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Here's a hot take: most people (hell, me included) don't want to stop using their smartphone.

• vouaobrasil 2y ago
  Of course not, because it's an addiction. Drug users say the same.
  • braymundo 2y ago
    Or maybe because it's an incredibly useful device that provides an interface to almost everything in modern life.
    • vouaobrasil 2y ago
      It's only useful because communites and local resources have first been destroyed by technology. After that, technology produces things to make us dependent on it. Modern life is a disaster as all of it is based on destroying the biosphere with unsustainable technological growth.
      • braymundo 2y ago
        And here you are on Hacker News.
        • vouaobrasil 2y ago
          Of course. I come here to express my view about technology, and refine my arguments against it. What better place than the lion's den?
          • throwanem 2y ago
            Is that what you imagine yourself to be doing here? - refining an argument? Thus far in this thread you seem struggling even to make one. The repeated insistence that, rather than participate in society, people prefer a remote cabin in Montana and all correspondence by parcel post, doesn't come close to qualifying.
            • vouaobrasil 2y ago
              Thanks for your feedback.
  • TillE 2y ago
    It's a portable computer that does a bunch of useful things. I really don't understand the fraught relationship some people have with their phones. Just don't install social media apps and other time-wasters?