What if you have appliances such as a scale, lights, watch or something? Pretty much guaranteed that those won’t work unless you use their app. If you want to go FOSS, you may need to sell all of your smart stuff and replace them with similar devices that work in a privacy respecting strictly FOSS environment.

My bank warned that they are planning to phase out the code booklet and replace it with a mobile app. Sure, you can continue to use a web browser, but how do you verify anything without a mobile app?

Also, some apps are very picky and refuse to work properly unless your android has GAPPS and is in the in an unmodified state just like the OEM intended. That’s bad news for privacy oriented Android users, let alone anyone who wants to run something even more FOSS.

“For instance, I often had to rely on the web browser to access services like Reddit, Telegram, and Discord since native apps weren’t available. Web apps work for primary use but can’t always replace dedicated apps, especially for banking or fitness tracking.”

That’s the core of the problem these days. Nowadays, there’s so much that requires an app to work.

Avoiding mobile apps was entirely realistic in the 2010s, but it’s too late for that now. The world has changed, that ship has sailed etc.

If you can isolate yourself from certain realities of the outside worlds, using a fully FOSS system can be done. The technology is there. It’s just that most people can’t isolate themselves to that degree.

Elon is so good with these predictions and promises, that there’s website for tracking them.

Oh, let’s add some financial motivation to hanging out in social media all day long. What could go wrong. Literally nothing. It’s just physically impossible.

It must have been a slow day at the news office. Literally nothing special to write about, so this article was slapped together.

So, basically the whole article is just a complete nothing-burger.

Ok, but can you still transfer your own books through MTP?

Let’s see the first vote. Nah, it’s for the other guy. Otherwise we would have called it a day. Keep on counting until I’m just over 50%.

(14 votes later)

That’s it. I won! Stop counting the votes. You see, 8 out of 14 people say I should be the president. No need to check the remaining 40 million votes. We’re all good here.

Wow, that is pretty dark. If you take that to its logical conclusion, you could even turn parking fines into a slave sentence.

Exactly. Now that easily exploitable people aren’t easily available, the underlying problem becomes more apparent.

At the moment, they have trouble filling positions in restaurants and hospitals, because locals aren’t interested in working very hard for hardly any money. Also, all the Polish lorry drivers would need to be replaced by local UK residents, which appears to be harder than expected. (insert pikachu meme here)

They did that in UK. Brexit worked out perfectly, and everyone lived happily ever after. Oh wait… Wrong story. It was a total dumpster fire and now labor shortage is crippling various industries.

Are you seriously suggesting that Trump might not always speak the truth?

Yeah, that’s just marketing and branding. Could be worse though. In some countries, you never call the cops unless it’s really really bad. When they show up, they usually just take your money and ignore whatever other crimes happened before that. It’s sort of like a local mafia, but it’s partially government funded.

In other news: judge rules firefighters must put out fires

Sure keeps on giving. Reminds me of the time when Trump was President.

Yeah. It’s a win-win for everyone. Also, local sock factories won’t mind either. You could also select the right kind of sock for different types of news. Deliver sad news with a black sock and more cheerful news with bight yellow socks. Cat stuck in a tree? How about using a brown striped sock!

You could go with sock puppets too. It would be more entertaining and it wouldn’t even require any computationally intensive programs.

Feed the raccoons after midnight and water them regularly to cause a monster apocalypse. Got it.