<![CDATA[I managed to take my kid to the elementary chess nationals for the weekend, without installing or using proprietary software apps!]]>I managed to take my kid to the elementary chess nationals for the weekend, without installing or using proprietary software apps! I managed without apps for car rides, hotel, train, food delivery or the chess tournament itself (and no GPS)! Of course I used proprietary javascript for some bookings. It took extra leg work (mostly while my kid was playing) but I didn't even have to ask anyone else to help me with any of these things. Whew!! This shouldn't be such an accomplishment, but it is!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/8dbb1aa0-8216-4ef3-810e-359a234647f7/i-managed-to-take-my-kid-to-the-elementary-chess-nationals-for-the-weekend-without-installing-or-using-proprietary-software-appsRSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 10:04:04 GMTTue, 05 May 2026 02:35:55 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to I managed to take my kid to the elementary chess nationals for the weekend, without installing or using proprietary software apps! on Thu, 07 May 2026 17:08:53 GMT]]>@BalooUriza truly I am so pleased to say that I have no idea what is available on iOS 🙂

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://floss.social/users/karen/statuses/116534393774529421https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://floss.social/users/karen/statuses/116534393774529421Thu, 07 May 2026 17:08:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I managed to take my kid to the elementary chess nationals for the weekend, without installing or using proprietary software apps! on Thu, 07 May 2026 16:36:33 GMT]]>@karen Is there not a port available on iOS?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.tulsa.ok.us/users/BalooUriza/statuses/116534266647601750https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.tulsa.ok.us/users/BalooUriza/statuses/116534266647601750Thu, 07 May 2026 16:36:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I managed to take my kid to the elementary chess nationals for the weekend, without installing or using proprietary software apps! on Tue, 05 May 2026 11:35:09 GMT]]>@karen congrats on the chess nationals!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://esq.social/users/jsjoshua/statuses/116521756913129625https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://esq.social/users/jsjoshua/statuses/116521756913129625Tue, 05 May 2026 11:35:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I managed to take my kid to the elementary chess nationals for the weekend, without installing or using proprietary software apps! on Tue, 05 May 2026 10:38:07 GMT]]>@pa I agree, it just gets harder and harder all the time!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://floss.social/users/karen/statuses/116521532612249172https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://floss.social/users/karen/statuses/116521532612249172Tue, 05 May 2026 10:38:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I managed to take my kid to the elementary chess nationals for the weekend, without installing or using proprietary software apps! on Tue, 05 May 2026 07:29:28 GMT]]>@a @karen Now that you write that, I think the one in Share isn't supposed to be working anymore in 26? No idea why I still have it

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/phako/statuses/116520790847539504https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/phako/statuses/116520790847539504Tue, 05 May 2026 07:29:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I managed to take my kid to the elementary chess nationals for the weekend, without installing or using proprietary software apps! on Tue, 05 May 2026 07:26:10 GMT]]>@phako @karen @a honestly the fact that there are two completely different ways which require someone on fedi telling you how to do it makes an app kind of rational sounding

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.sound-city.dk/users/rune/statuses/01KQVGFD6A920458TPDXA4GBWWhttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.sound-city.dk/users/rune/statuses/01KQVGFD6A920458TPDXA4GBWWTue, 05 May 2026 07:26:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I managed to take my kid to the elementary chess nationals for the weekend, without installing or using proprietary software apps! on Tue, 05 May 2026 06:48:20 GMT]]>@karen absolutely appropriate. This should not be a big accomplishment.
btw I got floss dot cfd for a dollar, and laughed again when I saw "floss.social" I have to see more of it.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://kafeneio.social/users/indyradio/statuses/116520629090781105https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://kafeneio.social/users/indyradio/statuses/116520629090781105Tue, 05 May 2026 06:48:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I managed to take my kid to the elementary chess nationals for the weekend, without installing or using proprietary software apps! on Tue, 05 May 2026 06:38:33 GMT]]>@bignose @karen

I think it's rather those who are subject to mass surveillance and enshittification of proprietary apps who are second-class citizen. Guess who is also not affected by this? Rich people, because they can afford to pay actual humans instead of using apps. It's called "analog privilege": https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4528278

