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I'm a sysadmin so hardly an IT Luddite, I do my best to NOT use any smartphone, I own some, only one maintained just because my old Nokia can't be used anymore
by kkfx 4y ago
I'm a sysadmin so hardly an IT Luddite, I do my best to NOT use any smartphone, I own some, only one maintained just because my old Nokia can't be used anymore lacking GSM SIM cards and even decent GSM coverage where I live, normally left unseen when at home (WFH) or in sort-distance trips where I do not need decent car navigation etc. People can reach me via mail, various VoIP lines on a home PBX with various filtering/redirection rules and I'm VERY happy of that even if so many crush my ** trying pushing me toward WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, $PickAProprietaryServiceNameAtRandom.
BUT I start seeing more and more third parties "choices" that need to be ANNIHILATED with all the strength needed, nuclear bombs included, forcing me on a mobile:
- banks who pretend a crapplication is needed to access they crappy porcals (portals are another thing) while we have OFX&c since decades so even no need at all of a portal and far more secure physical OTP logins where a time-based attack is just theoretical while the large set of craphones vulnerabilities might easily allow to made a transfer to some exotic place on my behalf and I have nothing to prove that's no me...
- cars, EVs in particular (GRRTRRRRRE£$*"£y$"%"), their public-private charging infra (&$"&t$"£$"£$"!!!!) who do their best to force MULTIPLE crapplications to do absolutely dumb things that does not need nor benefit from such approach at all (except of course for the sake of surveillance capitalism)...
- PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONS who do their best to tie public services/mandatory acts like paying taxes, to craphones and crapplications with a craploads of ridiculous excuses...
And so on. Long story short, YES cut the tie to the genital with the macrospy/electronic anklet of the condemned, without being one of them is SOOO good, and it's even easy if we are not so much intoxicated by modern chem-less drugs BUT many do their best to impose such tie, you like it or not and that's the real battle we need to win for the sake of civilization.