Can you live without your .....

[true_believer]

There's no need to replace older electronics(i.e. computers, phones or televisions) if they are in good working order. Older computers that cannot run the latest version of Windows, can have alternate operating systems(i.e. Linux) installed.

 

[Lanolin]

well thats a relief I bought 16gb which is twice as much as I had before.

I thought maybe I could just swing this but then I had a bit of panic, lose all my contacts and start all over again with a different number. Which I have thought of doing thanks to some random private numbers trying to call me all the time.

I mean I appreciate a helpdesk when I do call one for work, but I myself have long ago abandoned being someones personal helpdesk...they will only get referrals from me to the One who is there 24/7 and only a prayer away, and on unlimited data.

 

[G00WZ]

....Smartphone?
Just wondering.
If you switched it off for a month and didnt use it would you survive?
Hands up who doesnt have one and when they need to contact some body just borrow someone elses phone, email, msg online at a computer, use the landline, write a letter or go see them.

I mean can we actually ditch them so they arent taking up so much space in our pockets and handbags and giving out radiation.

I probably can live without mine, i mostly just use it as a clock. Most of the people that i talk to are
on Discord or Skype. I always preferred talking into a headset-mic rather holding up a phone and talking into it.

 

[Lanolin]

I usually use the speaker phone on mine cos I dont like holding it really close to my ear. Also that means I can have my hands free.

 

[Eric_Nicholas]

In a very real sense of the question, yes, I could live without it. But I would not like it. Not one bit.

 

[Lanolin]

maybe its a peer pressure thing but I really dont know if I would have fork out money to have a phone if nobody else had tried to sell me one.

I think I would have actually gladly gone without. And said to whoever it was, if you really want me to have a phone, YOU buy me one.

Since so money other people have phones, if I really needed to call someone, I could just ask someone to borrow theirs right? OF course that might make me a free loader, but I would only ask that in dire emergencies.

Of course this incommunicado would be totally inconvenient for anyone trying to reach me, to which I then say send a letter through pigeon post. You have pigeons right? what .... you dont? Come on they are the latest thing man. Everyone has their own personal pigeon. Get with the times!

 

[Lynx]

Pigeon? I thought it was owls everybody had. Or maybe that was a different world I read about in some book...

Might as well use pigeons. It would be less confusing than trying to keep track of which app which friend uses to communicate.

 

[Aristarri]

No

 

[wisebeardman]

I don't have a government tracking device.. er cellphone. well I don't have any phone.

 

[Lanolin]

this covid tracer app thing is kinda weird
its now presuming everyone has a smartphone that has one or the majority (my parents still dont) where they can download the app

But its not like the govt has issued everyone with a free smartphone.

Yesterday the internet was down at home and I couldnt call the landline but I could still txt. My dad was, being typical dad, just went with it, oh it will come on again soon. Maybe if I turn the modem on and off.

whereas my sister was PANICKING and making a huge fuss and saying I ought to call the provider and check this or that with the neighbours. She was having a feal hissy fit. Dont you have 4G? What why dont you do something about it...blah blah blah

She got real worked up about it.

if the internet is down at work for example, we'll just close the library and stop issuing books. and maybe just read them there. No big deal.

But I think if it goes down for some people, its like the END OF THE WORLD.

 

[Adstar]

....Smartphone?
Just wondering.
If you switched it off for a month and didnt use it would you survive?
Hands up who doesnt have one and when they need to contact some body just borrow someone elses phone, email, msg online at a computer, use the landline, write a letter or go see them.

I mean can we actually ditch them so they arent taking up so much space in our pockets and handbags and giving out radiation.

I have never had a smartphone.. I still use a landline if i have to contact someone..

 

[Lanolin]

smartphone companies are making a mint on cables, chargers and accesories I am sure. Nothing worse than a dead phone.

I walked past an old telephone box the other day, I remember buying phone cards and using coins to make calls. Its comforting to know its still there, and working.

 

[wisebeardman]

smartphone companies are making a mint on cables, chargers and accesories I am sure. Nothing worse than a dead phone.

I walked past an old telephone box the other day, I remember buying phone cards and using coins to make calls. Its comforting to know its still there, and working.

I never paid for a payphone call. had a nice little device that gave me free calls

 

[Lanolin]

I never paid for a payphone call. had a nice little device that gave me free calls

is it a smartphone this device....

I have an 0800 number to phone home so its free wherever but I cant call anywhere else for free...

over the internet its techincally free to make calls but only in areas where its free wifi. Otherwise people are prepaying each time or on a plan of some kind. The phone could be $1 to but the plan could be hundreds of dollars a month.

Landline calls are free except for toll calls.

 

[wisebeardman]

is it a smartphone this device....

I have an 0800 number to phone home so its free wherever but I cant call anywhere else for free...

over the internet its techincally free to make calls but only in areas where its free wifi. Otherwise people are prepaying each time or on a plan of some kind. The phone could be $1 to but the plan could be hundreds of dollars a month.

Landline calls are free except for toll calls.

no it was old school phone phreak. I never paid for the payphone call.

 

[Lanolin]

no it was old school phone phreak. I never paid for the payphone call.

sorry I dont know what that is can you explain.

 

[wisebeardman]

sorry I dont know what that is can you explain.

look up phone phreak

 

[Lynx]

Phone phreaks were hipster hackers. They were hackers before it was cool.

 

[Lanolin]

look up phone phreak

fraudulent manipulation of telephone signals? how.

why
couldnt you afford to make calls or something. Or you figured out how. Or maybe you worked for a phone company? I wonder how those telemarketers go about calling everyone surely they must pay a bundle for annoying people.

 

[wisebeardman]

fraudulent manipulation of telephone signals? how.

why
couldnt you afford to make calls or something. Or you figured out how. Or maybe you worked for a phone company? I wonder how those telemarketers go about calling everyone surely they must pay a bundle for annoying people.

I was a kid still into the early teen years, I never paid for a payphone call cause of the box I had. Id just go to the payphone use my box and call whoever i wanted to call.