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As if phones weren't already full of ads anyway.
All the more reason to use a custom OS.
Feels like a weird strategy after the past few years have been about unlocking your phone as quickly as possible (via fingerprint or face scan), and with Google having removed the ability to place widgets on the lockscreen over security concerns...
man, I miss lockscreen widgets. imagine how cool would they be with something like KWGT!
This is a good reason for using a custom ROM.
I'll have to get this one out again (it still has some battery, I think). Anyway I give the smartphone not much more use than with this one.
Easy, do not use a smartphone.
Good luck, smartphones are integrated so deeply into modern society that it can feel impossible to get by without one.
A better solution is government regulation of the advertising industry, and free software alternatives that are designed using humane technology principles.
I'm using a dumbphone for a year and lost nothing.
Depends on where you live. Not everyone lives where you do.
Where you can live with a dumbphone in your opinion and where you cannot?
Just a few weeks ago I used a dumbphone for 2 days in the US.
During that time
I gave up using a dumbphone after only 2 days because smartphones are integrated so deeply into modern society that it felt prohibitively difficult to function without one where I live in the United States. Everywhere a person goes it is assumed they have a smartphone on them, so anyone without a smartphone needs to find workarounds for simple tasks and is forced to navigate dozens of inconveniences every day.
I am spoiled and addicted to the convenience that smartphones provide, but my experience persuaded me that systemic changes, instead of individual choices, are necessary to ultimately solve these problems. Evidently, it can not be expected that a significant portion of the public will choose to abstain from the convenience smartphones offer even when they are educated about the harms caused by smartphones. Therefore, the only solution I can imagine is regulation to mitigate those harms, and humane technology design that solves the problems of profit-maximizing technology design.
I heard a song on the radio and I could not use Shazam to identify it.
It is so sad that you have been through that.
Hearing a song I liked and missing the opportunity to listen to it again later is not a serious issue, just another piece of straw on the camels back.
My point is that a lot of little inconveniences add up to a significant life-style change, especially when the end-user is supposed to choose that life-style change.
got you
So tragic
The US public library services' reliance on Overdrive, Libby, Hoopla, Kanopy, etc. is unfortunate, as they often only support Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android, and even then, only with the official Chrome, Firefox, or Safari builds.
Additionally, a fair selection of the library's ebooks are often only offered as one of either Adobe Digital Editions or Kindle, both of which are mutually exclusive formats as I understand it.
I hope public libraries in other countries are somewhat less restrictive in their online offerings. My university library uses O'Reilly, which caters to browsers and operating systems without DRM or even JavaScript.
Re: radio--it's nearly always possible to see the day's playlist on the station's website.
But to add another point, navigation is a chore. It is now expected that everyone can use Google Maps to chart an effective route anywhere at all times. This becomes even more difficult for places with which one is less familiar.
I think it mostly depends on your habits and daily routines, of course dumbphone is changing a lot, but also freeing you from many useless activities.
Oh come on, are you doing this again? Ask for a list of things that people want to use a smartphone for, then dismiss them all outright as useless trivialities?
Should I ask you for a permission the next time I feel I have to do this again?
I'll put it this way. You have twice asked the same question, then people spend a fair bit of time answering your question. You then dismiss them in a one sentence reply that doesn't even address their comment. It's inconsiderate to ask a question like that if you don't actually care about the answer.
Your rage covers the eyes. Where you have seen in this thread me asking such a question? The only question I asked was related to a location where people can or cannot live without a smartphone ;)
So you wanted people to not explain themselves?
I have never asked about this it's up to everyone. The only answer I got is USA is a wrong place for people with dumbphones. I was pretty surprised honestly.
Do you like to bully people like that? :)
If you want another location, China's cities. Almost all transactions are done via mobile payment systems.
You've had two people independently think that you wanted a "why". If you don't care about the "why" component (which seems the case), then maybe clarify the question so people don't waste half an hour on a post you'll mostly ignore?
Just accept the reality, you have misread the question. Please don't waste our time for this discussion. Just let it go.
PS China is a good point.
@sexy_peach The day that my phone becomes user-hostile is the day that I drop it to pick up something more open like a PinePhone. I've gone through the headaches of using FOSS stuff before it was ready for prime time before and I can do it again.