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Same vibes but serious. I give a 1 star and uninstall if an ad-supported application sends useless notifications.
Should definitely avoid Duolingo.
Oh no! How will I pretend to learn a language now?
I dunno, this is the kinda energy needed to keep that fucking owl dead.
I kill you now
Duolingo’s crap for learning anyway
I am visiting denmark in summer and wanted to learn some danish. I looked at duolingo, then at their privacy policy, then i threw the idea away. Babbel is better in terms of privacy but still not great. I haven‘t found an alternative product yet.
You should find some English Danish deck on Anki
Asking for a friend, do they sell your data or just (ab)use it?
Both, your data ends up at facebook, google and i think microsoft as well :))
Thanks for the heads up, I never cared much for American companies using my data because I didn’t care much of them making money off my back but I feel that I have to change that with now geopolitic situation changed. I don’t want my data accessible to a government that has increasingly closer ties with regimes like the ones in China, Russia and Israel.
I started using Dreaming Spanish which hasn’t collected anything but an email and the amount of time I’ve spent watching videos but I’m not sure if there’s an equivalent for Danish. If there is, it seems ok so far.
Was thinking perhaps Rosetta Stone, they’re old and well-established, and while I’ve not read through their privacy policy on account of being dead tired at the moment, at a glance it looks digestible.
But then I noticed that they don’t do Danish.
Though maybe we’re too app focused. Denmark has some really good children’s books authors, H.C. Andersen is classic, most people probably know him through his work “Den Lille Havfrue”, or at least the Disnep adaptation, “The Little Mermaid.” For pronunciation my favourite method is singing and mimicking. I enjoy the mouthfeel of other languages, though admittedly Danish is incredibly difficult as the sounds are so different from Swedish.
Yeah honestly children’s books are a good start if you are serious about it, but since I just want to learn the absolute basics for day to day communication, this seems overkill for me. I think danish should be quite approachable for me though since I speak german in mother tongue
Shit like this is why the only thing that can ping me is a text
Why do you need an app… for groceries?
I used to put stuff in my grocery list app as soon as I run out. Now I do the same with my grocery store’s curbside pickup app, and checkout whenever I feel like going over there.
Keeping running lists is one of the most useful bits about having a computer in your pocket, IMHO. I don’t understand how this is a question. If you have a different process, that’s fine, but it’s an odd thing to quibble about.
I feel like the point they are making is, is you could just use the notepad, you don’t NEED a specific app.
Right. It’s a dumb point because nobody said they “NEED” anything. I use the process that I find most convenient.
An app can add a product to your list by scanning the barcode, check prices across stores, remind me to pick up something before I run out, or organize the list by the department where to find it. They provide a ton of functionality over notepad.
Yeah, but the point is, they’re getting mad at the app that they got for that reason… they say they’re gonna just use a pen and paper, when that also exists on their phone…
It’s a dumb rant, there’s no other point.
One good reason is if you use something that can be synced with other members of your family, so if one of us has time to stop while on the way home from somewhere, everyone already knows what is needed without having to ask.
Because I’m 1000% more likely to lose a paper list than my phone containing my list.
Notebooks and pens are awesome and underrated!
I am a Divine Being : You are an Object You Have No Right To Speak In My Holy Tongue
About about the rice cooker playing a little melody? Is that acceptable or should I put it out back now?
Poor rice cooker, just being happy to provide you nourishment
those please me. they are permitted to stay.
Max three beeps is okay.
For real though, these machines are here in service to me, not the other way around. I’m the one calling the shots, get onboard with that or I unplug yo ass.
plugs un
that should be a own post xD
“Divine being” and “holy tongue”… well can’t get on board with that. Machines have better manners than mosr of the people I hear talking.
Well considering most gods have committed an atrocity or twelve, I say this is actually just further evidence the meme is correct. Damned machines don’t even know how to be petty assholes, how unholy of them.
most humans do suck, but it’s the principal of the matter
that is so good. she’s a great performer.
how do you feel, Lionel?
