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0 pointskovac4y ago0 comments

I was thinking the same too. Even for myself, I just own a laptop and a smart phone. If I could get rid of the phone I would.

No smart watches, home automation devices, wearable fitness devices, none. I've used some of them at one point or another and in hindsight, while they did bring some benefit (mostly convenience), I found their privacy, financial, environmental costs to be just too high to justify the marginal benefits.

Give me a minimal Linux machine and the vibrant Linux community where we fix each others' issues and I'm a happy engineer and a human being :)

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bsenftner4y ago

Phones have become our ever present little snitch that tells the overlords every physical place you go, every place you surf, everyone you call, and the ambient conversations it picks up from people speaking near it. How we got here is called convenience, and the overlords know how to work that angle endlessly.

spicybright4y ago

You can't deny the utility of a modern phone is high despite this.

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