I work on a helpdesk, my phone rings around 8-12 times per day, and most calls are less than 10 minutes. I work a 7.5 hour shift, and at most am on the phone for an hour or so total on an average day. I’m also in an office cubicle farm, not working from home, or behind a series of closed doors.

Lately, between taking calls, I’ve been reading books, looking at my phone, practicing French, and watching episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation on my iPad. The upper management knows I, and my coworkers, kill time this way between calls.

We’re efficient problem solvers who get our jobs done with no issue, so the downtime is spent how we see fit.

This reminds me so much of the twins in One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Ferrari 9-10 shouldn’t be surprising but it is.

The hard tires are murdering Carlos atm, what a shame.

George still running on those softs at lap 25 is nuts.

Uh oh, George is saying it’s raining again 👀

Lando leads a lap! What a start.

Brundle having trouble finding people on the grid is wild, how is Silverstone so mild?

McLaren wtf Zack is so fucking pumped, proud of that guy. What a performance from Norris and Piastri.

Personally, mine was ninjas.

Power Rangers, 3 Ninjas (original one only), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

But also, the early 90s Dick Tracy movie? I never actually saw the movie, still haven’t, but the imagery and products really captivated me at 4.

This is a lot of what I was concerned about, for sure. Well said.

I do agree, but it’s also had ads for a very long time.

I think the basic idea is that data collection is a form of uncompensated labor. The matter of what it’s worth isn’t the issue, but the fact of it being worth anything to anyone at all, and it being taken from you with little to no choice in the matter. Not to mention bought, sold, traded, etc.

Yes, a lot of it is tied to agreeing to a EULA, but we all know that just about anything we click on or do on our phones and computers is tracked, stored, sold, and used to make money in dozens/hundreds of ways, EULA or not.

I don’t think I’ve ever bought something because of an advertisement.

Side note, this is incredibly difficult to believe, tbh.

Ferrari not pitting under the safety car.

Count that as the first strategy blunder of the day!

Jenson in the safety car, cheesing like a kid haha

This is what I’m worried about most, losing those long form communities, and the niche subs. Not just for being on reddit, though, but searching site:reddit.com when I’m looking for info about something.

Yes, there are a multitude of message boards out there to search, but the voting system makes better responses easier to find from reddit.

Even if a lot of us don’t go back to reddit in any real way it’s going to take a long, long time to replace it entirely for the broad range of uses it has, outside of it being a community.

Honestly, they’re the only smartphones I’ve ever used, going all the way back to the MyTouch 3G. Well, my first “smart” phone was a Sidekick that I got in 2009 or so, but I upgraded to Android and the MyTouch 3G when my cousin gave it to me when she got a new phone.

Since then I’ve had a Galaxy S, Galaxy S5, Note 5, and I’ve had a Pixel 4a 5G for a couple of years now.

Oddly enough I’ve been on the fence about going to iPhone for my next phone. I have a lot of time and money tied up in the Play Store, and I know it doesn’t just go away when I get a new phone, but I’ve gotta take some stock before I make a switch. Apple products have become more and more enticing as I get older. I used to have harder feelings about the phone divide, but I honestly haven’t cared the past 5 years, a good phone is a good phone.