roman (@hi@romanzolotarev.com)

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roman » 🌐 2026-04-05
@hi@romanzolotarev.com

instead of relying on a smartphone, i could just use separate devices for everything: camera, music player, feature phone, etc

but charging all that stuff and carrying it around doesn't feel right, i'm not ready for that kind of change...

#grapheneos with a set of essential apps works the best for me for now

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chesheer » 🌐 2026-04-06
@chesheer@mastodon.bsd.cafe

@hi Well, yeah, but that's how we did it back in the days, right?
I had Nokia 3310 and a huge CD player in its own bag stuffed with like a dozen CDs. This bag had a whole system of straps, so you couldn't just TAKE the player, you had to EQUIP it. Only later I bought a tiny mp3 player that had crazy 256 MB of memory.

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Vladimir » 🌐 2026-04-06
@contaminase@wandering.shop

@chesheer @hi we did many things differently back in the days, drank mercury, for example. As for dumbphones - just don't scroll reels indefinitely, and any phone is a dumbphone then.

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roman » 🌐 2026-04-06
@hi@romanzolotarev.com

for me modern smartphones are too complex, i'd like to understand what my hardware and software is doing.

for example, with openbsd i have much better understanding of all processes, while with macos i can't even tell what some processes are about...