We're just counting down to being unable to exist without a smartphone on your person at all times. What a dystopia.
Right?
Unfortunately, I think it's already impossible to attend major events without a phone, at least if it's a major event at a stadium. Smaller venues still send out emails with QR codes we can just print out.
I posted about it yesterday, I think.
Being negative gives people something to talk about.
It's just not interesting to me. I'm sure most of us here have fixed little annoyances in our lives with AI at this point. I could write a post about how I forked newpipe to add features I wanted but I doubt anyone would care because they can just do that too.
I know the world is different now. I'm just crying about it is all.
I similarly reject apps and QR menus in restaurants, airlines, etc. If you can't be bothered to give me a paper menu, I can't be bothered to eat in your establishment.
This generally gets me a workaround. I do even have a company phone with locked down applications... it's just not my only phone.
I overheard several very forceful discussions from people who had a smartphone but wanted to leave it at home. The staff - likely on orders from the gym chain - refused to budge.
Update: It was hard to find because it was titled, "I accidentally became PureGym’s unofficial Apple Wallet developer"
For the last part, it’s maybe not the best idea to put a link "GitHub & CV" at the bottom then ;)
I love being able to do things like this and rip out the crap being forced down our throats.
The person at the front desk was absolutely no help and could have been replaced with a sign that said, "you can do everything in the app."
This is the real strength of LLMs. Not that they write the most sophisticated code; it's the brute force element. The "I wouldn't have spent the time on it," aspect.
The AI companies are trying to convince dentists offices they need Claude. The truth is regular people don't care. There's always only going to be a subset of the population that wants to build things.
They review video and deal with friends sharing a keyfob pretty harshly. Membership revoked.
The idea that a gym is a place where you will likely meet fit, attractive people is something that I think has a broader appeal as long as it remains subtle and unspoken. As soon as you make it explicit with social media it seems like it kills the vibe pretty fast. Or maybe I'm just old and the youngs will just take it in stride like the rest of the world that software has eaten.
An excellent portal to accept a fictionalized ai slop version of "your" experience. Make it long, and maybe put a recipe at the bottom.
I think a story of how you saw a dude drying off his gluteal cleft with the hand dryers in the locker rooms would be an appropriate "experience" if the payment is nothing.
I know the effect is negligible but isn’t that just stealing
No. They pay for a gym membership, there is literally nothing to steal from the social media feed in the door-unlocking app.
It would be theft if the user was bypassing payment-gated credentials, but that is not the case here.
Is it just me or are people getting too stuck in a Manichean mindset about this kind of thing? This reads like an alcoholic complaining about a work happy hour or something. Just, don't use the social media stuff.
>For the longest time, my LinkedIn bio was “I HATE LINKEDIN.”
OP kind of just seems insufferable. Touch grass.
I hate the "ubiquity" of social media. For me, it's not social media conceptually that's the issue, it's that Meta and others are not good companies. They exist by doing their best to get me addicted to their feeds. It's not healthy. Whether or not there's a non-harmful way to do social media is unknown (by me, at least).