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polistra's avatar

The choice isn't really binary, iPhone vs Caveman. I develop software and graphics for a living, but I've never owned or touched a cellphone. Never felt a need for it. I threw away the TV for the same reason. Both devices are designed to create a degree of phase-locking that other media can't match, and the cellphone adds an unprecendented degree of surveillance.

With a desktop computer, the web knows everything I type, but NOT every step I take and every noise I make.

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flipshod's avatar

The Limp Bizkit is supposed be therapeutic for this condition.

I didn't get a computer until I was a grown-ass married adult (late 20s). Cell phones came along much later.

Back in the primitive days, we had google maps printed on paper that was folded up real weird and followed road signs. We would drive around and look for our friends' cars and just show up at people's houses.

We wanted to break shit back then too.

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