I managed to take my kid to the elementary chess nationals for the weekend, without installing or using proprietary software apps!

[karen@floss.social]

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!

[bignose@fosstodon.org]

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 #FreeSoftware, but at least its necessity on iOS provides *some* incentive to actually uphold a standards-based web.

@karen

[sharif@fosstodon.org]

@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 #openstreetmaps 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!

[sharif@fosstodon.org]

@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!

[phako@chaos.social]

@karen what? No, it is just weirdly hidden behind the share feature

[karen@floss.social]

@phako oh interesting, the iPhone users were all teaching each other to install it, as happily the website was updating faster than the app

[pa@hachyderm.io]

@karen Congrats! The extra effort is an awesome lesson.
I've been lazier, and taught my grade-school kids the art of burner phones.

[a@pdx.social]

@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.

[hweimer@fediscience.org]

@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.

[indyradio@kafeneio.social]

@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.

[rune@social.sound-city.dk]

@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

[phako@chaos.social]

@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

[karen@floss.social]

@pa I agree, it just gets harder and harder all the time!

[jsjoshua@esq.social]

@karen congrats on the chess nationals!

[baloouriza@social.tulsa.ok.us]

@karen Is there not a #firefox port available on iOS?

[karen@floss.social]

@BalooUriza truly I am so pleased to say that I have no idea what is available on iOS