How's Life with a Flip Phone?
Nov. 4th, 2023 08:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miscellaneous_sectionI've been using a flip phone for several months and it's going well for the most part. I still find myself wasting a couple of hours a day on either a tablet and/or desktop, but it's better than having a smartphone to waste more time for me, personally.
At one point, I think we did have a sweet spot/happy medium with technology during the 2000's; landlines and cell phones handling calls (along with text messages on cell phones), computers whether on a desk or it's portable where people can wait for you to get back later, and mp3 players to store all of your albums and songs. A lot devices but it made people think what they really want to have like either a paper map or a GPS. Do I want the processing powers of that time? God, no!
I just think we need less features on phones that I (and possibly other people feel this way, too) personally don't need like Google Assistant for one. It gets a little overwhelming and it becomes bloatware at this point.
Either way, I'm still trying to find a better use of my time when I don't have school work to finish up like getting back into reading or even baking. But, I'm glad I'm getting some of my sense of direction back; it used to be better than this.
At one point, I think we did have a sweet spot/happy medium with technology during the 2000's; landlines and cell phones handling calls (along with text messages on cell phones), computers whether on a desk or it's portable where people can wait for you to get back later, and mp3 players to store all of your albums and songs. A lot devices but it made people think what they really want to have like either a paper map or a GPS. Do I want the processing powers of that time? God, no!
I just think we need less features on phones that I (and possibly other people feel this way, too) personally don't need like Google Assistant for one. It gets a little overwhelming and it becomes bloatware at this point.
Either way, I'm still trying to find a better use of my time when I don't have school work to finish up like getting back into reading or even baking. But, I'm glad I'm getting some of my sense of direction back; it used to be better than this.
