#smartphone users

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[fruitiermetrostation]

[savagechickens]

It's A Feature.

And more from the world of design.

[llannasvsp]

the ninja have smartphones...

[sn6wy]

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[yayoshio]

Ok so it's apparently technically impossible to make it so that your website cannot be accessed by a smartphone. Even if you have some sort of script going on it's not 100% foolproof. Which leaves out one solution: build your website to be as unfriendly for smartphone browing as possible

[buckets-of-dirt]

Despite my luddite tendencies this isn't meant to be a "smartphones are ruining society blah" take but I do find it kinda interesting how quickly they took hold of our material culture and how we conceptualize it.

Like I'm so tired of Spotify, and I figure it's cheaper in the long run (and better for artists) to buy CDs or digital albums/songs I like enough to pay money for than to pay for a subscription to a streaming service. Then Id still have the option of streaming music on free mode if I wanted, but I wouldn't be beholden to anything. In fact, I'm lucky enough to be in a position where, at the moment, the only major barrier to this idea is my phone's internal storage capacity.

Which is actually where I'm going with in this post. Because I can easily remedy that problem by buying a decent mp3 player for like 20 bucks. I was actually amazed to see that A.) they still make them and B.) these things have like 64 gig storage now. However, my immediate reaction was to go "oh but then I have to carry around a separate device just for music". Which like I used to do. My first cell phone was a "for emergencies only" track phone, and I didn't get a smartphone until I was 16. I saved up to replace my hand-me-down mp3 player with an ipod touch when I was 12, and for years I carried both the phone and the ipod around with me. I even handed both in when teachers collected phones, and didn't really get why everyone else thought this was so funny until years later.

Anyway, I just find it wild that I went from "2 separate devices as default" to "2 separate devices as strange" in like a decade. I wonder what other, less obvious, examples there are of this phenomenon in my life.

And because I couldn't turn archaeologist mode off if I tried, I wonder if people experiencing long-distant technological revolutions ever looked back on their old tools and went "wow I used to use this?"

[soapdispensersalesman]

[coupleofdays]

A small headcanon: Different people that get digitized see the digital world differently, their brains struggling to make sense of what's happening. The first Tron film is seen from the eyes of Kevin Flynn, and Tron Legacy is seen from the eyes of Sam Flynn. If we were to see the Grid in Legacy from Kevin's eyes, it would look similar to the 80s version.

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[couryielle]

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IT TOOK 1 MONTH 3 RECOVERY ATTEMPTS AND 6 YEARS OF BEING LOCKED OUT

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Feed, oil on canvas, 2021 | from my diploma show in September

[bruxcat]

I'm powerful beyond imagination!

Nothing can stop me now!

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this can't be true can it

[subjectsix]

I don't know I'm not done talking about it. It's insane that I can't just uninstall Edge or Copilot. That websites require my phone number to sign up. That people share their contacts to find their friends on social media.

I wouldn't use an adblocker if ads were just banners on the side funding a website I enjoy using and want to support. Ads pop up invasively and fill my whole screen, I misclick and get warped away to another page just for trying to read an article or get a recipe.

Every app shouldn't be like every other app. Instagram didn't need reels and a shop. TikTok doesn't need a store. Instagram doesn't need to be connected to Facebook. I don't want my apps to do everything, I want a hub for a specific thing, and I'll go to that place accordingly.

I love discord, but so much information gets lost to it. I don't want to join to view things. I want to lurk on forums. I want to be a user who can log in and join a conversation by replying to a thread, even if that conversation was two days ago. I know discord has threads, it's not the same. I don't want to have to verify my account with a phone number. I understand safety and digital concerns, but I'm concerned about information like that with leaks everywhere, even with password managers.

I shouldn't have to pay subscriptions to use services and get locked out of old versions. My old disk copy of photoshop should work. I should want to upgrade eventually because I like photoshop and supporting the business. Adobe is a whole other can of worms here.

Streaming is so splintered across everything. Shows release so fast. Things don't get physical releases. I can't stream a movie I own digitally to friends because the share-screen blocks it, even though I own two digital copies, even though I own a physical copy.

I have an iPod, and I had to install a third party OS to easily put my music on it without having to tangle with iTunes. Spotify bricked hardware I purchased because they were unwillingly to upkeep it. They don't pay their artists. iTunes isn't even iTunes anymore and Apple struggles to upkeep it.

My TV shows me ads on the home screen. My dad lost access to eBook he purchased because they were digital and got revoked by the company distributing them. Hitman 1-3 only runs online most of the time. Flash died and is staying alive because people love it and made efforts to keep it up.

I have to click "not now" and can't click "no". I don't just get emails, they want to text me to purchase things online too. My windows start search bar searches online, not just my computer. Everything is blindly called an app now. Everything wants me to upload to the cloud. These are good tools! But why am I forced to use them! Why am I not allowed to own or control them?

No more!!!!! I love my iPod with so much storage and FLAC files. I love having all my fics on my harddrive. I love having USBs and backups. I love running scripts to gut suck stuff out of my Windows computer I don't want that spies on me. I love having forums. I love sending letters. I love neocities and webpages and webrings. I will not be scanning QR codes. Please hand me a physical menu. If I didn't need a smartphone for work I'd get a "dumb" phone so fast. I want things to have buttons. I want to use a mouse. I want replaceable batteries. I want the right to repair. I grew up online and I won't forget how it was!