Smartphones: C or D?

funny i just sent a letter to my cousin who lives in the next city over

it read

"Dearest cousin,

I hope this letter finds you well. It would seem as though curiosity got the best of me and so I rummaged through the desk drawer, grasped a pen, and am now writing to you in hopes that I may discover what, in Heaven's name, you are up to at time of receiving.

I am, Madame, your most humble and obedient servant,

Infinity"

i let out a chuckle at the end

heck yeah xxp

http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/480240/adventures-in-grayscale/

cool to learn that f sharp has amorous designs upon a blood relative

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we're all blood relatives in some way right

can i get yr sister's number?

sure

strangely, even though I spend every second I'm at home or in work F5ing the internet constantly instead of whatever I should be doing in a horrible compulsion which makes me hate myself, I mostly find the lure of internet-in-pocket quite resistable when I'm out and about

I know this prob sounds a bit of a sanctimonious "I don't even own a TV!" answer but seriously I would like to bottle whatever I find relatively non-addictive about internet in phone form and sprinkle it over my laptop (plus sell it for profit share it for the good of humanity)

PS I will take all this back tomorrow as I'll be at my parents' house and when they spend the evening slumped in front of 5 hours of TV I will be twitching and craving my internet dose in any form it's available to me in, i.e. the phone, and no amount of trying to be polite or even reading a book will do

strangely, even though I spend every second I'm at home or in work F5ing the internet constantly instead of whatever I should be doing in a horrible compulsion which makes me hate myself, I mostly find the lure of internet-in-pocket quite resistable when I'm out and about

this is me as well. occasionally i remember to look at instagram. but the smartphone era happened a hair too late to break me of the compulsion to be carrying a book everywhere so that's still usually the way i avoid living in the moment. at home yeah f5 zombie.

forgot my phone at home when I went to dinner last night, didn't care at all

I can't think of a scenario where I wouldn't go back and get my phone.

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I finally had to have my work phone replaced this week. The touch ID sensor and the lock button were shot. After I had to resort to using the Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network "soft boot" trick to power it down so they could switch the number & service package over to my new phone's SIM and IMEI, it went into a reboot loop which it was no longer able to complete. Just every 20 seconds or so, the boot screen would appear and then fade away as the startup sequence failed, again and again. Finally I killed it dead by just popping the SIM out.

I used to hate smartphones, hate hate hate, went without a personal phone for like 5 years because I refused to get one other than whatever the job deigned to issue me. Now I'm all sentimental.

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https://np.reddit.com/r/androidapps/comments/4i36z9/how_you_use_your_android_to_the_maximum/d2uq24i?context=3

9:00pm: brush my teeth and log it because I'm trying to make a habit of doing so every day (Loop Habit Tracker).

9:30pm: open random apps over and over thinking "I could be reading my Kindle right now".

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i'm crying

I hate this fucking thing

today i saw a guy, crossing a busy intersection w smartphone in one hand, head staring down reading the phone, the other hand cupped over it to shadow it from the sun all while ON A SKATEBOARD

i've seen the same except he was 'walking' his dog too

Found out i can trade in my nefarious iphone for a flip phone for $1. Told the dude I'd think it over but my plan now is to go back there and pull the trigger. It won't fix everything but I think it eill be a step in the right direction.

If I back out someone please beat me up or email me a computer virus.

Is this iPhone at all recent? I mean, even a couple generations old one will get you a few dollars, and most flip phones are either given away or insanely cheap

It's a 5 but i think the earpiece is messed up. Everyone sounds muffled.

the deal the dude offered for the flip phone -- $1 -- seemed pretty good. He said "one person every three days" comes in to that midtown Verizon store and asks to downgrade, citing distraction. This seemed oddly specific.

Youll find something else.

Keep yr awesome technology and learn boundaries

Typing this in bed btw

Nooo technology is awful... Or at least it is evolving faster than I am able to keep up with

have you considered working in a retirement home

please do this and report to us on how it goes!

I thought about downgrading not long ago. I remember back in 2009-2011 or so I ilx'd quite successfully from a slider phone. So I stepped into a Verizon store and checked out their selection of low-tech phones and I decided the technology really didn't work for me anymore. The keyboards were so annoying for me! I was a little bummed, because I thought it would be a good step toward solving my problems. Anyway, I removed some of the worse time-sucking apps like facebook and twitter. I've also been bringing paper books with me on my commute and getting sucked into them instead of my phone.

If you do this and pull it off though, let me know!

I recommend the Nokia 100 - costs around 10 euros and works very well, good menus, battery +1 week

my friend thought he was getting too addicted to his phone so he got a flip phone
now he texts himself all the things he wants to look up, and it's kind of sad, I wish he could just look them up
and he can't date really because he doesn't get emojis in texts
every time I am hanging out with him he gets a text and says "I don't know what she means, it's just two boxes"

also everyone gives him shit all the time about being a drug dealer or a terrorist especially me

haha I do get a lot of boxes

if you get a flip phone you will be mad every time you see something cute or incongruous or funny and you can't take a picture of it
i am pretty inconsistent about bringing my phone out with me and i experience this a lot
there are just too many cute things and weird things not to photograph

also how the fuck are you gonna get directions??

i held out on not getting a smartphone, did not get one until 2012 and i would never go back, ever
you can translate languages with them! text to speech! it is like the greatest classroom tool for working with ell/exed kids

AND in my experience NOT just with phones if you are really addicted to something you will find a way to still do it...even if you have to take the hard way...

I mean, Treeship drafts his ilx posts in a little notebook so this isn't much of a change

flip phones (can) have cameras, if not very good ones

smartphones are worth it for the ease of texting alone imo, fuck texting on a flip phone that shit was horrible

i am totally distracted by my phone and i spend way too much time on it but i 100% feel that my life is easier now that i have one

especially if you are in an unfamiliar place!!!!

Is any place really unfamiliar with gps-enabled maps

If you want to get lost, put it in your pocket

If you just want to get notified when someone wants to contact you, you can get a little watch or something that notifies you when something important comes through and keep your actual phone in your bag, pocket, or next room

getting lost pretty much sucks imo

happens when you take a literal approach to détournement when you didn't finish reading the literature

every time I am hanging out with him he gets a text and says "I don't know what she means, it's just two boxes"

i get this all the time on facebook now bc my computer is old : /