My dad was trying to get a grooming appointment for his cat something that should take all of 5 minutes over the phone, checking a calendar and penciling it it, but no gotta do it through a web portal then an app, and make sure you put in your credit card number!
ofc my dad got more and more angry as even I was messing around with this crap going over fields over and over because I put in the wrong number, ugh. Bring back simple shit please.
Nah I’m young and I hate it too
To paraphrase a wise man, WHAT KIND OF FUCKING MCDONALDS HAS AN APP?
Making everything into an app also traps us in their ecosystem. If every service you use has an app then you aren’t going to move to a different service, because then you’ll have to download yet another app for the competition. Then you’ll have to juggle multiple apps for the same thing. which encourages us to default to whatever is easiest by just sticking with the app we already have.
But also, I fucking hate talking to people on the phone lol
Phonecalls give me unbearable amounts of anxiety. It’s better since I’ve been voice training, but I still don’t like it - I think I’m perpetually terrified from being unable to see the other person’s expression and body language (which is nonsense anyway, expression and body language aren’t like secret mind reading codes that let you know someone’s true intentions or something!)
Agreed. The last time I had issues with my debit card I tried calling the bank and got put on hold until an automated voice told me there was another number in the app that gave app users faster responses. Made me a little nuts.
You aren’t permitted to not own an android or apple smartphone with an active number and internet access. You aren’t visible as an individual to corporations or even many governments without one. I don’t see this getting better any time soon either.
The Pinephone probably does everything you actually want a smartphone to do (modulo crappy hardware), but not the things you are required to have a smartphone to do. Like depositing a check at your bank, or your work’s 2FA that uses Duo Mobile rather than something standard like TOTP.
At this point, your best option is probably GrapheneOS, followed by LineageOS for MicroG plus all the hacks needed to get it to pass SafetyNet. The writing is on the wall for the latter at least, and the best option going forward will probably be a sacrificial phone you keep turned off 90% of the time and only use for those things.
from my experience tinkering with it years ago the OG pinephone has awful performance due to its very old SoC. No matter what distro or GUI i used it was unbearably stuttery and slow even just swiping through the home screens.
the pinephone pro theoretically should be a lot more modern and performant (its also more expensive), but i dont have one yet so i cant say too much on it
I daily drove the PinePhone for around 3 years, and only just a few days ago switched to de-googled android. It was really cool, and I had fun with it, but it wasn’t exactly the most pleasant experience if you wanted to actually do anything besides texting or phone calls.
Which phone are you using rn? I was looking at a couple different options since my crappy Samsung is on its way out
The kicker is when the app doesn’t work without an internet connection – I wanna find the devs responsible and scream, “You’ve just built a very shitty website with a mandatory proprietary browser!”
I know you probably know this but it’s not usually the devs who push for an app.
yeah, I know… if you have to make me download and install a file, it should at least maintain some level of functionality without network access. I get that’s an ideal and most devs are not afforded the flexability or the time for that and it mostly comes down to clients not really knowing what they want or need.
