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hunter

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1. If I'm ever forced to buy a smart phone I'll be upset.
Sun Jul 12, 2026, 10:44 PM
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I mostly use my flip phone as a phone. Sometimes I use it to send and receive short texts. I don't want a phone that does anything else.

Likewise, the computers in my car are just smart enough to run the engine efficiently while minimizing pollutants, deploy the airbags in an accident, and keep the brakes from locking up in a panic stop. I don't want a car that communicates with the outside world, has a distracting touch screen, or functions as a complete entertainment system receiving content that I have to pay for from some satellite in the sky.

Let my phone be a phone, my car be a car, my camera be a camera, and my wallet be a wallet.

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