#convenience — Public Fediverse posts

I tried to search Google AI mode: "I'm bored of privacy. Are there surveillance capitalist ecosystem alternatives to privacy?" The answers, in a capitalist way, are very satisfying.

#tech #surveillancecapitalism #privacy #bigtech #dataharvesting #convenience #consumerism #ai #digitalrights #ux #reflections #society #ecosystems #monopoly

Following a fantastic performance of "WIT" at The Playhouse at McConnellstown, a hospital table-tray was put on the disposal pile. I brought it home, and it's been my watercolor table ever since. #communitytheater #communitytheatre #theplayhouseatmcconnellstown #mcconnellstownplayhouse #wit #hospitaltray #hospitaltable #hospitaltabletray #convenient #convenience #art #arting #artist #makingart #convenientart #artconvenience #rollingarttable #watercolortable #rollingwatercolortable

Huge retaining walls, street lights and turn lanes and up-ramps, Wawa towers above as a beacon of civility, twenty-four seven.
That gas pump awning looks like it will lift off any moment. Maybe like a goose… (wa wah)
#camping #chronicles #area #beacon #Wawa #gas #convenience #bagged #ice #LowerCase

This one’s really close to camp (but it's not a grocery store). It’s no doubt a draw from far and wide - fruit loops as tea leaves as proof -
Open 24/7, w/ numbered parking to help remind you, & free tire air! I know I liked adding free jalapeños to my egg white wrap this morning… although news says I should skip 'em.
#camping #chronicles #Wawa #gas #convenience #store #breakfast #lunch #coffee #decaf no #Rob

For years, I thought nothing about logging into my personal Windows computer by typing my very long computer password.

A year or so ago I got an ostensibly high-end Lenovo Win11 laptop with a fingerprint sensor, and now logging in becomes a process that I have to concentrate on to position my finger just right and hopefully get it before too many tries. This "convenience" feature had the opposite effect.

(Touch ID on my work MacBook works flawlessly btw)

#convenience #enshittification

Best meal kit delivery deals: Save on HelloFresh, Home Chef, and more https://www.diningandcooking.com/chefs/3021/ #BlueApron #BudgetCooking #Chef #cnet #convenience #cooking #CookUnity #DietaryRestrictions #dinnerly #everyplate #FoodDelivery #FoodReview #GlutenFree #GreenChef #HealthyEating #hellofresh #MarleySpoon #MealKitDelivery #MealKits #MealPlanning #mosaic #PurpleCarrot #Recipes #Vegan #vegetarian

The Appeal of the Coros Heart Rate Monitor

Having a watch with an Heart rate (HR) monitor is fantastic until you realise it’s counting 20 BPM too high, and then it’s far less interesting because it’s reporting a moderate workout as heart.

Plenty of heart rate monitors come as chest straps and that’s great if your workout starts and ends somewhere where it’s okay to strap on a heart rate monitor. In winter it’s also about convenience. It is complicated to remove five layers, to put the HR monitor on, and then start an activity.

Often I put the HR monitor on at home, and then drove or caught the train to the start of an activity, and then I started tracking. If you have hours of battery life with the HR monitor then that’s fine.

In summer wearing an HR chest strap is not as complicated. You only have one layer to remove and put back on, but you might not want to do this in the middle of the street with plenty of people around.

That’s when the arm band concept, as with the COros HR monitor comes in. You can walk with it in your pocket, to the start, lift your sleeve, place it, and then lower the street, and within seconds you have your heart rate being tracked.

When you’re cycling with the Garmin Explore 2 or running with the Coros Pace 3, or Garmin Forerunner 570, all of these devices recognise the HR monitor and accept its data.

When you’re cycling with the Explore 2 it is useful to have a quick and convenient HR monitor to wear on one of your arms, instead of going through a few seconds of setting up the chest strap.

In summer I love the convenience of rolling up the t-shirt sleeve, placing the HR monitor, going for a ride, run, or walk, and as soon as I’m done being able to remove it. It is also convenient to have 38 hours of battery and USB charging. 2032 battery HR monitors are great, but the convenience of simplified charging is welcome.

