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Re:Ask HN: Anyone considered being phone-free? by mikewarot on Sunday January 16, 2022 @02:16PM (#29958922)
I have a phone, a soon to be useless, 3g candy bar phone. It serves as a notification and communications channel for me to other humans. It doesn't do email, or internet, it doesn't do images or apps. It does do texts.

If I didn't need to be on call for family or friends, I'd turn it off and only use it when I needed to communicate, but that's not an option for me.

I navigate without it because I'm old and learned to do so well before google was invented, let alone google maps. However, google maps has utility (specifically, real time traffic), so it's likely to be something my next soon to be useless phone might have on it.

I will not ever put Facebook or any other social media on something I carry everywhere, because I would become addicted to it.

As stated elsewhere, separate tools from garbage. You don't have to use this tool in the same manner as others. You can turn it off and pull the battery, and put all that in a ziplock bag inside a tin can if you want.

It's your tool, use it how you want.

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