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Periodic reminder that this effectively means your landlord is mandating that you accept either Google's or Apple's terms of service.
by ryukafalz 4y ago
Periodic reminder that this effectively means your landlord is mandating that you accept either Google's or Apple's terms of service.
- Gigachad 4y agoThe boat has sailed. These days mandatory government apps are being hosted on the App and Play store. In Australia when I traveled interstate, I was required to install a government app to “confirm I didn’t have covid symptoms” daily with the threat of sending the police to your house if you don’t comply.
- HWR_14 4y agoThere are no mandatory government apps I am aware of. Not in the US.
- hedora 4y agoGood luck parking around here without park mobile installed on your phone.
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- HWR_14 4y ago1) parkmobile has a website version 2) parkmobile has meter boxes you can pay at near any available parking
- judge2020 4y agoParkmobile's landing page seems to show a kiosk that doesn't have any way to pay with cash or coins - https://parkmobile.io/parking-solutions/payments/ https://parkmobile.io/parking-solutions/payments/
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- Izkata 4y agoApparently you can pay by phone, but you have to register an account in advance: https://support.parkmobile.io/hc/en-us/articles/204473540-Can-I-use-Parkmobile-if-I-don-t-have-a-smartphone- https://support.parkmobile.io/hc/en-us/articles/204473540-Ca...
- HWR_14 4y agoI do believe you need a card to use their boxes. Yes, I oppose that.
- hedora 4y agoThey don’t have the boxes around here. You can pay with quarters, but it’s over a roll of quarters for one day’s parking, and I’ve never seen a meter maid empty a meter. So, where would it store the quarters if people actually paid with them?
- jcpst 4y agoHow long has parking been something that needed an app?
- Gigachad 4y agoI’ve seen private car parks which charge extra for using the machine instead of the app. Clearly trying to phase out the machine. The new government owned machines in my city also switched to being card only.
- sakras 4y agoNot sure how it is elsewhere, but at least in Seattle we always have pay stations set up anywhere you have to pay to park. The pay by phone app is merely a convenience, and isn’t required at all.
- kennywinker 4y agoDriving isn't a mandatory activity
- culi 4y agoThat's silly. Is being able to pay rent mandatory? I guess you can always CHOOSE to be homeless, right?
- kennywinker 4y agoEveryone needs a place to live. Somewhere in the zone of 30% of people in the US over the age of 16 don't have a driver's license. The percentage that use that license regularly is going to be much much lower.
- culi 4y agoI'm not saying everyone needs to drive. I'm pointing out that you're saying that NO ONE _needs_ to drive. There's clearly many people who don't get to WFH or simply live in the majority of the US where public transportation is crap
- hedora 4y agoThis is like arguing that you don’t need to drive because you can just hire a chauffeur. Walkable / public transit-accessible housing is far more expensive than urban sprawl housing.
- ryukafalz 4y ago> Walkable / public transit-accessible housing is far more expensive than urban sprawl housing. Not where I live? If you search Zillow for apartments below $1000/month and center the map on Philadelphia, you'll see some in the suburbs, but overwhelmingly they're in the city.
- kennywinker 4y ago
- kennywinker 4y agoAccording to here https://www.health.gov.au/health-alerts/covid-19/domestic-travel https://www.health.gov.au/health-alerts/covid-19/domestic-tr... there are no longer any restrictions on interstate travel related to covid. Rounding a temporary restriction during a crisis up to "that boat has sailed" seems overly dramatic.
- Schroedingersat 4y agoIt still mandated that you sign a contract with one of those two companies giving up your right to privacy.
- kennywinker 4y agoMandated, if you wanted/needed to travel during a pandemic.
- Schroedingersat 4y agoAnd de facto mandated if you wanted to enter a shop to get food or groceries. The law said they had to provide a paper sign in, but the only way to get one was to argue with the poor minimum wage worker who had no idea what you were talking about until you got a manager who would just tell you to leave half the time.
- kiawe_fire 4y agoSo requiring people accept Google or Apple’s terms and conditions and being forced to own and use one of their products, on a whim, during a crisis, is less egregious than doing so long term? “That ship has sailed” essentially means that it has already happened, and precedent has been set. Which… it has. That it was (initially) done as a temporary measure doesn’t change that.
- kennywinker 4y ago> on a whim it wasn't on a whim. > ... is less egregious than doing so long term? obviously it is, yes. For example, plenty of people just avoided travel during that time and managed to not have to use an app. If it was ongoing that wouldn't be the case. The precedent that has been set is: if there is ever another crisis of that scale, using a smartphone app to try to mitigate it is one of the options on the table. That doesn't seem like a bad thing to me.
- dnissley 4y agoIf we're getting technical you can at least run the android app on a de-googled android device, assuming it doesn't require play services.