@superboom12s Welcome to the instance!

@Saorsa @xaetacore @alex @musha Oh! It's a nice thing not to own a mobile phone, I feel the same as you. Right now I only have it to be able to contacted with Telegram (since I stopped using Whatsapp and any other social medie, excepting Mastodon and now Misskey, but I don't have them on my phone), usually without internet. I want to slowly stop using it completely and only have a 'dumb' phone to be able to call others whenever I need. The only thing that I am afraid of is UK, you are forced to own and use a mobile phone there and I am afraid that it will be the same here in a close future... ​​

Being alone with your thoughts some time each day is a good thing, or at least something I like, but have you considered investing in a external battery for the deck? You could even use an old modded phone to charge it, in case you have one.

@Saorsa @xaetacore @alex @musha Oh! It's a nice thing not to own a mobile phone, I feel the same as you. Right now I only have it to be able to contacted with Telegram (since I stopped using Whatsapp and any other social medie, excepting Mastodon and now Misskey, but I don't have them on my phone), usually without internet. I want to slowly stop using it completely and only have a 'dumb' phone to be able to call others whenever I need. The only thing that I am afraid of is UK, you are forced to own and use a mobile phone there and I am afraid that it will be the same here in a close future... ​​

Being alone with your thoughts some time each day is a good thing, or at least something I like, but have you considered investing in a external battery for the deck? You could even use an old modded phone to charge it, in case you have one.

@superboom12s @Saorsa @xaetacore @musha With dumb phones I probably won't get one cause getting spied on by my ISP/govt is not something I want ​​. Custom privacy ROM + container for disabling annoying apps and a bit of self control ​​

Wdym, I'm from the UK. 🥴

I've completely sworn off anything meta related, so imagine the lack of surprise I had when I saw this pop up in my feed recently.

@superboom12s @xaetacore @alex @musha

Problem with that, though is you lose access to banking software. Lot of traditional of banking societies have been moving towards managing your account through a phone application and challenger banks are almost exclusively managed through them.

@alex @superboom12s @xaetacore @musha

@Saorsa @xaetacore @alex @musha Oh- I saw that you HAVE to use digital identification in UK or else pay fines each time you wanted to use your phisical ones... So that pretty much forces anyone to use their phone, but maybe it is not just like that.

Problem with that, though is you lose access to banking software. Lot of traditional of banking societies have been moving towards managing your account through a phone application and challenger banks are almost exclusively managed through them.

@alex @superboom12s @xaetacore @musha

@Saorsa @superboom12s @xaetacore @musha Yea that shit is annoying. Dumb phones have the same problem tbh. I used to patch my bank app to work on a rooted phone. Google Pay is like the only thing that no work for me so I just use cards themselves.

@Saorsa @superboom12s @xaetacore @musha Yea that shit is annoying. Dumb phones have the same problem tbh. I used to patch my bank app to work on a rooted phone. Google Pay is like the only thing that no work for me so I just use cards themselves.

I just use physical currency, myself. Any transactions can't be traced after it is withdrawn from the bank.

@alex @superboom12s @xaetacore @musha

@superboom12s @Saorsa @xaetacore @musha With dumb phones I probably won't get one cause getting spied on by my ISP/govt is not something I want ​​. Custom privacy ROM + container for disabling annoying apps and a bit of self control ​​

@Saorsa @alex @superboom12s @xaetacore @musha If you try , it 's more than possible

Possible, but difficult. Not practical unless you've got access to the resources available in law enforcement.

@Richard @alex @superboom12s @xaetacore @musha

@alex @Saorsa @xaetacore @musha I do have a custom ROM, and yeah, since I live in Spain I already know either my ISP or the government is spying on me.

The dumbphone thing is more just to force me to not use any phone stuff, I don't need it, I don't want it... And my calls should only be to contact me, not to actually talk with me, so I shouldn't be too worrdies about getting spyed on, right?

since I live in Spain

I hope you don't use proton mail in which case.

@superboom12s @alex @xaetacore @musha

@Saorsa @alex @superboom12s @xaetacore @musha If you're hiding against ordinary citizens, then yes, it's useful, but for me personally, it's more convenient to pay by phone

Problem with that, though is you lose access to banking software. Lot of traditional of banking societies have been moving towards managing your account through a phone application and challenger banks are almost exclusively managed through them.

@alex @superboom12s @xaetacore @musha

Wdym, I'm from the UK. 🥴

I've completely sworn off anything meta related, so imagine the lack of surprise I had when I saw this pop up in my feed recently.

@superboom12s @xaetacore @alex @musha

@Saorsa @superboom12s @xaetacore @musha I only use WhatsApp to stream VR from my OculusMeta Quest 3 headset ​​, only that is well integrated with the OS and discord dies all the time. Classic vendor lock in by terrible software

since I live in Spain

I hope you don't use proton mail in which case.

@superboom12s @alex @xaetacore @musha