had a remote doctor appointment cause my insurance didn't have an allergy specialist on premises.

i tried to get in the call but first the system wouldn't open, and when it did it wouldn't recognize my camera and refused me to enter the call.

rn I'm just pissed off that the call center people are completely innocent and I'm not gonna scream at them, but i really wanna scream at the devs of this shitty website/app (i tried both) and i wanna scream at the fucking incompetent assholes that run this company

rather scream at management that failed to plan proper testing.

also: when devs create shit, in 90% of cases it's because that specific turd was something the customer wanted.

Hmm, it probably says a lot about your camera brand. It's not that software supports a specific camera or not, it probably just uses the API provided by system. Your camera can suck tho. Just doesn't meet standards.

lower inflammation in your body and expose yourself to the smallest amount of whatever you're allergic to on a regular basis

eating liver also would help because it has all the minerals and vitamins that your body would need to recycle your immune cells and lower inflammation naturally, so it would speed up the process (and fix if your allergy is caused by habitually bad nutrition / a deficiency of some sort over a long period of time)

took me 3 days last time actually but I had been eating liver prior so maybe that made it go much faster

... and before I knew how allergies worked I had accidentally cured my seasonal allergies from someone having bought me dandelion tea (I was allergic to that plant family but the tea is anti inflammatory). I was allergic to the tea but after I drank it my seasonal allergies disappeared for a day... so then I started drinking it regularly because the effect would fade (always longer and longer away though) and goddamn. freedom, bitch.

@retoor both my phone and my ipad? lol

@darksideofyay especially those :p

Insurance is in the business of taking your money and giving in return the minimum possible service.
An effective way of doing it would be deliberately filling their app with dark patterns and bugs, and then training their call center operators to keep pointing insured clients to the app.
I wonder if one checks the source code for those apps they might find bunches of compatibility layers commented out by the PO.

@JsonBoa what really annoys me is that i had this same insurance back in 2020 and it was great. they had the best system in the market, the app said how long the wait was in each building, you could make all appointments online on the same place and leave with exams ready.

apparently they were bought since then and it has gone to hell. i understand closing buildings and cutting resources from a business perspective but I don't get why they tossed out the perfect software they already had

@darksideofyay 2020 was 5 years ago, and software ages like milk in the sun - especially consumer-facing software.
Mostly because everybody is always buying new phones, and the networks keep changing, and new regulations take place, and then you get budget cuts to backend services, or 3rd-party providers go bust and have to be replaced...
Perfectly good software is actively maintained. If another company bought your HC provider, they most likely gave the boot to all devs of the 2020 app.

There is also "enshittyfication", it's like "shrinkflation" for food products (when companies reduce portions instead if raising prices). Software companies cut backend services or maintenance cycles or fire senior devs and hire greenhorns. Thus you get shittier software for the same (or not-as-high) price.

Finally, there is bait-and-switch (A.K.A. dumping). Offer great and cheap service, corner the market, then either raise prices of fuck up service - no client is able to leave, anyway.