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You can't deposit a check or order a cab with a dumb phone either. Might as well put Calyx on something and at least have Firefox and OpenStreetMap.
by pkulak 4y ago
You can't deposit a check or order a cab with a dumb phone either. Might as well put Calyx on something and at least have Firefox and OpenStreetMap.
- rebeccaskinner 4y agoI've thought about going down that path, and I still might, but at the moment I'm very frustrated by the state of hardware and general support for a lot of the user and privacy respecting options to the point where it's hard to believe it'll actually be worth my time to try to get something like that set up.
- Tijdreiziger 4y agoI want to be able to (among other things) order cabs and deposit checks using my smartphone, though. (Well, maybe not that last one, seeing as checks don’t exist here in the Netherlands anymore.) Going back a decade in terms of functionality is hardly an answer.
- pessimizer 4y agoIt definitely is an answer, since there haven't been any major advances in cellphones over the last 10 years, but it really depends on how much you actually hate advertising.
- nehal3m 4y agoIronic nickname then :)
- Grustaf 4y agoWhy can't you call a cab with a dumb phone?
- rezonant 4y agoJust today my friend was telling me a story of the end of a night out in downtown LA, ready to go home to the west side when he realized that he was out of high speed data (he's on a legacy Verizon plan) and he might not have sufficient data speed to order an Uber. Apparently Uber worked just fine (probably a network "management" deal), but he was quite worried he wouldn't be able to get home if he couldn't order an Uber. I did point out that it is in fact possible to order a cab using a telephone call.
- aembleton 4y agoYes, if you have a taxi company phone number handy.