• ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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    3 hours ago

    Platform is not the issue, apps are. Even on a Linux phone you will have to run android apps and you will have to install them from somewhere. And for most apps Play Store is the only place where apps are uploaded.

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        2 hours ago

        Ok, you go and tell all the companies to stop using apps.

        My car charger? Controlled with an app.

        Location of car chargers? In an app.

        My bike GPS? Controlled with an app.

        My gym entry? An app.

        Climbing wall? An app.

        You tell all those companies to stop using apps and add control panels to everything, go back to paper maps and RFID entry cards. I’m sure they will do it if you explain to them that there are dozens of users that don’t want to register with Google. Dozens!

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          it sounds like you chose to patronize places that force you to use an app – there are alternatives that don’t require apps.

          they’re sometimes inconvenient AF, but convenience is literally the reason why we’re brining climate change down upon us and how the epstein class has so much control over us.

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            I guess you’re right. I will buy a gasoline car so I don’t have to use apps to charge it and I will drive to a gym in a different town couple times a week so I don’t have to use an app to enter it. This will sure help climate change.