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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 13 points 8 months ago (3 children)

The damn weather app demands to know my location. Asking makes sense. Demanding is a failure to understand why people check the weather. I don't need it where I am. I need it where I'm going to be. You have no trouble showing me it's cloudy in the default location, five thousand miles north. Let me enter a city name and mind your damn business.

[–] Vivendi@lemmy.zip 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Weather apps used location even in fucking Symbian and whatever before android, and my 2011 Android Gingerbread bread phone had that as well

If it's ONE app that has any legitimate business with my location it's weather

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago

Weather apps being able to use GPS data is great. Weather apps shitting the bed if you don't give it permissions, when it fucking knows it has to ask for permissions, are failed products.

I will give it a location. It can tell me the weather there.

[–] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

One counterargument: without your current location, it can't send any weather alerts that immediately impact your safety.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The network sends those.

Because the cell towers are cemented in place.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

Not that Florida's smart enough to limit Amber Alerts to relevant portions of the state. I'm down in the dick-tip. I've been rudely awoken by blaring alarms about a kidnapping up in the grundle.

I hope they send those alerts to people in Nashville, because they're all closer to Tallahassee than I am.

[–] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

This isn't always the case.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In winter I want to know if it's going to be good enough to go out on the bike or if it's going to be cold and wet in which case I'll drive instead (yeah I know better clothing blah blah). There is a case for knowing the weather forecast for my current location.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

Yes, of course - some people need very local predictions. But I live in Florida. Snow is not an issue. I want to know if this afternoon's thunderstorm is going to cross where I'm driving, and I want to know what's up with cloud formation in the eastern Atlantic. The temperature's gonna be the same in all three places: Too Damn Hot.