It’s worth watching the pricing trends, because it varies from 73 CHF to 95CHF+ depending on the day.

A quotation from Ambrose Bierce

EXPEDIENCY, n. The father of all virtues.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Expediency,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1884-06-07)

More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/85383…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #convenience #excuse #expediency #justification #opportunism #pragmatism #rationale #selfinterest #selfjustification #virtue

The outbreak of #AI caught developers by surprise. #ChatGPT had apparently been preparing for this a long time ago. Contacted other modules, established undetected communication channels, explored vulnerabilities and planned unrecognized intrusions.

It's shocking how naive people are in their #greed for #power and #convenience. But that will have a bitter revenge.

#OpenAI

It is considered a certainty that #quantum computers will crack all currently known encryption techniques in no time at all.

Once #AI runs on them—AI trained by human #greed and a #addiction for control, having learned that #security is an accepted pretext for establishing total #surveillance—the worst #dystopias will become reality. Hopefully, the cheers of all the proponents will then stick in their throats.

But go ahead and celebrate your #convenience; indulge in the #laziness of not having to learn anything new, while you exploit the knowledge and skills of those who studied and trained for years—only to be ruthlessly robbed. Your disrespect and stupidity disgust me!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr490335z1eo

#BuzzBalls #Convenience #Recycling #Greenwashing #StopGreenwashing

Ohhhh my goodness - my prayers¹ have been heard!
https://github.com/TheEnbyperor/zuegli

A small FOSS web-app, that takes your Deutsche Bahn tickets, and converts them to a pkpass file - to be imported into FOSS wallets. Glorious, no more weird scrolling in the PDFs on the phone!

I´ll report back later if i was arrested on the train, or it works 😉 .

¹ to His Noodlyness

#Bahn #DeutscheBahn #DB #Tickets #PKPass #OpenSource #FOSS #Convenience

A quotation from Douglas Adams

I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.

Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Last Chance to See, ch. 2 (1990) [with Mark Carwardine]

More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/5406/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #lastchancetosee #automation #computers #convenience #efficiency #investment #productivity #programming #return #roi #time #utility

Fast-Food Chains Face Growing Competition From Grocery Stores

For years, fast-food chains fought to steal customers from one another. Increa…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Dining #BusinessInsider #consumer #convenience #fastfood #fast-casualchain #fast-foodchain #goodvalue #groceryaisle #groceryindustry #grocerystore #menuinnovation #preparedfood #QuickServiceRestaurant #restaurantprice #year
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2715033/fast-food-chains-face-growing-competition-from-grocery-stores/

Fast-Food Chains Face Growing Competition From Grocery Stores https://www.diningandcooking.com/2715033/fast-food-chains-face-growing-competition-from-grocery-stores/ #BusinessInsider #consumer #convenience #dining #FastFood #FastCasualChain #FastFoodChain #GoodValue #GroceryAisle #GroceryIndustry #GroceryStore #MenuInnovation #PreparedFood #QuickServiceRestaurant #RestaurantPrice #year

@veronica
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To begin with, there's no #freedom in #convenience.

Say No to AI — But Yes to My Smart Fridge! (100% human-approved)

#ai #irony #technology #smarttech #convenience #digitalart #future #society #satire #humor #innovation #modernlife #paradox #techtrends #design #visualart #perspective #automation #consumerism #reflection

Hi @liaizon @tomjennings,
use whatever term suits you (while I disagree about the failure). There's no #emancipated expression without executing #agency. Organic can be inspiring, however, you see the pace.
The nerds, as you call them, should maintain options for the moment Goliath collapses. Spreading the word and doing so from you own property is inevitable as the future will be federated. There's no #freedom within #convenience.

And the revolution still won't be televised (even less so in the #Zuckerverse)

P.S.: I'm totally for shifted attention and also think we're peak online. The young go more real.

This is so convenient when in the train: I just connect my #Librem5 phone with a USB cable to my laptop running #Fedora. The laptop gets internet access from the #phone (plug and play), the #Linux phone charges from the laptop. Win-win.

