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What do you use to communicate with other humans?

by jgrahamc 3y ago

itishappy 3y ago
Mouth. Email and social media still work great on desktops/tablets too!
Kuinox 3y ago
You can speak to them directly.
- dpkirchner 3y ago
  "Last minute change folks, the venue is totally full. We're going to go somewhere else. Fred is still riding in on his penny-farthing -- who wants to call him to let him know? not it"
vouaobrasil 3y ago
Email on a computer? Voice and in person? A telephone that you plug into a wall?
- dbbk 3y ago
  I mean you could still achieve the same thing with an iPhone that's just always kept in Do Not Disturb...
  - basisword 3y ago
    That's a lot of money to spend on such a simple use case.
    - dbbk 3y ago
      "Talking to people" is hardly an insignificant use case
      - basisword 3y ago
        When you can do the same on a computer you likely already own, or on a $50 dumbphone it's an expensive solution to a simple problem.
  - vouaobrasil 3y ago
    Nope. Not at all. The phone is an invasive technology that creeps new features even if its on Do Not Disturb. It has a default set of icons of "Apps" that I don't want to see. I don't want to see a "Podcast" icon or a "Messaging" icon. Nor do I want to go through the trouble of turning it off. New updates may add new distractions that I don't want to see, and in some places, there are "Emergency Alerts" that make an annoying sound even in DND mode. Phones can be used as a tracking device, and are much more likely to be used as such since everyone carries them around. Buying a phone also supports the phone industry, that I do not want to support. It supports more mining and the disposable electronics industry. (Computers are more useful and if you install Linux on them, you can make them last for much longer than a phone.)
    - dbbk 3y ago
      Well you are perfectly free to live your tinfoil hat life without buying one, I guess.
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- jgrahamc 3y ago
  Got it. So you don't use things like WhatsApp. I find WhatsApp and Signal incredibly useful and are probably the biggest reason I use a smart phone.
  - Marsymars 3y ago
    I find those useful too, but use them 99% on a desktop PC. Phone use is relegated to scenarios where there's a message that I'm expecting or need to send that can't wait until I'm home.

What do you use to communicate with other humans?

itishappy 3y ago

Mouth. Email and social media still work great on desktops/tablets too!

Kuinox 3y ago

You can speak to them directly.

dpkirchner 3y ago
"Last minute change folks, the venue is totally full. We're going to go somewhere else. Fred is still riding in on his penny-farthing -- who wants to call him to let him know? not it"

vouaobrasil 3y ago

Email on a computer? Voice and in person? A telephone that you plug into a wall?

dbbk 3y ago
I mean you could still achieve the same thing with an iPhone that's just always kept in Do Not Disturb...
- basisword 3y ago
  That's a lot of money to spend on such a simple use case.
  - dbbk 3y ago
    "Talking to people" is hardly an insignificant use case
    - basisword 3y ago
      When you can do the same on a computer you likely already own, or on a $50 dumbphone it's an expensive solution to a simple problem.
- vouaobrasil 3y ago
  Nope. Not at all. The phone is an invasive technology that creeps new features even if its on Do Not Disturb. It has a default set of icons of "Apps" that I don't want to see. I don't want to see a "Podcast" icon or a "Messaging" icon. Nor do I want to go through the trouble of turning it off. New updates may add new distractions that I don't want to see, and in some places, there are "Emergency Alerts" that make an annoying sound even in DND mode. Phones can be used as a tracking device, and are much more likely to be used as such since everyone carries them around. Buying a phone also supports the phone industry, that I do not want to support. It supports more mining and the disposable electronics industry. (Computers are more useful and if you install Linux on them, you can make them last for much longer than a phone.)
  - dbbk 3y ago
    Well you are perfectly free to live your tinfoil hat life without buying one, I guess.
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jgrahamc 3y ago
Got it. So you don't use things like WhatsApp. I find WhatsApp and Signal incredibly useful and are probably the biggest reason I use a smart phone.
- Marsymars 3y ago
  I find those useful too, but use them 99% on a desktop PC. Phone use is relegated to scenarios where there's a message that I'm expecting or need to send that can't wait until I'm home.