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plumpan
@plumpan

It's a big whinge. I sound like a very old person in this I'm afraid, but I really do feel like everyone else has just accepted how shitty they are and I'm one of the few that has not.

You've been warned.


CERESUltra
@CERESUltra

Luv too haff 2 cycling debt machines that living in either country I'm a citizen in is basically possible without.


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in reply to @plumpan's post:

I stopped using smartphones a couple years ago and it’s legit the best decision I ever made

Not just for the points you posted here, but also from a perspective of how fucking detrimental constant notifications and always being online, all the time, everywhere is to mental health

And no, I haven’t missed a thing
I interact with the internet as and when I want to, and that’s just fine

Unless you’re absolutely tied to using a smartphone for some reason (idk like an app you need for work / survival) then I’d recommend dropping them completely and using separate devices.
Between a computer (or tablet these days, tbf), a dumb phone and a standalone camera I think you’d have everything you need covered.
You sacrifice a little convenience and instant gratification and gain quite a bit more of your life back

I do need telegram in my pocket, I don't think I could function without that. But this isn't a bad idea. I'm not ready to commit to the flip but I'm getting there.

I found a $100 phone that will hold me over for the forseeable future, I think my current phone is getting near fire hazard levels of bad so it has to go out of service ASAP.

If nothing else, it's cheap enough that I won't be too upset even if I loathe it.

Yup, it's terrible. I avoided getting too deep into how the OS itself sucks, all of the stuff you go over, because I had other things to complain about and I already avoid using the phone for other things as much as possible. It's not a computer and I don't expect it to behave like one, it's a shitty appliance.

The headphone thing is something I will always fucking cosign on. I have wireless headphones! They stink! I'm glad I only spent £30 on them on deep discount!

I'm sure the bluetooth defenders will be quick to point out that you get what you pay for, and that's true, but my current pair of wired earbuds are a pair of Sennheisers I got for a similar price. They're a decade old. They'll probably last even longer than that.

Also while I'm ranting about Bluetooth headphones, I love how basically every smartphone manufacturer has their own shitey version of Airpods now. At least a few of them are just no-name whitelabel earbuds you can buy elsewhere for much less, because of course they are, but I lament the current state of the market because all that shit's destined for landfill regardless of whether it costs 30 dollars or 300 dollars.

Airpods are the final frontier of the whole "ipod batteries are super hard to replace" issue back in the mid 00s, except Apple going "what if we made them impossible to replace?"

Fucking pathetic waste of plastic

Gonna say something that'll make me very unpopular - I can replace the batteries on all of my old handheld games consoles no problems. When, and it's when, my iPod becomes a spicy pillow, I'm throwing it in the appropriate place to dispose of fire hazards. I do not trust myself to do the equivalent of open heart surgery on a heart that could kill the surgeon because an egomaniac got upset when his toy had space in it.