If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this
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Cell phones didn't exist. Kids need to call to get picked up after hours. There were payphones anywhere they would be used. Malls, Outside fast food restaurants, in shopping centers at gas stations.
I like in Australia we never got rid of them. More or less every payphone I saw growing up is still here. But they gave them 2 amazing upgrades:
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They are now free to use
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They are additionally free Wifi hotspots
Much better than dismantling them imo. They may not be widely used, but it's worth it for those that do. I've even used it once when my phone went flat and needed to call my wife.
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I would love to have a soundboard that played sounds in calls. I'd answer the phone like Wolfman Jack all "caller, you're on the air! gorilla noise, honk"
Could be a thing soon, Android has added "sound enojis" that imo were probably the worst idea ever and only exist for kids to annoy their parents. It's a soundboard with like 3 sounds on the call screen when you're on a call. I could see them eventually allowing custom ones.
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I like in Australia we never got rid of them. More or less every payphone I saw growing up is still here. But they gave them 2 amazing upgrades:
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They are now free to use
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They are additionally free Wifi hotspots
Much better than dismantling them imo. They may not be widely used, but it's worth it for those that do. I've even used it once when my phone went flat and needed to call my wife.
Free wifi! That's freaking awesome
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Now if they’re really mad in a movie you see someone yeet their $800 phone. They lost the middle ground of slamming or throwing a $50 corded phone out the window. Now there’s only the nuclear option.
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I like in Australia we never got rid of them. More or less every payphone I saw growing up is still here. But they gave them 2 amazing upgrades:
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They are now free to use
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They are additionally free Wifi hotspots
Much better than dismantling them imo. They may not be widely used, but it's worth it for those that do. I've even used it once when my phone went flat and needed to call my wife.
Bro what kind of utopia are you living in excuse me?
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i mean if you slam a modern phone hard enough...
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god i miss the days when you at least knew if you were responding to a real person, because now i don't even know if i'm just calling an LLM an idiot
What about their comments implies they are a bot?
Or are your feelings just hurt, little guy?
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Those phones were durable AF.
I recall at least one movie scene where the hero beat the bad guy with one, and we all knew that would definitely work.
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I like in Australia we never got rid of them. More or less every payphone I saw growing up is still here. But they gave them 2 amazing upgrades:
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They are now free to use
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They are additionally free Wifi hotspots
Much better than dismantling them imo. They may not be widely used, but it's worth it for those that do. I've even used it once when my phone went flat and needed to call my wife.
Free WiFi only if you are a Telstra customer for your home broadband
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It's an inanimate fucking object!
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Free WiFi only if you are a Telstra customer for your home broadband
Nah they changed that a while ago
https://www.telstra.com.au/exchange/free-wi-fi-is-now-available-to-anyone-across-selected-telstra-pa
It might not be every single one yet, but they were/are working towards that goal.
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Replace "inside of a highschool" with literally any location with reasonable footfall to get the same answer.
Fair.
Just seems weird to have it in a hallway. Maybe it opens up to a cafeteria behind the camera where I would expect it.
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Someone could make an app that detects a slam and hangs up the phone, then also sell a padded slam-receiver to replicate the experience. Or just use a pillow.
Edit: Found one. Unfortunately it no longer seems to be installable, probably because Google keeps fucking over independent app devs with new requirements. Source is here in case someone wants to see if they can build it.
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I like in Australia we never got rid of them. More or less every payphone I saw growing up is still here. But they gave them 2 amazing upgrades:
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They are now free to use
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They are additionally free Wifi hotspots
Much better than dismantling them imo. They may not be widely used, but it's worth it for those that do. I've even used it once when my phone went flat and needed to call my wife.
That's the most anti-American thing I've ever heard.
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god i miss the days when you at least knew if you were responding to a real person, because now i don't even know if i'm just calling an LLM an idiot
See this is when you would slam the phone
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Why is there a payphone inside of a highschool?
So kids can prank call during lunchbreak and call 900 numbers... and call the parents to say they got in trouble for inappropriate calls...
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How's your knees feeling OP?
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I like in Australia we never got rid of them. More or less every payphone I saw growing up is still here. But they gave them 2 amazing upgrades:
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They are now free to use
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They are additionally free Wifi hotspots
Much better than dismantling them imo. They may not be widely used, but it's worth it for those that do. I've even used it once when my phone went flat and needed to call my wife.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]And the old pay phones came in very useful here in SE QLD after cyclone Alfred. Without power all the cell towers stopped working but the old landlines weren't affected. People were lining up at the phone at the shops near me.
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Fair.
Just seems weird to have it in a hallway. Maybe it opens up to a cafeteria behind the camera where I would expect it.
Ours was on a wall across from the office, but the wall opened up to the cafeteria just next to it. I recall students sometimes using it during lunch.
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I like in Australia we never got rid of them. More or less every payphone I saw growing up is still here. But they gave them 2 amazing upgrades:
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They are now free to use
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They are additionally free Wifi hotspots
Much better than dismantling them imo. They may not be widely used, but it's worth it for those that do. I've even used it once when my phone went flat and needed to call my wife.
Oh that's nice. We visited Germany about 10 years ago and didn't get international cell service, so we were relying on hotel wifi and other wifi hotspots. This kind of thing would have been great.
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