Do you carry a phone? A PDA (Gemini)? Do you use android? Do you use libre apps? Google free perhaps? This is raddle so I am bound to get some interesting answers. Tell me below!
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gen3 OP wrote
Mobile data is very cheap where I live. I get 120GB a month for around 8$.
vixwd wrote
I'm not being cross, but what's your age group? I don't tend to see this mindset often enough in younger people. Like myself, we've never not had cell phones, so the viewing is just normal. But, I'm a huge FLOSS gal and like the idea of something doing one thing only, and doing it very well.
AngryData wrote (edited )
Im in my late 20s. I definitely see the appeal of such a device, I just don't like how it has been implemented. Im probably the target audience for Windows 9 and 10 for mobile computing but Microsoft has really soured my taste lately by trying to get in on the same social/media/advertisement/propaganda crap as everyone else, especially after they have already fucked them up so many times before.
I still use an ancient tablet for reading digital books, froyo version which I think was 1.2 or something, but its not like it works with any new programs these days.
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MhikeiMPC wrote
I wouldn't call it brainwashed, like for example, can you imagine growing your own food and using a coal/wood stove? We're just used to having this convenience at our fingertips.
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MhikeiMPC wrote
in this day and age, you need a phone for a lot of things. What worked back then/in developing countries does not work now/in developed countries. we have different technologies, different ways of life.
robottroymacclure wrote
not much, its pretty bare bones. someone else probably has cooler stuff. im old. lol
gen3 OP wrote (edited )
I would love to get a burner phone anonymously. Unfortunately my country doesn't have such things. Stuck with my identity attached to my phone.
An_Old_Big_Tree wrote
We have that where I live but you can just find a corner store somewhere that's already registered them under someone else's name and then use that.
gen3 OP wrote
Getting a SIM, requires national ID. Hard to find people who will volunteer their creds to be used by a stranger.
Random_Revolutionary wrote
I had a firefox os phone, but put android on it because I wanted apps such as skype. I also put the gapps on because I didnt really know better and I'm to lazy to reinstall and take them off.
gen3 OP wrote
Fdroid has all the essentials you need. You can use 'Yalp Store' From fdroid to get apps off the play ecosystem.
robottroymacclure wrote
Ill shill for the unihertz jelly because it is inconspicuous and doesnt take up all my attention.
gen3 OP wrote
Sweet! What are you running on it?
jaidedctrl wrote
PDA
I have this old PDA that runs a libre LiGNUx system, but it's ten years outdated and porting it forward would probably be incredibly painful.
Still, it's one of my vague and far-in-the-future goals to get a modern-day Linux kernel working with this thing. One day…
gen3 OP wrote
This might be a upgrade for you... https://www.planetcom.co.uk/
jaidedctrl wrote
Wow, that looks pretty excellent :o
But I feel like that point you should get the Pyra.
For me, the specs of both of those are overkill-- I just wanna be able to run some basic cli programs on the go.
therealmidnite wrote
I am now the proud ex-owner of an smartphone. I gave mine to my mother (whose Blackberry has finally cracked up), and I won't be getting another.
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therealmidnite wrote
Yep... now the NSA can spend a lifetime combing through her multi-gig collection of cute puppy videos. It's the gift that keeps on giving.
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therealmidnite wrote
I have no idea how the work. Don't care, either. Never wanted one, and now I don't have one. Case closed.
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therealmidnite wrote
I don't understand electricity either, but getting coffee is rather difficult without it. Anyway, the guy she married was in hospital with cancer at the time, her phone was failing, and I gave her mine. It's in great nic, since I'd stopped answering phone calls on it about four or five years ago.
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therealmidnite wrote
4 is good. Anything else?
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therealmidnite wrote
I thought you were giving up this whole sockpuppet thing?
ziq wrote
You people need to stop accusing every shitty liberal that comes along of being me. Wtf.
therealmidnite wrote
Wtf? Come now... isn't that a bit rich?
ziq wrote
Last I checked, I'm not a boring capitalist bigot.
Stop with the fucking witch hunts.
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therealmidnite wrote
My thoughts exactly.
glitter_v0id wrote
honestly a j7 with original software. I need to test swapping os systems on a different device before I fuck with this one. Maybe get a cheap old phone so if I brick this I'm not SOL for work.
CE399 wrote
I use a (what?) 2g cell phone. I only use it for texting and as an alarm clock and mp3 player. It has excellent battery life and does exactly what I want it to and no more.
AngryData wrote (edited )
I don't have one because they don't provide a high enough level of user control. Built like garbage, infested with more software garbage, expensive as fuck with all sorts of bells and whistles you don't need, and it makes you pay ridiculous data prices and get fucked in the ass by billing.
If you want a computer, use a computer, if you want to text or call, then use a normal phone. I don't know how anyone can stand mobile browsing, its like trying to read a news paper with a paper bag on your head with crooked eye holes.