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[Fla Dem]

This message was self-deleted by its author (Fla Dem) on Wed Aug 27, 2025, 11:44 AM. When the original post in a discussion thread is self-deleted, the entire discussion thread is automatically locked so new replies cannot be posted.

[erronis]

1. Please, NO. Apps are a way to invade privacy. Use the web with as many privacy extensions as you can.

Never install a banking app! These are vectors from criminals to get into your accounts.

Whether Apple or Android/Google or otherwise. Vulnerabilities abound.

[Cirsium]

2. Question

What is an "app?"

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. It's what we used to call 'software'

Like, you got Photoshop for your computer; you went to the computer store and bought the software. It came in a box with a CD (or a number of 3½" floppiy discs, or even 5¼" if you're really fucking old) and a user's manual. It could cost anywhere from $19.99 for a game to $700 for Photoshop or QuarkXPress.

Maybe 10 years ago, they changed it so you download it from the internet to your "device." It's often free, but you have to subscribe to some apps (short for "applications" ).

[Bristlecone]

3. No, but you can save a website to you "Homepage"

On your smart device, and it will appear there and look app-like.

[Harker]

5. You spelled 'ass' wrong.

[hunter]

6. Friends don't let friends do apps. I've seen what they do to people.

Fuck, I don't even know where to find an app.

My use of computers and phones hasn't changed much since the 'eighties. I first signed onto the internet in the late 'seventies and still think browsing the web using Lynx at the San Francisco Public Library was the coolest thing ever, much different atmosphere than university computer labs.

I suppose Lynx would be called an "app" these days.

Yeah, I'm some kind of Luddite.

[Fla Dem]

7. Deleting post. Got my answer.