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MikeLinPA t1_ixt9lae wrote

I miss my various palm pilots. My cell phone does more, but my palm did it better!

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PPOKEZ t1_ixtlqp9 wrote

Everything it did, it did perfectly. And the batteries lasted forever.

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Nakotadinzeo t1_ixuqqh8 wrote

Your palm pilot didn't need to communicate with EAs servers to validate your DRM before starting Tetris...

Your tip calculator didn need to send a report to crashalitics every time it opened successfully.

I got a Knox based firewall, and holy crap does a lot of shit reach out to a server for useless unneeded reasons.

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MikeLinPA t1_ixvt3r2 wrote

Yeah, this! Data mining and DRM not only invade our privacy, they waste our bandwidth and cycle time. We have to wait our turn to use our own devices!

Remember, we're not men, we're wallets, put here solely to be exploited for profit. If we momentarily forget out place, our devices will report us!

*No, I'm not actually a conspiracy nut, but the US very often put profits above human well-being. For example, take the phrase, 'pre-existing condition". In any other developed nation, it never existed. It was simply your medical history. Profit is a major evil in our society.

Sorry for the rant. Enjoy your weekend.

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ConciselyVerbose t1_ixufktr wrote

I wouldn’t actually convert but there are times I wish I could do a physical keyboard and stuff like this unihertz Titan is really tempting. A case the replicated the slide out keyboard a few phones had back in the day would be golden.

Ultimately you can’t pry me away from iPhone regardless but that’s about the only thing I miss.

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