now just routes supported things from the host device to the waydroid container, such as networking, audio, and I guess input from keyboards, gamepads, etc. Those devices don’t have direct bluetooth support in the android container, the linux host is just passing things along to the container, there’s just no supported path for a blood sugar monitor, or an insulin pump info to get to the waydroid container right now.
This is awesome, I have a fairphone 5 and hoping some of this work will help the finished development for the FP5!
Sort of related: is there any interest in looking at getting bluetooth support, or bluetooth passthrough to Waydroid? I have a few medical android apps that need bluetooth in the android container to be able to actually use them, and it seems to be stalled in the Waydroid development git discussions.
I understand this, but now they get to double dip, have a high price, AND charge more. Instead of having all the pricing roled into the final price, they get to say $65/m *
They also get to invent new situations to charge you for. Instead of just, “our service costs this much” they now get to add additional things like:
Who knows if they ever actually have to relocate a building like they told me. I’d like to see some figures in how often that actually happens, and how much it costs them as a company.