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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The reason this is done is because you can see everything your browser is doing, but you can't see everything an application is doing without disassembling it.

I want very much to go back to websites. Apps are stupid.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

the reason is children. for some reason the most recent generation of kids requires apps instead of sites. god forbid they have to remember an address.

just look at the fuckload of people who cant use lemmy without an 'app'

this is one of my peeeves

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My high school computer teacher once ranted about this to us. He said the younger students are lacking the basic concepts of computer stuff. They are spoiled too much to not even know what a file browser is.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's the parents fault too for not teaching the kids.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Eeh, I see it as a gray area. Majority of millenials, myself included, grew up learning about novel technologies as they developed. We learned how to use desktop computers and browse the internet during a 'golden age' of innovation. They became part of our everyday lives and are second nature to us. The next generations don't fully have that experience but are expected to natively know their way around a computer since they're so ubiquitous in our lives. In reality, they know how to use smart phones and chromebooks but aren't getting the experience of working on a real desktop computer.

Regarding teaching kids the basics, I'd put it on the schools, not the parents. Do schools still have computer labs? That'd be where proper computer skills should be taught. If parents can help at home that's great, but I don't think it should be expected that every kid is going to have a real computer at home to learn on (versus phones, tablets, chromebooks, etc).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Voyager app users

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Most of these memes are ironic, but this one is actually true. These apps could just be websites, but instead they're bloated spyware

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Many of these apps could just be menus.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Even menu websites are chock full of Javascript for no reason. It could be a JPEG!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

An app for a fucking cemetary!? Nuh-uh

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That's how you get a haunted phone