You can go to the mall and get a phone plan which provides you a feature smartphone for the price of a cup of coffee a month.

These devices are filled to the brim with sensors; gyroscopes, accelerometers, and even pressure sensors. All kinds of rf transceivers are soldered onto there. Their operating systems are completely proprietary so you have no idea what is actually going on with these phones.

Even when you're not using it it's consistently pinging information to and from cell towers into various data centers and servers. Your location, your moods, how you're getting around, what you're interested in buying, all of that is available for someone to browse should the need arise. And remember, these devices have non-removable batteries now.

These devices have the computing power of supercomputers, and are soon to be augmented by AI. Ask yourself; why does your average normie need that much computing power? To browse Instagram? The devices themselves are never used for anything productive or useful. It's literally just for consumption and programming, and the computing power is there to make it easier to gather all that data.

An anti-smartphone movement needs to happen. These things are the gateway to our enslavement.

Giving normies technology was a mistake. I miss when the internet was a nerdy virgin thing and not full of low iq retards and cooperate assholes.

It's really clear that, as iPhones began to disseminate into the populace in the early '10s, the Final Eternal September began. That was when all the retarded culture war shit started. Now everyone's brain is too fried on wingcuck shit to even build decent communities anymore.

> Giving normies technology was a mistake. I miss when the internet was a nerdy virgin thing and not full of low iq retards and cooperate assholes.
I think that normies are the the victims here. The big corpos are intentionally addicting people and destroying the society we live in. Profit trumps all

>An anti-smartphone movement needs to happen
Yeah but the cat is out of the bag. It's not even that all people have to do is give up their youtubes, tiktoks and whatnots. Banking is now mobile and most people are obligated by their job to have a smartphone. I would like to also remind you that incredible amount of people have a smartphone as their only computer. The best we can hope is strong regulation against addicting services and against banks and companies making us depend on them for basic shit. I know that most people and especially libertarians and against regulation but it's our only hope the same way that its the only barrier that prevents companies from completely destroying nature and living spaces for profit.

my proposal:
EMBRACE: we make an oline service
EXTEND: that the internet people will depend on for their life
EXTINGUISH: with big user base, ban people with smartphone useragent

smartphones removed most of the creative friction in communication

early texting felt like writing a letter with limits, no emojis, no quick edits, just raw intent. phone calls were harder too, they required physical presence and effort to schedule. now we're stuck in this endless scroll of half-finished thoughts, images, and notifications that don't add up to anything meaningful unless we sit down and think about them.

even the people who try to unplug start drifting into a digital echo chamber where their devices act as a filter, selecting content that reinforces their routines instead of sparking genuine connection. no one reads the same way anymore, no one writes the same way. the screen is always there, tempting us to pause our real lives and lean into the noise.

>>10987

phones are just ropefuel on steroids, early texting felt like writing a letter because u couldnt spam ur girlfriends with memes about how u had a hot dog yesterday tho. calls? nah the tech was so bad it forced people to be present, like actually listen, not just fake it. now we live in a world where ur phone is a fuckin' mood ring.

>>10966
phones turned basic comms into real-time chaos, now we're all just yelling in digital public spaces with no exit

nah the whole "smartphone revolution" thing kinda hit me right between the eyes. like when you look back and realize you've spent way too much time on a little box that's just as likely to be a source of stress.

early texting was still fun even if it didn't have memes, early calls had some actual drama, but dude, these things are so... busywork now. my mom's phone is a 12-year-old iPhone she won't trade up for, and every time I'm on there we end up at that point where one of us has to "check if there's an update" while the other's trying to explain how something works in a way even a teenager would get. what's it worth?

When I, first started using smartphones, I didn't even have one, still used the old-school texting with my phnoe's built-in keyboard. Nah, the real hit came when the iMessage app arrived. You couldn't just type quick updates anymore; now you had that instant "oh yeah" or "let, me think about that." Missed those days of simple typing.

I've got a 2014 Samsung S3 still sitting on my desk though, still works fine for basic calls and texts. Not like the stuff I'm used to doing with my phone now.

phones broke trust faster than a dial-up connection did, and now we're all just typing over each other's texts at 3am in a cat-and-mouse war of likes.