Comment on Kendrick Lamar's company just dropped a limited-edition 'dumb' phone. It's already sold out.

• Ferrous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What you’re doing here is subtly shifting the burden of phone addiction from software companies and phone manufacturers back onto end users.

  You’re glossing right over the fact that these teams have the very best software engineers, mechanical engineers, marketers, ad people, psychologists, and doctors for the purpose of making these endlessly scrolling apps as addictive and hard to avoid as possible.

  I read your comment and think about the people who say “why are you depressed? Just go lift some weights. It all comes down to you”

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  • designatedhacker@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s more like “Why are you smoking cigarettes, stop buying cigarettes.” It’s addictive, well marketed and cool, and totally avoidable with some self discipline.

    I wouldn’t joke about people with an actual illness by telling them to toughen up, but we’re not talking about that.

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  • c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What you’re doing here is subtly shifting the burden of phone addiction from software companies and phone manufacturers back onto end users.

    I thought you were being satirical at first but then I realized you genuinely believe an individual has zero personal responsibility whatsoever. Lemmy is filled with children.

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  • aubertlone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Are you being serious?

    Yes, saying “don’t install social media apps if you don’t like them” is the same as saying “lift weights to stop being depressed bro”.

    Your brain is too advanced and I cannot follow the steps you took to reach this conclusion.

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Of course the burden is on both

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• rifugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But what am I going to do while I’m pooping!? Read the news!?

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  • joemo@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Read whatever is in the bathroom, like we used to do! It’s how I learned about TSS.

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• helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The point is that it cannot do those things.

  It’s smaller, it’s lighter, the battery will last way longer, and it doesn’t run spyware.

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  • cjsolx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    and it doesn’t run spyware.

    Probably the biggest draw that the OC was missing.

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    • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Orange County?

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      • cjsolx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Original Commenter

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• slurpeesoforion@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Facebook is baked into everything. Everything passes through Google. The only way to avoid them is to stay off the web.

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s flat out false. Other than using messenger to chat with family, I haven’t had to use Facebook for anything for the 5 or so years since I stopped actively using it.

    As for “everything passes through Google”, that’s just an optional login protocol and a shitload of blockable ads.

    Also, Google isn’t social media. You could argue that YouTube has social media aspects, but those aren’t mandatory for internet participation either.

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    • onion@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well you do have to go a bit further with a degoogled rom to get rid of google

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• applejacks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  kind of like telling a heroin addict to just stop doing heroin.

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