Digital Echoes and Unquiet Minds

Re:Digital Echoes and Unquiet Minds by netsharc on Friday March 28, 2025 @06:36PM (#43510600)

I feel like it would suffer feature-creep.

Personally I'd want WhatsApp and Google Maps.

And if you want to deal with QR codes that redirect you to a restaurant menu or ticket ordering portal (I was visiting a country once, it had a long queue for visas on arrival, but it also had a QR code where I could get said visa online), it would need to have a web browser, well there you go, a portal to distraction has been opened.

And then there's a need to have the payment app for the WeChat-esque "Scan QR code to pay" payment system that exists where I live...

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Re:Digital Echoes and Unquiet Minds by ronbenton on Friday March 28, 2025 @06:41PM (#43510652)

Yes this is what I was thinking too. Everyone’s “must have” features will be different. Once we add them all, we’ll be looking at an iPhone.

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Re:Digital Echoes and Unquiet Minds by getnormality on Friday March 28, 2025 @07:43PM (#43511096)

So what we really need is good parental controls. This will benefit not only parents but also adults who need to parent themselves sometimes.

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Re:Digital Echoes and Unquiet Minds by ronbenton on Friday March 28, 2025 @08:15PM (#43511418)

I actually do have some websites blocked on my iphone using the "block adult websites" feature

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