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Hello HN, who here doesn't use a phone and what do you use as a replacement?

I've been using my phone less and less these days, and it feels like a chore to use a modern phone now. Touch interface is slow and imprecise, apps and webapps are slow, bloated, and keep removing useful features, adblock on some systems are clunky or non-existent, VoIP and SMS are basically dead, the interface changes nearly every year (on android at least), and many other small grievances. I can get things done so much quicker on a computer with a keyboard compared to the touch interface on a phone, using a keyboard and a full desktop environment is so precise, quick, and just enjoyable to use.

However, I am still hanging onto my phone for a few legacy uses, what are some good replacements for these:

* Mobile wifi * VoIP * SMS

Also, I am still interested in mobile computing as a concept, I've looked into the pinephone and that may be a good replacement for me in the future (keyboard attachment, linux apps), but am fine completely ditching mobile computing and just carrying around a small, light laptop if I can't find an ergonomic mobile replacement.

Anyone ditch their phone, how do you get by without it?

Inspired by an AskHN from a few days ago about working for "boring" companies.

I really enjoy the process of optimizing software, making it more reliable, faster, smaller code size, anything where a particular metric can be targeted and challenging yourself to hit that target or conclude it's impossible to hit after doing the math out and trying many possible paths.

The problem is, how do I go about finding jobs like this? It seems many dev jobs are focused on adding more features, but not optimizing the prior features. It's disappointing adding a new feature that I know will always be half baked, since I don't get to test the limits of the problem that particular feature is trying to solve. Any advice?

Recently I was thinking about older software that is either no longer maintained, deprecated, or effectively in maintenance mode, and it got me wondering: if I was able to revive an old piece of software or something that was deprecated, what would I pick?

Could be interesting to see what Amiga OS would look like if it was still maintained to this day. There are some systems that are binary compatible with Amiga OS that still see a bit of development, but they are mostly niche projects (still very cool projects though).