• Fiona (she/her)🏳️‍⚧️
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    2 years ago

    I hate smartphones! I hate being reachable at all hours! I hate always being connected!

    I just want to be left alone! I want to return to dedicated devices: computers for communicating and the like, and music players for music!

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      I wouldn’t hate them if companies weren’t investing millions of dollars on making them more and more addictive. I love that I can listen to an audiobook on my commute, record my lectures, read electronic versions of my textbooks in class and pay for my food, all with one little portable device.

      Only capitalism could ruin such a useful tool.

      All I wanna do is live my life but companies want us to consume mindnumbing online content and pay subscriptions, how can I not hate what smartphones have become.

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      2 years ago

      I have a solution for you : plane mode. Why? Cause fuck whoever wants to reach you while you’re minding your own business, that’s why.

      Oh yeah sorry I couldn’t answer your calls, my phone was in plane mode! Ups!

      I love plane mode. And as a bonus it saves battery. Fucking love plane mode.

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        2 years ago

        I wanna collect CDs so bad but I can’t afford them. I love piracy. I wish I had access to a library that loans CDs just to use physical media again, but life’s not fair.

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          Gotta admit physical media are an environmental catastrophe though, aren’t they? I mean, between mas producing tons of CD and just having people share files on there devices’ memory, seems to me like the latter makes much more sens environmentally.

          Or are they very easy to recycle? Idk to be honest.

          Also I kinda like the model RMS proposed to make music free for instance, with artists being remunerated according to their popularity on peer2peer download platforms for instance, the more popularity, the more gov grants basically.

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            Anything that is mass produced and ends up in landfill is an environmental catastrophe. I just miss owning stuff. If I could afford them and chose not to buy them, I probably would feel different. Super low priority though.

            E-waste is a huge threat to us nowadays. But I believe smart electronic devices are a bigger problem than CDs.