ellyJan 30
Yet another day of screaming at digital enshitiffication:

1. My coworkers and I are in a car driving to FOSDEM.
2. We pull up to charge the car.
3. Charging station REQUIRES you to use an app, no option to just pay with a card.
4. We try to install the stupid app. We carry phones running:
- GrapheneOS
- GrapheneOS
- GrapheneOS
- LineageOS, postmarketOS, iOS
5. Neither of our phones meet requirements to install the stupid app (Play Integrity API).
6. My iPhone can't install the app, because it's "Not available in your country".
7. We give up and drive to another charging station.

This is NOT how you introduce applications, "Circle K" 
Show threadepicdemiologistJan 30
@elly There's a gas station down the road from me that requires you to install an app to buy gas. Nope.
Show threadMrGrumpyMonkeyJan 31
@epicdemiologist @elly Not sure why this triggered something in my brain, but this is how the laundry company WASH functions at my apartment complex. Luckily for me, the current machines allow for quarters. I even tried installing the app, just to get bamboozled by the fact that I couldn't even use the service. Enshitification is everywhere...
Show threadepicdemiologistJan 31
@mrgrumpymonkey @elly Glad you still have the quarters option! My town is gradually converting all the parking meters to app-only.
Show threadMrGrumpyMonkey
@epicdemiologist @elly I'm not a fan of this over complication of products. I'm at at a point where I'm just ganna grab a flip phone when this current one dies. That'll throw a wrench into any conversation.
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Show threadepicdemiologistJan 31
@mrgrumpymonkey @elly Yes! After the most recent update, I can't set MY OWN PHOTO to wallpaper on MY OWN PHONE without giving Google access to all my photos! Fuck that.
Show threadMrGrumpyMonkeyJan 31
@epicdemiologist @elly This is what happened when the internet became a playground for businesses.