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Everyone on HN is no doubt sitting there nodding along sagely but there’s also a pretty good bet that 90% of us (nerdy, apparently in-the-know tech types) have
by dmje 7y ago
Everyone on HN is no doubt sitting there nodding along sagely but there’s also a pretty good bet that 90% of us (nerdy, apparently in-the-know tech types) have done very little to think about cutting down on smartphone use. It’s the single biggest surveillance vector (a device that you carry everywhere that knows where you are and reports your habits into a data store we know pretty much nothing about!), but we all now assume - hilariously, in my opinion - that we “couldn’t live without our phones”.
Personally I think the battle is totally lost until people start actually thinking about the negative impact of these devices, both from a surveillance POV and a wellbeing one.
- fsflover 7y agoOnce Librem 5 is ready, this problem will be solved for many nerdy people here. It's just the lack of choice now.
- dmje 7y agoLooks pretty sweet until you get to the $750. I went Nokia 3310, a snip at $65 :-)
- isDiscardable 7y agoFreedom is priceless.
- clay10 7y agoWhat about the Librem 5 would make you less trackable?
- fsflover 7y agoAt least the lack of built-in tracking. In addition, the (theoretical) possibility to install any anti-tracking apps available for GNU/Linux.
- kenjackson 7y agoYou assume people haven’t already done the cost-benefit analysis. Just like they have for driving cars, salt, and windows.