The problem isn't smartphones, it's capitalism.
All of those things would have happened anyway in a different form factor because capitalism is just a race to the bottom.
Except maybe UI design. That has been special in its enshittification.
this post was submitted on 20 Dec 2024
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Unironically this. I wish I had just paid in dollars instead of my data. Looking back, it was too good to be true. It's hard to deny we never should've let it get this engrained in our lives.
Well this is the cold hotdog water of hot takes. Ill guess anon wasn't alive before smart phones.
I guess Flappy bird?
I honestly hate smartphones as well, not because of any of what OP posted. On my PC, I can install whatever I want, including swapping out the OS. Most smartphones are locked down, and the few that allow alternative ROMs have huge incompatibilities w/ FOSS OSes (i.e. getting SMS to work is a bit spotty).
My phone runs GrapheneOS. I would much rather use something else (e.g. PostmarketOS), but it's the least bad option that supports all the features I need. I am still limited to Android-compatible apps, and developing for my phone is a lot more painful than any other ARM-based device because I'm stuck w/ the Android ecosystem.
The end result is that I don't feel like I truly own my phone, whereas I definitely feel that way about my PC. Yeah, my phone is convenient, and I don't use most of the nonsense Anon is complaining about (I mostly use websites on my phone instead of apps), but I still generally dislike having a thing in my pocket that I don't actually control.
Can I jailbreak a Samsung Flip 6 like this? If I do will I still be able to use my job's Microsoft 365 stuff and authenticator? I know I could Google it but I'd rather ask an expert.
I don't know anything about Samsung's phones, but you certainly can't install GrapheneOS on it, since it only supports Pixeel phones, and I didn't see a LineageOS build for it (and LineageOS is usually the best bet).
Here are a bunch of others though, just in case you wanted to shop around.
So short answer is no, but maybe there's a longer answer. :)
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Yes, the option to just throw it in the corner and not charge it anymore.
Or to uninstall all your shitty apps.
Maps/gps navigation and being able to talk to someone across the world for free (provided you have an internet connection). Genz and younger millennials don’t know how expensive long-distance calls were back then.
How calls were expensive..
How music hobby was expensive and nowadays you got the world music collection for less than 10 euro per month..
How we had to pay a few euros per movie when going to the video club to get a movie. And that would imply moving there to get it, moving there to return it. Nowadays I pay less than 10 euro per HBO max..
How we had to get into a public library to get some info on something and always would come very short, specially on some themes...
How electronic equipment was way more expensive and did way way less.
And this... And that... And this... And that..
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Ruined cell phone keyboards
Ruined cell phone batteries
If you teach yourself to use swype typing on Gboard it can be almost as fast as a keyboard to type. Of course that's a Google product though blah blah blah.
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Add in ruined music to that. Shitty speakers, super lossy codecs to preserve cellular bandwidth, even shittier Bluetooth compression, listening to music on a phone is convenient but it sounds like shit. And we've got generations of people who think that's what music is supposed to sound like.
Unless you have a Sony phone or an LG V series phone. The DACs on those are incredible (for phones at least)
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Good for porn?
Shitty for porn. Tiny screen.
Do you want to take a 32inch screen to the bathroom?
Challenge accepted.
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Like sure, but it's no VR masturbatorium.
ITT awful fucking reasons for "smartphone good". Fuck smartphones.
Yep. Ignore your downvotes. They're just zoomers with Stockholm syndrome.
A standalone camera would be a better camera. A standalone media player would be a better media player. Emulation handhelds are better gaming systems.
Paper-weights don't even have batteries. Checkmate, phones.
Phones are useless for anything but making sure you're abiding by your state-mandated privatized surveillance of choice and if I could carry around a tiny Linux laptop with cellular integration and use it instead, I probably would.
I get not everyone can use Linux, but I feel that's a misunderstood problem in that, it isn't my problem that you can't do something.
if I could carry around a tiny Linux laptop with cellular integration and use it instead, I probably would.
Some phones can be converted to Linux fyi
Ruined these things for you maybe. I still enjoy them. And don't use my phone for most. One of the things I live about the phone is being able to communicate with my friends and family I want. I also enjoy having the majority of the worlds information available to me. Ooooo and music. Soooo much music at my fingertips.
There's no way you are having a good time with digital dating, there just isn't.
Even if your goal is to hit it and quit it like dating apps encourage, it's still not a good time.
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NO! You are not allowed to enjoy things, you must be sad, capitalism bad, communism is solution to all our problems. enshitification. enshitification. enshitification. 😡
Capitalism is demonstrably bad. Very few people are claiming communism fixes everything, and you might as well take a flying fuck at a rolling donut if you think we can pull off communism right now. And yeah we're surrounded by enshittification. What's got you mad?
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