Of course, there's a price to pay (sometimes even literally) when you want to avoid all this, but that's kind of the point of being rich: Pricing out all the others so you can have to good stuff for yourself.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fediscience.org/users/hweimer/statuses/116520590624406598https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fediscience.org/users/hweimer/statuses/116520590624406598Tue, 05 May 2026 06:38:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I managed to take my kid to the elementary chess nationals for the weekend, without installing or using proprietary software apps! on Tue, 05 May 2026 05:05:39 GMT]]>@phako @karen Or just tap in the address bar and select “find in page” at the bottom. I’ve never heard of an app for that; that’d be absurd.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://pdx.social/users/a/statuses/116520225331213349https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://pdx.social/users/a/statuses/116520225331213349Tue, 05 May 2026 05:05:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I managed to take my kid to the elementary chess nationals for the weekend, without installing or using proprietary software apps! on Tue, 05 May 2026 04:51:44 GMT]]>@karen Congrats! The extra effort is an awesome lesson.
I've been lazier, and taught my grade-school kids the art of burner phones.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/pa/statuses/116520170577357665https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/pa/statuses/116520170577357665Tue, 05 May 2026 04:51:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I managed to take my kid to the elementary chess nationals for the weekend, without installing or using proprietary software apps! on Tue, 05 May 2026 03:25:12 GMT]]>@phako oh interesting, the iPhone users were all teaching each other to install it, as happily the website was updating faster than the app

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://floss.social/users/karen/statuses/116519830334655893https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://floss.social/users/karen/statuses/116519830334655893Tue, 05 May 2026 03:25:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I managed to take my kid to the elementary chess nationals for the weekend, without installing or using proprietary software apps! on Tue, 05 May 2026 03:08:32 GMT]]>@karen what? No, it is just weirdly hidden behind the share feature

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/phako/statuses/116519764818240664https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/phako/statuses/116519764818240664Tue, 05 May 2026 03:08:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I managed to take my kid to the elementary chess nationals for the weekend, without installing or using proprietary software apps! on Tue, 05 May 2026 03:07:01 GMT]]>@karen By the way, you've lived rent-free in my head as the cyborg lawyer for 15+ years, and I've followed your work from afar during that time. Thanks for all you do!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/sharif/statuses/116519758838956105https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/sharif/statuses/116519758838956105Tue, 05 May 2026 03:07:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I managed to take my kid to the elementary chess nationals for the weekend, without installing or using proprietary software apps! on Tue, 05 May 2026 03:06:42 GMT]]>@karen Nice! I wish more people would be aware of websites as an option, and use them. I also don't use apps for any of those things — I've done them all recently besides the chess tournaments. I do use open source map/GPS apps like CoMaps, which use data. Bank websites are often an option, too, though I understand that's harder in some places.

Websites over proprietary apps. Spread the good word!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/sharif/statuses/116519757584252355https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/sharif/statuses/116519757584252355Tue, 05 May 2026 03:06:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I managed to take my kid to the elementary chess nationals for the weekend, without installing or using proprietary software apps! on Tue, 05 May 2026 02:59:53 GMT]]>With Mozilla Corp making such a mess of the open web in recent years, I'm just glad there is still Safari being developed in competition to Chrome.

Safari is not , but at least its necessity on iOS provides *some* incentive to actually uphold a standards-based web.

@karen

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/bignose/statuses/116519730741363325https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/bignose/statuses/116519730741363325Tue, 05 May 2026 02:59:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I managed to take my kid to the elementary chess nationals for the weekend, without installing or using proprietary software apps! on Tue, 05 May 2026 02:53:15 GMT]]>I also learned that people who have iphones have to install a "find on page" app in order to just search a web page on a browser for text? Odd!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://floss.social/users/karen/statuses/116519704679823831https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://floss.social/users/karen/statuses/116519704679823831Tue, 05 May 2026 02:53:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I managed to take my kid to the elementary chess nationals for the weekend, without installing or using proprietary software apps! on Tue, 05 May 2026 02:50:53 GMT]]>It's effectively an experience as a second-class citizen @karen. The rhetoric asserts that proprietary protocols and systems are freely chosen. But for those who opt out, who choose , we find *our* lives burdened by the proprietary systems *others* chose without our consent.

And those who accept the shackles of proprietary systems, don't bear the burden of finding those alternate paths because everything assumes you've put those shackles on, and is unreliable if you don't.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/bignose/statuses/116519695353966258https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/bignose/statuses/116519695353966258Tue, 05 May 2026 02:50:53 GMT