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My approach is to try to use my phone as little as possible, no particular setup. Before you root your phone, mind the fact that some banks will not let you use

My approach is to try to use my phone as little as possible, no particular setup. Before you root your phone, mind the fact that some banks will not let you use Mobile Banking which for me is very inconvenient. This made me unroot my iPhone since there were no Cydia Tweaks for my bank app, but I regularly save my SHSH2 blobs just in case something decent appears and I get passionate about rooted phones. You can consider the idea of not using a phone at all, which may be the most aligned with what seem to be your values regarding tech. If you don't, then look into phones on which you can install LineageOS or even PINEPHONEs. Mental Outlaw[1] has some helpful videos on YouTube on some of these topics. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThsXFPC-_60 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThsXFPC-_60

fuzzfactor 5y ago
>My approach is to try to use my phone as little as possible Me too. Since the early Motorola and Sony-Ericsson smartphones, what made a smartphone smart was that it would communicate with a PC over infrared and later USB, allowing external storage (if not also removable internal memorysticks) and filehandling using the manufacturers' PC software as well as serving as a general purpose virtual modem so you could directly call in to your ISP (like AOL) from a PC using only your cellular signal. Even on a phone which had a monochrome screen and was too weak to browse the internet or get email itself. This is of course before "data plans" existed. So they had not yet introduced the nomenclature of "tethering", where the former ability of the carrier's smartphones to connect over USB would after that be subject to additional charges or disavowed altogether. Before that connecting over USB was not tethering, connecting over USB was normal. And as years went by when it arrived even the 2G location coverage remained well behind what was available previously dial uppable. Most people didn't realize good analog cellphone modems ran at about twice the 56K speed of landlines, which actually worked pretty good. Broadband wasn't really that hot back then itself, nor as ubiquitous as now. If you went to a place where they still only had a dialup landline, your smartphone could often be twice as fast. So if you wanted you could still get a battery-powered computer online with only a battery-powered phone just about anywhere even while 2G and 3G people were still restricted to big cities. And no smartphone failed to have a removable battery which the user can change quickly & easily. With Apples and touchscreeens in general people tended to accept a less-flexible and also less-cost-effective approach to electronics. With more of the anti-reuse-&-recycling approach baked in, which can truly be made to sell more electronics than superior engineering sometimes. People do get the advantage of having a much more powerful hand-held device, but other than being hand-held it's not really enough for businesspeople who need to run traditional Windows programs anyway. For that a laptop with a SIM card slot is good. I also find that with so many other people on their phones so much, there should theoretically be far less need for me to be on mine, so have consciously cut back to the point of insignificance by comparison. The waste/reward ratio each year is just so much worse than what I had become accustomed to it's truly less satisfying than ever. Plus when I'm mobile I don't want to be sporadically immobilized by too much information when I should probably be moving more steadily toward my destination instead. The time I don't spend touching a screen could give me an unfair advantage starting my next company, or maybe even make the difference whether it would be possible or not. Without actually trying to set an example myself, that was pointed out to some of our chemists, and before long I noticed some curtailment among them which could be a good sign of someone who could be a more worthwhile recruit in the future. It seems so much smarter this way.

fuzzfactor 5y ago

>My approach is to try to use my phone as little as possible Me too. Since the early Motorola and Sony-Ericsson smartphones, what made a smartphone smart was that it would communicate with a PC over infrared and later USB, allowing external storage (if not also removable internal memorysticks) and filehandling using the manufacturers' PC software as well as serving as a general purpose virtual modem so you could directly call in to your ISP (like AOL) from a PC using only your cellular signal. Even on a phone which had a monochrome screen and was too weak to browse the internet or get email itself. This is of course before "data plans" existed. So they had not yet introduced the nomenclature of "tethering", where the former ability of the carrier's smartphones to connect over USB would after that be subject to additional charges or disavowed altogether. Before that connecting over USB was not tethering, connecting over USB was normal. And as years went by when it arrived even the 2G location coverage remained well behind what was available previously dial uppable. Most people didn't realize good analog cellphone modems ran at about twice the 56K speed of landlines, which actually worked pretty good. Broadband wasn't really that hot back then itself, nor as ubiquitous as now. If you went to a place where they still only had a dialup landline, your smartphone could often be twice as fast. So if you wanted you could still get a battery-powered computer online with only a battery-powered phone just about anywhere even while 2G and 3G people were still restricted to big cities. And no smartphone failed to have a removable battery which the user can change quickly & easily. With Apples and touchscreeens in general people tended to accept a less-flexible and also less-cost-effective approach to electronics. With more of the anti-reuse-&-recycling approach baked in, which can truly be made to sell more electronics than superior engineering sometimes. People do get the advantage of having a much more powerful hand-held device, but other than being hand-held it's not really enough for businesspeople who need to run traditional Windows programs anyway. For that a laptop with a SIM card slot is good. I also find that with so many other people on their phones so much, there should theoretically be far less need for me to be on mine, so have consciously cut back to the point of insignificance by comparison. The waste/reward ratio each year is just so much worse than what I had become accustomed to it's truly less satisfying than ever. Plus when I'm mobile I don't want to be sporadically immobilized by too much information when I should probably be moving more steadily toward my destination instead. The time I don't spend touching a screen could give me an unfair advantage starting my next company, or maybe even make the difference whether it would be possible or not. Without actually trying to set an example myself, that was pointed out to some of our chemists, and before long I noticed some curtailment among them which could be a good sign of someone who could be a more worthwhile recruit in the future. It seems so much smarter this way.