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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I am still on a flip phone. It is usually silent, and I don't spend much time with it at all. While I am missing out on discounts and such, I simply hate the idea of constantly using a phone. Email is my telecommunication of choice, but receptionists don't understand the idea, unfortunately.

My household bought a Rinnai water heater, and the bastard needed a phone to set the temperature. Thing is, it couldn't communicate with the two or three phones that were used on it. Fortunately, there was an old-school modification for a physical keypad, but that had to be bought separately.

Phones are just not my thing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 hours ago

Smartphones are objectively better than flip phones.

The flip phone praise comes from useful idiots looking up to children who lack self-control.

It's all bass-ackwards, but that's how far we've strayed from the truth.

The powers that be are happy, though. We're just not one of them.

[–] starlainjury 5 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I used a flip phone for a month to help curb my screen time addiction. The number of restaurants, stores, etc. that simply expect it of you to have a smart phone was eye opening.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 hours ago

Have you tried... self-control?

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[–] BigTrout75 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yep, the homeless pay more!

[–] andros_rex 22 points 1 day ago

Remember the meltdown over “Obamaphones”?

[–] Zak 159 points 1 day ago

Any time I'm required to use an app for something that could be a website, I leave the app a one star review.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

I'm shocked.

Right off the top of my head, I can mention an entire finacial institution that only exists through an app. No website, no physical locations, no nothing. It's one app and that is it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I mean I use Cashapp, but I could also not use it and my life wouldn't be much harder

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 day ago (2 children)

also those who dont want to install that spyware shit on their phones. Even if you dont care about the data collection it still consumes battery faster as more and more data is being transferred

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (5 children)

McDonald’s (in Germany at least) needs your location to “see when you arrive at the restaurant”. What the hell?! That doesn’t even work properly and they force it on me! I uninstalled the app and now I am actually happy, because without the promotion and discount stuff, I don’t eat McDanks that often anymore.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

McDonald's wants your IQ too. Seriously, it's in their privacy policy.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I couldn't be arsed to install that shit. I'm also not taking out my phone for this kind of bullshit. I'm sick and tired of smartphones.

[–] yesman 200 points 1 day ago (17 children)

There should be a warning label on any establishment or product that requires a smartphone to use.

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