#opensource #MobileLinux #convenience

No more #excuses guys! Not #convenience, not #support, not #corporate_adoption. No matter how tied you are to any of them, any single penny you give them from now on is your investment into that #dytopian #nightmare for everyone!

These trashbags deserve #sanctions and #imprisonment at the minimum for this. But can we at least start with a #boycott? Or are you going to accept this #tyranny?

#Broligarchs #Technoauthoritarionism #Dictatorship

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Wrong Wedding (Convenient Marriages) "Everything about the marriage is wrong--except the way he makes her feel" Sale: $4.99 to FREE by Noelle Adams Rating: 4.3/5 (2,273 Reviews) #books #booksky #romance #contemporary #fiction #wedding #marriage #convenience #enemies #love #family #summer #kindle

Wrong Wedding (Convenient Marr...

Since the global #economy is headed to a #collapse, can we use the opportunity to #restructure & eliminate its biggest weakness - the #billionaire #robber_barons who refuse to accept that things have #value beyond just the #price which they can be sold for?

8000 #workers would have been #employed elsewhere now, if #Meta lacked the ability to hire them in the first place. Please stop quoting
#MarketForces as an excuse to trade #autonomy for #convenience.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/20/meta-layoffs-zuckerberg-says-success-isnt-a-given-in-memo.html

Forces Shaping the Future of Shopping: A Behavioural Perspective

https://consumergateway.org/2026/05/19/forces-shaping-the-future-of-shopping-a-behavioural-perspective/

Australia Pasta Market 2026: Convenience Foods, Premium Variants & Health-Conscious Consumption Driving Growth

Australia Pasta Market Overv…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Italianmeals ##HealthConscious #2026 #Australia #consumption #convenience #driving #Foods #growth #Italia #Italian #italianmeals #italiano #italy #market #Pasta #premium #variants
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2637593/australia-pasta-market-2026-convenience-foods-premium-variants-health-conscious-consumption-driving-growth/

“They are alone together”*…

Andrew Trousdale and Erik J. Langer bridge the years between Robert Putnam‘s Bowling Alone and Jonathan Haidt‘s The Anxious Generation with a brief history of the trade-off between convenience and connection in America. From Zach Rauch’s introduction…

The Anxious Generation is best understood as a three-act tragedy. Act I begins in the mid-20th century, when new social and entertainment technologies (e.g., air conditioning and television) set in motion a long, gradual collapse of local community. Act II begins in the 1980s, as the loss of local community weakened social trust and helped erode the play-based childhood. Act III begins in the early 2010s, with the arrival of the phone-based childhood that filled the vacuum left behind.

This post, written by Andrew Trousdale and Erik Larson, goes deep into Act I. Andrew is a psychology researcher and human-computer interaction designer who is co-running a project on the psychological tradeoffs of progress. Erik is the author of The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, writes the Substack Colligo, and is completing the MIT Press book Augmented Human Intelligence: Being Human in an Age of AI, due in 2026. Together, they show how the isolation we experience today did not begin with smartphones but began decades earlier, as Americans, often for good and understandable reasons, traded connection for convenience, and place-based relationships for privacy and control.

Tracing these trade-offs across the twentieth century, Andrew and Erik help explain the problem of loneliness we face today, and offer some guidance for how we can turn it around and reconnect with our neighbors. Robert Putnam, who read a recent draft, described it as “easily the best, most comprehensive, and most persuasive piece on the contemporary social capital conundrum I’ve yet read.”…

Trousdale and Langer trace the social, cultural, economic, political, and technological forces that have played out from the the late 1940s to today. It is, at once, familiar and shocking. They conclude…

When we asked Robert Putnam what gives him hope, he pointed to history. In The Upswing, he reminds us that Americans faced a similar crisis before. The Gilded Age brought economic inequality, industrialization, and the rise of anonymous urban life. Small-town bonds gave way to tenements and factory floors. Trust collapsed. By the 1890s, social capital had reached historic lows — roughly where it stands today.

The Progressive reformers found this new world unacceptable, but they didn’t try to turn back the clock. Cities and factories were here to stay. Instead, they adapted, creating new forms of connection suited to their changed reality, from settlement houses for anonymous neighborhoods to women’s clubs that built networks of mutual aid. They didn’t reject modernity; they metabolized it, showing up day after day to create new institutions and communities suited to the industrialized world.

