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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @llamabyte 3 Aug 2023 \ on: Living without a smartphone: The definitive guide tech

Great article and i agree with it overall. I spent a long time without a phone, and it was great to just be disconnected and unreachable. When i came back i stopped being bothered so much by people !

Some issues however are :

If you are a caretaker and need to be available 24x7, you can get a dumb phone that only does calls and SMS. It’s cheap, it’s practical, and it works.

This assumes others will want to contact you via SMS. People will want to send you issues via whatsapp, facebook messenger, including the employer; Photos of leaks or needed repairs, move outs.

I key those into my Garmin and I’m good to go. All it takes is a minute once you get used to it.

1 minute 4 times a day (or more), times 365 = 24.33 hours. One whole day a year. Not too bad but... you should change your name to Living-Inconveniently. /s If you are a driver or deliver person, modern map on spyware is a necessity. OSM is good, but finiky sometimes. Sometimes people just send you a pin on whatapp and nothing else (further walled garden dystopia.)

I completely agree with you and your methods , but realize it's not just the choices you make, its the ones the society around you force on you. It's only going to get worst with the austerity hitting the west.

Put the effort in, step out into the real world and speak to a real woman. That’s right, do what men have always done — pursue. And if you are a woman, do what women have always done.

Toxic masculinity is out, friend. You are having an episode of future shock. It's ok, we are all going through it at some level. Our brain chemistry and cultural values are adapting to this technological invasion. We are daily overloaded by encroachments that would previously have started a deadly civil war. They have had a century to plan this, from Tesla's wireless onwards, we have had , what, decades ?

Tinder, tiktok are intentionally designed. I know you know this but what that means is the old school dating scene no longer exists. Dating in 2023 is very dangerous, thus , this is bad advice. Unless you are in the upper 20% to 5% of men in height and looks, you are just as likely to catch a charge for being creepy.

Even being in the top % in attractiveness and wealth is no protection from false charges and changed minds or misunderstandings. You should really educate yourself on the statistics. For a study check out The Book of numbers, ROI of persuing women OR The Menu by Aaron clarey, on what to do instead, and/or get a modern realistic sex doll.

Everything else is great ! I will be implemting some of these tips. There are fewer of us around that think this way and even fewer in the developing world, who think facebook and instagram are futuristic magic tools that ARE the internet. They got them bundled and have no experience of a "free" internet as "the west" does. It's amazing to see some of their faces when you you say you don't have facebook, it's as though you said you can't read.