‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners
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I remember toolbar days.... I used to lov--- sorry i admit this ... Installing them .... shivers for my sins
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No Virtua Girl?
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Perhaps his friends do not have smart phones, because they do not want smart phones.
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If a person uses a libre VoIP app, there is no need for cell service
I don't follow. Don't you need internet for VoIP? Unless the point is to have a phone that gets zero connection while outside a wifi, which sounds kinda pointless?
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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.
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Correct, use VoIP with wi-fi service instead of cell and data. It also makes the calls untraceable for location for best privacy practices. There's no way to trace where in the world a phone is if using wi-fi to call standard phone numbers. For personal calling, not a work phone, some people don't care about messages and calling when they are out walking, shopping, attending events. They want to focus on the real world around them, not phone stuff.
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You've never seen The Big Bang Theory?
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Have you looked at Obtainium? It pulls apps directly from their release page, or f-droid repos.
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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.
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Society must revert their mentality and not expect constant immediate access to everything. Absolutely nothing happens on the internet for personal activity that can’t wait a few hours or the next day.
yeah ok so, counterpoint, you pull up to an EV charging station (it's tesla because of course it's tesla) please show me where the card reader is. I'll wait.
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I’d never do it, but we have one at work and he’s singlehandedly causing so much grief at work.
tell him the funny internet man that replied to you told him that he was based and that we collectively appreciate his efforts of basedness.
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BRB pulling up to a QR code scanner with my 15 inch thinkpad w520 running on 92whr of battery consuming literal watts of power because it's from 2012.
Hopefully i'm not an inconvenience.
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No I have not, heard it is offensive and unfunny.
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I don't see a "justification" in my reply. I cannot change or influence the system, I need the discounts - so I do that.
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Well-to-do? That is weird, because here not having a washing machine in the apartment would be weird even for a poor person.
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US hates poor people. I'm poor, I know from experience. They hold homelessness over us as a threat to keep in line.
We went from during the pandemic, treating "essential workers" as "heroes" while not increasing their pay for risking their lives, to now, straight back to how it used to be, screaming at overworked underpaid people "You're lucky to have a job!"
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I see people mentioning obtainium, but never tried it. Will it give some relevant benefits over fdroid for low end devices?
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Where I am, the median salary is around $400-$600. I know how you feel.