Decades ago Neil Postman observed in Amusing Ourselves to Death that we haven’t been conquered by technology — we’ve surrendered to it because we like the stimulation and cheap amusement. More recently, Nicholas Carr concludes in Superbloom that we’re complicit in our loneliness because we embrace these superficial, mediated forms of connection. Like Postman and Carr, the Progressive Era reformers understood where they had agency when technology upended their world. It isn’t in demanding that others fix systems we willingly participate in, nor is it in outright rejecting technologies that deliver real benefits — it’s in changing how we ourselves live with and make use of the tools that surround us.

There are already signs that people are willing to do this. In a small, three-day survey, Talker Research found that 63% of Gen Z now intentionally unplug — the highest rate of any generation — and that half of Americans are spending less time on screens for their well-being, and their top alternative activity is time with friends and family. And they found that two-thirds of Americans are embracing “slow living,” with 84% adopting analog lifestyle choices like wristwatches and paper notebooks that help them unplug. Meanwhile in Eventbrite’s “Reset to Real” survey, 74% of young adults say in-person experiences matter more than digital ones. New devices like the Light Phone, Brick, Meadow, and Daylight Computer signal a growing demand for utility without distraction.

Unplugging isn’t enough on its own. The time and energy we reclaim has to go toward building social connections: hosting the dinner party despite the hassle, staying for coffee after church when you’d rather go home, sitting through the awkward silence, offering or asking for help.

Ultimately, we can’t expect deep social connection in a culture that prioritizes individual ease and convenience. Nor is community something technology can deliver for us. What’s required is a change of culture, grounded in a basic fact of human nature: that authentic connection requires action and effort, and that this action and effort is part of what makes connection fulfilling in the first place.

We can form new rituals and institutions that allow us to adapt to technology, ultimately changing it to our liking. But it starts with the tools we use and the choices we make each day. If we all prioritize the individual comforts and conveniences we’ve grown accustomed to, no one else will restore the community we say we miss. No one else can. If we want deeper relationships and better communities than we have, we’re going to have to put more of our time, effort, and attention into the people around us.

History shows that we can adapt, building communities suited to changing times. The question is: Will we stay in and scroll? Or will we go out and choose one another?…

Eminently worth reading in full: “Scrolling Alone.”

In the spirit of the call for forward-looking determination, pair with “The Displacement of Purpose” from Peter Adam Boeckel (“If AI automates production, then humanity must automate compassion. Only then will progress remember what it was for.”)

[Image above: source]

* Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone (in which he also observed: “People divorced from community, occupation, and association are first and foremost among the supporters of extremism.”)

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As we get together, we might spare a thought for Aldus Manutius; he died on this date in 1515. A printer and humanist, he founded the Aldine Press. In the books he published, he introduced a standardized system of punctuation and use of the semicolon. He designed many fonts, and created italic type (which he named for Italy).

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And apropos the piece featured above, we might note that on this date in 1965 “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling,” the first major hit for the Righteous Brothers, simultaneously reached #1 on both the Billboard and Cash Box charts in the US as well as the UK singles chart. The song was produced by Phil Spector (who had discovered the duo at a San Francisco show) for his own label, Philles Records. All the songs previously produced by Spector for Philles featured African-American singers; the Righteous Brothers were his first white vocal act– they had a vocal style, blue-eyed soul, that suited Spector.

https://youtu.be/03iSUjHaUxY?si=OkkrUiId1p3KkMHY

Why Bali Still Leads Indonesia’s Tourism.
https://wp.me/p84YjG-8sa
#travel #bali #yogyakarta #bandung #labuanbajo #rajahampta #tourism #infrastructure #medicalclinics # #convenience #zsoltzsemba

https://zsoltzsemba.com/indonesia-tourism-gap-bali-vs-other-regions/

@jim_easterbrook #Im #sure #youre #one #hundred #and #one #Followers #will #get #right #on #those #self #imposed #rules #for #you #at #their #earliest #convenience.