Smartphone makers will soon face an unlikely competitor. Concerns about the impact of social media are driving demand for old-school Nokia brick-like handsets…
Have we bred self-control out of the populace or something?
I use my phone as a mobile computer, I almost never make calls with it. No way am I switching back.
I would take an old school Nokia that runs Signal any day over an Android or iOS phone.
I see a variation of this headline every couple of years, it’s continued existence disproves itself.
Reminds me of an old Paul Graham essay:
https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
“Suits make a corporate comeback,” says the New York Times. Why does this sound familiar? Maybe because the suit was also back in February, September 2004, June 2004, March 2004, September 2003, November 2002, April 2002, and February 2002.
Why do the media keep running stories saying suits are back? Because PR firms tell them to.
What you make of this from what Paul Graham is up to these days is up to you.
We still need some way to fix the endless robocall and fraud spam that we can’t even block because they’re always using a different number
Make phone companies legally responsible for giving thousands of new phone numbers to scammers. They have zero control on who they give phone numbers because that’s cheaper.
The sooner one of their CEOs is put in prison over that they will take immediate measures to only give phone number to legit companies.
I’m alwaus very nice to them, but I also firmly explain that I’ll search for anything I want all by myself.
Last caller asked if I lived in an appointment or a house (selling ev panels or heating or something I guess), I switched around and asked how he lived, after a confused but correct answer (he lived in an apartment) I asked him where he lived, mini hilarity ensued. I wished him a good day and courage because its probably not the funniest job, I think he got a small genuine happy happy, or so his voice sounded.
Have got zero calls since.
You’re lucky to get a human to call you, I only get robocalls, literally zero humans on the other side of the line, either trying to convince me to borrow money or a fraud attempt trying to convince me “a purchase was just made on your account, press 1 to confirm or 2 to talk to our support” - on the latter, a human sometimes answers when you press 2, but they deserve all the shit you can throw at them because they’re fucking fraudsters and they know it.
I block all calls except those I know.
