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[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 months ago (5 children)

THIS IS ACTUALLY SO REAL FUCKING SMARTPHONES I HATE STEVE JOBS FUCK YOU WHY DID YOU RUIN TECHNOLOGY.

ok rant over, but seriously though, it's so fucked how you basically just need a smartphone to do ANYTHING these days. I don't want a phone, i have no use for one.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not sure if we can really blame Steve Jobs for this though, he wasn't around when things turned to shit. The iPhone he introduced was merely a phone, web browser, email and music player.

I think it's fair if we blame Tim Apple for this and the other big tech CEO's of the recent past.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (7 children)

In Flanders, 🇧🇪, teachers have a card that gives them certain benefits. Free acces to musea, exhibitions,... This year they made it app only. You need to buy a smartphone to get your benefits...

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm young and I fucking hate apps. I have android phone without a google account which works well for the most part. I'm too dumb to install LineageOS. and Linux phones aren't really an option in the US.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Why are they no option in the US?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Carrier support is pretty much non-existant from what I have seen.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

I use a dumbphone. I'm not buying a smartphone just so I can play these stupid games, and I'm not installing an app for every fucking business I interact with. I realize there will one day be a point where I won't be able to do things I need to do without one, but until then I have no desire for one. Fortunately they haven't made the parking meters here require a smartphone yet.

My grocery store still uses loyalty cards for most discounts (which is irritating enough), but also has "digital coupons" that require an app so I can't get that. Theoretically I could go to their website and print them off but that's not worth the effort. I have to pay close attention to the price signs they put up because some of them say "with digital coupon" in small print, meaning "not for you, bitch". You know who doesn't pull this kind of shit? Walmart. So I wind up getting a lot of my groceries there so as not to be discriminated against.

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

Flipphones.... I want a full keyboard phone again. Maybe even a slider full keyboard. Those were the days.

Apps... I evade most apps as much as i can or if i must use closed source apps, i will put them in a secondary profile.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Do NOT give these fucking cunts any fucking money. I was a backer for this phone on indiegogo.

They are liars when they eventually did communicate any updates during the project. They produced around 2000 units, most of which were sent to people who backed the project years after the first backers on indiegogo because they backed on a different platform.

Ultimately they just shut down the kickstarter giving no actual details. They stole thousands of peoples money through that. They made a product with the money people contributed to back the project and then just shuttered the project so they wouldn't need to deliver a device to these backers.

I didn't realise they were now trying to sell them again but the units that did get shipped were massively out of date and barely worked as it is.

If you want a keyboard on a phone Unihertz are about your only option right now.

Fuck planet computers, thieving fucking cunts

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