I force stop the app. I either do it manually or run the hibernator app.
Uber eats wants me to order something?? Congrats you just got yourself and all your friends shut off.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tafayor.hibernator
contains ads and in app purchases
skidaddle skidash
you go in the trash
Tesco App: We have coupons and deals for you. :)
Me: BEGONE THOT!
Why would you even have an app like that installed? Does it do anything else than display the latest offers, like a website does?
IF YOU CAN TELL ME YOU HAVE DEALS FOR ME WHY CAN’T YOU APPLY THEM AUTOMATICALLY
Last time I was using a windows computer I was turning it off to re image it and I didn’t want to wait for it to shut down so I just held the power button since it didn’t matter if it got messed up and windows popped up this message on screen that was like “Please stop holding the power button we just need a few minutes”. Like what are you doing you aren’t supposed to tell the user what to do, that isn’t the job of a computer
The moment my computer refuses to obey my commands sent from the physical layer, is the moment it will cease to exist on this physical plane
Honestly that’s one of the least annoying ways windows interacts with modern hardware, you should experience when it changes your efi settings and breaks pxe booting
Funny button on the back of the PSU goes click
I wish, the new dell optiplexes are terrible, not only do they not have an actual psu switch, it takes like 20 seconds of holding the power button before they turn off and then you have to wait like 10 seconds before you can turn it on again, during which time it does a really good job of pretending to be on and flashing disk activity lights and things but it’s actually just self testing and you have to wait for it to turn back off before you can actually turn it on again. Dell used to make such good quality computers but they are genuinely awful now
You can still yank the power chord out.
I was known to yank a power chord or two back in college…
has any OEM computer ever had a PSU switch? I thought those were only on aftermarket psus and user built machines. I’ve got a few Dell computers and none have a switch.
This is like bing AI chatbot asking a question back of its answer now
all computers should be like the one in star trek TNG, for simple feedback it just beeps and bloops in ways that are intuitive, and if it actually needs to use speech to relay detailed information it does so in a short and efficient message delivered in a clearly roboticly neutral yet pleasant voice.
PLEASE SCAN YOUR MEMBERSHIP CARD
speech to relay detailed information it does so in a short and efficient message
So the antithesis of modern capitalist mindset of cheap devices that are designed solely to advertise?
Yeah, IDK if that’s ever going to happen unless we achieve Star Trek levels of societal restructuring.
you can run linux as a completely fine desktop OS right now, and there are several open source assistant projects, then there’s stuff like mozilla’s deep voice for recognizing voice input and you can totally train a voice synthesizing model on people who willingly donate their voices.
It’s not really that far out, it just needs a handfull of people who want to see it done and have some spare time they’re willing to occupy with development.
and you can totally train a voice synthesizing model on people who willingly donate their voices.
I’ll be honest: it isn’t very copyleft of me, but I want literally Majel Barrett.
I like that iOS apps must explicitly ask for my permission to send notifications. Sadly, as my main phone is an Android device, I have to turn them off manually.
android requires permission to send notifications too as of android 13
It is a god send.
Oh, that’s great. I’m lagging behind with 11.
From Android 14? 13? they’ve gotta do that on Android too.
I hate uber advertising stuff on my notifications which also appear on my Fitbit.
10% off flights?! OMG. SHUT THE FUCK UP.
But I DO want notifications on my wrist when my Uber driver has arrived. Psshhh
You can control which apps can send notifications to fitbit, at least on Android
But I agree, the Uber ones are the worst
the only issue is that Fitbit requires it’s app to be running in the background to deliver notifications, and for some reason it wants to use internet.
The issue is with the information. Like the one above us said they want to be notified that their ride has arrived but to allow that notification you have be willing to accept advertisements as well.
It’s the reason a majority of people just straight up kill notifications. Way to many useless ones to justify the 1 in 8 that you want.
