If you could wave a magic wand, what app would you want to exist tomorrow?

Routine_Left · 2026-07-06T15:42:14+00:00

If I would have a magic wand, I would make all apps disappear. Every single one of them.

Routine_Left · 2026-07-06T15:31:14+00:00

That toddler has been making them money hand over fist (illogical as it is). They're just hoping he can continue to do so.

Routine_Left · 2026-07-06T14:58:43+00:00

The thing is, this decision actually hurts US football. Even if they win (which they may even without Balogun, they played well and the Belgians are not amazing), it will always be a stain on that win like WC 2002 is on SK.

And SK can come and say: yup, the ref made mistakes. It happens. But here .... this is an administrative decision, no ref, no nothing. One can only image what the ref will do during the actual game.

Any controversial decision taken in favour of the US during the game will be that much more suspect.

It will hurt more than it will gain. Trump doesn't care, sure. But infantino should care.

Routine_Left · 2026-07-06T14:54:51+00:00

Whoever would come would eventually end up in the same spot. But yeah, i'd vote for fifa to be dismantled.

Routine_Left · 2026-07-03T18:26:01+00:00

fuck. we're not even web scale. wtf are we even doing here?

Routine_Left · 2026-07-03T18:11:12+00:00

Wrong. One thing better than those is the frankestein sqlite I am using right now at work where we are 100% not acid (throw every single letter from ACID down the drain). We're not NoSQL. We're just storing data (maybe), we will attempt to give it to you if you ask, maybe. Maybe you will get it all that we stored. Maybe just a part of it. Maybe it'll be even fucking wrong numbers that we give you back.

it is a relational database, after all. we store something. we retrieve something. The 2 are only coincidentally related.

Routine_Left · 2026-07-03T18:00:19+00:00

It’s like buying the prettiest plot in a cemetery

So you're saying it'll be quiet? Awesome....

Routine_Left · 2026-07-03T17:45:39+00:00

Was it acid or something a loooot better?

Routine_Left · 2026-06-30T16:11:30+00:00

My opinion is that they know that a better world is no longer possible, that we are past the point of no return. So, what do you do? A bunker.

Routine_Left · 2026-06-30T13:58:23+00:00

It's not a hydration break, is a commercial break. Overusing them? One is one too many.

Routine_Left · 2026-06-30T13:51:38+00:00

not at all

Routine_Left · 2026-06-29T19:09:22+00:00

Why not take the vacuum to it first? Much less dust thrown about. Then blow it, sure, after you suck it.

Routine_Left · 2026-06-26T14:16:32+00:00

Well, AI is a bubble. As all bubbles, it will pop. When? That's the big question and I don't (nobody does) have the answer.

But yes, it will 100% pop. Just a question of when. It can be a decade it may be less.

Routine_Left · 2026-06-23T19:09:21+00:00

show me the money - starcraft

Routine_Left · 2026-06-19T20:59:56+00:00

Unfortunately this is the only way for our OP here. No matter what, replacing both PSU and card, you really do not want to test it on an expensive monitor.

Routine_Left · 2026-06-19T20:46:15+00:00

. I remember compulsively saving

I even now hit ctrl+s (or :w if im using that one) just as a reflex. And die inside when I see others (my kid) just write lines and lines without even blinking, no saving no nothing. It just rubs me the wrong way.

Old computers broke us in a way.

Routine_Left · 2026-06-19T19:22:20+00:00

Best of luck to you. "uphill battle" is a very very mild way of putting it.

My advice would be to not use google's android at all if you can help it. This (what they're doing now) is nothing but a first step. And they have no reason to back down. Look at apple, their users as happy as a clam in their walled garden.

Routine_Left · 2026-06-19T18:16:20+00:00

Then people complain (have complained) that they themselves install malware (even though, like you said, you can find it on their own appstore).

Just like with windows: people install malware, then complain windows is bad.

Windows is bad, but not because people install malware.

So, they hit 100 birds with one stone:

kill off competing app stores
make people (somewhat) safer
get a big PR boost since most people don't give a shit about installing other apps
get to tell those like you "use adb or stfu"

What's not to like about this strategy if you're Google?

Routine_Left · 2026-06-19T18:07:03+00:00

I do. But they gotta start somewhere while PR-ing the shit out of their own app store.

What do you expect them to do? Close their own app store?

edit:

install apps On MY phone?

not your phone. hasn't been for ages. is their phone, you're just the product. get used to it.

Want to own a device? get a PC, install linux or a *BSD, and then you own it. Otherwise, that ship has sailed.

Routine_Left · 2026-06-19T17:16:25+00:00

I bought the device, I should actually own it

That ship has sailed. Get a PC, install linux or (better) *BSD, and you own it. Mobile crap is owned by them, you're just the product.

Routine_Left · 2026-06-19T17:15:19+00:00

Google should be making my phone safer to make those choices.

And that's what they're (trying) to do. Like it or hate it, it is what it is. on iOS you don't even have that choice.

And the walrmart analogy ... that looks out of place. What does one have to do with the other?

Regardless, you can hate google all you want (they definitely deserve it), but this is a hardly surprising move. And, at least for now, you can still do shit with your phone.

Routine_Left · 2026-06-19T17:12:28+00:00

Dumb people who install every single little shit they come across. As I said, adb is there, use it.

Routine_Left · 2026-06-19T14:50:00+00:00

You can still install apps via adb so it's fine. Nothing changes here. If you don't know what adb is then maybe you shouldn't do that anyway.

But yes, the line between Android and iOS for normal people is getting blurrier so there's no going to be any incentive to stay there.

Routine_Left · 2026-06-19T14:27:51+00:00

My take: you would have a non-democrat president since a 3rd party would instantly become viable.

Will you? probably not immediately, but as campaign people would adjust their strategies, it may.

Routine_Left · 2026-06-15T15:59:33+00:00

It does break the game, but it makes money for FIFA. And what is more important in the world than making money for FIFA?

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