check if your camera has bluetooth/dedicated app, on my 6D there’s that so I can just import the pics from camera to phone directly, I’m pretty sure modern pocket cameras should have this too which will make everything way easier.
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Fair enough, but if the crack people know you have a crack pipe, they will pitch crack to you like there’s no tomorrow. Don’t want you smoking some pussy weed or DMT in that bitch.
And for me, didn’t really think of crack as an analogy until the first time I spent 4 hours scrolling YouTube shorts. Hate that shit, hate that my brain is so dumb it finds it addictive. Listen to what these people you don’t give a shit about said about something you don’t care about, up next is the cutest dog in the world being naughty, followed by beautiful music that lasts for 20 seconds.
Not saying personal responsibility isn’t a thing, but if my disillusioned, 40-year old brain struggles to not get horny, I can’t imagine how it is for the doomed youth.
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I’m a total photography novice, but I was gifted nice digital Canon (500 series?) from a few generations ago as opposed to a pocket type camera. (Helped the guy move in 90°F/32°C weather and he doesn’t use it anymore)
Regardless this is a good idea. I will do some more research on this sort of connectivity. Honestly the camera is way to advanced for me which I think is part of the issue as well.
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I’d guess gaming more than phones.
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as much as i would like to have a lot more photos/videos of nights out back in the day, more glad than not that phones just weren’t a thing yet then
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Yeah, much more nuance there.
My angle is around the lack of physical space and encouragement to connect online in general, in that even malls were physical spaces, but kids had a greater opportunity to get out and do things, and positively engage and there were less pay spaces.
So still my thesis is consumption replacing more positive interactions, leading to selling kids to adults a replacement for the free, wonderful shit of humanity. Be it booze, gambling for kids, “gamified” dating, the firehose of “content” (its own form of porn), corporations are structuring society to sell ads and services based on their demographic data.
Turns out that’s not good for us!
i’ve only had phones effectively “banned” at fet clubs and Berghain, both a good opportunity to detach and be… mindful!
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Up until my mid 20’s never had a phone, they were available but it was mostly just yuppies that had them.
Got by fine without them, there were payphones around if needed.
I think nowadays it is very difficult to avoid smartphones and that is by design, personally I don’t think they make everything better and more convenient, and I think we place far too much trust in them and rely on them far too much. But that is the world we live in and that “convenience” is the price we pay.
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I’m terrible. I try to get off my phone more but generally fail miserably. I’d like to detach more. I lack discipline.
One thing I will say is that I NEVER do antisocial stuff like play videos or music out loud on my phone on the train or bus etc. I see that all the time and I think it’s an awful modern affliction. It’s just so rude and annoying for everyone else. You can’t act the same way in public as you would do in your own home.
I’m not denying that I’m glued to the phone too much but I try hard to have good manners and be aware of other people.
I think mobile computers give a lot of convenience but at a price. To be fair you could say the same about any technology or any advancement. Nothing is all positive, just good to be aware of the negative.
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I am also old enough to have grown up without phones or ubiquitous computers, and I’m very happy about that.
My job is writing about tech, and I have always loved gadgets, but I don’t like phones much at all. I find them invasive and needy.
I actually have no problem ignoring my phone. When I’m out I use it for photos and paying for stuff, and that’s about it. Oh, and podcasts. At home it sits for hours, unused.
My problem is with my iPad. Or specifically, I can’t stop checking Elektronauts. Every time I reach a break in music making or work, I come here. In the evening, it’s usually another hour of synth youtube.
If I could break that habit I’d be golden, but there’s something about the feeling of connection to a community that is addictive.
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Who here uses a Light Phone? How is it?
Never had a smartphone. I have a $10 Walmart phone that makes calls and texts. I’m not a luddite though. I spent 25 years working in front of a computer designing websites, making graphics, editing video, etc. I just don’t want a computer in my pocket.
I’ve tried to strike some balance over the years by hiking, camping, mountain biking, learning bushcraft skills, drawing with pens and pencils, reading paper books, etc. I think I would feel swallowed up by the internet if I didn’t do those things.
I worked on a college campus my entire career. I had a window office overlooking a bus stop. Early 2000’s, it got annoyingly noisy with all the kids talking and goofing around.
By the time I retired in 2023, it was virtually silent, with the large crowd of kids mainly staring at their phones while waiting for the bus. Even if a kid didn’t have a phone in their hand, they stood silently by, not venturing to interrupt anyone else’s phone browsing.
The contrast was eerie, like Invasion of the Body Snatchers level of eerie. I don’t think people can truly appreciate the differences unless they have seen the steady decline of human interaction over that long of a timeline.