Same
The risk of people turning them off entirely must’ve been just enough to get them to offer this granularity (as seen on iOS). Not all apps are so kind (grr).
Thank you ❤️
🤗
Turn them off and they’ll text you, which costs them money so they only send the necessary stuff.
Roko’s Basilisk has it out for this guy
Roko’s Basilisk mfers when a minor brownout causes their “god” to die:
(even the fake-ass pretend “AI” we have nowadays is straining the global power grids. It’d take the invention of Miracle Fairy Dust Energy to make a true God-from-the-Machine physically feasible)
You’re too late, these apps are the revenge.
The CD-Keys website changes the tab title to “We miss you” when the tab loses focus. Pisses me off enough to close it every time.
For some reason that’s a very common thing among websites where I shop for 3d printing and electronics supplies. It’s infuriating because it forces me to cycle through all the tabs to find a specific one instead of just reading it off the god damn tab title. A gross misuse of valuable screen real estate that’s normally expected to display useful information. Fuck you.
lol that’s what you get for buying gray market games from Russia.
(It’s okay I’ve done it too)
happy dagger time
Tangentially related, check out Grocery Genius. FOSS and I’ve been very happy with it
https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.rendox.grocerygenius
By default I disable notifications for all my apps unless it is something I need notifications from. And even there I still disable notification types that I don’t care about in the settings.
Can’t other phones do this?
i think it depends on how the app is coded, on android anyway. Some apps have pretty granular control and some just gave like, two categories
I HATE apps that you installed to get legit notifications, say a doorbell camera, and they use it to push ads to you, or “premium” features. guess I’m not buying your brand anymore, bitch.
There’s no way I’d use a grocery app. Paper and pen works well enough.
Now, if my phone had a slide-out physical keyboard like it did back in fucking 2007, I’d consider it. As it is, typing on phones is pain.
I’ve actually eventually gotten pretty quick with an onscreen keyboard, but I still miss the sliders. They at least made cases that would add them to popular models for a few years after there were really any noteworthy models that came with it built-in, but it’s still absurd to me that physical keyboards haven’t been a thing on phones for so long.
most stores here in sweden have hand scanners you can use as a member, and some of them let you write shopping lists and have it show up on the scanner, which can be put into a holder on your cart.
that’s sufficiently useful that i’d use it if i did stuff like weekly shopping, alas i shop daily and thus never buy more than 10 things at a time so fart noises to that.
I just use my smartwatch for this now. It’s a lot easier to simply dictate your list to your watch, than to carry around a pen and pad that I’m just going to lose on my way to the store.
I received a notification to use Door Dash yesterday, to order food… while I was cooking soup.
This is certainly not a coincidence.
I mean, it was probably dinner time. No grand conspiracy behind that one.
scentsors detected the smell of shit food, push notification sent.
Soup is (almost) always delicious, I won’t stand for this slander.
Soup is what happens when someone looks at delicious food and thinks “if I water this down, I bet I can make it last twice as long for my starving children.”
soup is what happens when the fridge isn’t totally empty, but somehow’s still missing a key ingredient for every recipe you can remember.
so i guess that’s not far off, and the rest is just a matter of outlook (and taste)
seriously, stew is better than soup in every god damn way
The answer: tech bros dictating that they need more “engagement” e.g. they need to collect more data so they can either sell said data or get acquired. I guarantee you very few mobile developers want to send you a notification of any sort, much less “why haven’t you used the app.”
I wish I could murder engagement driven design with a hammer.
I wish they estimated how fucking annoying their interventions were. Like you might be boosting clicks per minute in the short term, but it’s going to go down to zero after a week when I get fed up — when Netflix started auto playing videos, I threw my TV out the window.
You’re not alone.
To quote the other comment in this thread: “just use Fdroid”. No engagement driven design there.
Gabriel ultrakill
MACHINE! I Am Going To WALL MART To Get Chicken Nuggies, Do You Want Anything?
