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Re:Smartphones: Parts of Our Minds? Or Parasites? by aeve890 on Friday June 20, 2025 @09:08PM (#44333650)
>Parasites. Period. This thing fills my head with a bunch of images from distant warped realities, summoned up out of thin air, it clogs my brain with a flood of other voices,

It does all that by it self? Of course not. This thing is not autonomous. Every app that _fill your head_ was your choice to install, signup and OPEN every time. It's like saying drugs are parasites. Of course they aren't. Your choices made you addicted to the thing. What happened to agency? Everyone is now a slave of social media apps?

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Re:Smartphones: Parts of Our Minds? Or Parasites? by hsbauauvhabzb on Saturday June 21, 2025 @03:49AM (#44335569)
Tell that to all the bloatware pre installed on my phone. And my windows computer.
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Re:Smartphones: Parts of Our Minds? Or Parasites? by VonTum on Saturday June 21, 2025 @09:18AM (#44337388)
As for bloatware-free phones: Fairphone. I've been using one for more than 4 years now, replaced the screen after dropping it, and I bought an extra battery to keep my gps alive on long ski trips.
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Re:Smartphones: Parts of Our Minds? Or Parasites? by trainerxr50 on Sunday June 22, 2025 @08:48AM (#44346487)
My phone doesn't do this because I don't install social media apps because I don't have the social media accounts to be bothered with.

I never feel a compulsion to check google maps for instance.

This parasite is easily exterminated.

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