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this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2024
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(honestly i think tim cook wrecked the company, he's a pure bloodless businessman, thinking only about numbers and value extraction versus innovation and changing the world, which jobs, for all his faults, objectively did)
I miss the old days where a macbook came with a bunch of creative apps that kids in the 60s-90s dreamed of.
That innovative creative freedom train is long gone from that company
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I am really confused about this meme template, didn't its usage used to be satirical (not sure if that's the right word)? I remember seeing ones like "Nobody ever needed maths", but recently I am seeing them inverted where the subject matter is actually criticised for being useless. Instead of claiming something useful to be useless. Can someone explain? when did the usage shift?
it's a meme just don't think too much
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So I bought a new mouse, of course it came with RGB nonsense. Before purchasing I checked it could be disabled.
Software to control RGB? 300MB. Who knows what the hell else that'll be doing.
Plugged it into my Linux laptop, download OpenRGB, 1.7MB application that supports more than just this brand. Turn off the rgb, click save to device.
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I hate that websites will purposely block a perfectly working website feature if it sees you're on a mobile just to refer you to their mobile app.
Oh sowwy, this splitwise feature is only available in the app. There's just no way to make it work in a browser that isn't the one our app wraps around, you gotta understand.
and that is when I just drop that company forever.
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I hate that I need an app to change the colour of my fucking lightbulb, give me a remote instead, damn.
That being said, I prefer using apps over the browser because they load way faster.
I have Phillips wiz bulbs in my house and I can do most of the stuff in the app from Google home. The only thing I can do is set scenes but I rarely use those.
The only real downside is these use some Phillips API so of course to work they call back to their servers so that stop being smart without an Internet connection. Some day I'll move my light bulbs out of the cloud but that day is not today.
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This is why I only use Instagram through Firefox on my phone. A) Meta software ain't getting installed on my device. 2) The Instagram app fucking melts iPhones.
Oh it melts Androids as well. It's just full of tacked on garbage that wasn't in the original.
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Please pair this with: Stop forcing me to make an account for your useless fucking service. It's a pain in the ass and only serves your corpo tracking while I get nothing in return
I agree it's annoying, but I've been using temp-mail for accounts I'll only ever use once and mysudo for accounts I'll need longer and it's been working well. Except ticketmaster doesn't accept voip numbers for your phone.
okay, that's why you want it, but, like, why should they care?
if you're not willing to do violence; why should they care?
That escalated quickly.
no, it took a few hundred years/all of recorded history.
'Member when apple didn't launch the iPhone with native app support and used the argument that HTML5 could do everything you could ever want, and they were wrong, but actually right as well?
Yeah, I 'member...
I always thought these were at least 50% ironic. Please don't tell me you don't actually want websites OP.
Yeah. I refuse to use my gym app, cause unnecessary, but there's plenty of usecases where apps provide useful, specific efficiencies, not to mention the aesthetic improvements, and the ability to create and curate interaction.
Given a malware free world, apps can be cool.
Bro most apps are unnecessary af!
I unironically do. I don’t use apps for almost anything.
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Bro, my city just made an app it has a news button, a quick link to city code compliance and a quick form for reporting illegal fireworks. City is depreciating email newsletter and website for app and facebook. and I hate so many places advertising decent deals behind apps. I am not downloading an app for every fastfood chain and grocery store. Stopped going to del taco, mcd and Wendy's over shitty apps.
TFW someone makes a desktop app but it’s literally just a bundled chrome browser page
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The reason this is done is because you can see everything your browser is doing, but you can't see everything an application is doing without disassembling it.
I want very much to go back to websites. Apps are stupid.
no they're brilliant, for exactly the reason you said.
I would also like to go back to websites, which are much less evil.
the reason is children. for some reason the most recent generation of kids requires apps instead of sites. god forbid they have to remember an address.
just look at the fuckload of people who cant use lemmy without an 'app'
this is one of my peeeves
They just haven't seen the light yet - I feel like most people from every generation are app'd up.
fair
One benefit an app for something like Lemmy offers is significantly better customization.
thats a copout for the site sucking. lemmy looks like someone forgot the css. one of the reasons i chose mbin, its not fugly and very user-configurable.
no app required
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One of the reasons I like apps for Lemmy is for notifications.
Coincidentally, one of the reasons companies like apps is for notifications.
Your mobile browser supports notifications per site like an app. It even supports custom icons per site when the notification pops up.
You don't even know if the telemetry leaving your phone to the app server is using TLS encryption, you just let them hail-mary football-throw send it.
I don't understand why we insist on bending over and freely giving away our data to fucking apps.
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My high school computer teacher once ranted about this to us. He said the younger students are lacking the basic concepts of computer stuff. They are spoiled too much to not even know what a file browser is.
He's the computer teacher. Maybe he should teach them about computers
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That's the parents fault too for not teaching the kids.
Eeh, I see it as a gray area. Majority of millenials, myself included, grew up learning about novel technologies as they developed. We learned how to use desktop computers and browse the internet during a 'golden age' of innovation. They became part of our everyday lives and are second nature to us. The next generations don't fully have that experience but are expected to natively know their way around a computer since they're so ubiquitous in our lives. In reality, they know how to use smart phones and chromebooks but aren't getting the experience of working on a real desktop computer.
Regarding teaching kids the basics, I'd put it on the schools, not the parents. Do schools still have computer labs? That'd be where proper computer skills should be taught. If parents can help at home that's great, but I don't think it should be expected that every kid is going to have a real computer at home to learn on (versus phones, tablets, chromebooks, etc).
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this unironically
My most boomer opinion
An app for a fucking cemetary!? Nuh-uh
Laurel Hill is a historical cemetery with a few historical figures buried there. Actually, I think Adrian Balboa's fictional grave is there, too. The app has audio tours and information about the architecture and stuff.
could still be a website.
Probably, but making it an app allows users to pre-download the whole thing beforehand so they don't need to depend on cell data when they're out in a field.
You can just download the HTML files
Hahaha
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I hear it's dead now anyway.
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