😗🤌
Mine was worse than that. It straight up added products to my list.
that is insane, i would obliterate an app that did something like that
I did. I switched to a different one but unfortunately, it’s not as good at coordinating between my wife’s phone and mine, which is the reason we don’t use a scrap piece of paper.
Whenever an app does that, I take away notification privileges immediately.
I uninstalled the Carl’s jr app because it’s notification sound was of someone taking a bite of something but exaggerated and more like what you would expect from a cartoon character. That shit made me uninstall it fast, I know I could have just disabled notifications, but my phone making that sound at me randomly when I was in the middle of something pissed me off.
Oh right, like Cheat Engine that laughs at you.
Right? Like “You wanted me to notice you? Oh I noticed you now. And while I’m aware of you, let’s just go ahead and take away some of your permissions…”
80% of the time I do this with the button that revokes all other privileges too: “uninstall”
Depending on how useful the app is, that’s generally the next step.
I would immediately uninstall and leave a shitty one star review, that’s one action you can take that will almost certainly be read by someone at the company.
There are like three things total that I allow to send me notifications. This is a skill issue
This is why I recommend FOSS apps for base functionality like that. There’s plenty folks out there, who’ve implemented a grocery list app as a hobby project, who don’t need to try to make money off it. As such, their app can exist without ads, tracking or needy notifications.
I personally use a self hosted instance of kitchen owl https://kitchenowl.org/ I really like it’s simplicity and use it quite a lot and nobody has access to the data but me.
I agree, when my wife switched to iPhone a few years back, I had trouble finding foss apps for ios. I guess not being able to sideload means most devs will want to recoup the apple development fee. I don’t blame them really.
I used an iPhone for a few months last year and I had such a hard time with just how much it costs for apps. Everything is a subscription and you have no options for sideloading your own app or FOSS. I tried to set my alarm to a piece of music that was released under a creative commons license and the only way to do it was to spend $1 with Apple.
On iPad you did not even have a calculator app until recently. You had to buy one or get one with ads. I’m taking super basic functionality here right. No scientific calculator or anything.
Totally get what you mean, I’m using an iPhone right now and it’s super polished, but yeah, the whole subscription everything and lack of sideloading can be frustrating. Do you mainly use Android or Linux now for that freedom?
Do you mainly use Android or Linux now for that freedom?
I use Android as my daily phone, but I do keep going that I’ll have a Linux phone that meets my needs some day.
When it comes to more complex apps, sometimes you really do get a better user experience if you just sack up and pay for a premium product.
MyFitnessPal is balls compared to Macrofactor. Its more expensive but its better and doesnt do a damn thing I dont expressly tell it to do.
I recommend FOSS for absolutely everything you use if possible.
you can get a second hand pixel phone for cheap; install lineageos with microg and magisk, get most of your apps from f-droid and supplement with “regular” apps from the play store via aurora, and just like that you have what i honestly consider the most usable phone experience available.
it’s a remarkably reasonable install process provided you’re willing to learn, and you really don’t have to sacrifice many features at all since you can just fall back to normal apps, and the stuff added by most vendors to android itself is just AI dogshit.
I’m on a pixel 9 with GrapheneOS myself
It makes me a bit sad that there are people getting around that don’t know how to declaw their smartphone with disabled notifications, permissions and such. It’s not their fault, these things are a fucking nightmare when left to go feral.
The thing is, at least on iPhone, is when you first install an app it’ll ask some of these questions and you can say, and should, say no for the most part:
- This app wants to track you. Allow?
- This app wants to send you notifications. Allow?
- This app wants access to your photos? Allow?
- This app wants to see your contacts. Allow?
Etc.
I can do that, or I can just uninstall the app.
But that’s… All the apps
What are you on about? Every app you have is sending you spammy notifications?
I appreciate that you stuck to the analogy
This is what you get when you download an app that can be completely replaced by any scrap of paper.
I’m sorry, what? A regular smiley face is “psycho”?
It’s the unblinking eyes. Definitely a serial killer.
look into it’s eyes, is it happy? annoyed? about to jump you? 🙂
