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I despise the modern phones and internet
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Wilksey:
It is true that we rely on our "smart" phones more than ever every shop seems to have their own "App" which lets you scan barcodes to get deals or whatever, banking can still thankfully be done on the computer, MFA which requires an authenticator "app", etc.

The list is long and plentiful as to what uses our pocket computers these days, even needed one to book a desk using the "hotdesk app" in my previous place of employment, ludicrous.

I don't upgrade every year I am still rocking my Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge, with a £10 a month Voxi plan, I don't need the latest 20 core quantum computing chip to make and receive calls or texts.

If I dropped £1200 on a phone i'd treat it like i'd just dropped £300k on a Ferrari, i'd never take it out!

Apparently (don't have it so don't have the issue) there is a way to allow your phone to make payments without authorising them which has caused great delight for pickpockets / thieves / scummies with a "widget" to take payment without you knowing just by hovering near you, I saw a post on Facebook advising people to turn that feature off.

I mainly use my "smart" features for Geocaching and showing online collection emails to the folks behind the counter.
james_s:
I'm on my second smartphone ever. My first iPhone 4 I bought on sale after the new model came out and I used it for around 4 years. Eventually it got hopelessly slow and I upgraded to a 2016 iPhone SE around 2018 when it too was on sale after a new model came out. I've had them in a protective shell since day 1 and both phones still look like new.
Wilksey:

--- Quote from: james_s on December 17, 2022, 03:15:51 am ---I'm on my second smartphone ever. My first iPhone 4 I bought on sale after the new model came out and I used it for around 4 years. Eventually it got hopelessly slow and I upgraded to a 2016 iPhone SE around 2018 when it too was on sale after a new model came out. I've had them in a protective shell since day 1 and both phones still look like new.

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My phone history is very similar, I used to have Nokia's my first was a 3210, then I got a 3G Flip phone which was absolute abysmal to use, I also had a Sony Ericsson K800i for my work phone, I got rid of the flip phone and got a Nokia n95 then I "upgraded" to my first smart phone a HTC Desire, then I got the Samsung Galaxy S3, I used both of those phones till they didn't boot up any more, then I got the S6 Edge which I still have, got a wanky iPhone8 for a work phone, no idea how to use it, just bings and bongs at me so I turn it away and ignore it till it rings or I have to do MFA.

I've done some Android development and ran the apps on the S6 and my old Samsung A6 work phone which I no longer have.  I did some J2ME dev on the K800i back in the day, never got into Symbian development on the Nokias though.
madires:

--- Quote from: bigfoot22 on December 17, 2022, 07:02:48 am ---I'm using Reolink Lumus cameras with 64GB SD cards and in my OpenWRT router I've set it to block the camera from accessing the internet. Works fine with both my laptops windows OS and my android phone and the quality of the software is good. and it doesn't complain that it cannot access the internet.

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From a network security and operations point of view it's a good idea to goup all devices you don't trust into separate VLANs or SSIDs, each with its own network and firewall zone. At first it takes a bit more effort to set everything up. But later on with more devices it will pay off.
Kasper:

--- Quote from: james_s on December 17, 2022, 01:49:16 am ---
I'm not a fan of stores that give you a discounted price if you give them your phone number.

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I often tell businesses I dont like giving out my phone number and they always promise to protect it as if they have any idea what that means.

I recently got a new phone number for my business and it got so many junk calls and texts that I changed it.  Repeated that a few times and had similar results each time.

Makes me glad I've resisted peoples attempts to take my personal phone number over the years.  It doesn't get nearly as much of that garbage.
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