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Re: New phone can make calls and send texts, but it cannot access social media

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Post by srswtf123 » Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 3:19 AM UTC

mvanbaak wrote: post #137

srswtf123 wrote: post #61

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This reason is why I personally would like separate app stores. I'd _really_ like to see an iOS app store, curated by the FOSS community, focused on privacy and productivity -- actual productivity, not mind-numbing dopamine fix loops! Running a local "pihole" equivalent might be possible then; really the sky is the limit if we regain control of our devices.

> Running a local "pihole" equivalent might be possible then; Did you try adguard?

I currently use 1blocker. I also run a local pihole on my network for dns blocklists and rarely is my phone away from wifi. Seems ok.

Re: New phone can make calls and send texts, but it cannot access social media

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Post by nicbou » Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 7:27 AM UTC

Raed667 wrote: post #20

I need a connected phone that isn't built for addiction. For example, I need Uber for the rare cases where I'm in a jam at 3 AM and need to get back home. I need maps for when I'm looking for directions. I need a web browser to access my bank and the occasional Google search. I can live with or without Whatsapp or Signal, that depends on how much you use it I guess. However, I don't need Facebook, Twitter or TikTok o…

I use uBlock to disable the feeds and notification badges for those websites. This means I can still get information from reddit through Google, but can't browse it or read my messages.

I also turned off notifications for emails and other things that can wait. At around 11PM the phone goes silent and most apps are on a timer.

This is ridiculously effective. I had to make an exception for Hacker News because I was running out of offline reading material.

Re: New phone can make calls and send texts, but it cannot access social media

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Post by nilram » Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 7:59 AM UTC

exporectomy wrote: post #113

ergot_vacation wrote: post #13

New? Can't you buy this for $80 at any CVS or Walgreens? "Companies including Nokia Corp. still manufacture “feature phones,” devices that look, feel and operate like the cellphones of the ’00s. But most feature phones still follow a design philosophy of abundance, cramming all the features they can into a limited operating system, said Petter Neby..." Bullshit. They can't get on the Internet, that's what matters. Yo…

My elderly mother got a feature phone and couldn't figure out how to use it. It was such a complicated muddle of changing on-screen menus and icons that you activated with mystery buttons on the keypad. I had to first play around with it myself to learn how to make a call, then teach her. Somehow she activated the camera instead and couldn't get back to normal phone mode on her own. These things are pointless toxic w…

My partner's mom's, age 96, was needing a new phone, so we got the latest "feature" phone from Lively (company formerly known as Jitterbug). On the new phone, the minimum number of keypresses to make a call to anyone in her phonebook was about 8. The minimum on the prior phone (which I know only by Jitterbug) was 2. Although she was an early adopter of word processing and email many years ago, she couldn't track what was going on with this new phone enough to use it. We found a direct replacement of the prior phone and have moved her back to that.

> I'm sick of machines constantly nagging for my attention.

Same. And in her case, she can manage far less attention than she used to. Tech companies don't accommodate for that.

Re: New phone can make calls and send texts, but it cannot access social media

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Post by hammyhavoc » Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 5:32 PM UTC

FridayoLeary wrote: post #136

hammyhavoc wrote: post #78

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Using one. Care to elaborate?

Try use predictive texting

I never use it as any kind of predictive writing tool tends to be terrible for technical subjects on any device.