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I am a Divine Being : You are an Object You Have No Right To Speak In My Holy Tongue
“Divine being” and “holy tongue”… well can’t get on board with that. Machines have better manners than mosr of the people I hear talking.
most humans do suck, but it’s the principal of the matter
For real though, these machines are here in service to me, not the other way around. I’m the one calling the shots, get onboard with that or I unplug yo ass.
plugs un
that should be a own post xD
Recently downloaded a “cast” app because Miracast doesn’t work on GrapheneOS. On first launch, I got 3 consecutive full screen video ads followed by a popup to “subscribe” to their paid service. Next, another popup to rate them 5* in google play store. Note that at this point, I haven’t even reached the main screen of the app… You know, to actually try it and see if it works.
Uninstalled that garbage and gave it the 1* rating it deserves.
Seriously, I’m so sick and tired of these “modern” apps which don’t even have the decency to offer a good quality paid version. $8/mo for a stupid utility I use maybe a few times a year? Who tf do you think you are?
Using apps on GrapheneOS, I also get notified when they use the play integrity API… I find it insulting when apps like Reddit attempt to access that… Seriously, you’re just an online forum. Why tf would you care about whether my phone is rooted or not?
Heh, I like the “I kill you now” human mode in this. The developers don’t realise we have our own antibullshit software. Evolution playing out in app survival.
Too much fuckery? Off at the wall !
Put your foot on the power switch down till it stops whirring.
Immediate disable of notifications and one star review for abusing notifications. I do the same thong when legitimatel services text me for marketing or surveys. Texts are meant for more urgent communication that needs almost immediate attention and it’s an abuse of trust to test people like that.
“A new generation of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation robots and computers with the new GPP feature”
“GPP, what’s that?”
“It says ‘Genuine People Personalities’.”
“Sounds ghastly”
It makes me a bit sad that there are people getting around that don’t know how to declaw their smartphone with disabled notifications, permissions and such. It’s not their fault, these things are a fucking nightmare when left to go feral.
The thing is, at least on iPhone, is when you first install an app it’ll ask some of these questions and you can say, and should, say no for the most part:
- This app wants to track you. Allow?
- This app wants to send you notifications. Allow?
- This app wants access to your photos? Allow?
- This app wants to see your contacts. Allow?
Etc.
This is why I recommend FOSS apps for base functionality like that. There’s plenty folks out there, who’ve implemented a grocery list app as a hobby project, who don’t need to try to make money off it. As such, their app can exist without ads, tracking or needy notifications.
I recommend FOSS for absolutely everything you use if possible.
I agree, when my wife switched to iPhone a few years back, I had trouble finding foss apps for ios. I guess not being able to sideload means most devs will want to recoup the apple development fee. I don’t blame them really.
I used an iPhone for a few months last year and I had such a hard time with just how much it costs for apps. Everything is a subscription and you have no options for sideloading your own app or FOSS. I tried to set my alarm to a piece of music that was released under a creative commons license and the only way to do it was to spend $1 with Apple.
Should definitely avoid Duolingo.
I am visiting denmark in summer and wanted to learn some danish. I looked at duolingo, then at their privacy policy, then i threw the idea away. Babbel is better in terms of privacy but still not great. I haven‘t found an alternative product yet.
Asking for a friend, do they sell your data or just (ab)use it?
Both, your data ends up at facebook, google and i think microsoft as well :))
Thanks for the heads up, I never cared much for American companies using my data because I didn’t care much of them making money off my back but I feel that I have to change that with now geopolitic situation changed. I don’t want my data accessible to a government that has increasingly closer ties with regimes like the ones in China, Russia and Israel.
Was thinking perhaps Rosetta Stone, they’re old and well-established, and while I’ve not read through their privacy policy on account of being dead tired at the moment, at a glance it looks digestible.
But then I noticed that they don’t do Danish.
Though maybe we’re too app focused. Denmark has some really good children’s books authors, H.C. Andersen is classic, most people probably know him through his work “Den Lille Havfrue”, or at least the Disnep adaptation, “The Little Mermaid.” For pronunciation my favourite method is singing and mimicking. I enjoy the mouthfeel of other languages, though admittedly Danish is incredibly difficult as the sounds are so different from Swedish.
Yeah honestly children’s books are a good start if you are serious about it, but since I just want to learn the absolute basics for day to day communication, this seems overkill for me. I think danish should be quite approachable for me though since I speak german in mother tongue
Modern apps out here with the confidence of a CEO and the usefulness of a broken pencil.
"You haven’t set any alarms recently. Don’t you find that…
Alarming??"
Next step is the alarm app setting an alarm to remind you to set an alarm.
I’m sorry, what? A regular smiley face is “psycho”?
look into it’s eyes, is it happy? annoyed? about to jump you? 🙂
Mine was worse than that. It straight up added products to my list.
that is insane, i would obliterate an app that did something like that
Duolingo! Screw that app. Has anyone ever learned to speak a language by just using duolingo?
Ja. Ich habe Deutsch gelernt. Kaffee mit Milch, bitte.
My streak is the only thing keeping me going
Send help, the owl has my family
So as someone who used the app daily for 5,09315068 years, do you feel you learned a new skills or has it only given you the feeling of not wasting all your time in unproductive apps?
I’m doing the Japanese course, and it’s… Mixed. I definitely know more than before I started, but duo really isn’t the best app for Japanese
I used lingodeer for a while and it was a lot better, but they jacked up the price massively, after which I stopped
As someone that used to use it, I feel like it lost it’s utility massively after learning hiragana and katakana. After that it’s much better to use things with more kanji if you actually want to be able to read. I did see they tried to add kanji though, but don’t know if it’s enough.
Do it then. Replace the app with pen and paper. I think the app is calling your bluff.
I just use nano for taking notes
the correct answer was vim, but I’ll allow it
Why would someone use grocery list app instead of a text editor
A list with check boxes is way better than a text only list. Though genetic to-do list apps are good enough for that, assuming it’s a decent to-do list app in the first place.
I have a self hosted recipe book (Tandoor) and it has a built in grocery list. Its really nice cause I can just click a button and it adds everything I need to my grocery list.
Paprika recipe manager seems like an equivalent, and it’s not subscription based. Just a one time purchase per OS
Yeah but it’s not self-hosted which was a big thing for me.
I suppose, but what’s the worth of self hosting when the functionality is locked behind a subscription fee. If the company goes down you still lose the software.
Self hosted tandoor is free. And it’s open source.
Oh, I see.
I just saw the subscription costs and the free tier as limited to 10 recipes. I didn’t realise the self hosted version was fully functional
