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It's interesting to see the rationalization. "Just don't use it, plus good phone habits" What about value added uses for the phone? I looked up how to harvest
by deregulateMed 5y ago
It's interesting to see the rationalization.
"Just don't use it, plus good phone habits"
What about value added uses for the phone? I looked up how to harvest basil today and watched a 60 second YouTube video. Or reading an encyclopedia. Or fixing a car.
None of those are bad phone habits. And those previously mentioned don't necessarily have the luxury of wifi.
- MarkusWandel 5y agoI have a gigabyte of backup data for stuff like that; it costs $30 but you can use it up as slowly as you want (once you deplete your 250MB). I find it super annoying that low bandwidth information (i.e. a paragraph or two of text) has been replaced by ad-riddled Youtube videos! I've been able to avoid this usage pattern while on mobile data, but I can see that not everyone feels they can. Wikipedia is lightweight, no problem on frugal data.
- TMWNN 5y ago>It's interesting to see the rationalization. >"Just don't use it, plus good phone habits" Agreed. For a couple of years I had 1-5GB mobile plans, often free (thanks to the late great RingPlus). I never used more than 1-2GB a month so they were quite sufficient for my needs. I then got unlimited service from Sprint (thanks to the late great free unlimited year offer). My usage patterns did not change. To my surprise, however, I found that no longer having to think about the usage limit—even if the limit was never a real problem before—perceptibly eased my daily life.