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This is what I want to do, but as a husband, father, homeowner, etc, I find it is not in my best interest to be unreachable by phone. So I think about carrying
by alanbernstein 2y ago
This is what I want to do, but as a husband, father, homeowner, etc, I find it is not in my best interest to be unreachable by phone.
So I think about carrying a flip phone for my telephone, an e-reader for entertainment, and a smartphone in airplane mode for (mainly) maps, photos, music, notes. But then I'd be carrying three devices, which seems worse in its own way.
Probably worth the change ultimately?
- myself248 2y agoIt drives me NUTS that nobody makes a decent e-ink device with a GPS app. It seems like it'd be ideal for the backcountry use-case. Super long battery life because you could just wake up the GPS every few hours and get a new fix, reframe the map, then go back to sleep and use the latent image like a topo map.
- dleink 2y agoI have a few use cases like this that would go towards replacing my phone. I'm on the lookout for a hackable/linux ereader.
- myself248 2y agoI thought the reMarkable was that, but they hardware-disabled the Bluetooth radio in the wifi/bt chipset, and that really wrecked most of my use-cases.