I recently dropped and broke my smartphone, which, by Iphone standards was probably shit, but it cost 300.00 bucks, which is nice for me. I bought a $40.00 ZTE

I recently dropped and broke my smartphone, which, by Iphone standards was probably shit, but it cost 300.00 bucks, which is nice for me. I bought a $40.00 ZTE piece of stinker at Target, and I am a VERY satisfied customer. I can look up restaurant addresses, read HN, shop for crap on Amazon and REI, play Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup while waiting for a haircut, and send all the texts and make all the phone calls I want. If I run it over or fall overboard with it in my pocket I don't care. With the money I saved I bought the shittiest Garmin GPS available for about $100.00, which I can even use without a cell network. Sometimes my friends complain about the sound on my shitty phone, but I don't care. Plus, I stare at a computer all fucking day, I know all I need to know about programming for at least the next five years of stateworker career, and I would FAR rather read a print book, go for a sailboat ride, have a dinner party, or dig some vegetables than spend another f-ing second computing even with a really nice screen. Oh -- I write this on a 12 year old macbook running FreeBSD, which I used for my dissertation, from ~2000 lines of Octave matrix code to typing it up in Lyx/ Latex. Works far better than any new Windows piece of crap for actual computing, isn't occupying space in a landfill, and I have money left over to buy rain gear and boots for getting outside. It's not shit -- it's manure...