Could you escape the smartphone slavery?

I have the solution move to a remote part of the planet with no Internet in one month max you won't even touch it

i’ve been looking to do so lately but it seems inevitable that as a functioning member of society you will need a social media page and a smartphone. there are so many situations i think of everyday where a business or a government has placed all its chips on the expectation of people having a smartphone or a good internet connection. it’s seriously a redpill/bluepill situation

What did you think of PDA's and why are they inherently less bullshit than smartphones.

i sure did my man

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No work requires me to have one. Cucked by life.

Could you escape personal computer slavery OP ?

>never have I been a slave to it
of course user, of course.

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can you please actually post what
>everything they represent
means to you, so that we can end the thread quickly

It’s a tool. I use it for navigation when needed, music, info, and making actual phone calls (conversation by text is for fags). I have plenty of other things to keep me busy and don’t use social media. You fuckers that let inanimate objects rule your life are pathetic.

I use mine for reading, navigation and music. You're only enslaved by it if you are a feeble-minded faggot who needs to check instagram every 2 seconds.

>obscure closed source system
come on /g u can do better

>There are entire free phones out there in terms of hardware
which phones(

Why are you fags so against smartphones? You don't have to be a mindless social media consuming drone staring into the screen 24/7. They come in handy for a lot of different reasons. The only reason smartphones suck is because service providers are such fuckin jews but whatever.

Low spec freetard phones that utterly failed or vaporware like Purism’s Librem.

the reason why is because they are turning into their grandparents just the same who fought PCs in the 80s over typewriters. there is absolutely, positively no other reason than it is too new. the difference and reason why it is funny is because there are entire freetard organizations like mentioned that will be ignored by them. only comparison is if some company in the 80s made a configurable typewriter that never ran out of tape and the general consensus was to not use it because "im bettur than u!!!!!!!"

I have a modern smartphone, but I'm using it only for calling and texting. I just can't even browse net on anything other than a desktop PC or at least a huge laptop, it just doesn't feel right

Why do you feel the need to have access to information 24/7?

I use mine to browse Jow Forums while shitting and to call my parents once a week. Pretty sure i could survive without it.

Yep never had social media.. no need to check phone only expect calls from family / business

can disappear on a 50km ride with just muisc on the watch and BT headset

cant wait to ditch phone... waiting for standalone celluar watches ( i can turn off)

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I don't know the reason you are so against smartphones yet sit in front of a computer all fucking day.

Or I just don't want to carry around a little demon in my pocket, that listen to what I'm saying in irl, and shills me ads related to my irl discussions. Smartphones are a privacy nightmare.

Who would you talk to?
>mom... Cheetos are fucking out again... Bitch

Wow aren't you special. Fucking boomers

This, op pic was the last phone I've had.

>Could you escape the smartphone slavery?
yes. the only reason i have a smartphoine is because i got it for free ( galaxy S2 ) . i only use it log into my steam account. and sometimes to verify a online transaction with my TAN. thats it.

never understood why people are enslaved to phones. if i want to surf / chat and play games i do that on my PC, much better experience. if i want to talk to people i use teamspeak.

i dont have any friends who would call me anyway. i also never leave my house so the 'mobil' argument doesnt matter to me.

so yeah, i dont really get it. why are people enslaved to these?

Maybe they have friends and leave the house?

I've never had a smart phone and still have a really old flip phone, but mostly because i'm poorfag (and honestly I don't go out much so for a long time had not much use for one). I'm worried though , verizon's shutting off the network it uses soon I think so I'm a bit screwed.

>leaving your house and getting friends will actually enslave.

thanks. good to know i made the right life decisions

I need mine for facebook messenger, since that's how i contact everyone from friends, to university friends to classmates.

my x220 would end up a lot more cummy as well.

in conclusion, if the world would let me then yes, but it doesn't.

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>user has to spend £10 on a new brick phone

oh fuck, it's all over

If I were to go back, i'd get one of these again

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It kind of does.

Everyone expects to have your time at their provision and they don't understand when you don't want to hang out for some beers for the time 10000 this month.

I haven't owned a phone in seven years. I don't see what the big deal is.

you can't even name 3 free phone that are affordable and come preconfigured. I don't want to fuck around with roms because if your phone breaks you can not return it around here. Fuck you a bit.

> implying old PCs had integrated cameras and microphones, gps systems that could track everything you say and do

Good goyim

no :( I have to use a smartphone at work for 2-factor/rsa authentication

>implying i haven't flashed gerdaos on my 8110

I have to buy new smartphone now
I need in it:
1 stilus
2 booting from SD card
3 USB ports in count of 3 or more
4 changable and cheap batary
5 ability to work without any battary from a power bank
6 connector for externl antenas
7 aluminium body with screwholes for external cooling propeller
8 gold plated connectors
9 no any glue, only screws
10 strong PSB with only wide lines near connetors
11 VR carboard included
12 easy replaceble screen and relable bootons, aloot of buttons all the frame around
Unless all this become avalable i gona use only cheapest phones from new noname manufacters

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They don't offer them for only 10 and they sure as hell barely have any old style phones the few they actually do. I have to use Verizon.

Yes, I have no friends.

Good luck to you on that one, friend.

But a laptop with SIM card slot

but I don't want to be a slave to.....

SPACE IMPACT

Just delete your social media apps, and only use your computer to check on them. Also, using a little self control helps

>mfw I still can't afford the best dumb phone because Russians and Ukrainians keep outbiding me on ebay.

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>mfw some user thinks they have a "dumb" phone just because it has a tiny screen

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I never got a smartphone.
>tfw two weeks of standby time

fine, £20

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269 bitcoins for a nokia 3310?
seems a little on the expensive side.

