MCTD Support Group
Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) or Sharp's syndrome is a human autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the body. MCTD combines features of polymyositis, systemic lupus erythematosus, and systemic scleroderma and is thus considered an overlap syndrome. MCTD commonly causes joint pain/swelling, Raynaud phenomenon, muscle inflammation, and scarring of...
Just a tip for everyone who is having so much trouble with this site...
The end game is probably still building a site/blog of our own somewhere BUT...
I recently started using Opera on my Android phone because it saves so much data, I have an old 1-gig plan, and I hate giving my money to monopolistic service providers. I also hate seeing ads because, as a therapist, I have to be brutally honest with myself and admit that they do cause me to buy more stuff. And they damage my creative thinking; I feel like a difficult online experience, or bloatware websites that are hard to read or jammed with ads, just makes me more irritable and actually hurts my problem-solving ability. Brain fog was bad enough, thanks!
Anyway, I tried Opera on my Mac (OS X Yosemite) and this site looks... almost normal.
Hope that's helpful for anyone else who is having the problems Mary Anne and I were having... main page was cluttered with ads and junk that was sitting on top of the first post in a thread in Safari and Firefox. But no problems-- so far-- in Opera.
Mary Ann
I think new phones are actually much slower than old phones. My Enact-- I actually have two of them now, one I just bought (new old stock) and my original, which still works-- just screams using Opera Mini.
I had a 2015 Blackberry Priv which listed for over half a grand. Slowest phone I ever had, battery only lasted about 6 hours after it was a year old. I literally use it as a paperweight. I work in health care; a phone with 6-hour battery life is useless.
My theory is that older phones and OS cannot load ad content as easily, and therefore they are considerably faster. The pages do not look as pretty, but they are much more readable.
I am thinking of changing the settings so it loads only text, not even pictures. I already have it set so it will not load video, and those annoying pop-out video ads never appear.
And of course the Enact has a physical keyboard. Touch screen is like voice recognition-- the accuracy and speed will never equal typing, and it's not possible that either of them will improve. If the phone only had physical buttons and a trackball, that would actually work better for me.
I do not need to add the cognitive load of learning how to "swipe." I'm 60 and have a chronic illness. When I learn new things, they must be EXACTY the things I choose to learn and need to learn, not what some punk in Silicone Valley wants me to learn.
I don't hate all technology-- I love home recording and ABS brakes, for example. But if I could convert the electric windows in my MX5 to manual, roll-up windows for only $1,000, I would do it in a heartbeat. I'm sure the motors for the windows will be fried in in 5 or 10 years, and it will cost me at least $1,500 to replace them.