Sometimes I think if this stuff ever got really bad, abandoning smart phones altogether wouldn’t be so bad. I’m already taking most photos with a dedicated dig

Sometimes I think if this stuff ever got really bad, abandoning smart phones altogether wouldn’t be so bad. I’m already taking most photos with a dedicated digital camera and they are so much better than phone captured images. I hate social media these days and am waiting to give myself a reason to delete all the apps and my accounts entirely. The internet is a shithole, most my search is done through LLMs and my interaction with people is through comment sections. I have no interest in being in group chats, I’d rather meet up with people in person and socialize that way. It’s not the end of the world if smartphones just become a convenient way for governments to track you, there is totally a different way to live without them, and maybe it’s simple and beautiful. If you really have a serious use case for peer to peer end to end encryption, you should be using something like Meshtastic.