This is Norway. You'll have to be inside a mountain to not get a signal here. Phone-connected infrastructure is everywhere. I've climbed the highest mountain in Telemark and paid with my phone at the kiosk at the top.
emptyother
joined 1 year ago
All you have to do is just not participate in the data collection by saying “no” to that stuff.
But honestly, I love to use my phone for everything. Love not having to talk to people to get stuff done. Not deal with queues. Not wait for the server to be ready for me to pay before I leave. Not carry around paper tickets, or printed maps. Not having to find a seven-eleven to buy bus tickets.
I am worried for those who for some reason can't use a smart phone. A lot of this doesnt have a website alternative. Most of it has paper/plastic/in-person-alternatives still, true, rarely advertised though. I am worried the analog ways disappearing eventually since very few uses it.
Yeah. If calling/sms was all I used my phone for, I would probably still use my old Lumia Windows phone even as the app builders stopped supporting it.
But because its for public transport tickets, accessing the local library, accessing the gym center, ordering at restaurants or food delivery, sending money to family, car navigation, syncing my exercise watch, being invited to social events, streaming my cloud saved music library, rent a city-bike, check my medicine prescriptions..
I need a phone that is up to date. How is people living without a smart phone today?
If pants are all that keeps massive amounts of dick jokes back, I'm for pants.
If you're a Star Trek fan, @JeriLRyan@mastodon.world and @georgetakei@universeodon.com is there.
If you're a dev, maybe @JenMsft@mastodon.social or @codinghorror@infosec.exchange or @SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange or @shanselman@hachyderm.io ? @jonskeet@hachyderm.io is also there but not very active.
If you're a retro gamer, @grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place is pretty active.
Literature fan? Im a fan of @MicroSFF@mastodon.art . And @neilhimself@mastodon.social do sometimes reply there.
If you did, I'd absolutely follow you. Stuff like that is fun to read. @emptyother@oslo.town Im not big on asking for help though.
Dont know about you but I find @MissingThePt@mastodon.social funny.
Yeah no, the default app doesn't have this feature for some weird unknown reason.
Learned that VERY recently from here, at NDC Oslo 2023, he mentioned it around 42:54. The whole talk is worth watching, its about the history of javascript all the way back to FORTRAN (the talk itself starts at 25:03).
Meh. The only good Star Wars is in games, comics, and tvseries.
Smaller govts, like here in Norway, is just people doing what they can and has been educated to do. This faceless govt that a lot of people are describing, I cant imagine it here. It is built of people anyone can talk to. So yes, the government and the system cares about us as a whole. Not for me personally, though. Common good.
Some politicians and govt workers are completely self-serving, of course, even here.
I dont think I'm addicted yet, but I'm certainly been checking Lemmy more often than I used to check Reddit. Also I'm active on Mastodon while I barely used to touch Twitter. It's because its something new and fresh and active. I'll probably tire of it soon.