Not trying to sound negative in tone, to prefix. Just more factual.

Need is a strong word. Browser can do banking. So can computer, tablet, the bank itself. Check deposit is one thing that an “app” is needed for but happens exceedingly rarely these days. One could also keep an old Android phone around just for that banking app if the usage was important enough. One could also go back to cash, although that has other bulky/theft issues.

Maps also can be done in browser, or open Android map apps like Organic Maps ported.

Digital wallets aren’t really “needed” in the world, there are still non-phone-based techs to replace them. Sure, it’s great having an empty pocket with nothing but a phone, but that is a pure luxury, not a need. Might actually be a good time for more people to stop using “smart” tech to keep non-smart tech in prevalence.

Remember too, all these finance-based “conveniences” are there just so every company along the way can vacuum up all your transactions. Google Wallet gets to see every card/purchase you use/do, for example, even when not using the phone for the purchase.

Fund a dev, volunteer time, and devs need to drop iOS and Android projects and focus on this.

Mac does the same thing (as others have said) and you can at least sudo lsof and find it, but somehow filesystem access now is worse than Windows 95 era Excel spreadsheet file handles that never worked.

Here’s what an operating system is peeps: Something that handles files and programs that live on top of it. That’s it.

How is it none of them can’t do their basic function anymore?

Meanwhile you can still cherry-pick the tip, and go right to the head, and fork away.

Office Space. But also, Been in all those. It’s weird to remember that your employer doesn’t actually want you to be productive and fix the problems to be profitable. They want to appear to be doing that. You’ll go further in your career by playing those games rather than working. I, unfortunately, like doing the work to keep the company going instead of the games, which is not as profitable for myself, but it keeps the company from dying even though they don’t realize it, and keeps them rich. Win? I’d rather be planting corn at this point.

They’ll probably extend it at least through the 2038 bug.

To expand, staring at walls like that is often a sign of distress that may require immediate medical attention. This being a meme sub, the image is probably on its 40th recycle and scenario is completely unrelated.

That’s asking a lot, these days.

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For all the raving about podman, it’s dumb too. I’ve seen multiple container networks stupidly route traffic across each other when they shouldn’t. Yay services kept running, but it defeats the purpose. Networking should be so hard that it doesn’t work unless it is configured correctly.

And they have so much processing horsepower anymore, things that weren’t conceivable just happen and there’s no easy way to disable them, like how Macs run mediaanalysisd (which you can at least see, but disabling will break OS updates) that scrape every image file on your computer and OCR/categorize them and tag them, iPhones/iPads do too, and you can’t even find or see the running process let alone kill it.

So every piece of media on your computer/phone just gets analyzed without your consent. Sure, maybe it is neat that you can search for a word that was in an image and that image comes up, but it would be nice if users of devices were allowed to choose what is/is not indexed.

Its like you’re a passenger on your tools anymore, rather than the driver.

Or…

Bear in mind, this isn’t actually uninstalling the binaries, it is just masking them for that user account. Samsung/Google can turn them back on whenever they choose.

Not on Qualcomm chipsets. Which is most these days.

Which, also semi-related-unrelated Delta airlines signed up for MuskratLink as well.

T-Mobile also cozied up to the Mango 1.0 admin and Shit Pai to get the Sprint merger through and hoard great 5G spectrum in the Legere era, so they’ve been aligning with Fascism for quite a while.

One will find though, that most business will align with a garbage regime for the profits, so the best thing to do is spend as little money with these companies as possible, while admitting in the case of utilities, one can’t truly quit them completely.

Even if one did, say using x86, it would still just be interpreted by the CPU into the CPU’s native opcodes, as the legacy instruction sets are interpreted/translated.

Nah, the good ones you subscribe to with actual money.

Alternate version:

• You don’t even bother going to a search engine because they’re mostly terrible anymore
• You ask AI to search / parse the web site - bot reads the web site
• Site doesn’t get any revenue because the site’s so terrible, but you are supposed to feel bad

The open web has been in trouble for a while, and enshittification is just accelerating it.

Can you use T’s though, once you have enough As to redirect the wind overtop them? Capital T’s of course, lower-case would just get all tangled up in the turbulence.

Don’t forget to put them all in italics so they execute faster!