• TommySoda@lemmy.world
    2·
    19 days ago

    It’s honestly such a pain in the ass to say no to everything Google shoves down your throat these days. And even after you say no it will remind you every so many days just in case you changed your mind after the 15th time you said no. Android used to be the “cool” phone but nowadays if you don’t install your own custom ROM it’s basically just Apple with extra steps

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      19 days ago

      The number of services that have adopted dark patterns is too much.

      It’s no longer “No” with a checkmark that says “Don’t ask me again” to only “Not now” with the implied consent that they can ask you again later.

      Dropbox asks me every fucking time I use the browser.

      NewRelic asks me every fucking day.

      Amazon asks me every fucking order.

    • pH3ra@lemmy.ml
      1·
      19 days ago

      I still haven’t found a way to make my parents use Signal, so either I stop communicating with them (which is tempting sometimes) or have this compromise

          • Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de
            1·
            19 days ago

            While you are technically correct, most people vastly overestimate the cost of self hosting a (matrix) server. Mine costs like 5€ a month with domain and we use it as a group of 5 people.

            • psmgx@lemmy.world
              1·
              15 days ago

              Late to the party. So like this sever is just a VM or container in the cloud you’re paying for?

              • Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de
                1·
                15 days ago

                It’s a virtual server, so not really a hardware server, but no container either. It’s when multiple servers share RAM, CPU and other things on a big cluster, but each behaves like a normal server. The 5€ in this case even includes the domain. So it’s more like 3-4€.

        • RogueBanana@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          18 days ago

          Can you get that to work with all messages or only a few groups you have to setup manually? Was looking into it before I started self hosting but didn’t find it desirable at that time and just resorted to do what anon did.

      • Routhinator@startrek.websiteEnglish
        0·
        19 days ago

        I just don’t communicate with anyone that insists on using products that have user agreements I don’t agree with. The amount of bullshit user agreements are getting overloaded with makes them dangerous legal contracts that can have serious implications on your rights. Just ask the family whose daughter died at a Disney theme park and when they tried to sue Disney tried to force them to arbitration because their son had tried Disney+

        • pH3ra@lemmy.ml
          2·
          19 days ago

          Well evidently you’re not in charge of anyone’s healthcare: when you have a parent that has to be taken care of, you have to compromise if they’re not able to adapt

  • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    18 days ago

    Every DRM related app afterwards: WARNING! This phone is running insecure software and is incompatible with this service.

    And before you tell me just to not use Netflix on my phone, I’m talking about a government app that lets me authenticate and without which I can’t read official messages or login to any government or banking service.

    So if I want to survive as an adult Dane, I pretty much have to figure out which company I would like to get sodomized by, and which is less of a clingy little bitch afterwards.

  • atro_city@fedia.io
    0·
    19 days ago

    Fake: Anon can do any of this

    Gay: Bought a samsung phone

    P.S the kids have been raving about this phone just reduces all those steps to “buy phone”.