š¹Early to RISA š§Anon hates smartphones
Nurse_RobotIām prepared for the downvotes knowing where Iām posting.
If you hate it that much, why are you using it? Itās a tool. Itās useful. It also allows you to overindulge, but that says more about you than the tool.
A lot of those are problems caused by phones regardless of whether one uses one themselves.
But for the personal ones, there are self aware addicts of all kinds. Smokers know cigarettes are killing them, complain about them, sometimes even hard them canāt stop.
Thatās a fair and well measured response. It begs the question of what we can do as individuals, and when it comes to smart phones I donāt think thereās much.
Thanks, I basically agree with you.
Like most of the tragic collective action problems (climate change, sweatshops etc) Iām just trying to moderate as best I can for my own soul/health and try not to be too sad about it.
ZloubidaSmartphones are using me more than I use them. I hate them, and love them, and hate that I love them.
Yet, you engage with society. Curious.
I donāt create posts claiming smart phones ruined every aspect of society dude
they are implying you are the orange shirt guy
I had only ever seen the last panel, I didnāt know thereās more
I donāt have one, Iām browsing from my computer. I still go through all the inconveniences listed above and some more. Check mate, smartphone user.
recklessengagementNot using the device doesnāt suddenly end its impacts on society.
As someone who carries around a flip phone on purpose, itās not impossible to live without a smartphone, but itās getting more challenging.
Ticketmaster now requires a smartphone. You canāt print tickets. Which means I can no longer go to baseball games.
So far, thatās the only thing Iāve found thatās a hard block, but many other things are certainly not designed for the phone impaired.
Which flip phone do you use? I have a Sunbeam Mobile phone which is nice, but I have found it unsustainable in some ways.
Thatās actually the model Iām using at the moment. I started out with LightPhone2, but I was frustrated not being able to get images, and I didnāt like the keyboard.
Sunbeam has been ok, but it definitely has problems. For some reason, T9 will always chose a name before any other word. So if I type āAny,ā the first two suggestions are āAmyā and āCox.ā I reached out to the devs about this, and they said itāll ālearnā what your most used words are, but it hasnāt done that for me. Also, the keyboard seems to be a bit laggy and misses some keypresses.
It doesnāt help that I also spilled beer on it once which made the touch screen really wonky.
I was thinking about upgrading to a LightPhone3, but there are a few smartphone things I wouldnāt mind bringing back (like Ticketmaster for example). I preordered a Minimal phone, and Iām hoping to lock it down to just messaging, specific apps (like my car key), and no web browser.
I have a Motorola G7 Power that I installed LineageOS on. It was kind of hard to do, but I figured it out finally after some trial and error. If you ever wanted to do something similar and need help, let me know. I feel more comfortable having this versus a googled Android phone, and it is customizable enough that you could dumb it down.
GrapheneOS seems like an ideal choice, but I hate Google and didnāt want to risk buying a used phone off of eBay that was carrier locked. Most people Iāve seen recommend buying an OEM unlocked Pixel new from a store, which I would hate doing. Let Google starve. I feel like Google and Amazon are huge instigators of the social problems around this.
For someone sharing OPās opinion, simply ānot using itā wouldnāt solve anything. Most of the problems OP lists is stems from that people in general use them.
Iām not saying you should agree with OP, but your argument misses the point.
Itās a powerful tool, but the power isnāt yours.
I donāt use it. At all. But nevertheless I still have to deal with people constantly telling me that I need to use their āappā, and or only giving information in the form of a QR code. I still have to navigate around zombie-people staring at their phones while they walk around. I still have to deal with the fall-out of bad online interactions that kids have had. and so on. The attention-span issue that the green-text mentions results in a dumbing-down of news and media and basically all kinds of information sharingā¦
This stuff negatively affects me in obvious and measurable ways, even though I donāt use any of the features of this ātoolā.
I would say that it is also a fault of the device if it encourages this brain-dead overindulgence that is clearly of the interest of many big advertisement companies. You can choose a device and OS tho and install apps that lessen the effect, but an simpler phone might not have all the bells and whistles but can get you quite far without offering such a possibility to lose hours off your brain just turned off.
the guy exclusively lists cultural phenomena. how would not using a phone personaly solve any of these?
āItās just a toolā is such an ignorant statement in general. The tools we use have been shaping or culture for thousands of years. There is no choice not to take part in the current state of humanity. āItās just a toolā is what people who want to sell you their technology tell you to make you forget about the effects it can have on a bigger scale.
andrew_bidlawI myself feel conditioned to have it over a dumb phone. Companies and people assume that you have one, and the thing I find the most offending is obsessive QR overusage. I hate that.
If itās on a banner or in a document, it rarely ever have plain text address. They are on all of my bills, as mobile banking is popular and you are supposed to trust it and open it in your banking app lol (although itās payment info in a specific format, not a web link). Itās also used in 2FA\registration for apps and you canāt login into popular messengers without scanning a pattern and my workplaces used some of them for all internal communications. And whenever I scan anything or refuse, I see them everywhere, this sharp b\w noise that is not a part of a human world, but rather meant for machines. These technological shenanigans occupying the visual landscape is probably why I can jump from not wanting a smartphone myself to disliking others having them. And with how it locks you from pretty essential things I can see the next step is having government services only availiable in Zuckerbergās Metaverse. Thatās when Iād call quit on that fuckyverse.
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I think QR codes are cool because itās literal computer data in ink. You can draw a QR code with a pencil if you know how to encode the data. Itās like a punch card, a physical manifestation of digital data.
However using a QR code is really freaking annoying, especially if you have a cheaper phone. I always configure my phone to only show the encoded string and not click the links because fuck normalizing blindly clicking links
I find them really fascinating, especially their error-correcting, but I do find them weird occupying every banner without any alternative and trashing our human world with too much of them, outside of the discussion of them being too much needed for functioning in our society.
I used one of those promos to get a bunch of free stickers made and I did a QR code to lemon party with my friends Instagram at the bottom. I travel a lot for work so I was going to post them up everywhere. Unfortunately I got them printed in yellow which made the QR code not work.
I just got a new phone and someone asked me ādo you like it?ā I hesitated to answer and they assumed āthatās a noā. Well, not really, it works well and does what I need it to. But do I like it? Not really, its a tool of necessity for operating in modern society. I like my steam deck, I like my speakers, I like my bike, but liking my phone is sort of similar to liking my work laptop. Itās just a thing I have to have or be really very inconvenienced.
Jumutanetwork effects
knowing where Iām posting.
a place where people call each other out for saying stupid shit?