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I have mobile internet since 2001. Those dumbphones had access to the full internet, not just WAP. Mobile internet was not a mistake, we just started to use it

by ruszki 2y ago

I have mobile internet since 2001. Those dumbphones had access to the full internet, not just WAP. Mobile internet was not a mistake, we just started to use it wrongly. It's your choice to not use it to browse internet aimlessly. It's your choice to make yourself available all the time. You can definitely use it how I did for more than a decade before everybody realized what being always online means. It definitely improved my productivity before that, but it's true that the added benefit is about flat in the past decade.

AdamJacobMuller 2y ago
I don't think it's that we use it wrong exactly. I'm not trying to judge anyone who spends hours of time on Instagram sending photos or scrolling X. I 100% agree that if I was doing those things, they would be wrong for me so I avoid doing them. I don't like people who say "I don't like when I do this thing, so, this thing should not be available for people to do!" I equally don't like people who say "I don't like when other people do this thing, so, this thing should not be available for people to do!" I know that social media is designed to be addictive. This is why I'm mostly absent from it for most of my life. If you use and enjoy social media and it brings joy to your life, great, have fun. It wasn't doing that for me (or more directly, I realized very early on it was going down a bad path) so I cut it out. If you're lamenting social media and bothered by how much time you spend on it, or how it negatively impacts your life, or whatever: I am definitely going to advocate to you that you do simply have the option to turn it off. Life will move on! You can also have a smart phone and not feel the need to immediately respond to every text message, nor, click every notification. You can even choose to not pick up phone calls if you want. In the past decade while the reality of mobile connectivity hasn't changed much, the quality and ubiquity of it has improved dramatically. 10 years ago I would have agreed that in most places it was possible to get some form of internet connectivity, today, it's deeply unusual to travel anywhere in the USA and not get >100Mbit on LTE with "good enough" latency.
- ruszki 2y ago
  There are a lot of places without LTE coverage: https://fcc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=6c1b2e73d9d749cdb7bc88a0d1bdd25b https://fcc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=... Of course, most people goes to places with coverage, but for example if you travel between population centers (cities, towns, etc), then it's quite frequent that you don't have internet, or just terrible one. Especially if you're on a train which insulates somewhat, and of course speed is also a degrading factor.

by ruszki 2y ago

AdamJacobMuller 2y ago

I don't think it's that we use it wrong exactly. I'm not trying to judge anyone who spends hours of time on Instagram sending photos or scrolling X. I 100% agree that if I was doing those things, they would be wrong for me so I avoid doing them. I don't like people who say "I don't like when I do this thing, so, this thing should not be available for people to do!" I equally don't like people who say "I don't like when other people do this thing, so, this thing should not be available for people to do!" I know that social media is designed to be addictive. This is why I'm mostly absent from it for most of my life. If you use and enjoy social media and it brings joy to your life, great, have fun. It wasn't doing that for me (or more directly, I realized very early on it was going down a bad path) so I cut it out. If you're lamenting social media and bothered by how much time you spend on it, or how it negatively impacts your life, or whatever: I am definitely going to advocate to you that you do simply have the option to turn it off. Life will move on! You can also have a smart phone and not feel the need to immediately respond to every text message, nor, click every notification. You can even choose to not pick up phone calls if you want. In the past decade while the reality of mobile connectivity hasn't changed much, the quality and ubiquity of it has improved dramatically. 10 years ago I would have agreed that in most places it was possible to get some form of internet connectivity, today, it's deeply unusual to travel anywhere in the USA and not get >100Mbit on LTE with "good enough" latency.

ruszki 2y ago
There are a lot of places without LTE coverage: https://fcc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=6c1b2e73d9d749cdb7bc88a0d1bdd25b https://fcc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=... Of course, most people goes to places with coverage, but for example if you travel between population centers (cities, towns, etc), then it's quite frequent that you don't have internet, or just terrible one. Especially if you're on a train which insulates somewhat, and of course speed is also a degrading factor.