The trick is to never start. In the early noughties I had saved a woman from being hit by a train: she had been texting and walking without minding her surroun

The trick is to never start. In the early noughties I had saved a woman from being hit by a train: she had been texting and walking without minding her surroundings. That scared me, and I vowed to never become like her. I got my first and only smartphone in 2020, mostly to get a inexpensive, decent digital camera — because simple cameras that are not smartphones are not made any more. I had been evaluating different models for several months, and mostly been disappointed with how bad the smartphone landscape is compared to computers. I chose the one I thought was the least bad (Google Pixel 4a). The biggest problem I have had without a cellphone is with other people who just blatantly make assumptions about how I have/use it. I had to start using SIM cards in late 2022 only for 2FA to my online health records.