Recently started using a LightPhone II when out of the house, and I found the article captured my current experience pretty well. It’s not so bad to be bored sometimes.

  • svarozic@midwest.socialEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    Paywalls are a scourge on the modern Internet…

    I have been thinking of switching to a dumbphone and a standalone Spotify player lately. I still have my old Garmin GPS, but don’t know if it still works. The idea of abandoning the smartphone is more daunting than I want to admit, but technology burnout is real.

    • ch00f@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      The LightPhone has gps which is nice. Even transit directions. It’s slow as shit, but it got me out of a bind recently when dropping my car off for service suddenly became an overnight affair.

    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, but news papers are businesses that were built on paywalls. Want to get the NYT in 1990? Pay up, and they’ll deliver it in the morning.

      Sadly, web advertising has not yielded the same revenue for newsrooms, and proper newsrooms and journalist have been downsizing and bleeding money for 20 years. So now they’ve brought back the paywalls that they had before the internet.

      Newsroom should probably switch to nonprofits and do pledge drives. Go with the NPR model.

    • JoJoGAH@kbin.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      I used paper maps before internet and smart phones, I used to have a better sense of where I was . I bought a local map recently as well as a good compass, the compass just to get oriented in which direction things are.
      I feel more connected and grounded than when using Google maps.
      Surprises are part of this path but that’s true of any adventure.

      • AlternateRouteEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Paper maps -> printed map quest directions -> early GPS device -> Google maps with live updates.

        Used them all.

        Towns and Cities with numbered streets and avenues are super easy with regular maps.

        Trying to find ANYTHING in a city of only named streets requires a huge amount of memorizing without search.