>mfw he thinks based Finnish autism Symbian OS is not dumb enough.

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youtube.com/watch?v=G7kQl1vGrFE

Tbh I could browse on this if I had cravings. Bad idea.

Had one smartphone and went back to a basic thereafter.
>Apps
Literally just some normie garbage way to access a website or perform a function so simple I could script it in python in less than the time it takes to count the number of trackers in the "app."
>convenient
Bollocks. Having an actual plan for your day is what makes things easy. Going AWOL from your tasks to chase "notifications," and being so flighty from all the same that you miss obvious things is not "helpful."
>can't take your laptop everywhere autist
I can and have since the late 90s. They weigh approximately nothing now, even if you want a chunky old classic thinkpad. I don't even have one of those faggy messenger bags, just a cheap backpack for weekends and a briefcase for work.
>lolholyshit grampa get with the times
I've kept up with all the trends and I'm going to out-last all of them. I wrote backend for some of the biggest "apps," that I personally despise. I'm now working on web logic that will, hopefully, render a lot of these obnoxious mobile "ecosystems," obsolete.
>okfaggot ugotmyattention now you have my interest
Not going to recommend a basic phone. They're all the fucking same. I am not marketing. I'm just a smartphone hater.

No, it makes my life easier and helps me practice discipline.

Why do you retards think smartphones are synonymous with and inseperable from social media? I get only three notifications on my smartphone, and they're the same three I got on my ancient Nokia. Text, calls, and email.

The only things I need from smartphone are whatsapp(which I hate, but everyone else uses) and 2FA program for my bank account. I guess being able to check news while on bus/train is nice.

This.

Those don't work on verizon. I've made a post in the past about their basic phone kikery: the cheapest FLIP PHONE they offer is $120. Utterly ridiculous

Not 24/7, just when I'm on my job or running errands

I just don't see the point of spending money for something I don't need. I use my phone for calls, SMS and as alarm. Nothing more, nothing less. My current phone is 6 or 7 years old and still going strong, with one charge lasting me for 3 to 4 days.

This

it $9

NEETs and poorfags aren't able to afford them.

>needing to respond to email while not at the desk
hard pass, if it's not important enough for an emergency call or text then I won't get to it until i'm next at my desk

I've got a Nokia 1 that cost me $70 new and unlocked, I think they're even cheaper now. There is no way you can not afford a smartphone but can afford a computer, even a really cheap one.

It's kinda hard, modern life requires too much connectivity. I'd like to get away, but there's no convenient alternative to the ease of use a smartphone offers.

Nice coping mechanism.

If you have a real job, you still don't need a smartphone for anything, unless you're really inefficient. Efficient people with real jobs barely need to use any tech at all, even if their job is tech.

>modern life requires too much connectivity

No it doesn't. Only people who can't set strong healthy boundaries between the different parts of their life think this way.

>Only people who can't set strong healthy boundaries between the different parts of their life think this way.
You're not wrong, but this behavior comes off as being a Luddite who doesn't like to put in extra effort. Ultimately it's your own demise, but I suppose it also matters what your priorities in life are.
I guess you could say fuck it and just go innawoods, but that's not what you're proposing.

Found the phoneposter/zoomer.
Sad life of a basement dweller.

>yfw you will never be a bigger pimp than the kid who whipped out one of these back in 1997

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>1500$ not counting data roaming

Yeah, no kid ever brought that to school.

Try the 99-00 with the first affordables Nokia.

give me dumbphone the size of credit card and I will

Do it.

nttdocomo.co.jp/product/feature_phone/ky01l/

available in English?

Extra effort in what? Engaging in trendy shit that adds no value to your life like a mindless zombie?

Like being an Uber driver? Kek.

It's not dumb. Still have a web browser.

Jesus you fuck nigger, have you ever had a goddamn job? Have you ever needed to do shit like shop for insurance?
Fucking Christ, get out of your cockgobbling hole. Not everything is about being connected to you peers or engaging in social media. You faggot, that's not the only reason one would need a fucking iPhone. You need it to stay in contact with people who won't wait for you.
Apply your fucking brain, there's so much more to this issue than you can see.

Same here.

>have friends and leave the house?
>smartphone slave

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How is owning smartphone more enslaving than owning separately: dumb cellphone, tablet, camera, gps and mp3 player?

>i can't take responsibility for my own privacy and how i use my device
smoothbrain

>data
>startac

well then, into the trash it goes.

retard

>voice traveling at lighting speed isn't technically data.

Mobile phone plans were like 50$ the 2000 secondes.

Probably not. I was one of the last holdouts, dabbing on smartphonefags with one of these things until it crapped out on me. But these days I don't think I could live without on-the-go shitposting and being able to google anything anywhere.

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>Jesus you fuck nigger, have you ever had a goddamn job?
Have you?
>Have you ever needed to do shit like shop for insurance?
Something you can do on a computer or actually visit or call an agent to do?
>Fucking Christ, get out of your cockgobbling hole. Not everything is about being connected to you peers or engaging in social media. You faggot, that's not the only reason one would need a fucking iPhone. You need it to stay in contact with people who won't wait for you.
You've contradicted yourself, moron.
>Apply your fucking brain, there's so much more to this issue than you can see.
There really isn't.

One used to buy something called "airtime" in units called "minutes". "Data" came later for carrier services and WAP.

now this is mega levels of cope. Tech allows people to do jobs more efficiently. There's a reason almost no one is a farmer anymore... TRACTORS!!!

I drop my service every winter and go without a phone altogether

Get into stoicism. That's a very effective way to counter addiction.

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