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‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 168 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

There should be a warning label on any establishment or product that requires a smartphone to use.

[–] [email protected] 96 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (4 children)

How about this:

At the apartments I recently moved out of, there were no quarter slots on the washing machines. They were an app that required a bluetooth connection to pay.

So if you lived there and didn't have a smartphone? Go fuck yourself, you don't get to do laundry.

Unless you bothered to check the laundry room when you were looking at the apartment, you wouldn't know. No warnings.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Tbf, my building also uses an app for laundry. However they also have a machine in the laundry rooms where you can purchase an NFC payment card and put money on it. So you can use it without the app. Is that not the case with yours? If not, that's 100% fucked

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

That depends a bit on if it was advertised or not to have a laundry room. At least here in NL it is more common to have your own washing machine than to use a shared one so having a laundry room would be an extra to start with.

Still sucks though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

quarter slots on the washing machines

Thank god they decided to keep these free where I live

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

That...

Is that not illegal where you live?