Microblog Memes

Look into fcast (its Foss)

I do the same thong when legitimatel services text me for marketing or surveys.

It's fun that I can't decide if that's a deeply insightful yet misplaced shot at mattel for having a small role in developing a fairly common sex toy material or a series of spelling errors.

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.

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.

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"

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.

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.

Next step is the alarm app setting an alarm to remind you to set an alarm.

I just use nano for taking notes

pen and paper

Modern apps out here with the confidence of a CEO and the usefulness of a CEO

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.

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.

My streak is the only thing keeping me going

Send help, the owl has my family

I've been using it for years, but only for ~10 minutes a day. Obviously it can't teach you to speak it, but to read and write? Absolutely. The secret is to NEVER install the app. My philosophy is that if it has a website then everything should be doable via the website, and I won't install the app.

NOTHING should urge you to install their app, unless it actually cannot function properly on a, say, desktop PC. In case of a trekking and hiking app, I understand it only works properly knowing your location (I would still be terribly paranoid about what else it does with my location info, apart from recommending paths and whatnot). But other than that, I always assume that when something could be perfectly done via a website and they still push their app, they just want to sell your data.

And believe me, using Duolingo via the website is definitely less frustrating than having the app.