I’ve been off and on into conlanging since I was a young child, and when the smartphone started becoming a thing with later Blackberries, Treos, and then with iPhone and Android, I began using the same word to mean leash and phone in most of my languages.
Re:How to Quit Your Smartphone
by madaxe_again on Sunday February 04, 2024 @10:37PM
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I literally call mine “the shackle”
In which case there actual issue would be worker's rights, and once again a bunch of people have run off to fight the wrong battle because they're scared or can't even conceive of the real one.
Meanwhile in France: https://www.upworthy.com/under-french-law-businesses-cant-em...
I have never allowed anyone to expect that kind of responsiveness from me, especially 24x7. The closest you get would be phone calls from my spouse and even then, if I’m in meetings I may not respond an hour or so and that’s not a cause for concern. At work, I have all notifications turned off except for badges or meeting notices. Even then I only check things like Slack or email at most once an hour.
We talk about habituated phone users - people who sit there refreshing their social feed for 14 hours a day - and while these are troubling cases, I don’t think they represent the majority of people who say they want to give up their smartphone.