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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.
Well considering most gods have committed an atrocity or twelve, I say this is actually just further evidence the meme is correct. Damned machines don’t even know how to be petty assholes, how unholy of them.
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 is so good. she’s a great performer.
how do you feel, Lionel?
😗🤌
that should be a own post xD
About about the rice cooker playing a little melody? Is that acceptable or should I put it out back now?
Max three beeps is okay.
those please me. they are permitted to stay.
Poor rice cooker, just being happy to provide you nourishment
"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.
Modern apps out here with the confidence of a CEO and the usefulness of a broken pencil.
Modern apps out here with the confidence of a CEO and the usefulness of a CEO
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.
Shit like this is why the only thing that can ping me is a text
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.
I appreciate that you stuck to the analogy
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.
I can do that, or I can just uninstall the app.
But that’s… All the apps
What are you on about? Every app you have is sending you spammy notifications?
Whenever an app does that, I take away notification privileges immediately.
Right? Like “You wanted me to notice you? Oh I noticed you now. And while I’m aware of you, let’s just go ahead and take away some of your permissions…”
80% of the time I do this with the button that revokes all other privileges too: “uninstall”
Depending on how useful the app is, that’s generally the next step.
I uninstalled the Carl’s jr app because it’s notification sound was of someone taking a bite of something but exaggerated and more like what you would expect from a cartoon character. That shit made me uninstall it fast, I know I could have just disabled notifications, but my phone making that sound at me randomly when I was in the middle of something pissed me off.
Oh right, like Cheat Engine that laughs at you.
There are like three things total that I allow to send me notifications. This is a skill issue
Are we one of them? 🥺
I hate that for a lot of these apps there’s no way to turn off these kinds of ad notifications without stopping the real notifications you want from the app.
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?
Look into fcast (its Foss)
I would immediately uninstall and leave a shitty one star review, that’s one action you can take that will almost certainly be read by someone at the company.
🙂
“I have been a good bing” is engraved into my mind forever
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
I did. I switched to a different one but unfortunately, it’s not as good at coordinating between my wife’s phone and mine, which is the reason we don’t use a scrap piece of paper.
Why would someone use grocery list app instead of a text editor
My girlfriend and I share lists on ours, she can add things and I can see them for when I go to the store. In theory cause she usually has to tell me.about it first so I remember to look at it. Makes Xmas food shopping much simpler. I suppose there is a text sharing one but so far ‘ourgroceries’ ( think that’s right) only bugs me to buy the full app when I use it, but otherwise no biggie. Plus you can disable notifications from apps anyways, least I thought so, cause I probably had one from there and said nope, don’t care. Maybe it tells you when someone else put something there if they are on, oh well if I’m missing them too cause we talk still heh.
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 personally prefer simplicity. “TODO.txt” is all i need
Do you edit it while you’re grocery shopping? Mine aren’t usually sorted so I’m picking off things from all over the list as I shop and it’s a lot easier to see what’s still outstanding if there’s an empty/ticked box beside each item.
- You can
- Have “Checkboxes” ✅️
- Without it actually being ❌️
- Part of the program ✅️
Yeah but then it’s more steps to update the list as you go. With a dedicated check list, it’s just scroll to item and tap (plus the occasional close edit box if I fat fingered it lol).
Not that I’m defending the behavior in the OP. The second an app gives a “please use me” notification, it’s either getting its notification settings changed or replaced with an app that doesn’t do that shit (and with minimal permissions to do what I want it to do, eg a todo list app shouldn’t need network access permissions).
Obsidian is on my phone and all my computers. It is sync’d between them. I keep all my shopping lists, todos, recipes, and so on in it. It never notifies me about shit. It opens instantly. Its very easy to find and edit anything I need.
It would truly be a miracle for an app to be better at keeping lists than I am with a markdown file. And it also keeps track of a bunch of other things for me. I even had an encrypted file in it with my passwords stored, but I’ve sanely moved on to Keepass for that, a rare case of an app actually offering enough additional security and functionality to be worth it.
A charitable interpretation is because a list-making app can provide richer functionality than a basic text document by allowing you to check things off as you pick them up.
A grocery-specific list app could be even more tailored. It could, for example, automatically group items you add by produce type (fresh, tinned, frozen) or allow you to define a template for common items you want to purchase on every shop.
A less charitable interpretation is that some people don’t tend to think “what tool is appropriate to solve this problem?” and look at what they already have installed, but instead present the problem and expect a solution will be delivered. So people go on the app store and type “grocery list” and just install whatever comes up. The same happens for every other life problem they want to solve, which is why these people have 200 hyper-specific apps on their phones.
Some people will fall into group A, and some into group B.
Personally I use Joplin for all my note-taking and listing needs. It’s a pretty basic markdown editor but is cross-platform and has custom backends for storage, so my notes can be stored privately and synced to all my devices. Markdown is obviously less featureful than a proprietary app format but is portable, and you can easily export all your data without being tied forever to Joplin if circumstances change. I would recommend it if you need a notes app.
Presumably the app would provide some additional functionality that is relevant to grocery lists. Like price tracking or coupons or something. IDK though I just use a text editor.
I used one to manage inventory at a bar. More cost effective, single developer instead of a big corporation so I could have features added. It also never harassed me to use other products, and didn’t spam me beyond letting me know when there were updates to apply.
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
I don’t even have a text editor on my phone. 🤷♂️
