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| jonovid:
it takes time to realize the time we are in. when money becomes non-fungible tokens & or part of a phone. when science fiction finally becomes science fact with all the horror of a bad 1950s sci fi movie dolly the 2.0 sheep may well have two heads & one all seeing eye with imbedded wifi. with a newly discovered financial black hole is a country in Eastern Europe. when the doomsday clock times out. & nobody noticed it! it takes time to finally realize the time we are in. |
| thm_w:
--- Quote from: Red Squirrel on December 16, 2022, 02:49:02 am ---Sure but they are getting harder and harder to find so when you search 90% of results are now is this app/cloud stuff you have to filter through, and often you don't find out you need an app until after you already bought it. I was looking at a Trendnet one that looked promising and was available here in Canada, only to read the doc and find out you need an app. I'm in Canada so it's even harder to get stuff here as we just don't have as good of an online retail selection as the states does so it's slim pickings for everything. Have not been able to find a place that sells Hikvision for example as they do have good reviews. I know there's Amazon but lot of fakes/hacked ones on there so I tend to avoid Amazon for stuff like that. Routers are a new one to me but I did run into that and I fear it will become a trend too, was setting up internet for someone and that ISP's setup was super proprietary and you had to download and use an app just to configure the modem/router. I run a custom rom on my phone so couldn't do it so had to use the customer's phone. Super annoying that they just assume everyone has a regular phone. Not to mention how you're stuck relying on highly proprietary software/environment and your whole setup could be rendered obsolete if they stop updating it when you get a new phone. Drones, action cameras etc are bad too. It seems to be a trend with so many devices now. --- End quote --- Sure, most of the results are cheap crap which should be avoided, start by not sorting by price. If you read the user manual for this Trendnet camera, they show how to log in to the web interface directly: https://www.trendnet.com/support/support-detail.asp?prod=210_TV-IP1314PI Most standalone cameras are going to have an app, because it IS a pain for the average person to set them up, find the IP, etc. Costco has Swann (some are rebranded hikvision parts) and others, anything with a HDD would generally run standalone without needing an app. If you can't spend the time to find a genuine hikvision elsewhere. |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: AndyBeez on December 16, 2022, 08:32:35 pm ---Did you know WhatsApp was a messaging service conceived to be ad free? --- End quote --- It still is. --- Quote from: AndyBeez on December 16, 2022, 08:32:35 pm ---And that now, owned by Zuckernerd's Meta [data for sale] company, it has replaced Facebook Messenger? --- End quote --- It has not. Both still exist and are completely separate. You can’t even send messages between them. --- Quote from: AndyBeez on December 16, 2022, 08:32:35 pm ---Which is why WhatsApp is now the most prolific push advertising platform on the web? --- End quote --- Is it? I’ve never seen that, unlike sms spam. |
| thm_w:
--- Quote from: Siwastaja on December 16, 2022, 07:40:49 pm ---For example, filling in tax forms online is obviously helpful, compared to filling in paper forms, especially when you also have the paper form option available. On the other hand, having to install an app on your phone so you can go to LIDL and then instead of simply paying, you are now playing with your phone, wasting everybody's time, just to get a reduction in the price increase that was associated with the introduction of said bullshit app. It was total 180 deg, before that LIDL was actually proud of their concept of having no such bullshit, but selling to everyone for decent price. --- End quote --- Try printing the barcode out and sticking on your phone. It won't work for ticketmaster, but surely it would work for a grocery store. |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: thm_w on December 16, 2022, 11:34:49 pm ---Try printing the barcode out and sticking on your phone. It won't work for ticketmaster, but surely it would work for a grocery store. --- End quote --- I'm not a fan of stores that give you a discounted price if you give them your phone number. Fortunately I have found a workaround years ago, in this region at least just use the phone number for Microsoft headquarters, 425-882-8080. So many people have worked there and used their work phone number to sign up for things that I have yet to encounter a place that didn't have that number on file. In most cases they don't even list the name, in one case a confused clerk at a shoe store looked at me skeptically and asked if I was Alfonzo Finch. Um, sure. ;D |
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