Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners

yesman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How about this:

  At the apartments I recently moved out of, there were no quarter slots on the washing machines. They were an app that required a bluetooth connection to pay.

  So if you lived there and didn’t have a smartphone? Go fuck yourself, you don’t get to do laundry.

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That…

    Is that not illegal?

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    • eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      America has next to no protections for tenants, only landlords.

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  • white_nrdy@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Tbf, my building also uses an app for laundry. However they also have a machine in the laundry rooms where you can purchase an NFC payment card and put money on it. So you can use it without the app. Is that not the case with yours? If not, that’s 100% fucked

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    quarter slots on the washing machines

    Thank god they decided to keep these free where I live

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  • Vinstaal0@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That depends a bit on if it was advertised or not to have a laundry room. At least here in NL it is more common to have your own washing machine than to use a shared one so having a laundry room would be an extra to start with.

    Still sucks though

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  • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The more insane thing here for me is the fact that there isn’t a washing machine inside your apartment.

    (btw lived in such once, apparently the owner wasn’t very wealthy. We washed everything by hand)

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    • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s actually incredibly common in US apartments for laundry to be a common area.

      Having a unit in your apartment means you’re at least well-to-do. Poor people can mostly go fuck themselves.

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      • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well-to-do? That is weird, because here not having a washing machine in the apartment would be weird even for a poor person.

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    • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’ve never seen The Big Bang Theory?

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      • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No I have not, heard it is offensive and unfunny.

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• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There was a food truck I went to one time that required you to download some app to look at their menu and order your food. They refused to accept a credit card or cash. I walked. So fucking stupid. I don’t know why people allow shit like that to exist.

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