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Re: Feeling uncomfortable when leaving phone at home shouldn't be normal

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Post by carom »

manachar wrote: post #48
mostlysimilar wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So I had a feeling "without a terminal" was a typo and I wanted to look up the exact quote. I googled the sentence and expected the right quote to be at the top, but all Google gave me was results for helping people with terminal cancer cope with their coming death. It was only after I appended "Ian M Banks" that I got the result I was looking for. I'm honestly surprised Google failed that search so hard.

Google has become blinded by metrics focused on giving people what an algorithm things most people want. It's the digital equivalent of going to a restaurant and looking for vegetarian food only to be inundated with gluten-free and other health-fad foods. I suspect their algorithm is in a bit of a doom loop as it's being trained on people clicking worse and worse results of pages that seem clearly written to game the…

Gluten free isn't a health fad. Please learn about celiacs.

Re: Feeling uncomfortable when leaving phone at home shouldn't be normal

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Post by panaffa »

I'm part of the new generation and I think the opposite. I am obsessed with my phone and the Internet. And I don't think it's bad. It's extremely stimulating in a way real life is orders of magnitude worse at. Point of reference, born around 2000. There's no going back for me. I want my phone at all times to have access to billions of possible thoughts, pictures, memes. It's literally a god like power.

Re: Feeling uncomfortable when leaving phone at home shouldn't be normal

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Post by Adraghast »

CommanderData wrote: post #5

Being forced to pay for council parking in the UK using a mobile app is completely astonishing to me, and leaving home without your mobile, or no data or a broken phone can cause you a world of difficulties. I didn't agree to wanting to normalise the removal of parking meters and mandatory app usage just to park your car in a park or highsteet. I'm not sure where this motivation started.

Similarly, I went out to dinner Friday and could not scan the QR code to view the menu because I decided to leave my phone in the car. I asked for a a physical menu and was told they literally do not have them anymore. Had to hunch over my friend's phone instead.

Re: Feeling uncomfortable when leaving phone at home shouldn't be normal

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Post by joebob42 »

carom wrote: post #71
manachar wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google has become blinded by metrics focused on giving people what an algorithm things most people want. It's the digital equivalent of going to a restaurant and looking for vegetarian food only to be inundated with gluten-free and other health-fad foods. I suspect their algorithm is in a bit of a doom loop as it's being trained on people clicking worse and worse results of pages that seem clearly written to game the…

Gluten free isn't a health fad. Please learn about celiacs.

The set of celiacs is much smaller than the set of people who think eating gluten free food is a good idea.

Re: Feeling uncomfortable when leaving phone at home shouldn't be normal

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Post by dsr_ »

whimsicalism wrote: post #67
mostlysimilar wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So I had a feeling "without a terminal" was a typo and I wanted to look up the exact quote. I googled the sentence and expected the right quote to be at the top, but all Google gave me was results for helping people with terminal cancer cope with their coming death. It was only after I appended "Ian M Banks" that I got the result I was looking for. I'm honestly surprised Google failed that search so hard.

..but it was a typo, yeah?

Yes, it should be "With a terminal".

Re: Feeling uncomfortable when leaving phone at home shouldn't be normal

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Post by hedora »

CommanderData wrote: post #5

Being forced to pay for council parking in the UK using a mobile app is completely astonishing to me, and leaving home without your mobile, or no data or a broken phone can cause you a world of difficulties. I didn't agree to wanting to normalise the removal of parking meters and mandatory app usage just to park your car in a park or highsteet. I'm not sure where this motivation started.

In the US, you already need a phone to charge an EV (of course, the EV has a cell modem anyway, and license plate tracking cameras are becoming ubiquitous too...)

Re: Feeling uncomfortable when leaving phone at home shouldn't be normal

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Post by [deleted] »

CommanderData wrote: post #34
ectopod wrote: post #26

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Was there literally no alternative? Round these parts you can pay in cash (with no change given). I've heard people complain they were forced to use the app when they just didn't have any cash. (I have to be aware of the alternatives because I don't have a smartphone. It's not been an insurmountable problem yet.)

No alternatives and here's the Councils announcement: https://www.richmond.gov.uk/services/parking/parking_machine... Some have extended to non-residential areas. One of the biggest parking apps says this: Q: "I have no network coverage and need to park?" A: "Move quickly to an area with better network coverage and complete your parking transaction with PayByPhone... Pay for your parking via other methods such as Pay…

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Re: Feeling uncomfortable when leaving phone at home shouldn't be normal

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Post by tleilaxu »

carom wrote: post #71
manachar wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google has become blinded by metrics focused on giving people what an algorithm things most people want. It's the digital equivalent of going to a restaurant and looking for vegetarian food only to be inundated with gluten-free and other health-fad foods. I suspect their algorithm is in a bit of a doom loop as it's being trained on people clicking worse and worse results of pages that seem clearly written to game the…

Gluten free isn't a health fad. Please learn about celiacs.

It can be both…

Re: Feeling uncomfortable when leaving phone at home shouldn't be normal

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Post by 8n4vidtmkvmk »

isoprophlex wrote: post #6

My phone screen was cracked, I had to leave it with the repair place for an hour or two. It was glorious. I leisurely strolled past shops, sat down to eat something without being distracted, and generally enjoyed being outside. I had to ask someone for the time. I resolved to go without phones more often, as it made me feel connected to me environment more, with less stress and reduced absentmindedness. Of course I n…

pooping with phone now. now and then i try pooping without it just in the interest of time. and saving my legs from falling asleep. not often though. bad habit.
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