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>When in your 80's you dont need or want the constant nagging of apps pestering you when all you want to do is text and call your family and friends. I'm nowhe
by palmfacehn 3y ago
>When in your 80's you dont need or want the constant nagging of apps pestering you when all you want to do is text and call your family and friends.
I'm nowhere near 80 or retirement and I have the same sentiment. Add datamining concerns to the list. The modern smart phone can stay off my lawn. I get enough Internet here at my desk.
- humpydumpy 3y agoThis. I really like the idea of a pocket supercomputer like modern smartphone hardware. But I despise the software ecosystems that apple and google have built for them, with constant surveillance, lock-in, ads, tracking, horrible UIs and centralization.
- rchaud 3y agoA computer lets you build and run programs directly on device, with no internet. Our phones are closer to Super Nintendos than supercomputers.
- humpydumpy 3y agoTrue. I like the analogy. The sad thing is that this is purely a software limitation. The hardware would be capable of so much more, it is more powerful than desktop computers of just a couple of years ago.
- EasyMark 3y agofor the way I use computers these days, it could very easily replace my laptop with a proper monitor and docking solution (but not my tower server/gaming machine)
- Goronmon 3y agoOur phones are closer to Super Nintendos than supercomputers. I think you have the relationship reversed. Supercomputers are closer to Super Nintendos than smartphones.
- EasyMark 3y agoyeah mine was a way to build anxiety via doom scrolling and downloading time wasting games. When I'm on a laptop/desktop, I'm usually actually working or killing time, but since I don't have one with me at all times, it's much easier to limit time wastage.
- WillAdams 3y agoWhen I first got my first cell phone (a Samsung Galaxy Note 10+), I found the idea of multiple pages of apps off-putting, so deleted everything which didn't seem necessary, and what couldn't be deleted moved into the various extant folders. I've kept with this since, and hope to never need another phone (when this one dies, I'll just get a small camera, or a tablet with a rear camera).
- EasyMark 3y agoi'm of the same mind. I set limits. I don't play games on my phone (except maybe in exceptional circumstances like on an airplane) and I don't use it for social media (only exception is facebook messenger because so many family members use it). I find when I draw fences around things like that it helps a lot to get back time from time stealing activities. I treat my phone as a tool and not as entertainment, otherwise I'd be spending all my free time doom scrolling and playing puzzle games on it. yeah I used to do that a few years back until I cataloged my hours and it was truly scary how much time was wasted.
- palmfacehn 3y agoThese are sane limitations. They should be understood in the same way as basic health axioms. Digital gluttony has been normalized.