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I long for a dumber phone, but I’ve been thinking about all the supplementary devices I’d need to buy to make up for it — basically a printer (+ ink) for ticket

I long for a dumber phone, but I’ve been thinking about all the supplementary devices I’d need to buy to make up for it — basically a printer (+ ink) for tickets and a GPS device with car ride services and google maps built in for getting around. I _feel_ as though I need those things, at any rate.

TacticalCoder 4y ago
> I’ve been thinking about all the supplementary devices I’d need to buy to make up for it — basically a printer (+ ink) for tickets and a GPS device with car ride services and google maps built in for getting around. I've got a printer at home. Sister in law printed a plane ticket on it the other day, just in case there'd be an issue with her phone. Instead of "GPS device + car ride services" I've got an old-fashioned thing: a car. The car happens to have its own GPS so I can get around. It may not suit everybody of course.
- setgree 4y ago
  I am with you until the car bit, but I live in Brooklyn and haven’t driven in years. Google Maps is essential for me, I fear
  - dbalatero 4y ago
    I'm also in Brooklyn. Light Phone 2 has directions including MTA transit. For tickets, I do print them out. Sometimes I'll draw a little map for fun and use that instead of the phone directions, for simple things. Once I draw the map I find that I actually memorize 90% of it anyways and often don't end up looking at it. As for car ride services, I just stopped using them except for super essential times, at which point I can pull my iPhone out of a drawer.
SoftTalker 4y ago
You can have a tablet in the car for maps and use the phone's hotspot feature to connect it (or download the maps in advance if you think about it). But that's still two devices instead of one, which ends up being more complicated, not less.
- rtontic 4y ago
  But hey, it is more redundant in a way. Your phone broke/battery emptied? You still have your trusty gps device.

TacticalCoder 4y ago

> I’ve been thinking about all the supplementary devices I’d need to buy to make up for it — basically a printer (+ ink) for tickets and a GPS device with car ride services and google maps built in for getting around. I've got a printer at home. Sister in law printed a plane ticket on it the other day, just in case there'd be an issue with her phone. Instead of "GPS device + car ride services" I've got an old-fashioned thing: a car. The car happens to have its own GPS so I can get around. It may not suit everybody of course.

setgree 4y ago
I am with you until the car bit, but I live in Brooklyn and haven’t driven in years. Google Maps is essential for me, I fear
- dbalatero 4y ago
  I'm also in Brooklyn. Light Phone 2 has directions including MTA transit. For tickets, I do print them out. Sometimes I'll draw a little map for fun and use that instead of the phone directions, for simple things. Once I draw the map I find that I actually memorize 90% of it anyways and often don't end up looking at it. As for car ride services, I just stopped using them except for super essential times, at which point I can pull my iPhone out of a drawer.

SoftTalker 4y ago

You can have a tablet in the car for maps and use the phone's hotspot feature to connect it (or download the maps in advance if you think about it). But that's still two devices instead of one, which ends up being more complicated, not less.

rtontic 4y ago
But hey, it is more redundant in a way. Your phone broke/battery emptied? You still have your trusty gps device.