Yep, back in the very early 2000s, this was something we did at school to jokke around.
The cupholder joke was neat, it had a nice official looking UI with the Coca Cola logo, and a corporate style promotion text, there was a button to click to accept the “gift”, and only then did the CD drive open.
Then I remember running a joke program that would make the startbutton jump around on the screen.
Now they’ll install any random fucking app a company tells them to install. Oh, you want to see a menu at the restaurant? Just install this app. How about fuck you?
Modern mobile OS’ and apps are quite strictly sandboxed so, with reasonable vetting like Google Play Store and Apple Store, you can reasonably safely install random crap and uninstall it later. It’s a different realm from running random binary executables.
That depends on your definition of safe. Everyone wants to be a data broker these days, and the amount of data that can be gleaned from basic app permissions is startling. Not to mention that it’s just annoying. We already solved this “an app for everything” problem 40 years ago with the HTML/CSS/W3C standards and a regular old web browser. 90% of the apps out there could be websites, and the world would be better if they were. But having an app gives the publisher a lot more control over what they can do, how they can spam you, and what they can scrape, and that’s why everyone has their own stupid apps now.
We already solved this “an app for everything” problem 40 years ago with the HTML/CSS/W3C standards and a regular old web browser.
God, please, no. There’s a really good reason WebOS experiments all, universally, failed, and it isn’t because Big Brother wants your data. They can get it through web apps just fine, anyway. No, the reason is because web apps suck.
Seemingly innocuous Play store apps get found to be viruses all the time, most recent in my memory being a few barcode scanner apps, farthest back in my memory being flashlight apps back before android did it natively, but there’s been more over the years. Trusting apps “because play store” is horrible practice.
Because play store and OS permissions. Nothing is 100% safe but that’s two layers of defense these apps have that a random exe designed for an OS that gives root perms to every process does not have
Here’s an unsigned APK that’s just our website in a container plus all of the tracking and data mining we could shove in there. Why dont you go ahead and oauth us to all of your social media accounts too? Don’t worry, we only need post permissions so that we can bring you these sweet customized bargains.
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I know somebody who knew him, the “viking”. The German term “Arschloch” or maybe “bully” describes that person best, as I have heard it, but this is after all hear-say and take it -like me- with a grain of salt. But the description, time and place was absolutely spot-on, so make of it what you want. Btw im telling this to the internet for years, nobody believes me & I don’t care. I can just tell what’s told me.
i bet this poor meme can’t even sleep well in the bed. I’m tall, but this boi, he’s really tall. NO way he fits in a bed. Its’ really sad. we shouldn’t make fun of it.
I’m still laughing at this hours later, and am documenting this all to share with friends. Without a doubt in my top 5 comments of all time, I love you
Thanks! i really miss PsBattles. I started my own !imageedits but nobody knows it exists, and I don’t use my lemmy.zip account anymore now that .world is stable again.
Dunno why people keep saying this like it’s a new thing lmao, since phones have become popular even in the flip phone days teachers and schools have or tried to ban them.
It doesn’t work, it never works, kids will always find a way to sneak them in lmaooo
I guess they could collect them at the start of the class. I’m sure some people would bring in “decoy phones” but whatever, it would still cut down on interruptions.
I just had sucky teachers. Most classes consisted of walking in, and the teacher making us copy some overheads, then do work in the textbook, then homework. The teacher didn’t really engage or teach us anything, just sat there on his phone
That just tells us that you had bad teachers. Sorry about that.
Good teachers will deliver knowledge in an interesting way. Take any good edutainment YouTube channel: Vsauce, CGP Grey, or Kurzgesagt for example. More specific ones are arguably better, like Captain Disillusion for VFX or 3Blue1Brown for Math(s).
Good teachers will make you excited about learning something. Yes, they regurgitate info, but they should be doing so in an engaging way.
And I haven’t even mentioned the value you can get from simply asking a question. That’s where I think the true value of a teacher lies. We can all read books or watch YouTube videos, but if we’re not quite there then a simple question answered can often be enough to help us grasp a concept.
I mean, teachers vary significantly in quality and approach. Straight book readers are rare, but especially at lower levels maybe most of them don’t care about anything besides checking off whatever curriculum is handed down.
We must. I mostly know elementary school teachers at this point, although looking back I see evidence of it all the way through my own K-12 experience. While it’s kind of sad in some ways, I think it’s pretty much necessary.
That’s actually not how I learn at all, or at least prefer not too but I’m more than capable of doing x on my own to produce y. Research is a skill that isn’t taught to anyone and they need hand curated material. It’s no wonder we have to cater to the lowest
…if that’s the case, why do professors exist in this day and age with so many books? Why don’t we have a scholar system in reality if books should be enough for people to learn?
Like, if you’ve ever had a good teacher before, they’re not JUST regurgitating info, they’re connecting it to the wider context that currently surrounds you, aka your daily lived life (at least in a lot of cases, I’m sure there are many flavors of what makes a teacher better than an info regurgitator, but this is a solid one that I personally know of)
Teachers, while they may suck or not have the ability to be good for whatever reason, are not supposed to be just information spewing robots.
Honestly which teacher you have genuinely has an impact on what fields you have an interest in. Going into grade 11 I had neither an interest in English nor Biology. But my bio teacher was genuinely amazing and did everything she could to help us with the subject, including explain hard to understand topics over and over again in different ways to help get through to us.
Meanwhile my grade 11 English teacher was was very much the old timey type of teacher, the kind where you just know the only reason no one in class is getting flogged is because that’s illegal in the 21st century. Super strict and super patronizing when you don’t understand the material instead of actually helping you understand it. It got to the point where our class (along with her other classes in the same grade) literally started an online group so we could help each other through her bullshit, silver lining being that her class was a bonding experience for us. Combined with the fact that I was already struggling a bit because English is not my first language (I was still fluent and was in the normal English classes in Canada) basically made me despise English and literature in general. I learned more about fiction writing from writing and roleplay forums than I did in that class.
I ended up almost failing English while acing high school bio which led to me majoring in ecology in uni (though to be fair I was already very much inclined more toward science than any other field). Luckily my first year uni English prof was great and that class helped restore my interest in literature enough to start writing fiction on my own. All my hobby writing projects were from University onwards.
First off, Wojacks ⊂ Rage faces. Rage faces are a wider and more diverse set, that includes the original wojack (and all the wojacks by extension) so they offer more possibilities; both cringe and non-cringe. Beside, they were more often than wojacks used in comics with several pannels and characters. More wojacks are used in single pannels constituting reaction pics or criticisms of a type of people.
In a way, wojacks are the heirs to Rage Comics, but they’ve adapted to a web in which we consume memes more quickly and in greater amounts, hence why they’re suited to smaller templates.
My dad said to me when I was a kid that when I was ten a year was a whole tenth of my life, and when I’m 50 it will only be one 50th of my life. So every year feels shorter. Not sure how much sense that makes, but it’s always stuck in my head.
The meme leaves out the part where the progress bar starts over again, completes, starts over, completes, repeating ad nauseam, rendering the progress bar element completely devoid of meaningful information.
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