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Ditch the phone. The liability, tracking and mental health problems created due to modern phones has made owning one unsustainable. Email works, at worst, voip
by abc123abc123 7mo ago
Ditch the phone. The liability, tracking and mental health problems created due to modern phones has made owning one unsustainable. Email works, at worst, voip providers exist. Do you need a map? Print one. Do you need directions? Ask someone. Does the restaurant only offer app or qr, ask someone, or go somewhere else.
I have never encountered a phone-related problem that could not be solved with:
1. A print out.
2. Asking someone.
3. Using your web browser on your computer.
4. Using some kind of voip if audio communication is needed.
Yes, it is not as convenient as the surveillance and privacy nightmares of today, but if your life is only about convenience, then send your money to the government, and let them just decide for you how much money you need, and you don't even have to think about that.
A minor inconvenience is a price well paid for freedom from surveillance and excellent mental health.
The ones who complain about inconvenience don't really care about privacy, democracy and freedom, so should not complain when these things are attacked.
- bdangubic 7mo agoYou drive car or walk everywhere you go? Car is convenience, yes but it is the privacy nightmare (unless you gamble and drive without plates :) )
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 7mo ago> unless you gamble and drive without plates New cars are being fitted with cell modems to ping cell towers.
- bdangubic 7mo agoYea, driving a modern / newer car is just as bad privacy-wise as having a mobile phone. I mentioned plate readers as I was expecting "Don't drive new cars" given the "don't use mobile phone" comment :)
- thiht 7mo agoInsane take, you can’t expect anyone to agree with this.
- bens74 7mo agoI don't agree a phone free life is an insane idea at all. It is in fact extremely reasonable, rational, and admirable. The parent makes it sound easier than it is though. You might consider that part "insane". I have tried really really hard to break the phone addiction too. Though so far without durable success, unfortunately. :-(
- JKCalhoun 7mo ago(Raises hand) Ummm… Maybe it's because I went nearly 50 years with no cell phone? It seems reasonable to shut the phone off—check it through with your luggage. (One of my favorite travel memories was trying to ask people in Tokyo for directions to my hotel—I speak only English.)