Totally. Yet I do have set my expectations to practically zero.

Easy choice. No such nasty crAPP (pun intended) will touch my innocent phone. If they wouldn’t even install a safe(er) app for their kid, then that’s already enough communication.

I’m no android pro Dev, so no absolute confidence in my point. You’re probably right. And good you managed to bring it into HA without the permissions.

Be the change you want to see in this world. Thank you for that, random internet stranger.

Sure they sell the data…my point was just that they would probably need the permission even if they didn’t want your actual location.

Not to defend the shitty app, but it’s probably Google’s fault. Location access is needed to just query WiFi or do a hotspot. Probably features the app needs. They should’ve make that more granular.

Interesting reads. Thank you.

Oh right…again I didn’t think of the shareholders.

How about adoption? What is this disgusting human obsession with procreation. You’re not that special John and Jane, your genes don’t really need to survive. Millions of kids rot in orphanages, but better make new ones. Evolve the world with your kindness, not your egocentric desire to have offspring.

The marriage was already ruined by the cheating dipshit. But luckily it’s a fake story anyway

Considering how those people often think they’re in the over 9000 range, your rule is not on track 😁

Don’t forget the awesome bundled ISDN with 128kbit 😌

Work less maybe? There’s more to life than work. Only work as much as you have to.

Well, noone ever showed them differently. And then, thanks to the internet, they get sucked into some circle-jerk of, at first, involuntaries, and then they get hyped against women. At least it isn’t their own fault anymore but the women’s. They feel better, and the circle did a fullturn and starts to drag them deeper.

It’s understandable. But ultimately makes it harder and harder for them to ever crawl out of that pit and work on the real issues.

I hate you. Because you’re not really wrong in most parts. Ownership of devices pisses me off for what feels like an eternity now. I can’t imagine how sales would go for PCs if you would get not admin-access anymore. But I smell that future coming. At least if we had not all switched to Linux by then. But even if, then the war between corpos and community would be on the “you can’t access amazon from this insecure decice”-front.

Me, personally, currently live at the peak of piracy right now. The pinnacle I’ve dreamt of days back when selling wares on CDs for triple digits was a thing. Sonarr/radar/etc makes it so easy and awesome now. Enter a movie’s name, wait a minute, watch it.

As to your Netflix/streaming-point: add that only muricans had it THAT nice. Some countries had to pay full price yet only got access to like 30% (Romania, Italy,etc.). The rest got filled with local crap. You saw the shit when using search but then it was gone. I had Netflix for a year or so. When it was more comfy than wares. And then it gradually became worse but also more expensive. The usual enshittification

Phhht…AI rocks. Nobody else tells me “you’re absolutely right, I’m very sorry for any inconvenience caused” in every sentence. They make me feel so smart.

/s, obviously.

Wow…what a boring picture. Must’ve been money laundering. For that price you could fly here and do one yourself. I live here and made nicer ones out the window of the Rhine. Tsk…

But I’m more baffled at the pedo shit. What the actual f…

This is actually the best point for a "smart"phone. Having a camera with you all the times in case you’d have/want to capture a moment or even a video. And they’ve gotten pretty darn decent at it. Would’ve killed for such a device in the 80s+

Interesting read (no pun intended). But did you consider people like me who just disliske books? I mean…printed ones. I have gazillions of books you would never see at my place as they’re conveniently stored in my books-database 😏

Even though I still have like 10 printed books. Some classics i never trashed…

Ah thank you.