The best part is that fully half of these are addressed to my mom…

  • adarza@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    i don’t even do sms on my ‘dumb’ phone.

    when the phone makes a noise, it’s either low on battery (or, if it was plugged-in, fully charged), an alarm or timer i set, or a very high probability of being a legit call (the carrier has reasonably-effective blockers for spam, bots and spoofed origin calls).

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      5 days ago

      Totally respect that.

      I tried a month of dumbphone but realized there was a minimum of “smart” I needed in a daily driving device. My compromise was a low-end smartphone in a flip phone form factor which is just smart enough for what I need.