‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners
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BRB pulling up to a QR code scanner with my 15 inch thinkpad w520 running on 92whr of battery consuming literal watts of power because it's from 2012.
Hopefully i'm not an inconvenience.
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No I have not, heard it is offensive and unfunny.
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I don't see a "justification" in my reply. I cannot change or influence the system, I need the discounts - so I do that.
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Well-to-do? That is weird, because here not having a washing machine in the apartment would be weird even for a poor person.
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US hates poor people. I'm poor, I know from experience. They hold homelessness over us as a threat to keep in line.
We went from during the pandemic, treating "essential workers" as "heroes" while not increasing their pay for risking their lives, to now, straight back to how it used to be, screaming at overworked underpaid people "You're lucky to have a job!"
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I see people mentioning obtainium, but never tried it. Will it give some relevant benefits over fdroid for low end devices?
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Where I am, the median salary is around $400-$600. I know how you feel.
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No benefits regarding performance. But you get faster updates and more apps than on f-droid.
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It is more about being able to constantly spy on everyone. Funny how this exact sentence would have labeled one as a conspiracy nut not too long ago.
Constantly online means constant (more or less) analytics, means constant data to throw in the big computer to make you buy more shit or vote for the shit party.
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In Flanders,
, teachers have a card that gives them certain benefits. Free acces to musea, exhibitions,... This year they made it app only. You need to buy a smartphone to get your benefits... -
Not sure if we can really blame Steve Jobs for this though, he wasn't around when things turned to shit. The iPhone he introduced was merely a phone, web browser, email and music player.
I think it's fair if we blame Tim Apple for this and the other big tech CEO's of the recent past.
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It’s not even required that apartment buildings have laundry services at all. There are commercial storefront laundromats in the US which serve as the ground floor for where people do their laundry. Until landlords are required to provide laundry, it will be hard to legislate what payment forms they must accept.
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Do NOT give these fucking cunts any fucking money. I was a backer for this phone on indiegogo.
They are liars when they eventually did communicate any updates during the project. They produced around 2000 units, most of which were sent to people who backed the project years after the first backers on indiegogo because they backed on a different platform.
Ultimately they just shut down the kickstarter giving no actual details. They stole thousands of peoples money through that. They made a product with the money people contributed to back the project and then just shuttered the project so they wouldn't need to deliver a device to these backers.
I didn't realise they were now trying to sell them again but the units that did get shipped were massively out of date and barely worked as it is.
If you want a keyboard on a phone Unihertz are about your only option right now.
Fuck planet computers, thieving fucking cunts
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Why are they no option in the US?
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Carrier support is pretty much non-existant from what I have seen.
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Well, I was merely asking because I know about shared laundry rooms being a thing in US because of that show.
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Yep, 100%. That digital coupon is you getting paid $0.33 for the data they collected from you.
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I think I would agree due to when I have been sitting in public somewhere with others sitting around, they have clearly been programmed by their phone, subservient to their master. I do also wonder if there is an IQ element to it. Having a lower level of personal intelligence so they have been conned into believe that they must have a phone that is connected to internet at all times everywhere.
Spend 2 months without cell service, without mobile service, and you will see how far gone many, many people are. I'm fully serious about live without cell service for 2 months, the world does not look the way you think it does.
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I understand its probably the norm where you are but why aren't they just free to use? You pay rent...
