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I stopped reading when he started talking about using a credit card instead of Apple Pay. Lost me on the benefits of not needing to charge his card and how nice

I stopped reading when he started talking about using a credit card instead of Apple Pay. Lost me on the benefits of not needing to charge his card and how nice it is to have the plastic in his hand. Not only would I rather have the protections Apple Pay offers but if you want to disconnect that badly just use cash. Heck, stop carrying a phone. Richard Stallman even talks about how cell phones are surveillance devices: https://stallman.org/rms-lifestyle.html https://stallman.org/rms-lifestyle.html He’s not wrong. Most people don’t know to care and many people who know don’t care. Welcome to 1984 in 2020.

waste_monk 6y ago
>Most people don’t know to care and many people who know don’t care I know, and I'd rather not have a phone at all (I used to use it extensively to read ebooks, but have since moved to a dedicated e-ink reader), but it's hard to participate in modern society without one. RMS is in the position to do so because he has various assistants and means of dealing with his personal quirks - people are aware of this and work around him. But RMS is a celebrity - if I refused to own a mobile phone and something went wrong at work while I was on-call and away from my house I'd be in deep trouble.