Not just download the app, but sign up for an account (and the newsletter in the process).

Then grant permissions to your phone:

• camera (so it can watch you poop and train + analyze the footage with AI)
• microphone (so it can hear and analyze if your plops are optimal)
• contacts (to send out an invitation to all your contacts, along with a clip of your last poop sesh)
• photos and videos (to upload, store, and analyze your life since birth, along with everyone else who’s in your pictures)
• sensors (to see how you’re holding the phone, when, how much, how hard, etc.)
• notifications (to sell you the premium plan)
• location (for pinpoint accuracy of your 💩 locations)
• call logs (to see who you’re communicating with before, during, and after you drop your log)
• nearby devices (for accuracy and to silently communicate with nearby devices)
• calendar (for full history and to schedule your next mondo duke)

#AdoptDontShop and don’t support breeders/puppy mills.

No such thing as a “pure bred” dog anyways.

Plus, mutts have far fewer health problems. “Pure breeds” are largely inbred and products of incest.

“Being simple’s a yes, being skilled is a not/ Having substance is lame, using substance is hot”

“Been public enemy since you thought ‘PE’ was gym, biiiitch!”

Our cognitive biases are fascinating, aren’t they

Cuteass lil killing machine

Simply put: Sharing ad revenue with users is just a phase in what remains an inherently flawed business model.

Revenge bedtime syndrome. It’s legit.

Source: it’s 4 am right now

You should vocalize it to the owner (or at least management) if you can. You’d be surprised what comes of it.

I did this once with a restaurant/bar owner, and she was very understanding. Once I took the time to explain how I didn’t wanna be subjected to everything that a setup like that brings, she empathized and actually got a standalone website.

Many people aren’t aware until you make em aware. And whether they feel the same or not from a consumer standpoint, at least they’ll know that there’s people out there who do care, and it affects business. And usually, if it affects business, it doesn’t matter what their personal feelings towards it are. A good business owner will be sure to adjust because they learned something new about the market.

I would if I could, but I built it without writing code. So there’s nothing to upload to GitHub/GitLab.

The page asking for your email simply serves as the delivery mechanism since I can’t put it on GitHub/GitLab.

If you wanna keep your bookmarks and the subreddits (communities) that you’re subscribed to before deleting your account, I made a free tool to help you store and offload that data.

It’s called Reddit Account Manager, and it’s 100% free.

You can also use it to manage your Lemmy account(s), of course.

I love the Fair movement

Sounds like an efficient way for that person to self-filter outta your life.

Creating revenue streams is far more valuable than cutting costs.

Apple does a phenomenal job in providing solutions to problems they created in the first place.

• Get rid of ports on the computer ➡️ Buy adapters
• Get rid of the headphone jack ➡️ Buy AirPods
• Proprietary lightning port ➡️ Buy more unstandardized cables/adapters
• No expandable memory ➡️ Buy an iCloud subscription
• No spare/replaceable battery ➡️ Buy a battery replacement service
• Little thing breaks ➡️ Shoulda bought AppleCare to make it somewhat less expensive

regardless of the company

This is key.

“Planned obsolescence tends to work best when a producer has at least an oligopoly. Before introducing a planned obsolescence, the producer has to know that the customer is at least somewhat likely to buy a replacement from them in the form of brand loyalty. In these cases of planned obsolescence, there is an information asymmetry between the producer, who knows how long the product was designed to last, and the customer, who does not. When a market becomes more competitive, product lifespans tend to increase.”

Sideloading is supposedly on the way. No ETA though.

I mean yeah, adopting USB-C is great (even though they only did it because of the backlash in the EU), but…

“While the new standard iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus are equipped with a USB-C port, data transfer over a cable remains limited to USB 2.0 speeds of up to 480 Mbps, which is equal to the Lightning port on previous iPhones.”

Only the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max support USB 3 data transfer speeds of up to 10 Gbps over a cable. (Cable/adapter sold separately.)

So the speeds are still being throttled.

Plus, both the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus are at a 60Hz refresh rate. Idk if I’d consider these “good iterative updates” tbh.

I like the stock.