see, this is why you linux cultists just cannot sway people, you're all pushing this insane operating system that can't even print to a printer that's powered off in a block of concrete launched to orbit a distant star and be a russel's teapot to drive any aliens sending probes out mad.
all the functional parts are server calls, app or website. all of them. buying a ticket involves authenticating with both the owner's server and my bank. that's a network thing. can't download my ticket til I do that, site or app. even looking at a timetable (i dont see where in the app I can do that? but point to point trips) on the app doesn't work when im in airplane mode, but I know for a fact my browser caches, and if I've looked recently or left the page open, it will still be there when I come back.
there's no advantage of an app, unless you're doing fancy graphics shit, which eats battery like a mother fucker and makes low end devices much more unhappy.
I mean, there are movies that were, for better and worse (mostly worse) pretty important too. birth of a nation, the great dictator, the exorcist (and its involvement with the satanic panic),
I watched 'the matrix' as a kid, and I ended up as an anarchist. maybe coincidence. who knows.
the control of one relatively concentrated entirely capitalist industry is a problem. I agree on that. one could say the same about the publishing industry. and it turns out indie films exist! and are cool sometimes! just like indie publishing! it's just way harder to distribute them.
I agree. fuck hollywood (the industry) and hollywood (the place, which is tacky as hell and filled with tourists and always smells like piss except when it smells like shit, and they lock up all the parks at like 5 PM, and also all the good pizza places are closed or dont open until dinner. it's super fucked up, especially when they used to sell by the slice and that's, like, perfect for lunch).
yes, im a linux cultist who was really sad when windows 7 stopped getting updates.
instability is instability. you don't make a factory in a politically unstable place, and you don't use a product from a for-profit company that is prone to enshittification and could remotely brick it at any point without warning. risks are risks.
but I... it... it's a PDF, its stored on my phone. I downloaded it. I actually still have it, if I need to prove I was on the train. its not in the app anymore, but I still have it here.
you know you can't make a PURCHASE on an app without network access, right? like, it has to interact with your bank and generate the code (and that's done on their server, so you can't make yourself free tickets) and update "this ticket is valid" in the system. the app is literally just a web site with fewer features. all the important math happens on the server. usually, not even a timetable is stored locally, and it still has to be retrieved from the network, it doesn't even cache, I bet. I could check, but I would have to find my phone.
ooh, did they sacrifice the goats in the factory? pretty snazzy; i haven't bought any new hardware in years, and this might just be the impetus I need to run out to microcenter.
"hey honey, here's your first computer. no parental controls, but you're only allowed to run arch, and im doing a pen test every weekend, with an attack that will disable features I can reach for three days. good luck!"
edit: alternatively: "there are parental controls on the router and I'll be switching them up regularly. you're not allowed to look at porn until you're a better hacker than your parents."
a lot of 20th century construction was absolute dog shit, though.