Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun
frezik@midwest.social 15 hours ago
A huge number of apps these days are web sites compiled into an app, and it shows. For example, an app should be able to remember your address and payment information without signing into an account, yet so many don’t. Almost like they want to force you into signing up. Why might that be?
Just give me a mobile web page if you’re going to do that shit.
There’s some apps that just load a site, but the site refuses to load if you load it in a regular browser? Why?? Spoofing the user-agent would probably work around that, but I haven’t tried.
Wogi@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I have an app for my sprinkler system and it’s a fucking nightmare. Not only is it basically just a web API, it’s so transparently just a glorified browser with access to exactly one site that frequently my phone thinks that app will work for whatever else I’m trying to open.
Document? Sprinkler app. Web Page? Sprinkler app. Installing from a source other than Google? Oh you better believe the sprinkler app can do that.
Doing anything takes longer to load than it would take me to walk from anywhere on my property to the fucking box and hit whatever button I need to hit.
It frequently forgets what I entered for preferences. I can tell it a week ahead what days I want it to skip but if I do that more than 24 hours on advance I might as well not have done it at all.
Oh you want to make a payment online? Let your sprinklers do that for you. YouTube video? Sprinkler app. YouTube video about fixing your fucking sprinkler system? Sprinkler app.
Apparently the one thing it can’t do is effectively manage my water usage. It’s ONE job
x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
I think all of this stuff is just a big fad. Many people have already been switching back to “dumb” devices.
dan@upvote.au 11 hours ago
They’ve misconfigured the app and are telling Android that it can open all URLs, not just the URLs it cares about. They probably read a tutorial and didn’t know what they were doing :)
Wogi@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Almost certainly. If the guy who was making yandere simulator was tasked with a sprinkler app, it wouldn’t be much worse than it currently is.
I don’t know shit about fuck when it comes to programming, but I know bad programming when I see it.
locuester@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
Thanks for this! I often wonder if non-programmers can see this. Such horrible programmers. And embarrassingly low bar for company outsourced it.
Some find it scary that AI might take programmers’ jobs. I like to think that it’s these type programmers being replaced, and I’m kinda keen on having that.
nutsack@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
shit that’s amazing
dullbananas@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
Just request a copy of the source code! Oh wait
Landless2029@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Yeah this is begging for !homeassistant@lemmy.world to replace that app.
forrcaho@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Is it actually opening up the Sprinkler app for all those other purposes, or giving you a choice dialog? If it’s actually opening up the app, maybe installing Intent Intercept would at least make it a choice dialog, as it also tries to open everything (just to show information about the request; it’s a dev tool).
Wogi@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I have never actually tried, it’s just suggesting it as an app that can do those things.
forrcaho@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
So, giving you what I called the choice dialog. That makes sense. Intent intercept wouldn’t help then, it would just give you one more basically irrelevant choice to do all the things (although it’s useful for developers).
Landless2029@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Can !homeassistant@lemmy.world help with that?
Wogi@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
If I could rip that thing off the wall and replace it with a spigot I would.
My wife wants it, and she cares more about the grass than I do.