Indeed. For the past week (entirely related to this being a kicker of a motivation on top of a bunch of other simmering long term concerns over Apple and the t

Indeed. For the past week (entirely related to this being a kicker of a motivation on top of a bunch of other simmering long term concerns over Apple and the tech industry in general), I've been carrying around a Nokia 8110 4G - also known, for very understandable and valid reasons, as "The Bananaphone." It's quite literally curved and bright yellow. The world hasn't ended yet... It's a bit less of a step for me than other people because I'm already pretty cell-phone hostile. My iPhone (I regret buying a 2020 SE to replace my 6S under the assumption that the 6S wouldn't get iOS 15, which it's getting... maybe...) was pretty well nerfed to start with - very few apps, literally the only apps on my homescreen were person to person or group chat apps (Signal, iMessage, Google Chat, and the Element Matrix client, plus phone, browser, and camera in the bottom). Everything else had to live in the app library thing, which increased friction to use it, and I really didn't have much on there. But that has been shut down except for a few 10-15 minute windows the past week, and I've been trying, very hard, to work out the transition back to a "dumbphone" (or, as we used to call them, a cellphone). The main pain point so far is that all my messaging apps used to come to a central point on my phone - so if someone wanted to contact me, it didn't matter what they used, it would ping me if I had my phone on me. Now, that's split (my wife is the main party impacted, I'm pretty high lag on other platforms anyway). If I'm out and about, I can get SMS, but not Matrix/Signal/Chat. If I'm in my office, I can get all of them, but would rather not have a long conversation over T9 - except some of them don't do a great job of notifying me, depending on what machines are running and muted at any given time. Etc. I'm still working this out, and some of it is simple enough - add audio notifications to my "Chat Pi" by wiring in a speaker instead of relying on my phone to chirp if I get a message in Chat or element. That my M1 Mac Mini is going out the door at some point gives me added motivation to solve this. When out and about, I do at least have the option of tethering to the banana - so I could carry some other device that handles more than the phone does (which seriously isn't much). I'm debating between going back to a small tablet (2nd gen Nexus 7 would be a perfect form factor), or something like a YARH (http://yarh.io http://yarh.io) of some variety - a little Pi based mobile computer thing that is exceedingly "We didn't invent smartphones"punk. I'm at a point in my life (professionally, socially, culturally, etc) where I can happily do "You're weird... whatever..." sort of things with regards to technology, and I'm going to pull the thread until I either figure out alternatives, or determine that they simply don't exist and I can't live without them.