Posted on 01/24/2022 1:06:47 PM PST by nickcarraway
Here’s a simple trick to make your expensive smart phone a lot dumber. Hold your finger over each of the app tiles until you see the “uninstall” selection. Press this and the annoying apps will go away.
It’s kind of like the scene in “2001:Space Odyssey” when Dave starts disconnecting HAL’s brain. You can keep “Phone” and “Maps” and maybe your bank app, but the rest are just time killers. You don’t even need the email app but that’s a hard one to drop if you are severely addicted.
I am grateful to still have my landline . . . have misplaced two tracphones in the last year that were supposed to be used for emergencies. You can’t find anyone in the phone book anymore. I think it was on purpose. I used it to contact people, send cards, etc. Don’t twitter, tweet, facebook, etc. and I manage.
My answer : Location services off, vpn on, No email or financial apps on the phone, Only people in my contact list can make calls, all others to voicemail that tells any and all If you are trying to sell me something or tell me something political I WILL NOT CALL YOU BACK.
In the movie The Princess Bride, Peter Faulk’s character says to his grandson “In my day, television was called books”.
>I finally switched from a flip phone to a smart phone when my carrier dropped 3G.
>The flipper was light and easy to carry. It’s a love/hate thing with the smart phone.
They’re back - https://sunbeamwireless.com/
Hey, I’m ahead of my time.
I was on my mobile at a playground with the kids and I looked up and every single parent - there was up to 20 - were looking at their phones, just scrolling away,” she says.
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She plans to use the time gained from quitting her smartphone to read and sleep more.
So she will bury her head in a book while at the playground ...
“There was a time when reading wasn’t just for fags. And neither was writing. People wrote books and movies. Movies with stories, that made you care about whose ass it was and why it was farting.”
-President Not Sure (Idiocracy)
...or possibly interacting with their kids, having good oldfashioned fun?
That’s the only reason I switched.
I looked around and could not find another carrier.
Nokia has a 4G 6300 phone, like the old style candy bar phones.
You can’t. With cellphone carriers turning off 2G and 3G networks, old phones are useless. In fact, even old iPhones older than the iPhone 5 are useless now.
I still have our Motorola Star-Tacs.
I once accidentally backed over mine with a Toyota 4Runner and it was just fine.
/plus, the X Files factor
I have found working with the younger generation they are VERY MUCH lacking in the personality department all of them just seem SO FLAT!! I feel sorry for them!!
I like a smartphone when I need directions in a city/place I’ve never been before. I find the directions are usually outstanding and I can plug in my phone to my truck and see the map as well.
Once in a great while I use the browser. And I can get good weather information - when will the 25 mph winds drop to 10, or when should the rains hit/end.
But I’d be very happy with a good PHONE with text for 95% of my use. Save the iPhone for when I travel. I just haven’t found any SMALL but easy to use minimalist phones.
I’ve noticed the phenomenon - almost all people are unable to be alone with themselves, and need the feedback and confirmation from the electronic device.
I admit the need and convenience of having one’s personal portable telephone, and the ability to text, available at all times. As a safety issue, the portable phone is a live-saver.
But it looks like millions are using the portable device to escape from interacting with people around them. This is not normal. Homo sapiens is the one species that owes its survivability to its ability to talk with other humans and to exchange highly detailed information with those it interacts with.
The need to escape from the humans that surround one says a lot about the deterioration of our civilization.
I still have only a land line. I sit on the end of the couch...all cozy...and we talk and talk and that’s the way we like it.
Modern cellphones are full time tracking devices with government accessible audio and video .
Thanks for the link.
The price is right, I paid double that for a new iphone 6s last year.
A couple of years ago, shortly before all of this Covid cr@p, I met some friends at a restaurant for dinner. I forgot my phone; I had left it on the charger at home.
We got talking about a barbecue we’d all attended about a year before and one of my friends asked me if I still had the pictures I had taken that day. I said I did, but they were on my phone which I’d left at home.
Another one of my friends was shocked. “You forgot it and didn’t go back to get it??” he asked. “Aren’t you freaking out?”
I laughed. “Not at all. I forget it all the time.” (The only way I would have gone back for it was if I hadn’t known where the restaurant was. My sense of direction sucks.)
It’s sad how some people are so addicted that the can’t walk away from their phones for a couple of hours.
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