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in a nutshell, for me phone are burning people brain.
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I have a rule, that if anyone else is on a device when Im with family/friends, I won’t use anything - mob/ipad/laptop.
Also greyed out my old iphone and when it stops working (its a 7+) will get a dumb phone. As it’s old batt life is non-existant, so rarely use it much anyway…
Am sure I can get by with standard sat nav, must also be a GPS type watch about.
Ill never use a mob in order to participate in society. Fthat.
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I also grew up before the cell phone era, pre internet ubiquity too. It was great. Half the houses here still had rotary phones.
In my late teens and early twenties I toured and hitchhiked all around the US without a phone and never felt at a disadvantage because of it.
By my mid twenties I had a job that required I have one and that’s been the case ever since. First smartphone when I was thirty.
There’s a lot to like about smartphones for me. I use it as a reference tool for work almost daily, I listen to music and podcasts on it while working, I no longer have to carry a calculator with me, I can send pictures and ask questions to code officers and engineers thus saving everyone tons of driving, plus regular phone stuff like coordinating material deliveries and hearing whatever bad excuses my helpers have for not coming to work. I don’t have any social media in the typical sense (I’m on here and a couple of even more niche forums) so I think I’m dodging a lot of what people dislike about phones.
There’s plenty to dislike too. The privacy issues/ data harvesting market are really gross. I also resent how little you can customize the experience. It’s a powerful mini computer but the operating system is designed for shopping, watching videos, and browsing social media instead of just being a computer. Maybe androids are different, I’ve only had iPhones and this is becoming a more and more of a complaint I have about apple in general.
The way I see people using their phones baffles me. With all of the easily accessible information online it’s wild how more and more people lack basic knowledge and skills.
Nobody can figure out how to get anywhere anymore without gps. It not that hard. I think I’ve used gps twice and it was awful. I was talking to someone recently who couldn’t even identify basic cardinal directions by looking at the sky!
Since childhood I’ve had the habit of always bringing a book with me if I might have downtime away from home. Now if I’m reading a book on my lunch break or something people act like there’s something wrong with me. This country is functionally illiterate now. I’ve met several people in their twenties now who have never read a single book.
I dislike that everyone documents every second of their lives now instead of just remembering things. Maybe it’s just so they can post it as “content” that nobody will care about.
I mostly dislike being so contactable all the time but the way my life is presently I need to be.
I’m not trying to make a grand point, just some scattered thoughts. My summary is; good tech hamstringed by the companies that make it, poorly implemented, and used badly by most end users but still with the ability to be a legit utility device.
Oh, and they ruined phreaking!
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I consider the folks that are old enough to have grown up without this technology to be the last true humans to walk the earth.
All generations after that are cyborg.
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I can recommend the following book. One chapter describes how the smartphone can be configured so that it no longer takes up so much time and you can still manage (everyday things). Oh and i deleted all social media accounts (works great too)
https://jakeknapp.com/make-time
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As someone born in the late 1970s and grown up during the 80s life has been really exciting and adventurous. As mentioned by someone, I’ve also just told my mom I’m out with friends, then just coming back for lunch and then being out again. My parents trusted me. The playground and all the environment was in part ‘dangerous’, because I could have easily being hurt by all the tools. But I was on my own and with me my friends - that was my security. In the pre-mobilphone area my friends appeared at my door and the other way around. It just could happend, that I was not available. They came later then. Same with my parents… they visited friends without announcement and it was ok walking that long and in some cases without success seeing them. When the mobile arrived things changed dramatically over a certain period of time, but definitely when the internet was implented and the phone became a smartphone. Calls have been replaced by messages. It was also the, or better my starting point of organizing everything. Nowadays everything is a timeslot with degrees of freedom whenever I want to meet someone. That’s not the way I like it but I have to go along with that. Sure, I do nearly everything with my phone wherever I am. For example driving to Italy and on the highway I decide where to book a hotel on the fly… that’s great. Messaging is great from wherever I am but simultaneously it is annoying to me - I’m loosing time with that for various reasons.
I have to find a balance between all that stuff and that’s an ongoing endeavor. And: Time’s passing by at enormous speed the more older I get. This raises the question what is really precious. That said, one hand gives - the other hand takes. This is how I feel about smartphones.
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I had to bring me phone for servicing yesterday. I was postponing that until there was no way around it.
Holy shit, the abstinence syndrome is strong with this one. I didn’t know what to do with myself yesterday.
Right now I’m soothing myself with YouTube running on my mobile android TV cart that I move with my around the flat.
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when i’m going out, my favorite gadget is still a dedicated music player.
so not that much changed for me since 90s when i got my 1st one.
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